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|Year : 2016 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 69-73
An appraisal of antibiotic sensitivity pattern and drug utilization in burn patients
Janki Raj Chauhan1, Sarvajeet Khare1, Prem Lal1, Vijayanarayana Kunhikatta1, Girish Thunga1, Sreedharan Nair1, Narayanthu Chellappanpilla Sreekumar2
1 Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Plastic Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, India
|Date of Web Publication||12-Dec-2016|
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal - 576 104, Udupi, Karnataka
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Aim: To analyze the antibiotic sensitivity and resistance pattern and antibiotic consumption in defined daily dose (DDD)/100 bed days (BD). Materials and Methods: Burns patients admitted from January 2013 to December 2013 were identified retrospectively from medical record department registry using the International Classification of Diseases-(ICD) Codes T 30.1-39.9. Patient demographics, total body surface area (TBSA) of burn, treatment chart, hospitalization days, and antibiotic sensitivity/resistance profile were recorded. Cumulative sensitivity/resistance pattern of isolated microorganisms against various antibiotics was calculated (in percentage) from culture sensitivity reports. Total use of antibiotics in burn patients was calculated as DDD/100 BD using antibiotic consumption calculator-WHO ABC Calc version 3.1. Results: Of total 159 burn patients, the main cause of burns in these patients was thermal (81.8%). Cefoperazone-sulbactam (54.7%) was the most frequently prescribed antibiotic followed by amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (34%). Totally, 82 bacterial isolates were obtained, among which Pseudomonas aeruginosa (31.6%) was the most common organism. P. aeruginosa was sensitive to rifampicin and erythromycin but resistant to clindamycin. The DDD/100 BD was highest for parenteral cefoperazone (40.21). Conclusion: Proper antibiogram and DDD will facilitate conceptualizing and developing drug policies for improved patient outcomes in burns.
Keywords: Antibiotic sensitivity, burns, defined daily dose in burns, drug utilization evaluation
|How to cite this article:|
Chauhan JR, Khare S, Lal P, Kunhikatta V, Thunga G, Nair S, Sreekumar NC. An appraisal of antibiotic sensitivity pattern and drug utilization in burn patients. Indian J Burns 2016;24:69-73
|How to cite this URL:|
Chauhan JR, Khare S, Lal P, Kunhikatta V, Thunga G, Nair S, Sreekumar NC. An appraisal of antibiotic sensitivity pattern and drug utilization in burn patients. Indian J Burns [serial online] 2016 [cited 2022 Aug 11];24:69-73. Available from: https://www.ijburns.com/text.asp?2016/24/1/69/195534
| Introduction|| |
Burns are tissue injuries caused by heat, electricity, sunlight, chemicals, radiation, or friction. Burns are classified according to depth and severity based on the body surface area. Depth is characterized by the first-, second-, and third-degree burns. Severity is based on total body surface area (TBSA). The antimicrobial resistance in burn wound pathogens is a challenge for clinicians chiefly due to the emergence of various resistant bacterial strains. An infection in burn wounds is the most common cause of morbidity and results in 75% mortality.
| Materials and Methods|| |
A retrospective observational study on 159 patients with various degrees of burns was conducted; burn patients admitted during January 2013 through December 2013 were analyzed retrospectively from their medical records. Patients' demographics, treatment chart, and antibiotic sensitivity and resistance profile were recorded in a specially prepared case record form. Nominal data were expressed in frequency and percentage. The data were analyzed as follows: Cumulative sensitivity and resistance pattern of isolated microorganisms against various antibiotics were calculated from culture sensitivity report and reported as the percentage. Total use of antibiotics was calculated as defined daily dose (DDD)/100 bed days (BD) using the Antibiotic Consumption Calculator-WHO ABC Calc version 3.1 (WHO Collaborating Center for Drug Statistics Methodology, Oslo, Norway). Data entry and statistical analysis were carried out using SPSS version 20 (IBM Corporation, New York, USA) and MS Excel.
| Results|| |
Thermal burns (81.8%) were the main cause of burns in the study population. Patients' surface area was classified based on TBSA of which the median was 23% TBSA.
Treatment of burn wound patients: Cefoperazone-sulbactam (54.7%) was the most frequently prescribed antibiotic followed by amoxicillin-clavulanic acid (34%).
Antimicrobial sensitivity/resistance pattern and antibiotic utilization pattern in burned patients
A total of 12 microorganisms were isolated from the 82 positive cultures obtained. The most common microorganism isolated was Pseudomonas aeruginosa (31.6%) followed by Klebsiella Pneumoniae (19.4%), Acinetobacter (12.3%), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (10.3%) [Table 1].
The sensitivity/resistance profiles of the isolated organisms
it was 100% sensitive to tetracycline, imipenem, linezolid, rifampicin, and teicoplanin followed by colistin (92.3%), least sensitive to aztreonam (3.7%), and highly resistant (100%) to clindamycin, cloxacillin, ticarcillin-tazobactam, and erythromycin.
It was highly sensitive to vancomycin (100%) and resistant to amoxicillin, ampicillin, cefepime, and ticarcillin-tazobactam (100%).
It was 100% sensitive to colistin followed by cefoperazone-sulbactam (92.8%) and netilmicin (81.8%) and 100% resistant to amoxicillin, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, chloramphenicol, piperacillin, tobramycin, cefepime, and ticarcillin-tazobactam.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
It was 100% sensitive toward colistin, linezolid, rifampicin, teicoplanin, and vancomycin and 100% resistant to amoxicillin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, piperacillin-tazobactam, and erythromycin.
It was 100% sensitive to amikacin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, netilmicin, cefoperazone- sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, and imipenem but 100% resistant to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, aztreonam, and colistin.
It was 100% sensitive to cefepime, colistin, imipenem, and cefpirome followed by cefoperazone-sulbactam (85.7%). It was 100% resistance toward amoxicillin, amikacin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, netilmicin, piperacillin, and tobramycin.
It was 100% sensitive to piperacillin-tazobactam, colistin, imipenem, and tetracycline. It was resistant (100%) to amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime, piperacillin, tobramycin, aztreonam, and cefepime.
Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus
It was highly sensitive (100%) to amikacin, ceftriaxone, colistin, tetracycline, linezolid, teicoplanin, and vancomycin and resistant (100%) to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, erythromycin, cloxacillin.
It was highly sensitive (100%) to imipenem, tetracycline, linezolid, teicoplanin, vancomycin and least sensitive to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, and gentamicin. Complete resistance (100%) to amoxicillin, amikacin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cefazolin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, netilmicin, tobramycin, aztreonam, piperacillin-tazobactam, and erythromycin was observed.
The species showed complete sensitivity (100%) toward ceftriaxone, cotrimoxazole, aztreonam, cefoperazone-sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem and showed complete resistance (100%) to amikacin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, and netilmicin.
It was highly sensitive (100%) toward amikacin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, netilmicin, cefoperazone-sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem. However, it was resistant (100%) to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime, cefuroxime, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, aztreonam, colistin.
It was 100% sensitive toward aztreonam, cefoperazone-sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, and imipenem and 100% resistant toward amoxicillin, amikacin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cefazolin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, gentamicin, and netilmicin.
Total antibiotic consumption was technically quantified in DDD/100 BD. A total of 486.8 units of 31 different antimicrobial agents were used to treat burn wound infections in 2013. The utilization pattern of antibiotics (in DDD/100 BD) is shown in [Table 2] and [Table 3].
Parenteral cefoperazone (40.21) was the highest followed by netilmicin (33.94) and amoxicillin-clavulanate (18.48). Consumption of parenteral cefuroxime (0.04) was least.
| Discussion|| |
A retrospective, observational study included 159 burns patients from the year 2013. Data from their medical records were collected and analyzed and thermal burns being the most common. Sepsis accounted for 50% of deaths in our study, echoing the results of a study by Chawla et al., which highlighted septicemic shock, primary shock, and oligemic shock as the most common causes of death in burn patients.
Twelve different microorganisms were isolated from burn wound patients. Of a total of 82 positive microbial growth, the most common organism causing burn wound infection was P. aeruginosa (31.6%) followed by Klebsiella Pneumoniae (19.4%), Acinetobacter (12.3%), and MRSA (10.3%) which is similar to the study carried out by Saaiq which had a total of 95 positive microbial growths and the highest isolate being P. aeruginosa (35.29%) followed by K. pneumoniae (20.58%), methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (18.62%), Proteus mirabilis (9.80%), Escherichia coli (6.86%), and the least being Acinetobacter (6.86%).
P. aeruginosa, being the most frequent isolate, was highly sensitive to imipenem (100%) and 60% resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam, which was reported to possess a similar sensitivity/resistance profile in a study by Dash et al., showing P. aeruginosa least resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam and imipenem.
P. aeruginosa is the main organism causing nosocomial infections, thus being the most frequent isolate with the highest resistance profile in our study population. A similar result reported by Ozer et al. showed that P. aeruginosa was the cause of nosocomial infection.
P. aeruginosa, resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, produces plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases (e.g., cephalosporinases hydrolyze cephalosporins more readily than penicillins) that provides a robust mechanism of resistance to cephalosporins (81.2%).
Resistance to aminoglycosides in P. aeruginosa (75.03%) includes plasmid-mediated resistance, due to the presence of aminoglycoside modifying enzymes, which is often observed during nosocomial outbreaks of the infection. P. aeruginosa can also modify aminoglycosides by acetylation, phosphorylation, or adenylation.
Proteus vulgaris is the least common organism isolated (0.6%), which is highly resistant to amoxicillin-clavulanate and ampicillin (100%), which correlates to a study carried out by Sewunet where P. vulgaris had high resistance to amoxicillin-clavulanate and ampicillin.
Antibiotic utilization pattern showed parenteral cefoperazone, a third generation cephalosporin, having the highest consumption (40.21) followed by netilmicin (33.94), amoxicillin-clavulanate (18.48). Consumption of parenteral cefuroxime (0.04) was least.
Overall consumption of the third-generation cephalosporins was more than the use of first- and second-generation cephalosporins. This was followed by the use of aminoglycosides. Of the 361 prescriptions included in the present study, the average number of antibiotics prescribed was 2.5, ranging from 1 to 8 antimicrobials, which comparable to a study by Padwal et al., in which the most prescribed group of antibiotics was found to be cephalosporins, especially third-generation cephalosporins. The average number of drugs prescribed was 5.17 with a range of 2-9 drugs and the number of prescriptions was 242 in a period of 6 months.
Our study population was similar to the study done by Theron and Nel, where they concluded the beneficial role of the third-generation cephalosporins in the management of extensive burn wound sepsis.
Most common antibiotics used to prevent eye infections include fluoroquinolones, mainly ciprofloxacin, which lubricates the eye and prevent infections.
Limitations of the study: The study being retrospective, use of topical antibiotics could not be quantified. Further, the comorbidities in patients, etc., were not considered.
| Conclusion|| |
Antibiotic use requires the physicians to coordinate with a multidisciplinary healthcare team comprising of clinical pharmacists, microbiologists and nurses for assuring optimum antimicrobial use in burns patients. Infections are a serious problem in burns, with highly resistant strains of P. aeruginosa emerging as the commonest organism causing infection. Hospitals should constitute a surveillance system that should record burn wound infections along with resistance/sensitivity patterns. This study should be repeated periodically, and an antibiogram should be developed based on which the hospital should formulate an effective antibiotic policy.
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Conflicts of interest
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Careers lead: Trixie Clarke, email: [email protected], tel: (01989) 760391
Careers advisor: Hayley Knapper, email: [email protected] tel: (01989) 760385
Enterprise advisor: Samantha Jenkins
Review date: July 2022, reviewee: Trixie Clarke
At John Kyrle High School we are proud of our students and do everything we can to help them prepare for the future. All staff do their very best to ensure every one of our students is happy, healthy and successful. We are committed to providing all our students in Years 7 to 13 with a programme of careers education, information, advice and guidance. All students are encouraged to make informed decisions whilst investigating possible career choices. We aim to inspire our young people through their experience of the whole curriculum whilst raising aspiration and providing quality and diversity.
Careers education is delivered by tutors in all year groups, in conjunction with the school’s dedicated careers programme.
The careers programme also incorporates Unifrog, a single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications.
Unifrog is a one-stop-shop for students across all year groups regardless of academic ability.
There are many strengths to Unifrog, including great layout, intuitive design and ease of use. Staff are an integral part of the process and they can track and encourage students to search for and compare opportunities available to them.
Year 7 students reflect on the skills they already have and learn to develop new skills required by future employers in the wider world.
Year 8 students continue this process, moving on to STEM and inspirational role models in the world of work.
Year 9 is options year, when students choose which subjects to study at GCSE. Option choices are looked at in depth alongside careers and the world of work.
In Year 10 Hereford and Ludlow College and Gloucestershire College visit school to deliver informative assemblies. Students are able to access further information from a variety of visiting colleges, employers and members of the armed forces during drop-in sessions which take place every half term at lunchtimes. Post-16 qualifications are explored further.
Year 11 students have dedicated one-to-one interviews with our careers advisor, Mrs Knapper, who is able to discuss options and provide information on A levels, college courses and apprenticeships.
In addition, Year 11s receive information from local training providers and colleges via assemblies. Furthermore, they too have access to drop-in sessions which are held at lunchtimes every half term, enabling them to receive first hand information from visiting training providers, colleges, employers and the armed forces.
Year 12 & 13 students both have access to the careers convention and also attend a national UCAS conference with universities, careers and gap year advice in Bristol during the spring term. Our 'happy, healthy, successful' programme includes advice on apprenticeships, gap year and university finance. Tutors play a key role in supporting students through their chosen pathway and all students receive mentoring from the Head of sixth form and advice and guidance from Mrs Knapper.
Personal guidance describes the one-to-one interactions which take place between Mrs Knapper as the careers advisor and the student. Mrs Knapper is trained to help young people know themselves, and engage with their career, hopes and aspirations. She supports them in assessing realistic options for a meaningful future in the world of education, training and work.
What is the impact of the careers programme on students at John Kyrle High School?
NEET figures show that 1.7% of the Year 11 cohort (2020) are Neither in Education, Employment or Training. This demonstrates the high quality impartial advice and guidance being given to every student when selecting subjects, courses and other relevant pathways beyond school.
Over 400 students and parents/carers attend the annual careers convention, where approximately 45 further education, higher education and employers are present. Impact can be seen in the quality of conversation held by students when investigating possible career choices as well as discussion surrounding their personal development, education and training.
John Kyrle Sixth Form was graded top 2% nationally by the ALPS organisation for its 2019 results. Careers provision plays a key role in motivating students and helping them realise their ambitions. Impact is seen in university entrance which stands at over 85% of the year group with 30% of applicants ultimately attending Russell Group institutes including Oxbridge. Our students also access higher apprenticeships with national and international firms, undertake charitable work globally on gap years and some go to Higher Education college particularly for Art Foundation. Careers provisions is essential in fostering and realising these ambitions and parents / carers play an invaluable part in this process. Should any parent / carer wish to meet with Mrs Knapper, please contact her at John Kyrle
Curriculum links at John Kyrle High School
All staff link curriculum with careers, and at John Kyrle High School we are committed to bringing subjects to life. We do this by promoting transferable skills such as teamwork and good communication. Careers aspirations are discussed in class as to how a particular subject might be linked to a career. Real life scenarios are also set to expand students' familiarity with different jobs and careers.
Student careers council
At John Kyrle High School we give students a voice in the careers agenda as well as raising awareness and enthusiasm across the student body. There is a lower school, upper school and sixth form representative who work closely with Mrs Knapper
At John Kyrle we hold an annual careers convention. This is our flagship careers event and attracts a host of universities from all over the country, as well as colleges from Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. We also have many local and national employers in attendance, plus local training providers to discuss apprenticeship opportunities. Student and parent/carer attendance is always very high at the convention and we encourage students from all years to attend, enabling them to benefit from an invaluable opportunity at each key stage of their careers programme.
Some of the attendees at previous careers conventions include:
Testimonials from students, parents/carers, students and exhibitors who attended:
"We would most definitely like to attend again."
"Best careers evening I have ever attended."
"A well-attended event with suitably-prepared, confident students."
"A great idea to get children thinking about career paths at an early age."
"A fantastic range of exhibitors."
"Informative presentations and representatives from a range of providers."
We are very proud of our former students and we continue to benefit from the skills and experiences of our John Kyrle High School graduates. Ex students have spoken at our prize-giving evening, as well as returning to deliver speeches and presentations during assembly time. In some cases, alumini have offered support to current students in work placements as well as helping them launch their careers. Should any alumini wish to visit John Kylre High School to assist with the careers programme, please contact Mrs Knapper
Our careers department works very closely with a number of providers throughout Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to enhance the opportunities available to John Kyrle students. During Year 11 students are given one-to-one support to discuss college courses and to ensure they are fully aware of the choices available to them.
Mrs Knapper, our careers advisor, would like you to be aware that, if after your interview/s you are offered more than one place, you should accept them both and wait until you receive your results in August before making any final decision as to which route you wish to take.
Some of the colleges we work closely with are found below, please click on the logo to go to their main website:
Our careers department works very closely with a number of training providers throughout Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, to assist our students towards the next step on their chosen career programme.
During Year 11, students are given one-to-one support to discuss training providers who support apprenticeships in their chosen career path and apprenticeship vacancies that are available to them locally.
Mrs Knapper, our careers advisor, advises that apprenticeship applications are ongoing with more vacancies being advertised from Easter onwards. Furthermore, national companies have earlier closing dates and, therefore, students need to search specific company websites for more information.
Some of the training providers that we work closely with are found below; please click on the logo to go to their main website:
At John Kyrle High School we value work experience and we are able to assist students with a bespoke package appropriate to their future career plans.
Any potential work placement should be discussed with Mrs Knapper at least 14 days in advance of the potential start date. Paperwork relevant to the placement has to be completed and returned to Mrs Knapper, for approval by senior staff who will look at each request on an individual basis.
Previous placements include: Hereford Hospital, Royal National college for the Blind, Gloucestershire County Council, Ross Gazette, Harrison Clarke Rickerbys, PGL and Ross Court. Students who have undertaken work experience speak highly of it.
"My placement has been amazing - I've even learned CPR!" (Sixth Form Student)
"I have really enjoyed my placement and would love to work in this profession on leaving school. I have been taught about confidentiality, data protection and lots about health and safety." (Sixth Form Student)
"My placement is great - I have learned how to connect with younger children and would definitely like to do this kind of work in the future." (Sixth Form Student)
"I used lots of skills - communicating with others with additional needs, IT and time management. (Year 11 Student)
"My daughter gained invaluable experience as an outdoor instructor at her work experience. She got fully involved with the activities as well as the behind-the-scenes jobs such as the washing/cleaning and administration. It gave her an insight into the role as well as a taster of what it is like to work with children." (parent of a Year 11 student)
"This opportunity has been very beneficial to my daughter. So far it’s given her an insight into the NHS as an organisation and into the area she wants to go into, Midwifery/Nursing. It has allowed her to discuss her thoughts and ideas, with people that are working at the interface of the NHS and help her to decide for sure if this is the area she wants to go into.
She has been able to explore her options for when she applies to university and has met other people who have already done this. I think it’s a great way to network." (parent of a sixth form student)
"My son looks forward to his work experience at Berry Hill Primary School and comes home with positive feedback on how he enjoys working with the children, especially listening to the children read. I understand that this term he will be having more interaction in the classroom regarding teaching experience.
I feel that work experience is very valuable. It helps one to get an understanding of the job and help to decide whether the post is suitable for them before engaging in a long educational qualification." (parent of a sixth form student)
"The careers programme at John Kyrle High School gives students an idea of the real world and how education fits into work, particularly maths. The programme also enables students to decide whether at 16 they are ready for an apprenticeship, or if they feel that further education will help them to mature even more before entering the full-time world of work." (Mrs Malsom, WyeLearn Centre Manager)
“Work experience is valuable for students and it can help them to maintain focus once they get a flavour for the world of work. Being able to get a placement which allows them first-hand experience of a particular career can provide them with the determination and direction to complete their studies and raise their aspirations.” (Mr Penny, Head of Year)
The Gatsby Benchmark
At John Kyrle we use the Gatsby Benchmark as a framework of eight guidelines to ensure the best careers provision. Our careers strategy is built around them and we use them to plan and improve our programme.
Labour Market Profile
Herefordshire is made up of 192,800 people with 49% males and 51% females.
Herefordshire has lower unemployment but also lower wages and a lower proportion of full-time employees, than both national and regional averages.
The three biggest industries by employee job numbers in Herefordshire are:
Wholesale and retail trade (18.7%)
Health & social work activities (16.0%)
Employment numbers for Herefordshire by Occupation (2020)
Managers, Directors and Senior Officials
Associate Professional & Technical
Administrative & Secretarial
Skilled Trades Occupations
Caring, Leisure and other Service Occupations
Sales and Customer Service
Process Plant & Machine Operatives
Gross Weekly Pay for Herefordshire
(2020) £535.00 pounds per week
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Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injury
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Description of Injury
The acromio-clavicular joint (ACJ) is where the collarbone meets the shoulder blade. Injuries here are most commonly caused by a fall onto or direct blow to the shoulder. The force causes an injury to the ligaments that surround and stabilise the ACJ.
Injuries vary in their severity from a sprain of the joint that does not result in any abnormality on XRays, to those where ligaments are fully torn. Typically symptoms include localised pain, swelling and visible deformity.
The majority of patient with ACJ injuries may be treated non-operatively. This consists of local measures such a sling and ice packs and regular pain relief. Progressive gentle mobilisation is recommended, with a gradual return to activities as symptoms allow.
In specific cases early surgery may be considered. This is indicated in very displaced dislocations, or those that displace in an unusual direction. These are rare circumstances usually caused by high energy trauma. If surgery is advised then your surgeon will discuss this with you in more detail.
Most patients find that they are able to start weaning themselves out of the sling within a few days, and to have a graded return to function over a few weeks. Symptoms can take 4-6 weeks to settle
and any visible deformity will be permanent.
Exercises to aid recovery
Your doctor may give you specific exercises or refer you to physiotherapy. However broadly you should try to keep the shoulder supple and initially concentrate on movement exercises within the pain free range. As the pain settles, load bearing exercises can be introduced.
Expected Return to function (work/sport)
Return to sport or manual work is possible once the pain has settled and shoulder movements have returned to normal. This may take 4-6 weeks to achieve.
In rare cases there may be ongoing pain, or recurrence of pain. Further clinical review should be sought especially if pain and function is still impaired at 3-6 months post injury:
• Those with significant deformity and ongoing pain may benefit from a ligament reconstruction procedure. This surgery works well even if done long after the initial injury.
• Those who develop arthritis in the ACJ may require pain relief, injections or in some cases an operation to remove the damaged joint.
Where to go for more help / information
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Georgia, Fulton and DeKalb had the highest numbers and rates of persons diagnosed with, and living with HIV infection (Table 2 and Figures 8 a and b).
What is the HIV rate in Atlanta Georgia?
Atlantas HIV Problem Is Now An Epidemic According to a report by WSB-TV Atlanta, Georgias risk of diagnosis is 1 in every 51 people.
What county has the highest HIV infection rate?
Among all countries worldwide those in sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates of HIV. The countries with the highest rates of HIV include Eswatini, Lesotho, and Botswana. In 2019, Eswatini had the highest prevalence of HIV with a rate of 27 percent.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Information Page
Expert Advice-Treatment of Seasonal Disorders - Spring in Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM):
Spring is the season of growing and greening. In Chinese medicine, spring is the liver season. The liver should be token care of, either through nourishing, soothing or cleansing. Spring is associated many seasonal health disorders.
Q. I am a forty-five years old computer engineer. I suffered from stomach pain five years ago. Spring is the worst season for me. Hiccup and acid regurgitation are frequently experienced. My conventional gastroenterologist made the diagnosis of gastroduodenal ulcer, hypertrophic gastritis with the help of both barium meal and gastroscopy. Acetaminophen and cimetidine help control the symptoms. But every Spring is the bothering season in the past continuous five years. Is there any way that the Chinese medicine can break this cycle?
A. This is perfect case which can be analyzed and addressed by traditional
Chinese medicine. In the Five Element theory of traditional Chinese
medicine, the spring season is associated with the Wood element, which
governs the liver. The climate for the spring and Wood element is characterized
by wind. The Earth element governs the Spleen. Liver balances (controls)
the Spleen in the normal situation. The blowing of wind in the spring
could over-strengthen the liver. Any imbalance or deficiency of Spleen
(Earth) could be attacked (over-acted) by the liver (Wood) in the spring
season. A TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) pattern for the case
is called Disharmony of Liver and Spleen. Symptoms could be stomach
pain, acid regurgitation, stomach distention, and/or diarrhea. Peony root
(Shao Yao) and bulplerum (Chai Hu) are leading herbs, and Liver Spleen
Harmonizer (Xiao Yao San) is a classical formula to address these conditions.
Q. I am a retired post officer. Starting from the beginning of every spring ten years ago, I felt dizziness and could not control my body, just like sea-sick. How could the Chinese medicine help me?
A. In traditional Chinese medicine, Liver is the organ associated with spring and Wood element. Kidneys are associated with winter and Water element. Kidneys should be well nourished in the winter. Kidneys and Liver are connected with a generation relation. The functioning of liver depends on the sufficiency of Kidney essence. If the Kidneys are mal-nourished in the winter, the liver will be in the spring season. Symptoms include dizziness, vision blurring, ear ringing, nose bleeding, nausea, vomiting, low appetite. Although they happened to in the spring season associated with the liver, they should be treated with the kidneys (the root cause). Kidney Yin Tonic (Liu Wei Di Huang Wan) is the most widely used Chinese herbal formula to nourish the Kidneys.
Q. After a long winter in Minnesota, everybody is looking for the spring. But for me, the greening and budding of plants and trees always brought me chest congestion, shortness of breathing, sneezing, running nose. I was diagnosed allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis. Decongestant drops, antihistamine drugs and corticosteroid drugs were used every year, but just control the symptoms for a short time. And they are recurrent every spring. I really need help.
A. One of the commonest complaints in the spring season is allergy problems. Pollen-induced allergic rhinitis is seasonal. Tree pollens and grass pollens are most prevalent in the spring. Warm or hot and windy weather affect the sufferers the worst. In traditional Chinese medicine, spring is the liver season. And the liver has the function of coursing. If the liver is not functioning well, it can affect the functioning of spleen and lung. The flowing of the Chi in the body system will be significantly stagnated and misdirected. The disharmonies of liver and spleen, and lung and spleen will follow. Chest congestion, hypochondriac distention, shortness of breathing, stomach swelling, sneezing, running nose, itching eyes, and low appetite are some common symptoms. Chinese medicine treats this case by smoothening the liver, strengthening the spleen and diffusing the lung. We have numerous successful examples in clinical practice.
Q. I had a cough for over ten years. In the past three years, nose bleeding, cough with phlegm, thirsty, dry mouth, eye blurring came with the spring season. I wonder if there are any recommendations from Chinese medicine.
A. In Chinese medicine, there exists a control and balance relationship among the five main organs: liver, lung, spleen, heart and kidneys. The dynamics and stability of the health are maintained by this relationship. Spring is the season of Yang energy rising. Liver Chi is abundant. Your chronic cough might cause deficiency of lung. The overwhelming of the liver Chi in the spring will insult the deficiency of lung Chi. This pattern will be indicated by headache, red eyes, nose bleeding, vomiting bleeding and anger, hypochondriac distention and other symptoms. Cleansing of liver and lung and resuming their balance are necessary from the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine. Both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can be used for a few courses of treatments.
Q. Any foods are good for the spring season?
A. There are many foods serving the purpose of soothing the liver and
cleansing the liver. Greens and leafy vegetables are associated with cleansing
and freshening the body. Dandelion is a very typical spring cleanser.
A balanced diet with a variety of juices such as citrus fruits, pear, apple,
celery and carrot is very helpful. Remember the balanced diet.
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This document specifies a method for measuring productivity of digital copying devices and multifunctional devices with various copying modes and a single one-sided original. The document is applicable to digital copying devices and multifunctional devices. The document is intended to be used for black and white (B&W) as well as colour digital copying devices and multifunctional devices of any underlying marking technology. This document includes instructions for the creation of test charts, test setup procedure, test procedure, and the reporting requirements for the digital copying productivity measurements.
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Have you ever thought about mining bitcoin yourself?
Bitcoins proof of work (POW), more commonly referred to as mining, helps provide security to the network by miners competing to solve a simple but resource intensive calculation to win the right to create and attach a new block to the Bitcoin blockchain. It’s similar to a sudoku puzzle spanning multiple columns and rows – complicated to solve, but if it has been filled out, it’s easy to tell if the solution is correct. Every ~10 minutes, the grid is reset and the race to fill it out starts again. For their troubles, a miner that mines a block will currently receive 6.25 bitcoin as a reward, as well as any fees paid to incentivise the inclusion of valid transactions into their block.
Mining is incredibly competitive work. Whilst blocks could once be generated relatively easily on home PCs, the current difficulty of producing one means that specialised equipment is required. The upfront cost of such hardware is high, as are the on-going running costs.
This has meant that Bitcoin mining has evolved from home PCs into a multi-billion dollar industry with some mining companies now listed publicly on stock exchanges and mining equipment manufacturers following closely on their heels.
Home PC (CPU) mining was made unfeasible as more miners joined the network, A PC miner would rarely find a block because miners started to use graphics cards (GPUs) instead which were six times more efficient for only twice the cost. That advantage lasted a year with even more specific hardware then being repurposed in the form of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) which could mine bitcoin twice as fast as the best GPU but were a challenge to set-up and configure.
The search for ever greater hash (mining) power led to the development of specific hardware optimised solely for Bitcoin mining called Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). No other general purpose hardware like PCs, GPUs or FPGAs could match it, the only differentiation now was the type of ASIC that a miner used and the evolution moved onto making the chips on ASICs smaller and smaller and subsequently more efficient.
Can you mine?
The most recent ASIC could cost you ~$10,000 to buy and uses about as much energy as a kettle, 24/7. So with such a large initial investment and on-going costs, particularly if you only have access to a residential energy tariff, it means it is not financially viable for most home miners unless you have access to ‘cheap’ or your own renewable energy source.
One solution to this is buying the ASIC and having a company host it for you somewhere where they have access to cheaper electricity and benefit from economies of scale, although this still comes with the same high investment cost for the hardware and you have to trust a third party host.
It’s important to note that this is slightly different than cloud mining schemes of which most turn out to be scams so it is important to only use well established and respected hosted mining services where you own the hardware.
Time until mining profitability can vary greatly as well based on the amount of hash rate (miners) currently being used on the network which can make it harder or easier to mine a block and the price of bitcoin at the time because of the 6.25 bitcoin block reward and transaction fees that the successful miner receives.
Also due to the high hash rate, mining on your own will mean it is incredibly rare for you to successfully mine a block, so individual miners direct their hash to a Mining Pool with many others, increasing the chances of mining a block with the rewards spread evenly amongst everyone in the pool meaning lower but more frequent and predictable mining income.
Some edge cases are being developed that can allow solo mining at home to be profitable, for example where the excess generated heat is used to heat a home allowing a cost saving. It is worth noting how much noise ASIC miners make as well, they are loud.
Mine or buy bitcoin, that is the question!
It may change in the future with further technological developments but at the moment it is impractical for most solo mining unless you have access to cheap or free electricity with the only real option being hosted mining with large upfront costs.
If you want to mine to help secure the network then hosted mining may not be the best option as ultimately someone else can ‘switch off’ your miner, censor transactions or use it to attack the Bitcoin Network. Leaving the main reason to do it to be to generate more bitcoin than if you had simply just bought it with the capital in the first place. It is almost impossible to calculate in advance if this will be the case for you so it is usually wiser to buy the bitcoin itself. Some people will also accept a small loss mining for the benefit of getting bitcoin without having to provide their identity to an exchange for privacy reasons, although this isn’t really suitable for those looking to purchase smaller amounts. | <urn:uuid:afc099ed-2af3-4c70-857d-ca27077e2ee0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.fastbitcoins.com/can-you-mine-bitcoin-yourself/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964891 | 1,015 | 2.421875 | 2 |
‘For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard…’ (Matthew 20:1-16)
For many this is one of the greatest parables that Jesus told and it certainly contains so much within it – enough for a series of sermons. Yet at the same time it teaches us some basic truths about God’s love for us in a simple and straightforward way.
Those listening to Jesus speak these words at the time may have detected a hint of a warning in what Jesus said. His disciples had been privileged to have been chosen by Jesus to follow Him and shared a relationship with Him that others did not. However, that didn’t make them special. The fact that they had this relationship with Jesus before others didn’t entitle them to any place of honour or any greater love – we are all precious and loved by the Lord equally, no matter when we come into a relationship with Him. A valuable lesson for us all today!
However, over and above this, what this parable teaches us is of the great comfort and compassion of God. No matter who we are, no matter our background, no matter when we confess the Lord as our Saviour – we are all equally loved by God and the generosity of that love is never ending. It is a love that is poured upon us freely day after day after day.
But this parable also teaches us another great truth that we often forget. We cannot earn God’s love nor do we deserve His comfort and compassion. What God gives to us is offered through love. We are not saved by our own merits, by what we do for God or His Church – salvation is not a reward given to us because of the way we try to live out our faith. It is offered through grace. Again another valuable lesson! | <urn:uuid:e705a0cc-1783-4fe3-b78d-9ce522c5d3db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bandcachurch.org.uk/daily-reflection-24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97279 | 384 | 2 | 2 |
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There are many ways to define it: as an activist slogan, a social and political movement, an umbrella concept, an academic current...
All in all, it's a call for radical social, political and economic transformation in order to bring so-called 'developed' societies back into balance with the living world, in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being.
Degrowth is a pluralistic, subversive and open-ended utopia: a call for a new, qualitatively different world that will emerge from and through confronting the existing one.
Degrowth is not alone. It is just one among many alternatives to development. All these worldviews and practices compose the Pluriverse: "A world where many worlds fit", as the Zapatistas say.
For a more detailed definition, check out the amazing degrowth.info website. Feel free to delve into their many resources, and if the idea speaks to you, welcome in the community! | <urn:uuid:73aa45b9-98ee-4a1b-aa7f-022312f73fda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.altshiftfestival.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931761 | 308 | 1.789063 | 2 |
So reports The Guardian:
Racism is still stopping Britain’s ethnic minorities from entering the best-paid professions despite them having a stronger work ethic and greater drive than white Britons, a report released tomorrow claims.
The report, funded by the government and compiled by charity Business in the Community, whose president is Prince Charles, says too many ethnic minority Britons feel prestige jobs in the law, banking, media and politics are closed to them.
It finds “blatant racism”, including taunts about being terrorists, is still closing doors and warns that the government and business must take tougher action.
For the study, 1,500 people from all ethnic backgrounds were interviewed. Asked which professions were seen as racist, nearly half of all respondents saw the police as prejudiced, rising to 72% for Afro-Caribbeans. The armed forces were seen as prejudiced by 36%, politics by 30%, and law by 16%.
You can read the full report here.
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Cowpie County - ESE Classroom Adventures Unit 3
Emotional Safety Education Unit Three
The Championeers! Emotional Safety Education System
Cowpie County Classroom Adventures!
Critical Youth Issue: Self-Worth
Key Concept: The Power of a Seed
In this Championeers Adventure you’ll meet Farmer Blue Jeans and his quirky, but endearing, animal family. Life is nearly perfect on the farm until one fateful day everything changes. With the news the farm is about to be lost, all chaos breaks out in the barnyard as the animals try to figure out how to save their home. You’ll quickly become part of the fun as you join the animals to learn how to problem-solve, the value of family, and the power of a seed.
So much fun every single week! We've done all the heavy lifting for you with point and click interactive video adventures. Available in classroom, school-wide, and integrated music systems with coordinating home editions.
- Choose between K-1st and 2-5th grades.
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** If teachers in other grade levels are using Cowpie County consider presenting the school-wide system to your administrators. There are five different themed ESE units for school-wide implementation.
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Area high school students are learning more about preparing for college thanks to some Arkansas Tech students.
Tech students involved in Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) hosted a workshop at Dover High School recently to help students understand the application process for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Students wishing to receive federal financial aid in college are required to complete the FAFSA.
SIFE student Kayla New says members of SIFE presented “helpful information on applying for the FAFSA” and answered questions students had about the application process.
Several Dover High School students said they learned more about the FAFSA and about financial aid options to help make college more affordable.
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The Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA) wants Canadians to know the simple steps that can help protect them from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation, which could lead to skin cancer.
“With skin cancer being the most common form of cancer but easily preventable and detectable, it is a priority to learn self-skin examinations and practice sun-safe behaviours,” Sunil Kalia, the CDA Sun Awareness Working Group's national chair and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, says in a press release.
Monica Li, a Vancouver-based dermatologist, says the most common types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.
Both carcinomas are found on the head and neck region, according to Li. Basal cell carcinoma is the least worrisome of the three, but if left untreated it can spread to the bones and tissue. Moreover, squamous cell carcinoma has the potential to spread to the lymph nodes and the rest of the body.
“The worst type of skin cancer is melanoma,” Li says, adding that it can spread throughout the body into your lungs, bones and liver. “It can be deadly very quickly.”
Using a full length mirror in a well-lit room, the CDA recommends checking your body from head to toe (yes, even in between the toe cracks) for any irregular spots or moles. When checking your back, use an additional mirror to reflect any areas out of sight.
Li also recommends using a popular guideline referred to as the “ABCDEs of melanoma.”
The A represents asymmetry, which Li says is a good indication that you should have your mole examined by an expert.
“The B is border irregularity,” Li adds, which means a spot is jagged or lopsided rather than round or well-defined.
The C stands for “colour variation,” referring to different colours within a spot. For instance, it's not all dark or light brown, but it has bits of blue, black or red.
The D is for “diameter” and the general rule is to watch out for anything that's more than six millimetres.
“Of course there are things bigger than six millimetres that can be benign and things less than six millimetres that are sinister, but that’s usually the number we go by,” Li says.
Finally, the E, meaning “evolution” or change, is best determined by the individual themselves, since physicians only see their patients at a snapshot in time, adds Li.
“They live in their skin,” she says. “If an individual sees that there’s a change in shape or symptoms, like a beauty mark that previously wasn’t itchy or bumpy or didn’t bleed, and all of a sudden they’re noticing changes or it’s painful, then that’s when they need to bring it to the attention of a family physician or dermatologist.”
Typically, you should check your skin every several months, or go to the doctor more regularly if your family has a history of skin cancer.
Li says that people with fairer skin tones, or “less richly pigmented skin,” are also at increased risk compared to people with naturally darker features.
“Having said that, there’s a false perception out there, even among physicians, that if someone has darker skin they naturally have sun protection,” she says. “Unfortunately, in more richly pigmented individuals, there can be a delay in skin cancer diagnosis and it’s usually at a worse state.”
As summer approaches, it’s common for many people to want to tan, but Li cautions that “there’s no such thing as a safe and healthy tan.” Once there is increased colour on the skin, that is a sign of sun damage.
“You can think of the skin as having a memory for sun damage,” she says, meaning that one tan doesn’t equivalate to getting skin cancer, but the risk increases with each tan.
Li recommends getting an artificial spray tan or using a tanning lotion as an alternative but strongly advises against tanning beds due to the direct and concentrated exposure to UV light.
When it comes to using sunscreen, the CDA recommends having a sun protection factor (SPF) of 30 or higher. You also have the option of either chemical sunscreens or physical (also known as mineral) sunscreens.
Li says chemical sunscreens use chemical filters to convert UV radiation to infrared radiation, meaning it is converted to heat and protects the skin underneath. Physical sunscreens use mineral filters, such as zinc oxide, titanium dioxide or iron oxide.
“If someone has more sensitive skin or if they are concerned about environmental damage, ... I would recommend individuals use a mineral [sunscreen],” Li says.
Other sun protection practices include clothing protection — including wearing a hat and sunglasses — and seeking shade whenever possible.
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This post originally appeared on the Al Jazeera blog. The original article can be found here>
Imagine waking your children in the morning. Imagine feeding and dressing them. Imagine pulling a little girl’s hair into a ponytail, arguing with a little boy about which pair of shoes he wants to wear.
Now imagine, as you are doing that, you know later today you will strap their vulnerable bodies into enveloping life jackets and take them with you in a rubber dinghy – through waters that have claimed many who have done the same.
Think of the story you’d have to tell to reassure them. Think of trying to make it fun. Consider the emotional strength needed to smile at them and conceal your fear.
What would it feel like if that experience – your frantic flight from war – was then diminished by a media that crudely labelled you and your family “migrants”?
And imagine having little voice to counter a description so commonly used by governments and journalists.
The umbrella term migrant is no longer fit for purpose when it comes to describing the horror unfolding in the Mediterranean. It has evolved from its dictionary definitions into a tool that dehumanises and distances, a blunt pejorative.
It is not hundreds of people who drown when a boat goes down in the Mediterranean, nor even hundreds of refugees. It is hundreds of migrants. It is not a person – like you, filled with thoughts and history and hopes – who is on the tracks delaying a train. It is a migrant. A nuisance.
It already feels like we are putting a value on the word. Migrant deaths are not worth as much to the media as the deaths of others – which means that their lives are not. Drowning disasters drop further and further down news bulletins. We rarely talk about the dead as individuals anymore. They are numbers.
When we in the media do this, when we apply reductive terminology to people, we help to create an environment in which a British foreign minister can refer to “marauding migrants,” and in which hate speech and thinly veiled racism can fester.
We become the enablers of governments who have political reasons for not calling those drowning in the Mediterranean what the majority of them are: refugees.
We give weight to those who want only to see economic migrants.
The argument that most of those risking everything to land on Europe’s shores are doing it for money is not supported by the facts.
According to the UN, the overwhelming majority of these people are escaping war. The largest group are fleeing Syria, a country in which an estimated 220,000 to more than 300,000 people have been killed during its appalling and escalating war.
Many others come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Eritrea and Somalia – all places from which people are commonly given asylum.
There is no “migrant” crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
So far this year, nearly 340,000 people in these circumstances have crossed Europe’s borders. A large number, for sure, but still only 0.045 percent of Europe’s total population of 740 million.
Contrast that with Turkey, which hosts 1.8 million refugees from Syria alone. Lebanon, in which there are more than one million Syrians. Even Iraq, struggling with a war of its own, is home to more than 200,000 people who have fled its neighbour.
There are no easy answers and taking in refugees is a difficult challenge for any country but, to find solutions, an honest conversation is necessary.
And much of that conversation is shaped by the media.
For reasons of accuracy, the director of news at Al Jazeera English, Salah Negm, has decided that we will no longer use the word migrant in this context. We will instead, where appropriate, say refugee.
At this network, we try hard through our journalism to be the voice of those people in our world who, for whatever reason, find themselves without one.
Migrant is a word that strips suffering people of voice. Substituting refugee for it is – in the smallest way – an attempt to give some back.
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The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 was signed into law on Dec. 18, 2015. A key provision of this legislation was a permanent extension of the IRA charitable rollover.
Under current law, an IRA owner aged 70½ years or older may donate up to $100,000 per year to certain charities through transfers called “qualified charitable distributions.” These transfers are tax-free and not included in the taxpayer’s adjusted gross income.
Since these gifts are made with pretax dollars, a taxpayer cannot gain an income tax deduction (usually applied to charitable gifts) from them. However, they may be applied to the taxpayer’s required minimum distribution (RMD) amount in the year of the gift.
IRA rollovers of this type may be made only to public charities. The qualified charitable distributions may not be made to a supporting organization or a donor-advised fund. Private foundations are also excluded, with the exception of conduit private foundations.
Many people in the philanthropic community had hoped the new provision would allow for funding charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, and pooled income funds with IRA assets. Unfortunately, the current law does not do that. The current IRA rollover provisions are solely limited to outright gifts to public charities.
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First of all, your website can simply be a showcase site. It serves as a facade for your business and can be contacted quickly. You can also choose online sales by opting for an e-commerce site. If you want to highlight your employer brand and the identity of your company you can choose the creation of a corporate website.
It is important to ask what audience the site should address. Is it a B2B, B2C, corporate audience? In summary, you must first define the interest of your future website. Our web agency can assist you in defining these objectives.
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It is necessary to adhere to the principle of public welfare of education, focus on building a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, build a high-quality education system, and do a good job in education that the people are satisfied with.
——On March 6, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping responded to hot issues in the field of education at the joint meeting of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on the medical and health sectors and the education sector
On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Students' Homework and Off-campus Training in Compulsory Education", an unprecedented "double reduction" reform was launched.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Education Conference to insist on giving priority to the development of education as an important first move to promote the development of various undertakings of the party and the country.
In this game of chess, basic education is undoubtedly an extremely important part.
In 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that basic education plays a fundamental and leading role in the national education system during his inspection at the Bayi School in Beijing. Make our country's basic education better and better.
The "double reduction", which aims to eradicate many chronic diseases in basic education, has far-reaching significance for Chinese education as a whole.
During the National People's Congress last year, Tang Jiangpeng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the principal of Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province, said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that the school once tested pull-ups for high school students, but none of the 132 boys could pull up. go up.
Many experts realize the seriousness of the problem.
Gu Mingyuan, a senior professor at Beijing Normal University, said that at present, the most prominent problem of compulsory education is that the burden of primary and secondary school students is too heavy.
First of all, it affects the physical health and ideological morality of students.
Students are engrossed in homework all day, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, and their physical strength declines.
There are many myopia among students now, and many adult diseases, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, are juvenile.
In fact, our country has always attached great importance to the problem of reducing the burden of primary and secondary school students, especially in the past ten years, a number of policies have been introduced. behavior is clearly defined.
Since 2018, off-campus education and training has become the key target of burden reduction work. The Ministry of Education and other nine departments have issued the "Notice on Measures for Burden Reduction for Primary and Middle School Students", which stipulates that training that exceeds the standard is strictly prohibited, and that training is strictly prohibited from decoupling from further studies.
"Education, including training and education, has always been a lofty public welfare undertaking. Naturally, it should be based on the fundamental purpose of cultivating morality and educating people." said Dong Shengzu, a researcher at the Institute of Private Education of the Shanghai Academy of Education Sciences.
However, under the influence of the "theater effect" and "educational utilitarianism", the burdens that students have reduced in school have been doubled outside the school.
Coupled with the influx of capital, off-campus training has expanded rapidly. A large number of off-campus training institutions in primary and secondary schools, especially the large number of unqualified training institutions, deviate from the purpose of running schools for public welfare, cater to some unreasonable social needs, and ignore them. The laws of education and the characteristics of students' physical and mental development are oriented towards taking the test and aiming to improve the score, adopting methods such as pre-emptive learning, super-syllabus, repeated practice, etc., and excessively carry out further studies and examinations for students in school, especially those in the compulsory education period. Knowledge training activities.
Zhang Zhiyong, executive director of the China Education Policy Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, once gave an example of a fifth-grade math teacher who asked fourth-grade students before the summer vacation if they had not studied fifth-grade math in the last semester, please raise your hand. As a result, only 3 students raised their hands. Asking those who have studied mathematics in the next semester of the fifth grade, please raise their hands, and half of the students raised their hands.
"This has seriously interfered with the normal education and teaching order of the school and destroyed the good education ecology." Dong Shengzu said.
Education has become a "product", and business pursuits are of course "benefits". The "China Education Service Industry Development Report 2020" shows that the scale of my country's basic education off-campus training market has reached 518.4 billion yuan.
Off-campus training institutions continue to create anxiety among parents, and at the same time use these anxiety to continue to "kidnap" parents, and even create an education system outside the national education system.
Reform is imminent!
On May 21, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the 19th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform. He emphasized that compulsory education is the top priority of national education. The fundamental task is to give full play to the main function of schools in teaching and educating people, and strengthen the standardized management of online and offline off-campus training institutions.
That is, the meeting reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Students' Homework and Off-campus Training in Compulsory Education".
The goal is very clear, that is, to implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, focusing on building a high-quality basic education system, strengthening the main position of school education, deepening the governance of off-campus training institutions, resolutely preventing behaviors that infringe on the interests of the masses, building a good education ecology, and effectively relieve parents. Anxiety, promote students' all-round development and healthy growth.
The path is very clear, which is to reduce the burden of students' homework in class, reduce the burden of students' off-campus training, and improve the quality of school education and teaching.
The roadmap of the timetable is clear: “Effective reduction within 1 year and significant results within 3 years” for students’ heavy homework burden and off-campus training burden, family education expenditure and the corresponding energy burden of parents.
On June 15, 2021, the Ministry of Education's Off-Campus Education and Training Supervision Department was officially established, proposing that the "double reduction" work should be promoted in the spirit of "pinning the nails" to be effective.
At the end of August 2021, Huai Jinpeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education, just took office, and listened to a report on the "double reduction" work, and then went to Guangzhou to conduct a special investigation.
He emphasized that the "double reduction" is related to the vital interests of the people, and it is necessary to actively explore an effective mechanism for the "double reduction" work, and to "see the move" to ensure the effective advancement of education reform and development.
After that, the Ministry of Education listed "double reduction" as the "No. 1 Project" for education supervision work in 2021.
"Double reduction", entering the stage of heavy punching.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Off-campus Education and Training Supervision of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education led 20 departments to form a special coordination mechanism for the "double reduction" work. "Policy Institutional System.
The Ministry of Education has also launched a legislative research on off-campus training, which is being accelerated; the list of 36 competitions has been announced, in an effort to alleviate the training fever brought about by the competition and reduce the excessive learning burden caused by the competition.
In addition, the Ministry of Education has also issued off-campus training materials and management measures for practitioners, clarified a series of normative requirements, emphasized the comprehensive control of training content, and delineated "red lines" for practitioners' prohibitions and behaviors.
The governance of "Thunderstorm" is to let education first return to the industry of conscience.
Just as General Secretary Xi Jinping said during the National People's Congress in 2021 when he visited the members of the medical and health sector and the education sector who participated in the CPPCC meeting, adhere to the principle of education for the public good.
According to authoritative data from the Ministry of Education, up to now, 124,000 offline off-campus training institutions have been reduced by 93.21%, and 263 online off-campus training institutions have been reduced by 87.07%.
Disciplinary training institutions have achieved a 100% completion rate of "transition from business to non-operating" and "revision and review", the government-guided price management has been fully implemented, all pre-paid fees have been included in the supervision, and training advertisements have basically disappeared.
At the same time, capital has largely withdrawn from the training market, and all listed institutions have divested their subject training business. The total market value has dropped from 947.7 billion in March 2021 to 112.8 billion in December 2021.
The barbaric growth of off-campus training in primary and secondary schools has been effectively curbed.
Some people gave this evaluation: the implementation of the "double reduction" policy has ended the intensifying competition for extra-curricular supplementary courses.
Tackling the fort
Tackling the fort
The off-campus environment of "barbaric" training has been managed, so what about on-campus?
On August 30, 2021, when the first new semester after the "double reduction" was about to start, the Ministry of Education held a press conference. Lv Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, proposed that the implementation of the central government's "double reduction" work deployment should be taken as a Major political tasks, focus on giving full play to the main position of school education, actively promote the high-quality development of basic education, fully stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of teachers in teaching and educating people, and make great efforts to strengthen and improve school education with a deep, detailed, strict and practical style. Improve the school education quality service system, and effectively ensure that teachers should teach as much as they should, and students should learn enough to learn well.
The more important the task, the more it is necessary to find small incisions.
"If you don't do homework, your mother is kind and filial, but when you write homework, chickens and dogs jump." Although this is a joke, it shows the "pain point" of students' academic burden.
The "double reduction" policy is exactly in line with this "pain point". It proposes to improve the operation management mechanism, reasonably control the operation structure, classify and clarify the total amount of operations, improve the quality of operation design, and strengthen the guidance of operation completion. The operation management method has been established, and the operation publicity system has been established.
By the end of 2021, at the press conference of the Ministry of Education, Lv Yugang gave such a set of data: The regulation of the total amount of schoolwork and the duration of schoolwork in schools in various places basically meets the prescribed requirements, and the proportion of students who complete written assignments within the prescribed time The ratio has increased from 46% before the "double reduction" to more than 90% at present.
In many places, efforts have been made to improve the quality of homework design by formulating assignment design guidelines for sub-disciplines, conducting assignment design competitions and high-quality assignment display and exchange activities, and the problem of students' heavy homework burden has been preliminarily resolved.
Where there is a decrease, there is an increase.
In order to make better use of the "3:30 after school" time of primary and secondary school students, the Ministry of Education requires schools in all regions to proceed from the actual situation, "one school, one case" to formulate and improve specific implementation plans for after-school services to ensure that all compulsory education schools are fully implemented. cover.
The Ministry of Education proposed the "5+2" model, that is, schools should carry out after-school services 5 days a week, at least 2 hours a day, and the end time should be in line with the local normal off-duty time.
At the same time, extended custody services should also be provided for students whose parents have difficulty picking up their children.
Up to now, schools all over the country have basically achieved "5+2" full coverage, and the quality of after-school service projects has been effectively improved.
According to authoritative statistics, 92.7% of schools have carried out literary, artistic and sports activities, 88.3% of schools have carried out reading activities, and 87.3% of schools have carried out popular science, interest groups and community activities. The attractiveness of after-school services has been significantly enhanced.
91.7% of teachers participated in providing after-school services, and at the same time, more than 200,000 qualified social professionals were selected and hired to participate in school after-school services, which basically met the different learning needs of students. The proportion of students who voluntarily participated in after-school services increased from The 49.1% in the last semester has increased to the current 91.9%, which effectively promotes the return of students' learning to campus.
However, the superficial "increase" and "decrease" are not the ultimate goal of "double decrease".
"The implementation of a series of measures of 'double reduction' is ultimately forcing basic education to intensify reform efforts and innovate development models, which is a booster for basic education to deepen reform and accelerate development." Dong Shengzu said.
As experts have said, the implementation of the "double reduction" policy is essentially a correction in the field of education, especially in the field of basic education, and a return to the law of education.
Therefore, with the implementation and implementation of the "double reduction" policy, it will inevitably bring about deeper changes in basic education.
It is an opportunity and a challenge.
During the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress this year, Li Shuqiang, a representative of the National People's Congress and the principal of Tianjiabing Middle School in Longchuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that the "double reduction" has enriched the lives of children in mountainous areas, and their hearts have become stronger. There is a sense of belonging and presence.
But at the same time, it also brings great challenges to mountain education in terms of teaching transformation, after-school services, home-school relationship and how to truly reduce burden and increase efficiency.
In fact, the challenges are universal.
"In the past, off-campus tutoring grew excessively under the influence of involution and capital. Now, after the drug has been removed, it is necessary to consolidate the basics and cultivate the yuan. After reducing the number of extra-curriculars, it is necessary to strengthen the on-campus. To do this, we need to release the vitality of educational elements. , to strengthen the flow of high-quality educational resources." said Qu Yifan, director of the Research Department of the Education and Open Economy Research Center of the University of International Business and Economics.
Many places have put forward practical solutions.
For example, Linquan County, Fuyang, Anhui organized a full-disciplinary unit assignment design seminar to discuss operation management policies and operation design strategies under the background of "double reduction".
Wanshan Primary School in Wusheng County, Guang'an, Sichuan carried out "mirror teaching", in-depth study of teaching materials, teachers promote each other, make the classroom more dynamic and improve students' learning efficiency.
In addition, Inner Mongolia has made it clear that the "flexible commuting" system for teachers will be established from the spring semester of 2022, and the AB post system will be set up for after-school services to facilitate teachers' emergency adjustment of time, rationally arrange teachers' study, lesson preparation and rest time, and protect teachers' basic rights and interests.
As the first batch of pilot cities for the "double reduction", Beijing proposed the policy of "promoting the exchange of cadres and teachers in a large area and a large proportion"...
After a series of combined boxing measures, the biggest change was in the school classroom.
In the first-year language group of the Miyun branch of Beijing Yuying School, the teachers combined several texts such as "Chen Taiqiu and You Qi's Journey", "Yong Xue" and "Walking" into a unit with the theme of "Family Style", and then A situational task was designed for the students: My school is selecting "the most beautiful family style". In this activity, do you think Yuan Fang and his friends can be selected?
Talk about your reasons.
The enthusiasm of the students was suddenly mobilized, and the classroom was alive. "This problem has a good 'substitute sense', allowing students to analyze characters in real life situations and solve the difficulties in learning." Principal Zhang Yushu said.
"Double reduction" policy, "reduction" is only a measure and a means, "behind the word 'reduction' is 'lift', which is 'increase'." Li Yi, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Education and Work Committee, accepted the China Youth Daily · China Youth Network The reporter said in an exclusive interview that the quality of education and teaching is "improved", and the child's actual sense of gain is "increased". "Only in this way can we truly take responsibility for the growth of children."
It has been ten months since the "Double Reduction" policy was introduced, and it has achieved very significant results. The reform of the entire basic education field driven by the "Double Reduction" policy has also begun. We look forward to a better education ecology coming soon.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Fan Weichen Source: China Youth Daily
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Gelatin- a virtual wonder drug! Remember, the days when your grandmother boiled the chicken soup for close to 24 hours and you got all the warm healing properties from the bone broth? That’s precisely where the amazing nutritional benefit came from—the collagen and gelatin that comes from the marrow of the bones. Gelatin is a purified protein, derived from the hydrolysis of collagen. Collagen is the organic component of the bones and skins of mammals. Here are just a few quick reasons why gelatin is such a nutrient.
1. Gelatin binds to H2o in the gut–this helps to improve digestion and essentially slicks up the GI tract for easy movement.
2. Gelatin can help to reduce food intolerance by forming a protective barrier across the gut mucosa.
3. The amino acids in gelatin help to strengthen bones and joint tissues.
5. Keratin found in gelatin is an essential building block for the teeth, hair and nails.
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Here is an excellent tutorial on how to make a killer bone broth at home.
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If so, it is time for your child to do Advanced Directives. An Advance Directive gives a person (called an agent) a voice at a time when he or she is not able to do so. There are Advance Directives for health care decision-making (health care proxies and HIPAA Authorizations) and for financial decision-making (powers of attorney).
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By Mariano Moszoro and Mauricio Soto
High-speed roads that can carry goods to customers in far-off markets raise productivity, reduce poverty and are an important contributor to sustainable and inclusive economic development. This is why economists spend time trying to assess the state of the world’s roads through surveys and the like.
IMF staff have developed a novel measure of road quality across 162 countries using Google Maps to determine the mean, or average, time it takes to drive between large cities that are at least 80 kilometers (50 miles) apart. As the Chart of the Week shows, the world’s fastest roads are found in richer economies including the United States, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Canada. The slowest roads are found in the poorest countries—another obstacle to inclusive growth. An interactive version of the map can be viewed here.
Simplicity is a main feature of our score. Average speeds are easy to calculate and simple to monitor frequently. This makes them an inexpensive complement to other connectivity metrics that rely on satellites or surveys. Our research shows that road quality is highly correlated with travel times.
It is difficult to distill road quality into a single statistic. For example, speed does not capture road safety, the availability of alternate forms of transport such as rail, or congestion during peak hours or seasons (when farmers might all take to the roads at once to get their produce to markets). Furthermore, they might not fully capture the engineering challenges of building quality roads in diverse and difficult terrain.
Nonetheless, this simple metric can support policymakers and planners in assessing their road infrastructure relative to peer countries and the value of future road investments. It can also be easily extended to monitor speeds in smaller roads that can be critical for many in rural areas. This can help countries design policies to overcome road bottlenecks and improve their competitiveness by moving people and goods more expeditiously. | <urn:uuid:780478e3-4816-4bd9-9c19-1cd2646de8cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.imf.org/2022/06/15/where-are-the-worlds-fastest-roads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952951 | 385 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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Characteristics of Concentric Reducers
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Over the past year, we’ve shared a number of updates on the work of our External Data Misuse (EDM) and legal teams to combat unauthorized data scraping across our services. Today, we’re sharing an update on clone sites — what they are and the risks they carry, how our teams are working to address them and ways you can protect your data. We also announced litigation targeting clone sites and scraping for-hire services.
What Is a Clone Site?
A clone site is a third-party site that duplicates, in whole or in part, the content of an existing site. Among other things, clone sites can be used to display people’s scraped data, scam people, and damage the credibility of the original site.
One of the ways clone sites are able to compile people’s data is through the use of self-compromised accounts. A common way this happens is when people provide their Facebook or Instagram credentials to websites and apps offering free likes, followers or other promises in exchange for their Facebook or Instagram credentials. None of the services are authorized, affiliated with or endorsed by Meta.
People should never provide their Facebook or Instagram password anywhere online outside of logging in through the official Facebook or Instagram website and apps or through the “Login with Facebook” button that we allow authorized third-party developers to provide on their site.
Taking Action Against Unauthorized Scraping and Clone Sites
In the first half of 2021, we tracked over 100 different Instagram clone sites. By mid-year, through our disruption efforts, the known clone site ecosystem was reduced by approximately 90%.
In 2020, we filed an action against a defendant scraping people’s publicly-visible information from Instagram in order to create a network of clone sites. This was a violation of our Terms of Service and we filed a lawsuit in order to protect our users. The Court recently issued a final judgment in our favor and found Defendant liable for scraping data from Instagram users and republishing it on his clones sites. The Defendant was ordered by the Court to pay over $200,000 and is banned from using Facebook or Instagram. This decision will help protect people and send a message that this conduct is not tolerated by Meta.
MyStalk’s software used thousands of automated Instagram accounts that falsely identified themselves as legitimate Instagram users connected to either the official Instagram mobile application or website. Through this fraudulent connection, the Defendant scraped data from the profiles of over 350,000 Instagram users and collected posts, photos, Stories, and profile information. These profiles had not been set to private by the users and, beyond a limited number of profiles and posts, were publicly viewable only to logged-in Instagram users. Defendant published the scraped data on his own websites, which display user data scraped from Instagram.
Since February 2021, we have taken a number of enforcement actions against this Defendant, including disabling accounts, sending a cease and desist letter, and revoking the Defendant’s access to Meta’s services.
How Can I Keep My Account and Information Safe?
Giving unauthorized apps or websites your login credentials provides them with complete access to your account, allowing them to see personal messages, find information on your friends and potentially post harmful content on your profile.
When people compromise their accounts in this way, they lose visibility and control of who is viewing their content and interacting with their account, and their data can be used for a variety of potentially nefarious purposes.
Here are steps you can take to protect your data:
- Review your privacy settings regularly to ensure they align with your current preferences.
- Review our tips on how to keep your Facebook and Instagram accounts secure.
- Use our Privacy Checkup feature to be guided through your privacy and security settings, including Who Can See What You Share and How People Can Find You on Facebook.
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Committee gets creative
The St Lucy Parish Independence Committee (PIC) has found a way for Barbadians to express their fears, anxieties, and concerns about the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic.
Feelings on COVID-19: Expressed through Art, Chairperson Olivia Sobers said was the committee’s project coordinator Janice Springer’s idea. And while initially it was opened to residents of St Lucy only, following the interest and response from people across Barbados, they opened it up and extended the deadline to June 25.
“We were thinking of different ways to reach our community because everything was on pause. The [community independence] programme was on pause, but we didn’t have any official letter or statement stating such. As PICs we were thinking of creative ways of how to get the community involved in how they are relating to COVID-19 and the effects of the virus on the economy, families, relationships, jobs,” Sobers said in a telephone interview.
People of all ages are free to express their feeling on the global pandemic in 300 to 500-word short stories, poems, comic strips, art/drawings, songs, dramatic pieces, or food until June 25. Entries should be emailed to the [email protected] (GMB)
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Many consumers who finance their vehicle purchases at car dealerships turn around and refinance, according to a new analysis by credit tracker TransUnion.
That change-over can happen within days, says Brian Landau, a TransUnion senior vice president.
“Consumers who might be paying a somewhat higher interest rate on the loans they obtained through the dealership may find that refinancing can lower those interest rates or extend the loan term,” he says.
The end of summer is a brisk time for auto retailing, he says, noting many consumers are looking for deals before automakers roll out new models in the fall.
Now, there’s an added spur: the threat of potential federal tariffs on imported cars. “This year, the prospect of rising automotive tariffs has also made it a hot time to buy,” Landau says.
The study indicates the average decrease in auto-loan debt service for those seeking a payment reduction was $52 per month. The average refinancing consumer saw a 2.4% APR reduction.
What happens if a customer originally finances through a dealership that adds a percentage point or two for acting as the middleman. Does that “reserve rate” go away if the loan is refinanced elsewhere?
The average 2.4% APR reduction “implies lenders are taking advantage of the dealer markup to offer consumers a lower rate,” Landau tells WardsAuto. “However, keep in mind that the rate reduction can be as low as a few basis points to as high as 10%-plus...”
The auto-lending industry is particularly competitive, with players including banks, credit unions, finance companies and automakers’ finance units (so-called captive lenders). Loan conquesting has become part of the game.
“In an increasingly competitive auto-finance market, there is a lot of potential for auto lenders to tap into refinancing as a way to grow their business,” Landau says.
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XCP CAN Transport Layer
Transport XCP messages via CAN
Vehicle Network Toolbox / XCP Communication / CAN
Simulink Real-Time / XCP / CAN
The XCP CAN Transport Layer subsystem uses the specified device to transport and receive XCP messages.
Use this block with an XCP CAN Data Acquisition block to acquire and analyze specific XCP messages. Use this block with an XCP CAN Data Stimulation block to send specific information to modules.
Other Supported Features
The XCP communication blocks support the use of Simulink® Accelerator™ and Rapid Accelerator mode. Using this feature, you can speed up the execution of Simulink models. For more information on this feature, see the Simulink documentation.
Device — CAN device
device list option
The CAN device, chosen from all connected CAN devices.
Bus speed — Speed of CAN bus
Speed of the CAN bus in bits per second. The default bus speed is the default assigned by the selected device.
Sample time — Simulation refresh rate
0.01 (default) | numeric
Simulation refresh rate, specified as the sampling time of the block during
simulation. This value defines the frequency at which the XCP CAN Transport Layer
subsystem and the underlying blocks run during simulation. For information about
simulation sample timing, see Timing in Hardware Interface Models. If the block is inside
a triggered subsystem or inherits a sample time, specify a value of
-1. You can also specify a MATLAB® variable for sample time. The default value is
C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using Simulink® Coder™.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2020
By Bethan Wilkins
In the first half of this year, Brazilian fresh/frozen pork exports were nearly 40% higher compared with the same period in 2019, at 421,000 tonnes.
The majority of the increase came from a significant 144% rise in shipments to China, which has been the largest buyer of Brazilian pork since 2018. Volumes totalled 226,000 tonnes. The large increase reflects strong demand for imports from China, which continues to face a restricted domestic supply due to African Swine Fever.
Chinese demand is likely to remain strong throughout this year. However, supplying the market has recently become more challenging. According to Reuters, six Brazilian meat plants have been blocked from exporting to China, reflecting concerns over COVID-19 cases among staff. Two pork plants are among those affected. It is not clear how or when this situation will resolve.
In contrast, Russia once again ceased to be a primary market, with its share of Brazilian pork exports decreasing from 9% to virtually zero, at just 81 tonnes. Shipments to Russia were banned for much of 2018, but had shown some recovery last year, when volumes reached 26,000 tonnes between January and June. It seems better market returns for this product can now be found in Asia.
With a 44% rise in the export price, supported by the depreciation of the Real, total Brazilian pork exports were valued at R$5.02 billion, about twice as much as a year earlier.
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We strive to do the right thing for our clients, our people, our communities and the wider world. At Woodland, we are committed to adopting a responsible approach to our own, our stakeholders’ and our industry’s impact on the environment.
From our internal work around encouraging the reduction of single-use plastic by producing reusable water bottles and coffee cups made out of recycled materials for our teams and drivers, to electric car charging facilities, paperless offices and management systems and our sustainable reporting and carbon footprint reduction, we aim to hold ourselves accountable and to deliver a conscious and transparent approach to continuously improving our carbon monitoring and to decreasing our carbon footprint:
We produce yearly reports of recyclables and plastic waste. This has allowed us to identify key areas of plastic usage and work with our suppliers to reduce our use of plastic film by more than 40% in 2019, a reduction of over 3 tonnes of plastic.
We monitor, optimise and reduce the carbon emissions of our own fleet by decreasing fuel consumption through a variety of processes, such as predictive powertrain control.
We have a weekly performance score chart that is issued which includes the vehicles’ carbon footprint as part of an auditable measure of the fleet.
We have developed a loading algorithm to ensure maximised trailer load fill and this, alongside the introduction of 20 unique long semi-trailers to our fleet has provided an increased 15% carrying capacity per movement removing every 6th trip, and in doing so, aiding in reducing your supply chain's carbon footprint further.
We continue to invest into developing environmentally responsible design elements and efficient operating systems for our distribution centres. From energy efficient lighting, recycling programmes, converting gas and diesel material handling to electric and trialling innovative pallet wrap reduction systems, our green warehousing solutions are a key part of our sustainable supply chain consultancy.
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Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra
by Edwin H. Connell
Number of pages: 146
This book is a survey of abstract algebra with emphasis on linear algebra. It is intended for students in mathematics, computer science, and the physical sciences. The presentation is compact and tightly organized, but still somewhat informal. The proofs of many of the elementary theorems are omitted.
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by Arak Mathai, Hans J. Haubold - De Gruyter Open
This textbook on linear algebra is written to be easy to digest by non-mathematicians. It introduces the concepts of vector spaces and mappings between them without dwelling on theorems and proofs too much. It is also designed to be self-contained.
by Mohammed Kaabar - Arxiv.org
There are five chapters: Systems of Linear Equations, Vector Spaces, Homogeneous Systems, Characteristic Equation of Matrix, and Matrix Dot Product. It has also exercises at the end of each chapter above to let students practice additional problems.
The book was designed specifically for students who had not previously been exposed to mathematics as mathematicians view it. That is, as a subject whose goal is to rigorously prove theorems starting from clear consistent definitions.
by Sergei Treil
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The famous Brest Fortress has become synonymous with unbroken spirit and resilience. During the Great Patriotic War, the elite forces of the Wehrmacht were forced to spend 8 full days on its capture, instead of the planned 8 hours. What motivated the defenders of the fortress and why this resistance played an important role in the overall picture of the Second World War.
Early in the morning of June 22, 1941, the German offensive began along the entire line of the Soviet border, from the Barents to the Black Sea. One of the many initial goals was the Brest Fortress - a small line in the plan of Barbarossa. The Germans took only 8 hours to storm and capture it. Despite the loud name, this fortification, once the pride of the Russian Empire, turned into a simple barracks and the Germans did not expect to meet serious resistance there.
But the unexpected and desperate rebuff that the Wehrmacht forces met in the fortress went down in the history of the Great Patriotic War so vividly that today ma
ny believe that the Second World War began with an attack on the Brest Fortress. But it could have happened that this feat would have remained unknown, but the case decreed otherwise.
History of the Brest Fortress
Where the Brest Fortress is located today, there used to be the city of Berestye, which is mentioned for the first time in The Tale of Bygone Years. Historians believe that this city originally grew around the castle, the history of which has been lost for centuries. Located at the junction of Lithuanian, Polish and Russian lands, it has always played an important strategic role. The city was erected on a cape formed by the Western Bug and Mukhovets rivers. In ancient times, rivers were the main communications for traders. Therefor
e, Berestye prospered economically. But the location on the very border entailed dangers. The city often moved from one state to another. It was repeatedly besieged and captured by Poles, Lithuanians, German knights, Swedes, Crimean Tatars and troops of the Russian kingdom.
The history of the modern Brest Fortress originates in imperial Russia. It was built by order of Emperor Nicholas I. The fortification was located at an important point - on the shortest land route from Warsaw to Moscow. At the confluence of two rivers - the Western Bug and Mukhavets there was a natural island, which became the location of the Citadel - the main fortification of the fortress. This building was a two-story building, which housed 500 casemates. There could be 12,000 people there at the same time. Walls of two meters thick reliably protected them from any weapons that existed in the XIX century.
Three more islands were created artificially, using the waters of the Mukhovets River and a man-made system of moats. On them there are additional fortifications: Kobryn, Volyn and Terespol. This arrangement was very suitable for the commanders defending themselves in the fortress, because it reliably protected the Citadel from enemies. It was very difficult to break through to the main fortification, and it was almost impossible to bring stenobit guns there. The first stone of the fortress was laid on June 1, 1836, and on April 26, 1842, the fortress standard soared above it in a solemn atmosphere. At that time, it was one of the best defensive structures in the country. Knowledge of the design features of this military fortification will help to understand how the defense of the Brest Fortress took place in 1941.
Time passed, and weapons improved. The range of artillery fire was increasing. What had previously been impregnable could now be destroyed without even getting close. Therefore, military engineers decided to build an additional line of defense, which was supposed to encircle the fortress at a distance of 9 km from the main fortification. It included artillery batteries, defensive barracks, two dozen strongholds and 14 forts.
February 1942 turned out to be cold. German troops rushed deep into the Soviet Union. The Red Army tried to hold back their advance, but most often they had no choice but to continue to retreat inland. But they didn't always fail. And now, not far from Orel, the 45th Wehrmacht Infantry Division was utterly defeated. We even managed to capture documents from the headquarters archive. Among them, they found a "combat report on the occupation of Brest-Litovsk."
Accurate Germans day after day documented t
he events that took place during the protracted siege in the Brest Fortress. The staff officers had to explain the reasons for the delay. At the same time, as was always the case in history, they went out of their way to exalt their own bravery and downplay the merits of the enemy. But even in this light,
the feat of the unbroken defenders of the Brest Fortress looked so bright that excerpts from this document were published in the Soviet edition of Krasnaya Zvezda to strengthen the spirit of both the front fighters and the civilian population. But history at that time had not yet revealed all its secrets. The Brest Fortress in 1941 endured much more of those trials, which became known from the documents found.
Word to the Witnesses
Three years have passed since the capture of the Brest Fortress. After heavy fighting, Belarus was recaptured from the Nazis and, in particular, the Brest Fortress. By that time, stories about her had become almost legends and an ode to courage. Therefore, interest in this object was immediately increased. The mighty fortress lay in ruins. Traces of destruction from artillery strikes, at the first glance, told experienced front-line soldiers what hell the garrison stationed here had to face at the very beginning of the war.
A detailed survey of the ruins gave an even more complete picture. Literally dozens of messages from participants in the defense of the fortress were written and scratched on the walls. Many came down to the message: "I'm dying, but I don't give up." Some contained dates and last names. Over time, eyewitnesses of those events were also found. German newsreel and photo reports became available. Step by step, historians reconstructed the picture of the events that took place on June 22, 1941 in the battles for the Brest Fortress. The graffiti on the walls told what was not in the official records. In the documents, the date of the fall of the fortress was July 1, 1941. But one of the inscriptions was dated July 20, 1941. This meant that the resistance, albeit in the form of a partisan movement, lasted almost a month.
Defense of the Brest Fortress
By the time the fire of World War II broke out, the Brest Fortress was no longer a strategically important object. But since it is impossible to neglect the already available material resources, it was used as a barracks. The fortress turned into a small military town where the families of commanders lived. Among the civilian population permanently residing in the territory were women, children and the elderly. About 300 families lived outside the walls of the fortress.
Due to the military exercises scheduled for June 22, rifle and artillery units and the highest command staff of the army left the fortress. 10 rifle battalions, 3 artillery regiments, air defense and PTO divisions left the territory. Less than half of the usual number of people remained - about 8.5 thousand people. A national panel of advocates would do honor to any UN meeting. There were Belarusians, Ossetians, Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Kalmyks, Georgians, Chechens and Russians. In total, among the defenders of the fortress were representatives of thirty nationalities. They were approached by 19,000 well-trained soldiers who had considerable experience of real battles in Europe.
The Brest Fortress was stormed by soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht. It was a special unit. It was the first to triumphantly enter Paris. Fighters from this division passed Through Belgium, Holland and fought in Warsaw. They were considered practically the elite of the German army. The Forty-fifth Division always quickly and clearly fulfilled the tasks assigned to it. It was singled out among others by the Führer himself. It is a division of the former Austrian Army. It was formed in Hitler's homeland - in the district of Linz. Personal loyalty to the Führer was carefully cultivated in it. They are expected to win quickly, and they have no doubt about it.
Fully prepared for a quick assault
The Germans had a detailed plan of the Brest Fortress. After all, just a few years ago, they had already won it from Poland. Then Brest was also attacked at the very beginning of the war. The assault on the Brest Fortress in 1939 lasted two weeks. It was then that the Brest Fortress was first subjected to aerial bombardment. And on September 22, the whole of Brest was pompously transferred to the Red Army, in honor of which a joint parade of Red Army soldiers and the Wehrmacht was held.
Fortifications: 1 — Citadel; 2 — Kobrin fortification; 3 — Volyn fortification; 4 — Terespol fortification Objects: 1. Defensive barracks; 2. Barbicans; 3. White Palace; 4. Engineering management; 5. Barracks; 6. Club; 7. Dining room; 8. Brest Gate; 9. Kholm Gate; 10. Terespol Gate; 11. Brigid Gate. 12. The building of the border outpost; 13. West Fort; 14. East Fort; 15. Barracks; 16. Residential buildings; 17. North-Western Gate; 18. North Gate; 19. Eastern Gate; 20. Powder magazines; 21. Brigid Prison; 22. Hospital; 23. Regimental school; 24. Hospital building; 25. Strengthening; 26. South Gate; 27. Barracks; 28. Garages; 30. Barracks.
Therefore, the advancing soldiers had all the necessary information and a scheme of the Brest Fortress. They were aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the fortifications, and had a clear plan of action. At dawn on June 22, everyone was in their seats. Mortar batteries were installed, and assault squads were trained. At 4:15 a.m., the Germans opened artillery fire. Everything was very clearly calibrated. Every four minutes, the line of fire was pushed 100 meters forward. The Germans diligently and methodically mowed down everything that could be obtained. A detailed map of the Brest Fortress served as an invaluable help in this.
The bet was made primarily on surprise. The artillery bombardment was to be short but massive. The enemy had to be disoriented and not given the opportunity to provide a cohesive resistance. For a short attack, nine mortar batteries managed to fire 2880 shots at the fortress. No one expected a serious rebuff from the survivors. After all, there were rear guards, repairmen, and families of commanders in the fortress. As soon as the mortars subsided, the assault began.
The South Island forwards passed quickly. Warehouses were concentrated there, and there was a hospital. The soldiers were not ceremonial with the bedridden sick – they finished them off with rifle butts. Those who could move independently were killed selectively.
But on the western island, where the Terespol fortification is located, the border guards managed to orient themselves and meet the enemy with dignity. But due to the fact that they were scattered into small groups, it was not possible to restrain the attackers for a long time. Through the Terespol Gate of the attacked Brest Fortress, the Germans broke into the Citadel. They quickly occupied some casemates, the officers' canteen and the club.
At the same time, the newly-appeared heroes of the Brest Fortress began to gather in groups. They pull out their weapons and take up defensive positions. Now it turns out that the Germans who have broken through are in the ring. They are attacked from the rear, and defenders who have not yet been discovered are waiting ahead. The Red Army soldiers purposefully shot officers among the attacking Germans. Discouraged by such a rebuff, the infantrymen try to retreat, but then they are met with fire by border guards. German losses in this attack amounted to almost half of the detachment. They retreat, and settle in the club. This time as besieged.
The Germans cannot be helped by artillery. It is impossible to open fire, as the probability of shooting your own people is too high. The Germans try to fight their way to their comrades stuck in the Citadel, but Soviet snipers with accurate shots force them to keep their distance. The same snipers block the movement of machine guns, not giving the opportunity to transfer them to other positions.
By 7:30 in the morning, it would seem that the shot fortress literally comes to life and completely comes to its senses. Defense is organized along the entire perimeter. Commanders hurriedly reform the surviving fighters and place them in positions. No one has a complete picture of what is happening. But at this time, the fighters are sure that they just need to keep their positions. Hold out until help comes.
The Red Army had no contact with the outside world. Messages sent on the air remained unanswered. By noon, the city was completely occupied by the Germans. The Brest Fortress on the map of Brest remained the only hotbed of resistance. All escape routes were cut off. But contrary to the expectations of the Hitlerites, resistance only grew. It was quite clear that the attempt to capture the fortress immediately failed. The offensive stalled.
At 13:15, the German command throws into battle a reserve - the 133rd Infantry Regiment. This does not bring results. At 14:30, the commander of the 45th Division, Fritz Schlieper, arrives at the German-occupied section of the Kobrin fortification to personally assess the situation. He is convinced that his infantry is unable to take the Citadel on their own. Schlieper gives the order to withdraw the infantry at nightfall and resume firing with heavy guns. The heroic defense of the besieged Brest Fortress bears fruit. This is the first retreat of the illustrious 45th Division since the beginning of the war in Europe.
The Wehrmacht forces could not simply take and leave the fortress as it is. In order to move on, it was necessary to occupy it. Strategists knew this, and it has been proven by history. The defense of the Brest Fortress by the Poles in 1939 and the Russians in 1915 served as a good lesson for the Germans. The fortress blocked important crossings over the Western Bug River and access roads to both tank highways, which were crucial for the transfer of troops and the provision of supplies to the advancing army.
According to the plans of the German command, troops aimed at Moscow were to march non-stop through Brest. German generals considered the fortress a serious obstacle, but simply did not consider it as a powerful defensive line. The desperate defense of the Brest Fortress in 1941 made its own adjustments to the plans of the aggressors. In addition, the defending Red Army soldiers did not just settle in the corners. Time after time, they organized counterattacks. Losing men and rolling back into position, they reorganized and went back into battle.
Thus passed the first day of the war. The next day, the Germans gathered the captured people, and, hiding behind women, children and the wounded from the captured hospital, began to cross the bridge. Thus, the Germans forced the defenders either to let them pass or to shoot their relatives and friends with their own hands.
Meanwhile, artillery fire resumed. To help the besiegers, two super-heavy guns were delivered - 600 mm self-propelled mortars of the Karl system. It was such an exclusive weapon that they even had their own names. In total, only six such mortars have been produced in history. The two-ton shells fired from these mastodons left craters 10 meters deep. They knocked down the towers at the Terespol Gate. In Europe, the mere appearance of such a "Charles" at the walls of a besieged city meant victory. The Brest fortress, as long as the defense lasted, did not even give the enemy a reason to think about the possibility of surrender. The defenders continued to shoot back even when they were seriously wounded.
Nevertheless, at 10 am, the Germans arrange the first respite and offer to surrender. This continued in each of the subsequent breaks in shooting. Insistent offers to surrender were heard from German loudspeakers to the entire district. This was to undermine the morale of the Russians. This approach has borne some fruit. On this day, about 1900 people came out of the fortress with their hands raised. Among them were a lot of women and children. But there were also servicemen. Basically, reservists who arrived at the training camp.
The third day of the defense began with shelling, comparable in power to the first day of the war. The Nazis could not help but admit that the Russians were defending bravely. But they did not understand the reasons that made people continue to resist. Brest was taken. There is nowhere to wait for help. However, initially no one planned to defend the fortress. In fact, it would even be a direct disobedience to the order, which said that in the event of hostilities, the fortress should be abandoned immediately.
The military who were there simply did not have time to leave the facility. The narrow gate, which was the only way out then, was under the aimed fire of the Germans. Those who failed to break through initially expected help from the Red Army. They did not know that German tanks were already in the center of Minsk.
Not all women left the fortress, heeding the exhortations to surrender. Many stayed behind to fight their husbands. German stormtroopers even reported to the command about the women's battalion. However, there were never any female units in the fortress.
On the twenty-fourth of June, Hitler was informed about the capture of the Brest-Litovsk fortress. On that day, the stormtroopers managed to capture the Citadel. But the fortress has not yet surrendered. In the evening of the same day, the surviving commanders gathered in the building of the engineering barracks. The result of the meeting is Order No. 1 - the only document of the besieged garrison. Because of the assault that had begun, it was not even finished. But it is thanks to him that we know the names of the commanders and the numbers of the fighting units.
After the fall of the Citadel, the eastern fort became the main center of resistance in the Brest Fortress. Stormtroopers try to take the Kobrin shaft repeatedly, but the gunners of the 98th anti-tank division firmly hold the defense. They knock out a couple of tanks and several armored vehicles. When the enemy destroys the cannons, fighters with rifles and grenades go to the casemates.
The Nazis combine assaults and shelling with psychological treatment. With the help of leaflets dropped from airplanes, the Germans call for surrender, promising life and humane treatment. Through loudspeakers, they announce that both Minsk and Smolensk have already been taken and there is no point in resisting. But the people in the fortress just don't believe it. They are waiting for help from the Red Army.
The Germans were afraid to enter the casemates - the wounded continued to shoot. But they couldn't get out either. Then the Germans decided to use flamethrowers. Brick and metal melted from the terrible heat. These sweats can still be seen today on the walls of casemates.
The Germans issue an ultimatum. His surviving fighters are attributed to a fourteen-year-old girl - Valya Zenkina, the daughter of a sergeant who was captured the day before. The ultimatum says that either the Brest Fortress surrenders to the last defender, or the Germans will wipe the garrison off the face of the earth. But the girl did not return. She chose to stay in the fortress with her own.
The period of the first shock passes, and the body begins to demand its own. People understand that all this time they did not eat anything, and food warehouses burned down during the very first shelling. Worse, the defenders have nothing to drink. At the first artillery bombardment of the fortress, the water supply system was put out of action. People suffer from thirst. The fortress was located at the confluence of two rivers, but it was impossible to reach this water. German machine guns stand along the banks of rivers and canals. The besieged's attempts to get to the water are paid for by their lives.
The cellars are overflowing with the wounded and the families of the commanders. It is especially difficult for children. Commanders decide to take women and children prisoner. With white flags, they get out into the street and walk to the exit. These women did not stay in captivity for long. The Germans simply let them go, and the women went either to Brest or to the nearest village.
On June 29, the Germans called in the air force. That was the start date of the end. Bombers drop several 500 kg of bombs on the fort, but it withstands and continues to snap at the fire. In the afternoon, another super-powerful bomb (1800 kg) was dropped. This time, the casemates punched through. Following this, stormtroopers broke into the fort. They managed to capture about 400 prisoners. Under heavy fire and constant assaults, the fortress lasted 8 days in 1941.
One for all
Major Pyotr Gavrilov, who led the main defense in this area, did not surrender. He took refuge in a hole dug in one of the casemates. The last defender of the Brest Fortress decided to wage his own war. Gavrilov wanted to take refuge in the northwestern corner of the fortress, where there were stables before the war. During the day, he burrows into a pile of manure, and at night he carefully crawls out to the canal to drink water. The major feeds on the remaining feed in the stable. However, after a few days of such a diet, acute abdominal pain begins, Gavrilov quickly weakens and begins to fall into oblivion at times. He is soon captured.
The world will learn how many days the defense of the Brest Fortress lasted much later. As well as what price the defenders had to pay. But the fortress began to grow legends almost immediately. One of the most popular originated from the words of one Jew - Zalman Stavsky, who worked in a restaurant as a violinist. He said that one day, while going to work, he was stopped by a German officer. Zalman was taken to the fortress and led to the entrance to the dungeon around which the soldiers gathered, bristling with cocked rifles. Stavsky was ordered to go down and take out the Russian fighter. He complied, and downstairs he found a half-alive man whose name remained unknown. Thin and overgrown, he could no longer move independently. Rumor has given him the title of last defender. It was April 1942. It's been 10 months since the war began.
From the Shadow of Oblivion
A year after the first attack of the fortification, an article was written about this event in the "Red Star", which revealed the details of the protection of the soldiers. The Moscow Kremlin decided that it could raise the military fervor of the population, which had subsided by that time. It was not yet a real memorial article, but only an alert about what heroes the 9,000 people who were bombed were considered to be. The figures and some names of the dead soldiers, the names of the fighters, the results of the fact that the fortress was surrendered and where the army is moving further were announced. In 1948, 7 years after the end of the battle, an article appeared in Ogonyok, which was already more like a memorable ode to the dead people.
In fact, the presence of a complete picture about the defense of the Brest Fortress should be credited to Sergei Smirnov, who at one time set out to restore and organize the records stored earlier in the archives. Konstantin Simonov picked up the initiative of the historian and a drama, a documentary and a feature film under his leadership were born. Historians conducted a study in order to get as many documentary footage as possible and they succeeded - German soldiers were going to make a propaganda film about the victory, and therefore the video material was already there. However, he was not destined to become a symbol of victory, because all information was stored in the archives.
Around the same time, the painting "To the Defenders of the Brest Fortress" was painted, and since the 1960s poems began to appear, where the Brest Fortress is exhibited as an ordinary entertaining city. They were preparing for a scene on Shakespeare, but did not suspect that another "tragedy" was brewing. Throughout time, there were songs in which from the height of the XXI century a person looks at the deprivations of soldiers a century earlier.
At the same time, it is worth noting that propaganda was conducted not only on the part of Germany: propaganda speeches, films, posters that encourage action. This was also done by the Russian Soviet authorities, and therefore these films also had a patriotic character. Poetry glorified bravery, the idea of the feat of small military troops on the territory of the fortress, trapped. From time to time there were notes about the results of the defense of the Brest Fortress, but the emphasis was placed on the decisions of the soldiers in conditions of complete isolation from the command.
Soon, the Brest Fortress, already known for its defense, had numerous poems, many of which were laid on songs and served as screensavers for documentaries during the Great Patriotic War and chronicles of the advance of troops to Moscow. In addition, there is a cartoon that tells about the Soviet people as unreasonable children (junior classes). In principle, the viewer explains the reason for the appearance of traitors and why there were so many saboteurs in Brest. But this is explained by the fact that the people believed the ideas of fascism, while saboteur attacks were not always committed by traitors.
In 1965, the fortress was awarded the title of "hero", in the media it was mentioned exclusively as the "Brest Fortress-Hero", and by 1971 a memorial complex was formed. In 2004, Vladimir Beshanov published a complete chronicle "Brest Fortress".
The existence of the museum "The Fifth Fort of the Brest Fortress" is due to the Communist Party, which proposed its creation for the 20th anniversary of the memory of the defense of the fortress. The funds were previously collected by the people, and now it remained only to get approval to make a cultural monument out of the ruins. The idea originated long before 1971 and, for example, in 1965 the fortress received the "Star of the Hero", and a year later a creative group was formed to design the museum.
She did a lot of work, up to the indication of what lining the obelisk bayonet (titanium steel), the main color of the stone (gray) and the necessary material (concrete) should have. The Council of Ministers agreed to the implementation of the project and in 1971 a memorial complex was opened, where sculptural compositions are competently and neatly arranged and the places of battle are presented. Today they are visited by tourists from many countries of the world.
Location of monuments
The formed complex has a main entrance, which is a concrete parallelepiped with a carved star. Polished to a shine, it stands on a rampart, on which, at a certain angle, the abandonment of the barracks is especially striking. They are not so much abandoned as left in the state in which they were used by soldiers after the bombing. This contrast emphasizes the condition of the castle. On both sides there are casemates of the Eastern part of the fortress, and from the opening you can see the Central part. Thus begins the story that the Brest Fortress will tell the visitor.
A feature of the Brest Fortress is the panorama. From the elevation you can see the citadel, the Mukhavets River, on the coast of which it is located, as well as the largest monuments. Impressively made sculptural composition "Thirst", glorifying the courage of soldiers left without water.
Since the water supply was destroyed in the first hours of the siege, the soldiers, themselves in need of drinking water, gave it to their families, and the remains were used to cool the guns. It is this difficulty that is meant when they say that the fighters were ready to kill and walk on corpses for a sip of water.
The White Palace, depicted in the famous painting by Zaitsev, which was destroyed to the ground in places before the bombing began, is surprising.
The building for the duration of the Second World War served as a dining room, a club and a warehouse at the same time. Historically, it was in the palace that the Treaty of Brest was signed, and according to myths, Trotsky left the most famous slogan "no war, no peace", imprinting it over a billiard table. However, the latter is not provable. During the construction of the museum near the palace, approximately 130 dead were found, and the walls were damaged by potholes.
Together with the palace, the square of ceremonies is a single whole, and if you take into account the barracks, then all these buildings are entirely preserved ruins that have not been touched by archaeologists. The scheme of the brest Fortress memorial designates the square most often by numbers, although it has a considerable length. In the center there are plates with the names of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, the list of which was restored, where the remains of more than 800 people are buried, and next to the initials ranks and merits are indicated.
Most visited attractions
The Eternal Flame is located near the square, above which the Main Monument rises. As the scheme shows, the Brest Fortress rings this place, making it a kind of core of the memorial complex. The Post of Memory, organized under Soviet rule, in 1972, has been carrying out its service next to the fire for many years. Here serve the Yunarmeys, whose watch lasts for 20 minutes and you can often get to the shift. The monument also deserves attention: it was made from reduced parts made at the local factory from gypsum. Then casts were taken from them and enlarged by 7 times.
The Engineering Department is also part of the untouched ruins and is located inside the citadel, and the Mukhavets and Western Bug rivers make an island out of it. There was always a fighter in the Directorate, who did not cease to transmit signals to the radio station. So the remains of one soldier were found: not far from the equipment, until the last breath, which did not stop trying to contact the command. In addition, during the First World War, the Engineering Directorate was only partially restored and was not a reliable shelter.
The garrison temple became almost a legendary place, which was able to capture enemy troops one of the last. Initially, the temple served as an Orthodox church, however, by 1941 there was a club of the regiment. Since the building stood very profitably, it became a place for which both sides fought hard: the club passed from commander to commander and only at the very end of the siege remained with the German soldiers. The building of the temple was restored several times, and only by 1960 it was included in the complex.
At the very Terespol Gate there is a monument "Heroes of the Border...", created according to the idea of the State Committee in Belarus. A member of the creative committee worked on the design of the monument, and the construction cost 800 million rubles. The sculpture depicts three soldiers defending themselves from enemies invisible to the eye, and behind them are children and their mother giving precious water to a wounded soldier.
The attraction of the Brest Fortress are the dungeons, which have an almost mystical aura, and around them there are legends of different origin and content. However, whether they should be called such a loud word remains to be understood. Many journalists made reports without first verifying the information. In fact, many of the dungeons turned out to be manholes, a length of several tens of meters, not at all "from Poland to Belarus". The human factor played a role: those who survived mention the underground passages as something big, but often the stories cannot be confirmed by facts.
Often, before looking for ancient passages, you need to study the information, thoroughly learn the archive and understand the photographs found in newspaper clippings. Why is this important? The fortress was built for certain purposes and in some places these passages may simply not be - they were not needed! But certain fortifications are worth paying attention to. This will help the map of the Brest Fortress.
When erecting forts, it was taken into account that they should only support the infantry. So, in the minds of builders, they looked like separate buildings that are well armed. The forts were supposed to protect the areas between them where the military were located, thus forming a single chain - a line of defense. In these distances between fortified forts, a road was often hidden, hidden on the sides by an embankment. This mound could serve as walls, but not as a roof – it had nothing to hold on to. However, researchers perceived and described it as dungeons.
The presence of underground passages as such, not only that is not logical, but also difficult to implement. The financial costs that the command would incur did not justify the benefits of these dungeons. Much more effort would have been spent on the construction, but it would be possible to use the moves from time to time. Such dungeons can be used, for example, only when the fortress was defended. Moreover, it was beneficial for commanders that the fort remained autonomous, and not turned into part of a string providing only a temporary advantage.
There are certified written memoirs of the lieutenant, describing his retreats with the army through the dungeons stretching in the Brest Fortress, according to him, for 300 meters! But the
story casually talked about the matches with which the soldiers illuminated the way, but the size of the passages described by the lieutenant speaks for itself: it is unlikely that they would
have enough such lighting for such a distance, and even taking into account the return trip.
Old communications in legends
The fortress had storm drains and sewers, which made it from the usual heap of buildings with large walls of a real stronghold. It is these passages of technical purpose that can most correctly be called dungeons, since they are made as a smaller version of the catacombs: a network of narrow passages branched over a long distance can only miss one person of medium build. A soldier with ammunition will not pass through such crevices, and even more so, several people in a row. This is an ancient sewerage system, which, by the way, is on the scheme of the Brest Fortress. A person could get along it to the place of clogging and clean it so that this branch of the highway could be used further.
There is also a gateway that helps to maintain the right amount of water in the fortress moat. It was also perceived as a dungeon and took the form of a fabulously large manhole. You can list numerous other communications, but the meaning will not change from this and you can consider them dungeons only conditionally.
Ghosts Avenge the Dungeons
Already after the fortification was surrendered to Germany, legends about cruel ghosts avenging comrades began to be transmitted from mouth to mouth. The real basis for such myths was: the remains of the regiment were hidden for a long time through underground communications and night sentries were shot. Soon, the descriptions of the ghosts that did not miss began to frighten so much that the Germans wanted each other to avoid meeting with the Frau Mit Machine gun - one of the legendary ghosts-avengers.
Upon the arrival of Hitler and Benito Mussolini, in the Brest Fortress, everyone's hands sweated: if ghosts fly out of there while these two brilliant personalities pass by the caves, troubles cannot be avoided. However, this, to the considerable relief of the soldiers, did not happen. At night, Frau never stopped brutalizing. She attacked unexpectedly, always swiftly and just as suddenly disappeared into the dungeons, as if she was dissolving into them. From the descriptions of the soldiers it followed that the woman had a dress torn apart in several places, matted hair and a dirty face. Because of her hair, by the way, her middle name was "Kudlataya".
The story had a real basis, as the wives of the commanders were also besieged. They were trained to shoot, and they did it masterfully, without a miss, the TRP standards had to be passed. In addition, to be in good shape physically and be able to handle various types of weapons was in honor, and therefore some woman blinded by revenge for loved ones could well carry out this. Anyway, the Frau Mit assault rifle was not the only legend among German soldiers.
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As of 2020, nearly 2.7 million households across Down Under have a feline friend. Are you one of them? If yes, you’ve probably come across the concept of cat enclosures. But what exactly are they?
A cat enclosure is a structure designed specifically to protect your cats without compromising on their essential freedoms. Given the multi-pronged benefits they bring to the table, these catios (as they are called) have become quite the hit.
If you are planning to join the bandwagon as well, we have a guide you should look at.
The 5 Things that Make Catios Pawsome
There are many boxes that an ideal enclosure will need to check, from the type, the make, the position to the material.
To begin with, you need to take a call about the catio’s make. For a hassle-free experience, you can always visit a pet store and pick a readymade enclosure for your cat. If customization is your priority, you can hire a professional to build one from scratch.
Are you a seasoned DIYer? There are umpteen tutorials you can watch to construct a brand new catio for your cat, all by yourself.
There are a plethora of cat enclosures out there, like window, balcony, portable, and porch ones. While choosing one, it would help to consider the location closely.
For instance, if your cat is used to spending most of its time gazing at your backyard, a window catio would make the most sense. Similarly, your cat would benefit from a portable catio if it is used to accompanying you on outdoor trips.
It is essential to pick a catio of the right size, as otherwise, your cat will find it very difficult to move around. Always look for an enclosure that is big enough to accommodate your pet comfortably while leaving enough room for it to walk around.
Not all pet enclosures look like metal cages from the movies. You can have an enclosure made of wood, aluminium, or even PVC for an aesthetic appeal.
While readymade catios don’t come with great flexibility, you can go all out and mix up the materials to build an enclosure yourself.
The cost of cat enclosures will vary extensively, depending on the materials used, the type, make size, and so on.
While you need not pay a fortune to acquire one, you should also steer clear of the ones being sold at ‘too good to be true prices. It is crucial to arrive at a middle ground in this regard.
To determine the quality of a cat enclosure, you can follow the D-S-S principle. Here’s how it goes:
- Durability: The catio should be sturdy enough to last long and endure external factors, like inclement weather conditions.
- Shelter: The enclosure should be able to protect your cat from rain, excess heat and provide sufficient comfort.
- Safety: An excellent enclosure can prevent your cat from getting into trouble.
To buy or to not buy a catio? You can sweep all your apprehensions under the rug, as the benefits of a cat enclosure– guaranteed safety, improved behaviour, regulated eating habits, etc. – make it worth every dollar you spend. Apart from the six factors discussed above, you can also think about the maintenance required for the enclosure.
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Open up your space to the homeless
A gentle man I know walked into a Columbia parking garage one recent cold night. It was nothing unusual, except I'm almost certain he doesn't own a car. Most likely, he was seeking some minimal shelter, perhaps returning to some blankets stashed away where he could retreat for sleep. He is among dozens of people locally and millions nationally, brothers and sisters of ours who are homeless in this land of plenty - for some anyway.
There need be no homeless human beings in our community or nation.
I made a pitch a few weeks ago to the Columbia Interfaith Council, composed of representatives from many churches and agencies doing much good work. I encouraged leaders of central-city churches to open their fellowship halls, activity centers or other spaces as an overnight shelter to homeless individuals. Central Columbia business leaders, consider opening warehouse or office space that is unused at night.
I will volunteer to stay overnight one night a week to help operate such a shelter. Several other people have expressed interest in volunteering. For a decade I was a community member of Catholic Worker Houses for homeless individuals in Iowa and with Columbia's St. Francis House. We would welcome others to join us for a formation meeting to start a shelter. We would need many others, churchgoers and other sympathetic folks to take an overnight shift or donate folding beds, cots, sheets, blankets, pillows and other items.
First things first, though: Before we sign up for shifts and collect needed items, a lodging space must first be compassionately offered.
We would need sleeping space for 20-40 people overnight with restroom access. The shelter could open at 7 p.m. and close by 8 a.m. to allow time for volunteers to clean up. We would allow nobody to enter with alcohol, drugs or weapons. Respectful behavior would be expected, otherwise the individual would have to leave for the night.
The need for emergency shelter will regrettably only increase because economic times seem likely to overwhelm many more individuals in the months ahead. Homeless individuals among us might be temporarily down on their luck; someone with a sad knack for burning bridges; mentally ill or an alcoholic; someone laid off from work or working two or more minimum-wage jobs but still unable to make ends meet; perhaps a military veteran haunted by post-traumatic stress disorder unable to adjust to civilian life; perhaps a single mother with kids unable to work enough to cover living expenses - or any of a number of different other personal calamities. Hundreds of us living paycheck to paycheck are just a layoff or illness away from being homeless ourselves.
I know many people in our community already quietly open their homes to folks who would otherwise be homeless. Thank you for your acts of kindness. A few weeks ago, I learned state leaders of one Christian denomination urged churchgoers to ostensibly act similarly: practice "radical hospitality." I took the thought to mean you should find someone without shelter take him or her into your own home. I contacted a local minister of that same denomination who expressed interest in having their church consider providing dorm-style sleeping space - but wrote back a few days later, reporting church leaders deemed the notion "too radical."
What would Jesus have us do? Jesus urged followers to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, to care for the least among us as if we were caring for him. I've heard tell in past generations it was common for households in our nation and Europe, to have a "Christ Room," a bedroom available for free lodging by some needing brother or sister, as if Jesus himself showed up with a reservation. It was not uncommon, I've been told, for a home to have an extra place setting at the dining room table for the wayfarer who might need a meal. If such generosity were the societal norm these days, there would be no need for shelters.
Our society sadly seems more committed to erecting mini-castles for homes, expanding office space like the emerging, massive government center and uplifting shelter for parking cars. It is way past time for a priority shift. Over the years I've heard officials complain such an additional shelter would make Columbia a magnet for homeless people from across the country. I doubt it. I for one would be proud of a Columbia that would instead open up the armory, city hall lobby or other building as a shelter for the homeless - or at least support efforts by others to create one. Our unofficial motto would be, "We humanely care for our struggling sisters and brothers."
The good folks at St. Francis House, Salvation Army and New Life Evangelical Center and other agencies have been providing shelter on their own. They can't do it by themselves. These shelters also strive, for good reason, to allow only sober residents to stay to help other guests keep alcohol- and drug-free. We propose what is colloquially called a "wet shelter," a place where people can stay even if they are under the effects of alcohol or other drugs, as long as they are civil and nonviolent. Because they are drunk or high is not a valid argument to deny shelter to someone. We would work with the police to ensure the safety of all while balancing the right to privacy for guests.
Beyond the moral and spiritual grounds, having such a space also makes good fiscal sense. Law enforcement officers are forced at times to bring homeless folks to jail, a far more expensive and demeaning housing option. Those with inadequate housing often ultimately become ill and need emergency health care - expensive to taxpayers because these patients are almost always unable to pay their bills. Human beings, banned to the cold and other elements, can become more hardened and desperate and might be more likely to commit crimes, victimizing other citizens and later costing us all through incarceration.
The human need has been with us for years. Continued inactivity could prove deadly for some this winter.
Please call me at 449-4585, particularly if you would be willing to make such space available or if you would like to help volunteer.
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Humans have been carving statues and sculptures for thousands of years, and as we’ve gotten better at it, our statues have become bigger and grander. So grand, in fact, that a handful of these statues have become towering behemoths, and can be seen from miles away.
These are some of the world’s most incredibly large statues.
Inspired directly by the world famous Christ the Redeemer statue that can be found in Rio de Janeiro, the Cristo-Rei statue was finished in 1959, 10 years after construction started.
The figure itself stands at around 28 metres in height, but when paired with the structure holding it up, it actually sits at around 110 metres off the ground, making it one of the biggest statues that we’ve ever created.
2. Ushiku Daibutsu
Found in the Japanese city of Ushuki, this figure is among the largest in the world, standing at a height of 120 metres off the ground, which includes a 10-meter base and a 10 meter platform that resembles a lotus.
The Buddha statue can be observed from a deck, where visitors can see the figure, known as Amitabha Buddha, also known as Ushiku Arcadia.
3. Guan Yin Statue
This statue of the bodhisattva Guan Yin can be found on the southern coast of Hainan Island, which is part of china. The statue has three main aspects, all of which face a different direction.
It was first unveiled to the public in 2005 after a construction period of around 6 years, and has become a popular visitation spot for those touring through southern China and the many islands that the country owns. The long ride out toward the statue gives tourists ample time to catch up on work or enjoy wagering at sports betting sites like https://onlinebetting.nz/.
4. Laykyun Setkyar
As the second tallest statue in the world, this 130-metre creation was built at the top of the Po Kaung Hills, which is in central Myanmar near the central hub of Monywa. It’s made up of two parts, one of a standing Buddha, while another reclines at the first’s base.
The first statute was completed in 2008, while the resting Buddha had been there since 1996.
5. Spring Temple Buddha
Without a doubt the very largest statue in the world, the Spring Temple Buddha is a true sight to behold. Standing at a massive 153 metres off of the ground, the statue was created after the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan had been destroyed by the Taliban terrorist group during their purge of all religious figures that didn’t conform to their ideals.
The statue was finished in 2008 and depicts Vairocana Buddha, an important figure in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese religious texts, and is considered by many to be the world’s most prominent symbols of believe, which its size gives testament to. | <urn:uuid:15ebf5c6-a46e-4b40-938f-ee3166f9456b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artwithblooms.com/biggest-statues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.969208 | 622 | 2.640625 | 3 |
In early 2009, Bitcoin buying and selling was peer-to-peer, initially through PayPal. Nevertheless, it solely took a couple of months earlier than the primary ramp was launched. Mt Gox and earlier variants have been, as anticipated, rudimentary and centralized. Quick-forward lower than a decade later, and crypto buying and selling is a vibrant trade with billions moved each day.
Exchanges are essential channels for shifting billions of belongings between customers and chains. Because the trade expands and crypto finds adoption, their function will solely be magnified. This rise is very when decentralized finance (DeFi) is on the fore, dangling irresistible affords.
DeFi and the Position of Liquidity Aggregators
In lower than three years, DeFi instructions billions in Complete Worth Locked (TVL), with demand stemming from the sub-sphere’s worth proposition.
DeFi is, because the identify suggests, decentralizing finance utilizing sensible contracts, permitting customers from throughout the globe to entry funds. Thrilling as it might be, there have to be dependable ramps with acceptable ranges of liquidity for clean trustless swapping of tokens.
Decentralized exchanges (DEXes) are launched from main sensible contracting platforms like Ethereum and the BNB Chain and have comparatively excessive ranges of liquidity. Nevertheless, since there are greater than a dozen blockchains with lively crypto initiatives whose tokens command tons of of thousands and thousands in market cap, most merchants have been manually hopping between exchanges or utilizing liquidity DEX aggregators.
Aggregating DEXes, for instance, 1Inch, allows clean swapping of various tokens listed in numerous DEXes from one person interface. By doing this, liquidity aggregating DEXes saves time and assets, encouraging extra customers to channel funds into DeFi.
Nonetheless, whereas liquidity aggregating DEXes play a large function in DeFi, most are single-chain and some multi-chain, permitting its customers to bridge their belongings, however none have cross-chain aggregation capabilities. Consequently, merchants obtain fewer tokens than they might if they might entry liquidity on a number of chains on the similar time… Oh, wait. Now they’ll.
Chainge Finance: Finest Pricing, Cross-Chain, and Swift Settlement
There’s an enormous drawback that Chainge Finance is presently tackling. The cross-chain liquidity DEX aggregator’s builders have launched a blockchain-based buying and selling venue laser-focused on guaranteeing merchants swap belongings in essentially the most liquid setting guaranteeing the perfect charges.
Swapping tokens through Chainge Finance is non-custodial and supplied by way of a simple-to-use cellular interface. The platform additionally options helpful asset administration instruments utilized by over 400k customers for a mixed TVL of greater than $160 million and a complete aggregated liquidity of over $40 Billion. Distinguished instruments out there in Chainge Finance embrace a spot, futures, and choices DEX, common digital belongings with cross-chain roaming capabilities, a time-framing module, and extra.
Each order initiated from Chainge Finance will likely be queried in all 20 supported DEXes and “crawled” for the perfect costs. As soon as the chords are struck, the order is break up throughout a number of liquid chains for the dealer to obtain the perfect costs. The half taken might be conveniently considered within the app’s order particulars part.
Chainge Finance does this by way of its proprietary smart-router that leverages DCRM know-how and a swap pathfinder algorithm. The Sensible Router software searches built-in DEXes throughout a number of chains for the perfect charges for decrease slippage whereas additionally establishing a route for a swift settlement.
When a person needs to swap token A for token B, the sensible router will question the DEXs and decide real-time liquidity for the A/B pair in all DEXs on every chain.
Taking fuel value into consideration, the sensible router will return the perfect path to execute the order.
As an illustration, the mounted quantity of A tokens to swap on the Ethereum in Uniswap DEX + the mounted quantity of A tokens to swap on the Ethereum chain in Sushiswap DEX + the mounted quantity of A tokens to swap on the BSC chain in Pancake DEX, and extra till the whole swap quantity is reached.
After the person locations the order, the next steps will likely be executed:
- Token A is wrapped into the fusion chain (it doesn’t matter what chain token A is on)
- The transaction to burn all token A common belongings on fusion is signed
- The burn receipt is used to name completely different proxy swap sensible contracts on every chain to make use of token A on these particular chains to execute the swap.
- Throughout the slippage margin, the swap order will likely be executed.
NB: If the slippage margin is exceeded, the swap deal will likely be solely partially accomplished and the person will instantly get the remaining portion of A tokens again.
This use case ought to render apparent the massive benefits of utilizing the Chainge Finance cross-chain liquidity aggregator aka essentially the most liquid DEX available on the market.
Chainge Finance has Included over 20 DEXes and 1 aggregator throughout 9 chains
Notably, Change Finance’s DCRM Expertise is patented and developed by Fusion Basis in partnership with a number of the world’s main safety and cryptography specialists, together with Louis Goubin, Professor of Laptop Science on the College of Versailles, and Pascal Paillier, Ph.D.
Chainge Finance has already built-in with greater than 20 DEXes and 1 aggregator throughout 9 well-liked blockchains, (with tons extra to be steadily added). For instance, on Ethereum, Chainge Finance integrates 1inch, Uniswap and SushiSwap. In the meantime, within the Cronos blockchain, they’ve chosen VVS and Cronaswap.
This DeFi protocol is well-thought-out and is a lower above the remainder. It’s purposefully designed to resolve current ache factors of inconveniently low liquidity leading to unfavorable swapping charges in addition to eliminating the necessity to use cross-chain bridges.
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A government department has been forced to admit it has “no idea” how many landlords have been convicted under laws brought in to ensure rented homes are fit for human habitation.
Freedom of Information Requests made by renting campaigner Ajay Jagota have revealed the Ministry of Justice has not recorded the number of landlords to have been successfully convicted under the Homes (Fitness for Habitation) Act 2018.
While acknowledging that the ministry “holds all the information you request” the government’s response states that departmental records do “not include the specific legislation”.
The government’s response claims it would take more than 3.5 days to collate the information, meaning that the “cost of complying” with the request “would exceed the appropriate limit”.
The Homes (Fitness for Habitation) Act 2018 came into force in 2019 and requires landlords to ensure their properties are fit for human habitation.
Unfitness for habitation is determined by whether a property is ‘not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition’ because it needs repairs or has issues with damp, ventilation, drainage and sanitary conditions and facilities for preparation and cooking of food.
The act enables tenants to seek court orders forcing their landlord to carry out repairs – and receive compensation for having to ensure sub-standard living conditions.
The government’s newly-published Housing Survey recently revealed that over a million renters have concerns about repairs at their property, and that 23% of privately rented homes do not meet minimum standards.
Ajay Jagota, founder of online claims management firm Veriwise, stated:
“It’s startling how many renters don’t know that there is a law which can force their landlord to repair their homes and even pay them compensation – it’s downright alarming that the government doesn’t seem to know either.
“I have literally no idea why you would bring in a new law and then make no effort to see how many times it is actually being used, and the inconsistent nature of the government’s response leads me to speculate that they know a good deal more than they are letting on and are simply embarrassed about the ineffectiveness of this legislation.
“It’s understandable that tenants would not have the legal knowledge or confidence to fight for their rights in the courts – it’s why Veriwise was created – but it’s deeply troubling that the government seems no to know either.
“Up and down the country, there are tenants wondering why their landlord isn’t fixing things, or putting up with damp and condensation, dangerous or broken appliances and even pest infestations – and with the right support it doesn’t have to be like that.”
Veriwise takes on housing disrepair claims on behalf of renters, negotiating with councils or private landlords to get property maintenance issues fixed quickly and claim compensation for renters from landlords. In cases where the landlord does not comply Veriwise have a panel of solicitors who can take the case to court to ensure the landlord complies and pays any compensation.
All renters have to do is submit the issues they are experiencing with their rented home online, allowing Veriwise to identify legal breaches and follow them up with landlords to rapidly resolve the issue and seek compensation where appropriate.
Veriwise is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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Municipal Employees Sensitized on Importance of COVID-19 Vaccination
As a caring Municipality and as part of its employee health and wellness programme, the Municipal Council of Manzini last Friday facilitated yet another Covid-19 sensitization session for all employees. The session was, amongst others, aimed at debunking circulating myths regarding vaccinations for Covid-19, educating them on the different variants of the virus as well as proactively preparing them for the possible 3rd wave of the global pandemic. Renowned medical practitioner Dr Jonathan Dlamini facilitated the awareness session. This initiative is in line with the national Government’s embracing of the nationwide voluntary Covid-19 vaccination; which exercise is aimed at achieving herd immunity in the Kingdom. Even at the global level, many countries have rolled out nationwide vaccination; the intent being achievement of herd immunity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines herd immunity (also referred to as population immunity) as ‘the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune’.
The WHO further states that herd immunity against Covid-19 should be achieved by protecting people through vaccination. In his presentation, the medical doctor was emphatic on the importance of employees and the general members of the public continuing to practice the Covid-19 preventative measures in order to contribute to a national effort towards suppressing possibilities of the 3rd wave of the virus in the Kingdom. These measures include wearing a face mask at all times, washing hands with soap and running water as frequently as possible, rubbing hands using a 70% alcohol-based hand sanitiser and keeping a safe physical distance of at least one metre from one another; both during and outside working hours. Dr Dlamini also encouraged the employees to take the Covid-19 vaccine when such opportunity got to be availed to them; adding that it was important that the country achieved herd immunity. He clarified that it was incorrect to assume that people who took the vaccine would not contract the virus but stated that the vaccine reduced its severity and drastically lessened the possibility of Covid-19 induced death. A number of Covid-19 vaccines have been created and endorsed by health experts globally. At the moment the Kingdom of Eswatini has rolled out a phased nationwide vaccination exercise; starting with Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. Health workers and the elderly have so far been covered in the ongoing vaccination rollout and other segments of the population will follow thereafter.
…EMPLOYEES’ QUESTIONS ON COVID-19 VACCINE, 3rd WAVE ANSWERED
Like many other people in general, employees of the Municipal Council of Manzini had questions about the 3rd wave and the Covid-19 vaccines; and these were answered by medical practitioner Dr Jonathan Dlamini during a sensitisation session held last Friday. The following is a highlight of the interaction and the Municipality is of the view that publishing it might be useful even to the reader;
QUESTION 1: How long will the vaccine last in the body?
RESPONSE: It is estimated to range from 6 to 12 months.
QUESTION 2: It appears there is uncertainty about Eswatini getting the second dose of Oxford–AstraZeneca? What can you say?
RESPONSE: As far as we know, there is no need to panic. The Government of Eswatini has promised that the second dose of the vaccine will be available. Those who have taken the first jab will get the second one at the appointed time.
QUESTION 3: There are fears that the vaccine is a way-paver for the 666 Mark of the Beast as stated in the Holy Bible. What is your take on this statement?
RESPONSE: My Holy Bible says the 666 mark will be on the forehead and hand. The Covid-19 vaccine is injected in the arm.
QUESTION 4: In your presentation you speak of herd immunity. What is it and what is its significance?
RESPONSE: Herd immunity is when 65% of the total population has vaccinated for a virus. The virus cannot spread when a majority of the population has vaccinated against it. Some countries globally have already achieved herd immunity hence they have relaxed the Covid-19 restrictions far more than Eswatini has. Therefore, it is important that more and more Emaswati take the vaccine so that we also achieve herd immunity and possibly escape subsequent Covid-19 waves.
…ILLEGAL DUMPING AN OFFENCE, PLEASE USE THE DUMPSITE
The Municipal Council of Manzini notes with concern continued acts of illegal dumping in the urban area. Often times construction vehicles are spotted by residents dumping construction waste material on undeveloped plots, ravines and other open spaces. The Municipality takes this opportunity to remind members of the public that illegal dumping is a crime that carries heavy fines.
According to the Litter Regulations of 2011, a person who is found dumping waste where it is not supposed to can be fined a minimum of E5,000 as a spot fine. However, the Courts of law can fine the offender far more than E5,000. Other acts of illegal dumping are carried out by domestic workers after cleaning the yard. This illegal practice is also discouraged and offenders can also be subjected to a similar fine. People who have bulk waste are encouraged to obtain services of a skip bin from the Municipality. The service only costs E100. Those who do not afford to hire a skip bin (the large open-topped waste container) are notified that they are permitted to transport their waste to the Municipality’s Controlled Dumpsite. The dumpsite is open daily, between 7:30am and 4:30pm including weekends and public holidays. At the moment there is no cost attached to dumping waste at the dumpsite. However, it must be noted that only people who reside within the Manzini urban area are allowed to do so. | <urn:uuid:b6f2de4d-e5be-411f-a27d-bc6fe221d0c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mzcitycouncil.sz/municipal-employees-sensitized-on-importance-of-covid-19-vaccination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.965242 | 1,227 | 2.59375 | 3 |
SALEM — Many veterans return home to a new battle, one that US Rep. Seth Moulton personally experienced at the end of his military career. It’s something Sgt. Johanny Rosario, a fellow Marine killed in the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, would never get to know.
“On behalf of our entire community and the US Congress, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Johanny’s family and assure you, her legacy will live on,” Moulton, D-Salem, said Monday morning at Salem State University, addressing Rosario’s mother Colasa Pichardo, seated in the audience.
“Veterans have been hardened by some of the toughest experiences on Earth, like what I just described, what Johanny went through.
“But the truth is, we all need help sometimes, especially when it comes to our mental health,” Moulton said, looking to students of Salem State’s Upward Bound program who gathered to honor Rosario. “We all deserve that.”
The event honored Rosario’s military service, including a presentation of colors and playing of taps to close the ceremony.
It was also an opportunity to discuss 988, a national mental health crisis hotline Moulton got through Congress that will launch this weekend. The hotline, which works similar to 911 across all phone devices, serves as an opportunity for those lost in the dark to find a friend with a flashlight.
Organized by Salem State and held in an O’Keefe Center gymnasium, the service at times felt like a clash of separate priorities: Remembering a Marine from Lawrence killed violently by an act of terrorism, and advocating for mental health services. There was no indication from Moulton or others that the latter was part of Rosario’s story.
But the ceremony was an opportunity for Upward Bound to honor one of its own. The program offers tutoring and academic programs to Lawrence Public Schools students. Those in attendance, several hundred students of color wearing black T-shirts with a heart logo and #stopthestigma hashtag, are members of the SSU program.
Salem State also used the event to unveil an Alumni Plaza brick honoring Rosario’s status as a past Upward Bound student and six-year member of the Marine Corps. It carries the Marine Corps insignia above its name.
Rosario, a Lawrence native, was among 13 American military and 169 Afghan civilians killed in a terrorist blast and ensuing gunfire at Kabul Airport’s Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. She was also known in the Marine Corps as “Rosie.”
Rosario was working at the time to screen women and children attempting to flee Afghanistan from the expanding control of the Taliban government when the deadly attack occurred. She was helping two women who were being trampled by a massing of people outside the gate at the time of the blast, according to the Foundation for Women Warriors.
Her commanding officer, Capt. Pascal DeMeo, recalled her final words before entering the crowd was “they need me sir,” the Foundation reported in a blog post on Rosario.
“I visited Afghanistan just a few days before the attack that took Johanny and 12 other service members’ lives,” Moulton said. “What those Marines were doing at Abbey Gate, the famous gate at Kabul Airport, where they were working to save the lives of allies who had served alongside us for over 20 years in Afghanistan… what they were doing at Abbey Gate was the most extraordinary thing I’ve seen in my life.
“They were given an impossible task, to literally sift through a sea of humanity — thousands and thousands of people struggling, crying for help,” Moulton continued. “They had to sift through the sea, go out into this sea of Afghan people, and find the ones that had worked for us, literally pluck our allies and friends and their families out of that crowd. These brave Marines would take the Afghans by their hands, their husbands and wives, put their little boys and girls on their backs, and literally carry them to freedom.”
Moulton then turned to Rosario’s mother.
“What an incredible, deep commitment to service,” he said.
The event ended with a Q&A session between Upward Bound students and Moulton.
“Why am I so passionate about 988?” Moulton asked, then recalling his experience feeling lost after military service and the eventual diagnosis of experiencing post-traumatic stress. “It was younger brains, some of the guys I served with in my platoon, and young Marines like those here who started to deal with their mental health issues first. … They set an example for me, so my hope for 988 and other parts of my mental health program is it sets an example for other people, so other people feel like they can get help.”
Since returning from Iraq, Moulton has lost two Marine friends to battles with mental health. That, he said, is what he seeks to change: “I want to make sure we don’t lose more American lives to mental health.”
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(formerly The Week Online with DRCNet)
Issue #377 -- 3/4/05
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Table of Contents
David Borden, Executive Director, [email protected]
Two months ago, an anonymous writer in Pittsburgh's Tribune Review paper borrowed the Neil Young song title, "The Needle and the Damage Done," for an editorial. Well, you never know if it was the author or staff at the paper who supply an editorial's title. But that's what the title was. Unfortunately, the piece was less a lament over addiction than a poorly conceived attack piece against harm reduction. The ignorance such screeds embody might be pardonable if they did not reflect great and willful prejudice. And the consequences of such ignorance are themselves wreaking much -- very much -- damage, around the world and within the US itself.
The AIDS epidemic is exploding in new populations around the world, particularly in developing nations whose resources for offering the expensive treatments common in more wealthy nations are much more scant. According to a statement this week by Human Rights Watch, drug injecting accounts for a majority of HIV cases in China, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, the Baltic states, and all of Central Asia, as well as much of Southeast Asia and South America. Russia, HRW points out, has more HIV cases now than all of North American, and drug injection is responsible for as many as 80% of them.
That is why pressure is growing on our side of the issue, too. The HRW statement was issued on the occasion of the release of an open letter on the topic signed by numerous organizations from 56 nations around the world, including the very nations represented by anti-drug groups at Mark Souder's hearings two weeks before. Editorials in both the New York Times and the Washington Post were right on time, criticizing the Bush administration's stance on the issue last weekend.
To be blunt, if the Souders of the world have their way with the UN, untold millions will die, unnecessarily. In the face of such a catastrophe, a catastrophe already in progress, "the needle and the damage done" hardly speaks to anything useful. A better refrain for our time might be "the ignorance and the damage done." Ignorance which greatly increases the harm of the needle.
US drug czar John Walters is in Europe this week to "combat so-called 'harm reduction' policies," his new blog announced, while at the same time some 50 groups from around the world have signed onto a Human Rights Watch letter denouncing the war on harm reduction and the US attack on needle exchange programs in particular. To add fuel to the fire, both the New York Times and the Washington Post criticized Bush administration policies in the field in editorials over the weekend.
In a consensus statement on harm reduction, the task force came out four-square against the approach. "We support a policy of no use of illegal drugs or destructive use of legal drugs. Rational drug policies which recognize that the temporary use of measures to reduce harm with the goal of ultimate abstinence are fundamentally different from so-called 'harm reduction' drug policies which accept the inevitability of drug use," the statement read. "The phrase 'harm reduction' and its obvious meaning has been hijacked and cynically employed by those whose goal is to legalize drugs. They use the obvious, universal desire to reduce harm to promote the legalization of drugs. Drug legalizers use the phrase to gain the sympathy of well-meaning people and government officials... We support the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) position on so-called 'harm reduction' that does not support stand alone needle exchange programs and so called 'safe' injecting rooms because such policies encourage drug use and violate UN Conventions."
If Walters and his crowd are "pushing back" against harm reductionists, well, the harm reduction community is pushing back, too. Citing recent moves by the US to stop United Nations agencies from promoting harm reduction strategies such as needle exchanges for the prevention of HIV infections, scientists, researchers, and public health advocates Wednesday released a letter to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs urging it not to capitulate to US pressure. "Silencing the UN on needle exchange is deadly diplomacy," said Jonathan Cohen of Human Rights Watch's HIV/AIDS Program. "The United States should be encouraging proven HIV prevention strategies, not attacking them."
"The fastest growing epidemics in the world are being driven by injection-drug use, and provision of sterile injection equipment is among the most important, proven strategies to contain them," said Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch of the Open Society Institute, another of the letter's signatories. "It is reprehensible that the US would try to compel the UN to keep silent about one of the best studied and most effective HIV prevention measures."
Despite complaints from conservative moralists that such programs aid and abet drug use, needle exchanges have been endorsed as an effective means of HIV-prevention by leading scientific, public health, and medical associations in the United States, including the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the National Academy of Sciences. The World Health Organization has also endorsed syringe exchange.
Those same moralists also oppose HIV-prevention through sexually explicit messages, instead advocating an abstinence-based "just say no" approach. "Whether it's sex or drugs, the US is exporting an abstinence-only agenda to countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS," said Joanne Csete, executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. "If governments do not stand up to this bullying, millions will pay the price."
Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Institute, and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network were among the 334 organizations and individuals who signed onto the letter delivered Tuesday to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. "We write to express concern about US efforts to force a UNODC retreat from the support of syringe exchange and other measures proven to contain the spread of AIDS among drug users," the letter said.
The Washington Post and New York Times were critical of the administration effort to harm harm reduction as well. In a Sunday editorial titled "Deadly Ignorance," the Post accused the administration of "undermining the global battle against AIDS" with its opposition to needle exchange, and singled out Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) for special mention.
A day earlier, the Times, in an editorial titled "Ideology and AIDS," accused the administration of "contributing to suffering and death" by opposing harm reduction programs. Blaming "right-wing" lawmakers with a moralistic agenda, the Times wrote that, "Washington's antipathy toward needle exchanges is a triumph of ideology over science, logic and compassion. The United States should help pay for these important programs. If it cannot bring itself to do so, it should at least allow the rest of the world to get on with saving millions of lives."
With the moralist right on the move and the harm reduction community mobilizing, the battle has been joined. Much is at stake.
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP -- the drug czar's office) head John Walters unveiled the country's 2005 National Drug Control Strategy last week, only to run into criticism from unexpected quarters and research findings that contradicted some of its primary planks. The broad contours of the drug strategy come as no surprise -- it was largely foreshadowed in the 2006 federal budget released last month -- and deviate little from the Bush administration's long-standing commitment to more, better drug war.
Here, in the words of the drug czar's office, is what the National Drug Control Strategy emphasizes:
Walters got at least limited support from a Government Accountability Office (GA0) report issued last month. In its review of the efficacy of drug courts, the GAO found that adult drug courts did result in "recidivism reductions," but could not explain why. Those reductions in re-offending extended to up to one year after the completion of drug court, the watchdog agency found.
But while the GAO could point to reductions in recidivism, it found that evidence that drug courts led to reduced drug use was "limited and mixed." Oddly, the agency found that while drug testing of participants showed reductions in use, self-reporting did not. Furthermore, many drug court participants never make it through the program. The review showed completion rates ranging from 27% to 66%. Not surprisingly, reductions in recidivism and drug use were linked to completion of the drug court program. Still, the GAO concluded, "drug court programs can be an effective way to deal with some offenders."
Walters should have been so lucky with the drug strategy's touting of "success" in eradicating cocaine in Colombia, where the administration wants to spend $734 million this year. While Walters and the drug strategy gloated that the three-year-old aerial eradication campaign against Colombian coca had put a serious dent in cocaine production -- "there is simply less to go around" -- a Rand Corporation report conducted for ONDCP and completed in November, but not released until the day after the drug strategy's coming out party, found that years of eradication efforts and hundreds of millions of dollars spent in Colombia had yielded no results, at least when measured by US street price and purity. To the contrary, Rand found that cocaine prices were at an all-time low, while purity remained high, although not as high as in the late 1980s. "Cumulatively," Rand noted, "powder cocaine prices have declined 80% since 1981."
That finding raised eyebrows among scholars who follow drug supply and demand, who questioned the efficacy of the program. "There is no evidence in these data, any more than there's been evidence in the previous 20 years of data, that massive enforcement succeeds in pushing mass market prices up," Mark Kleiman, director of the drug policy analysis program at UCLA, told the Portland Oregonian last week.
"The underlying theory of enforcement is that enforcement increases price and price reduces demand," said Alfred Blumstein, a professor at Pittsburgh's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. The falling price of cocaine, he said, "is obviously contradictory to the intended effect" of the administration's Andean Initiative.
And while the administration continues to emphasize law enforcement and prevention and the drug budget increased 2.2% over last year's $12.2 billion, that increase was less than the rate of inflation. The result is cuts in some favored programs, including a zeroing-out of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program, the slashing of funds for state anti-meth programs, a massive reduction in federal drug-related law enforcement grants, and the virtual elimination of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, all of which have raised howls of protest.
As an analysis of the federal drug budget by Carnevale Associates noted, "The Administration's proposed budget of $12.4 billion for drug control for FY 2006 portends major changes in federal drug control policy. The request increases funding for overseas and interdiction programs to curb the flow of drugs from abroad and enhances border control. It also proposes a net decline in funding for demand reduction programs, reduces or eliminates certain state and local law enforcement programs, and shifts more responsibility for domestic drug control to state and local governments and other partners."
"It is fiscally irresponsible to drastically slash funding for key drug-prevention and public-safety initiatives that help save lives," said US Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking minority member on the House Government Reform Committee's drug policy subcommittee. "Our states cannot shoulder the responsibility of drug control on our own."
If people like Rep. Cummings are hungry for additional funding for prevention and public safety, law enforcers are absolutely insatiable, and deeply perturbed that their sacred cows are headed for the slaughter. The Bush administration's proposed cuts in federal aid to state and local anticrime programs—more than $1.3 billion out of $3 billion in all federal anti-crime aid, including programs earmarked for the drug war—"undermine the basic infrastructure" of homeland security and represent "a major retreat in the recent gains in the war on crime," complained the National Criminal Justice Association, which represents states and localities. In the drug field, some of the biggest losers would be the anti-drug task forces funded through the Byrne law enforcement grant program.
One Alabama lawman who heads a drug task force told the Associated Press his $430,000 budget would vanish. "The task force would be shut down," said Sgt. Jim Winn of Huntsville. "Small towns don't have the money to do narcotics enforcement," he said.
Cops are getting rhetorical support from their elected representatives. The budget cuts would "devastate narcotics enforcement" in Alabama, Rep. Bud Cramer (D) told a congressional hearing last week. "Crystal meth is sweeping through the state. It's going to eat us alive."
A proposed cut in federal funds for anti-methamphetamine efforts in the states is also generating criticism. Last week, Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager accused the administration of "abandoning" the states and vowed to lobby to restore the funding.
"At a time when the problem of methamphetamine manufacture, sale and abuse is exploding in Wisconsin communities, the President has announced a 60% cut in the funding states will receive to effectively combat this problem," Lautenschlager. "This is not a strategy in the war on drugs -- this is abandonment, and it couldn't come at a worse time."
But despite the criticisms, beleaguered Bush administration officials are hewing to their position that some cuts were necessary. "The president is very concerned about the deficit," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at a Justice Department budget hearing. "Some very difficult decisions were made."
ONCDP spokesman Tom Reilly told the Associated Press the drug budget cuts do not reflect a strategic shift away from demand reduction. "The best way to see this is as an evaluation of programs and which need more money and which need less," Reilly said.
Under a bill passed last week by the South Dakota legislature as an anti-methamphetamine measure, people who use or distribute ANY hard drug in a location where children are present can be criminally charged with child abuse and neglect and be faced with civil proceedings to have their children taken away. The law builds on a measure passed last year that made cooking methamphetamine where children are present prima facie evidence of child abuse or neglect. South Dakota law already includes a provision defining illicit drug use or "abusive" alcohol use by pregnant women as child abuse.
Under the law, a child is defined as abused or neglected if his or her "parent, guardian, or custodian knowingly exposes the child to an environment that is being used for the manufacture, use, or distribution of methamphetamines or any other unlawfully manufactured controlled drug or substance."
South Dakota officials told DRCNet that the law does not apply to marijuana. Although marijuana is an illegal drug, it is treated separately from other illegal drugs and is not considered a "controlled substance" under South Dakota statutes, said Regina Wieseler, spokesperson for the state Department of Social Services Child Protective Services Program.
The measure was proposed by a state methamphetamine task force and championed by Republican Gov. Mike Rounds, whose office told DRCNet he will indeed sign it into law. The 33-member task force included ample law enforcement, social service, medical, and drug treatment contingents, but as is typically the case in the United States, it excluded the very people who were its subject: actual methamphetamine users.
"There is a significant risk to children where drugs are being used or distributed," Secretary of Human Services Betty Oldenkamp told legislators in one hearing. "Parents or caregivers have diminished capacity to provide care or nurture. There is a risk of second-hand smoke, there is a risk of needle-sticks and HIV transmission, there is the potential for the involvement of firearms. Children whose parents abuse drugs or alcohol are three times more likely to be abused and four times more likely to be neglected. HB 1258 seeks to remove any and all doubt that knowingly exposing children to a drug-oriented environment is within the definition of an abused or neglected child. It sends a strong message to the public that this constitutes abuse and neglect."
The measure is not limited to methamphetamines because the state is looking ahead, said Oldenkampf. "This was brought to our attention through the meetings of the methamphetamine task force, but the trend may move on to other drugs -- that's why all illicit drugs are included. But the measure does not include marijuana and it does not include drugs obtained through legal distribution," she added.
But while state officials had the requisite horror stories to tell -- one man on meth, believing he was being followed, left his child on a snow bank; one woman had her children removed because she was tweaking all night, sleeping all day, and neglecting her kids -- the numbers do not appear to support claims that methamphetamine abuse is an epidemic. According to Anne Holzhauser, director of the Department of Social Services, of more than 2,000 families being tracked for abuse and neglect reports since July 2004, only 7% were there for meth-related concerns. The number of children placed outside their homes for meth-related reasons now stands at about 100 in the state, Holzhauser told the legislature.
While South Dakota social service officials and lawmakers pronounced themselves well-satisfied with passage of the bill, advocates for the rights of parents, dissident lawmakers, and former South Dakota meth users contacted by DRCNet were less than enthused.
"This will be enormously harmful for children in South Dakota," said Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. "It will make it that much more likely that children will be needlessly taken away and face the torment of needless placement in foster care. What the governor and legislature have done is take a swing at bad parents, but the blow will land squarely on the children. If they were really serious about helping children, they would be making drug treatment available on demand for everyone who needs it," he told DRCNet.
"South Dakota wants to go for the national record in tearing children away from their parents," said Wexler. "It already ranks fourth in the country in the rate of removing children by our measure, which compares the number of children removed over the course of a year to the total number of impoverished children. South Dakota already removes children from their parents at a rate almost three times the national average, and now the state is going to take its dreadful approach to child welfare and make it worse. We know from the research that those children's development will be compromised if the state resorts to foster care instead of drug treatment for the parents. And the more you overload a foster care system, the less safe the homes become and the greater the risk to the children. It is perfectly reasonable to decide on a case by case basis that a parent is unfit, but to automatically declare drug use child abuse is setting the stage for additional enormous harm to the state's children."
The state will not automatically prosecute or file child removal actions against drug-using parents, protested Department of Child Protection Services spokesperson Wieseler. "What could happen is that a petition could be filed, but it will be up to the state's attorney to look at the information and decide if the case will move forward in court. You have to look at the totality of the circumstances, but what this bill does is give us one more tool to work with."
"Presuming neglect based on a single unconfirmed alcohol or drug test does not protect children", said Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. "Such a law will deter women from getting the prenatal care that can help them and their babies and will result in too many unnecessary and traumatic removals of children from families that love them and can care for them," she told DRCNet. "States that have implemented similar policies have removed children from new mothers who tested positive for a drug given to them during labor, from women receiving federally approved and successful methadone treatment, from women who had false positives, and from women who in fact have drug problems -- but who can nevertheless provide love and care for their children."
Instead of trying to punish families, said Paltrow, lawmakers would be better served by seeking to help them. "Providing family treatment services works and is cost effective," she said. "Presuming neglect and involving the child welfare system is extremely costly, fails to protect the children who really need it, and transforms mothers or pregnant women with health problems into child abusers even before they have had a chance to parent."
But helping drug using parents is not what legislators had in mind, said state Rep. Thomas Van Norman (D), one of the representatives who opposed the bill. "I asked for $100,000 for drug treatment in that bill. No one would second my amendment," he said.
"I voted against that bill because I am concerned that elevating all these child care issues to criminal offenses and making these new laws will not really address the problem at hand, but will leave poor parents with even fewer legal protections," Van Norman, whose district includes several Indian reservations, continued. "We're moving toward a police state where everything you do is a crime, and the state can threaten you with that. That is a really regressive approach," he told DRCNet.
What is needed is not more anti-drug laws but economic development, said Van Norman. "People don't realize how hard the economic situation is here," he said. "We have to make improvements; we haven't invested in schools and after-school programs for kids, we don't have any public transit, we don't have enough jobs, and the ones we do have don't pay enough. Native Americans make up 8.5% of the state's population, but 36% of the women prisoners and 29% of the male prisoners. Instead of dealing with the real problems we face in rural South Dakota, and not just on the reservations, it seems the policy is just to lock everybody up."
"To take a child out of the home hurts the hearts of Native American people. These are the descendants of the people who were massacred at Wounded Knee. Historically, the white man took their children, sent them to far away schools, and now the state of South Dakota wants to do this. You know, even with our best screening, we still can't avoid getting bad foster parents. A lot of times, it is better to keep the kids with their parents. Many of these problems have to do with alcoholism or drug abuse, but the solution is not taking the kids away; instead we need to have treatment available. If you're a doctor or lawyer, you get rehab; if you're a poor white or an Indian, you get your kids taken away."
One former meth-using couple, who asked that they not be identified, was also skeptical of the bill's intentions. Both members of the couple served prison sentences for meth, while their son stayed with his grandparents. The family was reunited once the parents got out of prison. "This is fucking ridiculous," said the father. "This law is totally unnecessary. If they have evidence of neglect or abuse, they can already file charges. This seems to be less about protecting kids than finding yet another way to punish drug users," he told DRCNet.
Some meth-using parents do abuse or neglect their kids, he conceded. "That may indeed be the case, but they don't need a new law for that," he said. "When my wife and I were arrested, we were caring for our son. We didn't neglect him, and you can bet that if we had been, the state would have been all over us and he'd probably be in foster care." As for how the child is doing now, he said, "Well, he's in eighth grade and he just made the honor roll."
The Higher Education Act (HEA) Drug Provision -- a misguided law written by arch-drug warrior Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) -- has since taking effect in fall 2000 taken financial aid for college away from more than 160,500 would-be students because of drug convictions. Next week (March 9), Rep. Barney Frank will reintroduce legislation -- now titled the RISE Act, Removing Impediments to Students' Education -- to repeal the law, and the next day the Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform will hold a press conference at the Capitol to support it. Though the RISE Act last session garnered 70 cosponsors, a companion to it has yet to be introduced in the Senate.
Please click here to contact your two US Senators and ask them to sponsor a companion bill to repeal the drug provision. Our web site includes a sample letter that you can use but are also encouraged to edit, and it will send your letter to your two US Senators by e-mail or fax. Also please call your Senators directly -- you can use the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or get their numbers from the Senate web site -- and urge them to sponsor legislation in the Senate to repeal the HEA Drug Provision.
BACKGROUND: Added in 1998 as an amendment to the Higher Education Act (HEA), the "drug provision" (section 484(r), or 20 USC 1091(r)) excludes students with drug convictions from receiving federal financial aid to attend institutions of higher learning. The provision has had the effect of disqualifying a large number of deserving, low- to middle-income students from receiving federal aid to attend college for what are often relatively minor drug offenses, including misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
SOME TALKING POINTS: The HEA drug provision is troubling for numerous reasons:
P.S. If you're in the DC area, please attend our fundraiser for the John W. Perry Fund, our scholarship program helping students who've lost financial aid because of the drug provision, the evening of Wednesday, March 9 -- click here for details!
P.P.S. If you live in Arizona, please click here to write your state legislators in support of a resolution now being considered to put the state on record calling on Congress to repeal the drug provision!
DRCNet (Drug Reform Coordination Network) Foundation invites you to the second event in a national campaign benefiting:
The John W. Perry Fund
featuring keynote addresses by:
REP. JOHN CONYERS
and supporting remarks by:
and supporting remarks by:
Arnold Trebach (emcee); Hilary Shelton, NAACP; Nkechi Taifa, OSI; Patricia Perry (invited); Larry Zaglaniczny, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; Scarlett Swerdlow, Students for Sensible Drug Policy; David Borden, DRCNet; others to be announced.
Arnold Trebach (emcee); Hilary Shelton, NAACP; Nkechi Taifa, OSI; Patricia Perry (invited); Larry Zaglaniczny, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; Scarlett Swerdlow, Students for Sensible Drug Policy; David Borden, DRCNet; others to be announced.
Wednesday, March 9, 6:00-8:00pm
Host Committee: Paola Barahona, Adam Eidinger, Rob Kampia, Matthew Lesko, Kris Lotlikar, Bill McColl, Matt Mercurio, Bill Piper, Gary & Tanya Reams, H. Alexander Robinson, Eric Sterling, Keith Stroup, Scarlett Swerdlow, Arnold Trebach, Kevin Zeese, John Zwerling, others to be announced At age 24, Kemba Smith was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison for "conspiracy," an ill-defined legal concept that federal prosecutors used to tie her to the crimes of her deceased, abusive boyfriend, a ringleader in a $4 million cocaine ring. After being featured on the cover of Emerge magazine, her case drew broad support from around the nation, and her sentence was commuted in December 2000 by President Clinton. Kemba is a graduate of Virginia Union University with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work, and is a Soros Justice Fellow. She is a frequent speaker for audiences around the country, on topics such as domestic violence; challenges facing youth; reentry of ex-offenders into society; injustices in the criminal justice system; the social, economic and political consequences of current drug policies; and other issues. Kemba’s story has been featured on numerous outlets including Nightline, Court TV and The Early Morning Show, and in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, People and Essence.
Host Committee: Paola Barahona, Adam Eidinger, Rob Kampia, Matthew Lesko, Kris Lotlikar, Bill McColl, Matt Mercurio, Bill Piper, Gary & Tanya Reams, H. Alexander Robinson, Eric Sterling, Keith Stroup, Scarlett Swerdlow, Arnold Trebach, Kevin Zeese, John Zwerling, others to be announced
At age 24, Kemba Smith was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison for "conspiracy," an ill-defined legal concept that federal prosecutors used to tie her to the crimes of her deceased, abusive boyfriend, a ringleader in a $4 million cocaine ring. After being featured on the cover of Emerge magazine, her case drew broad support from around the nation, and her sentence was commuted in December 2000 by President Clinton. Kemba is a graduate of Virginia Union University with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work, and is a Soros Justice Fellow. She is a frequent speaker for audiences around the country, on topics such as domestic violence; challenges facing youth; reentry of ex-offenders into society; injustices in the criminal justice system; the social, economic and political consequences of current drug policies; and other issues. Kemba’s story has been featured on numerous outlets including Nightline, Court TV and The Early Morning Show, and in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, People and Essence.
Please join us on March 9 in Washington to thank Rep. Conyers and Kemba Smith for their important work on this issue while raising money to help students stay in school! If you can't make it, you can also help by making a generous contribution to the DRCNet Foundation for the John W. Perry Fund. Checks should be made payable to DRCNet Foundation, with "scholarship fund" or "John W. Perry Fund" written in the memo or accompanying letter, and sent to: DRCNet Foundation, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036. DRCNet Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, and your contribution will be tax-deductible as provided by law. Please let us know if we may include your name in the list of contributors accompanying future publicity efforts.
Visit DRCNet for more information on our work, and contact the Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform or Students for Sensible Drug Policy to get involved in the campaign to repeal the Higher Education Act's drug provision. Contact the Perry Fund at [email protected] or (202) 362-0030 to request a scholarship application or with other inquiries.
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Events and conferences are coming up around the country. One major annual gathering is the conference of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), taking place this year from March 31 to April 2 in San Francisco. This is a great opportunity to learn and to meet and get to know fellow reformers -- DRCNet will be attendance, so look for us if you're there. Visit NORML's web site for further information.
Later in the year, November 9-12, further south in Long Beach, California, the 2005 International Conference on Drug Policy Reform will convene. This is expected to be a big one -- DRCNet will be there too. Visit DPA online for info.
For those of you in Britain or with a taste for travel, the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm will meet in Belfast, Ireland, later this month from March 20-24. Click here to learn more.
There are many local events coming up around the country -- see our Reformer's Calendar to learn more -- New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, are just a few locations where you can come out and be a part of the movement. One that we particularly recommend, of course, is our own Perry Fund event in Washington, DC, this Wednesday, March 9, featuring keynote speakers Rep. John Conyers and Kemba Smith. Hope to see you there -- click here for info!
This week has been a quiet one on the police corruption beat. Of three officers featured this week, two appear to have been only drug users, while a third may or may not have been doing some dealing on the side. Such behavior, while hypocritical, does not rise to the level of corruption, except in the sense that when officers sworn to uphold the law violate those same laws, they have a corrosive impact on the legitimacy of law enforcement. Here we go, not so much with corrupt cops as cops on dope:
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Police Detective Jeffrey Streck was arrested on February 25 on charges he conspired to possess and distribute oxycodone, the active ingredient in the opioid pain reliever Oxycontin. Streck was overheard talking in code about Oxycontin on cell-phones wiretapped as part of an ongoing drug investigation. The 11-year veteran is one of seven defendants arrested in that case and faces up to 24 years in prison. Streck has been off-duty on injury leave for six months. His attorney told the Connecticut Post that he has a serious back injury suffered while apprehending a suspect.
While Streck's attorney argued that his role in the conspiracy was limited to attempting to obtain pain pills, some of the recorded phone conversations suggest he was being enlisted to "encourage" a late-paying customer's payment and that he had distributed drugs. He has been suspended without pay and is free on bond. He will appear in federal court on March 16 for a probable cause hearing.
Galveston, Texas, Police Officer Price Padgett was charged Monday with possession of Ecstasy after what looks to have been a bit too much celebrating on New Year's Eve. Padgett, 33, an 11-year veteran, rolled his car late that night, and police on the scene allegedly found the drug in his vehicle as they investigated, the Houston Chronicle reported. He faces up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted. Galveston Police Chief Kenneth Mack refused to tell the Chronicle whether Padgett had been suspended pending completion of an internal investigation.
Ross Township, Pennsylvania, Police Officer Michael Baird, 37, was arrested along with three other people February 25 at a meth lab bust at his home in nearby Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. They were awaiting arraignment. Baird was hired as a Ross Township policeman in 1997, but reportedly had not been on active duty for several years. His landlord, Thomas Chianelli, told the Tribune-Review he did not conduct a background check on Baird. "I figured I didn't have to do much checking up on a cop," he said.
In a bloody incident certain to raise the decibel level as Canada grapples with marijuana law reform, four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were shot to death Thursday morning as they investigated a marijuana grow in remote northwestern Alberta. The shooter is also dead, apparently at his own hand, Reuters reported.
Unlike the United States, lethal violence against police is relatively rare in Canada. Stunned RCMP officials harkened back more than a hundred years in attempting to find parallels. "The loss of four officers is unprecedented in recent history in Canada," said the RCMP commanding officer in Alberta, Bill Sweeney. "I'm told you have to go back to about 1885 in the RCMP during the Northwest Rebellion to have a loss of this magnitude," he told reporters in the town of Mayerthorpe, 90 miles northwest of Alberta. "It's devastating."
The RCMP lost five officers in 1958 when their boat sank in Ontario and four officers in a 1963 plane crash in the Yukon, but it is not since the Metis and Indians rebelled in western Canada 120 years ago that so many Mounties were shot and killed.
According to Reuters and Canada Press, the officers were part of a team that had staked out a large metal hut where a grow op was suspected. They entered the building Thursday morning and didn't come out. When the officers didn't respond to radio calls, the RCMP called in SWAT teams and armed forces personnel carriers, but when police stormed the building in mid-afternoon, they found the officers and the shooter dead.
Grow ops in Alberta have been under pressure from police crackdowns in recent months, and now police are raising the alarm. "The issue of grow-ops is not a ma-and-pa industry as we've been seeing for a number of years. These are major serious threats to our society and they are major serious threats to the men and women on the front line who have to deal with them," RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said in Ottawa.
The killings come as the minority Liberal government in Ottawa is pursuing a decriminalization bill and Liberal party members in conference are considering a resolution calling for the legalization of cannabis and the cannabis trade. Such moves are opposed by Canadian police organizations, as well as US officials.
In a Monday column for the Internet version of Business Week, contributing economics editor Christopher Farrell called for legalizing currently illicit drugs and taxing them at very high rates. In his regular "Sound Money" column, Farrell called for "a new kind of drug war," arguing that, "The conventional one has been highly costly, with little return. Making narcotics legal -- and very expensive -- can reduce addiction and crime," he wrote.
Citing Boston university economist Jeffrey Miron, Farrell wrote that government at all levels had spent $33 billion in prosecuting the drug war in recent years. "How is the return on that investment?" asked Farell. "Abysmal." Farrell cited the usual litany of disasters to make his case -- continuing strong demand for drugs, the growth of drug trafficking organizations, crime and corruption, overstuffed US prisons.
"It's time to consider a dramatic shift in policy," Farrell concluded. "Instead of the battle cry 'war on drugs,' let's try the mantra 'legalization, regulation, and taxation.' We should regulate narcotics just as we do cigarettes and alcohol, restricting sales to minors and imposing steep excise taxes... Indeed, the model for dealing with alcohol is instructive. Banning alcohol outright in the US was a public policy disaster. Ending Prohibition quickly cleaned up the liquor industry. Gangsters were denied a lucrative source of income, and violent crime associated with the business fell."
While the idea of legalization and regulation is not new, Farrell wrote, it has never been implemented because of fears that cheap legal drugs would create an army of addicts. The solution, Farrell opined, is to tax newly legalized drugs at rates so high that prices remain similar to current black market prices. Even though demand for drugs is relatively inelastic, it is not completely inelastic, he argued. Higher drug prices mean lower drug use levels.
"With the addition of a steep excise tax -- several hundred percentage points above the cost of wholesale production, for example -- the price of cocaine could be greater than the price the fruitless war on drugs supports. It's possible that consumption would be lower in a high-tax regime than it is in today's law-enforcement environment."
Farrell did not come to this conclusion easily, saying he did not look forward to heroin and cocaine being made available at the corner liquor store. "I know that the cost of drug abuse and addiction -- including nicotine and alcohol -- is already substantial, especially measured by increased health-care expenditures and lower worker productivity. And I have no wish to see the numbers of addicts increase. But there's the hope that with a carefully crafted new paradigm of legalization, there could be fewer users. That's positive. There's nothing positive to be derived from staying with the status quo."
In addition to writing the regular "Sound Money" column for Business Week, Farrell also hosts the nationally-syndicated "Sound Money" program for Minnesota Public Radio and contributes to National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.
(Visit DRCNet's Prohibition in the Media blog to read what DRCNet executive director David Borden has to say on the matter.)
A coalition of Washington state professional and civic groups led by the King County Bar Association (KCBA) officially kicked off its campaign for alternatives to drug prohibition with a Seattle news conference Thursday. A day earlier, the Washington state Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a bill promoted by the coalition that would create a state Commission on Psychoactive Substance Control. The KCBA and the coalition it leads are calling for a fundamental shift in drug policy from a prohibitionist to a regulatory regime, and hope such a commission would advance that goal.
While DRCNet interviewed KCBA Drug Policy Project head Roger Goodman, the point man for the project, about the KCBA resolution adopted in January calling for the creation of such a commission as a step toward ending prohibition and the coalition's planned campaign a month ago, this week's events take the campaign squarely into the public sphere.
At Thursday's press conference, the broad coalition behind the campaign qualified the war on drugs as a "tragic failure" and called for the first steps toward an exit strategy for that failed policy. The coalition called on the legislature to approve the bill calling for a commission of experts to make detailed proposals for shifting toward a regulatory system.
While DRCNet readers read about it in January, KCBA also used the occasion to officially release a major new report, "Effective Drug Control: Toward a New Legal Framework," which calls for "a new framework of state-level regulatory control over psychoactive substances, intended to render the illegal markets for such substances unprofitable, to restrict access to psychoactive substances by young persons and to provide prompt health care and essential services to persons suffering from chemical dependency and addiction, will better serve the objectives of reducing crime, improving public order, enhancing public health, protecting children and wisely using scarce public resources, than current drug policies."
"This is a controversial topic, so we need to be very clear about our objectives," said John Cary, the president of the KCBA. "We want to reduce crime and public disorder, improve public health, protect children from drugs and save public money. By any measure, the current policy has been an abject failure. It's outrageous that criminal gangs control drugs today and that children have such easy access to drugs."
"Physicians know that drug addiction is a curable illness," said Jennifer Mayfield from the Washington Academy of Family Physicians. "The costs of effective treatment are so much lower than the costs of incarceration, and where the harsh criminal justice approach has not worked, it's now time to focus instead on public health measures to address the drug abuse problem," Mayfield said.
"It's critically important that the public get engaged in the conversation about how to change our drug policies. That's why the League of Women Voters has been actively supporting this project from the very beginning," said Nancy Eitreim, president of the Seattle League.
Jeffrey Mero, President of the Washington State Public Health Association, said, "Persuasive and voluminous research indicates that a public health approach to drug abuse -- stressing research, education, prevention and treatment -- is far more effective than the use of criminal sanctions. However, the policy of drug prohibition, which has spawned a range of intractable problems, from a flourishing "black market" to the spread of blood-borne diseases to official corruption, has been a major impediment to employing such a public health approach. We're wasting taxpayer money by using a counterproductive criminal approach."
Rev. Sandy Brown of the Church Council of Greater Seattle said, "Treating drug use as a criminal matter rather than a social and medical issue has not been successful in reducing drug use, nor the harms arising from drug use. For over three decades we have been seeking new tools to fight the persistent crime problem that has inevitably arisen from the policy of drug prohibition, meanwhile distracting both the state and society at large from effectively addressing the problem of drug addiction itself. In the name of social justice we must find a more effective and pragmatic way to deal with this problem."
And Washington state appears to be leading the way.
Nearly four years after the Texas legislature, responding to complaints about racially-based policing, enacted legislation to track racial profiling, blacks and Hispanics continue to be stopped and searched at higher rates than whites, according to a study released in February. The study, conducted by Steward Research Associates of Austin, surveyed 2003 data from more than one thousand Texas law enforcement agencies.
Officially required data reporting showed that two-thirds of law enforcement agencies searched minorities at higher rates than whites. Of those agencies that reported higher rates of minority searches, 71% searched blacks and 90% searched Hispanics at rates more than 50% higher than those for whites (or Anglos, as they say in Texas).
Similarly, minorities were more likely to be the subjects of "consent searches," those searches that take place without any evidence of a crime being committed and where drivers are asked to voluntarily give up their Fourth Amendment rights to consent to a search. Those searches typically come in the form of, "Don't mind if I take a look, do ya?" which is also the title of the report. According to the report, 60% of Texas law enforcement agencies were more apt to ask minorities to consent to searches, and three out of four of those agencies asked minorities to consent to searches more than 50% more often than Anglos.
But police did not gain much by searching minority drivers. Of those agencies that searched minorities at higher rates, 51% were more likely to find contraband among Anglo drivers than blacks and 58% were more likely to find contraband among Anglo drivers than Hispanics. "Without some explanation of mitigating factors by law enforcement agencies, this would indicate that police are not only engaging in race-based policing but are ineffectively and inefficiently utilizing law enforcement resources," the report concluded.
Given the lack of progress in reducing race-based policing in Texas, the report sought means of reining it in through policy changes, primarily by banning consent searches. In addition to creating racial disparities, consent searches simply "aren't fruitful," the study said. "In order to reduce unnecessarily high minority search rates, the Texas Legislature should ban consent searches in Texas," the report bluntly concluded, noting that four states -- Hawaii, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island -- have already banned such searches, while the California Highway Patrol ended the practice as a result of a lawsuit.
What's so bad about consent searches? Well, they aren't really consent searches. As the Austin American-Statesman noted, "If a person refuses to give consent, police can detain the driver until a drug-sniffing dog arrives, which can take hours, or arrest the person for almost any fine-only offense, such as failing to use a turn signal." The American-Statesman was incorrect in stating that police can hold drivers indefinitely while awaiting a drug-sniffing dog -- federal courts are divided on just how long is reasonable -- but its larger point is well-taken: When asked to consent to a search, you either waive your rights or prepare to be punished.
DRCNet reported a month ago on the progress of an Arkansas bill that would have reduced sentences for some methamphetamine offenders. Given the wave of anti-methamphetamine hysteria sweeping the country, we titled that story "Man Bites Dog." It was too good to be true. The bill made it through the state Senate, but was defeated Tuesday in a House committee vote. There is a slight chance it will be reconsidered, but as things now stand, the measure is in limbo.
Under Arkansas law, perpetrators of especially heinous crimes, such as rape, murder, and "causing a catastrophe" must serve 70% of their prison sentences. As concern over methamphetamine mounted, Arkansas lawmakers added meth manufacture and possession of paraphernalia for meth manufacture to that list of crimes. SB 120 would have lifted the 70% requirement for first- and second-time meth cooks in possession of less than five grams.
Despite the backing of the Arkansas Prosecuting Attorney's Association and the state prison director, the bill failed in the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 8-6 after being denounced by Republican lawmakers. Typical was the reaction of Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson (R-Little Rock). "Unlike other drugs, the actual cooking of meth is extremely dangerous and there are oftentimes children... in the home itself," Hutchinson said. "Meth is an epidemic in this state and across the nation. Meth has more victims than most crimes under the 70% rule."
Proposed legislation in Utah that would divert drug offenders from prison to drug treatment appears to be on its death bed, mortally wounded by legislators' refusal to spend $6 million to fund the program. The Drug Offenders Rehabilitation Act (DORA) was backed by almost every branch of state government as a means of trying a new direction in the Beehive State's ever more expensive war on drugs. But as lawmakers crafted what will probably be the last spending bill of the session of the Republican-controlled state legislature, both the House and the Senate GOP caucuses declined to cough up the necessary funds. "For some of the things we find success for, there are some we can't. And we always feel bad about that. DORA was one personally that I really felt I wanted to do," said Senate President John Valentine (R-Orem). "But we don't have the ability to do it this year. I expect it'll be back," he told the Deseret News Tuesday.
"It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen," said Sen. Chris Buttars (R-West Jordan), who has sponsored the act for the last two years. Legislators were penny-wise and pound-foolish, he said, arguing that the measure would have saved the state millions of dollars by keeping drug offenders from going back to prison.
DORA would have diverted first-time, nonviolent drug offenders from prison to intensive drug treatment. According to Buttars, the bill would have affected some 4,000 drug offenders who typically receive probation but who often end up behind bars for either failing a drug test or getting arrested again with drugs. "It's a good test because those probationers are re-offending at a rate of about 66%. If you give it a year and all at once it drops, like we said it does, to 30%, then you'd have all those beds that didn't get re-filled."
There aren't enough drug treatment slots available as it is, said treatment authorities. "We're faced with a situation where we've got growing referrals from the criminal justice system and we don't have the resources to adequately treat them," said Brent Kelsey, justice program manager for the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. There is a slim chance the bill could still get funded, the Deseret News reported. But that would require a sponsor in the House, something that has not yet occurred.
Colombia's leftist rebel army, the 17,000-strong FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is demanding the release of one of its top commanders, Ricardo Palmera (better known by his nom de guerre Simon Trinidad), as a key condition for the release of 63 hostages it is holding, including three American mercenaries and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Trinidad was extradited to the US by the government of President Alvaro Uribe to face cocaine trafficking and kidnapping charges.
While the FARC began as a peasant-based guerrilla army in 1964, it has, along with nearly everyone else involved in Colombia's 40-year civil war, turned to the coca and cocaine trade as a means of raising money. Beginning with the Clinton administration's Plan Colombia in the late 1990s, the US has funneled more than $2 billion in military, police, and economic assistance to the Colombian government in an effort to suppress the drug traffic. After the September 2001 attacks on the US, the Bush administration dropped all pretense of limiting US assistance to the war on drugs and has openly embraced a war of counterinsurgency designed to defeat the FARC and the smaller Army of National Liberation (ELN). The administration has budgeted more than $700 million for that effort in its 2006 budget proposal.
But the war continues, and in a February 25 communiqué from somewhere "in the mountains of Colombia" posted two days later on its web site, the rebels blamed the Uribe government's decision to extradite Simon Trinidad, as well as the pending extradition of Nayibe Rojas ("Sonia") for ending the possibility of a prisoner exchange. "The sorrow and deserved discontent of the families of prisoners of war with the government of Uribe grows because he has frozen the possibility of a humanitarian exchange... with the unjust extradition of Simon Trinidad to the United States. Family members know that without the return of Simon to Colombia, the possibilities for an agreement on an exchange are far from being realized, and the responsibility lies with Alvaro Uribe and his government."
The FARC communiqué added that the group's proposal for a prisoner exchange was non-negotiable. "We will deliver the group of people to be exchanged if we receive from the government all the guerrillas in its power, including Simon Trinidad, Ricardo Gonzalez, and Sonia."
Family members of prisoners on both sides, don't hold your breath.
As British Conservatives gear up for elections in May, they are staking out a tough anti-drug position. So is Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party, but the Tories are trying to one-up them. At a February 23 news conference, Tory party leader Michael Howard laid out his anti-drug program, emphasizing plans to enact mandatory minimum seven-year prison sentences for three-time drug dealing offenders.
"People will face a clear choice at the next election: tougher sentences and more police with the Conservatives or lenient sentences and more talk from Mr. Blair and the Liberal Democrats," Howard said, attempting to trump tough anti-drug talk from Blair in recent weeks.
Howard also criticized the reclassification of marijuana under Labor, blaming the government for sending young people "mixed messages" about drug use. If elected, the Tories would reverse that decision, he said.
Howard promised a massive expansion of drug treatment facilities, which his government would use as a hammer against drug use. "Of course some children will get into drugs. We have a duty to offer them the chance to change -- the chance to go straight," he said. "So a Conservative government will give them a choice: rehab or prison."
Howard said he would expand drug treatment beds ten-fold. "In Britain today there are fewer than 2,500 residential rehab places available for young people. We will expand this massively, providing 25,000 residential places for hard drug users where they can spend six-months getting intensive treatment to get them off drugs. "That's enough to help 50,000 addicts a year. It will allow us, over the course of a year, to treat every young teenage drug addict in Britain."
With British Conservatives and Laborites busily embracing random student drug testing as they vie to out-tough each other on drug and crimes issues ahead of looming parliamentary elections, a respected think-tank has released on report challenging both the efficacy and the ethics of testing school kids for drugs. Britain should not turn to random drug testing until and unless there is better evidence to support it, the report concluded.
"Random drug testing of schoolchildren: A shot in the arm or a shot in the foot for drug prevention?" was released February 23 and is a nicely timed intervention in an election campaign marked by an increasingly hysterical approach to drugs and crime as the May election approaches. The report was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a century-old social policy research center and authored by Neil McKeganey, professor of Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow. In his review of the research on school drug testing, which is extremely rare in Britain, McKenagey concluded that encouraging schools to conduct such tests would be "ethically complex" and could have "adverse consequences."
Despite increasing resort to student drug testing in the United States, McKenagey found, there have been few independent and rigorous evaluations of its impact. "In the light of this," he reported, "it would seem preferable to avoid the ad hoc proliferation of random drug-testing programs until such time as there are clear data on effectiveness."
McKenagey and the Rowntree Foundation also identified several problematic aspects of school drug testing. Random testing is most likely to identify students who occasionally use cannabis, the most commonly used drug, while students using harder drugs are more likely to escape undetected, McKenagey wrote. This could lead to the "perverse consequence" of students switching to harder drugs that leave the body more quickly than pot, as well as "an escalation in attempts to conceal illegal drug taking, rather than a reduction in use."
There are a number of unresolved issues around student drug testing, including costs; ethical issues such as who gets tested, informed consent, and confidentiality; and the undermining of trust between school staff and students, McKenagey noted. Given the problems and unresolved issues, as well as the lack of evidence that drug testing succeeds in reducing drug use, great caution is in order, he wrote.
"It is difficult to judge the true likelihood of drug-testing being widely used in UK schools," he concluded. "Unlike the United States, no central government funding has been allocated for programs. However, if random drug-testing programs were to be piloted, there would be an obvious need to ensure that their impact was rigorously and independently evaluated. Such evaluation would need to be undertaken on a large enough sample of schools to be sure that any positive or negative outcomes were a genuine consequence of the drug-testing program. Research would also need to consider the possible impact of a drug-testing program on young people's wider educational experience."
The touring show of "The Marijuana-Logues," which has been wowing stoner audiences off-Broadway for a year, has been cancelled because star Tommy Chong's parole officer was threatening to send him back to prison. Chong, half of the comedy team Cheech & Chong, spent nine months in federal prison on charges he conspired to sell bongs and remains under federal supervision for a few months more.
The curtain came down quickly on Chong and the show. "The Marijuana-Logues" road show had only placed two cities, Vancouver and Seattle, before reports started circulating that audiences for the pot-friendly show have been lighting up, something that didn't sit to well with Chong's federal keepers. "The (parole) officer was compelled to revoke his ability to continue on the shows," said Phil Lobel, a publicist for the play, told the Associated Press. "The last thing he wants to do is go back to prison."
The show will go on, but not until Chong gets off parole this summer. "I'm still on probation you know," Chong told the AP before the Vancouver performance. "Doing a show about weed in the United States -- when you just got out of jail for selling weed paraphernalia -- makes me a little nervous."
DRCNet readers may be familiar with "A Drug War Carol," a comic book-style critique of the drug war in the form of a parody of the classic Charles Dickens Christmas tale. "A Drug War Carol" now exists in Spanish and French as well as English -- visit http://www.adrugwarcarol.com to check out all three versions.
March 3, 1905: Congress enacts its first anti-drug law, banning opium smoking in the occupied Philippines.
March 4, 1992: The Bush administration terminates the federal government's Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) medical marijuana program, leaving only a handful of patient already receiving marijuana enrolled. The remainder of applicants, including many already approved, are denied participation.
March 5, 1995: BBC airs a live debate from London on medical marijuana, including Dr. Lester Grinspoon, one of the world's leading medical marijuana authorities. Over 137,000 phone calls are received in less than half an hour, 90% of them affirmative.
March 8, 1973: The US Coast Guard conducts its first Coast Guard-controlled seizure, when the USCGC Dauntless boards a 38-foot sports fisherman boat, the Big L, arresting its master and crew with more than a ton of marijuana on board.
March 9, 1982: The largest cocaine seizure ever to date raises US awareness of the Medellin cartel -- 3,906 pounds of cocaine, valued at over $100 million wholesale, from a Miami International Airport hanger. Officials realize Colombian traffickers must be working together because no single trafficker could be behind a shipment that large.
March 9, 2001: William J. Allegro, 32, of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for growing marijuana in his home. "The court imposed this sentence because the court felt obligated to do so under the law," says Judge Paul F. Chaiet, a former prosecutor. "Mandatory sentencing provisions can create difficult results. In the court's view, this is one of those times where the ultimate results are difficult to accept."
March 10, 1839: Lin Tse-hsü, governor of the Chinese province of Hu-Huang, proclaims that the opium trade will no longer be tolerated in Canton, and begins arresting known opium dealers in the local schools and naval barracks. Those found guilty of purchasing, possessing or selling opium are sentenced to public execution by strangulation. "Let no one think," Lin proclaimed, "that this is only a temporary effort on behalf of the Emperor. We will persist until the job is finished."
March 10, 1984: DEA and Colombian police discover Tranquilandia, a laboratory operation deep in the Colombian jungle. In a subsequent bust, law enforcement officials destroy 14 laboratory complexes, containing 13.8 metric tons of cocaine, seven airplanes, and 11,800 drums of chemicals, conservatively estimated at $1.2 billion. The bust confirms the consolidation of the Medellin cartel's manufacturing operation.
March 10, 2004: In a Washington Post article, "Obesity Passing Smoking as Top Avoidable Cause of Death," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson, when asked about unhealthy foods, answers, "I don't want to start banning things... Prohibition has never worked."
Please submit listings of events concerning drug policy and related topics to [email protected].
March 5, Los Angeles, CA, beginning of cross country ride by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member Howard Wooldridge and his horse. Visit http://www.leap.cc/howard/ for further information.
March 7, 8:30pm, New Paltz, NY, Know Your Rights event featuring screening of "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters," Q&A with a civil rights attorney and a police officer, free pizza and other food. Sponsored by New Paltz NORML and New Paltz SSDP, at SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 100, e-mail [email protected] for further information.
March 12, 7:00pm, New York, NY, Judge James P. Gray addresses the Community Church of New York. At 40 East 50th St., contact Rev. Tracy Sprowls at (212) 683-4988 or [email protected] for info.
March 12-17, New York, NY, further appearances by Judge Gray, including Columbia University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and other venues, on behalf of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. For further information, visit http://www.leap.cc or contact Mike Smithson at [email protected] or (315) 243-5844.
March 17, 8:30am-2:30pm, Washington, DC, "Framing a Moral Debate: Criminal Justice Reform -- A Dialogue Exploring the Interfaith Community's Role in Addressing Critical Reform." One day dialogue sponsored by The Interfaith Alliance, at the Columbus Club, Union Station, visit http:// www.interfaithalliance.org/justicereform/ to register online, or contact Jason Gedeik at (202) 639-6370 or [email protected] for further information.
March 17-18, New York, NY, "Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families," conference sponsored by the ACLU, Break the Chains and the Brennan Center for Justice. At New York University School of Law, e-mail [email protected] for info.
March 20-24, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm. Sponsored by the International Harm Reduction Association, visit http://www.ihrcbelfast.com or contact Dawn Orchard at +44 (0) 28 9756 1993 or [email protected] for further information.
March 24, 7:00pm, Madison, WI, Madison NORML benefit concert. At Café Montmartre, 127 East Mifflin Street, admission $5 in advance or $7 at the door, contact Gary Storck at (608) 241-8922 or [email protected] for further information.
March 29, 6:00pm, New York, NY, art sale to benefit Drug Policy Alliance. At Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th St., contact Livet Reichard Co. at (212) 966-4710 for further information.
March 31-April 2, San Francisco, CA, "Get Up, Stand Up! Stand Up for Your Rights!" 2005 NORML Conference. At Cathedral Hill Hotel, visit http://www.norml.org for further information.
April 8-9, Iowa City, IA, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Midwest Conference, organized by University of Iowa SSDP. For further information, contact Diana Selwyn at (210) 860-2077 or [email protected].
April 9, noon-6:00pm, Sacramento, CA, rally in support of medical marijuana. South Steps of the State Capitol, near "N" and 12th, singer/songwriter Roberta Chevrette, Reggae/Dancehall DJ Wokstar, speakers and more. For further information, contact Peter Keyes at (916) 456-7933.
April 21-23, Tacoma, WA, 15th North American Syringe Exchange Convention. Sponsored by the North American Syringe Exchange Network, visit http://www.nasen.org for further information or contact NASEN at (253) 272-4857 or [email protected].
April 30 (date tentative), 11:00am-3:00pm, Washington, DC, "America's in Pain!" 2nd Annual National Pain Rally. At the US Capitol Reflecting Pool, visit http://www.AmericanPainInstitute.org for further information.
May 4, Washington, DC, Marijuana Policy Project 10th Anniversary Gala. Featuring Montel Williams and Rep. Sam Farr, at the Washington Court Hotel, contact Francis DellaVecchia at (310) 452-1879 or [email protected] or visit http://www.mpp.org/galas/ for further information.
May 7, numerous locations worldwide, "Million Marijuana March," visit http://www.cures-not-wars.org for further information.
May 9, Santa Monica, CA, Marijuana Policy Project 10th Anniversary Gala. Featuring Montel Williams and Tommy Chong, at the Sheraton Delfina Hotel, contact Francis DellaVecchia at (310) 452-1879 or [email protected] or visit http://www.mpp.org/galas/ for further information.
June 1, Seattle, WA, John W. Perry Fund fundraiser, featuring US Rep. Jim McDermott. Details to be announced, contact DRCNet Foundation at (202) 362-0030 or [email protected] for updates or visit http://www.raiseyourvoice.com/perryfund/ online.
August 19-20, Salt Lake City, UT, "Science and Response in 2005," First National Conference on Methamphetamine, HIV and Hepatitis C. Sponsored by the Harm Reduction Coalition and the Harm Reduction Project, visit http://www.harmredux.org/conference2005.htm after January 15 or contact Amanda Whipple at (801) 355-0234 ext. 3 for further information.
August 20-21, 10:00am-8:00pm, Seattle, WA, Seattle Hempfest 2005. At Myrtle Edwards Park, Pier 70, admission free, visit http://www.hempfest.org or (206) 781-5734 or [email protected] for further information.
November 9-12, Long Beach, CA, "Building a Movement for Reason, Compassion and Justice," the 2005 International Drug Policy Reform Conference. Sponsored by Drug Policy Alliance, at the Westin Hotel, details to be announced. Visit http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/dpa2005/ for updates.
April 5-8, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, Fourth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics. Sponsored by Patients Out of Time, details to be announced, visit http://www.medicalcannabis.com for updates.
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| Daylilies belong to the genus Hemerocallis.
They are related to the Lily plant but do not form the true bulb of the true Lilium genus.
The fact that they do not form a bulb does not in any way reduce the wonders and beauty of these exquisite flowers.
They have been called the "Perfect Perennial". They are tough and resilient and can add a special something to your garden. Daylilies come in all sizes, shapes and colours.
Most people are familiar with the wild Daylily that can be seen growing on road sides or on old farms. These are the orange lilies that are most commonly called Tiger Lilies.
This however is a miss naming as the true Tiger lilies come from L.tigrinum which is a true lily that forms bulbs.
However like their name implies each Dayliliy flower last for only one day.
This might seem to be a waste at first but they make up for the short lifespan of each flower by producing multiple branching flower stems that can bloom for weeks.
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FastText Tutorial : We shall learn how to train and test supervised text classifier using fastText and check Precision and Recall values for the generated model.
Train and test Supervised Text Classifier using fasttext
Text Classification is one of the important NLP (Natural Language Processing) task with wide range of application in solving problems like Document Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Email SPAM Classification, Tweet Classification etc.
FastText provides “supervised” module to build a model for Text Classification using Supervised learning.
To work with fastText, it has to be built from source. To build fastText, follow the fastText Tutorial – How to build FastText library from github source. Once fastText is built, run the fasttext commands mentioned in the following tutorial from the location of fasttest executable.
Prepare Training Data
Prepare a text file such that each line is an example. During the start of the line mention the labels. To mention a label, precede the label name with “__label__” (underscore underscore label underscore underscore).
Example of an entry is shown below.
__label__wish Good Morning
where ‘wish‘ is a label ‘Good Morning‘ is the data for the example.
Multiple labels could be mentioned for an entry as below.
__label__wish __label__question Good Morning. Did you have break-fast ?
Prepare a text document containing multiple entries of such to train a text classifier with supervised training using FastText.
__label__greet Good Morning __label__greet Good Evening __label__greet Good Day __label__greet Good Afternoon __label__greet All the best __label__greet Good luck __label__greet Happy Birthday __label__greet Happy Journey __label__wish __label__question Good Morning. Did you have break-fast ? __label__question When did you come ? __label__question When did you reach office ? __label__question Where did you go in the morning ? __label__question What did you bring for lunch ?
Run the following command to train supervised classifier with input as sampleData.train and the generated output model to supervised_classifier_model.
$ ./fasttext supervised -input trainingData.txt -output supervised_classifier_model
Read 0M words Number of words: 32 Number of labels: 3 Progress: 100.0% words/sec/thread: 204861 lr: 0.000000 loss: 0.917794 eta: 0h0m
- Number of words represent number of unique words in the training data.
- Number of labels represent number of unique labels in the training data.
- words/sec/thread is the number of words that could be processed per second per thread.
- loss is 0.9
- supervised_classifier_model.bin would be the model generated as a result of training the supervised classifier.
Test the model
We shall test the generated model using test data. The test data has the format same as that of training data.
__label__greet Good Night __label__greet Good luck __label__question What is your name ?
Run the following command in the terminal.
$ ./fasttext test supervised_classifier_model.bin testData.txt
$ ./fasttext test supervised_classifier_model.bin testData.txt N 3 P@1 0.667 R@1 0.667 Number of examples: 3
Precision is at 0.667 (66.7%) and Recall is at 0.667 (66.7%).
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Proper tax planning makes it easier to build your personal finances and afford the things you want. Additionally, by anticipating taxes when you create your financial plan, it’s possible to significantly boost how much money you will have in retirement.
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Client: rant.academy (previously RANT Kids)
Project: 28-page activity book/workbook design and character illustration
Target audience: 8 – 17 year olds
This client already had an existing brand under the ‘RANT umbrella’ – RANT Kids; a child-friendly empowerment brand that focussed mainly on producing stationary and merchandise. The rant.academy was due to be a new project under this umbrella, with more of an educational focus for young people.
The workbook was briefed in to be a written course that young entrepreneurs could work through. They (or their parents) would purchase the workbook and it would have activities inside that encouraged personal development and instilled business knowledge and tips.
The child characters already existed on previous merchandise for RANT Kids, but I was asked to rework them in my style of illustration. The original illustrations looked good and were well designed but in order to fit the new branding and style of illustrations due to go into the workbook, they needed to be updated.
Challenges and solutions
Challenge: The initial target audience age range was too wide. Having such a wide range meant that the content and the illustrations would struggle to appeal to either end of the spectrum.
Solution: Reduce the target audience age range to those most likely to have an entrepreneurial spirit, be able to fulfil the tasks/activities and appreciate the content. It is now aimed at 10-15 year olds who would benefit most.
Challenge: Too much content for 28 pages. As I was putting the creating the flat plan and laying out provided content, it was becoming increasingly clear that, in order for there to be enough space for the children to write in their answers, we needed more space.
Solution: Increase the page count to produce a much user-friendly design. This does increase print costs but it will make the workbook more appealing to the users. It is now 56 pages long.
Challenge: The client wanted to later incorporate more interactivity and have a website linked to the course. In order to keep young people engaged in a digital world, the client felt it was important to have an online element to the course. A great idea!
Solution: I recommended a web design agency (Guessdesignhouse.com) who were able to create a functional and well branded site with interactive elements, a shop (to purchase the workbook from) and more information on the brand in general. We then included bespoke QR Codes into the physical book design which took the children to the supporting website at the click of a button. Guess Design House then used my illustrations and icons to make the site visually coherent.
Module colours: I was provided with the 8 brand colours and decided to allocate a different colour for each module for quick visual recognition when flicking through the book.
Page placement: I highlighted to the client that having module cover pages will help the user easily recognise that they are entering a new chapter of the course. These covers are all on the right hand page so, again, it is easy to spot when flicking through.
Contents page: With the book now being over 50 pages and it being something the children will start, leave and come back to, I felt it very important to have page numbers and a contents page. Being user-friendly is very important.
QR Codes: I wanted the QR codes to integrate smoothly into the page designs so I created illustrations to sit around them and got the characters involved.
Icons: Another great way to make quick visual links is to create icons. I went for a hand-drawn feel to relate to the fact that children will refilling the book in by hand.
Video illustrations for animation: The client needed some illustrations to go into the promotional and instructional videos. These were created once the book was complete in a way that could be animated by the web team.
I and the client are extremely happy with the final product. It has had wonderful feedback from the children and young people who have taken part in the course so far and it is a visually striking and functional book. I love the link to the online elements and enjoyed the challenge of making a text heavy document look engaging and inviting.
What the client says:
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Shirley 'Tuck' Loui, Ph.D.: 1930-2021
Shirley ‘Tuck’ Loui, Ph.D., former chair of the Department of American Studies, died from complications of COVID-19 on Feb. 7, 2021. She was 90.
Her husband of 68 years, Wayne Loui, who was a faculty member in Fine and Performing Arts for 32 years, died of COVID-19 on Jan. 29, 2021.
Shirley Mescher was born in Carroll, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 1930. In 1952, she graduated from Mercycrest College in Davenport, Iowa. It was during college that she met her husband, Wayne Loui, who attended nearby St. Ambrose College.
Loui began her career as a reporter for the Quad-City Times. Wayne and Shirley married in 1952 and had five children in Iowa before moving to St. Louis in 1962, where their final child was born.
Loui enrolled in the Comparative Literature program at Washington University at the age of 46, earning her Ph.D. in 1987 at age 56, with a dissertation on the many analogies she found between Lady Murasaki’s 11th-century classic of Japanese literature, The Tale of Genji, and Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, a monument of French literature written 900 years later.
A revised version of Loui’s work, Murasaki’s Genji and Proust’s Recherche: A Comparative Study, was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 1991.
Loui joined the American Studies Department and became a mentor to scores of graduate students. In 1995, when the program was designated a department, she took over leadership for four years.
“Tuck’s unyielding emphasis on personal development and social justice left an enduring imprint on the culture of her department,” said Matthew Mancini, Ph.D., professor emeritus of American Studies. “Her guidance extended to her faculty colleagues as well, as her unshakable charity was blended with a worldly wisdom derived from a long, rich life outside academia.”
Loui’s interest in international studies and American Studies together bore fruit when she led SLU to charter membership in the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1996. This collaboration with American and European universities provided international experience not only to SLU students and faculty but also to faculty and students from many disciplines from the United States, the United Kingdom and Central Europe.
She retired from SLU in 2004.
A longtime parishioner at St. Francis Xavier College Church, she also volunteered with the church’s Outreach Program. Loui aided low-income and unemployed people who needed to obtain birth certificates or other forms of identification.
Loui was proceeded in death by her husband Wayne Loui on Jan. 29, 2021. She is survived by her children, Anne (Andrew), Jen, Michael, Amy, Suzanne (Rob) and Kip (JJ); and eight grandchildren, Aaron, Benjamin (Katie), Tyler, Nicholas, Gwyneth, Marina, Meredith and Max. Her first great-grandchild is due in May.
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“Don’t let your emotions outweigh your intelligence.” ~Unknown
I jump to ridiculous conclusions when I’m emotional, and I’m like anyone else in that sometimes they get the best of me. And it’s pretty damn embarrassing in those moments, especially if I’ve been stupid enough to make any kind of decision.
Having the awareness to recognize your judgment is clouded by emotion is next to impossible at times. Many of us don’t know how to read the signals. Hence why we get swept away by our caveman instincts and find ourselves saying, “All I see is red when I’m angry.”
This is a serious problem as an adult.
Our kids mirror what they watch at home, school, and in society. They parrot what they see and assume that’s the appropriate response. Dad burned down a Wendy’s because they were out of mayonnaise, so of course, it makes sense to punch Samantha in the face because she drew a happy face on your binder at school.
You, me, and every other human walking this earth are flawed creatures. I don’t mean this in a demeaning you should be ashamed, get your sh*t together, holier than thou, I know better lecture.
I’m speaking from the stance of being a master at putting myself in stupid situations where it would take friggin’ Houdini-level skills to escape the mess I’ve created.
And why do I do this? Because my emotions run wild when I’m not looking after myself.
Humans make horrible decisions when solely guided by emotions (that vanish as quickly as they come). It’s like having horse blinders on. Our focus only becomes what is directly in front of us and is filtered through the emotion we happen to be feeling. We’re blind to all the other inputs that could help us better manage the situation.
It’s the same reason why 99 percent of people lose money investing in individual stocks. They buy and sell based on their emotions rather than on the company’s value (the only thing that matters).
As investment author William Green said, “Most people make their investment decisions (and life decisions) on the basis of an unreliable hodgepodge of half-baked logic, biases, hunches, emotion, and vague fantasies or fears about the future.”
Ken Shubin Stein is a guy who knows a thing or two about high-pressure decision-making. He spent two decades running a hedge fund in New York. He’s also a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he has taught Advanced Investment Research since 2009. Oh, and he also decided to become a neurologist just for kicks because he loves geeking out on how the mind works.
You’re probably wondering, how could a guy who runs a hedge fund help you live a better life?
Because the success of his career is judged on one basic idea—don’t make stupid decisions. And I don’t know about you, but wouldn’t life be a lot easier if you felt confident about your decision-making (regardless of how chaotic your life feels)?
Six specific emotions guarantee you’re going to make a crappy decision.
Can you guess what they are?
Honestly, try and see how many you can think of before you read on. Think about the last time you made a poor decision. What emotions were flowing through you?
I’ll give you a clue. Shubin Stein uses the acronym HALT-PS as a reminder to pause when those emotions might be impairing his judgment. He takes it one step further and postpones important decisions until he’s in a state where these emotions don’t flood his brain.
Here are the nasty culprits of crappy decision-making.
Think of HALT-PS like a gigantic red stop sign. The moment you notice any of these emotions are present, hit the brakes. You wouldn’t just rip through a stop sign going at full speed because you’re in a rush, so why would you make a rash decision that has a damn good chance of causing you to crash into oncoming traffic?
HALT-PS creates a buffer between the emotion and the decision. This time delay can be a lifesaver since full-blown emotions are short-lived. Creating a little space means you get a chance to slow down, open your mind, and from a calm state, you can consider the risks that you might have otherwise overlooked.
Why is HALT-PS such a damn powerful technique to have in your toolbox? Because it helps you answer the question: Why might I be wrong?
This framework doesn’t only help with the life-changing decisions we make when we’re emotionally overwhelmed. It can also help us catch ourselves before we plant a seed of a belief without noticing the trajectory it puts us on.
I’m a first-time dad with a five-week-old daughter. Tiredness and stress come with the role. In her second week alive, I was already telling myself that I wasn’t strong enough to be a dad. The sad part was that I believed it under the fog of exhaustion. Was I going to be nothing but a disappointment to her?
There was a time in my life where I would have let that be my story moving forward. But now, I reflect because there are plenty of reasons why I might be wrong.
Here I am five weeks in, and I regret selling myself short because I didn’t give myself the chance to prove myself. I’m doing the best I can at something I’ve never done before. Isn’t that the single best lesson we can ever hope to teach a kid? Do your best. Don’t regret what you’re trying your best on.
Without the awareness of HALT-PS, I wouldn’t have recognized that my thinking was impaired under a cloud of sleep deprivation and stress.
The more clearly we can view our thoughts, the more clearly we can decide what to engage with and what we can let go of.
Not every argument needs to be a fight. And not every fight needs to lead to a blowup. We can deescalate situations with ease when we have an awareness of our emotions at the moment.
I love using HALT-PS for this very reason. Ignoring our emotions is the mental equivalent of drunk driving. It’s stupid. You don’t have the cognitive ability to make a safe decision.
In the heat of the moment, our emotional disposition and moods routinely distort what we see and how we relate to what’s going on. I’m not that angry is like saying I’ve only had a few beers. It doesn’t take much to wrap you around a pole.
Keep it simple. Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision at all.
Most of us are not making life-and-death decisions that need an immediate response. Give yourself space to step back from the situation so you can clearly view your emotions through the lens of HALT-PS.
Is an emotion present? Be vulnerable.
I’ve gotten in the habit of telling my wife the truth, and it’s a rather novel idea that works pretty damn well. When I’m charged up, I tell her I’m not in the emotional headspace you deserve for this conversation. When I have the capacity, I promise we will talk about this because I know it’s important to you.
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Sometimes, it might look like our present-day journey is nowhere related to the dreams or goals we have.
It gets frustrating as we recognize these irrelative days as days that are wasted away
Maybe some of us are in a phase where we have heard from God about a calling or a responsibility that He would bless us with. And we are so excited and looking forward to being there carrying it out.
But as real as it is, the time of preparation is the actual time where our faith is tested. The real faith test is when God has called you for a purpose but the path He is taking you through during your preparation nowhere relates to the calling.
When you really ask ” God… Do you really want me to be here doing this? But, it in no way relates to what you promised me.”
Here’s something about it.
Life of Abraham and Joseph
- God promised Abraham to make Him the Father of Nations. So with the promise he received, Abraham should have actually had many children. And should have been trained to be a good father who could take care of many other children. But, what happened in Abraham’s life is so opposite. He was childless till the age of 95. He lived a life that was completely opposite to the promise He received.
- God showed Joseph that he would be in a high position like a King and that his elder brothers and his father would bow down to him. In line with this promise Joseph should have been sent to a palace, taught all the skills a King should possess, must have been given with education and etc. But what happened in Joseph’s life? He was sold as a slave and he lived in a prison. He hardly had good clothes to be in.
But, was not God faithful in fulfilling His promises to them?
Like He said to Abraham, He did make Abraham the Father of all Nations. And we are the witness. Like He said to Joseph, He did make Joseph the Governor of Egypt and blessed that nation thousands of times abundantly during His reign.
Through the lives of Abraham and Joseph, we should be encouraged that God is faithful. He fulfills every promise He makes. And also learn that God’s way of preparing us is completely different from our perceptions.
The path that God would make us walk during our time of preparation might sometimes not be relatable. But, God clearly knows what exactly we need to train on.
And He knows the right path to prepare us for our calling. Though the path seems crooked or muddy or broken. That path is what we actually have to go through to prepare ourselves. Because He knows our weakness and only He can shape us into a useful vessels. So, when we completely abide by God’s direction, our irrelative days are not the days wasted but the actual days of pruning and chiseling.
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CaribSea, Marine, CORALine, Aruba Puka Shell weighs 1 121.29 kg/m³ (69.99985 lb/ft³) with specific gravity of 1.12129 relative to pure water. Calculate how much of this gravel is required to attain a specific depth in a cylindrical, quarter cylindrical or in a rectangular shaped aquarium or pond [ weight to volume | volume to weight | price ]
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We were doing only with Library program till COVID outbreak with the same objective of increasing student's reading competency. We realised the necessity of a separate vertical on foundation English language instructional training for Govt. school teachers.
The necessity emerged because of the learning loss of two years because of school lockdown because of COVID. In order to cope up with the loss teachers required a pre-design rapid learning instructional plan for English language.
We developed instructional manual and other resources for govt. school teachers for Foundational English language. The reason we focused more developing teachers' instructional manual is that we believe it is much more result oriented when teachers are given physical copy of a manual and other resources in addition to training sessions.
Our resources are ready-to-use anywhere in any context. Manipur and every state in the North East states are diverse from ethnicity to language. Our resources are developed keeping the diversity in mind. Our contents are gender sensitive. The contents are suitable for Govt. school teachers' nature of working and capacity of learning and implementation. | <urn:uuid:6c868d12-d6af-4b28-bdc3-b63b5843e861> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.korou.org/fel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.939771 | 219 | 2.125 | 2 |
This study investigates the infiltration of water in ZSM-5 zeolite crystals via molecular dynamics simulations and experiments. A zeolite nano-crystal is constructed in the simulations and is surrounded by water molecules which enter and saturate the pores. The average number of water molecules per unit cell of the zeolite is determined along with the radial distribution function of water inside the zeolites. A geometric approximation of the zeolite pores and intersections is proposed and verified. Partial charge on the zeolite atoms is found to be a crucial parameter which governs the water infiltration behavior. ZSM-5 zeolite crystals were also synthesized and water infiltration experiments were conducted using an Instron. The simulation and experimental findings are compared and discussed. The understanding gained from these studies will be important for the development of zeolite based reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination.
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Water Infiltration in ZSM-5 Zeolites: Effect of Pore Volume and Water Structure
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Maroo, SC, Humplik, T, Laoui, T, & Wang, EN. "Water Infiltration in ZSM-5 Zeolites: Effect of Pore Volume and Water Structure." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer. ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. March 3–6, 2012. pp. 625-631. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/MNHMT2012-75322
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The Federal Reserve has just gone for another interest rate hike of 75 basis points, the fourth since the start of the year, in response to rising inflation, which reached a 40-year record in June at 9.1%. While numbers may, on the surface, look similar to those we have been experiencing in Europe, US inflation has been driven by different dynamics, reflecting domestic factors more than external ones. Against this backdrop, markets predict further tightening for the coming months, followed by rate cuts next year spurred by a contracting economy. Indeed, the U.S. economy contracted for two quarters in a row in the first half of the year meeting, at first glance, the definition of a technical recession.
Turning to this side of the Atlantic, the ECB went for an increase of 50bp in July, the first since 2011, ending the era of negative interest rates begun in 2014. After underestimating the level of inflation and its persistence since last summer, the ECB now finds itself in a potentially awkward situation: it will probably force a recession to fight inflationary pressures that originated elsewhere – namely, supply bottlenecks and the energy crisis – to safeguard price stability.
That said, it would be a terrible mistake if fighting the current inflationary outlook in the Eurozone were to fall to the ECB exclusively. It would mean even higher rates – and thus less investments – with jobs lost, especially among the most vulnerable groups of workers. Indeed, this is what happens when inflation is fought through compression in aggregate demand; on the other hand, if prices rise, policymakers could expand supply so as to mitigate inflationary pressures. True, it takes some time to do so, but higher energy prices are here to stay. So, too, are geopolitical tensions, and, with those, supply bottlenecks and value chain disruptions.
I don’t mean to suggest that money should be taken from the average European taxpayer through higher taxes so as to further reduce their spending power. Rather, I refer to the even more compelling need to pursue growth policies, for instance, by ensuring that: i) the massive investment outlays funded in response to the outbreak of the pandemic – mostly under the NextGenerationEU – progress without delay so as to increase both supply and potential growth; ii) energy policy is overhauled by setting more realistic targets for decarbonization in line with the new geopolitical reality in which we find ourselves; iii) competition laws and regulations are enacted especially vis-à-vis large corporations, not just small businesses.
The above priorities, albeit simply-sketched, would be highly consistent with conservative views in Europe. According to a recent survey, citizens whose views align with ECR, highly value the Single Market and the economic opportunities that come with it. Addressing the not so transitory inflationary pressures with a growth-centered agenda would mitigate inflation while creating a more prosperous EU to the benefit of all. | <urn:uuid:ba3fdbcd-9c67-4e4f-a938-b22f903e04fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theconservative.online/fighting-inflation-should-not-just-fall-upon-the-ecb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955825 | 593 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Our Foundation funds lifesaving training and offers
resources to educate the public related to the prevalence and prevention of sudden cardiac arrest in youth.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?
An AED is a device about the size of a laptop computer that analyzes the heart's rhythm for any abnormalities and, if necessary, directs the rescuer to deliver an electrical shock to the victim. This shock, called defibrillation, may help the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm of its own.
For each minute defibrillation is delayed, the chance of survival is reduced by 10 percent.
Early defibrillation is the link in the Chain of Survival.
How does an AED work?
In an emergency, the automated external defibrillator essentially makes the decisions for you. It offers step-by-step voice instructions to guide you through the defibrillation process. It explains how to check for breathing and a pulse and how to position electrode pads on the person's chest.
Once the pads are in place, the AED automatically analyzes the person's heart rhythm and determines if a shock is needed. If it is, the machine tells you to stand back and instructs you to push a button to deliver the shock. It will also guide you through CPR. The process can be repeated as needed until emergency crews take over.
Reasons why AEDs are ESSENTIAL in schools, camps, gyms
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Welcome to the Ashburton Aviation Museum
Ashburton has a strong aviation history, being a training base in World War 2. There were 50 Tiger Moths based there. The original tarmac and tie-down rings are still there to this day. These helped to secure the planes from Mid Canterbury’s strong nor-west winds.
We are situated at the Ashburton Airport!
There are over 20 aircraft on display in the Two Museum Buildings and more in the work shop. These include Devon, Vampire FB5, Harvard, Porterfield, Airtruk, Benson Gyro Glider, Weihe Glider, Hughes Helicopter, Olympia, Flying Flea, Harrier GR3, Canberra B2 Bomber Cockpit. F8 - Meteor, Zlin, DC3, Vampire T11, Link Trainer, Slingsby T31, Bergfalke, Cropmaster, Tiger Moth. The Museum is also home to the Southern DC3 Trusts Historic Airliner ZK AMY .Our latest aquisition is a Thompson Refueller, one of only 9 on display worldwide.
Ashburton Aviation Museum are thrilled to have obtained an ex RNZAF Skyhawk that has been added to their extensive collection. This is a US built jet which are known by many as ‘Scooters’. This large aircraft is about 44 feet long (13.41 metres) and the wingspan is 30 feet (9.14m). At its peak, it is 5 metres high.
The Skyhawk is sure to be yet another attraction to add to the wonderful collection at the Ashburton Aviation Museum.
On the 1st of October a new ‘super hanger’ opened to accommodate the growing number of exhibits. The Museum’s fighter jet collection has been extended with a Hawker Hunter Cockpit all the way from England, along with a Percival Provost that has also been donated to the museum. President Ron McFarlane states that they are ‘building up a collection of history for Ashburton”. Other displays include a “Spaceball” from Cosmos 482, Aircraft Engines, Model RNZAF Station Ashburton, Local History, Memorabilia & Model Aircraft.
There is also: a Research Library and Souvenirs are available for sale.
Currently the Ashburton Aviation Museum Society has around 400 members, of whom 150 are locals. The aerodrome is a convenient refuelling stop for GA and vintage aeroplanes bound for Wanaka, the museum hosts the Sport Aircraft Association's biennial Great Plains Fly -in, and it gets an interesting international mix of visitors. The atmosphere of the place works its way deep into those who pop by, and it has members all around the world.
One result is that its profile isn't as low as it used to be — literally. The museum now has a shiny new hangar looming over everything, with construction and fitting out being completed early this year. While the financial commitment involved would have been terrifying back in 1974, Jim says that it actually wasn't such a mission as the first hangar, there being a lot more funding resources around these days, plus the museum did a deal with the Southern DC-3 Trust which needed a home after its eviction from Wigram.
The hangar was to have been opened on 25 February, but along with just about everything else between Ashburton and Rangiora this plan got knocked back by the earthquake, and it took the arrival of the A4 Skyhawk NZ6204's and assembly by the crew from the RNZAF that gave the museum a chance to invite local members and dignitaries out to the museum for a gala style opening. Official guests included The Minister of Defence Mr Wayne Mapp and our member of Parliament Ms Jo
We run a roster system for our museum guides and that gives us the ability to be able to open the museum to the public every day everyday between 1pm and 3pm.Wednesdays and Saturdays we are open 9:30am to 3pm. Wednesday is workshop day with up to 20 members turning up most Wednesdays to help with the
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- Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal Wake
Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal Wake
April 26, 2007 | Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College | New York City
Co-sponsored by The Hunter College MFA Program in Creative Writing
With Pico Iyer & Hal Wake
Discussed: travel as a conversation with a new friend; travel in “enemy” country; the invisible and portable home; gated communities and the global soul
• Entire event (49:00)
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Schools across the U.S. have been caught up in spirited debates over how #history should be taught.
@nytimes talked to social studies #teachers about how they run their classrooms, what they teach and why.
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Simulator Missions at the Challenger Learning Center of Colorado
Our space mission simulator offers students an opportunity to see their skills in action. From science to math to language, students participate in a live, immersive and interactive 2.5 hour experience playing the role of scientists and engineers and applying their knowledge and essential skills like teamwork, problem solving and communication. Missions take place in our Mission Control simulator designed after NASA's Johnson Space Center and a Space Station simulator modeled after the International Space Station.
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A team of scientists and engineers embark on a daring mission to take a close-up look at a comet as it streaks across the solar system. The goal is to plot a successful course to Rendezvous with a Comet. First, the team must plot the correct intercept course, while constructing a space probe to gather data from the comet. What seems to be a routine exploration at first becomes filled with new discoveries, challenges and emergencies. Each obstacle requires students to work together as a team to find a solution in order make the mission successful.
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The year is 2076. A handful of facilities have been established on Mars, including a greenhouse, a mobile geological survey base, and a centralized research habitat. The primary human habitat is not on Mars, but on one of its moons, Phobos. A large shuttle regularly ferries astronauts and scientists between the base on Phobos and the surface of Mars. This shuttle, or Mars Transport Vehicle (MTV), carries parts to build a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to continue the search for the evidence of life and water. However, when crew members discover an imminent threat to their MTV and the Martian surface facilities, they must act quickly to save their stations, their research, and their lives.
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In the not too distant future several permanent habitats on the Moon are home to astronauts and scientists conducting research. Human operated vehicles and rovers search for resources critical to the expansion of lunar research. The new crew sent to help with the expansion faces a tough task and students will be challenged to make decisions that will impact the success of the mission. Teams will need to observe the Earth, sun and beyond as they navigate to the moon and select sites for future lunar mining. Ultimately, the primary mission goal of keeping the crew safe will become a challenge as the teams will have to exercise their problem solving, communication and teamwork skills before they can call the mission a success.
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By Alix Zwane, Executive Director of Evidence Action
The sun is rising over the lush hills in Sikusi Village in rural Uganda. Women and children are gathering water at their local well with large yellow jerricans balanced on their heads. There is a bright blue chlorine dispenser installed on a pole right next to the well. The women hold their jerricans under the dispenser and turn a knob to add a small amount of diluted chlorine into the containers before they head home.
Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water is a rigorously evaluated system of water purification that dramatically expands access to water treatment at an extremely low price point per user. Diluted chlorine is a safe and effective additive to water that destroys the vast majority of harmful bacteria that cause water-borne diseases such as diarrhea.
The problem of unsafe water is staggering. More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Unsafe drinking water is also a leading cause of diarrheal disease with nearly two billion cases globally every year. And an estimated 760,000 children under the age of five die from diarrhea each year, making it one of the leading causes of childhood mortality.
Dispensers for Safe Water was developed through randomized controlled trials that tested a variety of delivery methods for water sanitation products. Several studies have found that adding chlorine to drinking water is highly effective in reducing diarrhea. However, effectiveness is subject to sustained high rates of product adoption. And in practice, it can be hard to maintain high usage rates. Dispensers, in rigorous evaluations, proved the exception to this rule.
A satisfied customer makes a visit to his community's water dispenser in a village just outside Busia, in Eastern Kenya.
Based on the results of these rigorous trials, dispensers are installed right next to the local well in villages across Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi with extensive community input and participation. They are easily visible and accessible to people gathering their daily water. The use of dispensers is also entirely free to anyone in the community. Further, dispensers are maintained by a network of local health promoters who educate the community on their use, and make sure that the dispensers are filled and in good repair. Evidence Action circuit riders on motorbikes criss-cross the country to deliver the chlorine and provide any needed repairs.
There are now close to 3 million people who have safe, clean drinking water thanks to Dispensers for Safe Water. A mother, Jane Kataike from Luwanga Village in Uganda, said: “The chlorine dispenser has helped us so much, mostly for our children who used to suffer from diarrhea all the time. But we are now fine.”
The cost for Dispensers for Safe Water, when they are installed at scale, is a mere $0.50 per person per year — making this truly a ‘best buy” in development.
“Dispensers for Safe Water is one of the few proven approaches to providing safe water in poor communities that is also highly cost effective and promotes sustained usage over time. Evidence Action’s program to scale this up in East Africa will save children’s lives and improve health while paving the way for even broader use of this evidenced-based intervention,” says Louis Boorstin, former Deputy Director for Water, Sanitation & Hygiene at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Evidence Action is now expanding Dispensers for Safe Water to reach millions more people in the next four years in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
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© 2016, © 2016 Taylor & Francis. In summer 1987, the remains of Frankfurt’s medieval Jewish ghetto were unearthed by construction workers excavating a car park to make way for a new municipal building. When no effort was made by the city authorities or by Frankfurt’s Jewish community to stop the building work, an action group called Rettet den Börneplatz (‘Save Börneplatz’) occupied the site. This article will investigate, firstly, why Frankfurt’s Jewish community failed to do anything to prevent the building work going ahead. Secondly, it will analyse the debates surrounding the excavation which were concerned with whether the Holocaust changed the meaning of this medieval ghetto. The questions raised in these debates included: Is it appropriate to characterize a pre-modern Jewish quarter as a ‘ghetto’ in light of the Jewish ghettos of the early 1940s? Is there any connection between these two types of ghetto? Does drawing a connection relativize the singularity of the Holocaust? How should we view the oppression of Jews in pre-modern periods in light of the Nazi persecution? Finally, this article will look at why young Frankfurt Jews, in particular, wanted to preserve the ghetto remains.
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National Canine Research Council Summary and Analysis:
Clark et al. (1991) presented three brief case reports involving children and animal bites. The purpose was to report these incidents and describe the associated injuries, though it is unclear why these three cases in particular were highlighted. Two involved canines, with reported breeds being a Siberian husky and either a “pit bull,” Rottweiler, or both, and the last was an incident involving a circus tiger. Neither the geographic location nor dates were reported for any of the incidents. The authors did not report how breed was determined, and in one of the two cases the identity of the dog involved was undetermined. There is an uncritical discussion of “pit bull” involvement in DBRFs as the authors cite previous studies that rely on visual breed identification. By their own admission they do not know whether a “pit bull” was involved in any of their reported incidents. The authors note that, “animal bite injuries and fatalities are increasing in incidence” but do not provide a source or context for this statement. Because of the minute sample size and lack of contextual factors, the two canine-related cases cannot be extrapolated to the greater DBRF literature or population. | <urn:uuid:0c83d8dc-1792-48ae-80c7-e2944dae5bdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/research_library/summary-analysis-fatal-and-near-fatal-animal-bite-injuries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.969067 | 255 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Almost all public services meet a basic requirement of the populace of a city, municipality, or state. These consist of ambulances, law enforcement, roadways, and water systems, including plumbing services. Population services are exactly what they sound like: essential services provided to the general public. The majority of people concur that everyone should have access to public services, which are often paid for by taxes and fees.
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Soccer in the U.S. has not always had the best track record. Its popularity fluctuates, and interest is usually tied to significant events, such as the World Cup or the Olympics.
Major League Soccer has spent more than 25 years trying to change the sentiment toward soccer in the U.S. while competing with more fast-paced, high-scoring sports such as the NFL and the NBA.
Over the last 10 years, the MLS has become increasingly popular. The league garnered the attention of top international talent, brought in significant investments and generated a massive presence on social media.
The MLS is focused on expanding its clubs to large sports markets and increasing popularity with younger generations. Nevertheless, the league has seen its fair share of obstacles, such as financial woes, leadership shakeups and its continuous fight to draw a large television audience.
Establishing a massive television audience is everything to the league. Media rights deals are a cornerstone of how a league functions and the driving force for its longevity, growth and operational revenue. The league is looking to establish a new media rights package in 2022. Its current eight-year media deal with ESPN, Fox and Univision has generated an estimated $90 million per year since 2015.
The league hopes to capitalize on its younger fan base, social media presence and the FIFA World Cup, which the U.S. will host in 2026.
Watch the video to learn more about the rise of Major League Soccer.
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|Materials||Oil on canvas|
|Size||146 x 86 cm|
|Signature||bottom left: L v Hoffmann|
Restored with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung
Provenance is unclear and research continues.
Where would you start?
“Life is like a night in springtime, so mysterious, so sensuous. Sometimes a bird flutters from a tree and sings and laughs until our heart almost bursts with desire.”
The poem “Dreamland”, set to music and published by Paul Gutmann (1873–1953) in the youth magazine “Jugend” in 1886, reads like a lyrical prophesy of what Ludwig von Hofmann was expressing in his painting of the same name in 1905.
This work began its journey with the second exhibition organised on Kurfürstendamm in 1905 by the recently founded artists’ association Deutscher Künstlerbund. “Traumland” was listed as no. 71 in the accompanying catalogue. It was marked for sale – and it became rather popular. In 1920 it was still considered worthy of a full-page colour lithographic reproduction in the art magazine “Kunstwart und Kulturwart” published by the 'Lebensreform' movement.
The plethora of provenance marks on the back of this painting suggests that it passed through many hands after the exhibition in 1905. Identifying and evaluating every item is an ongoing task. Where would you start your research?
A sticker with the abbreviation K.v.H. between chalked numbers top left comes from the association Kunstverein Hannover. Is there a digit missing in the number 202? Most of the association’s historical catalogues are held in the library of the Museum of Lower Saxony, whereas the files are kept in the city archives in Hannover and by the art association itself. If the painting can be linked to an exhibition by the Kunstverein, a search can be initiated for records about the people who loaned the works. If the work was not lent by the artist but by a private individual, the owners need researching. The records might contain an indication that “Dreamland” was sold at an exhibition organised by the association. That, too, would trigger a search for personal details.
On the upper strip of the frame there is a sticker from the frame-maker Theodor Zickendraht, whose workshop was at Kronenstrasse 17 in the Berlin district of Mitte between 1936 and 1943. That might be a sign that “Dreamland” was reframed around that time. Could that be connected to a sale? Did Zickendraht only make frames or did he sell paintings as well? Have any company records survived and might “Dreamland” be mentioned there? Another note has been stuck over Theodor Zickendraht’s label. It says: “Box no. 6”. That suggests that at some point the painting was part of a big shipment. From where to where and why?
Someone has written “Spring” on the right-hand strip. Does that mean the painting once bore that title? If so, when? The left-hand strip displays the number “1911”. Would that be the year 1911, and could it have something to do with changing hands?
There are no objects reported missing in the Lost Art Database kept by the German Lost Art Foundation that resemble “Dreamland”. Unlike Ludwig von Hofmann’s painting “Rider in the Rocky Bay”, “Dreamland” cannot be traced to an auction before 1945.
The Berlinische Galerie bought the painting in 1975 from the Berlin cloth merchant Willi Küpper. He had been building his collection since the 1960s. How he acquired “Dreamland” is not known.
In other words, there is still no specific information about where the painting has been since 1905. Even so, there is a useful basis for researching into its provenance. There is no doubt, however, that quite apart from visiting archives and sifting through documents – including the estate of Ludwig von Hofmann – this is going to lead to many conversations with people who probably have no idea that “Dreamland” ever belonged to their ancestors. | <urn:uuid:118c05e4-9092-4bc9-9298-4d28972da59b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://berlinischegalerie.de/en/digital/provenienzen-kunstwerke-wandern/hofmann-traumland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955119 | 928 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Street 8 is a north–south street located on the western edge of Area F, and it probably continues to the north, toward the synagogue (Fig. 4). Unlike Street 1, Street 8 is irregular in width (2–4 m)—widening in places, possibly due to reuse or some modification in nearby spaces—and is not flanked by parallel walls throughout. Furthermore, differences in construction materials and stonework could be discerned along the street: the wall flanking the street on the west in Area E (W184) is built mostly of unworked fieldstones, of both basalt and limestone, and seems like a defense wall; whereas the wall flanking the street on the west in Area F (W215) is built of perfectly crafted and regularly placed basalt blocks. The lower part of a Pompeian flourmill (Fig. 5) was found on the street, near the outer northwest corner of Building E19C1, probably not in situ.
Building E19C1 (Fig. 6) is a rectangular building, which appears—judging by its orientation—to be the continuation of the market in Area E. The building is also connected with Area A with a wall extending to the south (W65). An entrance set in its western wall allowed access from Street 8, but it was later blocked. A row of eleven long basalt slabs (RF2) found along the outside face of its northern wall (W212), seem to have been roof beams of some structure, possibly of a small purification bath (miqveh) similar to the ones discovered in past seasons.
Room E3C9 (Fig. 7) has a perfectly cut and assembled floor of basalt pavers, with benches along the four walls. Traces of white plaster were found on several sections of the walls. Two possible windows were identified in the east and the west walls (W42, W217); the one in W42, which separates the room from Ritual Bath Mkv2, was blocked.
Ritual Bath (Miqveh) Mkv4. This ritual purification bath is the fourth discovered at Migdal, and together with Bath Mkv2 it forms a double ritual bath, as do Baths Mkv1 and Mkv3 in Area A. The two baths in each of these pairs are separated by a wall, with a channel running through it to allow the circulation of water (Fig. 8). Furthermore, this bath has the same architectural traits as the other three: it was constructed of well-dressed basalt blocks, has seven steps and was treated with white plaster, some of which is still found on the upper parts of the walls. Like the other baths, this one also utilized the natural water table of the Sea of Galilee. With their floor dug down to an elevation of c. 208 m below sea level—approximately 2 m below the elevation of floors of the surrounding buildings—water that seeps through the cracks in the floor and the lower steps feeds the four baths. The waster circulates through the channel system under Street 1 back into the lake. This bath, like the other three, also received water from the Mount Arbel and Naḥal Arbel (Wadi el-Ḥamam) springs. Unlike the other baths, this one shows evidence of destruction: the two upper steps are not complete, and numerous stones were scattered throughout its upper levels. Also, it was not sealed with soil fills containing pottery fragments as did the other baths.
Later Remains. Area F revealed evidence of a later settlement: evidence of destruction was observed in the eastern part of the area; some of the rooms in the area were blocked with walls; and the floor made of basalt slabs in room E3C9 was covered with a layer of white plaster (Fig. 9).
The excavation results in Area F reinforce the conclusion that the architecture and urban layout of the western and southern limits of the town of Migdal vary between the areas excavated by the IAA, UAMS and the Franciscan Custody. Area F is a continuation of the market in Area E and of the buildings housing the ritual baths in Area A. The excavation revealed several pottery and glass fragments, coins and metal artifacts dating from the first century CE. In contrast to previously excavated areas, Area F contained a large number of collapsed building blocks, both worked and unworked. At this point it cannot be determined if this collapse was caused by human agency or natural causes. | <urn:uuid:08a5aacf-584f-4018-95f1-edd9e381e523> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_eng.aspx?print=nopic&print=nopic&id=25336&mag_id=125 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972541 | 922 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Tax credit reforms will save Britain £15billion a year from 2016, a Treasury analysis has found as George Osborne rejected calls by senior Conservatives to reduce the impact of the controversial cuts on the "working poor".
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said on Monday that he had "no doubt" that officials are looking at cuts "very, very hard right now" in an attempt to soften their impact and "help people get through this".
Both the Treasury and Downing Street denied his claims as Mr Osborne published a new analysis showing that Britain's tax credit bill would have risen to £40billion a year without the Chancellor's reforms.
It came as Mr Osborne was last night confronted by Tory MPs over the cuts at a meeting of the back-bench 1922 committee.
According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, the spending watchdog, the Chancellor's reforms since 2010 mean that the tax credit bill will be £25billion in 2016/17.
The analysis suggests that the savings would fund the cost of either 200,000 nurses and 70,000 doctors, 325,000 teachers or the entire budget of the Home Office.
It came as Mr Osborne was confronted by Conservative MPs over the issue at a meeting of the 1922 committee of back-benchers, who warned that families would lose out.
Speaking ahead of a Commons debate on the issue Greg Hands, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said: "Labour has opposed every single saving we’ve made in a welfare budget they let spiral completely out of control.
"When they left office, they had allowed means-tested payments to go so far up the income scale that nine out of ten families – including MPs – were eligible.
"Treasury analysis now shows that without the reforms we have embarked on, spending on tax credits would be rising to £40 billion next year. Instead it’s forecast to be £25 billion.
"Labour must now explain where the money is coming from. Their economic policy lurches further from chaos to incredibility."
The Treasury analysis was published after Mr Johnson raised concerns that the cuts to tax credits will have an "unfair" impact on the poor.
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One: “I am sure there is a way through that uses tax cuts, the living wage and other ways of helping people over the threshold and helping people to get through this. But somehow or other we have got to reform the tax credit system.”
Asked about the impact on working families, Mr Johnson said: “Let us see what they come up with. I am sure they are working on it now, and, believe me, we are all talking about it, and this is something under very intensive review and consultation at the moment.
"I have no doubt people are looking at it very, very hard right now that as we reform the tax credits system we do so in such a way not to bear down too unfairly on the hardworking people in London and elsewhere.
“I am sure that irrespective of the politics of it, no one wants to do something that is unfair to working people.”
It came as Baroness Meacher, a cross-bench peer, vowed to try to kill the plans in the House of Lords with a rarely "fatal motion" which could be backed by cross-bench bishops.
Labour believes that the motion would be almost certain to result in a Government defeat as there is no Tory majority in the Upper House.
However, peers could face accusations that they are overstepping their powers by making an amendment that would require major changes to the the government's plan to eliminate the deficit.
About 3.3 million families – 2.7 million of them with children – stand to lose on average £1,300 in the first year alone.
The level at which working tax credit starts to be withdrawn will fall from £6,420 a year to £3,850. The level at which child tax credit begins to be taken away will fall from £16,105 to £12,125. And the taper rate at which tax credits are withdrawn will rise from 41 per cent to 48 per cent. | <urn:uuid:91ee427f-e25d-4e91-a3fd-ea290421bab2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/11941558/George-Osborne-Tax-credit-cuts-will-save-Britain-15bn-a-year-from-2016.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.977221 | 851 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Whereas during night time the lower levels of the atmosphere are highly influenced by respiration processes of the ground, the 304 m height of the tall tower guarantees that the tower top always sees concentrations that are representative for the free troposphere.
Thus the air arriving at the 301 m level has a large area, that is influencing the measurement at ZOTTO site. Based on ECMWF forecast data, the STILT model calculates the back trajectories of the air parcels that result in a suitable footprint.
- Continuous CO2 and CH4 Gas Measurements at 301, 227, 158, 92, 52, and 4 m height
- Continuous Aerosol Measurements at 301, and 52 m height with self-made instrument
- Continuous CO Measurements at 301, and 52 m height
- Continuous Ozone, and NOx Measurements at 30 m height
- Continuous Meteorology Measurements at 301, 227, 158, 92, 52, and 4 m height, and on the ground (Temperature, Wind, Humidity)
- Biweekly Flask Sampling at 301 m height
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Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. has been awarded a $139 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on the third phase of the Port of Corpus Christi ship channel improvement project.
The four-phase, $651 million infrastructure project will increase the channel’s depth to 54 feet from 47 feet and widen it to 530 feet, from its current width of 400 feet.
The increase will allow more than one vessel to pass through the channel at the same time, as well as accommodate supertankers, known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs).
Great Lakes’ work on phase 3 of the project will extend west of the channel’s La Quinta Junction through the Chemical Turning Basin in the port’s Inner Harbor. This phase of the project is expected to be completed by June 2023.
“The Port of Corpus Christi is already responsible for more than 98,000 regional jobs, and the completion of this channel improvement project will lead to additional jobs, allowing for increased funding into community reinvestment initiatives,” Col. Tim Vail, Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District commander, said in a statement. “The enhanced channel will also improve safety and efficiency by allowing two-way traffic, and a safer passthrough for deep-draft vessels.”
The channel improvement began in May 2019. The Port of Corpus Christi has provided $161.5 million for its portion of the total cost. The federal government has appropriated $296.3 million in funding.
“Advancing the third phase of this historic initiative in developing critical coastal navigation infrastructure reinforces our importance in serving the global energy markets, and solidifies the Port of Corpus Christi’s position as the largest energy export gateway in the U.S.,” Sean Strawbridge, CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi, said in a statement.
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On-line preconcentration with a novel alkyl phosphinic acid extraction resin coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for determination of trace rare earth elements in seawater
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A newly synthesized alkyl phosphinic acid resin (APAR) was used for on-line preconcentration of trace rare earth elements (REES, lanthanides including yttrium) and then determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. REEs in seawater could be on-line concentrated on the APAR packed column (4.6 mm i.d. x 50 mm in length), and eluted from the column with 0.5 mL 0.1 mol L-1 nitric acid within 30 s. An enrichment factor of nearly 400 was achieved for all REEs when the seawater sample volume was 200 mL, while the matrix and coexisting spectrally interfering ions such as barium, tin and antimony could be simultaneously separated. The detection limits of this proposed method for REEs were in the range from 1.43 pg L-1 of holmium to 12.7 pg L-1 of lanthanum. The recoveries of REEs were higher than 97.9%, and the precision of the relative standard deviation (R.S.D., n = 6) was less than 5%. The method has been applied to the determination of soluble REEs in seawater. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:85f607dd-ef0f-4c0b-a53f-55f072dbf569> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/8991?locale-attribute=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.92074 | 380 | 1.71875 | 2 |
I realize art is, of course, subjective. I know what I like; sometimes I can explain why, and sometimes I'm not sure what it is about a piece that draws me to it. Certainly good art evokes emotion and can stir controversy and push limits. And like the notorious virgin Mary/elephant dung uproar, an undergrad at Yale has recently caused quite a stir with her own senior art project:
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.
More after the jump...
From a health standpoint, and regardless of any of the value of the art, this is pretty atrocious. I get the whole "suffering for your art" idea, but purposely getting pregnant, then taking herbal abortifacients (which can vary in effectiveness and side effects) is, from my point of view, pretty frackin' stupid.
The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.
Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.
Because of the extremity of her project, she's actually served to unite both those who are pro-choice and anti-abortion in speaking out against her project, with one student noting that it "turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism" and discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion." I'll add that, though Sharvts notes the project has made her "increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers," the fact that she became pregnant and then induced abortion repeatedly in the manner she did minimizes the incredible sense of loss that women who have spontaneous miscarriages feel as well--so is this really bringing about the debate she was looking for?
Though she says she didn't do this for "shock value," it seems that at least one critic claims this type of art is "...the safest kind of art than an artist can go into the business of making today." Certainly Shvarts' work has gotten more attention that those of her peers, if nothing else.
[ETA: hmm, interesting. After writing a guest column insisting her project was real, the University says Shvarts has flip-flopped and says it's a work of fiction. Shvarts denies such an admission, and Yale won't allow it to be displayed without the disclaimer that it's fake. Still developing...]
A more recent article in the Chicago Tribune suggests this may be a hoax, but it does seem as if Yale isn't entirely sure of that, as they are requiring the student to prove the installation is fiction or they won't allow it. Some discussion (from a different point of view) at blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com
It seems like there is a lot of hyperbole on her part. Even if she really artificially inseminated herself each month, it's very unlikely that she became pregnant every cycle. That means that the herbs were really inducing menstruation, which only resulted in a miscarriage the fraction of the time she was actually pregnant. I guess it's not as controversy-worthy to have a sculpture made of menses, though.
regardless of the "truth" or whether these are abortions or menses, I think someone needs councling
Imagine trying to get that project through a proper human ethics committee? Not a chance in hell. Luckily it's 'arts' and harming humans is OK if it demonstrates a point (exactly what point is never clear).
And who would provide their sperm for that period of time for that purpose?
I hope it's a hoax too.
I realize that I do not appreciate some things that other people find as art. I also realize that expression can be a beautiful thing, even if I don't agree with it. But, I don't get this and I don't get taking the incredible health risks in doing this. I also think there are more effective ways to achieve her goal of sparking a discussion of art and the human body. Take for example, the cadavers that are on display right now in the Human Body exhibit. I also feel like this trivializes abortion/miscarriages, having known people that have experienced losing a child.
I think the starving of the dog in this story, was more appalling than the Yale exhibit. Regardless of how you feel about conception/life etc, the aborted fetuses did not feel pain and only the artist was in health danger. This dog suffered cruelly, was tantalized with food, and ultimately succumbed to hunger. This is unacceptable to me. I'd like to chain him up...
It's things like this that make me suspicious of the value of "performance art" in many cases. When I first heard about it reported as being a genuine project I just thought she was foolish for risking her health. But now with the flip-flopping, it seems more likely this is stirring up controversy just for the sake of stirring up controversy. "I'm not lying, I'm being artistic!" Meh, I say.
Roe V. Wade didn't uphold the right to be a fucking disgusting human being. Now in the days of the internet she'll be hard pressed to find a line of work after this. I mean seriously, even the most persistent pro-choicer would think that this woman is totally loon-balls. Would YOU hire her?
Amplexus, that's a good point and one which too few people really appreciate. I hope that while parents are educating their children about sex and drugs they also have a good talk about the permanence of one's online presence. Googling this gal in the future will reveal that she likes to shock people (while claiming it's not about "shock value", which seems disingenuous at best), is not trustworthy (contradicts herself quickly when it appears she could get in trouble), and has, at best, a rather callous regard for a very serious subject matter.
Now, rendering the subject matter absurd is not a new idea in art, and it does have a certain value. I wouldn't discount the installation purely because of that. Absurdity can "reset" our perceptions of a subject, though I find it works best when it makes us laugh rather than baffling us. In this case, I think what is really demonstrated is that this gal is not a very imaginative artist, if she must resort to things like this to get attention. Artistically, I find such stunts to be artistically lazy.
Sure I would hire her, if I felt she would be able to do the job required properly and effeciently. It would be silly to throw some one out of the running for choices that they make that do not impead their ability to do the job in anyway.
Personally, I dont care one way or another about the 'art'. I do how ever dislike the dishonesty on one, or both sides (her and the school)
WTF is right....
If you're uneasy going the People's Republic of Cara route*, you could just move the comments to an alternative "spewings from raving nuts" type area... Or if you want to be less polemical (can't imagine why you would), you could name the alternative area something a little more neutral like "People Who Disagree With Me".
Too bad there are no ethics committees in the art world that can stop an "experiment" like this in the twisted idea stage.
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What is DNA?
A single cell is all it takes to create a human. Each cell in our body contains a nucleus which holds our genetic blueprints known as DNA. The primary purpose of DNA is to make copies of itself, so that it can turn that single cell into trillions of cells, forming a human.
The genetic information within DNA is passed on through generations with half of the information coming from the mother and half from the father. DNA is a component of virtually every cell in the human body. It is a powerful tool because each person’s DNA is different from every other person, with the exception of identical twins.
Why Establishing Paternity is Important
A child is entitled to the sense of belonging and identity that comes from knowing both parents. Establishing paternity in cases of unwed parents often has an important emotional and psychological benefit for the child. Also, until there is a determination that a biological father is the legal father, the child has no right to receive financial support from the father, to inherit from the father, or to obtain other benefits such as insurance through the father.
Likewise, until paternity is legally established, the biological father has no legal rights to the child, such as parenting time and participation in major decisions about the child. Additionally, since genetic diseases are inherited, knowing your biological ancestry can be useful in proactive medical care and organ transplantation.
Legal DNA Testing
If the test is for peace of mind, we will provide a private paternity test. If the testing is for legal purposes, such as child support, child custody or immigration applications, we will work with you to schedule a legal paternity test.
In order for a DNA test to be legal in a court of law, identification must be verified (with a birth certificate of the child and a picture I.D. of the adult), a photograph will be taken at the time of the collection, and the sample collection will be conducted by a qualified professional.
A Simple Process
- Identity is verified.
- Swabs are taken from the inside of the mouth of each person to be tested.
- The samples are securely sealed for transport.
- Samples are sent to the laboratory for analysis.
- The doctor receives and signs off on results within 7 – 10 days.
- Results are released to only the appropriate people. (Person paying for the test and/or the judge who ordered the test.) | <urn:uuid:500ddded-b4cf-49a8-9068-6cf5be91e49a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kylejonesmd.com/features/dna-testing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.957467 | 493 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Following is a speech our oldest son Kevin gave to his student body and their families about a year and a half ago. Many of you have already seen it, but it’s worth hearing his message again.
Kevin remains a steadfast advocate even now. He’s taken on this role all on his own. We’ve never pressured him to vocally take a stand; we’ve only tried to instill in all of our kids compassion, tolerance, and kindness to people from all walks of life.
Kevin started high school this year – a new school, a vastly larger campus and student body than what he had come from in middle school – automatically putting him on precarious social ground. And yet, he still speaks out. During the first couple weeks of school a guy at school called something “retarded,” and Kevin calmly told him why it’s unkind and unacceptable. The other kid was actually very receptive.
Being a teenager is already so fraught with difficulties, trying to fit in, trying to figure out just where your place in the world might be. To take on such a potentially unpopular cause as this takes a lot of character. I have so much admiration for him. | <urn:uuid:faf365be-7b8f-4763-baac-afd794b5636a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lisamorguess.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/31-for-21-a-sibling-speaks-out/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.985129 | 249 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West hosted the Creative Indigenous Collective's "Native Nations Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art"
As curated by Hunter Old Elk & Rebecca West, this exhibit featured the artists of the Creative Indigenous Collective, John Isaiah Pepion, Louis & Gina Still Smoking, Robert Martinez, Holly Young & Lauren Monroe.
Alongside the CIC, were works from the permanent collections of the Plains Indian Museum, from historical Native artists like Fritz Scholder, Kevin Red Star, Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Earl Biss & Steven Paul Judd.
The Creative Indigenous Collective; hereafter CIC, has been recently formed to represent the education and
promotion of Indigenous creativity. The CIC encourages creation via traditional art forms, cultural art,
technological development, and the distribution and implementation of such knowledge. Genres include but are
not limited to visual arts, music, culinary arts, spoken word, creative writing, dance, performance, fashion,
design, oral history, computer technology, and environmental art. In many communities around the world,
Indigenous art has been overlooked by Western paradigm, when in fact, the Indigenous Peoples’ are the original
creatives who require respect via representation. The scope of the CIC is to deliver said representation in
communities through event production, exhibition, conference, discussion, academic forum, collaboration and
public engagement. This representation will provide validity towards Indigenous creativity through edification
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XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop: OpenMP
XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) are pleased to announce a one day OpenMP workshop. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP.
Due to COVID-19 PSC has moved to a webcast format instead of having satellite sites. There is no cost to attend, but you must register with XSEDE account (free) at the registration site that will be posted on the XSEDE course catalog about a month before the workshop.
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ELO Mobility (a German mobility startup) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems IVI are jointly working on a new generation of hydrogen-powered city-bus technology.
The company will use a module-based construction approach and the use of sensors and actuators in the planned two bus types- the 12-meter and 18-meter articulated bus versions.
ELO Mobility specialises in developing high-performance city buses with innovative, electric drives based on intelligent energy management systems. These new types of Go4City buses will use substantially less hydrogen, resulting in low operating costs. These buses are expected to be produced by 2022.
An important innovation of the Go4City project is the use of exchangeable and re-processable fuel cells, accompanied by a significant cost reduction. The Netherlands’s HyMove B.V., a partner in Go4City project, has been operating buses with innovative and reliable fuel cells for over five years will contribute its experience to the development of the project.
The Go4City project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. The official project sponsor is Forschungszentrum Jülich and coordinated by the National Organisation of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology NOW GmbH.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems IVI is a German based institute. It works around transport-related research ranging from vehicle and propulsion systems to intelligent transport systems. It has more than 20 years of experience in this field and specialises in developing solutions for intelligent planning, coordination and the control of mobility systems. | <urn:uuid:ac2c92e4-c4d2-4771-96d6-ce4b0ee3e781> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.h2bulletin.com/elo-mobility-and-fraunhofer-works-under-go4city-on-hydrogen-buses/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.929264 | 325 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The Impact of Democracy Prep Public Schools on Civic Participation
- We find a 98 percent probability that enrolling in Democracy Prep produced a positive impact on voter registration, and a 98 percent probability that enrolling produced a positive impact on voting in the 2016 election.
- Democracy Prep increases the voter registration rates of its students by about 16 percentage points and increases the voting rates of its students by about 12 percentage points.
Democracy Prep is a charter school network that seeks to prepare students for effective citizenship. The clearest indicators of Democracy Prep’s success in promoting civic engagement are the registration and voting rates of its students after they become adults. Many students who were offered admission to Democracy Prep’s middle and high-school grades in its early years of operation were old enough to register and vote in time for the 2016 election. In this study, we match records from Democracy Prep’s admissions lotteries to a national database of registration and voting. Using the admissions lotteries to conduct a randomized experimental analysis, we find that Democracy Prep produces substantial positive effects on voter registration and election participation. | <urn:uuid:f24bd40d-07f5-452e-972f-075940fa80bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mathematica.org/publications/the-impact-of-democracy-prep-public-schools-on-civic-participation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952572 | 231 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Foreclosure is the procedure through which the lender in a mortgage takes ownership and/or possession of the property that secured the original loan. This happens when a debtor in Naperville, Illinois has consistently failed to make their payments. Foreclosure typically involves a forced sale of the house at auction. Banks typically want to rid themselves of ownership of the home as soon as possible, collect as much money as they can, and then move on.
In all states in the United States, including Illinois, foreclosure by judicial sale is an option. This allows the sale to be done under the supervision of a court, to ensure that the bank makes a good faith effort to get a fair price, and that the proceeds above and beyond the balance of the mortgage (if there are any) go back to the debtor. In various states, mortgages which have not been refinanced are "non-recourse loans." This means that, in the event of default, the bank can take ownership of the house and sell it; but if the sale price happens to be less than the balance of the mortgage, the lender cannot go after the debtor for the remainder. Because of this, some people have found that their best option is to simply walk away from the home if the mortgage is more than the house is worth. You should talk with a Naperville, Illinois Lawyer to see if this state is one of them.
How Can I Avoid Foreclosure in Illinois?
First, and most importantly, you should not dismiss the issue. Failing to respond to foreclosure calls from your lender will not make an issue go away. You should stay in touch, and be forthright with, your creditor as much as possible. It is important to remember that banks don't really want to own homes in Naperville. In issuing a mortgage, they expect to make a profit through interest on the loan, and they'd prefer to continue collecting from you. Therefore, they're likely to make reasonable accommodations to your financial situation if it will allow you to keep paying them in the long run.
If no deal can be worked out, or the mortgage payments have become prohibitive, you may consider a "short sale". While the lender has to consent to it, many will take a moderate loss if it means avoiding foreclosure (which lenders usually treat as a last resort). This allows you to sell the house for whatever price it can fetch on the current market, and hand the proceeds over to the bank. If the sale nets less than the balance, some or all of the deficiency may be forgiven. You might also consider a "short refinance" which allows a part of the debt to be forgiven, and lets you refinance the rest.
How Can A Naperville, Illinois Attorney Help?
If you are worried about foreclosure, a good Naperville, Illinois real estate Attorney may be able to help. An Attorney can increase your chances of keeping your home, and help minimize the financial impact if keeping it proves impossible. | <urn:uuid:21c8df81-a83b-4a2b-8c61-416d8805f21b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bankruptcyattorneys.legalmatch.com/IL/Naperville/foreclosure-lawyers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.965025 | 602 | 1.71875 | 2 |
If the San Diego Zoo's panda cam is a daily source of procrastination, we have some bad news for you: Footage may be a little spotty over the next few days because it's mating season.
The good news is that the critter cam's coverage will be back to normal shortly. Pandas only have a 48-to-72-hour window each year to make a baby, so time is of the essence for Bai Yun and Gao Gao.
Officials at the San Diego Zoo said the panda keepers had been watching for signs that the female adult, Bai Yun, is entering estrus. They had been monitoring her hormone levels and looking out for specific behavioral cues, such as scent-marking and vocalizing. [Animal Sex: 7 Tales of Naughty Acts in the Wild]
Finally, on Tuesday morning (March 10), Bai Yun and Gao Gao were put in the same enclosure for their first breeding attempt since 2012. The panda viewing area was closed off and the panda cam was turned off while the keepers observed the bears go at it.
The zoo released some pictures that suggest the bears' encounter was at least, well, amorous. But was it successful? It will be months before the keepers know.
Even if they don't conceive, female pandas have an annoying habit of faking pregnancy. Since fetal pandas are so tiny relative to their mothers, it's also difficult to detect true pregnancy until a cub materializes (or doesn't) at the end of the summer.
Gao Gao and Bai Yun have already produced five cubs: Mei Sheng, Su Lin, Zhen Zhen, Yun Zi and the latest, Xiao Liwu, who was born in July 2012 and is still on display at the zoo.
Today, wild giant pandas are found only in China. They are considered an endangered species, and captive breeding in zoos is designed to bolster the bears' numbers and genetic diversity.
China stopped giving away pandas as gifts to other countries in the 1980s; instead, the bears are loaned to foreign zoos. Any panda cubs born on U.S. soil are typically put back into China's captive breeding program after a few years.
Just two weeks ago, China released the latest results of its panda census, finding evidence of 1,864 pandas in the wild, Nature reported (opens in new tab). That's up from 1,596 pandas counted in 2002. | <urn:uuid:4d026846-7c60-452d-ad6e-c7b8c66aadd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.livescience.com/50109-san-diego-zoo-pandas-mating-season.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972732 | 516 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Who Was Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
The expedition team of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado is credited with the discovery of the Grand Canyon and several other famous landmarks in the American Southwest while searching for the legendary Seven Golden Cities of Cíbola — which they never found.
Vázquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, around 1510. According to some reports, he was the younger son of a wealthy aristocrat. Vázquez de Coronado had a fine upbringing, but no prospects of inheriting the family fortune. He instead sought to make it on his own in the New World.
Traveling to New Spain in 1535, Vázquez de Coronado enjoyed the support of Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of Mexico. He landed a position with the government and managed to marry well. His wife, Dona Beatriz, was the daughter of Alonso de Estrada, the colonial treasurer. Vázquez de Coronado rose up within the colonial government, receiving an appointment to the governorship of Nueva Galicia.
Exploring American Southwest
Stories of gold and riches located to the north of Mexico had begun to circulate in the 1530s. Explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca told the tale of seven golden cities of Cíbola in 1536. A Spanish missionary, Marcos de Niza, also spoke of seeing golden cities when he followed in de Vaca's footsteps in 1539. The following year, Vázquez de Coronado was selected by the viceroy to lead a mission to further explore these claims.
Vázquez de Coronado set out with about 300 Spanish soldiers and roughly 1,000 Native Americans. That July, the expedition encountered a group of Zuni Native Americans in what is now New Mexico. Vázquez de Coronado and his men soon clashed with the Zunis and took over the Zuni village. Disappointed by the expedition's failure to find a golden city, he decided to send his men out in different directions to investigate further. One group led by Pedro de Tovar traveled to the Colorado Plateau, while Garcia López de Cárdenas and his men became the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon.
Vázquez de Coronado spent that winter in Tiguex, a community made of several Pueblo Native American villages. Before long, he and his expedition had a falling out with the local peoples over supplies. Vázquez de Coronado then moved on in the spring, heading east over the Pecos River. They continued their search through what is now Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, before giving up their quest.
Final Years and Death
Back in New Spain in 1542, the disheartened Vázquez de Coronado returned to his duties as governor of Nueva Galicia. He was removed from his post two years later, during an investigation into his expedition. Charged with several offenses related to his conduct, including neglect of duty, Vázquez de Coronado was eventually cleared on all counts.
Vázquez de Coronado, according to some accounts, spent the remainder of his life in Mexico City. There, he served as a member of the city council. Vázquez de Coronado died on September 22, 1554. While he failed in his mission to discover the cities of gold, Vázquez de Coronado became one of the first European explorers to visit the American West. Remembrances of this accomplishment are noted widely; several cities and towns include Coronado in their name.
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Cholesterol is a fatty substance that your body uses in building cell membranes, nerve coverings, certain hormones, and vitamin D. It is found only in foods of animal origin, notably egg yolks and organ meats such as liver.
Although cholesterol has a bad reputation, it is necessary for good health. It's so important, in fact, that if you don't get any in your diet, your liver will manufacture it from other fats. (Most people manufacture many times more cholesterol each day than they eat. That's why high-fat foods that advertise "no cholesterol!" are misleading: it's the fat in your diet, not just the cholesterol, that raises your blood-cholesterol readings.)
Vital as it is to good health, cholesterol can be a killer. Eating too much over a period of years can deposit plaque on the inner walls of arteries and veins, shutting off blood flow and causing heart attacks or strokes. For this reason, many authorities recommend keeping your intake under 300 milligrams per day. (That's the amount in one and a half egg yolks, three ounces of beef liver, or eight tablespoons of butter.) In its September 2002 report on macronutrients, however, the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) pointed out that people need no cholesterol in their diet and "any incremental increase in cholesterol intake increases coronary heart-disease risk."
Your Daily Allowance
Diet Power sets your Personal Daily Allowance (PDA) of cholesterol at the often-cited limit of 300 milligrams, discussed above.
The FNB has not established a Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for cholesterol, but remember the Board's observation (above) that any increase in intake raises heart-disease risk.
Revising Your Allowance
Since people don't really need to consume any cholesterol (see above), you might want to reset your PDA to a lower figure with the Personal Daily Allowance Editor. Ask your doctor.
Color Coding of This Nutrient
The cholesterol bar in your personal Nutrient History is:
blue for "good"
if you've logged 100 percent or less of your PDA
red for "bad" if you've logged more than 100
percent of your PDA
missing if you've logged no cholesterol
In the nutrient profile of a food or recipe, the cholesterol bar is:
green for "good"
if getting your entire PDA of calories from this item would give you less
than 50 percent of your PDA of cholesterol
magenta for "bad" if getting all your calories
from the item would give you more than 150 percent of your PDA of cholesterol
blue for "neutral"
missing if the amount of cholesterol is either zero or (when the word Cholesterol is grayed out) unknown.
How Complete Are Diet Power's Cholesterol Readings?
For the 8500 generic items in the Food Dictionary: very complete. Only 0.5 percent list their cholesterol content as "unknown."
For the 2500 chain-restaurant items: very complete. Only 0.4 percent list cholesterol as "unknown."
For all 11,000 items combined: very complete. Only 0.5 percent list cholesterol as "unknown."
(The percentage of unknowns will be higher, of course, if most of the foods that you've added to the dictionary lack cholesterol figures.)
To see whether a particular food has a cholesterol reading, open the Food Dictionary and check the food's nutrient profile. If you find a question mark beside "Cholesterol," it means the amount is unknown. (To see all foods with unknown cholesterol readings, click the dictionary's PowerFoods tab and sort the foods by cholesterol power; then scroll toward the bottom of the list until you see foods with question marks in the "Power Rating" column.)
Cholesterol on Food Labels
Most food labels are required to cite cholesterol content, in both grams and percent of Daily Value. The Daily Value is 300 milligrams¾the same as your Personal Daily Allowance (unless you've revised yours).
For more on label regulations, see Labels, Food.
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And even with crypto, experts say a set-it-and-forget-it approach makes sense. “Passive investing is a very valid way to achieve financial goals,” says Arkansas-based certified financial planner Sarah Catherine Gutierrez. The conversation on regulatory policies is “patchy,” said an industry white paper published by Flourish, a fintech platform designed for investment advisors. With a relatively new asset class like cryptocurrency, any new regulation has potential to impact value.
The consensus algorithm that powers Bitcoin’s blockchain is called Proof of Work. Like Coinbase and FTX where you can buy, sell and store bitcoins. If you’re looking for a primer on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, you’re in the right place. We’ll take a look at the basics — what bitcoin is, where it comes from and how to buy it — as well as a range of other topics including valuation, legality and its practical applications. He is the coauthor of Uninvested , which explores how financial services companies take advantage of customers — and how you can protect yourself.
However, following the closure of a 10-month long price wedge, Bitcoin fell from as much as $6,700 to below $3,700 within the single month of November. Ether stays over $1,200; prior blockchain phones have failed because the market has realized their functionalities are already available via apps that can be loaded onto any old phone. Standards vary, but there seems to be a consensus forming around Bitcoin, capitalized, for the system, the software, and the network it runs on, and bitcoin, lowercase, for the currency itself. Bitcoin Core includes a scripting language inspired by Forth that can define transactions and specify parameters. ScriptPubKey is used to “lock” transactions based on a set of future conditions.
- In addition, international payments are easy and cheap because bitcoins are not tied to any country or subject to regulation.
- The signature also prevents the transaction from being altered by anybody once it has been issued.
- He is a CFA charterholder as well as holding FINRA Series 7, 55 & 63 licenses.
- In version 0.5 the client moved from the wxWidgets user interface toolkit to Qt, and the whole bundle was referred to as Bitcoin-Qt.
- Delays processing payments through the blockchain of about ten minutes make bitcoin use very difficult in a retail setting.
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Since then, network capacity has been improved incrementally both through block size increases and improved wallet behavior. A network alert system was included by Satoshi Nakamoto as a way of informing users of important news regarding bitcoin. It had become obsolete as news on bitcoin is now widely disseminated.
Bitcoin cash is a cryptocurrency created in August 2017, arising from a fork of Bitcoin. By design, the number of bitcoins minted per block is reduced by 50% after every 210,000 blocks, or about once every four years. One of the chief characteristics of Bitcoin is that its coin supply is limited. Volatility makes it hard to know the “what” and “why” behind your crypto strategy.
Bitcoin Btc Website Traffic
Prices began to rise, and demand slowly grew until 2017, when its price broke $1,000. Many people believed Bitcoin prices would keep climbing and began buying them to hold. Traders began using cryptocurrency exchanges to make short-term trades, and the market took off. Bitcoin block rewards are new bitcoins awarded to cryptocurrency miners for solving a complex math problem and creating a new block of verified transactions.
In 2014, the National Australia Bank closed accounts of businesses with ties to https://bestbitcoincasino.review/, and HSBC refused to serve a hedge fund with links to bitcoin. Australian banks in general have been reported as closing down bank accounts of operators of businesses involving the currency. A 2014 study of Google Trends data found correlations between bitcoin-related searches and ones related to computer programming and illegal activity, but not libertarianism or investment topics. China banned trading in bitcoin, with first steps taken in September 2017, and a complete ban that started on 1 February 2018. Bitcoin prices then fell from $9,052 to $6,914 on 5 February 2018. | <urn:uuid:0d39c857-4dcf-4847-8570-efe4e2541b40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://donateyourclothing.us/category/crypto-reviews-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952992 | 1,032 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Reuters has reported that Indonesia is increasing its efforts to eliminate the use of mercury in sectors such as mining, manufacturing and healthcare.
The government said in a statement that a presidential regulation issued late last month aimed to eradicate the use of mercury in small-scale gold mining by 2025 and in the health sector by 2020.
The government also aims to slash the use of mercury in manufacturing by half current levels by 2030 and cut mercury emissions in the energy sector by 33.2 per cent by the same time.
As part of this push, the Indonesian government plans for stronger coordination between government agencies to improve monitoring of mercury trade and mining supervision. It also wants to boost education for businesses and communities on the dangers of mercury.
The use of mercury in mining is already officially banned in Indonesia, but small-scale miners still widely use it to extract tiny pieces of gold.
There are at least 2,500 active small-scale gold mining operations in Indonesia, according to the country’s environment ministry.
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Whales Infected With Prion Disease
Are people transmitting prion disease to sea mammals or are sea mammals spreading prion disease to humans? Sick animals and sick people can tell us a lot about the health of our environment. A study in Denmark is raising red flags about the connection between sick people and sick animals. There could be a common thread between sick whales and sick humans. Keep reading to find out:
- Why people with neurodegenerative disease are contagious;
- How sea mammals are contracting brain disease from humans;
- Why consuming whales and other contaminated foods recycles brain disease back to humans. Other pathways also put humans at risk.
Whales have too much intellectual, social and navigational capacity to run aground en masse unless extremely sick and disoriented. There have been several high-profile stranding events around the world in the past few decade alone. An alarming number of whales are washing up on Alaska’s shores now. As mammals high on the food chain, their health is a good indicator of environmental health. We should be testing those that die much more rigorously for toxic buildup and disease. Whales are downstream from billions of people, so they are in a position to serve as unique bio-indicators regarding public health.
These beached whales and dolphins are the oceans’ version of canaries in coal mines. Their bodies are like giant sponges that can offer insight into the health of the ocean and the planet.
For example, sick and dead whales might be able to shed light on the Alzheimer’s disease epidemic that is exploding exponentially around the globe. Thanks to reckless sewage disposal practices around the world, unstoppable prions are being dumped in our watersheds and waterways on an industrial scale. If the prion pathogen associated with Alzheimer’s and many related neurodegenerative diseases is present in whales and dolphins, it’s further confirmation of the scope and spread of these killer proteins. Unfortunately, that critical test is not taking place on the whales and dolphins now. Therefore, people continue to serve as the canary in the coal mine.
As with humans and other mammals, whales and dolphins are vulnerable to prion disease. Prion disease has many names, including Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Parkinson’s disease. In livestock, it’s known as mad cow disease. In deer, it’s being called chronic wasting disease. They all are forms of what is called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). TSEs are deadly and unstoppable. The prion pathogen behind them and the diseases themselves are being mismanaged globally. Our oceans are the holding pond for those that runoff the land with water.
At least one dolphin has been found with prion disease, but testing is severely lacking. Since dietary factors are clearly linked to neurological disease, we can learn more about the health of whales by studying the people who eat them. In turn, the health of the whales can shed light on the health of our food and water supplies upstream. A pioneering researcher is conducting such research now to better understand human health, the health of our oceans and the connections between those factors.
Whale meat appears to be contributing to high rates of neurological disease in Nordic and Baltic nations. It also could be argued that high rates of neurological disease among humans is contributing to higher rates in the animal world.
Pioneering research found that Parkinson’s patients on the Faroe Islands have consumed about six times more whale meat and blubber than their neighbors who don’t have the disease. Maria Skaalum Petersen is working to shed light on the connection between sick seas, sick whales and sick people. Petersen is a researcher in the Department of Occupational and Public Health in the Faroe Islands health service. One of her projects has included a comparison of the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (part of the TSE spectrum) in the Nordic countries.
She found that Parkinson’s disease is twice as prevalent on the Faroe Islands as in Norway and other Nordic countries. Unlike other Nordic countries, a traditional diet on the Faroe Islands typically includes pilot whale meat.
Predators, including some whales, are high on the food chain. Predators that consume predators are consuming the toxic build-up from every animal ever consumed. Therefore, predators (and the people who consume them) often serve as an excellent indicator of the health of an entire ecosystem, including prion contamination.
When serving as bio-indicators, not all whales are created equal. The whale meat sold in Norway and Iceland is mostly from minke whales, a species that has a diet much lower in the food chain. This means that minke whales don’t accumulate as many contaminants or prions as pilot whales. This means that the risks associated with whale meat is slightly less for the people in Norway, but it still has a fairly high rate of neurological disease.
“The Faroe Islanders eat pilot whales, while Norwegians eat baleen whales. Pilot whales have teeth and primarily eat fish and squid, which puts them higher on the food chain,” Petersen says.
Baleen whales feed by filtering zooplankton and krill into their mouths as they swim. In essence, they are vegetarians. Eating lower on the food chain lowers their prion exposure, but it doesn’t make them immune to the prion problem.
This study indicates that there is prion accumulation in whales–some more than others. It indicates that prions are in our oceans and onward upstream. It indicates that prions are in our food and water supplies and reckless sewage management is contributing to the problem. It reminds us of the hazards associated with wastewater reuse, sewage sludge disposal and biosolids in our communities and watersheds.
What can we learn from the Faroe Islands and whale meat? Prions are building up in the environment and in mammals now. This is a battle of pathway management. Time to manage the contamination is running out. Sewage mismanagement, including agricultural and industrial waste, is contributing to the problem.
If whales could talk, they would tell us to get our sh*t together and put it in a much safer place. Presently, we are recycling infectious sewage sludge, biosolids and reclaimed water throughout our watersheds. We are contaminating our own food and water supplies.
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With pandemic cases surging, people are increasingly looking at a standard basic health cover rather than opting for Covid-specific health insurance.
“We notice that the demand for basic standard health cover product Arogya Sanjeevani is on the rise, especially from customers in rural areas,” S Prakash, Managing Director, Star Health & Allied Insurance told BusinessLine.
According to Prakash, who is also a medical doctor, Covid-19 needs health insurance cover ‘without any compromise’ and Covid-specific covers are not entirely helpful as they come with many ifs and buts.
“What happens if there are clinical symptoms while a Covid diagnostic test is negative? A comprehensive health cover is needed even if a person has no Covid after being suspected,” he explains. Precisely, this is the reason why a standard health cover is being seen as more useful by the people, he said. “As a medical doctor I personally feel this is advisable,” Prakash added.
While the urban middle class is generally more conscious of the need for a health cover, it is interesting to see more demand for tier-2 and rural areas for the standard basic health cover policy Arogya Sanjeevani.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has mandated all insurers to offer Arogya Sanjeevani which will cover the basic healthcare costs such as hospitalisation, including for Covid-19, day-care treatment, pre- and post-hospitalisation expenses, and offers tax benefits.
The main objective of the regulator in introducing the product in April 2020 is to ensure standardisation, where the same policy terms are to be offered by all insurers.
Under Arogya Sanjeevani, the maximum sum insured is ₹5 lakh and the minimum ₹1 lakh. With the policy being the same with every insurer, it is easier for a policyholder to choose the insurer based on the premium, services offered and network hospitals.
Though the product got clouded due to the out-break of Covid after its launch and covid-specific cover of `Corona Kavach’ now, it is now picking up, said Sanjay Datta, Head- Underwriting and Claims, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company. “All those who had realised the need for health cover due to the pandemic impact are now staying invested in health cover policies,” he said, adding that this is also applicable to other health cover products apart from Arogya Sanjeevani.
Sapna Desai, Head of Marketing & Digital Sales, ManipalCigna Health Insurance said the impact of Covid has certainly been instrumental in driving awareness about the significance of purchasing a comprehensive health insurance policy, to cater to the problem of ever-increasing medical inflation.
In the meanwhile, the insurance regulator is considering extending the validity of Covid-19-specific cover policies — Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak — beyond the current fiscal.
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Have you ever had a fantastic idea you’d like to put into action, but it never really kicks off the ground? Generating a great idea is the first part of the process, but organizing your thoughts around making it a reality is just as important. This is where SMART goal-setting becomes an invaluable tool.
SMART is an acronym to help us easily remember the planning process for transforming a vague idea into actionable steps. This method should be used for both long-term and short-term goals. Using the SMART goal planning process ensures that the goal makes sense for the business, that everyone is on the same page, and the goal will be measured and completed on time. Here’s what the SMART acronym stands for: Here’s what the SMART acronym stands for:
What is Specific about the goal?
The first thing you’ll want to do is write down all the thoughts floating around inside your head. It doesn’t matter how rudimentary or lofty your idea is at first. Once you have your idea on paper, you can begin thinking about the details and logistics for how it will work. The purpose of this exercise is to turn your idea into a specific goal. A specific goal should cover the what, why and how. It needs to clearly outline what it is that you wish to accomplish, why accomplishing it is important and how you expect to accomplish it.
For example, Increasing your followers on social media is a great goal to have, but it isn’t very specific. Growing your brand awareness by increasing your Instagram following to 2000 people with a contest is much more specific.
- It clearly says what your goal is–increase your Instagram following to 2000 people.
- It tells you why–to increase brand awareness.
- It tells you how–using a contest to grab your audience’s attention.
Creating a specific goal right out of the gate can be a difficult task, so if you need to, revisit it after you get it down on paper.
Is the goal Measurable?
In order to know if you’ve accomplished your goal, you’re going to need to figure out a way to track your progress. A well-constructed plan will include targets, to indicate you’ve accomplished your goal or not, and milestones so you can track whether you’re heading in the right direction along the way. If it’s a short-term goal, then your metrics should at least tell you when you’ve accomplished your goal.
Digital marketing analytics software can aggregate and report on a wide array of metrics, many of which are fun to know, but without context don’t tell you much about how to move forward. We call these “so what?” metrics. Make sure your metrics actually measure the progress of your goal, have context and can help you make decisions about what to do next.
Revisiting our example above, let’s say you already have the biggest Instagram following in your industry. An ongoing measurable goal for increasing brand awareness could increase your following by 5% every quarter. Check in at the beginning of every month to see if you’re on track to hitting your goal.
Is the goal Achievable?
Goals are great, but they don’t mean anything if they aren’t realistic. Unrealistic goals set us up to fall short and often left with no indication of where to go next.
If your marketing team is bringing in 25 leads every month from social media channels, increasing your goal to 500 leads would be a stretch. When goals are unrealistic, people don’t see the point in working toward them. This happens to individuals too. At first, you’re excited about taking on the new challenge, but then you realize how much work is ahead of you and it becomes overwhelming and you throw in the towel.
This is one of the reasons why achievable goals should also be part of a bigger plan. Break your overarching goal down into small, manageable action steps. When creating an attainable goal, consider the time and resources available to you within your timeline.
Is the goal Relevant to our/my expectations?
At a high level, your goals should align with your organization and department’s mission. For instance, investing in a twitter campaign to spread the word that a new retirement community opened up might not be the best way to reach your target audience. While it’s great that you’re trying to leverage more social media channels in your marketing mix, it’s not relevant to the audience you’re trying to reach. The relevancy of your goal to the business will impact the likelihood that it’ll be achieved. If this goal is geared toward the sales or engineering team, then hand it off to them. In the end, a relevant goal should make sense for either your customers and/or the business.
Is the goal Time-bound? How often will we check in to see how things are going? When will this goal be accomplished?
Marketing goals are just ideas until they have a deadline. Goals shouldn’t be indefinite and open-ended. It’s best to set an end date/time for your goals and schedule milestones along the way to check in with the team and progress of the project. Consider how much time you and your team can realistically dedicate to your marketing goal. Creating a realistic timeline to complete a goal does a number of things:
- Creates urgency and motivation to complete the project.
- Makes you consciously consider how much time working toward this goal will take out of your week.
- Timeline milestones allow you to check-in and decide if you should continue pursuing your goal, or stop and pivot or optimize your efforts.
- Milestones allow you to know if you’re on track to accomplishing your goal on time.
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Public Heath Wales announced on Sunday that 10 more people have died in Wales after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to 48.
It also said that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales has increased to 1,241 - a rise of 148 .
Across the UK, 19,522 more cases have been confirmed and 1,228 Covid-19 patients have died.
As of 9am on 29 March 2020, a total of 127,737 people have been tested, of which 108,215 were confirmed negative and 19,522 were confirmed positive.
However, the overall number of those with the virus is expected to be much higher as only a small proportion of people are currently being tested.
On Friday, Boris Johnson warned every household that he could impose even stricter lockdown measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak as it inevitably worsens.
The Prime Minister - who was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Friday - said he will write to every household in the UK with new guidance urging them to stay at home.
In the letter, he will outline the guidance everyone should follow and the measures the government has put in place to fight coronavirus and to support businesses and workers.
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20,000 former NHS staff returning to the front line
Boris Johnson has said 20,000 former NHS staff have returned to the service to help in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak, in a video as he self-isolates with the disease.
“Thank you to everybody who’s now coming back into the NHS in such huge numbers,” the Prime Minister said.
“Just this evening I can tell you we have 20,000 NHS staff coming back to the colours.
“It’s a most amazing thing. And that’s in addition to the 750,000 members of the public who have volunteered to help us get through this crisis.”
Life might not return to normal for six months
The government’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said the Government would review lockdown measures in three weeks time.
She said people had taken “quite some time to get used to this new way of living”, but there was evidence the country was getting better at social distancing.
She added: “The issue of the three weeks is for us to review where we are and see if we’ve had an impact jointly on the slope of that curve.
“But I think to make it clear to the public if we are successful we will have squashed the top of that curve, which is brilliant, but we must not then suddenly revert to our normal way of living that would be quite dangerous.
“If we stop then all of our efforts will be wasted and we could potentially see a second peak.
“So over time, probably over the next six months, we will have a three-week review.”
When asked whether the country would be on lockdown for the next six months, Dr Harries said: “We actually anticipate our numbers will get worse over the next week, possibly two, and then we are looking to see whether we have managed to push that curve down and we start to see a decline.”
She added: “This is not to say we would be in complete lockdown for six months, but as a nation we have to be really, really responsible and keep doing what we’re all doing until we’re sure we can gradually start lifting various interventions which are likely to be spaced - based on the science and our data - until we gradually come back to a normal way of living.”
Hospital consultant dies after contracting Covid-19 while helping patients
A consultant who was working on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting Covid-19.
Amged El-Hawrani, an associate clinical director and ear, nose and throat consultant at Burton’s Queen’s Hospital, died on Saturday, March 28, at Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester.
Gavin Boyle, the chief executive of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, has paid tribute to Mr El-Hawrani.
First death of NHS consultant 'clearly a worrying event'
Ms Harries has paid tribute to the first NHS consultant to die from Covid-19.
Amged El-Hawrani tested positive for the virus and as died at Leicester Royal Infirmary on Saturday evening, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have said.
Ms Harries said Mr El-Hawrani’s death was “clearly a worrying event,” and said it was in “no-one’s interest to lose someone from the frontline”.
She said: “It will affect all of us. We shouldn’t take that as any signal specifically for the NHS.”
Social distancing could last for six months
It could take three months to see if we have squashed the curve of the virus, Mr Harries said.
We must not suddenly revert to normal way of living, the medical officer added, as “that would be quite dangerous” and could lead to a second peak of the virus.
She says we would need to gradually adjust the social distancing rules, which could take up to six months.
Is there a time lag for the number of deaths being reported?
There is always a time lag to check data of the latest number of deaths is linked and up to date, Ms Harries says.
It’s a way to ensure all the families of those who need to know are informed along with the relevant authorities.
What's the current forecast?
A question has been asked about the prediction that we can turn the tide of the virus in 12 weeks.
Mr Jenrick replied: “No-one is pretending this will be over in a few weeks.
“If we all play our part, if we all follow very clear medical advice we can turn the tide of this virus.
“Stay at home, by doing so protect the NHS and then save lives. if you follow that advice we can turn the tide.”
Ms Harries added if we practice social distancing we can move the peak of the virus.
She suggests in 12 weeks we can get on “top of the virus” and the proof of that will come in three weeks time by studying the number of deaths.
She said: “We need to wait until two to three weeks to see what we have achieved.”
First 50,000 emergency packages sent out to those shielding
The first 50,000 care packages are being sent out to those at-risk who have been asked to shield at home.
It’s for those who feel they have no family or friends nearby able to support them.
The packages contain things like cereal, toilet roll, tinned goods and biscuits.
PPE equipment sent to every GP practice
42.8million gloves, 182,000 gowns, almost 10 million items of cleaning equipment, and 2.3million pairs of eye protectors are being sent to 58,000 NHS trusts and healthcare settings, Mr Jenrick said.
Every GP practice, dental surgery and care home should have received or will receive PPE equipment in the coming days.
Strategic co-ordination centres set up
Mr Jenrick says he has put in place procedures to ensure everywhere is ready to “move forward together”
He said: “All parts of country are on emergency footing. This is an in unprecedented step in peace time.”
Strategic coordination centres are now being led by gold commanders - senior levels of emergency service staff and members of the armed forces.
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Inside the new 4000-bed coronavirus hospital being built at London's ExCel Centre
New pictures have shown the scale of work going on to transform London’s ExCel Centre into a temporary coronavirus hospital.
Progress is well underway after the miliatary were drafted in to turn the 70,000 capacity convention centre into a 4,000 bed hospital named ‘Nightingale Hospital London’.
The huge space will be transformed into two wards, each able to treat 2000 patients.
At first 500 beds with ventilators and oxygen will be used to treat the seriously ill.
The work is being carried out by NHS staff along with engineers from the British Army.
209 more people have died across the UK
Across the UK 209 more people have died from coronavirus, bringing the total of 1,228.
This is the second biggest day-on-day rise in the number of deaths since the outbreak began.
It means the total number of deaths is 21% higher than the equivalent figure yesterday. The day-on-day percentage increase yesterday was 34%.
The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK now stands at 19,522, as of 9am March 29.
South Wales Police has told off Aberavon MP
South Wales Police has told off Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock for celebrating his former Labour leader dad Neil Kinnock’s birthday as “non-essential” travel in the coronavirus crisis.
Mr Kinnock posted a picture of himself with his parents two metres apart as they marked the occasion with his wife, former Prime Minister of Denmark Helen Thorning-Schmidt.
But officers from the police force rounded on him for the decision to go to see his family to celebrate.
Ten more people have died in Wales
Ten more people have died in Wales after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to 48.
Public Health Wales has also announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales has increased to 1,241 - a rise of 148.
Across the UK, 19,522 more cases have been confirmed and 1,228 Covid-19 patients have died.
Ten more people have died in Wales
10 more coronavirus patients have died in Wales, Public Health Wales have said, bringing the new total to 48.
A further 148 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1241, although the true number of cases is likely to be higher.
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NHS workers at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff will receive free food and drink as part of a new volunteer-led initiative.
The project is led by Kasim Ali, founder of Cardiff’s Waterloo Tea café, and will start on Monday, March 30 at University Hospital Wales.
Based at the Heath Sports and Social Club, the aim is to provide somewhere close to the hospital where NHS workers can get some respite and a healthy, nutritious meal while on-site cafés close down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
30,000 new deaths around the globe
Worldwide coronavirus infections have surpassed the 660,000 mark, with more than 30,000 deaths as new cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
What we import, how much we grow and what might we run short of
The continuing pictures of empty shelves and queuing shoppers at supermarkets have sparked ongoing worries about food shortages.
However, the supermarkets, retail organisations and Welsh Government are confident they can cope, and the supply chain is being constantly monitored to make sure we have enough.
Angry Welsh locals confront tourist from Sheffield and block his car until police arrive
This is the moment a pair of Welsh men confronted a tourist from Sheffield visiting Snowdonia in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown.
Police were called to the incident on a narrow lane near Bala after locals spotted a Range Rover and trailer in the area and blocked them in.
Video footage shows a man approach the tourist in the car and say: “Your friends [the police] have just arrived.
“Stupid. What the hell are you doing here anyway? Haven’t you got a television or radio?”
You can get the full story here.
The heavy security at Wales' supermarkets as major retailers clamp down
People across Wales were seen heading out on Saturday to get the essentials they need as they prepare for another week of social distancing and self-isolation.
With the country on lockdown since Monday night, people are being urged to only leave their homes if it’s absolutely necessary.
While last weekend saw huge queues forming outside supermarkets up and down the country, on Saturday things across Wales were more orderly, thanks to measures implemented by major retailers.
You can see all the pictures from supermarkets across Wales here.
Police set up road block to turn away visitors to Pen y Fan
People have been turned away from Welsh beauty spots on Saturday as police officers across the country clamp down on travel and public gatherings.
On Saturday morning, Dyfed-Powys Police officers were stationed at Storey Arms in the Brecon Beacons to check whether journeys being made were essential. They even stopped a person from Bristol trying to climb Pen y Fan, telling them to go home immediately.
A spokesperson for the force said: “Travelling to our area from Cardiff, Bristol and Stroud to name some examples from today are not acceptable.
“We have to prevent a repeat of last weekend.”
In Cardiff, police were pictured breaking up a football match at Roath Recreational Ground.
A group of men were seen playing a casual game as other residents enjoyed the fresh air.
You can read the full story here.
'Smart test' for coronavirus to be used in Wales
Health Minister Vauhan Gething has plans to introduce a smart test to identify if people have had coronavirus in Wales.
The new antibody blood test, which will be tested in the UK next week, will show if people have recently had the virus and potentially if they have immunity.
The current antigen test can only tell if someone has the virus and is only used if someone has symptoms of coronavirus or is living with someone who has those symptoms.
Now the new test, initially to be used for frontline healthcare workers and the most vulnerable, will be expanded to other critical workers such as police, fire service and social care workers.
The antibody test will also be used in places where there have been clusters of the virus (like hospitals or prisons) to improve understanding of how it spreads.
From next week, there will be capacity for 1,100 tests a day in Wales. By mid-April, up to 5,000 antigen tests a day will be provided to people admitted to hospitals with suspected coronavirus, frontline NHS staff and people who are classed as extremely vulnerable.
And a further 4,000 tests a day will be available to roll out antigen testing throughout Wales as part of a four-nation deal for the UK involving Thermo Fisher Scientific, Amazon, Boots, Royal Mail and Randox, which was announced by the UK Government yesterday.
PPE testing made priority
Testers of personal protective equipment (PPE) have been told to put the products at the “front of the queue” to ensure medics have more supplies, the Business Secretary said.
He said the Office for Product Safety and Standards has written to testing experts at notified bodies.
“We’ve asked them to prioritise testing of any new PPE supply as a matter of priority,” he said.
20,000 corona-related deaths in the UK would be 'good result'
If the number of coronavirus-related deaths is less than 20,000 in the UK that would be a “good result”, NHS England’s medical director has said.
But he said that would only happen if people adhere to social distancing guidelines and follow government advice.
He said: “”If we can keep deaths below 20,000 we will have done very well in this epidemic.”
“It is early at the moment and the scientists who are working with the government to model what we can expect are of course adjusting their predictions now as we start to see the actuality of the epidemic in the UK, rather than what we believed might have happened a few weeks ago.”
PM still has mild symptoms
The PM has had mild symptoms but is still leading the government “from the front”, Mr Sharma has said.
“There are no gaps in government,” he added.
He said the government was working hard to make sure those still abroad are able to get home to the UK.
Can we turn the tide with coronavirus in less than 12 weeks?
Mr Sharma said the government are still being guided by medical advice about this.
Employers need to keep staff who are not able to work from home safe
It is incumbent on employers to follow health and safety guidelines and keep staff safe, Mr Sharma has said.
He said if they aren’t doing this, regulatory organisations should be told.
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For all the modern technology and equipment used by law enforcement, a police horse remains an invaluable crowd control resource.
For centuries, the police horse has presented unruly mobs with an ominous physical presence that demands respect and helps deescalate rising tensions. The reality of a mounted officer or police horse unit is that a crowd cannot move or negotiate with an animal weighing more than one ton.
Law enforcement officials generally view a horse’s presence in potential riot scenes as worth 10 two-legged officers. And mounted police officers do more than put disorderly crowds on notice. They respond to traffic incidents, crimes in progress, and reach places where patrol cars typically cannot. It goes without saying that a police horse isn’t just a one-trick pony.
From The French Maréchaussée that formed during the 18th Century to the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police to today’s frontline crowd control horses, police departments ask a seemingly unnatural effort from horses. A relatively docile animal is being asked to stand in front of loud, raucous humans and then move toward them as the situation worsens. The health and safety of miscreants, officers, and majestic steeds become tenuous in escalating environments. That’s why it’s crucial to employ techniques to keep the horse safe.
What Types of Horses Used in Crowd Control Units?
Equestrian units typically select from breeds with attributes favorable to mounted policing. The underlying traits often involve the right temperament and body type to both assert a massive physical presence and remain under the mounted officer’s command when situations grow volatile. These rank among the common breeds selected for frontline duty.
- Percheron: This French breed is recognized for its powerful musculature and determined work ethic. Historically used as a workhorse, a Percheron mount weighs upwards of 2,100 pounds. Although considered a gentle type of horse, it delivers an intimidation factor that backs down unruly people.
- Belgium: The shorter, stouter Belgian Draft Horse ranks among the fastest learners. Its thick musculature allows them to handle heavy lifting and present like an immovable object.
- Quarter: This American breed ranks among the more versatile animals and acclimates to new situations and tasks well. The American Quarter Horse follows commands easily and remains a go-to breed for training purposes.
- Thoroughbred: The thoroughbred horse is one of the most brilliant and versatile bred horses in the world today. This is mostly due to their speed and weight they are able to carry over long distances.
These rank among the varieties that have traditionally performed well. Police departments would be well-served to work with an expert to select mounts that can follow directions in escalating situations. But just like the frontline officers protecting themselves with riot gear, equipment, and rapid-response training, horse safety must also be addressed.
How Officers Keep Them Calm Under Intense Conditions
When asking a horse to work police patrol, the first order of business is to outfit the steed with protective gear. Items such as clear-plastic eye protection serve to deter objects thrown by unruly mobs from impacting the horse’s eyes. A mouth guard and lower-leg protections are also usually employed. In many ways, leg protections and eye guards mirror the lightweight shin protectors and face shields used in leading riot suits. But beyond providing the police horse with similar protective equipment, officers must possess the skills necessary to calm a startled horse. The following techniques can reduce stress and prevent the horse from reacting poorly under duress.
- Remain Calm: When a horse bonds with a police officer, confidence develops. The police horse tends to base its behavior on the signals generated by the officer. A steady hand at the reins speaks volumes.
- Reassurance: Escalating situations lead to heightened emotions among rioters, police officers, and horses alike. As the tension rises, pet the horse to provide a sense of reassurance. If the mount believes everything is under control, it is more likely to remain calm.
- Lateral Flexion: As a mounted unit is tasked with moving forward to disburse and the unruly mob. Gently pulling the rein to one side helps prevent the horse from becoming spooked. It generally distracts from the chaos ahead.
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With the fast changing socio-economic development there are great changes in the habits, attitudes and behavior of people in the social space.
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The Federal Government has thrown its entire weight into preventing a Depression through a program of dedicated spending. The original bailout/stimulus of $700 billion is being matched by a project budget deficit of $1,100 billion for 2009, plus whatever President Obama proposes and untold amounts of money loaned by the Federal Reserve. All together, the total debt of $11 trillion is already similar to the size of our total economy, but we have been told that the additional borrowing is necessary to keep the economy running.
One question is rarely asked: What happens if it doesn’t work?
There is a fundamental assumption in all this activity that “priming the pump” is what governments do best in a downturn. If money is short, national governments can spend like crazy to get things going again. This is called a “Keynsian Stimulus” after the man who first proposed it, John Maynard Keynes. It’s what got us out of the Great Depression and softened the impact of many smaller recessions since. It’s proven to be more than handy for propping things up.
There’s one huge problem with it, however. We’ve been pushing money into the economy, both as a federal government and as private borrowers, for years and we still got into trouble. Try this graph:
The blue line shows inflation-adjusted changes in our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We had a little bit of a downturn in 2000, but appear to have bounced back. The purple line shows what happens if you take out the part of our economy that was financed by our government’s deficit spending – the Keynsian stimulus we’ve been running since 2001. We’ve already been goosing the economy, even before we ran into trouble. Things look much worse in the red line, which is the same data after you remove the cash-out of home equity that was as much as 3.4% of our economy but has now evaporated. Clearly, there was a lot of cash in the form of Treasury Bonds and home values that moved from being an investment to being something we consumed.
For all this newfound wealth, we still wound up in a crisis. Indeed, if you look at the typical effects of a recession, which include restructuring and re-allocating money to more productive sectors, you would expect that we would have emerged from the recession of 2000-2001 stronger than ever; that’s the typical reaction. But we didn’t. We papered over the effects of the downturn with a massive injection of cash and became weaker.
How much weaker did we become? In a report from the Dallas Fed, we can see that while consumption ran about 62% of the economy from 1980 to 1996, that number crept up to 65% by 1999 and then rocketed to 70% by 2003. Consumption edged out other economic activities such as investment to become a significantly larger part of what this economy is about.
Is it entirely possible that a Keynsian stimulus, like the one that is costing us upwards of 20% of our entire GDP, won’t work? It certainly is. We have had a stimulus of about a third that for the last 8 years and it succeeded only in making things worse over the long haul. The need is not for simply more cash, but for a fundamental restructuring that directs the stimulus in the right directions. Consumption is a big part of the problem, but the financial institutions that are “too big to fail” need very much to change how they do business – or fail.
That may sound very harsh, and I certainly intend it to be. There is a fundamental assumption to the way we do things in the USofA, and it is almost certainly wrong. It’s wrong because we’ve been over-using the levers that are supposed to save our asses when things do get bad. That means we have to change, which is to say confront the Five Crises directly. Spending a lot of money we don’t have may well be a part of the equation, but only with the kind of painful restructuring that should have taken place as long as 8 years ago.
Let’s get started. Why do people think that a lot of money borrowed against the future will produce a reasonable return if invested in this economy? Forget all the assumptions; we’ve burned through those. What’s the return going to be if we invest in the USofA and the good people who reside in it? | <urn:uuid:15c42a2a-ced2-4952-b788-9fcabf9e389c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://erikhare.com/2009/01/16/keynes-to-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.971108 | 937 | 2.875 | 3 |
This book presents several original theories for risk, including Theory of Risk Monitoring, and Theory of Risk Acceptance, in addition to several analytical models for computing relative and absolute risk. The book discusses risk limit, states of risk, and the emerging concept of risk monitoring. The interrelationships between risk and resilience are also highlighted in an objective manner. The book includes several practical case studies showing how risk management and its components can be used to enhance performance of infrastructures at reasonable costs.
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Risk Management Overview. Risk Assessment. Risk Treatment. Risk Monitoring. Risk Communication. Miscellaneous Case Studies.
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Death row jubilee: Sister Prejean joins event for pilgrimage workers
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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Professional pilgrimage planners and those who regularly receive or accompany pilgrims set off on their own Year of Mercy pilgrimage in late January.
Most had experience working with pilgrims to Lourdes, Fatima, the Vatican and World Youth Days. But one had a unique experience: St. Joseph Sister Helen Prejean says she is a constant pilgrim to the “holy land” of the human dignity and pain of society’s most despised members.
The author of “Dead Man Walking” and a campaigner against the death penalty had a special experience Jan. 21 during the Vatican’s Year of Mercy “Jubilee for Those Engaged in Pilgrimage Work.” She was invited to Pope Francis’ early morning Mass and had a chance to speak to him briefly afterward.
“Yesterday?” the pope asked Sister Prejean. She had to tell him that Jan. 20 Texas carried out the execution of Richard Masterson, convicted of murder. “I pray, I pray,” the pope responded, she said.
Sister Prejean was not in Rome to meet the pope; that happened thanks to the intervention of a priest friend who knew she was taking part in the jubilee. And while she does not consider herself a pilgrimage worker, as she attended the three days of conferences, catechesis and prayer services, the connections and relevance to her own ministry became clear.
For example, Msgr. John Armitage, rector of England’s Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham, spoke about the crucial importance of giving each and every pilgrim and visitor to a shrine a proper welcome.
“You’ve driven four hours to come here and you deserve at least a smile and ‘I’m glad you’re here,’ not ‘I’ve no time’ or ‘The shrine closes in 10 minutes,'” Msgr. Armitage said. Pope Francis’ focused on the same obligation of welcome when he addressed the group Jan. 21.
Speaking to Catholic News Service, Sister Prejean said, “Smile — it’s such a cliche,” but it is simply, shockingly important. On death row, she said, just having a visitor is a signal that says “you are a human being because they get a thousand signals a day that they are nothing but disposable human waste.”
“Here’s what I realized about pilgrimage: First of all, you leave your little comfortable zone to go out on the road toward a place of holiness. That has been to death row. It is pilgrimage. It is setting out. And it has brought me into this land, this very holy place of the dignity and the goodness of people who are so despised and condemned.”
Sister Prejean is not naive. Many of the people she has ministered to and accompanied to the electric chair or the chamber where they are given a lethal injection “have done unspeakable crimes and are guilty,” she said. But they are human beings created by God.
“People often say their big ambition is to go to the Holy Land, but I feel like I have been and I keep going to the holy land where people are suffering,” she said.
Msgr. Armitage, in his formal presentation to the English-speaking participants Jan. 20, said another thing that resonated with Sister Prejean and many of the others, especially those who accompany pilgrims and volunteers to the baths at Lourdes, France.
“A pilgrimage is not just about where you pray, but it’s about what you do,” he said. “That’s what makes the journey so powerful. When you wake young people up at 5:30 in the morning to bathe and toilet patients, that’s powerful.”
A pilgrimage, like the entire Year of Mercy celebration Pope Francis has called for, is about “prayer, penance and doing something,” he said.
Sister Prejean said that although visiting prisoners is one of the traditional corporal works of mercy, it’s something most Christians are afraid to do.
“It’s about fear and being told we must hate someone,” she said. “Where there is no physical contact, where you can’t look in someone’s eyes, where you never see them and all you hear is, ‘These are the worst of the worst. Look at the crime they did,’ it becomes this shield, this barrier to being able to see, to hear their cry and to have compassion.”
Mercy does not mean wiping your heart of “legitimate outrage over the death of innocent people,” Sister Prejean said. “But then we have to go from that outrage to how should we respond in the manner of Christ? That’s a harder journey to make.”
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The earliest known record of the phrase “patience is a virtue” is found in “Piers Plowman,” a narrative poem believed to have been written by William Langland between 1360 and 1387. The Sarasota Bradenton International Airport is arguably the fastest growing airport in the world. . While this has been a tremendous development for the community and the airport, it brings significant challenges that cannot be resolved overnight; hence the reference to this famous expression.
To illustrate the growth in the pre-pandemic calendar year 2019, the airport had 1,828,170 total seats inside and outside the airport. At that time, SRQ was the fastest growing airport in the United States with a growth rate of 43% that year. During the year 2021, the airport has 4,610,353 seats already stolen or sold in airline reservation computer systems, an increase of 152% compared to the figures before the pandemic. In June, the airport set an all-time high monthly record with more than 312,000 passengers.
We are well positioned to meet this challenge. Our finances are good and many infrastructure renovations are being done. The airport took proactive steps in early 2021, such as tripling the fuel capacity of our airlines, expanding parking lots, building additional security checkpoints and adding staff to manage growth. Since the airport was poorly served, with vacant gates and counters, the impacts to the passenger so far have been minimal.
That’s not to say that there aren’t days when equipment breakdowns or staffing issues don’t arise or affect service delivery. The aforementioned measures have helped, but more needs to be done to maintain the level of passenger service our users have come to expect.
Airport authority, security screening service provider, concierge service company, food and beverage stores, retail stores, and airline ground handling companies are all looking for more staff to meet demand. If you are looking for a job in a dynamic and growing industry, I encourage you to look at the airport. Due to these staffing requirements, queues for security, baggage delivery or catering services may be a little longer than normal. I encourage passengers to get to the airport at least 90 minutes before their flight to ensure that you can complete the check-in and screening process if you are experiencing a peak time at the airport.
Other parking lots should be online by November. Additional parking beyond the recent expansion is needed as there are days when our long term lot fills up and people have to use our shade or short term lots. We are working with the Transportation Security Administration to add additional baggage screening machines and staff in time for the winter season.
The Airport Authority has added more baggage staff to move baggage to auxiliary machines whenever needed. A major baggage screening replacement project is under development and hopefully can be implemented by 2023.
The terminal expansion is in the initial design stage and we are working on setting up a financing and construction program which could be completed within two years and which will add 5 to 8 doors, with additional space. ticket office and baggage claim. A new consolidated rental car maintenance and storage facility is also being designed and is expected to begin construction within 12 months. A new ground transportation facility is being designed and construction will begin soon.
We ask our users for patience during this extension. These projects are expected to cause inconvenience and disruption at times over the next two years. We hope that when completed, the improvements will not only meet increased demand, but also manage some future growth.
Air travel has often been considered a chore due to safety requirements, restricted seating on planes, and recently pandemic regulations such as masks and quarantine requirements depending on your destination. Our airport has always enjoyed a reputation for a more convenient and easy-going experience. This unprecedented growth will challenge us all, and we are working hard to meet this challenge.
In the meantime, I hope that our residents and users will understand and remember that âpatience is a virtueâ.
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In pandemic times: what can we learn from some of the worst health crises in Bulgaria's history?
The history video portal MyCentury has produced three new educational films with rare archive footage about past health crises in Bulgaria.
Did you know that Bulgaria had a very successful vaccination campaign against TB in the 1950s? Have you heard that over 2 million Bulgarians were tested for HIV in the late 1980s? Did you know that only two EU countries produce the BCG vaccine and one of them is Bulgaria?
The films were shown for the first time on 20th September 2021 at the Bulgarian News Agency, BTA. Taking part in this special press conference were Dr Tonka Varleva, who represented Bulgaria in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the deputy editor of the “Prosveta” publishing house, Georgi Sharabov, and the journalist Velislav Radev, one of the authors of the three films and the founder of MyCentury.
There was live-streaming on Facebook for those who could not attend in person, and you can still see that on this Link
The films ask if there are lessons to be learnt today, in Covid times, from how the authorities dealt with three health crises in Bulgaria’s past.
The films were made as part of the project “E-lessons from history for a post-COVID-19 Bulgaria”, with the support of the Financial Mechanism of the EEA. They can be seen on the platforms: MyCentury.tv, Prosveta Publishing House and others. See some extracts of the films here.
With these three six-minute long films, MyCentury says it would like to open debate about the issues of public health in Bulgaria, so that ultimately these subjects find their place in the school curriculum, according to the films’ producers, journalists Velislav Radev and Janet Barrie.
The unique archive footage in these films from past vaccination campaigns, which has been preserved in the vaults of Bulgaria’s National Film Archive, leads to some interesting comparisons, which could be useful now when dealing with the pandemic, and in building confidence in expert opinions, especially among young people.
The films look at three subjects: vaccination against tuberculosis in the 1950s; the arrival of HIV in Bulgaria in the 1980s and the early campaigns against the virus; and the role of health mediators in handling health crises among marginalised groups like the Roma. They were filmed in the Montana district of Kosharnik, and in Sofia, including in laboratories “clean zones”, and hospital wards with restricted access. There are pictures of the production of the BCG vaccine today, which Bulgaria currently exports to 140 countries.
Can we compare today’s COVID times and the vaccination campaigns of the 1950s, as shown in the films? “The measures and campaigns at the time achieved their aims and targets. However, the question remains how a society with virtually no civil rights succeeds in this. Today we ought to balance civil rights with the need to put society’s interests first”, explains Velislav Radev. “The successful results of the past are still possible today, but they would require a large, coordinated campaign with clear messages. And this seems to be what people admit is lacking today: humane and convincing messages”.
The films are mainly aimed at schoolchildren and students, but the authors hope to attract a wider audience as well: “we can always learn from the past and this would help us find solutions for the present”.
The online portal MyCentury, produced by Velislav Radev and Janet Barrie has already been active for 10 years. Their aim is to present history through eyewitness video testimony. Some of their short videos appear in the new digital schoolbooks for history and civic education issued by Bulgaria’s largest educational publisher Prosveta. These include testimony from the niece of Dimitar Peshev about the fate of her uncle and the decisions made to save Bulgaria’s Jewish population; the memories of the conductor Alipi Naydenov about crossing the “Iron Curtain” with a youth orchestra; personal tales of Pomak and ethnic Turks about the so called “revival process” of the communist authorities, and many others. At them moment Velislav and Janet are looking at researching and recording the stories of East Germans who tried to cross Bulgaria’s borders with Turkey and Greece to freedom, mostly with tragic consequences. They are looking for funding for this project, as most of the documents on these cases are kept in the Stasi Records Archives in Germany.
Iva Toncheva, journalist and communication expert, participated in the preparation of the project and the promotion of the films. Part of the MyCentury team.
MyCentury is also looking for funding to grow the platform with dozens more new video-testimonies, a unique “living archive” of the nation, and a precious educational resource.
Journalist with a long-standing career at the BBC World Service. He has worked for the Bulgarian Service of the BBC, the Moscow Bureau of BBC News, he was Deputy Editor of the Russian Service of the BBC. In 2017 he registered the Society MyCentury and is currently working towards its portal’s use as an educational tool for teaching history in Bulgarian schools.
Journalist and communications expert. She has worked for many years for the BBC as a radio and TV journalist, Berlin and Brussels correspondent, she has reported for the BBC from about 30 countries. Over the last few years she has manly dealt in communications, media relations and training. Part of the MyCentury team.
The project “E-lessons from history for a post-COVID-19 Bulgaria” was made possible with the financial support of €10,000, granted by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway via the Financial Mechanism of the EEA. The responsibility for the content of the films lies solely with MyCentury and in no way does it reflect the official opinion of the EEA or of the Operator of the Fund Active Citizens Bulgaria. The main aim of the project “E-lessons from history for a post-COVID-19 Bulgaria” is to influence civic initiatives in dealing with epidemic and other medical emergencies. | <urn:uuid:2dc599bb-c081-4253-925c-5fb520283204> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mycentury.tv/en/pandemic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.962951 | 1,334 | 2.25 | 2 |
Polymer nanocomposites are materials with very interesting properties and applications, and their development has increased significantly during the last years. The most important nanoparticles for nanocomposite applications are nanoclays, which may improve many properties of polymers, according to their degree of dispersion within the matrix. Among the polymers used as matrices of nanocomposites there are the block copolymers, which form materials with interesting properties, due to their nanoscale phase separation resulting from block immiscibility. However, there are relatively few studies of nanocomposites of block copolymers in the literature. The clay dispersed in nanoscale may directly interact with block domains, which have the same order of magnitude, changing the morphology and properties of the copolymer. The aim of this Post-Doctoral Project is to study the morphology and rheology of these nanocomposites, which may be prepared by different techniques. The morphology will be studied by x-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). These materials also have complex rheological properties, both in the linear and nonlinear viscoelastic regimes. These properties may be related to the microstructure of the nanocomposites and govern their processing behavior. Therefore, one of the main subjects of this research project is the rheological study of the nanocomposites. This project will also have a very important role within the Thematic Project of FAPESP 2006/02634-3, strengthening the nanocomposites research in the group. In this Post-Doctoral Project the candidate will continue the research he began during his Ph.D., and he will also help other students in their projects. Besides the use of the group’s laboratory facilities, part of the research will be done in the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron in Campinas, and in the Laboratório de Microscopia Eletrônica of the Chemistry Institute of Unicamp, with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. Maria do Carmo Gonçalves.
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BY: Sma Phethoka
‘Imagine sleeping in a cave, far away from home. because you are scared of your father and stepmother.
It is cold and dark here and I am hungry but at least it is peaceful here”, says the 12 year-old Tsepo (not his real name) from Ha Ts’osane.
Tsepo lost his mother in 2019, followed by his father re-marrying thereafter “I was not even over the loss of my mother, and there was my father’s marriage to this woman who hates me so much. The pair both traumatize and beat me to the pulp. They call me all sorts of awful names, and that kills me inside,” he reveals, tears filling up in his eyes.
“The word ‘Moleko’ was unknown to me. It pierced through my heart like a dagger, up to a point where I contemplated running away. My father and stepmother call me all sorts of names”.
“Some beating marks are still visible on the boy’s body, especially those on his back, which reveal that they are recent.
Tsepo’s ordeal was reported to the Child and Gender Protection Unit (CGPU) of the Lesotho Mounted Police for investigation and action, while he also received counselling from us, the Lesotho Red Cross Society, LRCS”. This is according to the Society’s Psycho-Social Support Officer, Mr. Lithapelo Kutlenyane.
“We carry such traumatized people through the journey of life, and try to convince them that not all people are bad, as we refer him to his neighbors who hide and feed him at the height of his tormentors’ wrath”. Mr. Kutlenyane stated, adding that LCRS has reassured the boy that his state of affairs would be redressed.
Expanding on the Society’s interaction with the many people who experience abuse in their homes, and whose cases were referred to his office, he says the boy is one of many people experiencing abuse in their homes, the officer has revealed that cases of abuse at home have swelled during this time of the COVID 19 pandemic as families are forced to spend more time together.
“Tsepo’s case was identified as one of communities’ response to LRCS’s call soliciting people to report any kind of abuse, using the Society’s tollfree number 80011967”.
He attributed this wave of abuse to the economic strain during these hard times when people’s movements are restricted and forced to stay at home as a result of job -loses and the lockdown.
Mr. Kutlenyane also indicated that in an effort to address the social hardships imposed by the pandemic, the Society has partnered with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as well as the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF Lesotho in establishing the Mental Health component under the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Project
The project is aimed at assisting victims of all forms of violence including sexual, verbal as well as gender -based violence in coping with their ordeals. Protection issues, Psychosocial support, psychological First Aid, are also covered in the project.
The project has also captured the case of a 14- year old girl who was abused by her older sister’s boyfriend who is a taxi driver. Each time the sister (Manthabiseng) left for work at one of the textile factories, the boyfriend would sexually molest her younger sister as it would be just the two of them at home during the day.
‘Manthabiseng reports that her taxi driver boyfriend has abused her little sister for more than three times.
“My sister used tell me that she was being sexually abused, but I just brushed it off and reprimanded, saying that she was being silly. However, after sometime I noticed a big change with her behavior. She was not happy and withdrawn, while also fearing being in the same room with my boyfriend. It was at this point that I sat down with her and asked her what was really happening. After she had related her story, I went straight to the CGPU to report the assault, and also kicked him out of house”, Manthabiseng indicated.
Chief Pena-Pena is the area chief for Ha-Pena-Pena in the district of Maseru. He says he is also aware of the adverse effects of job losses and lockdowns emanating from the pandemic.
“Factors such as restriction of movement, closing of schools, and the loss of all the means of earning a livelihood have left many people in my area food insecure. Other social ills in this area include job losses and crime, leaving the bulk of the population living under stressful conditions”, Chief Pena-Pena emphasized.
He expressed his gratitude to the LRCS, indicating that he is impressed with the project, especially its mental health, protection and nutrition components, which he said are prevalent issues of concern around his area of jurisdiction.
“For the past six months we have been seeing in our midst, people who are mentally challenged, stressed up and traumatized as a result of COVID 19. These people in trying situations need all kinds of support to minimize their stress levels”, the chief said.
A total of 32 COVID-19 hotspot villages have been reached in the six districts since the inception of the project jointly funded by UNICEF Lesotho and IFRC.
Psychosocial support awareness, protection issues, Malnutrition, referrals and case reporting (family visits, group discussions and gatherings were part of the initiatives rolled out by LRCS volunteers in Qacha’s Nek, Quthing, Mafeteng, Maseru, Leribe and Mokhotlong. This endeavors reached at least 2484 people, 927 males and 1557 females.
“Our communities welcome Red Cross activities in areas of mental health, protection, while we hope that Red Cross Volunteers will continue to work in our villages and also recruit young people to volunteer for them to form youth clubs. This could encourage them to engage in sports and other body training activities to keep them busy, to boost their self-esteem away from the world of crime and drug abuse, while also reducing cases of unplanned pregnancies, depression and stress.
Meanwhile, Chief of Kolonyama, Chief ‘Nena Moshoeshoe, indicated that he was much aware of the challenges faced by his villagers during these difficult times of COVID 19, and therefore promised to build strong relations with the Red Cross to help the people in need.
“Crime and violence are a major concern in my area of jurisdiction, and it would be good if we could work together to prevent related challenges, such as stress, depression, trauma and anxiety,” Chief ‘Nena explained.
On the other hand, Chieftainess Maliteboho Mathelira of Peka emphasized the importance of the mental health issues, and suggested that these be addressed at the household level so that the information obtained could remain confidential.
She expressed her gratitude for the suggestion box she requested that is placed in their midst by the Red Cross to make easy for them to communicate privately with the Society.
“This instills the villager’s confidence, knowing that their cases are in the custody of professionals from a reputable organization. She said that since there are many villages under her constituency she would request the volunteers to work with her advisers so that they can reach more villages hence more families.
Caregivers of infants aged between 0-23 months old are also victims of the repercussions of the lockdown imposed by the COVID 19 pandemic, hence their incorporation in the project.
At least 21 health centers have been visited reaching 1172 caregivers, that is, 1144 females and 48 males
Mr. Kutlenyane indicated that this category of people is also stressed up, hence the project also targets them, so that they can fulfil their daily task without any challenges when left behind to give care to the little children.
“LRCS set aside the first week of January 2021 to impart psychosocial support to lactating mothers and other caregivers targeting this group of people who visited some health centers, hospitals and communities in the districts of Qacha’Nek, Mokhotlong, Maseru and Mafeteng.
“The initiative was rolled out with the aim to reach groupings of the targeted population at a place of safety, convenience and comfort”, he pointed out.
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Intel has picked Germany as the site for a huge new chipmaking complex, giving the first details of a $88 billion investment drive across Europe.
The U.S. chipmaker is spreading its investments around half a dozen countries, including boosting its existing factory in Ireland, setting up a design and research facility in France, and a packaging and assembly site in Italy.
The initial spending will total 33 billion euros ($36 billion), including 17 billion euros in Germany, where the auto industry is likely to be a prime customer for cutting-edge chips that could use technology as small as 2-nanometers.
Intel will build two factories in Magdeburg, Germany, creating 7,000 construction jobs, 3,000 permanent jobs at the company, and tens of thousands of additional jobs across suppliers and partners, it said.
Production in Magdeburg will attempt to produce chips smaller than 2 nanometers, something the company has yet to achieve.
French research hub
In France, Intel plans to build its new European research hub, creating 1,000 new high-tech jobs.
It is also in talks with Italy for a chip assembly and packaging plant expected to start operations between 2025 and 2027.
The company will invest an additional 12 billion euros in an Irish facility which will take its total investment in Ireland to more than 30 billion euros.
Intel will also increase its lab space in Poland and plans to establish joint labs with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain for advanced computing.
CEO Pat Gelsinger had announced plans in September to spend $88 billion in Europe over the next decade, and the choice of sites comes after some EU governments including Italy offered big incentives to try and woo the chipmaker to invest in their countries.
Spreading its factories around different locations could help the company get more subsidies from different countries.
But Intel will have to negotiate with each European country where it’s locating facilities for state aid, European Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton told journalists.
He also said the Commission was talking with other chipmakers and hoping to make similar announcements in the coming months, but did not provide details.
Intel’s plan is the latest big investment announcement by a major semiconductor maker as the industry tries to catch up with a boom in demand for chips used in everything from smartphones to cars, though there will be no quick fix as the new German plants will not come online until 2027.
Volkswagen highlighted the pain caused by chip shortages on Tuesday, saying it sold 2 million fewer cars than planned last year due to the issue.
Intel’s announcement comes after the European Commission last month set out plans to encourage chip manufacturing in the European Union, with proposed new legislation to ease state aid rules for chip factories and enable $17 billion in additional public and private investment.
During the 1990s, the EU accounted for nearly 20 percent of the world’s silicon wafer production, according to figures cited by Brussels. Now it has fallen to about 10 percent.
The EU has now set itself the ambitious goal of making 20 percent of the world’s chip supply by 2030 — quadrupling its production.
‘Begging for money’
Chipmakers are looking to build more factories to make advanced chips for use in premium smartphones like Apple’s latest iPhones that use chips with 5-nanometer technology. A nanometer is just several atoms wide.
Bernstein Research analyst Stacy Rasgon was confident Intel could manage the roll out of investments to match demand going forward, and was positive on expanding with government subsidies.
Intel “is using capacity as a strategic weapon. Part of the strategy right now is to go around the world and beg for money,” Rasgon said. “If there’s any time to run around the world begging for money to build semiconductor manufacturing facilities now is the time.”
Intel did not specify how much money it is receiving from EU governments to expand into their countries.
Intel has already committed to increase spending on new U.S. factories at an existing site in Arizona and new location in Ohio.
Gelsinger has called on governments to recognize the security risks of the concentration of production in Asia.
His vision for Intel in the future is of a company that manufactures semiconductors for other companies, even rivals, and that does it with the best production technology. By committing to Europe and Germany, Intel can speed up the acquisition of new customers.
“Today 80 percent of chips are produced in Asia,” Gelsinger said. “Our pan European investment addresses the global need for a more balanced and resilient supply chain. We are planning to bring the most advanced technology to Europe and helping EU create the a next-generation European chip ecosystem.”
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We watch movies about it, we dream about going there and it is so darn stinkin large that we will probably never be able to go anywhere near the end of it. What is it? Space! In this unit we will be talking about how the movements of the bodies in space affect life here on Earth. Why does the moon change shape? How does the moon change water levels? Why do different cultures see different things in the stars? We will learn all this and more! | <urn:uuid:ae949c23-4a03-4db4-9454-159720c4d251> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yayscience.net/6th-grade/space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.962449 | 97 | 3.15625 | 3 |
As the joint review panel hearings wrapped up this week in Victoria, I feel grateful to have been one of a select few able to voice their opinion directly to the three-member panel.
With only 10 minutes to speak and two Enbridge representatives present (while the public was banned), I provided all the research and data I have found. In my opinion, the proposed tanker route is too dangerous for safe navigation.
Ironically, one report I found was completed for Northern Gateway Pipelines LP, (available on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency website). It revealed that during simulated tanker runs, pilots often gave the simulations a safety rating of two or three out of a possible five.
The report also revealed that these large vessels will travel through areas such as Principe Channel, which is just 1.4 kilometres wide.
Such vessels have a full turn radius of 1.8 km and can take up to 3.75 km to come to a full stop while running astern at 10 knots.
We have to keep in mind, that each of these vessels is carrying 1.5 million litres in fuel oil alone. Plus, coastal currents can reach up to 16 nautical miles per hour.
Winter storms frequently bring gale force and hurricane force winds, and we cannot ignore the risk posed from earthquakes, such as the 7.8-magnitude event off the coast of Haida Gwaii a mere four months ago.
The risks are too great, and this is just a small portion of the concerning information I found.
While many were unable to voice their own opinions to the panel, I sincerely encourage all British Columbians to continue to investigate and question the proposed project, in order to protect our beautiful, unique and sensitive coastal ecosystems.
Julie Howe, Langford
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On Monday, January 18, Americans celebrate the birth of the late civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King was born Michael King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Among the luminaries remembering Dr. King today is Star Trek veteran Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Nyota Uhura in the original TV series.
In an interview with Emmy Legends, the iconic actress said Dr. King was a fan of Star Trek and he convinced her to stay on when she considered quitting the series.
Nichols said she'd already turned in her resignation when she had a chance meeting with King at an event.
"I was to be a celebrity guest at some fundraiser in Beverly Hills," she said. "I believe that it was a NAACP fundraiser, but it might not have been but I think it was. And so, I went to do this on that Saturday night and I had just been taken to the desk and sat down when the organizer came over and said, 'Ms. Nichols, How are you? Listen, there's someone here who says that he's your biggest fan and he's desperate to meet you. He REALLY wants to meet you!' And I said, 'Well thank you!'
"...I turn and instead of a fan, there's this face that the WHOLE world knows with this beautiful smile on and I remember thinking, 'Whoever that fan is, is going to have to wait because Dr. King; Dr. Martin Luther King my leader is walking toward me about 10 feet away with a beautiful smile on his face!' and then this man says, 'Yes Ms. Nichols. I am THAT fan! I am your best fan, your greatest fan. And my family are your greatest fans. As a matter of fact, this is the ONLY show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to watch; to stay up and watch because it's on past their bedtime.' And I said – which is all I was able to say because my mouth was open and closed. He said, 'We admire you greatly you know. The manner in which you create this role has dignity...' and before he said anything else I said, 'Dr. King, thank you so much.'"
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Nichols told King she was leaving the show because her true love was Broadway and the theater.
"And he said, 'What do you mean?' Dead serious. 'What are you talking about?' I said, 'I'm going to leave Star Trek because I have an offer to star in a Broadway.' I never got that far [laughs]... he said, "You cannot!" and I felt like that little boy Arnold like – Whatchu talkin’ about Dr. King? But you know I didn’t say that! I was taken aback and I didn’t say anything. I just looked at him. He said, 'If you leave Nichelle, Gene Roddenberry has opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave, that door can be closed because your role is not a Black role and it's NOT a female role. He can fill it with anything including an alien.'"
Nichols took the weekend to think it over. On Monday, she went to Gene Roddenberry's office to retract her resignation.
"I told him what happened and I said, 'If you still want me to stay, I'll stay. I have to.' And he opened his drawer and her looked up at me and said, 'God Bless Dr. Martin Luther King. Somebody knows where I am coming from!' and I said, 'That's what he said! [in my brain], and he took out my resignation which was torn into a hundred pieces and handed me the pile, and we just stood there looking at each other and I finally said, 'Thank you Gene.' And he said to me, 'Thank you Nichelle.' And my life has never been the same since and I've never looked back..." | <urn:uuid:200c100f-c8dc-46eb-bd7c-d49f55c8bd26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sandrarose.com/tag/martin-luther-king-jr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.984311 | 865 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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