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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – With the intense heat still affecting Hampton Roads, we set out to highlight some of the hottest and coolest jobs and places.
The area has been under a heat advisory and News 3 Meteorologists warn that we’ll have heat index values over 100 again Monday.
Some of the hottest jobs suggested include roofers, construction workers, landscapers, firefighters, shipyard workers, welders, lifeguards, auto mechanics, warehouse workers, and even the Colonial Reenactors in Williamsburg.
Several roofing companies tell us they did not have workers out Friday, partly due to the extreme temperatures. One said they start as early as 5 a.m. to beat the heat.
W.T. Anderson Corporation talked to News 3 as one of their crews worked on an emergency repair in Chesapeake. Project manager, Hector Miranda, said they are taking precautions like starting and ending earlier in the day and talking with the team about signs of heat stroke.
"We talk about hydration 24 hours prior to start working," said Miranda.
Proper attire like hats and long-sleeved shirts help, he said.
"You gotta’ to have loose clothing to make sure you allow your body to sweat, perspire," added Miranda.
As for some of the coldest jobs, there are ice manufacturers and delivery drivers, as well as ice cream servers.
News 3 also with the owner of a local clinic that offers cryotherapy. Sometimes known as cold therapy, it uses low temperatures in an effort to relieve muscle pain and swelling. Kerri Anne Pope, assistant manager of Restore in Norfolk, described the machine as dropping to anywhere from -166 to -220 degrees Fahrenheit.
"It’s a modern-day ice bath," Pope described. "We provide you with all the necessary attire: gloves, socks, slippers, robes. You stand in there for anywhere from 2-3 minutes."
Pope said they get regulars year-round but it can be tougher to convince someone to go in sub-zero temps when it's already cold outside.
As for the roofers, the team in Chesapeake said they prefer working in the heat versus the cold.
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In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the Arrival overview form is introduced to improve the overview of items expected to arrive as incoming goods. The new feature provides an overview of all expected incoming items and arrivals can be initialized based on the overview. The focus of this blog post is the functionality of the Arrival overview form and the receiving process. For more detailed descriptions, please refer to the Trade and Logistics I in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and the online Help.
Consider the following scenario to learn how the feature can support the tasks of the inbound processes.
Assume that Sammy, a receiving clerk, wants to know what is expected to be received on the same day.
In the Arrival overview form, Sammy can get an overview of the current tasks and a rough estimate of quantities, volume, weight, different order types, and so on.
Subsequently, assume that a delivery arrives at one of the inbound docks and Sammy receives a list of the delivery.
In the Arrival overview form, Sammy can do the following:
- Identify the matching receipt order and register the receipt as In progress. The lines required for a registration are generated automatically, and the receipt can be monitored even though the transactions have not yet been posted as Arrived.
- Access the appropriate arrival journal reference, that is, the Item arrival journal or the Production input journal, and identify journals that are ready for a packing slip update.
Facts on the Arrival overview form
The Arrival overview form is located under Inventory management > Periodic > Arrival overview.
In the form you can view a list of expected orders to be received. The overview is divided into header and lines. The header information is grouped by the order type, expected receipt date, and delivery destination.
When a header line is selected for arrival, all the detail lines that are related to this specific receipt reference are selected for arrival in the line details part of the form. When all lines have been posted as item arrivals or are in a later state, this information is not displayed.
Arrival overview – Setup
The Arrival overview form provides an overview of items that are expected to arrive and the date they are expected to arrive. The settings in this form can be saved for individual users and for individual computers so that users can have their personal settings on computers in the inbound area. One user can maintain multiple sets of personal settings.
Sammy wants to set up a new computer at a location which is going to be used to receive finished goods coming from production at Site “1” . On the Setup tab, Sammy selects the following settings:
- Under Site, a site in the Restrict to site field to limit the view in the overview area.
- In the Transaction types shown group, the Production orders check box.
- In the Journal group, a receiving warehouse, a location, and a journal name (item arrival/production input).
- In the Miscellaneous group, the Update on startup check box to have the view updated automatically on startup and the Update on range change check box to have the view updated automatically when changing range values.
- In the overview area under Range, information about a day interval and the warehouses to include in the overview.
Sammy saves the setup under the name “Prod. Input” by clicking Modify > Save as on the Setup tab.
Prerequisites for arrival journals
On the Setup tab, specify the appropriate information under Journal:
- A journal name must be specified to create a journal.
- If Site, Warehouse, and Location are specified, these values are applied on the journal lines. If no values are entered here, the values from the dimension specified on the inventory transactions are used.
Arrival overview – Start arrival
Receive items from one or more expected receipt orders.
Items received from one expected receipt order
Sammy selects a line under Receipts and clicks Start arrival. All related lines within the specified range and with a quantity to register are automatically selected. An item arrival journal is generated with a match between the expected receipt order and the journal. All lines are created with an automatic initialization of quantity.
Items received from more than one expected receipt order
Sammy multi-selects lines under Receipts and clicks Start arrival. An item arrival journal is generated with a match between all the expected receipt orders and the journal. All lines are created on one item arrival journal header with an automatic initialization of quantity.
Arrival overview – View information
Get an overview of expected receipts within a date interval.
Sammy opens the Arrival overview form, enters the following information under Range, and clicks Update to update the view:
– Days back: (Blank)
– Days forward: 0
– Warehouses: GW, MW
– Show lines: All
Sammy can view the following information
- All related receipt orders for an infinite number of days back from the system date including the system date (the InventTrans.StatusDate interval) and receipts to warehouses GW and MW regardless of status.
- Detailed line information for more than one order. Sammy can multi-select header lines in the overview to view the corresponding line detail information for all selected header lines.
- Information about a specific purchase order. Sammy can enter a reference Number in the Vendor reference field, to only display information related to the specific reference number in the overview.
- An overview of the registration tasks that are due for all the order lines where an item arrival journal has been created but not yet posted. To view this information, Sammy can select In progress in the Show lines field.
Arrival overview – Update journals
To register one or more order lines due to be processed, Sammy can select the lines in the overview grid or in the line grid and click Journals -> Show arrivals from receipts. The item arrival headers that match the lines are shown.
To packing slip update registered items, Sammy can access the item arrival journal headers that are ready for update from Journals -> Packing slip ready journals. All the header lines that are ready for packing slip update within the specified Warehouse range (not day-interval related) are shown.
Start an arrival registration
By multi-selecting lines in the Arrival overview form Sammy can start an arrival of more than one receipt reference. When he selects a line from the receipts overview, the corresponding line details are selected. If a quantity for registration exists, the Start arrival button is available. Sammy can use two different methods to start the arrival registration:
1) Activate the Vendor reference field in the Arrival overview form and scan a reference number from a vendor such as a packing slip barcode. Then click Update to update the overview and the details part of the form to only show the corresponding search criteria records.
2) Manually select or deselect records for arrival registration in the overview or the details part of the Arrival overview form.
When Sammy clicks the Start arrival button, the selected records are automatically created in an item arrival journal, including line information with all possible unique field information assigned.
Update arrival information, and post a packing slip
When all goods have been registered, the warehouse manager or the purchasing manager can update the received items with a packing slip to add the physical cost. To update arrival information and post a packing slip, follow these steps:
1. Click Inventory management > Periodic > Arrival overview to open the Arrival overview form.
2. Click Journals > Packing slip ready journals to display a list of the journals that are ready for packing slip update.
3. Select the journals that must be updated, and then click Functions > Packing slip to open the Posting form.
4. Enter the packing slip number, if it is not already available on the journal, and then click OK to post the packing slip.
The Arrival overview form can help the warehouse manager and warehouse workers achieve an overview of expected work to be done as part of an inbound process. The form can also be used to start the item arrival process to make sure that items are tracked at the first entry into the warehouse.
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[UPDATED on March 28]
Missouri state Rep. Tricia Derges is pushing a bill to give assistant physicians like herself a pathway to becoming fully licensed doctors in the state.
Not that Derges — among the highest-profile holders of the assistant physician license created in 2014 to ease a doctor shortage — is the most persuasive advocate right now.
Derges was indicted last year on charges accusing her of selling fake stem-cell treatments, illegally prescribing drugs, and fraudulently receiving covid relief funds. Derges, who did not respond to multiple messages sent to her and her lawyer, has pleaded not guilty. But she has already been kicked out of the Republican caucus, forced to move her legislative office into a Statehouse broom closet, put on a three-year probation for her narcotics license, and denied the ability to run for reelection as a Republican following her indictment. A trial is set for June.
Her personal tribulations have jeopardized an already contentious solution for states that struggle with gaps in primary health care. Even some early proponents now want to rein in the assistant physician license.
Assistant physicians — sometimes called associate physicians, and not to be confused with physician assistants — are medical school graduates who have not yet completed residency training. Similar licenses also now exist in Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, and Utah. Virginia is considering adding one, and model legislation is making such licenses easier than ever for other state legislatures to adopt.
Derges’ proposed legislation would allow assistant physicians to become licensed — similar to doctors who have completed a residency — provided an assistant physician has practiced for five years with a collaborating physician, passed a licensure exam, and completed certain training requirements.
Her bill would create a new path for training physicians. Competing legislation aims to scale back the license, though, and cap the number of years assistant physicians can practice until they funnel back into residency programs.
Dr. Keith Frederick, a former state representative and orthopedic surgeon from Rolla, Missouri, proposed the original assistant physician legislation, the first of its kind in the nation.
Nearly every county in Missouri is short of primary care providers, according to the federal Health Services and Resources Administration. It’d take nearly 500 physicians to fill that void, but efforts to get doctors to practice in underserved areas have been “chronically unsuccessful,” Frederick said. At the same time, thousands of medical school graduates who apply for residency programs each year are not accepted — 9,155 applicants did not match to a program in 2021 alone, or about 1 in 5 of the candidates, most coming from international medical schools.
The assistant physician license allows those medical school graduates to practice medicine in Missouri under a collaborative practice agreement with a physician, who is ultimately responsible for the care given, and on the condition that they do so in an underserved area. They can see patients, prescribe drugs, and provide certain treatments, in much the same way as nurse practitioners or physician assistants — so-called midlevel practitioners, both of which have distinct master’s-level training.
Frederick’s bill passed the same year it was introduced, a legislative feat he described as “pretty remarkable.”
The idea did have its detractors at the time. Chief among them was the Missouri Nurses Association, which argued the state’s 12,000 nurse practitioners were better suited to address primary care shortages. The association views the state’s rules for nurse practitioners as among “the most severely restrictive in the nation.”
Nationally, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians opposed the license. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s CEO Dr. Thomas Nasca said “the American public does not deserve second-class care” in a 2014 interview.
“These are physicians with rudimentary experience. But in Missouri, they’d be turned loose to manage patients with complex diabetes, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias,” Nasca said. “This is nuts. The risk of an error is huge.”
One initial supporter of the idea was Dr. Jeff Davis, chief medical officer for Scotland County Hospital in rural Memphis, Missouri, and an executive committee member of the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Eight years after the law passed, however, Davis has no assistant physicians working with him, even though he said he has several openings that would benefit from them.
The challenge, Davis said, is Medicare will not reimburse for care provided by assistant physicians. Hospitals in rural areas often depend on revenue from that public insurance program for Americans 65 and older. But for hospitals to get paid by Medicare for the work of an assistant physician, Davis said, the assistant physician would have to work under the direct supervision of a physician whose name would be used to submit the bill.
“That doesn’t make much business sense,” Davis said.
Frederick hopes that having more states create an assistant physician license will force the hand of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to start reimbursing for the work done by those clinicians. The American Legislative Exchange Council adopted model associate physician legislation after Frederick presented the idea at the conservative nonprofit’s summit last year.
Currently, Missouri has 348 active licenses for assistant physicians, including Dr. Trevor Cook, creator of the Association of Medical Doctor Assistant Physicians. Cook graduated in 2014 from the International American University medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
“Unfortunately, I was one of those many, many, many, many thousands of doctors that don’t match each year” into a residency program, Cook said.
Cook has practiced at Downtown Urgent Care in St. Louis since 2018, a position he called rewarding. He is supportive of a pathway for assistant physicians to become fully licensed in Missouri, like the one proposed by Derges. As to the indictment, Cook said, one person’s actions are not representative of an entire group of practitioners.
A review of active assistant physician licenses in the state — including Derges’ — found none under current disciplinary action. Two were previously under probation due to prior behavior.
Still, state doctor groups that initially supported the idea now want to cap the number of years someone can hold an assistant physician license, as other states have done. Under current Missouri law, assistant physicians can practice indefinitely.
“As with anything, you find out that people try to game the system and work an angle and get something that wasn’t intended out of something you did in good faith,” Davis said.
Dr. Sterling Ransone, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said he already had concerns about the quality of care provided by assistant physicians, citing a 2018 JAMA article that found they had lagging test scores compared with their counterparts in residency programs. He said he’s doubtful about creating an alternative pathway to full physician licensure.
“I would personally have trouble supporting it without a lot more information to verify quality standards,” Ransone said.
The American Medical Association favors a bill in Congress that would increase the number of residency positions in the U.S. by 14,000 over the next seven years.
Dr. Kevin Klauer, CEO of the American Osteopathic Association, didn’t shut the door on a role for assistant physicians but said he was skeptical: “We have to be responsible to make sure that we’ve put all the safeguards in with training and verification and monitoring, so that health care that is delivered by a physician is up to the standards that it should be.”
Frederick called those concerns “purely turf protection” amid what he said is a tremendous health care shortage.
“We have all these people that are highly trained,” Frederick said. “Why would you waste that resource?”
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Today, remote work can be done from your lounge chair next to a pool in Maui. Or a glass igloo in Lapland beneath the Northern Lights. That’s the dream, right?
But in reality, most remote work is often done from a spare office space in your house or a local coffee shop.
Working remotely is somewhat different from working remote. Working remotely is generally for individuals who have a job and are working away from home, hence remotely. Remote work is self-employed, self-sustaining job.
They’re similar in that both can be done from anywhere in the world, but for most jobs, working remotely will eventually require you to appear in an office. Yet, remote work is freeing in a way that most jobs aren’t. Having the flexibility to work whenever and wherever you desire is an experience that can improve your mental health and zest for life.
If you're considering remote work (or working remotely) this is the guide for you, read on!
Shift from working in an office to working remote
Today, a significant part of the population works outside of a traditional office. A 2018 study believes that at least 70% of the American population is working remotely at least 1 day a week.
As technology has evolved, so has the ability to work whilst staying connected. Thirty years ago, working remote was limited to freelancers, today, it is a mainstream career path that allows people to work a job they enjoy wherever in the world they are.
As companies become more eco-conscientious, they become more accepting of working remote employees, even if it’s just a part-time working remote gig. Consider San Antonio, Texas as they recently asked companies to allow workers a 4 day work week to reduce emissions in their city and to cut down on ozone damage.
Whether you’re new to the remote work lifestyle, or you’re just interested in options outside the four walls of your office, this article is for you.
Why Work Remotely Anyway?
An opportunity to travel
Of course, there are many reasons to work remote. For some, working remote offers an opportunity to travel. According to a recent study, around 4.8 Americans identify as “digital nomads” where they “choose to embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel and work remotely, anywhere in the world.”
This lifestyle is appealing, if you enjoy traveling, seeing new sights, and are still able to work independently, despite a variety of distractions that could take you away from your work, or at the very least makes it difficult.
A More flexible lifestyle
Working remote doesn’t mean you’re working in Saudia Arabia, whilst your home typically is based in Arkansas. You can work remote only three blocks down from your house. What working remote does offer is a flexible lifestyle, an opportunity to work when it is best for you.
Are you a night owl who suffers through the morning at the office? Working remote will allow you to work late into the wee morning hours, as long as your work is done. The flexible lifestyle is appealing to many, but it’s also easy to get caught up in your lifestyle and forget to work.
Cut down on work-associated costs
A massive positive for working remote is the opportunity to save money whilst making money. Working in an office setting can be expensive from obligations to birthday parties, drinks with coworkers that run into the hundreds, to dining out or snacks from the vending machines.
If you have a difficult time saying “no”, chances are you’re spending a bit of that paycheck while you’re making it. And even if you’re not spending money on food, if you have a professional wardrobe, maintaining that can be expensive depending on tastes.
Working from home will allow you to wear whatever you like, and while most people find their productivity increases by getting fully dressed for the day, your daily wardrobe may be considerably cheaper than your work wardrobe, allowing you to save valuable money there.
Of course, factoring in the cost of transport to work, insurance, and possibly parking fees all add up as well. If you crunch the numbers, you may realize that you’ll actually be saving money and still make money staying from home.
Opportunity to best enjoy one’s work
Perhaps you don’t love your job. Or perhaps you find your coworkers increasingly annoying and disruptive.
Would getting away from them help you rekindle your love for your job? Perhaps it's coworkers and the group environment that really leave you struggling with your job. Would leaving your office job completely and finding something else working remote be exactly what you need to rediscover your zest for life and for your job?
Consider what you want to be and how you can best reach that without the confines of the office. Perhaps, working remote will give you exactly what you need to better rediscover what you love to do, while getting paid for it.
Higher productivity with fewer distractions
If you focus best in a quiet environment, with few distractions, working from home could be a lifesaver for your productivity. By removing the coworkers, silencing your phone, and settling in to focus on your work, you may discover that your productivity increases, and along with it, your love of your work.
If you’re able to work uninterrupted, you may find that your overall workday doesn’t need to be 8 hours from start to finish, giving you a higher productivity rate, better quality work, and a shorter work day allowing you to do things that you truly enjoy.
Not needing to pay for childcare
If you’re a new parent, childcare is a massive ordeal. Finding the right daycare is difficult enjoy, but on top of that, there is always a worry about your child and whether they’re happy or not. Working remote would allow you to keep your child with you, at least part-time, and the savings of not paying for childcare would be massive.
Childcare can also be a negative for remote workers though. If you have highly energetic children, chances are they may not be happy to sit quietly in the living room while you work four hours straight. Even babies need frequent cuddles; unless you’re flexible, this can be difficult to handle while you’re working.
How to Stay Motivated When Remote Working
Finding your motivation and sticking with it can be a difficult part of working remote. Since everyone is propelled and encouraged by a variety of things, there are no hard and fast rules that apply to every remote worker.
There are a myriad of tips out there, and here are a few common ones:
Create a separate office or work space
Working from home in your bed sounds cozy, but in reality, it could lead to a lot of issues. Your bedroom shouldn’t become an office; making it one could make it difficult to “turn off” your brain when it’s time to sleep. Instead, create an office or working space in your home.
Decorate it to your tastes to improve productivity, and then use it. Find an office chair that is comfortable (but not too comfortable!) and use that as motivation to sit somewhere and work. Adding in a plant, or five, to keep the air clean and anything else that might help you feel motivated.
If you find though, that space isn’t working out, maybe move it around, or try working somewhere else. Or, set up multiple mini offices around your house and move when you need inspiration.
Use a coworking space
Coworking spaces are becoming more popular as more workers work remote or remotely. In 2017 there were 4,000 office spaces in the USA. By 2022, that number is set to pass 6,200.
Essentially a coworking space is a paid for, open office environment. If you work remote, but you work best in an office environment, a coworking space is probably best for you.
Create and stick to a routine
Just like in an office, keeping a routine is best. Of course, if you’re your own boss, you can set the hours that work best for you, but sticking with those hours and a routine is optimal. If you walked into the office and made a cup of Earl Grey tea, continue that with the start of your daily work routine.
Keep mealtimes free from work and have a designated shut off time in the evenings so you don’t have work interfering with your bedtime. If you find it tempting to start working during your “off” hours, stop your distractions. That may mean you set your phone to “do not disturb” mode and you close your laptop.
Perhaps, even moving your “work” apps to a different page on your phone than your “play” apps might help. Often it’s easier to ignore reminders if they’re on a different page. If you work constantly, while you work remote, you’ll get burnt out very quickly. Set up limits and stick with them to keep your work and play life separate.
Exercise and getting away from work
Just like in an office setting, exercise is important. Too much sitting can leave you prone to a host of side effects like dementia, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, varicose veins, stroke, heart attack, obesity, and abnormal cholesterol levels. Obviously, exercise daily is recommended, but if you sit for long periods and then exercise, the exercise is not as good for you unless you got up and moved around for parts of the day.
Working remote means you no longer have a nosy boss who is watching your every move and monitoring your bathroom breaks. So, break up your work day. Get up every hour and do a quick lap around your house or go up and down your stairs a couple of times. Create a standing desk at your kitchen counter.
Take a walk outside, even if it’s just to go to the mailbox. Hop on a treadmill to conduct your office calls, or at least answer calls standing up. Not only will moving keep you healthier and less stressed, it may even prolong your lifespan compared to office workers. See? Working from home is just healthier.
What are the disadvantages of working remote?
We’ve talked about all the pros of working from home, but of course there are a myriad of cons. Some of the pros may even be a negative for you, depending on your personality.
Working remote, particularly if you are working in your house, may provide you with many distractions. You just sat down to write an email to someone, and you suddenly remembered you didn’t turn on the dishwasher. You get up and take care of that and get back to your seat when the microwave beeps and reminds you that your coffee is ready.
As you wait for that to re-heat, you may think about all the other household chores that need to happen, and before you know it, your house may be clean, but your workday is still blank. The same goes if you work in a coffee shop where it is easy to be distracted by people walking by, friends, or an interesting article on social media.
Working remote gives you the opportunity to work in a place that is best for you, but sometimes, you may simply work best in an office setting.
If you’re a people person that thrives on interactions with coworkers, working remote can be isolating.
Once again, working in a communal office may be best, just to allow you the opportunity to get out and interact with other people.
3. Being responsible for your own time management
Part of the difficulty of working remote may be others reactions to your job. They hear working remote and assume that you have less to do now, so a three hour long lunch to catch up would be workable.
After all, you’re no longer on a schedule. Time management problems can plague even office workers, and unless you’re independent and are great at monitoring your time management, it can be a struggle.
If this is a struggle for you, don’t fear, you can overcome it. Create to do lists, and stick with them. Set a timer for yourself to complete tasks. Resist the urge to check social media or news sites, or anything that could distract you from the tasks at hand. Determine the time of day when you’re most productive and use that time to really work hard.
4. Easy to feel like you are “always on”
One of the most common problems that occur when you work from home is the mindset that you’re “always on”. From getting messages about your work or potential work all times of the day or night, to emails interrupting date nights, to phone calls when you’re doing the dishes, it’s easy to feel like you’re working 24/7.
To combat this, many people recommend turning your phone off, or at least putting it on do not disturb outside of your working hours. Removing Slack or any messaging you use for work off your phone may also be helpful, especially if you find getting those messages pulls you back into a work mindset. Editing your email settings, so you don’t get emails outside of business hours would also be helpful. And lastly, screen your calls. If it’s a work call and you’re not working, don’t answer it.
5. No stationary cupboard to steal from
Now that you’re based from home, all the costs come out of your pocket. Your pens, your computer, the printer, ink and toner all are costs you are now responsible for. In some cases, the only thing you’ll use for working will be your computer.
But, there are always instances where you’ll have to print off papers, and pens and paper can add up. Depending on your job, you will also probably need to hire an accountant to handle your taxes. It’s not a non-negotiable, but it’s also something to keep in mind.
The Jobs that Work Best for Working Remotely
If you’re a freelancer, you’re self-employed and you choose the jobs, instead of your employer choosing you. Most freelancing jobs are in creative industries such as graphic design, illustrating, photography, computer programming, and web design.
Writing, be it copywriting, blogging, technical writing, or editing is an excellent job to have, either full or part-time. Many bloggers make well over six figures, and with sites like Amazon, you can easily self-publish a book and have it read by actual people.
Writing freelancing will require skills, a strong knowledge of grammar and spelling, and a reasonably strict schedule to maintain if you want to have articles submitted by the deadline. If you’re a skilled writer though, writing is an excellent way to make money.
If you have a technical background, working as a designer or developer may be just the course for you. If you’re a developer, you could be hired for anything from app developing to website design. There’s a broad range of job categories under the developer heading, but if you have the background necessary, there are an equally large number of jobs out there for the taking.
If you’re a designer, you may be able to find a job by sourcing yourself out there. While the design market is less accessible due to the variety of resources already out there, there is always going to be a need for people who have skills in design work.
Even jobs like assistants can be done virtually. There is a strong need for virtual assistants who work remotely by answering calls, scheduling meetings and appointments, all without even entering the office. And certain accounting jobs in niche markets, like small business accounting or international taxes can be done remotely.
Accountants do need a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and certification though, but if you fit the qualifications, you may be able to work remotely doing what you enjoy.
Having your own business allows you to set the hours you work. Of course, you can’t just wake up and decide to become and entrepreneur overnight - most often it is the result of years of hard work and effort.
Yet, this job gives you the benefit of working wherever you want to, within reason, and whenever you want to with the added benefit of receiving a consistent paycheck.
Working remote doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll need to be self-employed. You can work remotely whilst working for your employer. Sometimes, you can stay employed at your current job and work remotely from there. Other times, finding a remote job will take a career or at least a job change.
Today, there are many companies that will hire teachers to teach students, most often a foreign language. If you have strong language skills, teaching experience, or speak a foreign language, you may find that you can be hired by a company to teach.
While the reliable paycheck is a plus, you will have to keep strict and consistent hours and teaching via Skype may not allow you as much freedom as other working remote jobs.
Working in customer support is another example of a remote employee job. Many companies are now outsourcing their customer support because these jobs generally do not require support within the team.
If you have excellent English skills, can use Excel, and have reliable internet and a phone, you should be set to go for most customer support jobs. As more and more companies need customer support, there is a wide variety of jobs and many pay well (around $30,000 annually according to Glassdoor).
How to find work remote jobs
Of course, jobs catered to working remotely can be difficult to find. As more and more people want to work remotely for a variety of reasons, there will always be competition for jobs. Yet, if you’re qualified and persistent, something will open up for you.
Upwork is a great online resource to finding remote jobs. You upload your information and apply individually to each job that suits you. There are a wide array of jobs on here, with a wide array of work times from short-term to long-term. While it can be difficult to get accepted on Upwork and the competition is high, it’s a spectacular resource and site.
People Per Hour is great if you’re a worker or if you’re an employer trying to find freelancers. With over 900,000 businesses on here looking for employees, this is a great site to find your next job. Also, it’s been recognized by the likes of Forbes, BBC, and Business Insider as a unique way to source talent.
We Work Remotely is just that. A site dedicated to people who work remotely and need jobs. Over 2.5 million people use this site, making it a behemoth in the world of job sites. Further resources are available as needed, and many other sites recommended WWR like Google, Amazon, and Basecamp.
Jobs Abroad is less working remotely and more jobs overseas. Yet, it still makes the list as a great resource if you’re looking to break up the monotony and get out and see the world, while keeping a reliable paycheck!
Toptal hires exclusive freelancers, and is full of first-class talent. If you’re highly talented in a specialized field and wanting to work remote, this is the site for you.
Indeed is more well-known for local jobs, but occasionally you can get lucky and find a job working remote. It will require more research and effort, but remote jobs are on there.
Remote work, wrapping up..
Working remote is not for everyone, but for those that it appeals to, it is a wonderful way to support yourself.
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The Association of Colleges conference started with a bang in Birmingham today with a really thought-provoking speech from the Minister of State with responsibility for Further Education, Matthew Hancock MP.
The Minister was generous in his praise of the best of the sector and equally insistent on the need for standards to improve at the lower end, and my deputy Nick Isles @DPMKCollege, and I would heartily agree with that.
In the question and answer session after his speech, I had the opportunity to ask him about increasing curriculum flexibility for 14- to 16-year-olds. At the moment, we at Milton Keynes College have a great deal of scope to collaborate with employers in moulding what we teach at 16-19 to suit the needs of the individual and of the city’s employers. However, at 14-16, courses are constrained by the requirements of teaching core subjects to GCSE.
This situation reflects the tension between the two departments Matthew Hancock serves in: Education (DfE) and Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). Civil servants in the latter are entirely business-focused while those in the former are naturally more concentrated on schooling and exam success.
We in the FE sector are wondering, now that students have to stay on in education or training until they are 17 (and soon to be 18), why do they all have to be funnelled down the academic examination route until 16.
Wouldn’t it be a more sensible approach to fit the courses to the young people (which we can do when they’re over 16) so that those more enthusiastic for and better suited to vocational education can start to develop their work readiness from an earlier age?
Surely it must make sense for these young people to have more of those vital employability skills at the core of the curriculum.
Now one doesn’t expect a minister standing on stage at a conference like ours to start making policy on the spot, and it would be quite alarming if he did! However, speaking to a representative of BIS later in the day it is clear that employability and skills development to support business growth is at the heart of their strategic intentions and I received the distinct impression that joining up pre-16, 16-18 and post-19 skills is something that department would be very interested in exploring.
It’s an idea we strongly believe in at Milton Keynes College and the type of programme which would obviously need something of a pilot scheme for a radical, vocational 14-19 programme to test its effectiveness and viability.
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Zoysa is a girl name for hindu.
In this post, you will find the splendid different name for your baby girl or boy and review its meaning, ancestor, and popularity.
Numerous names, including Zoysa are an exclusively essential part of status.
Zoysa carry important exclusive, cultural, familial, and historical connections for Hindu people
They also give us a feel of who Hindu are, the Hindi in which they belong, and their district in the world.
Zoysa meaning is unique. It has 5 letters and 1 word.
Not only the meaning of Zoysa you can also check this site for history and popularity of given names from around the world.
Pick ideas for baby names or catch your own name’s root.
All about Zoysa
- Name: Zoysa
- Meaning: Unique
- Gender: Girl
- Origin: Hindi
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A brain of a person is a mystery. It is the most important part of our body and our complete system. But, it is also the thing that makes us different from other people. That’s why some of the people are very smart, and some are, well, not so smart. But how to know who is smart? IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is one of the many ways to define how smart someone is. Keep reading to find out the top 10 the smartest people in the world with highest IQ.
High IQ can mean nothing if that person doesn’t take advantage of it so judging how smart someone is by IQ can be a subjective matter. So on this list I included people with high IQ and some important accomplishments and no one is able to tell them that they are not smart.
Before I start with listing you should first learn something about IQ. Statistics say that:
- 2% of people have IQ of under 70 (mentally retarded).
- 7% of people have IQ of 70-80 (borderline retarded).
- 1% of people have IQ of 80-90 (low average).
- 50% of people have IQ of 90-110 (average).
- 1% of people have IQ of 110-120 (high average).
- 7% of people have IQ of 120-130 (superior).
- 2% of people have IQ of over 130 (very superior).
If you want to check your IQ I recommend doing this test. Share your results with us in the comments section below.
And now to get to the main thing. In the rest of the article you will be able to find 10 of the smartest people in the world and some information about them.
Stephen W. Hawking – IQ 160
The first name on our list is probably the most popular name of this list. He was born on January 8th on 1942. He went to Oxford and in his final years he noticed a lot of changes happening to him. When he was 21 years old he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) more familiar under the name motor neurone disease. Doctors said that he would live only two more years. But he overcame that disability and today he is still alive with 73 years of age and had some very notable contributions to the world of science. He won lots of awards for his work, including an Albert Einstein Medal in 1979, Order of the British Empire in 1982 and Wolf Prize in Physics in 1988. He also wrote a book called “A Brief History of Time” and 6 more bestsellers. Last year a movie called “The Theory of Everything” was published describing early life of Stephen W. Hawking and his wife.
Kim Ung-Yong – IQ 210
The second “smart guy” on my list is a South Korean engineer Kim Ung-Yong. He was listed in Guinness Book of World Records as the owner of the highest IQ in the world. Later that category was retired because it was impossible to determine a single record holder. Kim Ung-Yong could speak 4 different languages and was invited to work in NASA with only 8 years old. Currently he is a professor in Shinhan University in South Korea, he has two sons and is living a calm and normal life.
Paul Allen – IQ 170
Many of you don’t know that Paul Allen is the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates. His worth is about $18.1 billion and that makes him the 51st richest person in the whole world, updated in September 2015. He is the owner of NBA team Portland Trail Blazers, NFL team Seattle Seahawks and MLS team Seattle Sounders FC. He is also the owner of lots of large companies. We could say that Paul Allen is a great example of how to turn your smartness into money.
Rick Rosner – IQ 192
Ever heard about Rick Rosner? Probably not but he is a truly interesting person. He is most popular by writing and producing many TV shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Man Show and Crank Yankers. Another interesting thing about him is that he sued quiz “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” because of a fault question. The show eventually admitted their mistake but didn’t let Rosner to get back on it. Because of his campaign the was profiled in series First Person led by Errol Morris and later he was hired by Jimmy Kimmel to be his writer and producer.
Garry Kasparov – IQ 190
Garry Kasparov is probably the best chess player ever. He comes from Russia and was the world chess champion for 15 years. He defeated Anatoly Karpov in 1983 and remained on 1st place until 2000 when Vladimir Kramnik challenged him and managed to beat Kasparov in 15 rounds. In that 15 rounds Kramnik won only 2 but Kasparov couldn’t manage a single win (13 rounds ended up with draw) and Kramnik became the world champion. Later on Kasparov challenged a computer on duel. He impressed everyone and managed not to lose against a computer. Computer called X3D Fritz could count up to one million moves in one second and Kasparov showed his amazing intelligence once again and managed to win one round in four with computer also winning one and two rounds ending up in draw.
Sir Andrew Wiles – IQ 170
Sir Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician. That “sir” in front of his name means that he got knighted because of his very notable contributions to mathematics. His most notable achievement was proving the “Fermat’s Last Theorem”. Because of that he was widely praised by media and other scientific experts and got large amount of awards and honours for both mathematics and science contributions including the Wolf Prize in 1996, NAS Award in Mathematics in 1996, silver plaque from International Mathematical Union in 1998, Shaw Prize in 2005 and many more.
Judit Polgar – IQ 170
Another chess master on our list is called Judith Polgar. She was born on July 23rh in Budapest, Hungary. She is the most popular and best female chess player ever. At the age of 12 she was already in the list of top 100 best chess player. She is also the record holder for the youngest Grandmaster with 15 years and 4 months of age when she got the tittle. And the reason why she succeed in all of this is just because her father wanted to prove that children can make great achievements with the right training. Well done to father. Currently she is 39 year old and 8th player in FIDE World Rankings.
Christopher Hirata – IQ 225
It’s okay to be jealous because the IQ of 225 is really amazing. And the proud owner of that IQ is Christopher Hirata. He is the youngest American which managed to win a gold medal and Physics Olympics, with the age of 13 at that time. He got a PhD in Physics with only 22 years of age and he entered Caltech when he was only 14. When he was 16 he started working with NASA on different projects about Mars and its colonization.
Terrence Tao – IQ 230
If you were jealous about Hirata then what about this one. Terrence Tao is the owner of amazing IQ of 230. And he made a good use of it. Tao was able to calculate basic arithmetic with only 2 years of age and with 9 he already began to learn college mathematics. His PhD (from Princeton) came with only 20 years of age. He also won the gold medal on International Mathematics Olympiad with only 13 years. That was in 1988 but he also participated in 1986 when he won bronze medal and 1987 when he won the silver one. He is currently working on University of California in Mathematics department.
James Woods – IQ 180
The last person on our list could be familiar to you. James Woods is an actor and producer familiar for appearing in movies Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Salvador (1986), Casino (1995), Hercules (1997) or White House Down (2013). He appeared in many more movies and TV Shows. His awards include one Golden Globe Award, three Emmy Awards, three Satellite awards and many more awards and nominations for different movies and roles. He is also very familiar by his poker knowledge and great results at a lot of poker tournaments with 7th place on 2015 World Series of Poker being the most notable one. As far as his education it is good to mention that he had 800 on verbal and 779 on math SAT. He received scholarship to MIT but fell in love to acting and dropped out of college.
So, what do you think? If would be nice to be gifted like one of these people but I think all of us can work with what we have. If you want to find more information about these ten pretty smart people check out the infographic below (some information on that infographic could be outdated). Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:920e356a-307c-4562-aca6-9b608dd2094a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rumorfix.com/top-10-smartest-people-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.979352 | 1,831 | 2.234375 | 2 |
In this guest post, Diane Craig explores how the newer digital wireless hearing aids may provide a stressor that could contribute to brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and she shares 6 ways you can be proactive and protect yourself:
As my husband and I age, we’ve started noticing how more and more of our contemporaries are being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s and that more and more of them are wearing hearing aids. From personal experience, we also know how much hearing aid technology has changed in recent years.
Hearing loss, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s dementia all are more commonly experienced by older people, of course. They also differ.
When surveyed in 2019, one thousand adults in the United States responded that they considered the top two most unpleasant ways to die to be cancer (number one at 49%), and “[a] neurological disorder such as dementia or Parkinson’s disease” (number two at 30%). [ 1]
According to an American Parkinson Disease Association un-dated post, “Most patients die with Parkinson’s Disease and not from it. The illnesses that kill most people are the same as those that kill people with PD. These are heart conditions, stroke and cancer.” (see this article on Cancer)
Nevertheless, the National Parkinson Foundation in 2004 and again in 2014 had listed Parkinson’s disease as “the 14th leading cause of death in the U.S.” [3 ]
Due to poor balance and coordination issues, Parkinson’s patients are among those at risk for death from unintentional injuries. And by 2020, a new category, Unintentional Injuries, had surpassed Stroke to become a 4th leading U S cause of death .
Deaths in another new 2020 category, Covid-19, were 3rd.
These changes pushed Alzheimer’s disease from 6th to 7th place as a cause of death.
Here’s my question: Could the newer digital wireless hearing aids improve hearing but also provide a stressor that could contribute to brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s? I decided to find out what the research says.
Hub’s Saga Part One
Hub has had hearing loss probably since early childhood, though this wasn’t recognized until his draft board’s hearing test. Afterwards, instead of joining a tour to Vietnam, Hub caught the next bus home. He’s worn hearing aids for many years now.
Recently, Hub’s hearing aids had fallen apart. His old model couldn’t be replaced.
The newer models were somewhat less expensive than his old model had been. Still, they were costly. The hearing aid specialist showed Hub two options, both digital models that included wireless. One advantage of built-in wireless, the specialist explained, was that the hearing aids, by communicating with each other, could help Hub more easily determine a sound’s direction.
The bigger sales pitch was that Hub could connect his new hearing aids with other wireless devices such as cell phones.
Hub and I looked at each other. We didn’t own a smart phone. We didn’t want one. The hearing aids, like computers, would come with their wireless features already turned on. We wanted all wireless off. After being assured that this would be possible, Hub took his hearing test, chose the hearing-aid color that would appear behind his ear, and made an appointment for a fitting.
Wireless Radiation Possible Stressor: Frequency
Why did we want the wireless turned off? We knew that the cumulative impact from wireless radiation is a combination of three factors: the frequencies that are transmitted, the power densities of those pulsed transmissions when they reach one’s location, and the duration of exposures to them.
The frequencies used in wireless-enabled hearing aids are in the range of 2.4 GHz to 2.48 GHz. Bluetooth devices operate in this 2.4 GHz range. So do cordless phones, baby monitors, smart meters and microwave ovens.
Why do hearing aid manufacturers and others use frequencies so close to the one used for microwave ovens?
Microwave ovens arrived first, shortly after World War II. The 2.45 GHz frequency they used worked great for heating water and fat, and most of the wireless transmissions could be confined inside the ovens. (Read more about Microwave Oven Radiation.)
Later, as wireless communication uses proliferated, the Federal Communications Commission created a wireless category called the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands. These 2.4 GHz to 2.4835 GHz ISM bands don’t require any special licensing, and they are free for manufacturers of microwave ovens and other devices to use.
But are such devices safe for human use? Parts of me consist of water and fat, and my radio frequency radiation meter has, on more than one occasion, recognized microwave oven transmissions well into adjoining rooms.
Hub’s Saga Part Two
The fitting appointment lasted a long time. The model he had ordered didn’t come with any turning-off-the-wireless instructions, so the specialist called a tech support representative.
After a lengthy conversation, the specialist made the tech support representative’s indicated adjustments. Hub tried on the new hearing aids and seemed happy with their comfort and the sounds he could hear. I took out my meter, one that measured the radio frequency radiation that’s transmitted by all wireless devices. I turned the meter on and held it up to Hub’s head. Nothing changed. Whew! Click here to discover how to measure Radio Frequency Radiation in your home.
Sometime later, we visited a friend who wanted to show us a space she’d turned into a faraday cage, because faraday cages block wireless radiation. The moment Hub entered, her meter started beeping. Matter-of-factly, she said, “It’s probably because of your hearing aids.” As Hub left the area, her meter went silent.
That day, I had a different radio frequency radiation meter with me, so I tested with it just as she had. Like my previous meter, but unlike hers, this meter didn’t beep when the hearing aids were still attached to Hub’s ears. It did beep, however, once he’d removed the hearing aids. It stopped beeping when he opened the backs and inactivated the batteries.
Knowing that whatever had been done during Hub’s initial appointment to turn wireless off was not working now, we went back to the hearing aid specialist….
Wireless Radiation Possible Stressors: Power Density and Duration of Exposure
By this time, I’d read about a 2019 research study that exposed mice to 2.4GHz wireless radiation for two and four hours. It had concluded, “Our results provide evidence that Wi-Fi signals increase lipid peroxidation, SOD activity (oxidative stress), apoptosis and CDKN1A and GADD45a overexpression in mice placenta tissue.” See this article on “Is WiFi Safe?”.
My non-medically-trained mind more-or-less translated this as “Our results provide evidence that Wi-Fi radiation at the 2.4 GHz frequency degrades the fat-soluble energy reserves in mice placenta cell membranes, thereby increasing these cells’ oxidative stress and programmed cell death, at least partly due to over-expression by damaged genes.”
Even if my translation isn’t entirely accurate, it seemed to me that the placentas were rendered incapable of properly supporting unborn mice development.
In addition to frequency, the second and third factors in an individual’s total wireless radiation exposures are power density (the intensity of the wireless radiation that reaches the person) and the total duration of such exposures.
Power density drops off quickly with increasing distance from the wireless source; so, as we like to say with regard to wireless devices in general, “distance is our friend.” Wireless hearing aids communicate with each other through the head. The radiation power densities we measured by holding Hub’s hearing aids a heads’ width apart weren’t high, but inside Hub’s head they would be constant and unchanging, because Hub couldn’t move away from them.
As for duration of exposure, unlike Bluetooth headphones that people generally use for short periods, people generally wear their hearing aids 16 hours per day, every day.
So maybe all this information had me a little freaked out. I understand that the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) bases its rules for wireless radiation transmissions on their heating effect, called SAR (for Specific Absorption Rate). SAR measures how much heat is absorbed by a mannequin’s head filled with liquid.
I figured that heat due to a wireless hearing aid had to be much less than from a microwave oven. But, has this SAR standard been shown to be sufficient to guarantee human safety?
According to the non-profit Environmental Health Trust, “The SAR test dummy is based upon a large adult male (6’2” tall and 220 pounds) called the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin, or SAM. 97% of the population is smaller than the SAM model…. Research confirms that radiation absorption into a child’s head can be over two times greater, and absorption into the skull’s bone marrow can be ten times greater than adults.” [This article explains why children are more vulnerable.]
Hub’s Saga Part Three
At our next appointment, we explained what had happened. The specialist told us we were the only people who had asked to have the wireless function turned off. Since that hadn’t worked, he suggested that he enable the airplane mode function. As with a cell phone, this function would deactivate the wireless setting each time it was requested. After performing the proper steps to accomplish this, he seemed confused. But he showed Hub how to activate the airplane mode each time he turned the hearing aids on.
We went on our way, hugely relieved, at least until we met up with our friend and her super- meter. Once again, her meter started beeping when Hub was nearby. Again, mine did not.
This time, Hub called tech support himself. Tech support told him that both he and the hearing aid specialist had done all the right things to activate airplane mode. Were the hearing aids broken? Back to the hearing aid specialist. He took the hearing aids away and told us he’d get back to us when he had an answer.
The Search for Research
I asked pubmed.gov specifically, and the internet generally, about “wireless hearing aid SAR testing.”
PubMed provided references, but the ones I scanned didn’t seem to address the kind of research I was seeking.
The internet matches included one promising title: “Do Wireless Hearing Aids Present a Health Risk?” . The article was subtitled “The facts about electromagnetic radiation and wireless hearing aid technology.” The facts presented were accurate, and they supported my instinct that the SAR heating effect allowed for hearing aids is much less than for microwave ovens. These might have reassured me, except for three things:
(1) The 2017 article didn’t answer my question about whether this SAR standard is sufficient to guarantee human safety. It wasn’t published in a scientific journal, and its copyright is held by a for-profit company that provides “Advanced Healthcare & Technology Tools.” .
(2) The article’s information seemed outdated and incomplete. For example:
• The article cited an epidemiological study on “the effects of cellphone use on glioma risk” that was published in 2012,. It hadn’t been updated for a 2018 study that reported a higher incidence rate.
• The article stated that the World Health Organization (in 2006) and the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (in 2016) would both “continue to monitor and
promote research relating to the possible health impacts that might result from non-ionizing RF radiation.” I am not aware that any such monitoring or research has occurred.
• According to the article, “By design, hearing aids radiate extremely low levels of energy; therefore, the levels of electromagnetic energy that wireless hearing aids radiate are well below the maximum levels permitted by governing regulations.” . In fact, “The amount of electromagnetic radiation absorbed from wireless hearing aids is anywhere between 80 to 2,000 times less than what regulations would allow….”
The reason the third argument didn’t impress me is a 2004 pilot study of firefighters that was mentioned in an 2013 affidavit to the FCC. This document described firefighters’ “profound neurological symptoms following activation of [two nearby cell] towers in 1999.”
The firefighters’ neurological functioning was tested “objectively using T.O.V.A. testing [Test of Variables of Attention]” and by “SPECT [single-photon emission computed tomography] scans of the brain.” Both tests showed “abnormal” results for all the firefighters in the study. Upon later follow-up, “all [the] firefighters report[ed] profound memory loss.”
An unexpected result from the SPECT scans was “a pervasive, hyper-excitability of the neurons which suggested the exposure to RF (microwave) radiation was causing the neurons to continually fire, without rest. RF radiation appeared to act as a constant stimulant even when the men were away from the station, and in repose.”
This had occurred even though “The emissions from [the nearby cell] towers were measured at approximately 1/1000th to 1/500th of the FCC’s allowable limit. ‘Hot spots’ of reflected radiation were measured at 15 and 30 uW/cm2, yet these “hot spots” were still a fraction of what the FCC allows.”
(3) The comments published below the article were intriguing.
One person wrote, “I think that the neurotransmitter triggers are affected, and sustained use of connectivity may permanently impair neuro-stimulation within the cochlea.”
A second reader replied, “Interesting. I have been trying new … wireless aides for a month. Usually, I can get by, free of aides, in the morning with my family. Today, I was unable to hear them at all.”
A third individual wrote, “There’s a more important question than ‘does your hearing device COMPLY with Gov[ernmen]t Regulations?’ and that is ‘does your hearing aid in fact produce the actual radiation that is CAUSING your new-felt headaches?’”
Another person cited three studies showing “research evidence indicating damage to the auditory system from use of wireless phones,” adding, “There is also research evidence that even small amounts of RF such as from hearing aids can impact the brain.” This writer added, “There is a list of research on this at https://ehtrust.org/science/research-on-wireless-health-effects/ .”
A fifth commenter had a question: “I was wondering if I were to use the blue- tooth compatible hearing aids and turned that part off and just used the device working from the batteries, would that emit fewer EMF’s while still enabling my hearing?” I’ll let Hub answer that one.
Hub’s Saga Part Four
Hub and I adjusted to life without hearing aids. When I wanted to tell Hub something, I sought him out, then faced him before I spoke. In return, Hub got better at verbally confirming what he thought I’d said. We communicated with lightness and laughter – joyful sounds that we hadn’t realized had gone missing. Then, we got a call: Could we meet the specialist later that day?
The specialist had spent his time investigating. When he asked tech support to follow the airplane-mode-protocol they had laid out for him, they also encountered Hub’s problem. Eventually, it was the specialist who found one person within the company who knew the proper procedure and shared it with everyone else.
The specialist handed Hub hearing aids correctly adjusted to airplane mode, and he instructed Hub on how to re-activate this feature before each use.
Here’s Hub’s answer to the question asked above: With airplane mode activated, he can hear nearly as well as he did with the wireless functions. In addition, now when he holds his hearing aids together in his hand, they don’t squeal. When I bring my meter towards his palm, it also stays silent. Whew!
Summing Up and Moving On
Why hadn’t the hearing aid company tested its procedures and reviewed its specialist and patient manuals before marketing Hub’s hearing aids? Possibly it’s simply because nobody thought to do so. No such testing or pre-marketing reporting is required by the Federal Communications Commission.
As for the rest of us, we can be proactive, by applying the six steps that follow:
1# Practice Self Care
Until more is known, we can ask our hearing aid specialists to enable the airplane mode function on our wireless hearing aids and to train us in its use. We can encourage those we care about to do the same.
In addition, we can purchase a radio frequency radiation meter (most include the 2.4-2.48 GHz frequency range). Such meters measure radiation power density from wireless devices in our environment, allowing us to become aware of our exposures. (View this article on choosing a good EMF Meter)
Regarding microwave ovens: By 2013, several medical researchers and doctors were concerned about the number of small children who needed treatment for “microwave-related burns.” By asking questions, they determined that these children’s severe burns occurred “while retrieving heated food and liquids from microwave ovens.” The medical professionals reasoned that it would help matters if microwave ovens were made “more difficult for small children to open.” To follow up, they proposed that Underwriters Laboratories “update … UL 923, the Standard for Microwave Cooking Appliances.”
In 2014, an Underwriters Laboratories’ Standards Technical Panel (STP), composed “of stakeholders from various interest groups, including government agencies, consumer reporting groups, consumers, manufacturers and supply chain companies” , reviewed the proposal but “did not reach [the] consensus” required to proceed.
However, In 2016, medical researchers published “a report on national estimates of microwave- related burn injuries among young children” .
In 2017, a national task force was formed.
In 2018, the task force submitted a new proposal to Underwriters Laboratories, one that addressed concerns “such as the need to ensure that a childproof design would not present an issue for elderly or disabled users.”
Underwriters Laboratories’ STP accepted the new proposal that year.
As a result, updated UL-923 standards will take effect in 2023.
3# Develop Perspective
In 2021, we don’t hear much about children’s scalds from handling microwaved food. That’s probably because microwave oven manufacturers didn’t have to wait until 2023 to begin making safer microwave ovens.
One lesson here is how the scientific method takes time. In this case, an initial observation period (of children’s burns) was followed by a hypothesis period as to possible cause (easily- opened microwave oven doors), then a research period (gathering information on numbers of “microwave-related burn injuries” ), and a peer review period prior to publication.
A second lesson is how additional action, based on science, was necessary for create change. For UL-923, that change happened within two years.
My initial question was, “Could the newer digital wireless hearing aids improve hearing but also provide a stressor that could contribute to brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?”
All I could determine was that hearing aid sales, hearing aid usage, and various Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s statistics all have increased over the past several years. I couldn’t find data or studies that would tie these increases together. If anyone reading this knows of them, I’d be thrilled to hear! Otherwise, let’s…
4# Advocate for Safety and Common Sense
There’s nothing to prevent independent researchers or even the FCC from paying attention, not just to what the engineers who set ISM band standards in1985 knew about how wirelessheating works, but to the work of medical scientists who have been working since that time to determine how wireless heating and/or other qualities affect people.
We can advocate that researchers investigate, to find out if wireless hearing aids could be a risk factor for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diagnoses and disease outcomes.
In the United States, there’s one agency that potentially could make researchers’ job easier. This agency both sells a lot of hearing aids and manages a lot of health information for its clients. It’s the U S Department of Veterans Affairs.
Can we agree that our veterans, like our firefighters, are important First Responders?
As the firefighters’ test results illustrate, it’s important to know not just how things work (that’s physics), but also how things work on people and other living things (that’s biology).
5# Support Solutions
In addition to new epidemiological research of U S veterans and/or others, one additional way to learn about possible harmful biological effects from wireless radiation would be to require that wireless devices be tested for safety using biological tools such as the SPECT and other new technologies that directly measure biological effects.
I have just two new questions:
(1) Is there anyone out there who is interested in pursuing epidemiological research regarding my initial question, possibly with the cooperation of the Department of Veterans Affairs?
(2) is there anyone out there who is interested in pursuing testing of biological effects from wireless devices?
Underwriters Laboratories is a non-profit organization. Its tag lines are, “Dedicated to Safety”, “Guided by Science.”
For anyone interested in learning more, Underwriters Laboratories has a “contact us” link.
6# Create Change
About the time those many years ago when Hub caught that bus and others boarded a flight to Vietnam, airways in both places broadcast “500 Miles,” a song originally by Hedy West. This time around, the song’s musicians were a trio, called Peter, Paul and Mary.
More than three decades later, that same Mary wrote these lyrics:
“Ah, you know I’ve always loved you
And I know you’ve loved me too
So it’s hard to watch you crumble
And forget all that you knew…
“Memory moves us past each other
Time is a ribbon without an end
Love is the lesson we keep learning
Death but a moment we must spend.”
To create change, we too must “keep learning.” And, for us as well as for Mary, “Love is the lesson” that motivates our efforts.
Many thanks to Diane Craig for this guest post.
For more than 30 years, Diane Craig has advocated for persons diagnosed with celiac disease. From 2013 to 2018, among other activities as a board member for the California non-profit Celiac Support Group, she helped draft a petition to the FDA to label gluten in drugs and wrote blog posts to help publicize research regarding the then-new concept of Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity.
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Brazil is a world leader in phishing attacks, with one in five Internet users in the country targeted at least once in 2020, according to research.
According to the report on phishing by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, Brazil tops a list of five countries with the highest rate of users targeted for data theft throughout last year. The other nations cited are Portugal, France, Tunisia and French Guiana.
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We are all fascinated by those breathtaking pictures taken from space. In fact, the space is so mysteriously beautiful that we cannot help but be hypnotized by the fabulous images of galaxies, nebulas, and star collisions. These images indeed represent the magnificent space art, which is actually unreachable and extremely dangerous for humans and this is exactly what makes them so stunning.
A Brief History of Space Images
Despite the fact that space images are considered to be art the reason they actually appeared was science. Astrophysicists watched the night sky through telescopes as a part of their investigations that were supposed to prove or bust theories of the universe birth. So they took lots of pictures of space objects by means of powerful telescopes because needed those images for their researches.
The fun fact about space images is they are actually black and white simply because you cannot take color high definition pictures and videos of the objects that are thousands and millions of light-years away. Thus, the black and white space images are being colored by scientists after they have been taken. Certainly, the scientists do not just randomly color these pictures just to make them look fancy. They actually color the images according to the chemical elements that a particular space object consists of as well as according to the temperature of an object. What is more interesting that blue spots on these fancy galaxy images are the hottest and the red ones are the coldest. As you can see, creating a pretty space image that you can use as your desktop background is actually a big deal and a lot of work. So next time you see a fancy galaxy image, have a moment of appreciation for those who took and colored that picture.
Where and How to Use Galaxy Background in Web Design
Different textures are rather popular in web design for the reason that they can really make a site special and unique. Certainly, with no exaggeration, fabulous space textures are among the most popular ones in the field of web design. Perhaps the most common (and probably the only) way to use space images in web design is galaxy background.
In fact, galaxy backgrounds can work for various types of websites from personal blogs to online shops. Such a background will not only make your website fancy but a little mysterious and magical as well. Remember just a couple of years ago when Tumblr was at its best, space backgrounds and galaxy images were the ultimate must-haves for fancy and mysterious blogs? Well, Tumblr might not be as popular today as it was earlier, but space textures still got it.
At the same time, such a background will not work for such websites as a baby clothing online store or a huge corporation official website, yet it will definitely suit a tattoo salon site, a creative portfolio, or a personal blog. While working with space textures you have to make sure that they will suit a particular website, its style as well as its main message. Space background can both ruin and bring your site to the top and it only depends on how and where you use it, so you want to be careful with it.
How to Create a Star Field
Well, using actual space images in your projects might be a problem, since some of them can be subject to copyright. Yet it should never scare you or stop you from using galaxy backgrounds in your projects since you can create them by yourself in Adobe Photoshop. So let us figure out how to do that.
Create a new document in Photoshop.
Fill the document with black color (Edit > Fill > Color > OK).
Add noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise), choose the 100% amount, and check Monochrome.
Head to the layers panels and select your background layer.
Duplicate the layer and hide the new one.
Blur your first background layer (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) using the amount of 0.5 pixels.
Make little stars (Image > Adjustments > Levels > Input Levels) and then enter the following values 200, 0.42, 255.
Make large stars (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) using 2 pixels value.
Adjust your stars (Image > Adjustments > Levels > Input Levels) and enter these values – 170, 1, 172.
Add more blur using a radius of 1px.
That is pretty much it. You are done! Congratulations!
Here is a short video guide if you need some visuals.
Galaxy Brushes for Photoshop
If you want to create something more elaborate, you might be interested in some galaxy brushes for Photoshop. These pre-made brushes will help you create a more or less accurate galaxy images for your space background as well as save you a lot of your precious time. You can find both free and premium brushes on such resources as MyPhotoshopBrushes. So if you are interested in creating some galaxy backgrounds for your projects or just for fun, go ahead and get some fancy Photoshop brushes.
Free Space Backgrounds
Another way to get a free space background is to download one from a stock images website like Unsplash, for example. These images are royalty-free, which means that you can use them in your projects or just enjoy having them as your desktop background. So go ahead and check some dope free space backgrounds on stock images resources.
If you are really fond of dope fancy backgrounds, you might want to check out some premium, yet rather affordable, space background bundles from MasterBundles. So here are some of the best space bundles for web design.
Galaxy Backgrounds Collection
Price: $4 This bundle contains a pretty decent for its price amount of high definition space images for all occasions, so you might want to give it a try.
Purple & Pink Galaxy Backgrounds
Price: $4 This very space bundle has lots of high-quality galaxy backgrounds that will simply stun you with their beauty. The bundle is quite affordable, so it will be a great option for beginners.
Galaxy, Space Navy Backgrounds
Price: $4 Another cool and affordable galaxy bundle in navy colors. This very bundle is the ultimate must-have for all the web designers out there.
Price: $24 If you want to spice up your space background just a little bit, then why not add some aliens to it? Well, this very bundle is the way to go for that. It comes with over 800 detailed alien overlays, which gives you a pretty wide choice. So do not hesitate and give it a shot.
Galaxy, Space Purple Backgrounds
Price: $4 This one is another affordable option just out of space. Designed in purple colors, the images within this very bundle will definitely make you fall in love with them. So make your future projects magical with some dope backgrounds from this very bundle.
Brown Galaxy, Space Backgrounds
Pink Galaxy Space Backgrounds
Price: $4 Last, but surely not least, Pink Galaxy Space Backgrounds bundle. This is another affordable option that contains dozens of fancy pink space backgrounds that will definitely make your website simply awesome. So why not give it a shot? Well, there are a lot of cool and what is more important affordable space web design bundles for your current and future projects, so go ahead and get some.
Price: $29 Galaxy Colors Collection is a really huge bundle with more than 1500 elements for literally all occasions. So if you are a web designer who has a whole bunch of creative projects, this very bundle is definitely the way to go for you. More info
Showcase of Websites Where Galaxy Background Is Used
Well, we have already talked about how popular space backgrounds are, which means that it is the very time to check out some real websites that have this very background. So here they come – websites where galaxy background is used. Air Social 12 Wave Alessio Santangelo Brandon Johnson As you can see, space background is a great solution for personal websites and portfolios, especially if your occupation is connected with space science or if you are a creative person who loves space.
Galaxy and stars as a popular web design trend
In the past few years, humanity has made great progress in space and star research. People are only talking about the flight of Pluto, the first landing of the Falcon 9 orbital rocket and so forth. Not surprisingly, the latest design trends are also directly related to the theme of space and constellations. The galaxy trend is not only popular among scientists and lovers of looking at the night sky. Designers are also keen to be inspired by research into the universe. The galaxy theme is everywhere: in graphics, interiors, fashionable outfits, website designs. Galaxy trend is gaining momentum and not going to stop. True creative individuals will certainly appreciate this trend in design.
What is “Galaxy design”?
Each design is unique, in this case galaxy is no different from other trends. However, you should not think that it is only about black space depths. First of all, it is the exploration of the undiscovered. Most of the space is still unknown to us, and design uses this greatest mystery, playing on our desire to know the mysteries of the universe. It is also a great opportunity to stimulate the imagination, because the less you know, the more you think. Finally, the galaxy and stars theme is integrally connected with technical progress, which is developing in seven-mile steps. Whether it is the latest features of Smart Homes or the improvement of drones, the future is what makes us think. The new galaxy trend is pushing us to do the same. So, the galaxy theme is exciting and thought-provoking, it is a blessing for the development of new design concepts. The first distinctive feature of space design is color. Black in the first place, of course, but this is just the beginning. The trend tends to be towards neutral pure colors, because the space is full of all shades:
Neutral colors are perfectly combined with the rest of the palette, creating harmonious color combinations. Moreover, they are not too “emotional”. However, in galaxy design there are not only neutral colors: the trend may boast a small, but interesting set of completely new shades. For example, mineral tones that emphasize lightness, and even a certain simplicity of design. These colors include many different variations. And most importantly, all shades refer to the cold part of the color palette, giving the galaxy design cool, and relaxing character. In general, the colors in this trend are very specific, causing associations with the mystery of the cosmic depths and the starry sky.
Space backgrounds, abstraction, and dynamics
The only thing we really know about space is that we know almost nothing about it. So the space design is very abstract. It is directly designed for abstraction. The idea of the movement also plays a significant role in the trend of space and stars. Whether it is graphic design or interior elements, you can see the movement more or less clearly everywhere. Movement in design is closely associated with the idea of dynamics, action. Dynamic design is always more interesting, it makes the audience focus: focus on the movement. The effect of the dynamics is created by using the following elements:
a variety of stars and effects to them
different flying objects with funny effects
astronauts in open space
rockets of take-off
space dust in the starry sky, etc.
Space backgrounds, textures and patterns
Look at the galaxy design and you will immediately notice the amazing variety of textures. Texture is a powerful design element. It not only provokes unpredictable emotions, but also creates a fascinating effect that cannot be ignored. Space textures in web design can imitate the surface of the moon in hills and craters, creating a recognizable effect of the celestial body. Other texture backgrounds can be linked to the constellation theme and display a contrasting effect. Here are a small number of very bright, and unique bundles, which contain a huge number of elements.
Space images will never stop fascinating us because what else can be more beautiful, more sophisticated, more magnetizing, and more hypnotizing? Certainly, such a stunningly beautiful thing as a space background is widely used in web design and I do not even have to explain why. In fact, there are many great resources like MasterBundles where you can find some drop-dead beautiful space backgrounds for your web design projects. So next time you start a new project, consider using some space patterns in order to make it truly special and unique. Have you used galaxy backgrounds in your projects? Share your experience in the comment section below!
Is contrast important in galaxy design?
Contrast is extremely important: it allows the eye to “grab” the basic elements at once, and catch the balance. Contrast is also present in space design: in developing backgrounds, designers use dark tones of neutral colors, so that objects in the foreground become more visible and eye-catching.
Why has space been a trend for so many years?
The fashion for using space motifs in web design is not losing its position. And this is not surprising! First of all, space is beautiful. Secondly, it is a mystery that attracts the eye. It is synonymous with a happy future, a symbol of the latest technology.
Can I create the cosmic background myself?
I don’t think that this is a problem. You can use tutorials that are on the Internet. Or if you know Photoshop well enough and have some ideas, you can implement them! The most important thing is to be sure and take risks !
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Space theme today is popular and in demand in web design. Space is quite a fashionable element in design. There is a lot of talk about space in the news, especially after the discovery of a new planet – the ninth. In addition, many other projects, whether it is a design studio site or a business company, in one way or another used separate elements of the space theme. There are many different articles about galaxy on the Internet, and the way space elements are used in web design and other areas. Therefore, a lot of interesting and scientific information was processed to write this post.
Article about Galaxy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy)
What Is a Galaxy? (https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/galaxy/en/)
Galaxies—facts and information. (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/galaxies/)
Our Large, Adult Galaxy Is As Massive As 890 Billion Suns. (https://www.livescience.com/our-galaxy-is-so-big-good-lord.html)
Chris Hadfield. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. Back Bay Books; 2015.
Neil deGrasse Tyson. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries. W. W. Norton & Company; 2014.
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Just like televisions, laptop displays start to flicker too after a few years. You may sometimes also notice the display turning blank even when the laptop is on. Alternatively, you might find some white lines running down the display.
We have listed down some of the most common laptop display problems along with some DIY solutions…
Laptop Doesn’t Turn On
This doesn’t necessarily mean that there is an issue with the motherboard. If your laptop keeps turning off every few minutes and doesn’t turn on, there is a high chance that the AC adapter has malfunctioned. You can get help from a professional to confirm and get the AC adapter replaced, if required. There is also a possibility that the DC power jack may have broken. A DC connector (or DC plug) is an electrical connector that supplies steady power to the device.
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If the DC jack has broken, you can try adjusting the plug’s angle in its jack. If you see some lights turning on but the device is still not booting, it’s time to replace the DC jack. If that doesn’t help, it’s a clear indication of a motherboard-related issue. You can either get the motherboard repaired or replaced by the brand service center. Getting the motherboard repaired could cost you anywhere up to Rs 10,000, whereas the cost of replacing the motherboard can go anywhere up to Rs 25,000.
Coloured Vertical Lines On The Display
If you ever notice multi-coloured or single-coloured vertical lines on your laptop screen, it may be a result of a hardware failure or due to damage to the screen. To try fixing it yourself, first unplug your laptop, hold the power button for 30 seconds and restart the laptop. If you continue to see coloured lines, the issue is probably with the LCD screen, which will need to be replaced from the brand’s service center. To be sure about the LCD screen problem, try connecting your laptop to another monitor and see if the issue persists. If it does, the issue is certainly in the LCD panel.
On turning on the laptop when you see the lights blinking and hear the fan working but if the laptop screen is blank and doesn’t display anything, this is again an indication of a faulty motherboard. The first thing to do is to transfer all the data to another drive to make sure your data is safe. Before going ahead and getting the motherboard repaired or replaced, you could try performing a hard reset (also known as a factory reset), which can mostly help in resolving the blank display issue.
To hard reset your laptop:
1. Turn off your laptop and disconnect it from the power socket.
2. Disconnect all the connected devices like USB devices and printers. Also unplug the AC adapter from the laptop
3. Remove the battery from the battery compartment
4. With the battery and power cord unplugged, press and hold the power button for about 20 seconds to drain any charge from the capacitors
5. Now, place the battery back in the battery compartment and plug the AC adapter back into the laptop but do not connect any other devices.
6. Press the power button to turn on the laptop and you will notice that the laptop starts normally or a startup menu opens
7. If a startup menu opens, use the arrow keys to select Start Windows Normally, and then press ‘Enter’
In case, this doesn’t help you could get the motherboard checked.
Firstly, check if your laptop’s brightness level is set to maximum. If the display is still dim, try restarting the device. This could just be a system error that can be resolved by restarting the device. Also, check if the AC adapter cord is loose and firmly connect it to the outlet and laptop. If the issue still persists, it is mostly due to a failure of the LCD. Behind the LCD, there is an inverter board and backlight bulb which control the picture.
The inverter board converts the low voltage your laptop uses, into higher voltage required by the long bulb that lights up the LCD screen. If the inverter board or bulb fail, you will experience the problem of a dimmed display. Even if one of these two components fail, the screen will need to be replaced, unless the service center can help by just replacing the bulb. We wouldn’t recommend you try resolving it yourself, as this is more complex and you could end up damaging the circuit board and the backlight lamp. So, it’s best to leave this job to an expert.
Cracked Laptop Display
Laptops are fragile and can easily break, especially with more and more thinner and lighter models being launched now. Some of the most common ways how a laptop is damaged include: when it accidentally falls and the screen cracks, when it’s held at an awkward angle or if you unknowingly placed something heavy on the laptop. Remember, a cracked laptop screen can affect the overall functioning of the device in some cases.
Since brands do not cover the laptop screen, it’s best to get your device covered with a protection plan in advance. Screen replacements are expensive and can cost you anywhere up to Rs. 15,000 but if you have the Spills and Drops Protection Plan, you need not worry about spending extra on repairs, as any damage to the display or device is covered in the plan.
Another option is to protect your laptop for longer with our extended warranty plan. Onsitego Extended Warranty covers all the defects and malfunctions covered in a standard manufacturer’s warranty for up to 4 years, apart from the manufacturer’s warranty.
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March 1, 2018
Online tool promotes tree success
Poor soil content, improper management practices and incorrect tree species selection are chronic problems. Tree replacement is costly, reducing the social and ecological benefits of a greener landscape. Vineland Research and Innovation Centre of Vineland, Ont., has launched greeningcanadianlandscape.ca, featuring a soil remediation calculator and tree species selector. The soil remediation calculator is user-friendly, offering access to instantly generated reports. The tree species selector draws on a broad species database, generating optimal tree selection recommendation based on user criteria. Although tree selections are currently suited to eastern Canada, with Ontario-specific pest and disease notes, efforts are under way to customize the website for central Canada with Alberta-specific pest and disease notes. Currently, trees hardy as far north as USDA Zone two and as far south as Zone 6 have been included. | <urn:uuid:69554151-2cf4-457b-81d0-655b9ab2d689> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://horttrades.com/online-tool-promotes-tree-success-03-2018 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.940119 | 178 | 2.984375 | 3 |
… She Relied on Sympathetic Journalists for PR
Patrick Jephson, Princess Diana’s Chief of Staff and one of the world’s leading PR experts on personal PR and branding is one of the keynote speakers at the Global PR Summit Accra, Africa’s leading international PR event, taking place from 18-19 February at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.
His work for Princess Diana involved daily contact with officials at all levels up to head of state. He organised Diana’s public duties and journeyed with her to destinations on five continents encountering personalities as diverse as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President George H W Bush, Mother Teresa, Luciano Pavarotti and the Emperor of Japan.In this interview Patrick discusses the Princess’s life, achievements, as well as the mysteries surrounding her tragic death.
You had the privilege to work for one the world’s most fascinating personalities. How did you start working for the Princess?
I was a career officer in the Royal Navy and, following extended time at sea, was selected to serve as Princess Diana’s military aide (the palace title is “equerry”). This was expected to be a two year appointment after which I was due to return to naval duty. But as my tenure was drawing to a close, it became clear that the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was in deep difficulty and that what had been a united household would soon split into two. So the Princess asked me to leave the navy and become her first – and only – chief of staff, tasked with setting up her independent office and heading her entire organization. In the words of Oscar-winning film maker David Puttnam I was “the producer of the Diana show.”
You started working for the Princess at the time when she was still married to Prince Charles. I have always wondered whether Prince Charles’s affair with Mrs Bowles was the only reason for their divorce.
The Prince’s covert but longstanding and well-organized affair with Mrs Parker-Bowles was certainly the ultimate cause of the divorce. But the Prince’s requirement for the affair grew from unhappiness in his marriage, rooted in his inability to reconcile himself with his wife’s extraordinary popularity. Had he been able to take pleasure and even pride in Diana’s success then I believe the marriage would have survived and even thrived, creating the basis for a highly successful reign as king and queen. But it was not to be. Instead, the atmosphere of deceit required to perpetuate the Prince’s affair tainted the entire organization resulting, among other demeaning consequences, in his advisors attempting to blame the Princess’s mental state for the failure of the marriage.
In recent years there have been many speculations that the Princess was the ultimate PR machine perfectly capable of manipulating the media. It seems that she positioned herself as the victim with Prince Charles as Britain’s greatest villain. What is your view on this?
Ironically, it was Prince Charles who employed an increasingly-elaborate press office to influence media opinion in his favor both during and after his marriage. For example, after Diana’s death, his office facilitated the release of the book Charles: Victim or Villain? which advanced a quack “diagnosis” that Diana was mentally unstable. I still find this and similar attempts to deface and diminish the Princess’s reputation utterly contemptible. The work of the Prince’s image-builders continues to this day as they attempt to win public acquiescence in his bid to make Camilla queen when he ascends the Throne. By contrast Diana never employed even a single press officer and relied on her record of hard work on behalf of unfashionable but deserving good causes (such as Aids, leprosy, drug addiction and homelessness) to build a bedrock of popular support. However, she was aware that the establishment media strongly favored her husband in their marital dispute so on some occasions she resorted to briefing sympathetic journalists to restore a degree of balance. I disapproved of these tactics but understood why she felt entitled to retaliate in this way.
For many she was the Princess of Hearts but I have always wondered what was she like in private? What were her biggest fears?
Like many significant historical figures, Diana was not always an easy boss to serve. She was an aristocrat to her finger tips, capable of steely defiance if she felt she had been the victim of injustice. She was also a consummate royal professional who set high standards for herself and her team. She knew that the public’s affection was earned through hard work and placed on all royal people a special obligation to live up to historic expectations of duty and sacrifice. And she was extraordinarily observant, intuitive, organized and quick-witted; I learned very early in my royal career that even a small mistake would be noticed and would often earn her displeasure. But by the same token, she was equally quick to appreciate hard work and her many handwritten notes of appreciation remain among my most treasured mementoes. As for fears, she had many: the safety and happiness of her children; any attempt to constrain her rights as mother of the future king; failure to live up to the public’s ever-higher expectations of her. She also feared, in light of her barren home life and her husband’s infatuation with Mrs Parker-Bowles, that she would never find emotional fulfillment. Despite some well-known romantic dalliances, I don’t think she ever did. Instead I believe she never ceased to love her husband and what she interpreted as her failure to be sufficient for him was sad confirmation of the worst of all her fears.
What is your fondest memory of your time with the Princess?
It’s hard to pick a single fondest memory. In eight years of very close contact, in good times and bad, in extraordinary situations all over the world, there’s a kaleidoscope of memories that compete for top spot. Private moments were best, when she could be herself and when her vulnerability or simple courage and good-humor might have melted the stoniest heart. For example, her determination not to be intimidated by her critics earned my admiration, as did her spontaneous and freely-expressed compassion for people afflicted with every kind of sickness and ill fortune. From observing these experiences I also drew my most valuable lesson: in any walk of life, people have the choice to earn the rare quality best described as “forgivability.” Some people pay fortunes for PR agencies (and press officers) in the hope that they can buy it, but never with long term success. Instead it must be earned through sustained, modest hard work and emotional authenticity. This quality of “forgivability” and how to acquire it, now forms the basis of my work as a reputation consultant.
You resigned from the position of Private Secretary to the Princess a year before her death. Where were you when you heard about her tragic accident?
I was at home in the country. It was still night but I was unable to sleep so went downstairs to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. I noticed a message on the answerphone – it was a newspaper editor asking if I had any comment on “the terrible news about Princess Diana.” I switched on the TV and, like people all over the world, sat in shock as the story unfolded. Strangely, a part of me almost wasn’t surprised: watching her tease photographers from the Fayed yacht in the South of France I felt I was witnessing her final estrangement from the role of queen-in-waiting which had been her status for the years during which I had served her. Whatever her future might have held, it would not have been as a first-rank regal operator, and more likely as some celebrity attachment to a status-hungry millionaire.
Her relationship with Dodi Al Fayed seemed to be fatal. There were speculations that they were engaged and that she was even pregnant when she died? Do you think their relationship was serious?
It’s not fair to try to judge such a thing but really I doubt it very much.
Even 18 years after her death some continue to speculate that hear death wasn’t an accident. What is your view on this?
I testified at the Inquest into her death and listened to almost all the testimony. I think it reached the right conclusion: Diana’s death was the result of an accident. In the intervening years I have remained certain that it was nothing more mysterious than the predictable final link in a chain of events set in train by the inept arrangements made for her security. Of greater interest to me is why there was never an inquest into her life – into that other chain of events, the one that took her as an idealistic young bride from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1981 and set her down sixteen years later in Paris at the epicenter of a fatally chaotic night of incompetence, machismo, alcohol and speed.
The recent Diana movie starring Naomi Watts bombed at the box office. Where you involved in the making of the movie? Have you seen it?
Haven’t seen it – and have no plans to do so. From what I hear the makers did not attach much importance to factual accuracy.
It seems the public’s interest in the Princess has declined over the years. 18 years after her death, what do you think is Diana’s strongest legacy?
To the contrary, my experience is that Diana and her life story are of enduring interest all over the world and especially in America where I now live. She remains the prism through which most of the world views all subsequent royal events – especially those involving her children. Her place in history as a highly significant figure of the late 20th Century is now assured, despite continuing efforts by a misguided minority to promote Camilla Parker Bowles at her expense. Part of the appeal is that her experiences – love, motherhood, betrayal, divorce, renewal – are understood and shared by millions worldwide. What’s more her courage in adversity and her unswerving devotion to humanitarian causes despite her personal unhappiness make her a role model for all those – women especially – who aspire to see good things come from misfortune. Duty, beauty and sacrifice are powerful cross-cultural images and Princess Diana will always be celebrated as the graceful embodiment of all three.
PRNigeria, the leading PR platform in Nigeria is the Media Partner for Global PR Summit Accra. For more info about Patrick’s session at the Global PR Summit Accra and others please visit the event’s official website: http://www.thepworld.com/pevents/event/109/global-pr-summit-accra
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What is the Future of Software Testing? may be found on this site. This will assist you in comprehending the Future of Software Testing.
Software testing has developed over the previous few decades in terms of both the tools used to execute certain jobs and the attitude of individuals who use those tools. With the assistance of qualified specialists, Software Testing Training in Chennai provides the finest testing training.
Previously, only a few tools were utilised in software testing; currently, we have a multitude of tools to select from, ranging from proprietary to open source. Similarly, people have come to think of testers as information brokers rather than gatekeepers. These developments are the result of technological progress.
Around five years ago, everyone talked about mobile-first and giving a mobile experience to customers through mobile web, native, and hybrid applications. The latest buzzword is artificial intelligence. It is self-driving cars, home assistants, computer vision, health care, finance, and, most recently, software testing.
They are primarily concerned with UI-based test automation—the more tests the user provides, the better the algorithm learns, resulting in more stable tests.
DevOps has improved collaboration between software development and operations teams by enabling continuous automation and monitoring across the software development lifecycle. FITA Academy‘s Software Testing Online Course provides 100% placement assistance.
QA as a Service
Qantas is comparable to SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS is currently available. It has become a popular option for enterprises seeking to satisfy their software testing requirements.
The Internet of Things
The great thing about these devices is the number of discussions and integrations every second.
The data acquired by your mobile app should communicate efficiently with the desktop, mobile web, and tablet versions of the app, and all communications between devices should take place in real-time.
Robots for testing are now available. Some may find this alarming in terms of job security, but I continue to think that the human intellect is irreplaceable. The ideal location to develop your testing skills is through a Software Testing Course in Bangalore.
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811,363 men and women worldwide suffer hair loss, according to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. Based on the same data, this symptom starts at age 30 to 39 years old.
Noticeable or not, it is a concern widely shared between the sexes. What causes it, and what can be done to treat and prevent it from coming back?
Of the many different causes of this symptom, genetics is the most common. Androgenetic alopecia or genetic hair thinning happens as a person ages. To know if you have androgenetic alopecia, simply observe your parents, your aunt, and uncles or your grandparents. Do they have similar or greater amounts of this symptom? One way a dermatologist can diagnose if you have androgenetic alopecia is by magnifying your scalp. A variation in follicle size is an indication that you may have genetic hair loss.
Stress is also its major cause. In fact, there are three types of hair loss associated with stress, and these are telogen effluvium, trichotillomania, and alopecia areata.
Hair growth occurs in two stages – the growing stage and the resting stage. In telogen effluvium, stress pushes hair follicles into their resting stage, which over time, makes affected hair strands weak, causing them to fall.
Trichotillomania is hair loss associated with hair pulling. Although uncommon, hair pulling is one-way people deal with stress.
In alopecia areata, the body’s immune system, in reaction to stress, attacks the hair follicles, which then causes hair to fall.
Another cause of it is the use of certain medicines, such as birth control pills, anti-depressants, and anabolic steroids. The good news about this is that it is only a temporary symptom. Check with your GP if this symptom is a side effect of a medicine you are taking. You can ask for a prescription for a similar drug that does not have this symptom as a side effect.
The lack of Vitamin D in the body is also a cause of hair loss. Vitamin D is responsible for regulating hair follicle growth, and without a substantial amount of it in the body can cause hair to thin and fall out.
Hair Loss in Men
More than 95% of hair loss in men is caused by androgenetic alopecia, according to the American Hair Loss Association. Considerable losing hair symptom starts at age 35, and by the age of 50, men will significantly have thin hair.
Hair loss in men starts at the crown. It is characterized by a receding hairline or a frontal recession, followed by baldness at the vertex, then near-total baldness. Hair loss is said to have already advanced once only a rim of hair is left on the sides of the scalp.
While this symptom in men is mainly hereditary, medical treatments can be done to improve its condition.
Hair Loss in Women
Unlike in men, hair loss in women is more hidden but tends to be more widespread. It starts in the hairline and spreads out over time. Only at such time will the bald area be noticeable.
Aside from heredity, a variety of conditions also cause hair loss in women.
Hormonal imbalance and change have been known to cause temporary hair loss. It has been common among women to experience it during pregnancy, childbirth, or just before the onset of menopause.
Alopecia areata is also common among women wherein the immune system attacks hair follicles, which leaves around and smooth bald patches on the scalp. Skin infections, such as ringworms, and skin disorders, such as lupus and sarcoidosis, are also its common causes in women.
Additionally, poor hair care and hairstyling have been found to its cause. Traction alopecia is a form of this symptom caused by tight ponytails and wrongly applied hair extensions.
Aside from these two, blow-drying wet hair, regularly using hair irons, and applying chemicals on the scalp frequently, can damage hair follicles, which leads to hair loss over time.
A popular treatment for hair loss is medication. The application of minoxidil lotion on the scalp twice a day has been known to stimulate hair growth. It is a lotion that can be easily bought over the counter and can be used by both men and women. Although there are side effects to its use, such as scalp irritation and rapid heart rate, the effects of minoxidil can be seen after four months. The application of minoxidil lotion must be regular to achieve lasting results. Discontinuing minoxidil lotion halts the improvement as well.
Finasteride is a tablet that has been scientifically tested to promote hair re-growth and slow down hair loss. A prescription is needed to purchase finasteride, and a tablet must be taken once a day. Additionally, finasteride is an option available only for men. Finasteride works by decreasing the blood and scalp concentrations of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is associated with androgenetic alopecia. However, unwanted side effects include cold sweats, dizziness, and chills. And like minoxidil lotion, finasteride must be taken continuously to sustain hair growth and improve the effects of hair loss.
Another approach to treating losing hair symptoms in males and females is through medical procedures.
Hair transplants or hair restoration surgeries are done to make the most out of the remaining hair. Tiny plugs of skin containing a few hairs are removed from the back or sides of the scalp and are then planted on its bald sections.
Laser therapy is also a medical procedure to treat hair loss. A low-level laser device is used on the scalp, and based on cases; laser therapy is effective in minimizing this symptom.
Drastic as it is, it is important to decide how you feel about hair loss first before seeking hair transplant and laser therapy since both are expensive and can cause side effects. Also, did you know that if it is due to a medical prescription, a wig can be covered by your health insurance?
Hair loss can be prevented provided that stress, the use of certain medicines, vitamin D deficiency, and certain hairstyles are its causes.
Regulate your daily stressors, and if needed, practice breathing exercises to keep your mind and body calm and at ease.
Get a prescription for alternative medicine that does not have hair loss as its side effects, and get adequate vitamin D from the sun and certain fruits and vegetables.
Be careful with hairstyles and hair products that you use as well. Especially when it comes to hair care for women, make it a point to reduce pressure on your scalp whenever you comb, brush or style your hair.
Additionally, ensure that you have adequate protein and iron in your diet. Nuts, eggs, green leafy vegetables, poultry, dried fruits, figs, and spirulina are great sources of these nutrients.
For women who experience temporary losing hair symptoms due to hormonal imbalances and changes, rest assured that hair will go back to its healthy state once your body has recovered. Regulate your stress levels too as stress coupled with irregularities in hormones may lead to longer periods of hair loss.
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Do you want to be more productive? Wouldn’t we all! Sometimes, just changing our mindset about what personal productivity means can make us more productive.
Mike Vardy believes productivity isn’t about being productive, it’s about “ productive”. He says the key to being productive is making time for self-reflection, something most of us never do.
He’s on a mission to put the “personal” back into personal productivity. After all, we all have our own unique ingredients for what makes us productive.
He initially got his start as a productivity expert by parodying it as a comedian. He’s writing caught the attention of getting things done guru David Allen and ended up writing for him!
His unconventional and unplanned journey into the world of personal productivity offers loads of lessons about how to design your work around your purpose.
Life Skills That Matter n This Episode
- Managing your energy.
How Mike Works and Thinks
- How he makes his income: By helping people become more productive through coaching, courses and books.
- Wake up time: 7:30am to 8am
- Ideal work environment: Home office, working in the late afternoon and writing.
- How he starts his work day: By working on one of the 3 “absolutes,” he chose the day before.
- Wants to meet: Tony Robbins
- Change he wants to make in his business: Create more depth over breadth. He wants to create more courses, instead of coaching.
- Regain focus by: Looks at his calendar and themes his day.
- Favorite productivity tools: Timeular ZEI and todoist
- 90-day goal: Get his Now Year Method out to as many people as possible.
“Best type of automation is self-automation.”
“If you try to do everything, you end up doing nothing very well.”
Are you having difficulty managing too many priorities? Mike offers 2 different exercises to rein them in . . .
1) Choose 3 words to describe your intentions for the year ahead.
For 2017 Mike has chosen “redesign, rebuild and reclaim”.
Any time he questions his priorities, he immediately refers back to his 3 words to focus him on his 2017 goals to purge, to build and to own.
If an activity doesn’t address at least 2 of his words, he eliminates it because it’s not a priority in the context of his chosen words and goals.
2) Theme your months around big goals.
Mike gives themes to 10 months each year and leaves 2 months without themes to give himself some breathing room.
By theming your months, you will look at all of your activities in the context of that theme and the larger goal you want to achieve.
Resources + Bonus Materials
Here’s Vardy’s titanium board he mentioned in our conversation . . .
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Aaron Carroll writes today that modern American medicine is even worse than you thought. It turns out there’s compelling evidence that arthroscopic knee surgery has no actual effect, but doctors keep doing it anyway. We could save money by just making a fake incision in your knee and doing physical therapy instead.
This made me wonder if I’ve been the victim of this dramatic placebo effect, since I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee about a decade ago and it worked great. But I guess not. My surgery was to repair a torn meniscus, and a torn meniscus is probably a very real thing. The useless variety of knee surgery is arthroscopic lavage, which is apparently a procedure that cleans out random crud from around your knee. Turns out the crud didn’t need to be removed, though. All these knees needed was ordinary physical therapy, which they’d get along with the surgery anyway.
Aaron’s point about this isn’t just that this is a pretty amazing result, but that it’s been largely ignored by both doctors and patients. Doctors still want to cut into knees and patients still want their knees cut into. Who wants a bunch of crud floating around in there, after all?
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Flash animation overview
- Learning goals
- Learn about the various methods to create animations in Flash
- Learn about timeline representations of the Flash Professional Interface (you can consult that later again)
- Flash CS6 desktop tutorial (or Flash CS3 desktop tutorial or Flash CS4 desktop tutorial)
- Flash layers tutorial (first part)
- Flash drawing tutorial (at least some of it)
- Flash frame-by-frame animation tutorial (not absolutely needed, but probably useful)
- Next steps
- Flash classic motion tweening tutorial (optional, CS3-style tweening for CS3 and better)
- Flash CS4 motion tweening tutorial (CS4, CS5, CS6)
- Flash shape tweening tutorial (all)
- AS3 TweenLite tweening engine (CS3-CS6, intermediate)
- Moving on
- Flash CS4 inverse kinematics tutorial
- Flash animation summary
- Flash CS4 motion tweening with AS3 tutorial
- After these (or even before) you should be ready for interactivity. E.g. do the Flash button tutorial
- Quality and level
- This is just an overview article.
Animation means changing properties of objects (e.g. position, size or color) over time.
In Flash CS3 to CS6, you can create several kinds of animations and associated special effects. To create animations, there are several options:
(1) Frame-by-frame animation Frame by frame animation is an ancient technique used for cartoons. This leads to precise results but is time consuming, since you will have to draw each picture. See the Flash frame-by-frame animation tutorial.
(2) Motion tweening with the CS Flash authoring interfaces Wikipedia, retrieved 20:45, 7 August 2007 (MEST) defines “Tweening, short for in-betweening, as the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. Inbetweens are the drawings between the keyframes which help to create the illusion of motion. Tweening is a key process in all types of animation, including computer animation. Sophisticated animation software enables one to identify specific objects in an image and define how they should move and change during the tweening process. Software may be used to manually render or adjust transitional frames by hand or use to automatically render transitional frames using interpolation of graphic parameters.”. In other contexts, one uses also "morphing". E.g. PCMag (retrieved 20:45, 7 August 2007 (MEST)) defines tweening as “An animation technique that, based on starting and ending shapes, creates the necessary "in-between" frames. See morphing”.
In CS4/CS5/CS6, there exist two variants:
- Classic motion tweening as known from CS3 and earlier versions. See the Flash classic motion tweening tutorial. You can skip this.
- Motion tweening, a more oject-oriented method introduced in Flash CS4. See Flash CS4 motion tweening tutorial
(3) Shape animations
- Shape tweening, since you can position key frames of shapes in different positions.
(4) Motion and shape tweening with ActionScript code
There exist many different possibilities, e.g.
- Using a third party library like the Greensocks AS3 TweenLite tweening engine. Must need to know for everyone who plans to create interactive educational scenarios.
- Dynamically changing x and y positions of a display object over time, e.g. through using the Timer class. See the unfinished Flash games tutorial for an example.
- Using the Adobe "fl.motion" classes. See the Flash CS4 motion tweening with AS3 tutorial
(4) Inverse kinematics
- Inverse kinematics is the animation of armatures for shapes or connected symbols instances. See Flash CS4 inverse kinematics tutorial
What can be animated with built-in motion tweening ?
In Flash 9/10/11, you can animate all sorts of compound objects:
- Symbols, i.e. any object that is an instance of a library object, e.g.
- Graphic symbols
- Movie clips
- Compound objects (things that you grouped together)
- Text boxes
The ground rules are the following:
- Motion animation means just changing x/y positions of an object over time. Of course during the motion path one also can change other properties, e.g. orientation, size and tint.
- With all built-in tools, an animation is usually done in a single layer with a single instance of something that sits in the library.
- With ActionScript it depends, but usually you also would use "heavy" objects like movie clips.
Flash CS4/5/6 timeline representations of interpolations
Adobe show different types of animations using the timeline in the following way: According to Animation basics, (retrieved 11:17, 25 April 2010 (UTC))
- A span of frames with a blue background indicates a motion tween. A black dot in the first frame of the span indicates that the tween span has a target object assigned to it. Black diamonds indicate the last frame and any other property keyframes. Property keyframes are frames that contain property changes explicitly defined by you. You can choose which types of property keyframes to display by right-clicking (Windows) or Command-clicking (Macintosh) the motion tween span and choosing View Keyframes > type from the context menu. Flash displays all types of property keyframes by default. All other frames in the span contain interpolated values for the tweened properties of the target object.
- A hollow dot in the first frame indicates that the target object of the motion tween has been removed. The tween span still contains its property keyframes and can have a new target object applied to it.
- A span of frames with a green background indicates an inverse kinematics (IK) pose layer. Pose layers contain IK armatures and poses. Each pose appears in the Timeline as a black diamond. Flash interpolates the positions of the armature in the frames in between poses.
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Review: The Euphoria of Being
- Sarajevo’s Human Rights Award winner is a multi-layered documentary about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and a dance performance based on her life
The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
film profile] world-premiered and triumphed in Locarno's Critics’ Week just days before picking up the Human Rights Award in the Documentary Competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. It is the first feature-length documentary from director Réka Szabó, a dancer and choreographer in her own right, with her own acclaimed Budapest-based troupe The Symptoms.
This imaginative and often touching film combines several artistic and narrative layers in the story of 93-year-old Hungarian Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. The opening segment, in which Szabó chats to Fahidi at the hairdresser's, shows the strong connection between the director and her subject, developed through their work together on a dance performance about Fahidi’s life.
The first layer of the film comes from their initial epistolary contact, after Szabó read Fahidi's memoir The Soul of Things and felt compelled to create a work of art about her. The Auschwitz survivor, whose 49 relatives died in the concentration camp, is also a dancer, and we follow her and the director as they prepare a show with young dancer Emese Cuhorka.
Through performance art, the film paints a portrait of its unique protagonist. As we watch Cuhorka and Fahidi develop the dance, closely directed by Szabó, we witness two performers brought together so close by this tragic yet brave story, that their personalities seem to start overlapping. Both tender and dynamic, these segments are interspersed with interviews with the utterly charming and wise old lady.
In addition to difficult recollections of her past, reflections on fascism and the way they resonate today, Fahidi also offers her thoughts on many other topics. An unexpectedly candid testimony where the woman condemns her own father, claiming that he was only interested in profit while other Jewish families started fleeing Hungary as early as 1935, is a painful reminder for the audience of the thorny reality they are witnessing. This gritty aspect is underlined by the film’s focus on Fahidi's experience as a woman in Auschwitz: she explains that seeing naked, dirty, stinking, emaciated women packed together like sardines in a tin, unable to avoid touching each other, had affected her relationship with her own womanhood for a long time.
The performance, entitled Sea Lavender, had been staged 77 times in Budapest, Berlin and Vienna by the time of the film’s editing. Throughout their rehearsals, Fahidi grows more nimble and confident, and experiences a late-life renaissance thanks to Szabó and Cuhorka's emotional dedication.
Fahidi is a unique protagonist, immensely charismatic and sharp-minded, a no-nonsense lady who boldly leads a full life, and whose survival stands as a brave counterpoint to the tragedy of her family. A single artistic medium would struggle to do justice to her complex story; in combining Fahidi’s memoir with the performance and the documentary interviews, The Euphoria of Being comes pretty close.
The Euphoria of Being is a co-production between Hungary's Campfilm, The Symptoms, 4Cut Post Digital and France's Pom'Zed.
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One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare’s vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. | <urn:uuid:23f8b7c1-a7c3-443f-bcc7-7e4fbde9c39c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ciervoblanco.club/hamlet-by-william-shakespeare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.979391 | 239 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The software giant is notifying Web developers and other partners on Friday that it is changing the way Internet Explorer handles certain Web programs, known as ActiveX controls and Java applets.
With the change, Web developers will need to slightly modify their pages or consumers will have to make an extra click to get to some content, such as for a Macromedia Flash-based advertisement.
"We think that the user experience impact is relatively modest," said Michael Wallent, a general manager in Microsoft's Windows-client unit.
Microsoft will incorporate the new version of Internet Explorer into all new copies of Windows and also into the next version of the browser, IE 7, which will be available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and as part of Windows Vista. Existing users may also get the new code as part of future security updates, Wallent said.
"We believe over the next six months, most customers will be running copies of Internet Explorer with this behavior."
Microsoft has been in a long-running spat with Eolas Techologies and the University of California. In September, the U.S. Patent Office
A University of California spokesman said that its lawsuit against Microsoft deals with infringement caused by previously sold versions of the browser.
"The lawsuit covers sales predating this latest reconfiguration," he said.
In 2003, a juryin damages to the university and Eolas, but Microsoft appealed the decision. An appeals court this year Microsoft's stance, saying the company should be allowed to present evidence that similar inventions predated Eolas' patent application.
"We believe this change insulates us from any potential liability," Wallent said. "We don't expect we will have to make any other changes.
Wallent said that the move was designed to end uncertainty for the future as the Eolas case heads back to court later this year.
"With this change we are very confident that we would no longer have liability even if the case doesn't go our way in the end," he said.
Wallent added that Microsoft's move "in no way reflects a lack of confidence in our case."
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September 6, 2019, by Aleisha Turner
Generating Insights from Big Data
The analysis of ‘Big Data’ is one of the main challenges faced today by both academia and industry. The project titled Value Enhancement for Data from Assets & Transactions (VEDAT), which was carried out in partnership with the ASAP group in the School of Computer Science aimed to “provide tools that enable intelligent, predictive modelling capabilities, including the integration and analysis of heterogeneous data types” in the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) sector. The project was completed in partnership with the company Microlise, which controls more than 30% of the HGV and van fleets across the UK.
The DRS enabled the generation of valuable insights and the development innovative advanced data analytics solutions, which are now being used by Microlise, their customers, and business partners to understand drivers, vehicle usage, safety procedures and service levels.
One key element of this project was combining previously unconnected, disparate data to create a platform that allows deriving high value benefits by both isolated data community members, as well as the whole disparate data owner community. Data exploration in this project resulted in novel techniques and tools tackling HGV transportation challenges in the context of Big Data, particularly what is often referred to as “Data Silo” blackholes. The developed solutions proved useful with a wide range of applications in other sectors with complex disparate data environments such as finance, engineering, biotechnology and informatics.
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Below is an article I wrote in 2013 about a Civil War in America. I think most of can agree we are in the early phases of such a war. Support President Trump and our Constitution. Support Israel. Denounce liberals (communists). Prepare your families for the upcoming war.
December 30, 2013/in Featured, News /by Dave Gaubatz
When I was in Iraq (2003) I was asked by our government to conduct an assessment of the ground situation in Iraq, and what is the likelihood of a civil war developing between the Sunni and Shiite people of Iraq.
I spent six plus months conducting an analysis of the situation. The assessment consisted of talking with hundreds of Iraqis, both Sunni and Shiite. This included military, former military, Iraqi police, and Iraqi government personnel.
My conclusion was that a civil war would occur once our military left the area. It happened. Hundreds of thousands of Sunni and Shiite have been killed during their civil war.
In America I have conducted the same type of assessment. I have talked with hundreds of Americans from all walks of life. My conclusion is there will be a civil war within the next five years in America.
The war will be between liberals and conservatives. There have been some people who say I desire a civil war. I do not want any type war.
The victims in every war are the children. The war will begin when Obama and his crew announce martial law. No one thinks that this is possible, but one need only look at how Obama has already made a joke of our U.S. Constitution.
Within 5 years martial law will be declared and it is possible this will happen in 2016 when Obama makes up his own rules and laws and attempts to remain President. The patriotic Americans will shout ‘we are no longer going to allow our country to be taken over by liberals, communists, Islamic leaders and their supporters’.
There will be some U.S. military leaders who will decide to no longer follow the Commander in Chief (Obama). These Generals will be followed by thousands of our troops. There will be many Generals who will fight for Obama and the New World Order.
There will be chaos in the streets of America. Conservatives will not allow their First and Second Amendment rights be taken from them.
There will be a shortage of food, water, housing, and medical care. FEMA will begin arresting tens of thousands of conservatives and place them into concentration camps.
Islamic leaders will have their Jihadi trained terrorists to begin making life ‘hell’ in America. One will not know the difference between Afghanistan and our beautiful country. We will see hundreds of suicide attacks by Muslims.
The conservative movement will suffer tremendously in the beginning of a war, but will bounce back and take our country back from ruins.
In actuality their will be no winners. Our country will be devastated and it will take decades to recover.
Readers should not shake their heads and say this can’t happen in America. We should all pray this never happens, but great society’s have been falling for centuries. America will be no different than Rome or England.
What can we do? We must now demand our Constitution be the law of the land, and not taken over by a Dictator regime. We must educate our families, neighbors, friends, and co-workers to the realities our country is facing. Do not be afraid to speak the truth about Christianity and Judaism. We need these values in our lives more than ever.
America has a long and hard road ahead, but we can be one of the great empires that does not collapse if we take our country back now. In the 2014 elections we must put people into power who do not sugarcoat the
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The Spectator‘s Matthew Parris explains “the world economic crisis in three minutes” by means of a comedy sketch. Realizing that many of our readers are pressed for time, I’ve provided some excerpts
Joe Citizen (to the Joneses): That’s a nice big brick you own.
The Joneses: It’s for sale. The kids have flown the nest and we’re downsizing. We’d take £10 for our brick. What are you asking for your smaller one?
Joe Citizen (to himself): £10? Pricey for a brick, but I guess mine must be worth more than I realised too. The market’s obviously on the up. (To the Joneses) I’d sell mine for £8.
The Joneses (conferring): Brick prices must be rising faster than we thought. If his is worth £8, ours must be worth more than £10. (To Joe) We’ve raised our asking price to £20.
So it goes for a bit until:
Jill Jones (to her husband): We’re buying for £100 and selling for £200 so we’ve got £100 to spend. Let’s invest in bricks — buy-to-let, maybe? We’re in a rising market here. EXEUNT the Joneses.
Joe Citizen (alone): As I’m selling for £100 and buying for £200, I’m short of £100. I’ll need a mortgage…
ENTER Mr Moneybags
Mr Moneybags: A mortgage, did you say? What’s your security?
Joe Citizen: The brick I’m buying from Mr and Mrs Jones.
Moneybags: What’s it worth?
Joe Citizen: About £200.
Moneybags: Surely not. Let’s ask. (Calls) Ms Dreamhomes! Can you do us a valuation?
ENTER: Ms Dreamhomes, accompanied by Messrs Ballpark-Estimate and Whatam-Ibid.
Ms Dreamhomes: Delighted. (Announces) What do you say, chaps?
Mr Ballpark-Estimate (inspects brick): I’m pleased to confirm that on the basis of an external examination alone this does appear to be a brick of the larger sort, brick-shaped, of reddish colour, and apparently made of baked clay; though as I am unable to gain access to its interior I cannot guarantee its composition. Worth I’d say about £180. Errors and omissions excepted. My invoice for an astonishingly large sum follows by post.
It continues a bit after that, but you get the idea.
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All about Kortemark's bike sharing system
The shared bicycles were purchased at a local bicycle shop Eric Claerhout from Kortemark. It concerns normal city bikes and e-bikes. The owner of the local bicycle shop takes care of the maintenance of the bikes. Remarkable is that the batteries of the e-bikes will be charged by vzw De Stoasje. This local initiative already organises day activities for people with a mental or multiple disabilities in the former station building. "Charging the batteries and checking the bikes can perfectly be done as an activity," says Christine Logghe, politically responsiblefor social affairs and equal opportunities in Kortemark. "The cooperation with vzw De Stoasje is thus a nice example of an inclusion project."
"Thanks to the Flemish Climate Fund and the European Interregprojects Stronger Combined and Transmobil, the municipality is responding to the model of basic accessibility of the Flemish Public Transport that the Flemish government wants to roll out from 2022," says Geert Sanders, general manager of WVI. Currently, “Hoppinpoints" are being constructed in various places in Flanders. At these recognizable locations, travellers will be able to switch easily and comfortably from one mode of transport to another. "The bicycle sharing system is an important link. For short trips, it’s often faster than walking or even using a car", says Lynn Vermote.
"The start of a Hoppinpunt at the former railway station has a great added value for Kortemark," concludes mayor Karolien Damman. "The station environment of Kortemark is situated in the centre of the municipality where various local shops are already present, and the town hall is within walking distance. By also providing a supply of shared bikes, a public bicycle pump, an parcel locker system from BPost, and eventually realising a pleasant waiting room for commuters, the former railway station of Kortemark can grow into a fully-fledged Hoppinpunt."
The bicycle sharing system with fixed bike rack is made possible thanks to the use of smart locks, which have a built-in GPS and can be opened with an app on the smartphone.
Using the (electric) bikes in Kortemark is cheap and easy. You only pay EUR 1 per ride, and you can use the bike for a whole day. The first time you load the app, you will pay a deposit of EUR 29 and must load a minimum of EUR 5 into your wallet or digital purse. This wallet will be used to pay for your rides. When you want to leave the system, the deposit and remaining amount will be refunded to your wallet.
The software of the smart locks will monitor how often the bicycles are used, which defects occur most frequently, etc. In this way Kortemark can quickly anticipate the needs and problems of users. "If the bicycles are used frequently, Kortemark will invest in additional bicycles and locks," concludes Lynn Vermote. | <urn:uuid:098d7037-7883-40c5-aaec-83a36b9280f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northsearegion.eu/stronger-combined/news/all-about-kortemarks-bike-sharing-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.946031 | 626 | 1.609375 | 2 |
“Entrepreneurship & Innovation” Inspirational Talks in/ for Universities.
*Please note: Due to the current restrictions related to the global pandemic of Covid-19, all live-activities related to the intervention have been postponed until further notice.
The “Entrepreneurship & Innovation” Inspirational Talks in Universities is a series of talks organised by EU for Innovation, in the framework of “Capacity Building for Universities/ ISOs” pillar, whereby invited keynote figures from international university affiliated incubators, Technology Transfer Centres/ Offices, Technology parks etc, are invited to deliver a presentation and share their experience in establishing and running the incubator or start-up promotion facility; conducting entrepreneurship activities that bridge the gap between University and Industry, etc.
The aim of the EIIU TALKs is to expose Albanian Universities to outstanding university-affiliated business incubators and best practices from Europe; discuss on & open-up the vision regarding the role Universities could have in prompting entrepreneurship and innovation, and eventually inspire them in taking actions, through real-life stories.
Watch 1st EIIU TALK with Prof. Dr. Uwe Rössler, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld Watch 2nd EIIU TALK with Marc Kley, Gateway Start-up Service, University of Cologne Watch 3rd EIIU TALK with Erik Boer, Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship & Dr. Mirjam Leloux, IXA Next Watch 4rth EIIU TALK with Fritz Fried, co-founder of the LOLOCO, who discussed online with EPOKA University students on “How to start a business as a student?” | <urn:uuid:071ef312-b275-4eac-bfc4-293cf5b65b3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://euforinnovation.al/eiiu-talks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.9071 | 363 | 1.617188 | 2 |
"Forest, water, wilderness" is the motto of the first national park in the Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia. Under the motto "let nature be nature", nature finds its way back into its own cycle of birth and death.
Here you will discover the virgin forests of tomorrow, where wildcats, black storks and more than two thousand endangered animal and plant species live. Unspoilt beech and oak forests, streams, rivers and open grassland areas offer diverse views of nature and landscape.
THE NATIONAL PARK CENTER WITH THE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION " WILDERNESS DREAMS"
In the Forum Vogelsang IP, the Eifel National Park Centre offers its guests a special introduction and deepening of the experiences of nature on site - the accessible interactive exhibition “Wilderness Dreams”.
Its location in the middle of the Eifel National Park and the impressive landscape panorama are incomparable. A visit to the 2,000 m2 exhibition, where all the senses are stimulated, is certainly worthwhile. The presentation is accessible, multilingual and suitable for all age groups.
There is a lot to experience and learn here - about the characteristics of the Eifel National Park, the protection of biodiversity and the value of "wilderness", both locally and globally. Enjoy fascinating views and insights into nature! | <urn:uuid:c264bdb5-51ca-48ef-93a3-a94a3dc9994f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vogelsang-ip.de/en/leitmarken/eifel-national-park-centre/eifel-national-park-centre.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.878948 | 297 | 2.25 | 2 |
US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) threatened to ‘devastate Turkey economically’ if it attacked the Kurds in the region.
While reiterating that the US began the pullout of its troops from Syria, Trump tweeted, “Starting the long overdue pullout from Syria while hitting the little remaining ISIS territorial caliphate hard, and from many directions. Will attack again from existing nearby base if it reforms. Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds. Create 20 mile safe zone….”
Turkey views some Kurdish groups as terrorist organisations operating in the region. Apart from that, the Kurds, an Iranian ethnic group, found in parts of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, make up the majority of US-allied fighters fighting in the Syrian civil war against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, CNN reported.
“….Likewise, do not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey. Russia, Iran and Syria have been the biggest beneficiaries of the long term U.S. policy of destroying ISIS in Syria – natural enemies. We also benefit but it is now time to bring our troops back home. Stop the ENDLESS WARS!” Trump added.
Earlier this week, an administration official told CNN that the first US military ground equipment has been withdrawn from the war-torn country.
Trump’s impulsive decision to withdraw troops from Syria was announced on December 19 last year, after declaring the Islamic State (ISIS) to have been fully ‘destroyed’, created a rift between him and the US military.
The previous week, Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton had announced that Washington would withdraw its troops from Syria only after defeating ISIS and ensuring that the Kurds are safe.
Bolton, who recently travelled to Israel to reassure the US ally of the Trump-ordered withdrawal, said there was no stipulated time for the pullout of American forces in Syria, but insisted that it was not an ‘unlimited commitment.’
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Growing up in India, with neither iTunes nor YouTube, I was raised on a music diet of the old-fashioned essentials that played on the radio — the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan. Our extreme boundaries were set by the likes of Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin. And when we truly wanted to take a trip to outer space, there was David Bowie. If “innovation” were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie.
Here are seven lessons on innovation that I would draw from Bowie’s life and work:
1. Sense the zeitgeist; never stop reinventing yourself.
From his early days as Davie Jones, so hard to distinguish from scores of others making the rounds at that time in the early 60s, Bowie morphed into the Space Oddity persona (“Major Tom”) that captured the zeitgeist of the time. This was the era of Stanley Kubrick capturing imaginations with 2001: A Space Odyssey and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, a year later. Then, of course, came Ziggy Stardust, with the red mullet and glam outfits. Bowie went on from that phase to his Orwellian period, the R&B phase, the Thin White Duke, and on and on.
Coupled with his fluid sexuality, agility to leap across musical genres, and different forms of media, this was an artiste who never got comfortable no matter how successful he was. His reinvention is so consistent, there is even a website, Supbowie.com, that tells you what Bowie was doing at your age. At my age, he was offered a knighthood that he declined, saying: “I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don’t know what it’s for. It’s not what I spent my life working for.”
2. Look ahead; work backwards from the endgame.
Bowie’s insights into the future course of the music industry’s competitive dynamics were striking. The 21st century had barely gotten off to a start; the first wave of the Internet mania had collapsed; Apple had barely released the iPod; and it was in June 2002 that Bowie predicted: ”Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity.” He followed his own strategic advice to “be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.” Bowie’s ability to sense the future, willingness to experiment and great timing kept him evergreen no matter how music fads and the music business changed.
3. Failure is inevitable when you are experimenting; it is a great foundation from which to rebuild.
Bowie’s first several forays into music and various personas and multiple band changes resulted in total failures. After he finally managed to establish himself, the trap that caught so many creative artistes of his generation felled Bowie: an addiction to cocaine. He used this moment of hitting rock bottom to escape to Europe, which resulted in a new productive explosion: the Berlin Trilogy, with “Low”, “Heroes” and “Lodger.” He had beaten his addiction.
4. Be unafraid to experiment and wander; explore adjacent areas.
Bowie drew, painted, sculpted and wrote in his leisure. He even had invented a new language for his 1977 song, Subterraneans. In 1996, he pioneered the Internet-only release of a song, Telling Lies. A year later, he went further; Bowie launched his own Internet service, Bowienet, the first music artist to become an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The package included news feeds, exclusive Bowie content, and space for users to build their own homepages. While Bowienet closed in 2012, today the idea lives on in services such as Spotify.
5. Have the courage of self-conviction; don’t pander to the market.
Bowie’s success was built upon his marked departure from what was the music industry fad at the time. Of course, he had his influences, but his ideas came from an inner conviction. “My own success as a songwriter and performer, I think, really flies or not on whether I’m doing it with a personal integrity. All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience,” said Bowie in 2003. “My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.” This is selfishness in its most productive form. Steve Jobs, who was skeptical of asking customers what they wanted, would have agreed.
6. Think beyond reinventing product; reinvent your business model.
For a reported price of $55 million, Bowie sold away 10 years’ worth of his royalties, for which the buyer, Prudential, paid an interest rate of 7.9 percent over that period. These so-called “Bowie bonds” became one of the first examples of an artist using securitization to monetize his or her work while retaining control over the intellectual property. The bonds were a fore-runner for asset-backed securities, a financial innovation that became infamous for other reasons down the road.
7. Inspire others; ensure your work lives on.
David Bowie opened a door through which many others now-icons rushed in: Twisted Sister, Boy George, Madonna, including his collaborators, Iggy Pop and Freddie Mercury, of Queen. Entire generations of ordinary people, young and old, have been inspired by his fluid genius.
While innovating in contexts far from the glam world of Ziggy Stardust, is very different, there is no harm is trying some audacious leaps of faith. However, innovation requires more than audacity and courage. As Bowie showed us, it takes a combination of attributes to fall in place to ensure that the leap is not into the abyss. | <urn:uuid:8796d86f-1892-4304-975a-78ab6b0a93f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/01/13/david-bowie-taught-me-everything-i-need-to-know-about-innovation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972082 | 1,256 | 1.90625 | 2 |
If you think the way you think doesn’t count for much, then think again.
Optimism is a way of seeing the world in a positive light. Optimistic people focus on the good parts of a situation and expect that good things will happen in the future.
Whether you are a ‘glass half-full’ kind of person can also say a lot about your health and your life choices as well. Don’t believe it? This is what some of the research says:
- A large study of men and women in Finland found that those who were more optimistic exercised more regularly and ate a healthier diet with more fruits and vegetables, and were less likely to be smokers and binge-drinkers
- Another study of more than 100,000 postmenopausal women found that the optimists in the group were less likely to die from heart disease
- Various other studies have found that optimistic people, on average, have lower blood pressure, cope better with stress, are more likely to have positive body image, show better recovery from cancer and heart surgery, and are less likely to become depressed
Although the link between optimism and good health is quite strong, so far the research does not tell us what the link actually is, or exactly which factors are at play.
Some researchers believe that good health is due to the behaviour and actions that comes from optimism, rather than the thoughts themselves. Jean Hailes psychologist Dr Mandy Deeks says, “It is likely to be a combination of your thoughts, feelings, and how you react. Noticing your thoughts and feelings, challenging negative thoughts and changing how you act helps you to make better health choices. Reflecting on how it felt to act in an optimistic way is important, so if you say to yourself ‘I know how good it feels when I come back from a walk’, the positive result is likely to spur you on next time when it is raining!”
How can you build your levels of optimism?
“One of the best ways to boost your optimism is by getting out there and getting moving!”, says Dr Deeks. A study of young and midlife women has found that exercise helps to increase levels of optimism.
The researchers believe that exercise boosts your belief in yourself, as well as what you can achieve, and through this, your general belief in success and positivity grows. Dr Deeks supports this.
“Exercise can also provide an extra boost to your self-esteem, confidence, and feelings of self-worth – and all these factors are related to optimism,” says Dr Deeks. “What’s more, exercise can increase endorphins and decrease stress, depression and anxiety – exercise is often social and outdoors, and this can also help to build your levels of optimism.”
Dr Deeks also suggests:
- Try to be mindful and live in the present moment. Focus on what is good about the moment, rather than constantly thinking about what you should have said or should be doing
- Some people like to have a positive saying that helps them to refocus and reminds them that although things have been tough in the past they got through it – it might be something like ‘I have faced difficult times and I got through – I am okay’
- Surround yourself with positive people. People who are negative and draining can drain your energy and leave you feeling negative and sad
- See things that go wrong as a challenge to learn from. This can be difficult, says Dr Deeks, “and I have struggled with this, but when I got through some very testing situations I realised I had learnt so much about myself”
- At the end of your day, think of three things that went well during the day and focus on these, instead of the things that may not have gone so well
Keeping optimism top of mind
Although life will always bring its ups and down, whenever you can, try to find the silver lining in each situation. Being optimistic doesn’t just improve the present moment, but could reap benefits for your health and longevity for years to come.
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A hydraulic press machine is a machine that uses fluid pressure to exert force on a workpiece. The hydraulic pressure applied to the workpiece drives the ram, which in turn, drives the die or anvil. A hydraulic press has two ports where high-pressure liquid is pumped. These cylinders are metal pipes, and each one has a hydraulic accumulator that stores the fluid. This type of machine produces high pressure and provides powerful thrust.
A malfunctioning hydraulic press machine is potentially dangerous. The pump, motor, and relief valve can malfunction, causing the ram to drop unexpectedly. Failure to perform regular inspections or simple repairs may also result in catastrophic failure. In some cases, a faulty hydraulic press can injure a worker. Whether an accident occurs due to improper use or improper maintenance, it is always best to avoid using a hydraulic press machine until it is repaired or replaced.
The hydraulic press is useful for applying extreme pressure to an object. It works by combining two pistons. The bottom piston pushes fluid back and forth, which transfers the movement to the top piston. The hydraulic press applies pressure to the object to be pressed, and is capable of deforming high-strength steel and up to 20 mm in thickness. This makes the hydraulic press an invaluable tool for small repair shops. It also has a high rate of productivity.
In order to make use of a hydraulic press, you must understand its mechanism. It works on the principle of Pascal’s law, whereby the pressure exerted on a piston is transferred to another piston. The larger the piston, the more force the hydraulic press can exert. The hydraulic press is a powerful tool, so be sure to follow the machine’s instructions and safety guidelines to avoid any injuries. So, you’ll be able to achieve more than you ever thought possible with it. | <urn:uuid:f9e7c49a-1db3-45b6-8a41-27a349fab79f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rizonbayview.com/what-is-a-hydraulic-press-machine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.902179 | 368 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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The Emergency Food Pantry provides a week’s worth of nutritional food every other month, up to six times a year. This includes bread, frozen meat, eggs, and a variety of non-perishables: cereal, canned soup, canned fruit, sugar, pasta, peanut butter, and vegetables. Many of these supplies are donated and purchased with monetary donations.
Families or individuals living in Cass or Clay County or surrounding areas can receive a food basket every other month. When you come please bring an ID with you.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Clients may receive a food basket every other month.
An ID may include a Driver’s License or an Identification Card with a picture on it. Please call the pantry ahead of time if an ID is not available. In unique situations where a picture ID is not available, the pantry team will work with the client to determine an option.
The pantry asks each household if they have dietary restrictions or needs. Although we can not ensure that we can meet your exact dietary needs, following your lead, we can determine if some food choices are better for you than others. A few examples of diets that we have been able to accommodate well are Meat Free, Pork Free, Gluten-Free.
Yes, the Emergency Food Pantry will receive food on the package date or even after the date. The food dating system is based on a manufacturer’s best estimate of quality vs. safety. Nearly all packaged foods past their date are still safe to eat, and oftentimes still perfect quality.
We have a strict guideline for food dates that we can distribute. Although rare, we will distribute canned food for up to two years past the date and boxed goods up to one year past the date. Another example is many dairy foods can be safely eaten 3 to 14 days past the date.
We use research-based information as a guide to ensure that the food we provide is within a safe time-frame. One credible website is www.foodsafety.gov. | <urn:uuid:ee2f1f83-bd76-4fcb-b2cd-56b5f6cac60d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.emergencyfoodpantry.com/get-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936206 | 461 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Anne Belov is a satirical cartoonist with an obsession for pandas. She has published several books in The Panda Chronicles and has now produced a colouring book to go with the series. Pandas may seem like a peculiar subject for a colouring book since they are, as Belov puts it, “chromatically challenged,” however the world around them is bursting with different tints and shades.
The pandas featured in The Panda Chronicles are not the typical bears you might see in a zoo, or endangered in the wild. Anne Belov’s pandas get up to all sorts of mischief. In this colouring book you can expect to find pandas in all sorts of locations, wearing a variety of odd outfits, taking part in highly suspicious activities. So despite monochromatic fur, there is so much to add colour to.
The Panda Chronicles Colouring Book contains approximately 60 single sided illustrations. Although the paper feels quite thin, the lack of anything on the reverse means that it is safe to use any medium you wish to fill the drawing with colour.
Belov’s drawing approach is not the typical style of the hundreds of colouring books you see in stores – i.e. thick, precise lines and patterns. Belov sticks to her sketchy manner that she has used in all the chronicles thus far. In fact there is reason to believe (although do not quote this) that many of the illustrations are from the original books. While standing out in such a niche market, these particular pages may be more difficult to colour in. Some contain many scribbles rather than clear objects, however that does not detract from the overall fun guaranteed with this book.
Pandas in unconventional settings are a great cause for hilarity and satire. Not only is it funny that these bears are parodying human life, but the things they are up to are highly amusing. One particularly comical scene contains a mother panda telling her child off for being the cause of the LEANING Tower of Pisa, to which the youngster protests, “I didn’t do it! It was leaning when we got here!” The wittiness continues throughout the remainder of the book.
I bought this book hoping it would be suitable for my “pandamaniac” friend, who on occasion tells farcical stories about her (imaginary) friend Miss Panda. Anne Belov’s colouring book is the absolutely perfect present for her. It is almost as if the scenes are written/drawn about Miss Panda herself, despite the artist and my friend having never met… Unless… oh the horror! Maybe Miss Panda IS real! | <urn:uuid:04632b16-d9c3-429c-912c-c927726a1569> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hazelstainer.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/who-says-pandas-are-black-and-white/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.959013 | 550 | 1.773438 | 2 |
- Wanted immunogenicity typically relates to vaccines, where the injection of an antigen (the vaccine) provokes an immune response against the pathogen, protecting the organism from future exposure. Immunogenicity is a central aspect of vaccine development.
- Unwanted immunogenicity is an immune response by an organism against a therapeutic antigen. This reaction leads to production of anti-drug-antibodies (ADAs), inactivating the therapeutic effects of the treatment and potentially inducing adverse effects.
A challenge in biotherapy is predicting the immunogenic potential of novel protein therapeutics. For example, immunogenicity data from high-income countries are not always transferable to low-income and middle-income countries. Another challenge is considering how the immunogenicity of vaccines changes with age. Therefore, as stated by the World Health Organization, immunogenicity should be investigated in a target population since animal testing and in vitro models cannot precisely predict immune response in humans.
Antigenic immunogenic potency
Many lipids and nucleic acids are relatively small molecules and/or have non-immunogenic properties. Consequently, they may require conjugation with an epitope such as a protein or polysaccharide to increase immunogenic potency so that they can evoke an immune response.
- Proteins and few polysaccharides have immunogenic properties, which allows them to induce humoral immune responses.
- Proteins and some lipids/glycolypids can serve as immunogens for cell-mediated immunity.
- Proteins are significantly more immunogenic than polysaccharides.
Immunogenicity is influenced by multiple characteristics of an antigen:
- Degradability (ability to be processed & presented as MHC peptide to T cells)
T cell epitopes
T cell epitope content is one of the factors that contributes to antigenicity. Likewise, T Cell epitopes can cause unwanted immunogenicity, including the development of ADAs. A key determinant in T cell epitope immunogenicity is the binding strength of T cell epitopes to major histocompatibility complexes (MHC or HLA) molecules. Epitopes with higher binding affinities are more likely to be displayed on the surface of a cell. Because a T cell's T cell receptor recognizes a specific epitope, only certain T cells are able to respond to a certain peptide bound to MHC on a cell surface.
When protein drug therapeutics, (as in enzymes, monoclonals, replacement proteins) or vaccines are administrated, antigen presenting cells (APCs), such as a B cell or Dendritic Cell, will present these substances as peptides, which T cells may recognize. This may result in unwanted immunogenicity, including ADAs and autoimmune diseases, such as autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP) following exposure to recombinant thrombopoietin and pure red cell aplasia, which was associated with a particular formulation of erythropoietin (Eprex).
Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are used for several diseases, including cancer and Rheumatoid arthritis. Consequently, the high immunogenicity limited efficacy and was associated with severe infusion reactions. Although the exact mechanism is unclear, it is suspected that the mAbs are inducing infusion reactions by eliciting antibody antigen interactions, such as increased formation of immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies, which may bind onto mast cells and subsequent degranulation, causing allergy-like symptoms as well as the release of additional cytokines.
Several innovations in genetic engineering has resulted in the decrease in immunogenicity, (also known as deimmunization), of mAbs. Genetic engineering has led to the generation of humanized and chimeric antibodies, by exchanging the murine constant and complementary regions of the immunoglobulin chains with the human counterparts. Although this has reduced the sometimes extreme immunogenicity associated with murine mAbs, the anticipation that all fully human mAbs would have not possess unwanted immunogenic properties remains unfulfilled.
In silico screening
T cell epitope content, which is one of the factors that contributes to the risk of immunogenicity can now be measured relatively accurately using in silico tools. Immunoinformatics algorithms for identifying T-cell epitopes are now being applied to triage protein therapeutics into higher risk and low risk categories. These categories refer to assessing and analyzing whether an immunotherapy or vaccine will cause unwanted immunogenicity.
One approach is to parse protein sequences into overlapping nonamer (that is, 9 amino acid) peptide frames, each of which is then evaluated for binding potential to each of six common class I HLA alleles that “cover” the genetic backgrounds of most humans worldwide. By calculating the density of high-scoring frames within a protein, it is possible to estimate a protein's overall “immunogenicity score”. In addition, sub-regions of densely packed high scoring frames or “clusters” of potential immunogenicity can be identified, and cluster scores can be calculated and compiled.
Using this approach, the clinical immunogenicity of a novel protein therapeutics can be calculated. Consequently, a number of biotech companies have integrated in silico immunogenicity into their pre-clinical process as they develop new protein drugs.
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The $40,000 benchmark has emerged as a key level for Bitcoin because how it performs from there could determine whether the market enters another bullish or bearish phase, experts say. If you are new to crypto, use the Crypto.com University and our Help Center to learn how to start buying Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. Instant Buy Buy crypto with your credit or debit card in a few clicks. Hard to say if we reach this range during the remaining 5.5 days of this current Weekly candle or will we see…
Between 2014 and 2016, Bitcoin’s price was largely stagnant. Bitcoin’s high point of the year so far remains in the earliest days of January, when it nearly hit $48,000. In that same month, Bitcoin also hit its six-month low as it dipped below $34,000. Bitcoin has lost 40% of its value since its Nov. 10 all-time high above $68,000. “We had a swing week-high kissing approximately 40,000 and a swing week-low kissing approximately 37,400,” Wendy O, a crypto expert, said in a TikTok analyzing Bitcoin’s price. “The fact that we were able to close above 37,000 is kind of bullish. If we take a look at the daily, we’re starting to make some nice upward movement. Bitcoin started the week on a weak note, with its value falling nearly 3% over the last seven days. Bitcoin’s price stayed near $38,000 Monday, continuing its streak below the $40,000 mark.
A client is a piece of software that enables a network participant to run a node and connect to the blockchain. Cryptoassets are unregulated in some EU countries and the UK. EToro USA LLC; Investments are subject to market risk, including the possible loss of principal. Live tracking and notifications + flexible delivery and payment options. “A group of miners who didn’t like SegWit2x are opting for this new software that will increase the size of blocks from the current 1 megabyte to 8,” Morris told Business Insider. Until just before the decision, the solution known as Segwit2x, which would double the size of bitcoin blocks to 2 megabytes, seemed to have universal support. But while fraudulent credit-card purchases are reversible, bitcoin transactions are not. Each bitcoin has a complicated ID, known as a hexadecimal code, that is many times more difficult to steal than someone’s credit-card information.
If the platform has this certificate, that means it passed the regular checks by independent auditors. Thus, you can be sure that no one can steal and use your card data. They just used a concept and a protocol created back in 1991, add some improvements, and presented the model of the decentralized financial system and the first cryptocurrency. The initial idea was in creating a storage system where documents are protected from unauthorized changes. One of the possible solutions was a system where document timestamps could not have tampered with. Every record included the hashes of previous records’ certificates. Thus, the data structure keeps the strict chronological order. Additionally, the system used private keys or digital signatures to sign the document.
- But thanks to media coverage and the steep rise in Bitcoin’s price, the crypto industry started to take off between 2017 and 2019.
- But if you want to further secure your digital assets, you can transfer them into a hot or cold wallet.
- Bitcoin can be purchased through a digital marketplace, through which you can fund your account with your currency of choice, and place an order on the open market.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like the email of the financial world. The currency doesn’t exist in a physical form, and the coin is transacted directly between the sender and the receiver without banking intermediaries to facilitate the transaction. Everything is done publicly through a transparent, immutable, distributed ledger technology called blockchain. Overall, Bitcoin is considered a highly speculative and risky asset compared to conventional investments.
True to its origins as an open, decentralized currency, bitcoin is meant to be a quicker, cheaper, and more reliable form of payment than money tied to individual countries. In addition, it’s the only form of money users can theoretically “mine” themselves, if they have the ability. In countries that accept it, you can buy groceries and clothes just as you would with the local currency. Only bitcoin is entirely digital; no one is carrying actual bitcoins around in their pocket.
The latest moves in crypto markets in context for May 3, 2022. Each new block has a value called a “target hash.” In order to win the right to fill the next block, miners need to produce a hash that is lower than or equal to the numeric value of the ‘target’ hash. Since hashes are completely random, it’s just a matter of trial and error until one miner is successful. Transactions are sent directly from the sender to the receiver without any intermediaries. Get the latest crypto news, updates, and reports by subscribing to our free newsletter. 2021 Yearly Cryptocurrency Report 2021 is the tipping point of wider crypto adoption as NFTs and alternative chains dominated the headlines, ushering in an influx of new users. Any copying, republication or redistribution of Lipper content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Lipper. Lipper shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Data are provided ‘as is’ for informational purposes only and are not intended for trading purposes. Data may be intentionally delayed pursuant to supplier requirements.
Given crypto’s history of volatility, this increase doesn’t guarantee a long-term reversal. Bitcoin’s price is just as likely to fall back down as it is to continue climbing. The future of cryptocurrency is sure to include plenty more volatility, and experts say that’s something long-term crypto investors will have to continue dealing with. Since then, Bitcoin has remained under pressure as investors wrestle with rising inflation, geopolitical crises, and the potential for tighter monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. Based on those principles, the cryptocurrency market — which now consists of thousands of cryptocurrencies — has grown to a valuation of more than $2 trillion.
Unlike US dollars, whose buying power the Fed can dilute by printing more greenbacks, there simply won’t be more bitcoin available in the future. That has worried some skeptics, as it means a hack could be catastrophic in wiping out people’s bitcoin wallets, with less hope for reimbursement. The exchange rates on this site are for information purposes only. They are not guaranteed to be accurate, and are subject to change without notice. See the Bitcoin exchange rate i.e. the current value of one bitcoin. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, and it is known as digital gold. Bitcoin is the most valuable crypto on the market, but is still highly speculative and volatile. Conservative predictions of Bitcoin say the cryptocurrency will reach $100,000 by 2023, but more bullish crypto enthusiasts say $250,000 isn’t far from sight.
Sign up for an account in minutes to buy crypto using credit card or bank transfer. Finally, make sure that the company can operate in your area. Some local regulations require platforms to obtain special licenses in their country while others are not crypto-friendly at all. Consequently, we can see the market spread — the difference between the lowest bid price and the highest ask price. Usually, the smaller the spread, the higher the market liquidity. And high liquidity means fast execution of even large-volume trading orders. Margin Trading Trade digital assets with leverage on CEX.IO Broker. I have seen so much news and discussion for the past month that the falling market will have dire consequences for crypto.
Bitcoin can be traded across 494 different markets and is most actively traded in Binance. These percentages show how much the exchange rate has fluctuated over the last 30 and 90-day periods. These are the lowest points the exchange rate has been at in the last 30 and 90-day periods. These are the highest points the exchange rate has been at in the last 30 and 90-day periods.
Fees can be based on price volatility, and many are charged per transaction. While fees should definitely be a consideration, experts say you also get what you pay for, especially when sticking to the bigger, more established exchanges like Coinbase. If an exchange has more protections, better security, or other features that are important to you, it may be worth slightly higher fees. Generally, if you’re using a beginner-friendly platform like Coinbase or PayPal, you can simply enter the amount in dollars you want to trade for Bitcoin, and buy at the current rate . If you use an exchange designed for more https://www.beaxy.com/ active trading, you may have the option to place both market and limit orders. In the short term, these factors have created some noise and extra volatility in the crypto and stock markets, but this is usual during times of uncertainty. Volatility is standard in the cryptocurrency market, so experts predict the ups and downs to continue. Higher volume typically means a given cryptocurrency has more market liquidity, meaning more ability for investors to sell an investment when they want to realize a profit. It represents how much crypto is bought and sold over a period of time, typically 24 hours.
Ethereum, on the other hand, is a software platform that allows developers to build other crypto-oriented apps on it. To use Ethereum, developers have to buy and pay fees to the network in Ethereum’s native digital currency, ether. You can narrow down your search for the right platform by mostly paying attention to security and fees. If you plan to keep your crypto on your account with an exchange, make sure you choose an exchange that uses offline, cold storage, and has strong protections against theft. Some exchanges also have independent insurance policies to help protect investors from potential hacking. Bitcoin set the stage for blockchain technology and decentralized finance. The Bitcoin price page is part of Crypto.com Price Index that features price history, price ticker, market cap, and live charts for the top cryptocurrencies. So if you want to withdraw them, you can do it any time by using different payment instruments. Say, if you need to send funds to your card, you can exchange crypto for fiats . The most simple way to do so is using the Instant Sell in the CEX.IO mobile app.
Yahoo Finance’s Jennifer Schonberger joins the Live show to discuss the SEC nearly doubling its staff count to police wrong-doing in crypto markets. Compare Bitcoin to gold and other precious metals by checking out the converters for Bitcoin to gold, Bitcoin to silver, Bitcoin to platinum, and Bitcoin to palladium. SA contributor Rothko Research recently said that bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) upside potential remains limited as a raft of central banks pivot to tighter monetary policy in an effort to tame inflationary pressures. Get full access to all features within our Corporate Solutions.
CEX.IO LTD serves residents throughout countries all over the world in which it operates. CEX IO EU Limited provides its card processing services to customers from the European Union and European Economic Area . Bitcoin has failed the retest of a critical support line that was first passed back in November 2020 which established the start of the bull run that we have seen over the past year and a half. I am looking for a retest of this line, if it holds as resistance we could see a confirmation of the bear market. I have been waiting for this moment for several months now. When the Bear Flag started forming it was quite clear that a MASSIVE breakdown was imminent. I know a lot of people are still in denial and think “there is no way it’s even possible for BTC to go back to… | <urn:uuid:2497eaad-f687-4838-aba2-06478936d516> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://veenabk.com/bitcoin-usage-in-el-salvador-underwhelming-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.944441 | 4,439 | 1.757813 | 2 |
(Natural News) People living in the city already have a lot to contend with. But a study published in the journal Environmental Research points out that children living near busy roads face even more risks because of air pollution. The study, led by researchers from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), revealed that exposure to traffic-related air pollution can negatively impact the ability of children to communicate, socialize, and learn.
“Our results suggest that it may be prudent to minimize exposure to air pollution during pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood – all key periods for brain development,” explained NICHD investigator and senior author Pauline Mendola.
For the study, the team looked at data from the Upstate KIDS Study — an NICHD-led project which tracks the growth and motor and social development of nearly 6,000 children in New York State (excluding New York City). Then, they matched the addresses of the participants to a roadway data set, which measured each location to the nearest major highway. The team matched each location with estimated pollution data from the Environmental Protection Agency. Aside from their home addresses, the team also matched the mothers’ work address during pregnancy and any daycare centers used to determine possible exposures.
Children included in the study were tested using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, which measured the five domains of child development:
- Fine motor skills: Those that involve eye-hand coordination, such as writing, grasping small objects, and fastening clothes.
- Large motor skills: Actions that require larger movements involving the arms, feet, or the entire body. These are also referred to as gross motor skills.
- Communication: For infants, communication is through cries, coos, facial expression, and body language. Receptive communication refers to the ability of the child to understand a message from another person, while expressive communication is the ability to convey a message through sound and body language.
- Personal social functioning: This refers to the child’s ability to relate to family relationships, as well as exhibit self-care.
- Problem-solving ability: The child’s ability to understand the world around him and apply it through remembering, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Living near major roadways linked to lower scores
Based on the results, children who lived just over a hundred feet from a major highway were twice as likely to fail tests that measured communication compared with those living half a mile away or more. The researchers also found that children who lived near major roadways were exposed to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), which are pollutants produced by car emissions. The pollutants are smaller than the diameter of the human hair and can pass through the lungs and be directly absorbed into the bloodstream. In an earlier study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers from Utah concluded that exposure to PM 2.5 could potentially cause respiratory infections in young children. (Related: Air pollution causes developmental problems in infants, kills 7 million annually.)
Children who were exposed to PM 2.5 while in the womb had a higher risk of failing in any developmental domain, while those exposed to ozone from vehicle emissions were more likely to fail a specific domain. These get worse with age: Children exposed to ozone after birth were more likely to be left lagging in their overall development.
For lead author Sandi Ha, while the reasons for increased risk in developmental delay after birth are unclear, the association is still troubling: “Unlike exposure during pregnancy, exposure during childhood is more direct and does not go through a pregnant woman’s defenses.”
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Oil skimmers are simple, dependable and effective tools for removing oil, grease and other hydrocarbons from water and coolants. Often, an oil skimmer by itself can achieve the desired level of water purity.
In more demanding situations, oil skimming is a cost-effective means of removing most of the oil before using more complicated and costly treatments such as coalescers, membrane filters and chemical processes.
As with any piece of industrial equipment, there are guidelines that should be followed to promote optimal efficiency, as well as a long, trouble free operational life. Let’s take a look at a few tips that will help you get the most out your oil skimmer.
A skimmer is most effective when there is no turbulence in the media
Skimmers rely on the differences in specific gravities between oil and coolant or water that causes oil to float on top of water. In applications where turbulence is present, the process of oil rising to the top will be prolonged, with some oil remaining below the water until conditions allow gravity to ultimately prevail. Operating the skimmer predominantly during quiet times will give oil the chance to rise to surface and allow the unit to operate more effectively.
Keep a spare belt and wiper blades on hand
Being prepared for the unexpected is always good practice. While blades and belt are typically very durable and trouble free, you never want to be in a situation where the skimmer must be taken out of service until a new belt or wiper blades arrive from halfway across the country.
Choose a belt that is long enough so that the tail pulley is submerged when the liquid level is at its lowest point
Water and coolant levels can vary over time. Therefore, the skimmer needs to be capable of collecting oil when the levels are at their lowest. Taking the time to correctly size the belt prior to purchasing the unit will save a lot of headaches down the road.
Properly size the skimmer to the size of tank
Skimmers operate by breaking surface tension which allows oil to be attracted to the belt. If a unit is undersized, it will not have the strength to disrupt the surface tension of the liquid, meaning that oil will never make it to the belt. Sizing of the unit should always be based on the overall area of the tank, not the volume of oil that is expected in the tank. This will guarantee that the skimmer will be capable of overcoming the surface tension that is present for the given tank area.
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Group A streptococcal (GAS) serology is used for the diagnosis of post-streptococcal diseases, such as acute rheumatic fever, and occasionally for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis. Experts recommend that the upper limits of normal for streptococcal serology be determined for individual populations because of differences in the epidemiology of GAS between populations. Therefore, we performed a study to determine the values of the upper limit of normal for anti-streptolysin O (ASO) and anti-DNase B (ADB) titers in Fiji. Participants with a history of GAS disease, including pharyngitis or impetigo, were excluded. A total of 424 serum samples from people of all ages (with a sample enriched for school-aged children) were tested for their ASO and ADB titers. Reference values, including titers that were 80% of the upper limit of normal, were obtained by regression analysis by use of a curve-fitting method instead of the traditional nonparametric approach. Normal values for both the ASO titer and the ADB titer rose sharply during early childhood and then declined gradually with age. The estimated titers that were 80% of the upper limit or normal at age 10 years were 276 IU/ml for ASO and 499 IU/ml for ADB. Data from our study are similar to those found in countries with temperate climates, suggesting that a uniform upper limit of normal for streptococcal serology may be able to be applied globally. Copyright � 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Your baby can now wave her arms and pump her legs. And as her hip and knee joints become more flexible, her kicks are getting stronger. Hold her upright with her feet on the floor and feel her push down. Your baby can also bring both hands together and open and close her fingers. Encourage her eye-hand coordination by holding out a toy to see if she'll reach for it.
Babies simply love to be touched. In fact, they thrive on it — it's a critical part of growth and development. All that skin-to-skin contact not only helps you and your baby bond, but is comforting when she's upset and soothing when she's irritable. Nurture your baby's sense of touch with a variety of materials — such as fur, felt, and terrycloth. Your baby will likely try to eat everything, so choose carefully and don't leave her alone with anything that could come apart in her mouth.
Touch — the feel of a gentle breeze or a massage, being carried on your hip, or kissed on the nose — is a powerful way to relax or engage your baby. It may even make her more alert and help her have a longer attention span.
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Unless you’re a woman on Tinder between the ages of 19 and 30 in the Clapham area, or a high-end cocaine dealer operating in South West London, you probably won’t have heard of Rafe Hubris (BA, Oxon).
Despite that, he’s a crucial figure in the life of our nation. As Boris Johnson’s most classic special adviser (SPAD) at Number 10, he helped the UK government skilfully and efficiently control the Covid crisis, containing it for good by the end of 2020.
In the first of what will doubtless be many memoirs as Rafe travels his own inevitable journey to the premiership, this fly-on-the-wall account documents his Year of ’Rona in its entirety (and iniquity).
Even non-Oxbridge readers (for whom the author has taken care to keep his language as accessible as possible) will come away from this volume struck by how lucky we are to have him. Floreat Etona!*
*Note for non-Oxbridge readers: this means ‘May Eton flourish’ in Latin.**
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The phrase “older and wiser” can be defined as learning from previous attempts and doing things more better and more effectively the next time. This article will educate you on how you can become older and wiser when it comes to your health.
During my time in the fitness industry I have visited many different gyms. Some have been leisure centres, private health clubs, boutique state of the art gyms, apartment compounds and even home gyms. I have seen many people, sometimes the same people, exercising at the same time when I have been training my clients. These people are committed and are working towards becoming better, whether that be a weight loss goal, strength building goal etc which is great. But, they will often follow the same routine by completing the exercises they know, in the same order week after week without changing the sets, reps or weight. This is good for maintenance but not good for progress.
Every year there are fitness conventions and exhibitions across the globe, where companies attend to showcase their latest products or reveal a new piece of equipment. The health and fitness industry, is constantly changing and developing by using more technology to advance performance as there are new trends created. Some people will be willing to try these new trends, whilst others will stick to what they know. This can be good for maintenance but not for progress.
Next time you go to the gym, calculate the average age of the people using the treadmill. Then look at the resistance area and calculate the average age of the people lifting weights. I can tell you now, that people in their 40s to 60s will be doing cardio and people in their 20s to 30s will be lifting weights. So why when we reach a certain age, do we stop strength training?
As we get older, we might lose flexibility, range of movement around our joints, we might lose muscle mass and gain body fat, but if you can stay active, continue to do resistance training along with come cardio exercises, you will be in better shape.
To me that is the definition of becoming older and wiser.
- Being open minded to try new exercises, new training programmes and different gym routines.
- Wanting to progress and improve health and fitness and not fall into the “I’m getting old so I can’t” trap.
- Doing a variety of different strength methods which will keep your muscles, bones and joints strong.
You don’t need to be looking to lift super heavy or compete in the Olympics, but you can still challenge your body to do more. Remember, age is just a number. With obesity on the rise globally due to the lack of exercise and poor nutrition, it’s really important that you become older and wiser, by focussing on your health and doing all you can to be active and mobile. If you are not seeing a change, then you need to stop doing the same things. Instead, try something new, change the exercises you do, change the order of the machines you use, ask a Personal Trainer or fitness professional for guidance or advice, don’t keep making the same mistakes…be older and wiser.
For more fitness tips and related content, check out my Instagram page @nicky__fitness and my website www.nicky-fitness.com
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Metal injection molding (MIM) is a molding method in which a plasticized mixture of metal powder and its binder is injected into a mold. It is firstly mixing the selected powder with a binder, then granulating the mixture and then injection molding the desired shape. The polymer imparts its viscous flow characteristics to the mix, which aids uniformity in forming, cavity filling and powder filling. After forming, the binder is removed, and the degreased blank is sintered. Some sintered products may also be subjected to further densification, heat treatment or machining. Sintered products not only have the same complex shape and high precision as those obtained by plastic injection molding, but also have physical, chemical and mechanical properties close to forgings. This process technology is suitable for mass production of small, precise, complex three-dimensional shapes and metal parts with special performance requirements.
MIM technology combines the advantages of powder metallurgy and plastic injection molding, breaking through the limitations of traditional metal powder molding technology on product shape, and using plastic injection molding technology to form parts with complex shapes in large quantities and efficiently It has become a near-net-shape technology for modern manufacturing of high-quality precision parts, and has incomparable advantages over conventional powder metallurgy, machining and precision casting. It produces small metal parts with complex shapes like plastic products, usually weighing 0.1-200g; A variety of complex shapes can be formed like plastic products, such as external grooves, external threads, tapered external surfaces, cross-through holes, blind holes, concave tables, key pins, rib plates, surface knurling, etc.; It has good surface finish and high dimensional accuracy, and the usual tolerance is ±0.3%~0.5%; The material is suitable for a wide range, the product has a high density (up to 95% to 99%), and has a uniform structure and excellent performance; With stable product quality and high production efficiency, it can realize automatic, large-scale and large-scale production.
MIM technology is a very important molding technology in the medical device industry. Small medical devices, precision parts, high-precision parts, and high-performance parts are basically produced using MIM technology. It is also very cost-effective for the production of complex precision parts. Common MIM medical instruments include ear parts, hemostatic forceps, laparoscopes, scalpel handles, dental parts, forceps, scissors, orthopedic joint parts, etc. The current trend in the medical industry is minimally invasive surgery and minimally invasive plastic surgery. Many medical device parts that need to be used are produced by MIM technology. Minimally invasive MIM surgical parts have various geometric shapes and complex structures, which require very high dimensions and accuracy. At present, stainless steel, titanium and nickel-titanium alloys are widely used, and MIM technology is used for dental implants.
The automotive industry has become a major application area for MIM parts, such as numerous MIM auto parts with complex shapes used in engines, gearboxes, turbochargers, locking mechanisms, steering systems and electronic systems. Such as 1) The rocker arm of the BMW engine. One is a rocker arm that rotates with the rollers. This is a rocker arm made of low alloy steel that controls the variable valve timing travel of the engine. It is characterized by its hollow structure and light weight, which is difficult to make by other methods; (2) Shift lever. This is a very high volume MIM custom parts for manual transmissions in passenger cars. The production process of this part is: injection molding, sintering, hardening and assembling the shaft. The material used is Fe2Ni, and the parts should be carburized and quenched after sintering; (3) Turbocharger blades. The production of such MIM variable area nozzle vanes used in automotive diesel turbochargers is high. This part can meet strict dimensional tolerance requirements, and the blade profile can reach an accuracy of ±0.015mm by machining. The blades are produced with special moulds, which have excellent sliding function when opened and reduce deformation when they come out. MIM production can reduce production costs by 20%.
The MIM process has also been widely used in many fields such as smartphones, automobiles, electronic products, mechanical equipment, and consumer goods. Driven by factors such as the rapid growth of electronic products and the substitution of MIM-manufactured parts for traditional process-manufactured parts, the MIM market will still maintain a positive development. A number of key technologies for smart devices represented by smart operating systems, smart human-computer interaction, mobile phone screen display, application processor technology, and battery, charging and other technologies have achieved rapid development, and consumer electronic products such as smart phones and wearable devices are also emerging. into the market. As a typical product with the highest penetration rate, the most diverse forms and the largest demand among the mobile smart terminals, the smartphone plays a rising role as a carrier. The widespread coverage of smart phones continues to influence people's work and lifestyle, and the use of various mobile phone applications and services through the Internet has led to continued deepening of people's reliance on mobile phones. The development trend of thin and light consumer electronic products such as smartphones and wearable devices is accelerating, and the core components of such products are also becoming more sophisticated and complex. In this context, the application prospects of the MIM process are becoming increasingly clear. At present, the process has been widely used in the manufacture of MIM communication parts such as card trays, camera rings, buttons, connector joints, built-in structural parts, watch cases, and buckles. | <urn:uuid:63cdbbf8-f4e1-45f0-a548-b1e6b62d9864> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jawab123.com/12019/chinamim-com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945459 | 1,191 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Discover the rich spiritual history of Ireland, from Neolithic monuments older than the pyramids to the beautiful monastery of Glendalough.
Posted in , Jun 25, 2015
Mention Ireland and many people think immediately of St. Patrick, but there’s much more to Ireland’s rich spiritual history than the 5th-century saint and his mission to convert the Irish to Christianity. With monuments older than Egyptian pyramids, ancient stones designed to align with the sun and a battlefield where opponents fought over the future of Christianity, Ireland is steeped in religious history that is beautiful, memorable and, at times, mystifying.
The region known as the Ancient East, from Drogheda, County Meath to Kilcullen, County Kildare, features beautiful scenery and sites marking major periods in over 5,000 years of Irish history.
Begin about 45 minutes outside of Dublin, in the Boyne Valley of Drogheda. This is home to three major Neolithic sites, Newgrange, Knowth and DowthIn. They date back to around 3,200 B.C.—about 1,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Although the exact purpose of these monuments is not known, they are no longer believed to be simply burial grounds. Instead, they are believed to be pagan sacred temples meant for worship services, since they have only a few tombs between them (1 at Newgrange, 2 at Knowth and 3 at Dowth).
There are mysterious shapes and patterns carved into the stone entrance and walls of Newgrange, which may be an ancient language. No one knows exactly what they mean. One thing that researchers and visitors have discovered is that the pathway to the narrow entrance of the tomb lines up directly with the rising sun during the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Every year in December, the Brú na Bóinne center (the information, exhibition and admissions center for Newgrange and Knowth) hosts a lottery for 100 people to experience the sun rising from inside Newgrange during the days before during and just after the solstice.
For visitors who can’t make it during the winter or who aren’t lucky enough to win the lottery, you can experience a reenactment of the sun’s rising from inside Newgrange all year round, A tour guide will trigger lights that slowly illuminate the path up from the entrance into the center, imitating the way the sun rises in the morning, proving how important the sun was to the ancient Irish people.
A very short drive from Newgrange lies the most significant battleground in Ireland's Christian history. Catholic James II of England and Protestant William III of England, along with soldiers from all over Europe, fought the July 1, 1690 Battle of Boyne. It was a short but decisive victory for William III and solidified Protestantism in Ireland. With William III's victory, he not only held onto the English throne and English rule of Ireland, he also shaped France's power in Europe. Visitors to the Battle of Boyne Centre can see a reenactment of the battle and can walk the grounds along the Boyne River where the Battle was fought.
Not far from Boyne Valley is the breath-taking Glendalough Monastic Site of County Wicklow, a 6th-century monastery founded by St. Kevin. Though much isn’t known about who St. Kevin was, he is revered for his love of nature, which drew him to a life of solitude in the incredible Glendalough. St. Kevin was said to have found his home in a cave in Glendalough by way of an angel who visited him. While he went there to escape his followers and commune with God in the wilderness, his followers soon joined him there and the monastic site was built. Today, all that remains of this early Christian settlement are a majestic round tower, stone churches, and the outward structure of a cathedral. Watch a video from beautiful Glendalough here. With history and mystery, and the beauty of the valley the ancient east of Ireland is well-worth the trip.
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Application Deadline: February 1st 2019
The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge seeks to identify outstanding proposals offering novel investment strategies to meet some of the most pressing global challenges ahead.
The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge harnesses the power of capital markets and student creativity to create positive impact in a world of perpetual resource scarcity and continued population growth. Every year, the Kellogg School of Management and Morgan Stanley partner to host the challenge where teams of graduate students from around the globe develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle our world’s most pressing challenges.
Contestants must propose and defend a strategy that uses finance and investment tools rather than an operating enterprise to address an environmental or societal challenge. The competition is an opportunity to apply core finance principles to target the economic, social and environmental challenges that drive the field of sustainable investing. Pitches might focus on areas like water, energy, food, social mobility, climate change, education or healthcare, among others. Contestants are encouraged to apply the entire spectrum of investment tools, styles and asset classes.
The Challenge seeks to identify the next generation of sustainable finance practitioners, connect emerging leaders with industry professionals, and foster even greater emphasis on sustainability at graduate schools around the world.
This competition requires you to propose and defend a sustainable impact investment strategy that uses finance and investment tools to create an innovative solution to an environmental or societal challenge. Integral to this competition are first, that you are creating a financial vehicle, and second, that your financial vehicle will have social impact.
Institutions seeking investments may include but are not limited to:
- University Endowments
- Retirement and Pension Funds
- Family Foundations
- Family Offices
The proposal must be a fit for an institutional investor who is seeking:
- Both competitive returns and positive social and/or environmental impact
- Risk management that is commensurate with the target returns
- Transparent performance metrics for both the financial and social return
- Clear linkage between program outcomes and social impact
The institutions are open to multiple asset classes, including but not limited to:
- Private equity/venture capital
- Real assets
- Public equities
- Fixed income securities
- Microfinance lending and investing
The Organizers will provide airfare and two nights lodging for the ten finalist teams.
Graduate students from around the world are invited to participate in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.
Teams are limited to a maximum of four members, all of whom must be enrolled in a graduate program at the time of the prospectus submission, and the team cannot include more than one member who is pursuing an Executive MBA.
A team may include members from different graduate schools.
All ideas must be the original ideas of the team members.
Each team is required to submit a two-page prospectus outlining their proposal. From the submitted prospectuses, ten teams will be selected to present at the finals competition. At least one team member should be available to present at the finals competition, if the team is chosen to advance to that round, and all team members attending the finals competition should plan to stay for the entire event. Please note that any team member not in attendance at the finals competition will not share in any prizes awarded to that team.
Student Prospectus Submission
Please click on “Submit a Prospectus” to submit your two page prospectus. Remove all identifying student name and school information from the prospectus before submission.
The ten teams selected from the previous round will convene on April 12, 2019 at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong for a day-long competition. Each team will have 10 minutes to present its pitch to a panel of judges and will be expected to answer 10 minutes of questions from the selection panel. Presentation suggestions are provided below.
The selection panel will be composed of experienced institutional investors and officers of foundation funds and endowments, as well as other professionals in the field. The same selection criteria will be used in the first and second rounds of competition.
$15,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winning teams. Awards will be made for the overall quality of the proposals based on the judging criteria.
- Overall First Place: $10,000
- Overall Runner-Up: $5,000
Along with the overall first place prize money of $10,000, the winning team will be invited to attend and present on a panel with Dave Chen, CEO and Principal of Equilibrium Capital and co-founder of the Challenge at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles. The conference convenes approximately 3,500 of the best minds in the world to tackle the most stubborn challenges.
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LifeNews’ Steve Ertelt covers the Walk for Life West Coast:
“Starting in 2005, with 7,500 participants the Walk has grown in both attendance and diversity each year, until it is now the second largest pro-life event in the United States. Last year’s attendance was estimated as high as 50,000 people and more people showed up yesterday.
People from colleges, high schools and church congregations and from as far away as Washington and Wyoming walked down San Francisco’s main artery, Market Street, ending at Justin Herman Plaza. Seventeen Catholic bishops, led by San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, and two Anglican bishops in attendance.
The Walk has grown despite ongoing opposition from San Francisco’s city government. That opposition began with the first Walk in 2005 and continues to this day. On January 18, 2014, Supervisor David Campos, joined by six of his colleagues, introduced a resolution opposing the banners inviting San Franciscan’s to the Walk. The banners proclaimed the Walk’s message: ‘Abortion Hurts Women.’”
Life News also has good pictures. Here’s Monica Snyder, of Secular Pro-Life, who was one of our speakers this year.
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Edward Teller: The Real Dr Strangelove
by Peter Goodchild
Weidenfeld & Nicholson £25, pp467
Dwight Eisenhower was inclined to brood over the growing power of America's scientific elite. Yes, technology had given the US undreamt-of power, he would tell henchmen, but its protagonists now held the nation in dangerous thrall. And of that scientific aristocracy, Ike fretted most about its two great, immigrant stars: the German creator of modern rocketry and the Hungarian father of the H-bomb. 'Beware Werner von Braun and Edward Teller,' the President would tell his aides.
Fortunately for Ike, von Braun, the Nazi technocrat who built the V2 rocket, was enticed into saving the US's ailing space programme, thus sublimating his militant urges. But beetle-browed, tireless Teller remained passionately active in defence circles for four more decades, making his presence felt, usually uncomfortably, on the next nine Presidents until his death, at 95, last year.
America, and the rest of the world, still bears the marks of that bellicose influence, for Teller, more than anyone else, was responsible for driving the US further and further down the road to nuclear proliferation. He was obsessed with building the first hydrogen bomb, a device whose megaton explosion in 1952 dwarfed the kiloton blasts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
Then, as leader of the Livermore atom lab, he directed the manufacture of increasing numbers of nuclear weapons so that John Kennedy, when elected in 1961, discovered he had inherited 18,000 of them, with the Soviets galloping to catch up. The world was sprinting towards nuclear mayhem, and scientists began to retreat in horror.
But not Teller. More and bigger blasts were all he craved and he used his reputation and influence to block the introduction of test ban treaties; to make merciless (but incorrect) attacks on scientists who said nuclear fallout posed cancer risks; and to play a major role in disgracing Robert Oppenheimer, the distinguished scientist who had led the Hiroshima bomb project, but who came to question the need for increased nuclear weaponry. (Teller's fellow physicists never forgave him for this last act.)
'I do not want a hydrogen bomb because it would kill more people,' Teller claimed. 'I wanted a hydrogen bomb because it was new.' The only problem was finding uses for them. Thus he backed a plan to use 26 of them to blast out a new Panama Canal, while his idea of fleets of orbiting X-ray lasers (powered by nuclear bombs) that could destroy attacking missiles formed the basis for the US's Star Wars defence shield.
The project cost billions but created nothing except paranoia among Russians who seriously considered launching a pre-emptive attack on the West - in September 1983 - lest it lose its nuclear edge.
Thus Peter Seller's sieg-heiling Dr Strangelove in Kubrick's cinematic satire on nuclear war may have superficial similarities with von Braun, but is really based on Teller's manic obsessiveness, says Peter Goodchild. In fact, a closer cinematic parallel probably lies with Darth Vader, a man of initial liberal sensibilities who is seduced by the Dark Side. The question is: for what reason? Why did the once-urbane Teller end up so hawkish and alienated?
Psychoanalysts could doubtless make much of his overprotective mother - she would only let him swim with other children while she held a cord tied round his waist. That scarcely explains his megaton urges, however, and it is a distinct flaw in this otherwise fine biography that Goodchild fails to get near the core of this disturbing individual.
The best shot is provided by Marshall Rosenbluth, a colleague on the H-bomb project. He believes Teller was a modern Coriolanus: acclaimed as a national hero (Teller made the cover of Time in 1957) for his H-bomb work, but later shunned (exiled) as hubris and jealousies set in. Eventually, he joined the enemy (the military). 'The parallel is quite exact and was, in a way, a tragedy,' says Rosenbluth.
That said, Goodchild provides us with a first-rate, thorough portrait, in which his subject is set in proper context. Yes, Teller was a warmonger, but so were the Soviets. And while he consistently exaggerated the Red threat for his own ends, the Russians scarcely helped. The author is also impressed with Teller's intellectual rigour and his 'unblinking honesty' about himself, though in merely describing his subject as 'remarkable' when words like grotesque and manic would have been more appropriate, he rather pulls his punches.
Goodchild retains some regard for the man, but I found it hard to disagree with Isidor Rabi, the Nobel laureate and former friend of Teller, who came to hate him: 'It would have been a better world without Teller.' It is an unpleasant epitaph but after reading this biography, it seems quite accurate. | <urn:uuid:5333d817-c00f-4af2-9083-70886cd6e9ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/02/scienceandnature.highereducation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97277 | 1,048 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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Note: this is an update of a post we originally published in 2013. We have checked and the restaurants we speak of are open. We can't exactly vouch for the particular menu items or the prices. We are headed back to San Sebastián in November 2022 on our Culture and Cuisine Tour of Spain.
It was winter when we visited San Sebastián (or, as the Basques call it, Donostia,) so we hadn't come for the beaches, like most Spaniards and French do. (San Sebastián is famous for its surf, too.)
We came for the food.
All of the Basque Country of Spain is renowned for its food. Four of the top 50 restaurants of 2021 in the world are in the Basque Country.
We’ve tried Asador Etxebarri, ranked number 3, so far, skipped the other three until our next trip, both to give our wallet and digestive systems a respite. Until then though, and as long as we were in the pintxo capital of the world, we decided we were going to subsist on pintxos.
Pintxos are the Basque equivalent of the tapas that used to define casual Spanish cuisine. When we first came to Spain 47 years ago, every glass of wine or beer that was ordered in a bar came with a tapa. That, back in the old days, was usually a small piece of tortilla de patatas (potato omelet), a small dish of peanuts or olives, or maybe two boquerones (marinated sardines.) In a lot of bars in southern Spain, this is still how it’s done.
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What is a pintxo, or tapa?
Perhaps now is a good time to go into terminology a little bit. The word tapa literally means cap or cover. The use of the word to mean a little bite to eat came from the quaint practice of putting a little slice of bread on top of your wine glass to keep the flies out. A pintxo (which is the Basque spelling of the Spanish word pincho, a skewer) is named after the toothpick that often holds the concoction together. And a pintxo is a much more intricate undertaking than a mere tapa.
The most common form of the pintxo art is a slice of bread, either toasted or not, upon which has been piled a particular combination of, meat, cheese, vegetable, fish, or…well you name it. In pintxo-rich cities such as Bilbao, San Sebastián, or Logroño, bars up and down the street try to outdo each other in the elaboration of their offerings.
When you’re in one of those cities, you’ll often find older neighborhoods lined with bars. Customers spill out onto tables that line the narrow streets, and the sound of hundreds of Spaniards tossing back wine and beer and sharing the delicious finger food resounds off the close set walls. It’s my favorite enduring vision of Spain.
To give you an idea of the sort of pintxos you might encounter in a place like San Sebastián, I’ll just list what we had over a two-night San Sebastián food tour – which is perhaps a more genteel way of saying bar crawl.
A pintxos tour of San Sebastián
The essence of dining like a native in Spain is to make several stops a night in different bars. The first night we went to three, which is maybe a bit below average. (One night in Bilbao, our son, who was living in Madrid at the time, came up to meet us there, and we went to seven bars between the train station where we met him and the hotel where we were staying. But who's counting?)
Here are the details from the first night’s excursion through the Parte Vieja (Old Town) of San Sebastián.
First stop was Taberna Juantxo at Embeltran Kalea, 6. This is a real locals joint, as the clientele indicated. There we tried four pintxos: shrimp breaded and fried with a bechamel sauce, a simple potato omelet, a shrimp with a puffy breading and deep fried, and a chili relleno (a pepper filled with cheese and deep fried.) They were all tasty bits of deep fried goodness, but not exactly what we were hoping for. (We didn’t see them on the bar. They were just on a menu posted behind.)
The second stop, though, was exactly what we were hoping for, a long bar lined with elaborate pintxos. This was Bar La Cepa, at Calle 31 de Agosto, 7, and the method of serving was simple. The bartender handed you a plate, and you went down the line loading said plate with whatever appealed to you. We chose five. They were (clockwise from the top of the photo above) 1) marinated sardines with a minced red pepper and garlic garnish, 2) jamón jabugo (jamon serrano’s tastier cousin) with tomato and capers, 3) a skewer of olives, hot peppers and an anchovy, 4) lettuce and cheese slaw in a french dressing with a shrimp and aioli topping, and 5) a grilled green pepper with tuna and caper. I expect saying they were all great is sort of redundant at this point. To wash it down, I had two small beers and Kris had two glasses of Rioja. Kris, being the snob she is, ordered the good wine.
Our third stop was Jatetxea (Restaurant) Gandarias at Calle 31 de Agosto, 23, just down the street from La Cepa. Same deal there. The bartender hands you a plate, takes your drink order and you make your way down the bar. There, we chose the following (after a few questions about what exactly we were picking) 1) a stack of grilled mushroom caps which had been drizzled with a sauce of lemon and garlic and stuck on a thin slice of ham, 2) Smoked baby eels on a roasted red pepper, 3) a pastry shell with minced crab, 4) toast with sun dried tomato, Camembert and goat cheese, topped with pine nuts and walnuts, and 5) a quail’s egg atop a pastry shell filled with caramelized onion. One glass each of the good Rioja later, and we were ready to head home. This feast set us back less than €20.
Thus, we were sated. Or so I thought. We did stop for an ice cream cone on the way back to the hotel. Kris had hazelnut and I had coffee.
There's more to San Sebastián than pintxos
Instead of pintxos, we actually had a meal for lunch on our second day of prowling the Parte Vieja. The restaurant was called Ubarrechena (sorry, the website seems to only be in Spanish, but you can look at the pictures) and, according to the big blackboard behind our table, the specialty of the house that day was Caldoso de Arroz con Mariscos, which means seafood in a rice broth. In other words, sort of a liquid paella.
The caldoso was served in a just-off-the-boil cauldron set in the middle of our table and we were provided with spoons, knives and forks to get all the “goodie,” as my father used to say, out of the cauldron and into our bowls and then into our mouths.
The broth itself was delicious and was seasoned much like a paella – saffron and smoky paprika being the main components of the flavor. Swimming in the stew were large head-on prawns and small shrimp that had been peeled. Also, mussels, squid rings and sweet red peppers. The best way to eat those prawns is to start at the head by ripping it off the body and slurping out the shrimpy brainy broth. That’s the most intense flavor blast you’re going to get out of any seafood, in my opinion. Now I like the tails of the shrimp just fine, but I still will never be able to understand why it’s hard to buy shrimp with the heads still on in the United States…other than we seem to be a nation of queasy food wimps.
So, we sucked and slurped until everything except an inch or so of ricey broth was left in the tub. The caldoso, plus a very nice salad of lettuce, onion, tomato and tuna, a bottle of white wine from Rueda, and coffee came to a lot more than we’ll usually spend for lunch, but this was an opportunity to try something new, albeit not too daring, and we seized it. We’re like that.
At that point, we needed to walk it off, and so decided to go around the sea wall of the San Sebastián peninsula. We started at the docks where the fishermen unload their catch of the day, and as we proceeded around, ran into the Basque Maritime Museum. This small museum essentially presents a history of the Basque Whaling Fleet from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. (They’re not whaling any more, of course.) It was a small building with two floors mostly of pictures and a few artifacts like harpoons and pieces of scrimshaw. The small admission charge included the loan of a guidebook in Spanish, which is helpful if you don’t have a clue about the Basque language–as anyone who isn’t Basque doesn’t.
Afterwards, we continued around the wall and were enthralled with the views at dusk of the dark green sea crashing against the rocky shore. We were on a road built up over the rocks. Enough, you’d think, to protect you from the water. Not strictly true. I had stopped to take some pictures of an island in the harbor but Kris had gone ahead a bit and was standing at the railing just looking at the sea when a rogue wave hit the rocks hard enough that it actually came over the seven meter wall and completely drenched her. The Spaniards who were taking their evening walk and I all got a pretty good laugh out of that.
As the squishy Kris and I continued around the peninsula back into the old part of town, we ran into another exhibition.
This was a small exhibit of photography put on by what amounts to the photography club of San Sebastián. Sociedad Fotografica de Gipuzkoa it’s called, and the exhibit was about 50 images that were the winning entries of their annual competition. Not all of the photos were from Spain, but many were, and, as a long-time photography fan, I can honestly say it was one of the best concentrations of extraordinary images I’ve ever seen. I encourage you to have a look at the website. The exhibit was free. And, when we stopped to chat with the attendant to tell her how impressed we were with the show, she gave us the book of the previous year’s show, and a CD of this year’s show. (With the crisis in Spain, I don’t think they could afford the printing this year.) Like I said, have a look.
Since we still weren’t quite ready for more pintxos yet, we stopped in the plaza between the big San Sebastián art museum and a church – San Telmo, I think – to watch the kids play soccer for half an hour or so. Actually, I watched the kids. Kris stared into the museum entrance and beckoned me to enter. I was more interested in the soccer at this point, so we didn’t go in.
Since we’d at least worked up a thirst, if not a hunger by now, we stopped back into Bar La Cepa where we’d been the night before, but only had a bowl of anchovy-stuffed olives to go with our wine. But, with appetites thus whetted we moved up a side street to the bar La Cuchara de San Telmo where we ran, again, into pintxo paradise.
La Cuchara’s specialty is small portions of cooked meats and fish. On the menu were female duck breast (the female is more tender than the male, we were told,) veal cheeks, the ears of jabugo pigs, and, the national fish of the Basque Country, cod. We had some duck, which was stewed with pears and was amazing and then decided to venture a little out of the comfort zone and try the pig’s ear. This was not necessarily a good idea as it turns out a pig’s ear is nothing but gelatinous fat encased in crispy skin. Oh well, if you wash it down with enough beer…
We moved onto a dessert of bitter chocolate terrine with a tart sauce of reduced orange. That more than made up for the pig’s ear.
All the time we were standing at the bar, we were engaged in a far wandering conversation with Alex, the bar man. We covered love, quitting smoking, the deserts of Peru and Chile, and the difficult Basque and English languages.
I now know two words of Basque: Eskerrik asko. Thank you very much.
A food tour of San Sebastián
If you are going to visit San Sebastián to taste the food, you could do a lot worse that taking the San Sebastian Ultimate Pintxos & Wine Tour from Devour Spain Tours. Devour is owned by a personal friend of ours, and take our word for it, Lauren is the authority on Spanish food. How to find it, how to cook it, and most of all, how to eat it. Check it out.
Where to stay in San Sebastián
When it comes to deciding where to stay in San Sebastian, know that having a good home base can greatly enhance your trip.
In the Old Town, you'll be surrounded by charming cobblestone streets winding around the city’s historic buildings, and the highest concentration of where you'll want to eat.
The most vibrant street in the Old Town is Calle 31 de Agosto, lined with hopping pintxos bars and clever shops. It can get quite noisy, so stay down one of the nearby side streets for a bit more peace and quiet.
Recommended Old Town Hotels include:
Hotel SANSEbay, which offers lovely views of La Concha, contemporary rooms, and excellent value for money.
Artea Narrika, is a modern guesthouse with a clean, minimalist feel.
For a bit more upscale experience, there's the famous Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra, right on La Concha Beach. Old school luxury, for sure.
But for real, over the top luxury, there's the Hotel Maria Cristina. Be sure to save some money for your pintxos.
And, if you have transportation, the always amazing Spanish Parador system offers the Parador de Hondarribia. Also known as the Castle of Charles V, its construction dates to the 10th century. You will feel as if you are in an authentic medieval fortress, because you are. You'll also be 25 km outside of San Sebastián, but nothing beats the Parador experience.
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Well, it’s not really that bad, but the list of new (or at least newly identified) zoonotic disease issues continues to expand at an impressive rate.
One of the latest concerns is a cluster of Seoul virus infections linked to rats. At last report, 8 infections with Seoul virus have been identified in people in two US states.
Seoul virus is a member of the Hantavirus family, a group of viruses that lives primarily in rodents. Seoul virus infections in people tend to be relatively mild. Most people who are infected do not develop any signs of disease, but flu-like illness and potentially some more serious complications such as kidney disease can occur. Relatively speaking, it’s much less serious than the life-threatening hantavirus pulmonary syndrome that can develop with other hantavirus infections, but it still warrants attention.
The first reported human case in this series was a at-home rodent breeder in Wisconsin. He ended up in hospital after developing fever, headache and some other vague flu-like symptoms. A family member subsequently tested positive as well. Fortunately, both recovered.
Since this is a rodent-borne virus, tracebacks to facilities from which this person obtained rats were pursued. Six additional human cases were identified associated with two rat-breeding facilities in Illinois. Efforts are ongoing to see if there are any infections in other people who purchased rats from any of these facilities.
One thing that was overlooked in this outbreak report is how the index case was identified. There’s not much information available, but Seoul virus testing isn’t routine, and testing of people with flu-like disease for things beyond influenza (if that) isn’t that common. A CNN news report about the Seoul virus outbreak said “Because of the patient’s exposure to rodents, the doctor had a “hunch” to test for hantavirus, explained [Director of the Wisconsin Dept of Health Services Bureau of Communicable Diseases Stephanie] Smiley.”
- That’s an important point to me, as it shows that animal contact was queried (which unfortunately isn’t often done) and the information led to consideration of uncommon problems. We need more of this kind of behaviour to improve diagnosis of zoonotic diseases.
CDC’s recommendations for rat owners are pretty straightforward (and are what we tell rat owners to do at all times, since they also help reduce the risk of things like rat bite fever (Streptobacillus moniliformis infection)):
- Wash your hands with soap and running water after touching, feeding, or caring for rodents, or cleaning their habitats. Be sure to assist children with handwashing.
- Be aware that pet rodents can shed germs that can contaminate surfaces in areas where they live and roam. Make sure rodent enclosures are properly secured and safe, so your pet doesn’t get hurt or contaminate surfaces.
- Clean and disinfect rodent habitats and supplies outside your home when possible. Never clean rodent habitats or their supplies in the kitchen sink, other food preparation areas, or the bathroom sink.
- Avoid bites and scratches from rodents. Be cautious with unfamiliar animals, even if they seem friendly. Take precautions when cleaning out rodent cages or areas with rodent urine or droppings.
- Visit your veterinarian for routine evaluation and care to keep your rodents healthy and to prevent infectious diseases.
If bitten by a rodent:
- Wash the wound with warm soapy water immediately. Even healthy pets can carry germs.
Seek medical attention if:
- Your pet appears sick.
- Your wound is serious.
- Your wound becomes red, painful, warm, or swollen.
- Your last tetanus shot was more than 5 years ago.
- You develop sudden fever or flu-like illness within 1-2 weeks after being bitten
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The work of flinging stuffed animals into baskets seems never-ending. Picking up the clutter of toys often means gathering scattered puzzle pieces and plastic kitchen accessories. Still, every parent also knows the pain of searching for that specific bear or panda you want to keep around just because it’s your favorite!
There’s a reason why kids love stuffed animals so much. They offer them the sense of safety, predictability, and comfort in an often, uncertain world that children need when they’re just starting their lives as adults themselves! Holding on tight to a soft cuddly object can soothe your child’s fears, especially when separated from you or another trusted person. When they feel anxious and need comfort, most of all things in the world are what will make them feel better. The Jellycat Singapore store has a lot of options to choose from.
Why are soft toys popular among children?
Despite the numerous benefits, parents often question why soft toys are popular as a fad that has lasted for years. Whether for social skills development, providing predictability and comfort, or even anxiety management, soft toys can help a child in so many ways. Here are some of the key reasons children love to play with soft toys. Read on for more information! Let us explore the many reasons that make them so cherished.
Helps children develop social skills
Social development is a continuous process, as are other developmental milestones. Through play, children can learn many social skills, including empathy, self-control, and communication. Soft toys offer many opportunities for these activities to occur. Children learn to communicate with others through gestures and body language, and they practice releasing feelings and regulating their emotions. This builds self-confidence. For children to develop good attitudes and healthy self-esteem, they must develop relationships with peers and adults.
Soft toys are constructive for infants because they encourage pretend play, which helps lay the groundwork for essential social skills. Experts recommend that children play with stuffed animals when they’re 12-18 months old. Pretend play encourages interaction with other children and mimics the activities of caregivers. Eventually, these interactions lead to social skills and a foundation for learning to read. As the child grows older, they will begin to play with other children and interact with them in real-world situations.
Helps them cope with anxiety
Using comforting soft toys can make a big difference in a child’s anxiety levels. These toys soothe a child’s nervous system, and research shows that they reduce nighttime fears and sleep problems. For instance, children who are given a “huggy puppy” toy showed fewer sleep problems and fewer nighttime fears than those who did not receive the stuffed animal. This is not to suggest that soft toys are a cure-all for anxiety, but these toys are a good start.
Study revealed that soft toys could help reduce the anxiety surrounding death and illness. Losing a loved one is a normal part of growing up. Children and adults find comfort in a stuffed animal that helps them process the sadness. And if the child is suffering from depression, a stuffed animal can help ease the emotions of those grieving. So, how do you help a child cope with anxiety?
Provides a sense of predictability
Children are likely to attach more to familiar, predictable objects in their lives. Predictability builds self-esteem and confidence. Research suggests that children like soft toys that offer predictability. Parents can help their children develop self-esteem by using predictable routines in their homes. The Toy Questionnaire can gauge a child’s attachment to a particular toy. Children who spend time with a familiar object are likely to be more likely to feel comfortable around strangers and enjoy routines.
Offers a sense of comfort
The object you give a child can offer them a sense of comfort and security. This is because objects offer a sense of constancy during times of rapid change. Your child can experience the familiar feelings of security by holding the object while confronting new events. Children find comfort in objects, and they should be encouraged to develop attachments to such objects. They should be encouraged to hold objects they feel secure as their comforter.
Helps them learn new skills through role-playing
Role-playing helps children understand the world around them and develop empathy for others. It is also beneficial for language development, as role-playing helps children acquire new vocabulary and build their communication skills. Children who are taught language through role-playing tend to learn more than those taught through lectures or textbooks. The process encourages open-ended questioning and creative thinking, which are critical cognitive skills needed for later life.
Whether a child is learning to read or write, playing with their soft toys allows them to practice real-life scenarios and develop their cognitive and motor skills. It allows them to learn about different interests and responsibilities through real-life tools and equipment. In this way, they’re better prepared to handle responsibility in the real world. | <urn:uuid:57e7a5fa-e390-4696-b57b-4bd1e4810a65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resistancephl.com/2022/06/08/why-do-children-love-soft-toys-a-simple-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955951 | 1,018 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Enable Pop3 Access for most Webmailers
Accessing email accounts on a web site has its advantages. You can access the mails from any computer or device with Internet connection and browser for example.
The downside is that all your mails are stored by a third-party, and that you do not have full control over your emails because of that.
The company in question may access emails, may hand them over to third-parties, ban your account, or close it down, to name just a few possibilities of what can go wrong on this end. Local access may not be as convenient at times, but it guarantees access regardless of what a third-party does.
Most web mail providers offer options to connect to the email service using Pop3 or IMAP connections, so that you can use a local mail program instead if you so desire.
Others however do not offer this at all officially. FreePops was created for that reason. It enables Pop3 access to hundreds of mail services, including those that do not support pop3 officially at all.
What I like about FreePops is that mail accounts are added in the mail program that you use, you do not need to configure the software at all.
You basically add a new Pop3 mail account in your email client and use localhost and port 2000 as the Pop3 server. FreePops automatically understands which mail service you want to reach as all mail traffic is routed through the software on your system. This means that you do not have to configure the application itself to make use of it.
The only requirement is that it needs to run on your system, and that you need to set your mail program to route the traffic through it.
I suggest you take a look at the supported webmailers listed on the FreePops website to see if the ones you are using are supported. This is actually easier than setting up the accounts using the information you find at the web mailer websites.
FreePops uses roughly 4 Megabytes of memory when it is running in the background. The official site has a documentation section which you may find useful as well, as it walks you through the set up process step by step.
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The other day I stumbled accross an amazing PMML model API called jpmml. It’s written in Java and supports PMML 4.1 (and older). Neural networks, random forests, regression and trees PMML models can be consumed and used for scoring.
I decided to write a REST interface that wraps the jpmml engine. This allows remote clients, written in just about any language, to have a simple interface to “cloud” scoring.
You can develop your predictive models in R, export them to PMML and score the models directly from client applications. I’m a big fan of Rattle for the first two steps.
OpenScoring can be dowloaded from http://code.google.com/p/openscoring/.
To install the OpenScoring web application in Tomcat, copy the OpenScoring.war file to the $TOMCAT_HOME\webapps directory.
To invoke the scoring service, you perform an HTTP POST to http://localhost:8080/OpenScoring/Scoring. The format of the post is XML. Here is a sample POST to score against a Neural Network PMML model using the well-known iris data set.
Here is the sample XML input:
The pmml_url element is a http, file or ftp URL that points to the PMML XML file. The csv_input_rows element contains the records to score. The rows are comma separated values with pipe delimited rows.
Here is the response XML:
It’s a bit hard to read but the response contains all the input data with an additional column $PREDICTED. The $PREDICTED column contains the species prediction propensities.
There is also a Java API. Here is sample code to call the REST scoring service from Java:
StringBuffer csvInputRows = new StringBuffer();
ScoringRequest req = new ScoringRequest(
null, // model name (null = default)
null, // user id for basic authentication
null, // password for basic authentication
ScoringResponse res = ScoringClient.score(req);
The output CSV in Excel is:
The software is currently in alpha release v0.1. It’s distributed under a GPL v3 license.
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Providing students opportunities to share strengths, talents, and time with others, by volunteering, tutoring younger students, and other ways helps young people feel connected to their community.
We believe that every child needs and deserves …
A ONE-ON-ONE RELATIONSHIP WITH A CARING ADULT
Knowing that programs don’t change kids and that relationships do, we connect students to caring adults who offer encouragement, academic support, and hope.
A SAFE PLACE TO
LEARN AND GROW
Creating safe, nurturing space for students’ learning and helps them achieve their potential.
A HEALTHY START
AND A HEALTHY FUTURE
Linking students to vision and dental exams, social/emotional supports, and other basics are pre-requisites to growing healthy people. When basic needs are met, students can better focus on learning.
A MARKETABLE SKILL TO USE
Providing tutoring, literacy programs, career planning, employment training and job shadowing, leadership skills training and our unique Project Success college readiness program gives students the skill set necessary to be success in today’s workforce.
A CHANCE TO GIVE BACK TO PEERS AND COMMUNITY
We look for ways to provide.
Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.
Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.
Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH
We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.
COLLEGE AND CAREER EXPLORATION
Both higher education and the modern workplace are evolving rapidly, and with this shift come new opportunities, greater competition, more complex skill sets, and job titles that didn’t exist a few years ago. It’s a lot to process, especially for students already dealing with their own unique challenges. For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options. | <urn:uuid:6c2f34cc-ccaa-4816-8c45-8fc48af0d4b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cis-sct.org/our-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.925138 | 684 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Discovering The World of Vocabulary (CSS/PMS) By Adeel Niaz JWT
Brand new Original Paperback
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“Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.”
Thoughts remain cluttered until expressed in some form of language. We have to write, speak or act our thoughts; otherwise they will remain obscure, befuddled and in a half-torpid form. Our feelings must come out to others or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flower. So, it’s all about the inward feelings; expression gives them development, thought is the blossom; language the sprout and action the fruit of it. In addition to your physical appearance and the way you carry yourself, others will appraise you exclusively on the basis of the words that come out of your mouth. Even if you are considered a genius in any field, a poor vocabulary will send across a message that you are not savvy or very intelligent. This is the age of competition. In today’s world, if one is to enter into the auspicious professional world and make a promising and illustrious career, an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words is imperative. | <urn:uuid:a6ab040c-b738-4fec-afd2-02d71354b4a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinebooksoutlet.com/product/buy-world-of-vocabulary-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937934 | 290 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Mount Nanga Parbat photo copyrighted by: Alan Ingram
Nanga Parbat is much favoured by most climbers, but it is the Germans, who gave it the name, Murder Mountain. It has three vast faces. The Rakhiot (Ra Kot) face is dominated by the north and south silver crags and silver plateau,
the Diamir face is rocky in the beginning.
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Pharmacotherapeutic group: ectoparasiticide.
1 g of gel contains 5 mg of permethrin.
Lice in all phases of development (nits, nymphs, adult lice) in adults and children from 2 months of age.
The active substance of the gel – permethrin - is insecticide and acaricide for external use, it has insecticidal effect on many insects, including lice in all phases of development (nits, nymphs, adult lice).
Doses and mode of administration
Small amount and thin layer of the gel is applied on the body areas affected by lice. Usually 25 to 40 g of gel are necessary for application on the body areas affected by lice. Gel should be kept for 40 min after application, then washed with warm water and soap or shampoo. Dead lice, nymphs and nits should be brushed using a dense brush.
Package type and content
40 g of gel in the aluminum tube.
Consult a doctor or pharmacist regarding the administration of the medicinal product!
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You need to lose a couple of kilos in a few weeks. The only solution: a strict diet with fewer than a thousand calories a day. You’re guaranteed to lose fat – but unfortunately you’ll lose muscle too. Italian researchers wrote in the European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences that they have found a way to limit muscle loss during a crash diet: avoid carbs and replace them with protein.
The researchers got 18 healthy but overweight participants to go on a very strict diet for 3 weeks, consuming about 700-800 calories per day.
Nine participants were put on a more or less traditional diet: the energy was derived for 35-40 percent from fat, 15-20 percent from carbohydrates and the remaining 40-50 percent from protein. The participants consumed about one gram of protein per kilo bodyweight daily.
The other nine participants were put on a low-carb diet, where the energy was derived for 35-40 percent from fat, 5 percent from carbohydrates and the remaining 55-60 percent from protein. Half of the protein was given in the form of a whey supplement. The participants consumed about 1.4 gram of protein per kilo bodyweight daily.
The figure below shows the effects of the traditional crash diet.
The figure above shows the effect of the low-carb crash diet.
The figure below compares the results of the traditional diet and the low-carb crash diet. As you can see, the low-carb diet protected the muscle mass from breakdown. Both types of diet resulted in approximately the same amount of fat loss.
The researchers’ findings did not enable them to work out how a low-carb crash diet protects muscle mass against breakdown. They suggest that the combination of proteins and the lack of carbohydrates may lead to an increase in the anabolic activity of growth hormones.
“Our pilot double-blind study showed that a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet was highly effective in terms of body weight reduction without to induce lean body mass loss, preventing the risk of sarcopenia”, the Italians wrote. “Further clinical trials are needed on a larger population and long-term body weight maintenance and risk factors management effects of a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet.”
“As the full spectrum of metabolic effects induced by a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet is not completely characterized, new trials that are specifically designed to assess the combined effects of genotypes and dietary intervention are needed.”
Very-low-calorie ketogenic diet with aminoacid supplement versus very low restricted-calorie diet for preserving muscle mass during weight loss: a pilot double-blind study
OBJECTIVE: Obesity plays a relevant pathophysiological role in the development of health problems, arising as result of complex interaction of genetic, nutritional and metabolic factors. We conducted a dietary intervention case-control randomized trial, to compare the effectiveness on body composition of two nutritional protocols: a very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD), integrated by an aminoacid supplement with whey protein, and very low restricted-calorie diet (VLCD).
PATIENTS AND METHODS: The clinical study was conducted with a randomized case-control in which twenty-five healthy subjects gave informed consent to participate in the interventional study and were evaluated for their health and nutritional status, by anthropometric, and body composition evaluation.
RESULTS: The results of this pilot study show that a diet low in carbohydrates, associated with a decreased caloric intake, is effective in weight loss. After VLCKD, versus VLCD, no significant differences in body lean of the trunk, body lean distribution (android and gynoid), total body lean were observed (p > 0.05). After VLCKD, no increasing of sarcopenia frequency, according ASSMI, was observed.
DISCUSSION: Many studies have shown the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet on weight loss; even if not know how to work effectively, as some researchers believe that the weight loss is due to reduced calorie intake, satiety could also be induced by the effect of the proteins, rather than the low-carbohydrates.
CONCLUSIONS: Our pilot study showed that a VLCKD was highly effective in terms of body weight reduction without to induce lean body mass loss, preventing the risk of sarcopenia. Further clinical trials are needed on a larger population and long-term body weight maintenance and risk factors management effects of VLCKD. There is no doubt, however, that a proper dietary approach would impact significantly on the reduction of public expenditure costs, in view of prospective data on increasing the percentage of obese people in our nation. | <urn:uuid:363560fe-c405-4faf-a420-7c68bd79071e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ironmagazine.com/2016/crash-diet-works-better-without-carbs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945704 | 981 | 2.25 | 2 |
PHNOM PENH, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- The diversity and quality of jobs available in Cambodia is improving, yet new policies are needed for the country to benefit from the opportunities available in future global markets, according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday.
Titled Cambodia's Future Jobs: Linking to the Economy of Tomorrow, the report said among the 8 million jobs in Cambodia, 37 percent are wage jobs, many of which offer higher earnings and more protections to workers.
However, the other 63 percent of jobs remain more traditional, it said, adding that such jobs on family farms or in household enterprises are weakly integrated in the modern economy and offer workers lower earnings.
"The diversity and quality of jobs in Cambodia has gradually improved," Inguna Dobraja, World Bank country manager for Cambodia, said during the launch of the report in Phnom Penh.
"But global trends, such as the growing Asian middle class, shifting trade patterns, and automation require that Cambodia re-think its jobs strategy as it advances to the next stage of export-led development," she added.
Foreign-owned firms have been significant contributors of higher quality jobs in Cambodia, the report said, adding that by 2015, one-third of all wage jobs in Cambodia were in foreign-owned firms.
During the period 2010-2015, the garments industry was the fastest-growing occupation sector, increasing its share of employment by 1.1 percent per year, it said.
Domestic firms are more numerous than foreign-owned firms, but they do not contribute as many jobs, it added.
"Domestic firms employ an average eight workers, compared to 124 in foreign-owned firms," the report said. "A key concern is ensuring Cambodian workers are equipped with the skills to compete with workers from other countries for jobs in foreign-owned firms."
It added that in 2016, 37.6 of exporters cited an inadequately educated workforce as a top business obstacle.
Wendy Cunningham, lead economist and a lead author of the report, said the report recommended a four-pronged strategy to securing more and better jobs in the future.
The recommended strategy includes diversifying exports into higher value-added production, creating a domestic business environment that supports local firms' growth, strengthening linkages between the domestic and export sectors of the economy, and investing in workers' skills and education.
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It’s totally normal to experience side effects from COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s what you need to know.
A Q&A WITH WILLIAM MOSS
COVID-19 vaccines are the first to be produced using the mRNA platform.
These vaccines are highly effective, but they are also “reactogenic,” meaning that they’re likely to cause a noticeable immune response.
In this Q&A, expert epidemiologist and executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center William Moss, MD, MPH, answers questions about side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, what to know before and after your vaccination, and when to contact your doctor or a medical professional.
For more information, please visit the CDC’s resource, “What to Expect After Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine.”
What side effects should I expect from COVID-19 vaccines?
Side effects may vary with the type of COVID-19 vaccine. We know the most about side effects following vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna messenger RNA—or mRNA—vaccines.
The most common side effect is soreness at the site of injection. Other side effects include fatigue, headache, muscle aches, chills, joint pain, and possibly some fever.
How long do side effects last?
Usually 24 to 48 hours, and no more than a few days.
Since COVID-19 vaccines come in two doses, will I experience the same side effects after each dose?
Side effects were more frequent after the second dose in the vaccine trials.
Do the side effects differ from one manufacturer’s vaccine to another?
Side effects are similar after the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines but could differ with other types of vaccines.
Why do these vaccines seem to have more noticeable side effects than the flu vaccine? How do they compare to other vaccines’ side effects—like the shingles vaccine, for example?
These side effects are typical of the inflammation induced by vaccines and are a sign of the body’s immune response to the vaccine.
Some vaccines are more reactogenic—the term used to describe these types of side effects—and some people have more severe reactions than others. The side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are similar to what is observed after the shingles vaccine.
Can side effects be more pronounced in people who are at higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease—i.e., people who are older, have comorbidities, etc.?
No—in fact, vaccine side effects have been less frequent and severe in adults older than 55 years in the vaccine trials.
Do children experience side effects from COVID-19 vaccines?
Children younger than 12 years of age have not yet received vaccines in clinical trials, so we do not yet know.
How do I know if what I am experiencing is normal or if I should alert my doctor or health care provider?
You will be told about the side effects of the vaccine and when you should consult a health care worker at the time you are vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that you should contact your doctor or health care provider if the redness or tenderness where you got the shot increases after 24 hours, or if your side effects are worrying you or do not seem to be going away after a few days.
Is it possible for me to contract COVID-19 between doses?
Yes—and this is why it is important to continue to wear a mask, practice social distancing, and wash your hands.
The first dose will not provide complete protection, and it will take about seven days after your second dose before you will achieve a full protective level of immunity that develops in about 95% of vaccine recipients. If you are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 before this time, it is possible that you could develop COVID-19.
Even once you have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, it will still be important to continue practicing public health mitigation strategies like masks and distancing until the pandemic is under control and we know more about how the vaccines prevent transmission.
How will I know whether what I am experiencing are side effects or possible COVID-19 infection?
The side effects of the vaccine typically start within 12 to 24 hours of vaccination, but it may be difficult to tell the two apart if you become infected between vaccine doses.
If you experience side effects that last beyond 48 hours, you should contact your doctor or medical provider for advice.
William J. Moss, MD, is the executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center, deputy director of the Malaria Research Institute, and a professor in the departments of Epidemiology, International Health, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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What Is The Cloud?
The Cloud isn’t new and if you’ve been using a computer at home or the office, chances are that the Cloud played a part in some way. In simple terms, cloud computing is about storing and accessing data and applications over the Internet instead of your computer’s hard drive.
Why Does It Matter?
These are some of the primary advantages of shifting to the Cloud:
- Reduce Costs – Unlike internal networks, which can incur hefty upfront costs, cloud computing services are quicker to deploy and are nearly always charged on a pay as you go basis. This allows for lower and more predictable operational expenses.
- Stay Flexible – With the Cloud, you are able to leverage the enormous IT infrastructures of companies like Microsoft and Google to create an entirely bespoke solution, meaning you have total flexibility to scale along with your business to demands of size of functionality.
- Stay Secure – Most cloud computing data centers are subject to regular security audits performed to the highest standards and your data is backed up across multiple servers. All of the security benefits typically enjoyed by large Enterprise companies can be had for just $5.00 per user per month!
- Work From Anywhere – Adapting to the competitive world of business often means you have to be in two places at once, accessing your important information from different devices. The Cloud enables you to do this, while also making it very easy for workers in separate locations to collaborate.
Do I Need Cloud Computing Advice?
While it may be true that cloud computing gives your business an increased degree of autonomy, there may be disastrous consequences if everything is not set up and maintained correctly. A single permissions error while setting up Microsoft SharePoint, for example, could lead to company data loss on a huge scale! A very avoidable risk when you choose to work with a team of cloud computing specialists whose main passion is to ensure businesses are correctly prepared for their move to the Cloud.
Which Cloud Solution is Right for My Business?
Having a clear understanding of the various options available is essential when it comes to implementing your cloud computing strategy. Before determining the right one, however, there are certain basic questions, such as “Do I have sufficient Internet speed for the Public cloud?” “What’s the best solution given the file sizes that my business typically handles?”, where professional help can save hours of frustration and wasted expense.
WilNet: Your Michigan Cloud Partner
Here at WilNet, we’ve been getting to grips with the cloud-based needs of businesses of all stripes for many years, because we enjoy doing it. In that time, we have proven repeatedly that we will take as much care and effort as necessary to uncover the right cloud solution for our customers, then help them to get up and running with it. We’d love to do the same for you.
We have extensive experience with Microsoft Office 365 configurations as well as numerous other cloud offerings such as Microsoft Azure, and Amazon S3. This experience coupled with our sheer enthusiasm to help businesses succeed places us in an ideal position to offer unbiased advice on all cloud-related issues, from choosing the correct solution through to set-up and maintenance.
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Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity".
The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL.
"I certainly hope that he will veto that now that the Canadians have publicly concluded that it is not safe to take a pipeline across British Columbia to ports on the Pacific," he told the Guardian. "I really can't imagine that our country would say: 'Oh well. Take it right over parts of the Ogallala aquifer', our largest and most important source of ground water in the US. It's really a losing proposition."
Campaigners have cast Keystone XL as the most important decision of Obama' presidency. The State Department, which has say over the project because it crosses the US-Canadian border, is to announce its decision later this year.
But Gore said an even larger environmental decision loomed for Obama next month. The White House has indicated Obama could offer a long-awaited climate plan, the first concrete proposals since his inauguration in January when the president suggested it was a religious and patriotic duty to deal with the challenge
"This whole project [Keystone XL] is an atrocity but it is even more important for him to regulate carbon dioxide emissions," Gore said. He urged Obama to use his powers as president to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants – the biggest since source of global warming pollution.
"He doesn't need Congress to do anything," Gore said. "If it hurts the feelings of people in the carbon polluting industries that's too bad."
Gore was speaking from Istanbul, where he will soon lead a three-day training session on climate change for a global group of some 600 activists. Since the 2000 election, when Gore won the popular vote but lost the White House to George Bush, he has turned his public life over to action on climate change. The climaterealityproject.org gathering in Istanbul will be the 22nd time Gore has presented his regularly updated slide show on the science behind climate change to a group of global activists.
He planning an even bigger training exercise in Chicago at the end of July, where he hopes to deliver his new slide show to more than 1,000 activists. It will be the largest such session since Gore adopted education and training of climate-change activists as one of the main concerns of his post-political career, and the first such exercise in the American mid-west.
The timing is critical – in climate terms, with atmospheric carbon dioxide reaching a new milestone of 400ppm – and on the political agenda, Gore argued. Last year's extreme weather – including superstorm Sandy and the punishing drought across the mid-west – has exposed the real-time costs of climate change. Extreme events inflicted $110bn in damages last year, according to the Obama administration.
Gore said he was also encouraged by the rise in climate activism by Democrats in Congress, singling out the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has made weekly speeches on climate change. "The conversation on climate is evolving rapidly partly because mother nature has joined the conversation and has a powerful voice, Gore said.
He said he believed those events were steadily moving public opinion on climate change to an historic tipping point – similar to the shift of opinion on such once controversial issues as civil rights and same sex marriage.
"People have the impression that is a Sisphyean task right now but times are changing," Gore said. "Just because the opponents of doing anything on global warming are trying to intimidate people to not even considering it, that is no reason for the rest of us to conclude that it is impossible. I don't think that it's impossible."
Gore said there was no way, in his view, to achieve climate action without continuing to keep the topic on the public agenda.
"I think we have to engage, difficult as it can seem to be, and build a critical mass to get beyond the critical tipping point," he said. "That is what it is all about. We have to win the conversation and change the law and put a price on carbon." | <urn:uuid:c4e958e5-f1ec-411b-952a-6a09a7355eab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/15/al-gore-obama-keystone-pipeline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.978135 | 867 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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While 40% of councils provide a “good” or “very good” online service for residents to arrange for the collection of bulky waste, 16% have websites that are still not purposed for mobiles.
These were the findings of a survey of 365 councils, carried out by the Socitm Better Connected programme, which analyses the digital performance of local authorities and other local public services.
According to the Better Connected report, local services such as leisure centres, libraries or bulky waste collections should require that third-party providers adhere to best practice when it comes to providing the digital part of the service.
This should hold regardless of whether the outsourced service provider is a private sector company, a community interest company or an organisation set up by former council staff.
Many councils no longer collect large unwanted items like beds or sofas themselves. Instead, collection of these items has been outsourced to charities or businesses. In many cases, providers will collect things free of charge if they can be recycled, charging only to take items away if they can’t be recycled.
However, the Better Connected report found that that some of the outsourced services lacked sufficient online information, such as which items could not be collected or recycled. Services could be made to be far more efficient and user-friendly.
Where local authority waste teams enter an outsourcing arrangement, they should make the provision of the digital service part of the discussion from the outset, according to the Better Connected report.
Better Connected identified a number of areas where improvements were needed, including listing items that can or cannot be collected, clarity on the number of items covered by one payment and providing sufficient information on advance bookings.
Read more about digital council services
In some cases, charging arrangements were overcomplicated or impractical, including those from the council that charges by “half or full lorry load” and another by timed 15-minute slots, both criteria that the resident cannot gauge themselves.
Better Connected warned that just one piece of missing or ambiguous information could lead to the enquirer having to call the council, creating an avoidable contact for the council and an inconvenience to the resident.
It suggested that some councils may be taking the view that residents will have to phone up anyway, since only 38% of councils enable online booking.
Moreover, some councils with online ordering require people to open a customer account to place their order. While registration may be beneficial, Better Connected suggested that forcing people to register was the wrong strategy. Service users are just as likely to respond by abandoning the online option and phoning the council, it stated.
It recommended registration as an option given at the end of the transaction, as is common practice with e-commerce sites, rather than at the beginning, when the applicant just wants to get on with the job. | <urn:uuid:0b2e386d-f173-4ca6-b7ff-6f19508fe44e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450412725/Rubbish-digital-collection-needs-to-be-addressed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952928 | 593 | 2.125 | 2 |
A few days ago, on a quiet farm in southern China, a snake breeder by the name of Mr. Huang – discovered the most amazing baby Chinese Cobra you have ever seen. It’s something you’d expect to see on a mutant TV show or in a movie like X-Men, but this is for real. Mr. Huang discovered a Chinese Cobra with two heads! And the two heads are even fighting with each other, moving in opposite directions and even trying to swallow each other!
Similarly to siamese twins, both heads of this baby Chinese Cobra have two separate brains, what allows them to move independently. These types of mutant snakes usually do not survive for long. However, according to the latest update from China – the baby Chinese Cobra is still alive and growing and even changed its skin once, but – neither of the two heads have been eating or drinking.
The mind-boggling mutant Cobra, whose second head begins approximately three quarters up the snake’s body, has been handed over several days ago to the care of experts at the Nanning Zoo in Guanxi, China. Their mission is to make sure the venomous two-headed Chinese Cobra survives and lives longer. However, it’s quite a long shot, and as one of the zookeepers at Nanning Zoo already told the press, “there was no way of telling whether the Chinese cobra will survive”.
Watch a news-recap of the story:
The condition of having two heads, or more, is called Polycephaly, and is actually quite common among snakes. There are quite a lot of occurrences of multi-headed animals, both in reality and of course in mythology. For example, in Heraldry and Vexillology, the double-headed eagle is a revered symbol, although no such animal has ever known to existed.
When it comes to snakes, most polycephalic snakes tend to have a short lifespan of a few months, although there is a report of a two-headed Rat-snake that has lived for 20 years.
Let us hope and pray that the baby Chinese cobra gets at least the same… | <urn:uuid:e7c394be-f383-4600-b2dc-4b64380fd9ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cobras.org/chinese-cobra-with-two-heads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.967203 | 448 | 2.5 | 2 |
On Saturday, September 30, Patti Foster (www.PattiFoster.com) and I will be presenting at the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference in Nashville. (www.worldconference.net) It is a God-cool opportunity to share with other mental health professionals about how they can best support and help those in the brain injury community. So, I thought I would share a few tips that may be helpful to all of us.
- Listen with patience.
- Include the family in therapy.
- Educate yourself about brain injury.
- Be mindful of sensory issues…make adjustments in your office.
- Celebrate small victories.
- Hold on to hope as a life preserver.
- Know community and medical resources.
- Don’t step on silence. Allow for cognitive processing.
- Develop coping strategies.
- Write things down.
Deana Adams, Ph.D., LPC-S
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By Brady Shields
The Nation recently published an article titled: It’s time to Abolish ICE. This has led to a national movement to Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Some candidates for Congress have endorsed the abolition of ICE and have promised to introduce and support legislation that would defund or deny funding, along with abolishing ICE. After all, ICE can be seen as a federally-funded terrorist organization, since they separates families, runs their detention centers like concentration camps, and conducts racially-motivated raids. There is also a case for abolishing borders- not necessarily all borders-but at least abolishing the militarization of borders. Demilitarizing borders could allow people to exercise their rights to freedom of movement and achieve their full potential. However, the abolition of ICE and borders must be approached in a pragmatic matter.
After the article was published, Alison Hartson, who is a candidate for US Senate in California and is a member of the Justice Democrats, expressed her support for abolishing and defunding the agency in a Facebook Post linking to the article. Soon after, other congressional candidates endorsed by the Justice Democrats expressed support for abolishing ICE, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) and Randy Bryce (Wisconsin). It is evident that there is support to abolish ICE. Bryce stated that ICE should be abolished, and a new, improved agency should be created within another agency. An agency such as the FBI or the US Marshalls could manage an office that would specifically target drug traffickers, violent criminals, felons, and gang associates, the people who ICE says they are targeting. ICE has said that they are targeting “felons, not families”. However, residing, studying, working, or travelling in the United States peaceably without a visa is only a slight legal violation. Other examples of slight legal violations include driving ten miles above the speed limit, parking without a permit, jaywalking, and failing to stop at a red traffic light. Violations alone do not warrant jail time, thus they do not warrant deportation. ICE is deporting families and harmless people. Due to the legal status of unpermitted immigration, it is only fair to have an agency that would deport “felons, not families”. Such an agency would find and deport those who are non-citizen felons. Therefore, abolishing ICE and replacing with a smaller, efficient, practical, and more humane agency would be a pragmatic approach to abolishing ICE.
One of the main reasons that many people are in the United States without a visa is due to the fact that the southern border is highly militarized. Those seeking refuge from violence in Central America and Mexico are forced to endure an intimidating and lengthy process. This leads to many being denied refugee status and forced to cross the border without a visa. However, the current state of the southern border is one of militarization and cruelty. When immigrants are forced to cross a militarized border without the process of a port of entry, they face the possibility of being killed by border patrol agents or dying from starvation and dehydration. A video surfaced of border patrol agents destroying jugs of water left by humanitarian groups for refugees crossing the border. This is the result of a militarized border. A militarized border is unnecessary between two nations at peace, and it restricts the rights of people to move freely without causing violence or disrupting the peace. If borders are demilitarized, we will create a more peaceful and less divisive world.
Thus, a pragmatic approach to abolishing ICE and borders must be practiced in order to create a more just, happy, secure, and cooperative world. Before we divided people up and became avid nationalists, there were no borders, walls, fences, immigration laws, border agents, or immigration agents. There was one planet where people were free to move. However, we view public property as privately owned, and we view people with permission to reside on private property as “aliens”. This dehumanization must end, the borders must be demilitarized, and ICE must be abolished. | <urn:uuid:d0e7cac7-53be-4886-a3a3-5ab301d38798> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://mhsbruin.com/2018/06/01/a-pragmatic-approach-to-abolishing-borders-and-ice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.9596 | 838 | 2.078125 | 2 |
If you’re having chronic or even sudden neck or back pain, going to see your chiropractor is a great way to experience pain relief. But getting regular adjustments can do more than just provide pain relief. It can also be a way to prevent future spinal and muscular problems. Here’s how.
Seeing your chiropractor regularly for adjustments is great for your spine. If you’re in the habit of sitting or standing with bad posture, regular adjustments can help correct that. When your spine is in proper alignment, it’s easier to feel how to keep your back in proper posture. Better posture is better for your spine, your neck, your shoulders, and your muscles. People who practice proper posture are less likely to experience back pain, headaches, and general muscle discomfort.
Better Overall Health
Regular chiropractic care that includes adjustments can improve your overall health. Spinal health is directly related to body health – a healthy spine makes it easier for the body to stay healthy. Patients who see their chiropractor regularly are less likely to experience headaches, body aches, and even common illnesses like colds and flu. When your spine is in alignment, your immune system functions more effectively, meaning you’re able to fight off common illnesses easier.
Better Relationship With Your Spine
Sometimes we don’t even realize how important spinal alignment is until we experience it. Regular chiropractic adjustments help you understand the difference between misalignment and alignment. When you better understand the relationship between your spine and the rest of your body, it’s easier to know when something is wrong.
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By Anna Deavere Smith; Directed by Saheem Ali
Off Broadway, Solo Show Revival
Runs through 12.15.19
Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street
by Eleanor J. Bader on 11.10.19
Michael Benjamin Washington in Fires in the Mirror. Photo by Joan Marcus.
BOTTOM LINE: A riveting revival of a still-relevant 1992 play addresses how misconceptions about race, class, and culture can fester and erupt.
There are no Proud Boys screaming “Jews will not replace us” in MacArthur award-winner Anna Deavere Smith’s newly resurrected Fires in the Mirror. Nor are there references to Black Lives Matter or the dozens of unprovoked police shootings of unarmed Black people that have occurred with virtual impunity throughout the US.
Instead, the play harkens back to the immediate aftermath of the August 1991 riots that exploded following the death of a seven-year-old Guyanese-American boy named Gavin Cato in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and zeroes in on long-running tensions between the African and Caribbean Americans and Orthodox Jews who share that small, densely populated community.
By all accounts, the story involves compounded tragedies. After a motorcade driving Lubavitcher Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) hit Cato and his cousin Angela, both city-run and Jewish volunteer ambulances arrived on the scene. What happened next rests with who one asked. Eyewitnesses in the Black community charged that Jewish medics paid no attention to the kids, choosing to focus exclusively on Schneerson and his entourage. Not surprisingly, the Rabbi gave a different account, arguing that his horrified driver immediately attempted to lift the car off the children. Either way, rage ignited and in the resultant melee, Yankel Rosenbaum, a young Talmudic scholar visiting New York from Australia, was stabbed to death by a group of Black teenagers.
It took police three days to quell the rioting that followed both deaths, but the resultant quiet left a raft of unresolved tensions looming over the borough. This provoked Smith to jump into the fray—intellectually, if not physically—and in the months after the violence, she interviewed more than 50 people from Crown Heights about their lives, dreams, and fury. The goal? To better understand how their grief over Cato and Rosenbaum's horrific demise unleashed overt resentment and hatred between area residents.
These interviews—using the actual words of those questioned—became Fires in the Mirror. Throughout, a wide array of people are heard, from the famous, to the infamous, to the regular. It’s a powerful evocation of the ways that misconceptions, misunderstandings, and prejudice can collide, and suggests that good communication can make peaceful coexistence possible.
And therein lies the play’s questionable political bent. While the production is well executed (with excellent scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, and projection design by Hannah Wasileski), it presents dialogue as an end in itself. What’s more, the piece offers no connection between the real disparities affecting the neighborhood’s Black and Jewish residents, and offers no suggestions about how these disparities might be addressed, or better, eradicated. Perhaps it's enough for a play to point out persistent problems, but I wanted more from the speakers who were interrogated and from the playwright who wove their words together.
That said, Fires in the Mirror is both evocative and compelling, thanks in large part to Michael Benjamin Washington, who like Anna Deavere Smith in the original production, brilliantly enacts each character, from Orthodox Jewish women and men, to Black activists Al Sharpton and Herbert Daughtry, to Gavin's distraught father, Carmel Cato. Using literal mirrors to refract Washington's performance, and a huge screen to show the audience the site of the accident, the two funerals, and the subsequent rioting, Fires in the Mirror is a vivid reminder of burbling racial resentments that continue to lie beneath the surface, not just in Brooklyn, but in every nook and cranny of the US of A. So, yes, dialogue is an imperative first step. But then what?
(Fires in the Mirror plays at The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street, through December 15, 2019. The running time is 1 hour 50 minutes with no intermission. Performances are Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30; Saturdays at 2 and 8; and Sundays at 2. No shows 11/21 and 11/28; added shows 11/20 and 11/27 at 2, 12/1 at 7:30, and 12/11 at 1. The matinee on 11/16 is open-captioned, the one on 11/17 is audio-described. Tickets are $35 - $65 and are available at signaturetheatre.org or by calling 212-244-7529.)
Fires in the Mirror is by Anna Deavere Smith. Directed by Saheem Ali. Scenic Design by Arnulfo Maldonado. Lighting Design by Alan C. Edwards. Costume Design by Dede M. Ayite. Sound Design by Mikaal Sulaiman. Projection Design by Hannah Wasileski. Dialect Coach is Dawn-Elin Fraser. Production Stage Manager is Alfredo Macias. Assistant Stage Manager is Fatimah Amill. Assistant Director is Gulshan Mia.
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Various kinds of entertainment are available for different occasions and can involve people in numerous methods. The most typical types of amusement include music, dancing, as well as drama. Throughout history, home entertainment has been available to people in every society. While the ancient globe had a selection of theaters and also kings to view, the contemporary world has actually developed a whole industry committed to the recording as well as circulation of entertainment items. This consists of live performances, pre-recorded programs, and also DVDs.
Today, amusement is offered in a variety of types. It can range from private performance to a supper party. It can likewise include a video game or sport, as well as a job or idea that keeps the focus of the target market. Relying on the objective of the event, enjoyment can also be a way to pass time as well as maintain people satisfied. Nonetheless, there are lots of types of entertainment that are not only for amusement. There are those that are developed to make us rejoice, sad, or frightened.
Besides giving pleasure, entertainment can also sidetrack people from their day-to-day life. A sport or a game can be a kind of amusement. One more sort of home entertainment is a motion picture, play, or efficiency. Whether the occasion is big or little, the amusement is sure to hold individuals’s attention. The goal of amusing a crowd is to get their attention, and it can do so with different methods. Despite the function of the entertainment, it is necessary that they are an excellent suitable for the occasion.
Entertainment is very important for everyone. It permits individuals to escape their every day lives while providing enjoyment. Whether it’s a sport, video game, or a suggestion, home entertainment helps keep individuals’s focus. For some, it can be sad, while others are amused by laughter. Regardless of the form of enjoyment, it is an excellent way to do away with stress and anxiety and also fear. When we’re tired, we look to something new or amused.
The show business has actually generated new types of employment. Traditional tasks like writer and also artist have actually advanced right into brand-new functions such as unique results supervisor, theme park assistant, and a lot more. It has actually also generated new kinds of entertainment. Not just is it enjoyable, it can distract us from our day-to-day lives and supply an interruption. There are various sort of amusement that can assist us loosen up, rejoice, and be much more effective. It can likewise be a form of treatment.
The purpose of entertainment is to make individuals enjoy themselves. It can be a sport or a play, or it can be something as straightforward as an amusing idea or job. It can be anything that keeps someone’s attention, but it can likewise be anything that can distract them from their day-to-day lives. Despite the factor for the home entertainment, it is a required part of our lives. The right entertainment can make us pleased, depressing, or terrified.
Commonly, enjoyment has been related to fun as well as enjoyment, yet it can additionally have an extra major objective. It can be a spiritual celebration, an event, or a video game. It can additionally be a sporting activity or a job that is fun to do. In some societies, home entertainment can be a form of intellectual development. As an example, it can be a game, an activity, or a suggestion. For those that take pleasure in playing sports, they may be seeking amusement at a neighborhood park.
While home entertainment is commonly connected with fun, it can also be a vital part of our lives. It can be a sport, a video game, or perhaps a performance. It can be a task, a task, or a suggestion. In all cases, enjoyment intends to keep individuals’s attention. Ultimately, it can give them enjoyment, happiness, or a healthy and balanced sensation. Whether it is an amusing suggestion, a task, or a game, enjoyment is an advantage.
It’s not practically a great time. Occasionally entertainment can even be a helpful device to inform people regarding a topic. The show business has produced many brand-new jobs, consisting of authors, authors, and theme park assistants. Furthermore, enjoyment can be a kind of intellectual growth. It can additionally be a method to improve one’s life. Therefore, the benefits of amusement surpass mere a great time. It is a chance to discover and appreciate the world.
A home entertainment is something that holds an audience’s interest and gives satisfaction. This can be a task or an idea, but it is more than likely a task. Over thousands of years, enjoyment has come to be significantly diverse. Throughout background, individuals have actually created various kinds of amusement to pass time and also offer enjoyment. It is additionally a vital part of a culture’s culture as well as daily life. The adhering to are some typical types of the past-day type of enjoyment:
Home entertainment has a long history and has given birth to new types of employment. A standard job might be an author, composer, or songs supervisor. Today, we discover the world’s most popular flicks and also television programs. Also amusement park attendants operate in the show business. While the role of the show business varies, some activities remain continuous: the manufacturing of flicks, performance, and also songs concerts draw in huge target markets. Along with amusement in the house, entertainment is additionally attended to mass audiences in specifically developed frameworks. The Colosseum, a Roman field, opened up in AD 80. The audiencial ability was fifty thousand. Throughout the show, there were blood sports and stage shows.
In spite of the appeal of Hollywood smash hits, home entertainment is a thriving organization for American artists. The economy of the united state film as well as show business is expanding quick, with a $10.3 billion profession excess in 2016. This has to do with four percent of the complete U.S. trade excess in private market services. The tax motivations as well as intellectual property defense supplied to united state film as well as tv manufacturing firms make it an appealing choice for global companies. 창원출장
The entertainment industry has actually likewise created new job types. There are numerous kinds of work in the entertainment industry. Some conventional settings include authors, writers, as well as artists. Other brand-new placements consist of theme park attendants. There are a number of different honors in the show business. There are status honors for a particular occasion, consisting of an Oscar or Golden World. The Oscars are an example of a popular honor for an efficiency. In the sporting activities globe, the Globe Mug is one of the most popular award for a person. | <urn:uuid:c1cc7f46-502a-45cf-88fc-9630ef7a3d4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mainriversafari.com/2022/02/12/i-will-certainly-tell-you-the-fact-regarding-entertainment-in-the-next-one-minute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.962387 | 1,390 | 1.734375 | 2 |
A group of major international energy partners led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC is contemplating an LNG export terminal for the British Columbia coast that is substantially larger than a rival's project that could soon begin construction.
Shell, which has teamed with Korea Gas Corp., China National Petroleum Co. and Mitsubishi Corp., is looking to load 1.8 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas onto tankers bound for Asian markets, officials with Spectra Energy Corp. revealed Tuesday.
Shell has publicly acknowledged that it is studying LNG options, and recently purchased marine and dock facilities from Cenovus Energy Corp. , including a former Methanex plant that was used to import hydrocarbons. It has not, however, disclosed the size of its proposed project.
The potential size of the terminal was described on Tuesday by Allen Capps, vice-president of business development storage and transportation with Union Gas, an affiliate of Spectra Energy.
Spectra has details on LNG plans because it runs a major network of natural gas pipelines in B.C., and is one of several pipeline companies, including Enbridge Inc. , vying to bring big new volumes of gas to the province's coast. That will require new pipeline capacity, because existing lines are far too small to accommodate the volume of exports that are envisioned.
In a presentation to the Industrial Gas Users Association, Mr. Capps said Shell is examining plans for a 3.6 billion cubic feet a day project, which would be among the largest under consideration in the world. Spectra spokesman Peter Murchland later said the correct figure is 1.8 billion. That compares to the 1.4-billion cubic feet a day proposed by Kitimat LNG, whose backers are Apache Corp. , EOG Resources Inc. and Encana Corp.
Kitimat LNG intends to build a 700-million cubic foot facility first, at a cost greater than $5-billion, but has received an export licence that allows it to double that. The partnership intends to make a final investment decision early next year, but is already spending several hundred million dollars to terrace the sloped site of the intended terminal, the first step in construction.
In a statement, Mr. Murchland said Spectra is playing "an integral role in the ongoing dialogue related to LNG export opportunities to markets in the Asia-Pacific region."
He added: "We are currently collaborating with several LNG export project proponents – representing industry and government – to be a pipeline partner, and transmission aggregator, for what we believe will be one of the largest natural gas infrastructure projects in Canada."
Shell spokesman Stephen Doolan would say only that Shell is "exploring the potential of an LNG project in British Columbia."
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Writing powerful and easy config files with PHP-arrays
I was asked many times how I organize my config files, and my response was always the same, until some time ago when I switched began refactoring the codebase of my blog. I always used PHP config files in some way (as I got inspired to it by Matthew Weier O'Phinney). So first let's clearify the advantages of PHP-array config files:
· they allow to organize one config into multiple files · they can be cached by an opcode cache · they support constants · they allow to create easily readable config trees · they support boolean and integer values
Looking at those advantages, you may ask now why not everbody is using them. Well the problem mostly is that you cannot create extend-sections (when working with Zend_Config for example). So in the past I always had to create separate config files for each development and production environment. When I started refactoring the codebase I thought about that problem and came to a very simple solution. First you have your base config file looking somehow like this:
<?php return array_merge_recursive(array( 'resources' => array( 'frontController' => array( 'moduleDirectory' => APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules' ), 'router' => array( 'routes' => include dirname(__FILE__) . '/routes.config.php' ), 'db' => array( 'adapter' => 'pdo_mysql', 'params' => array( 'charset' => 'utf-8' ) ) ) ), include dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . APPLICATION_ENV . '.config.php');
This config file uses array_merge_recursive to tage a basic config array and overwrite or extend properties from an environment specific config file (in this case development.config.php and production.config.php). Additionally the routes for the router are outsourced into a separate file, since they are taking up a lot of space. Now let's take a look at the the development.config.php:
<?php return array( 'phpSettings' => array( 'display_startup_errors' => 1, 'display_errors' => 1, 'error_reporting' => (E_ALL | E_STRICT) ), 'resources' => array( 'frontController' => array( 'baseUrl' => '/some/dev/path', 'throwExceptions' => true ), 'db' => array( 'params' => array( 'host' => 'localhost', 'username' => 'foo', 'password' => 'bar', 'dbname' => 'baz' ) ) ) );
As you can see, the development specific config file now enables all the error reporting, set the baseUrl for the front controller and the connection parameters for the database adapter. The production specific config file is doing similar things but disabling all error reporting. As you have seen in the base config file, two constants should already be set (APPLICATION_PATH and APPLICATION_ENV). To use the base config file within your Zend Framework application, you load it like this:
<?php // Loading the config manually $config = new Zend_Config(require APPLICATION_PATH . '/config/config.php'); // Or telling Zend_Application to load the config $application = new Zend_Application(APPLICATION_ENV, APPLICATION_PATH . '/config/config.php');
If you want to see a full example of a working config-structure, you can take a look at my new codebase in my SVN repository.
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18 sept. 2021
Course is very well structured. It take us through from older days. Very well explained.
Looking forward to have an advance version of this to have in-depth knowledge.
Overall, liked the course.
1 juin 2020
It was very easy to understand and related to my studies .the most interesting part of the course is the case reading and end of module quiz. Thanks a lot for university of Michigan and professors
par Abegail A•
4 nov. 2020
I gained new knowledge and suprisingly learned things that were just ordinary to me such as credit cards and data security. This course will help you keep up in a fast-paced world backed with technological advancements,
par Yuen C W R V•
16 oct. 2020
Pretty good course for education on payment technologies in both the developed countries and developing countries. Great slides and video from Andrew Wu. Would be great if we can have the slides in pdf, if not the ppt.
par Bobby d B•
8 juin 2020
Really great course, I absolutely loved the illustrations how they explained the payment infrastructure in the US related to credit cards or bank transfers and the fees involved. This was quite an enlightenment !
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12 juin 2020
Amazing course on different payments! I loved the FinTech Island Story, It made me have to think about how to solve a problem in a setting that made me want to understand all the concepts even more than normal.
par Loredana P•
9 mars 2021
Paytech Week 4 MPESA mobile payment system - pls more details on the monetization - how do the agents earn money? what about the rest of the players? Based on payment processing/ withdrawal etc. ?
par Турунова Т А•
18 mai 2021
Well done! Easy explanation of how bank card processing works. I'm really keen on the material's structure. I strongly recommend this course for Upper-Intermediate level English learners.
par Ajinkya V D•
5 oct. 2020
The explanation was very simple and brief, covering all the major topics and its various aspects clearly and completely. I would surely recommend this course to anyone in need.
par Malaly P V•
27 juin 2020
Really well-done instructions, charts and lectures. I wish there were an intermediate course that followed up to help those working on new payment apps think more creatively.
par Múcio B•
18 juin 2020
If you want to understand how PayTechs make money this course is for you! Thanks Coursera and University of Michigan for this amazing course. Really valuable knowledge!
par MANISH S•
25 févr. 2021
Fantastic course. Provide in -depth knowledge and insight of fintech space. I really liked taking this course which has inspired me to take more courses from coursera.
par Mateo S•
30 août 2020
A good and simple overview of the future of payment technologies. Would have been great to learn more in-depth about the Indian market case, which is so interesting.
14 déc. 2020
Loved it! I cannot believe how much I learned about PayTech and FinTech in general. Would love to peruse the next courses on the FinTech Innovations specialization
par Nathan .•
24 janv. 2021
Great course with great lecturer, materials and syllabus. Gives you the profound understanding and knowledge of basics along with developing global market trends.
par Yung-Hao K•
14 mai 2020
This is a very insightful course that teaches basic and interesting background knowledge in FinTech. Very helpful for people who is not from financial background~
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14 oct. 2020
Really great and informative course. Andrew is a really great instructor and his slides are easy to follow. Will definitely recommend this course to others.
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5 juil. 2020
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2 avr. 2020
Best thing about this course is the way it explains various payment technologies and models in the simplest possible way and easiest way to understand
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22 juin 2020
Managed to gain a very good understanding and knowledge about various payment options and technologies. Which will help for career growth as well.
31 mai 2020
Good learning for beginners. Would request if any more detailed level course with trxn flow ,message type, settlement flow could also be included
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20 mai 2020
Great course to brush up on the basics of Payment tech and at the same time to get yourself familiarized with the new developments in this space.
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1 juil. 2020
The course is comprehensive, yet somehow rich in content. It offers valuable insights and a foundation to help identify spaces for innovation.
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1 mars 2021
The lesson is really helpful for me to start understanding the root of FinTech, looking forward to dig a bit deeper with the specialization.
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4 août 2020
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9 juin 2021
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NEW DELHI – The Survey of India has redrawn the map of India to depict the newly formed Union Territories (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Ladakh. Areas such as Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and the Tribal Territory of 1947 that have been occupied by Pakistan are included in the Ladakh UT.
Other areas in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) such as Mirpur and Muzaffarabad have been included in the J&K UT.
The President of India issued a notification on Saturday to define the districts in the two UTs that came into being on October 31 as per the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019. “The new UT of Ladakh consists of two districts of Kargil and Leh. The rest of the former State of Jammu and Kashmir is in the new UT of J&K,” the Home Ministry said.
In 1947, J&K had 14 districts: Kathua, Jammu, Udhampur, Reasi, Anantnag, Baramulla, Poonch, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Leh and Ladakh, Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and Tribal Territory. By 2019, they were reorganised into 28 districts. The new districts were Kupwara, Bandipur, Ganderbal, Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shupian, Kulgam, Rajouri, Ramban, Doda, Kishtivar, Samba and Kargil.
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Gamification. Appears fancy, ideal?
It is, and it is not. Primarily, gamification is a advertising and marketing strategy that engages people today via the use of activity-like features. Regular illustrations of gamification in advertising and marketing involve contests, loyalty programs, quizzes, and true video games.
Some benefits to working with gamification tactics in your advertising and marketing are shopper engagement, much more time on-website, improved model recognition, and enhanced loyalty. For instance, after Verizon employed gamification on its website to encourage more engagement, they uncovered that shoppers put in 30% extra time in the gamified setting.
Furthermore, in a report by SNIPP, gamification enhanced a brand’s customer engagement by 47%, brand name loyalty by 22%, and manufacturer awareness by 15%.
All of these steps are intertwined. Buyer engagement with a brand name leads to loyalty by means of repeated interactions. Faithful buyers are additional very likely to produce a manufacturer attachment and spread the term about the models they adore. Phrase of mouth drives brand awareness among a customer’s audience who are a lot more probable to verify out your brand because an individual they trust endorses it.
Now to find a marketing tool that can do ALL of that? Seems like any business’s aspiration. It’s quick to see how perfectly these equipment are suited for B2C internet marketing. For illustration, a makeup enterprise could consist of a quiz to enable consumers select the correct shade of lipstick, or an ice product store could possibly use a loyalty software to get people coming back once more and yet again. However, it could be tougher to conceive how gamification may possibly get the job done for B2B promoting.
In actuality, B2B entrepreneurs have A lot of possibilities to successfully use gamification in their internet marketing. Down below you will uncover eight examples of B2B organizations making use of gamification to accumulate leads, educate their audience, and obtain consumer-created information (UGC).
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#1. HubSpot – Make My Persona Resource
If you are a B2B marketer, you are possibly Incredibly conscious of HubSpot. If you are not, HubSpot is a client relationship management (CRM) platform that does it all – from promoting automation to product sales enablement, purchaser service to content management.
HubSpot is effectively-acknowledged for its inbound advertising tactics to develop its business. A person of the methods they deploy is providing free of charge organization resources. These resources are swift and straightforward for persons to use, and they give HubSpot a load of prospects.
A lot of of the equipment are also a great instance of gamification in motion. Get the HubSpot Make My Persona instrument. Marketing and advertising and gross sales pros can full seven simple steps to make a consumer persona that their enterprise can download and use. In return, HubSpot asks for a little bit of information and facts, together with an email address and company stats.
#2. Neil Patel – Spin to Acquire game
Neil Patel is the co-founder of Ridiculous Egg, Howdy Bar, and KISSmetrics. He’s also a extremely well-recognized advertising specialist and influencer. Significantly like Jeff Bullas is acknowledged for delivering top rated-notch B2B suggestions, individuals go to Neil Patel for his Search engine optimisation and targeted traffic generation insights.
Neil Patel’s internet site features numerous absolutely free tools to produce inbound qualified prospects, a great deal like HubSpot. Having said that, he’s also leveraged other strategies, like contests. He ran a Spin to Acquire contest exactly where people could enter their email for a prospect to win a prize. Immediately after submitting, entrants would spin a wheel to see if they received obtain to some of Neil’s compensated means. By providing away his means as prizes, Neil could make a listing of potential customers who had been fascinated in his solutions.
#3. Stemcell Technologies – “Which Immune Mobile Are You?” Quiz
Stemcell Technologies is a biotech company that delivers specialty cell culture media and separation products for scientific study purposes. In the course of the pandemic, the scientific community stopped in-human being conferences. Having said that, it’s crucial for the local community to go on to share expertise.
They developed a fun and timely quiz to enable raise recognition of their submissions for a virtual immunology meeting and a cell treatment convention. The “Which Immune Cell Are You?” quiz asks participants thoughts to reveal which immune cell suits their persona. The quiz garnered significantly interest, which include an posting on NPR.
#4. SAP – Neighborhood missions badges
SAP is an company software program producer that develops alternatives for some of the world’s most very well-known companies. They have produced a group of in excess of a few million people today who use SAP products and solutions.
The SAP team gamified the group to inspire engagement. Local community users can full a variety of missions to receive community badges. Members proudly exhibit the badges on their profiles.
#5. FloQast – ROI calculator
FloQast is an accounting workflow automation platform that assists accounting teams streamline their processes and do a lot more in much less time. They know a issue or two about calculating return on financial commitment (ROI). As a revenue tool, FloQast supplied an ROI calculator for businesses to decide if using the platform is a great investment decision.
Prospective buyers will have to fill out a form with company information to get the ROI report effects. This info offers FloQast important insight into who the prospect is and how they could help the prospect’s workforce ahead of the FloQast workforce reaches out.
#6. ShortStack – “Elf on the Shelf” site scavenger hunt
ShortStack is a SaaS platform for on the internet advertising specializing in sort-based and social media contests. They hosted an “Elf on the Shelf” themed scavenger hunt to elevate consciousness of new options.
Over the course of a month, the ShortStack staff uncovered a weekly clue that led individuals to a web page on their web site where their elf named Jack was hiding. People today clicked the elf to enter the contest, then experienced the possibility to learn far more about the function highlighted on the webpage they had visited.
#7. Hootsuite – Social media traits know-how quiz and contest
Hootsuite is a SaaS system that will help entrepreneurs publish social media posts, engage with followers, carry out social listening and promote on social media. In other phrases, they are the top social media industry experts, so much so that they generate an yearly social media developments report.
To inspire folks to study the report, they designed a know-how quiz centered on the report findings. The moment quiz-takers answered five queries appropriately, they could enter to get a prize. Hootsuite could then use these potential customers to encourage its social media tools.
#8. DEWALT – #TradeStory UGC contest
DEWALT is a well-known power tools organization. Tradespeople who want top quality, very long-lasting products use DEWALT resources to aid them do their very best operate.
DEWALT hosted a contest to aid promote a additional inclusive worksite lifestyle and raise recognition of their manufacturer amid individuals in this market. The #TradeStory contest inspired tradespeople to post their tales to assist inspire career-website variety for the probability to acquire DEWALT items. In addition to elevating awareness, the contest also served as a way for their advertising and marketing workforce to gather UGC for foreseeable future marketing efforts.
Time to get in the video game
When developing your up coming direct generation or brand name consciousness campaign, consider about how to make it extra engaging for your clients with gamification.
Look at generating a contest where by entrants can win a prize, a quiz the place folks can demonstrate off what they know (or never), learn some thing about them selves, or provide a tool that will support them transfer their business ahead.
By gamifying the expertise for your shoppers, you make the guide era method far more fulfilling. You also raise the sum of time they spend with your model, boost increased model loyalty, and increase their chance of sharing your organization with other folks.
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Despite what we are faced with, we are still tasked as leaders to continue to grow and build the capacity of those around us. It is what defines great leadership.
As you know, many events and conversations have impacted how we teach and how students learn. We are not in need of another teaching strategy to close these gaps, rather, educators and leaders need to be equipped with effective best practices to recognize and celebrate diversity, nurture a culture of inclusion, and ensure educational equity.
In short, how do we set our students up for success?
The simple answer: setting our educators and leaders up for success.
Depending on where you and your school want to start, MK Results, LLC has a roadmap to set all stakeholders up for success no matter where you are on the journey. I say journey because DE&I is just that – a journey – not a destination and we all have to commit to being life-long learners.
DE&I does not have to be scary when it comes to education. It does need to be intentional, guided, and inspirational.
Are you a Pioneer, a Champion, or an Influencer?
Knowing the natural role you play in building diverse and inclusive environments and knowing how to guide others in discovering their natural role is ESSENTIAL to bring about lasting change in our workplaces and our world.
What sets apart “Another Seat at the Table” from any other Diversity & Inclusion Training in the marketplace is the proprietary core curriculum we have called
“The Pioneer, The Champion, and The Influencer.”
This core teaching helps everyone self-identify the role they can play and explores how each person as an individual is integral in this big-picture process.
Another Seat at the Table, will help EACH PERSON identify…
Their own role
What motivates them
What their self-talk is (and how that may positively or negatively affect their contribution)
What change-driven actions they can take right away to make a difference
This is a DIFFERENCE-MAKER in you being able to help your team thrive in the process of building greater diversity and inclusion.
Our mission is to help organizations and leaders embark on the journey The Road to Equity® through the DEI process:
Awareness, Empathy, Opportunity, and Engagement.
Our vision is to create more equitable classrooms, campuses, and communities focused on best practices through shared experiences, friendly conversations, and organizational change.
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Welcome to The Human Diver!
For all of you
Have you considered how your personal actions and inactions, awareness, decisions and relationships (i.e. human factors) could impact your ability to dive safely? Or impact the safety of others?
While it is important to learn how to dive technically in a safe manner, in the world of diving the influence of ‘human factors’ is far too often underestimated. This can lead to tragedy.CLICK HERE TO SEE BRIAN BUGGE'S STORY 'IF ONLY...'
Most accidents and incidents are not down to undetected technical failures, poor buoyancy or incorrect trim, rather they are down to complacency, breakdowns in communication, poor decision-making, a lack of situational awareness or ineffective teamwork and/or leadership.
The humans involved in that dive, that course or that incident all contributed to the outcome, even if something technical has also gone wrong or malfunctioned in some way.
"It's a hell of a lot of fun!" BUT...
Until the human diver arrived, no one was offering training which took a more holistic approach to diving and how these ‘little’ factors can lead to situations which can mean the difference between life and death.
Today, The Human Diver offers courses, training and support for those who want to be the new pioneers in diving excellence. Gareth has trained other instructors worldwide in human factors and his mission to “Apply Human Factors. Master The Dive” is at the heart of his work. To find out more about him, his team or which course might work for you, follow the different links in the menu bar at the top.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER, GARETH LOCK
The Human Diver was created by experienced diver Gareth Lock who has committed his life to diving, diver training and the training of high-performance teams after his 25 year career in the Royal Air Force. To date he has completed more than 800 dives around the globe on OC and CCR and to depths in excess of 70m. Gareth knows from his role as a Squadron Leader in the RAF that the most effective teams never lose sight of each other’s interactions and performance. It’s something deep in the psyche of the RAF and aviation in general.FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GARETH
Human Factors in Diving: The essentials
This 3-hour online class is a great starting point to find out why we make mistakes and how we can reduce the likelihood of an accident or adverse event occurring. We dive into decision making, situational awareness, communication and cooperation skills, and crucially, their interdependence. Using case studies and practical exercise, we bring the topic to life. Want to gain a quick but valuable insight?START HERE
LEVEL 1: WEBINAR SERIES
If you are a dive leader/master or instructor, or undertake higher risk diving like CCR, Cave or Tech Diving, this globally-unique course is a MUST. Delivered over 10 weeks via an interactive webinar, this provides an in-depth understanding of human factors and their impact, and a wealth of practical techniques with consolidation exercises along with prizes for submissions. Do you want to push yourself more than just the Essentials class and learn more at a slower pace?START HERE
Level 2: Face-to-Face
The ultimate learning experience when it comes to developing high-performance teams. Taking knowledge and practice from aviation, team psychology and academia, this course shows you how to build a team quickly and operate as one in a highly-experiential learning environment. Every student who has completed this class has valued the personal and team development experience, remembering the skills for months and years after the class.START HERE
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Deflected spells often bounce back at the one who cast them.
Lily willingly sacrificing herself created a sort of shield that protected Harry from the Dark Lord harming him, so the Killing Curse wouldn’t hit him. Her sacrifice only had the effect of protecting Harry, not nearly killing the Dark Lord. However, deflected curses don’t just disappear as soon as they’re deflected, and can turn back on the person who cast them. For example, when Harry tried to cast a Stunning Spell at Bellatrix, she casts Protego and sent his own spell back at him.
“Stupefy!’ yelled Harry. He had edged right around to where the goblin stood beaming up at the now headless wizard and taken aim at her back as she peered around the fountain. She reacted so fast he barely had time to duck.
The jet of red light, his own Stunning Spell, bounced back at him.”
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 36 (The Only One He Ever Feared)
While Lily’s sacrifice is a much rarer type of magic, the shield it created seems to have worked the same way as a Shield Charm - it reflected the spell and sent it bouncing back in the direction it came, which was at the Dark Lord, who was standing right near Harry when he cast it.
“He pointed the wand very carefully into the boy’s face: he wanted to see it happen, the destruction of this one, inexplicable danger. The child began to cry: it had seen that he was not James. He did not like it crying, he had never been able to stomach the small ones’ whining in the orphanage –
And then he broke: he was nothing, nothing but pain and terror, and he must hide himself, not here in the rubble of the ruined house, where the child was trapped and screaming, but far away … far away …”
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 17 (Bathilda’s Secret)
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Tea time might be even more important than you realize.
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It wasn’t that long ago when people looked at Internet of Things as a fad, the idea of billions of devices connected to one another seems more like fairy-tale speech. But over the years, this technology has become more and more commonplace, both in industrial and the home. Smart TVs are becoming commonplace in the boardrooms, along with surveillance cameras, HVAC and lighting systems.
While we may look at IoT and its rise to prominence as novel, many of its common security weaknesses aren’t exactly new things. But when looking at the security concern of IoT, it differs somewhat form traditional IT security, as it requires awareness of a number of different areas, such as the following:
1. Remote Vehicle Control
As our vehicles become smarter and are linked to the internet, they also become more vulnerable to attack. Hackers have already proven that they are capable of taking control of a Jeep, changing its radio station, changing air conditioning levels, slowing the vehicle down when in motion and starting the window wipers. As a result of this news, over 1.4 million vehicles were recalled, but these same hackers said, through their research they were able to find additional vulnerabilities that they can exploit, vulnerabilities that were not addressed by the initial patch created for these recalled vehicles. Although it is said that the car industry is doing a good job in securing its vehicles, most feel it’s only a matter of time before new vulnerabilities are found and exploited.
2. Lack of Network Awareness
One major problem is that a great many organisations are completely oblivious to what exists on their network, and thus are unable to properly determine whether or not their IoT device has been misconfigured by them or a hacker. Maintaining a dashboard-like view can be rather difficult for all devices attached to a network. In most circumstances organisations are only able to see around 60% of all the devices that are connected to its network environment. This is an issue that is prevalent across a great many industries, from manufacturing to health care, to the finance sector.
3. Secure Communications
Once these IoT devices have been secured, the next security step for these devices is to ensure that all communication across the network between the cloud service, app or devices is all fully secure.
Many of these IoT devices do not use encryption when transmitting messages across a network. However, best practices state that some form of transport encryption is used, and standards like TLS be adopted. Using separate networks in order to isolate devices is another way to establish private and secure communications, so that all data transmitted is secure and confidential.
4. Remote Recording
There is this possibility that computer hackers could hack into your IoT devices and record the owner of these devices without his/her knowledge. Such information has come to light as a result of work carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). WikiLeaks documents divulged the fact that the spy agency was aware of many zero-day exploits on IoT devices, but did not expose any information on the bugs used, as they hoped to use these vulnerabilities to secretly record conversations in hopes of acquiring information about America’s enemies or adversaries. These documents outlined vulnerabilities that existed in Android and iOS smartphones, and smart TVs. The most nerving implication is that computer hackers could also be aware of these exploits and use them for their own ends.
It was only several years ago when we had the first ever attack involving IoT devices that were used by a multitude of people, in order to send out in excess of 300,000 spam emails per day, across internet-connected devices, including TVs, smart refrigerators and routers. The attackers were able to send around 10 messages per device, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint and block the origin of the attack.
However, this attack was only the first of many to come,as IoT spam attacks have continued up till today.
6. Predict and Counter Security Challenges
One IoT security challenge, which can be said to be long term, is the implementation of security intelligence, not just for mitigating and detecting issues, as and when they occur, but also for predicting and protecting against potential security breaches and attacks.
Threat modelling is an adopted approach to predicting these security challenges. Other methods entail application analytics and monitoring tools, to visualise and correlate unfolding threats happening in real-time, as well as utilising AI to adjust, on the fly, to applied security strategies, based on the effectiveness of prior actions.
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Australia is currently muddling through a critical shortage of EpiPen Jr epinephrine auto-injectors, devices intended as an emergency treatment for young children who suffer anaphylaxis, a serious, sometimes life-threatening allergic reaction.
EpiPen brand auto-injectors have been in short supply globally due to manufacturing issues at Meridian Medical Technologies, a division of Pfizer that produces the devices. Meridian is currently the subject of a civil investigation by the US Attorney’s office for the District of NY.
The shortage was so acute that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian agency responsible for regulating drugs, previously advised parents to use the devices past their expiration date.
Now, the TGA has approved a batch of the devices found to contain traces of pralidoxime. The agency says this was likely caused by a manufacturing issue between the production of different products, noting the manufacturer has taken action to prevent the issue for future batches.
“Pralidoxime is used to treat people who have been poisoned by pest-control chemicals and its safety profile has been well established in humans,” a spokesperson for the TGA says.
“In the situations in which EpiPen Jr is used, administration of adrenaline can be life-saving. The risk from not having adrenaline available to treat anaphylaxis is far greater than the risk of being exposed to a very small amount of pralidoxime.”
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As mentioned last time, God designated two spheres of power where man exercises dominion, and therefore stewardship. They are religion and governance. We previously focused on today’s governance corruption and failure. But seldom is only one sphere corrupted. Today’s article turns to the church. Not attacking it, but examining where we are versus where we should be. Understanding where correction is needed—and how to go about it.
Does this matter? Yes. We live in the age of the church, the time between Christ’s resurrection and second coming. Man is free from Satan’s deception, unless man chooses otherwise. (Rev. 20:2-3) The church’s purpose is teaching what it means to be God’s people, discerning good from evil. The morality derived from those principles provides society’s proper foundation. Self-governance cannot occur without this morality. Both spheres duty is serving the people by supporting the common good, and in turn serving God. Christ’s Church is its people; not the buildings, institutions, or hierarchies created by man.
History provides some useful lessons about today—if we choose to learn from them.
Some History Lessons
These brief examples come from Jerusalem, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance. At the risk of receiving a speeding ticket, we’ll cover about two thousand years of history in less than eight hundred words—so buckle up.
Israel’s chief priests plotted to do away with Christ. They saw Him as a threat rather than messiah. After Christ’s arrest, Pilate presented Jesus to the crowd. They responded shouting Pilate was no friend of Caesar’s if Christ was released. Pilate asked, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests responded, “We have no king but Caesar.” (John 19:5-15)
At that moment these priests openly rejected God as their king. Less than forty years later, the Roman army burned Jerusalem and destroyed the temple. The lesson is clear. Stand in the way of God’s plan, and you will be removed. If this can happen to His beloved Jerusalem, are we arrogant enough to believe it cannot happen here now?
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages begin after Rome’s fall in the fifth century, with the Germanic tribes and Huns invasion. The Germanic tribes generally elected their leaders and people elected their bishops. Leaders came from the people, were elected by the people, and served the people.
These conditions did not last long. The German chiefs were relatively weak; they needed the people’s support to rule. Bishops provided the chiefs a local connection. Additionally, the church spoke a common language (Latin), provided education, and possessed important historical records. The chiefs increasingly relied on the bishops. So much so they became known as the ‘king’s man.’ The bishops and chiefs became too important to allow the people to elect.
The pope and local rulers fought over who should appoint bishops. This battle lasted for centuries, reaching a peak in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in Rome at St. Peter’s basilica. Both asserted they held power over the other. There is a clear lesson here as well. When either sphere turns from God’s purpose, it becomes corrupt.
Correcting the Balance
The story’s not good so far. What changed? We must go to the 1200’s and pope Innocent III. He continued the battle above, and asserted religious power’s superiority over political power. He believed all power derives from the spiritual, and as God’s spiritual leader the pope held power over the rulers. Innocent had the intellect and authority to enforce his view, and shrewdly did so.
At this time, England had a terrible king. King John. Innocent appointed a fellow Paris student and friend as Archbishop of Canterbury—Stephen Langton. Langton believed both religious and political power existed to serve its. Under his leadership, Magna Charta was written and signed in 1215. He defied both pope and king. But Langton didn’t do it alone. He brought enough barons and bishops together forcing King John to sign it, and live by its conditions.
A couple critical lessons here. First, power rests in the people. Our duty supporting the common good requires replacing corrupt leaders. Corruption turns people away from God, and therefore must be removed. King John repeatedly tried violating Magna Charta. He died from dysentery fighting his barons. A second lesson is corrupt leaders seldom change. Another reason they must be replaced. America’s founding leveraged both lessons. Many came to America fleeing religious persecution and corrupt political leadership. Today there is no longer any place to run.
The Renaissance began around 1350. While things changed in England, much of Europe was not as lucky. Placing religious power over political corrupted both. Corruption reaching a high point under the Borgia and Medici popes between 1455 and 1565. Luther penned his theses in 1517 in response to this corruption. Henry VIII used it to break away from Rome’s control and increase his own power. The latter act marked a return to ideas underlying Roman pagan rule.
The Islamic scholar Averroes also greatly influenced Christian scholars beginning in the 1200’s. He was heavily influenced by Aristotle’s ideas. The scholars interest led to translating Aristotle’s complete works—first from Arabic and later Greek manuscripts. Plato’s complete works would not be translated for another hundred years. Christianity’s early fathers often used Plato’s writings instead. They viewed Plato’s ideas as being closer to Christianity, but still pagan.
Aristotle believed in governing power’s superiority. Man created his own gods. Intellectuals like Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and Rousseau all replaced one corruption with another. They each put religion under governance in different ways. Their train of thought forms communism’s, fascism’s, humanism’s, Marxism’s, modern liberalism’s, progressivism’s, and socialism’s basis. Those ideas also entered the church through liberation theology. The lesson here is also clear. Man needs something greater than himself for guidance, guidance coming from God alone. This marks the basis for knowing versus believing—fact versus opinion.
Hope that wasn’t too painful. At its heart, the Renaissance attempted returning to pagan rule like the Roman Empire’s. Without God man fails to become good because man’s nature doesn’t change.
Previous articles pretty thoroughly covered governance corruption relating to the recent outbreak—at least for what is known so far. I won’t repeat that here. What I’ll add is over this past week evidence is emerging showing how much this pandemic was overblown by officials, the medical community, and media. As predicted, coronavirus deaths appear to be over-reported. Colorado lowered its virus death toll by over 300 (almost 30%). Other states should follow suit.
Additionally, 80% of the CDC’s current 68,998 deaths were 65 or older. So why did we lock down our entire society through stay at home orders when those most at risk were not even in the work force? Virginia’s governor, and others, have much to answer for. The probable answer lies in using the opportunity to increase their power as they are turned away from God.
But our government leaders are not alone. Many churches and communities reacted in fear. Worship services were not held as usual, unlike during the last administration’s swine flu pandemic. Some were arrested when they tried to gather in worship, even when complying with social distancing guidelines. This at a time when we should renew our focus toward God.
Yes, it’s true we are to obey governing authority. But all authority comes from God (Rom. 13:1-3), and rulers are to be God’s servants (Rom. 13:4-10). When governing power turns away from God, we are left with choosing between man and God. When that occurs we are to follow God (Acts 5:29). Virginia’s governor supports abortion, same sex marriage, gender nullification, and infanticide. He is not one who follows God.
But it doesn’t end there. We see it in the abuse and corruption within the Catholic Church enabled by its hierarchy. Corruption involving sex, power, and money. Pope Francis receives support from the left and shares its views on issues like climate change, immigration, and globalism. The Vatican is confusing our Christian faith with the religion of humanity. The first is true, and the second false. But it’s not just within the Catholic Church. We see corrupt cultural values being promoted within the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Methodist churches. Denominations whose hierarchies are choosing to follow man rather than God.
Even Southern Baptists are not immune. Their last convention affirmed using critical race theory as an ‘analytical tool.’ I must ask, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Critical race theory comes from pagan ideas peddled by racists as big as those they say their theory identifies. How do I know? Their fruit is division, jealousy, and hate. These come from Satan, not God. You cannot reconcile Aristotle and the Bible. Their ideas are contradictory and incompatible. We must stand and proclaim what we know to be true, relying on God and the Holy Spirit to give us what we need.
I’ll close with just two implications. There are more, but these suffice for now. First, there is no such thing as partial power. Either power can change nothing or it can change everything. Our Constitution says Congress shall make no law concerning religion, and many states contain similar provisions. However, if government tells you when, or how, you can meet—they have power. When they tell you when and how you can begin to meet again—they have power. You’ve lost, and the only way to get it back is to reassert your claim given to you by God. You must become like Stephen Langton.
Second, our principles bind us together. But to use them we must know them, and then go do them—we must act. We are each at different points in our faith walk, and each has different skills, abilities and aptitudes. The way we apply those principles, just as how we apply God’s laws, changes based on where we are at. A common end using our unique gifts to get there. But whatever our actions, they must be without fear in obedience to God.
The age of the church will end. God knows when this will occur, but our decisions determine the time. We are not victims, as promoted by critical race theory and other crackpot notions. Nor are alone or without hope. We are God’s children and need to live like it. Then demand those we select as leaders do the same—or replace them with someone who will. Leaders have a special duty to serve, whether in religion or governance. The choice is ours; we are in a war of ideas. Warriors of all types are needed. Are you willing to follow Him?
Wolf, Dan, The Light & the Rod, Vol. 2, Biblical Governance Corruptions, Living Rightly Publications, forthcoming.
Center for Disease Control, Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Sex, Age, and State, May 20, 2020. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku, accessed May, 2020.
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Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir has said that the ICC may have to find an alternative to saliva ban once cricket resumes, insisting that it would be 'the hardest thing' for the bowlers. The Cricket Committee on Monday laid out recommendations in which the use of saliva was discarded.
"It will be the hardest thing for the bowlers. The ICC have to come out with an alternative. Without shining the ball, I don't think it will be an even contest between bat and ball," Gambhir told IANS.
"If they don't allow using saliva, they will have to come up with an alternative to help the bowlers to shine the ball. It's going to be very important otherwise there would be no fun watching cricket."
Talking about the apprehensions among players once cricket resumes, Gambhir insisted that it will be natural to be a little fearful in the initial stages.
"It depends from individual to individual (fear in mind of cricketers). But yes there will be little apprehensions, when they go out and play. Probably after some time, it will go in the heat of the game once players are on the pitch and will ease into the game and will be excitement to be out and playing," said the former Indian southpaw.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the sporting world to a halt. While footballers have recently returned to the pitch, IPL 2020 currently stands postponed while there are even doubts on the T20 World Cup.
However, Gambhir believes that if the International Cricket Council (ICC) is able to take all the participating cricket nations on board, the tournament might take place as per schedule in October-November in Australia.
"It depends on BCCI, ICC and the other boards, what they believe in. They have to get all the various stakeholders involved, including all cricketing nations and they have to come together and decide.
"All the cricketing nations if they come together on board then the T20 World Cup will go ahead, otherwise I don't see it happening," he said.
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Long John Silver'S Restaurants Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History
Lexington, Kentucky 40509
History of Long John Silver'S Restaurants Inc.
Long John Silver's Restaurants Inc. is the country's largest quick-service seafood restaurant chain, with around 71 percent of the estimated $1.3 billion market. With headquarters in Kentucky and divisional offices Atlanta, Dallas, and Kansas City, the company oversees a network of over 1,400 restaurants, 480 of which are franchises, in the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Until the late 1980s, Long John Silver's was one of a group of restaurants held by Jerrico Inc., a food service group that included Jerry's Restaurants and the Fazoli's pasta chains. Jerry's and Fazoli's were divested, however, and the company's focus shifted to its seafood establishment, Long John Silver's.
The history of Long John Silver's (LJS) can be traced to 1929, when Jerome Lederer, the company founder, opened a six-seat hamburger stand he called the White Tavern Shoppe in Shelbyville, Kentucky. The concept proved popular and thrived throughout the Great Depression. Altogether, 13 White Tavern Shoppes were in existence when World War II came along and claimed ten of them due to shortages of meat, sugar, and manpower.
Lederer regrouped in 1946, establishing his company as Jerrico Inc. and introducing a new restaurant in Lexington, called Jerry's Five and Dime, reflecting the new establishment's focus on promoting 15-cent roast beef sandwiches. In 1947, realizing that people weren't willing to pay that much for a roast beef sandwich, Lederer converted Jerry's menu to focus on hamburgers.
As he rebuilt his company, Lederer hired Warren W. Rosenthal to manage his restaurants in 1948. The two men reportedly met when Rosenthal rented a room from Lederer while attending the University of Kentucky. Although Rosenthal initially considered careers in retailing and in life insurance, he eventually accepted Lederer's invitation to join him in the restaurant business. Soon the two men were looking for a restaurant concept they could duplicate across the country. They tried new menu concepts at Jerry's by adapting food service ideas borrowed from restaurants in other locations.
The popularity of eating away from home and the growth of the restaurant business in general was just beginning; Jerrico's timing was perfect. By 1957, Jerrico was operating seven Jerry's Restaurants and was one of the first companies to use the franchise concept as a means of stimulating growth. Rosenthal, who had been made chief executive officer of Jerrico, eventually served as president and gained ownership of the company as well when Lederer died in 1963.
Jerrico's success in the food service industry has been credited to the company's willingness to generate ideas and take risks. Indeed, the company tested a variety of restaurant concepts during the 1960s, including: Lott's (roast beef and other sandwiches); Davy's Dock (full service seafood); Don Q's (Spanish food); and The Governor's Table (full service dining).
Then, in 1969, Rosenthal was inspired to try out a new market for quick-service seafood as competition for the standard American favorites of hamburger, pizza, and fried chicken. Rosenthal studied the competition, particularly the menu at the H. Salt Fish and Chips chain, and then convinced James Patterson, a Jerry's Restaurant franchisee, to join him at Jerrico to help develop the notion of an expanded version of fast food fish-n-chips. Patterson became the first president of Long John Silver's.
Shortly after taking Jerrico public in 1969, Rosenthal launched Long John Silver's Fish & Chips, a name inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. Located on Southland Drive in Lexington, the first restaurant was a success; LJS developed into a chain and soon became Jerrico's most successful endeavor. By the end of 1971, there were more than 200 LJS units in operation.
Designed to provide the atmosphere of a seafood establishment along a wharf, the outlets' interiors were decked out with brass lanterns, signal flags, and boat oars. The original menu featured battered fish, chicken, french fries, and hushpuppies. However, noting that competitor H. Salt had a relatively limited menu and was experiencing financial difficulties, Rosenthal quickly moved to expand LJS's offerings, implementing a more comprehensive line of seafood to augment its batter-dipped fillets. By 1973, the chain's name was changed to Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes to reflect this expanded menu. During this time, Ernest E. Renaud, Jerrico's executive vice-president since 1971, became the second president in LJS history.
By June 1976, there were 621 LJS restaurants in operation. Of these, 262 were owned directly by Jerrico and another 359 were franchised to independent operators, who paid a fee to Jerrico for the concept and covered construction and business costs themselves. Within two years, the total number of shops had grown to 1,000, of which 464 were company-owned. In May 1978, Jerrico consolidated its operations from four buildings scattered around Lexington to a new $7 million headquarters.
Changes in LJS leadership took place in the early and mid-1980s. In 1982, Renaud was named president of parent company Jerrico in addition to his duties as LJS president, while Rosenthal retained a role as chairman of the board. In 1984, John E. Tobe, who had been LJS's chief financial officer since the early 1970s, succeeded Renaud.
Growth at LJS continued apace in the 1980s, as company-owned development increased significantly. By 1984, Jerrico owned 812 of a total 1,355 LJS restaurants, and by 1987 LJS accounted for approximately 75 percent of Jerrico's total revenues and 80 percent of its operating profits. That year, the chain boasted 1,421 outlets with reported sales of $451 million, roughly 65 percent of the "fast fish" category. Although LJS was not considered a truly national chain at the time, it was gaining enough ground to warrant an investment in regional network television advertising time. Jerrico's intent was to have stores in all areas of the country by 1990, and to have LJS become a full network television advertiser.
During this time, Jerrico's other business interests included a chain of Jerry's Restaurants and other new restaurant concepts the company was testing, including a full service Italian restaurant called Florenz, established in Ohio. Jerrico also opened its first fast-food Italian restaurant--called Gratzi's--in 1988. Such diversification was prompted in part by the continually rising prices of Icelandic cod, LJS's staple menu item; hoping not to become overly dependent on the LJS chain, with its rising operating costs, Jerrico continued to expand its holdings. Moreover, LJS was facing increasing competition from outside the industry, particularly from grocers and their suppliers, who were quick to take advantage of market demand for fast food that could be microwaved at home. In 1989, Jerrico premiered Fazoli's, a quick-service Italian pasta restaurant modeled after the Florenz established.
However, national economic recession and the high price of fish brought some problems for Jerrico in the late 1980s, and the company would soon undergo dramatic changes. When the company's stock value began to waver as investors grew concerned over reduced profits, talk of taking the company private through a management-led buyout surfaced. In September 1989, Jerrico was acquired for $620 million in a leveraged buy out by a company called Pisces Inc., made up of a group of senior Jerrico executives and a joint force of Castle Harlan and DJS-Inverness, both New York-based investment firms. Warren Rosenthal, having been with the company 41 years, retired as chairman of the board at the age of 67. He was reportedly well compensated for his role in developing the company, receiving an executive severance payment of $1.275 million in addition to the $57.4 million he received from cashing in related stock interests. LJS, which reported sales of $826 million in 1989, became a subsidiary of Pisces Inc.
Clinton A. Clark, a partner at Castle Harlan, joined the board of LJS during the buy out and became the company's president in 1990. Clark was charged with bringing the company safely through the immediate post buyout, debt laden years. During his tenure, Clark began an effective turnaround of the company. He created an LJS mission statement centered on providing superior products, guest satisfaction, mutual respect among team members, and "a vision of excellence" for the future.
As part of Clark's refocusing efforts, the new parent company decided to dedicate all of its resources to the operations of LJS in 1990. Toward that end, the company's other three restaurant concepts--Jerry's, Fazoli's, and Florenz--were put on the block. The 46 Jerry's restaurants were purchased by Atlanta-based Great American Restaurants, the country's largest franchisee of Denny's Family Restaurants. Fazoli's, a particularly promising start-up, was bought by the Japanese-owned firm Seed Restaurant Group Inc. Jerrico attempted to sell its seven Florenz restaurants as a chain, but was unsuccessful, and by 1991, all seven sites were closed. Jerrico Inc., as it was, ceased to function, and the company that emerged was known by a more recognized name, Long John Silver's Restaurants Inc.
In the early 1990s, LJS began to tailor its menu to answer the growing nutrition concerns of its health-conscious customers. Broiled and grilled items were introduced and represented the fastest-growing of the restaurant's product lines. In 1991, the company introduced three hot meals, baked rather than fried and all priced at around $4, during Lent season. According to a February 1992 article in Restaurants & Institutions, Mary Roseman, director of nutrition and consumer information at LJS, asserted that "the baked program provides good sales when we can support it with marketing. Unfortunately, though, when you're not on TV or not really pounding the message, it's hard to keep the interest there." Advertising on a national scale was still two years away for LJS.
Market trends were not favorable for LJS during this time. According to one Illinois-based market research firm, the share of industry traffic at fish and seafood specialty restaurants slipped from 2.8 percent in 1986 to 2.5 percent in 1991. The quick service growth area in 1991 came from other nonseafood chains, which were adding some seafood items to their menus.
This additional competition as well as increased prices of some staple menu items put seafood restaurants at a disadvantage in the quick-service industry. Value had to be improved if consumers were expected to eat a seafood dinner instead of a lower priced hamburger and fries meal. In October, LJS revealed a new value menu chainwide. The Add-a-Piece menu enabled the purchase of any basic meal with additional individual pieces of fried fish, shrimp or chicken for 69 cents or less. With the price of a basic meal at around $1.99, the new menu allowed increased flexibility for the customer and the elimination of redundant items from the menu.
After guiding the company successfully through its move from public to private status, Clark, who had become chairman in February 1992, announced his resignation in July 1993. In October 1993, Clyde E. Culp, a member of the company's board, was named president and chief executive officer. Culp's vision for the company was to "reinvigorate the quick-service seafood category" through LJS's dominant position within the segment.
In the spring of 1993, the company's first kiosk was opened at the Louisville General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky. The kiosk, called Long John Silver's Express, was a smaller version of the restaurant and was franchised by Canteen Corp., a large contract food service provider owned by TW Services. The kiosk offered a limited menu with four meal choices. During the first three weeks of operation, Canteen's lunch participation increased by approximately 1,200 customers.
That summer, LJS reported that drive-through service, among those LJS outlets that had it, was increasing sales by almost 30 percent. Recognizing the needs of an expanded customer base, Bruce Cotton, LJS vice-president of public relations, explained in a July 1993 Restaurants & Institutions article that "at first, we didn't feel fish would transport very well, so we worked on better carryout containers and holding times for fish. We also changed our french fries to an extra-crispy type that holds heat really well."
In August 1994, in a rare advertising move, LJS unveiled its "America's Favorite Shrimp Game" tie-in with the premier of the Universal Pictures film "Little Rascals." Jobie Dixon, LJS vice-president of marketing and creative media explained in the August 1994 Nation's Restaurant News that the company was aware of movie/fast-food promotions being run by McDonald's and Burger King, and that "research shows that if you get a good, interesting tie-in, it can add some magic for the consumer that translates into extra visits." Scheduled to run through mid-September, both the movie and "America's Favorite Shrimp Game" exceeded expectations.
Because of its earlier success with kiosks, LJS continued to add these nontraditional sites, expanding primarily on university campuses. In September 1994, the company opened a store front unit at California Polytechnic State University, its first West Coast kiosk. John Ramsey, vice-president of franchise development, stated in a September 1994 Nation's Restaurant News that the company believed college students would "look for branded food names that they recognize from home.... Students know our food will taste the same at Cal-Poly as it does in their home towns."
Also during this time, Triarc Cos., a diversified holding company and the parent of Arby's Inc., announced plans to acquire LJS for $75 million in cash and $450 million in assumed debt. Triarc's plan was to dual-brand its stores, housing its lunch-oriented Arby's restaurants under the same roofs as dinner-oriented LJS restaurants. However, in December, with rising interest rates and unfavorable capital markets looming, Triarc declared that it was canceling the debt-heavy deal. Both companies, however, said they would continue to pursue the possibility of joint housing.
LJS continued to enhance its menu, presenting its Flavorbaked line in the fall of 1994. This line included chicken breast and fish sandwiches, light-portion items, meals, and combination deals. LJS promoted the introduction with a $5.5 million marketing campaign, using network/cable television advertisements and couponing to support the new products.
LJS reported systemwide sales of $923 million for fiscal 1994 from its 1,456 company-owned and franchised locations in 38 states, Canada, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The company had 70 participating franchise groups ranging in size from 1 to 89 units. The company saw record sales in early 1995 and also experienced record annual franchise growth, as the new franchise projects in development at the time outnumbered those of fiscal years 1993 and 1994 combined. Although Long John Silver's remained $292.6 million in debt, incurred during the 1989 buyout, the company appeared prepared for continued growth and success, planning to add 100 franchise units and 50 company-owned units annually through the 1990s.
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Tuesday 4 November, 2008
Sue Ziebland is a Reader in Qualitative Health Research and research director of the DIPEx Health experiences research group in the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. The group of 11 social science researchers conduct qualitative interview studies, throughout the UK, for two multimedia web sites www.healthtalkonline.org (formerly DIPEx) and www.youthhealthtalk.org.
The websites include analyses of the main issues identified in interview studies and are illustrated with hundreds of video, audio and written clips, as well as evidence based information about each condition or health issue. The site is intended for patients, their families and friends, patient representatives, and health professionals in training. Since their first projects were launched in July 2001 over 45 conditions have been covered including the main cancers, living with dying, heart diseases, pregnancy and childbirth, screening, epilepsy, RA, diabetes, depression, mental illness in BME communities and autism and Asperger’s Disease.
In October 2008 a major re-design of the site was launched. In this talk Sue will talk about the history of the projects and the rationale for the research-based approach to Patients’ Experiences, and show video clips from the interviews.
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Often, captive insectivorous bats must be fed by hand when flying insects are not available. Some bats can be trained to accept insects from a food dish by being placed directly on the live food.
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Consolidated bioprocessing performance of Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M18 on fungal pretreated cornstalk for enhanced hydrogen production
Biotechnology for Biofuels volume 7, Article number: 178 (2014)
Biological hydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass shows great potential as a promising alternative to conventional hydrogen production methods, such as electrolysis of water and coal gasification. Currently, most researches on biohydrogen production from lignocellulose concentrate on consolidated bioprocessing, which has the advantages of simpler operation and lower cost over processes featuring dedicated cellulase production. However, the recalcitrance of the lignin structure induces a low cellulase activity, making the carbohydrates in the hetero-matrix more unapproachable. Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass is consequently an extremely important step in the commercialization of biohydrogen, and for massive realization of lignocellulosic biomass as alternative fuel feedstock. Thus, development of a pretreatment method which is cost efficient, environmentally benign, and highly efficient for enhanced consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass to hydrogen is essential.
In this research, fungal pretreatment was adopted for enhanced hydrogen production by consolidated bioprocessing performance. To confirm the fungal pretreatment efficiency, two typical thermochemical pretreatments were also compared side by side. Results showed that the fungal pretreatment was superior to the other pretreatments in terms of high lignin reduction of up to 35.3% with least holocellulose loss (the value was only 9.5%). Microscopic structure observation combined with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis further demonstrated that the lignin and crystallinity of lignocellulose were decreased with better holocellulose reservation. Upon fungal pretreatment, the hydrogen yield and hydrogen production rate were 6.8 mmol H2 g-1 pretreated substrate and 0.89 mmol L-1 h-1, respectively, which were 2.9 and 4 times higher than the values obtained for the untreated sample.
Results revealed that although all pretreatments could contribute to the enhancement of hydrogen production from cornstalk, fungal pretreatment proved to be the optimal method. It is apparent that besides high hydrogen production efficiency, fungal pretreatment also offered several advantages over other pretreatments such as being environmentally benign and energy efficient. This pretreatment method thus has great potential for application in consolidated bioprocessing performance of hydrogen production.
Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundantly available raw material on the earth . In China alone, for example, the annual yield of cornstalk is up to 220 million tons. Unfortunately, most of the biomass residuals are disposed of by direct combustion owing to lack of effective utilization. In order to strive for proper use of this large amount of resource, production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass should be given increasing amounts of attention . Hydrogen gas (H2) is currently one of the most promising alternatives to conversional fossil fuels because of its desirable characteristics such as high calorific value and its renewability ,. Hence, biological H2 production from lignocellulosic biomass such as cornstalk can not only help utilize this resource rationally, but also reduce the earth’s dependence on fossil fuels. Biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into H2 commonly involves i) pretreatment of lignocelluloses, ii) hydrolysis of polysaccharide constituents into reducing sugars with a cellulolytic enzyme cocktail, and iii) fermentation of sugars with H2-producing microorganisms. Traditionally, these processes were carried out at different reactors, or by different microorganisms separately . In recent years, an alternative approach known as consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), which could combine enzyme production, saccharification, and H2 fermentation in a single step was developed. This integrated process configuration is more favorable for cellulosic H2 production due to its simple operating process, low capital and substrate cost, short processing time, high H2 yields, and low contamination risk -. Consequently, CBP is regarded as the optimal industrial configuration to produce H2.
The thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M18 shows great ability in producing H2 directly from various defined polycarbohydrates such as xylan, filter paper, Avicel, and a variety of natural lignocellulosic materials such as corn cob, corn stover, and wheat straw , and thus it is regarded as a promising candidate CBP microbe for biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass. However, an appreciable decrease in H2 yield was observed with natural cellulosic substrates compared with pure cellulose substrate . This finding indicated that the strain M18 can utilize natural substrates, but not as efficiently as pure cellulose. According to the previous studies, the crystallinity and heterogeneity of the lignocellulose structure usually induced low cellulolytic activity and slow specific growth rates of the microorganisms involved ,. As a result, an appropriate pretreatment to break the lignin barrier and disrupt the crystalline structure of lignocellulosic biomass is crucial to improve the accessibility of holocellulose (cellulose and hemicellulose) in the process of CBP to the microorganism and thus enhance cellulosic biohydrogen production.
Thermochemical pretreatment is the most widely used method for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass -. Although this method could dramatically increase enzymatic hydrolysis rates and yields, much investment for corrosion-resistant and high-pressure reactors is needed, and degradation products that would impair downstream fermentation were also formed during this process. Hence, pretreatment still remains one of the most costly steps in cellulosic H2 production and is a significant barrier to commercialization of biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass. From both economic and environmental perspectives, biological pretreatment using a lignin-degrading fungus is attracting more and more attention as an alternative method to break the lignin barrier and disrupt the crystalline structure ,. Compared to thermochemical pretreatments, fungal pretreatment could increase the enzyme accessibility and improve the digestibility of holocellulose at a lower cost and with a simpler-to-operate process, with no or reduced toxic compounds produced for subsequent fermentation .
Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine if fungal pretreatment could enhance H2 production by CBP performance of Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M18. To confirm fungal pretreatment efficiency, two commonly used thermochemical pretreatments were also selected for comparison. The biodelignification characteristics of pretreated cornstalk were described at first. After that the pretreated cornstalks were fermented by T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 directly, and the cellulase activity secreted by strain M18 and H2 production efficiency from the cornstalk under different pretreatments were evaluated. This study is the first to utilize fungal pretreatment for enhanced H2 production by a CBP process.
Biochemical and structural features of pretreated cornstalk
Fungal pretreatment using Phanerochaete chrysosporium can reduce the lignin content and crystallinity of lignocellulosic biomass effectively to aid more efficient enzymatic saccharification with either commercial or crude cellulase -. However, the application of fungal pretreatment for enhanced H2 production by consolidated bioprocessing has not been studied.
In this research, the objective of the pretreatment is to break the lignin seal and disrupt its crystalline structure to make cellulose more accessible for cellulase. More specifically, an appropriate pretreatment is desired so that lignin is degraded to the maximum while cellulose and hemicellulose are still retained -. In order to evaluate the feasibility of P. chrysosporium pretreatment for cornstalk prior to fermentation, the chemical compositions of cornstalk after fungal pretreatment were compared with other two typically thermochemical pretreatments (alkaline pretreatment and diluted acid pretreatment). As shown in Table 1, 35.3% of the lignin content was removed in fungal pretreated cornstalk compared to the control (non-pretreated sample), whereas only 9.5% holocellulose was decreased. In other words, nearly 90% cellulose and hemicellulose in fungal pretreated cornstalk were retained and available for subsequent fermentation. Compared to fungal pretreatment, a similar amount of lignin removal was obtained (32.3%) when using diluted acid pretreatment, accompanied by largely holocellulose reduction of 55.9% (10.5% cellulose and 45.4% hemicellulose). A substantial amount of holocellulose (5.9% cellulose and 56.2% hemicellulose) reduction was also observed for alkaline pretreatment, although the loss of lignin reached the maximum among the tested pretreatments.
The morphological changes induced by different pretreatments were examined by scanning electron microscope (SEM) to provide insight into the structural modifications of cornstalk. Figure 1a shows the compact and rigid structure of unpretreated cornstalk. After alkaline pretreatment, the structure became loose, and the surface of the substrate seemed to be very smooth with the appearance of fragments (Figure 1b). Compared to alkaline pretreatment, significant destruction with a loose matrix was found on the cornstalk cell wall under diluted acid pretreatment; lots of erosion troughs and plenty of holes and cracks were exhibited in the surface of the pretreated cornstalk (Figure 1c). However, the SEM of the cornstalk pretreated by fungus showed a different morphology from that for alkaline and acid pretreated cornstalk. The surface damage of cornstalk by this pretreatment was minimized, the initial connected structure was partially loosed, and fewer cracks and scars were observed, as shown in Figure 1d. This appearance confirmed the partial degradation of lignin and better preservation of cellulose and hemicellulose compared with other two pretreatments, and these observations further demonstrated the chemical component analysis of pretreated cornstalk.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was applied as an analytical tool to further determine the chemical changes of cornstalk upon different pretreatment processes. As presented in Figure 2, the functional groups changes of pretreated cornstalks were particularly reflected in the fingerprint region of the absorbance spectra. The band at approximately 1512 cm-1 corresponded to aromatic skeletal vibration C = C of lignin . The intensity of the peak at this wavelength was lower after all the three pretreatments than for untreated cornstalk, indicating that the content of lignin in cornstalk decreased after these pretreatments. Such results were in good accordance with chemical components analysis. The previous observations on spectra showed that the aromatic skeletal/C-O stretching ratio (R = I (1121 cm-1)/I (1078 cm-1)) in cellulose and hemicellulose could be quantified to represent the crystallinity of cellulose; the crystallinity decreases as the ratio increases . The ratio increased from 1.09 (untreated cornstalk) to 1.68 (alkaline pretreatment), 1.33 (diluted acid pretreatment), and 1.53 (fungal pretreatment), respectively, showing that all the pretreatments adopted in this research could decrease the crystallinity of cornstalk efficiently. Also, it could be observed that the effect of fungal pretreatment by P. chrysosporium on cellulose crystallinity was even close to the alkaline pretreatment which is distinguished for crystallinity removal. These results indicate that the biodegradation capacity of fungal pretreatment for both lignin and crystalline zones of cellulose was comparable or even higher than that of the thermochemical pretreatments used in this research.
Consolidated bioprocessing of pretreated cornstalk for hydrogen production
Biological H2 potential tests from different pretreated cornstalk samples were performed using the candidate CBP strain T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 isolated by Cao et al., . As shown in Figure 3a, strain M18 displayed the most effective utilization on alkaline pretreated cornstalk, which resulted in more than 75% degradation of cornstalk after 96 h fermentation. Fungal pretreated cornstalk also supported appreciable growth of M18; nearly 72% of the substrate was degraded at the end of fermentation. Compared to using alkaline and fungal pretreated cornstalk as substrates, less diluted acid pretreated cornstalk was degraded. Although the disruption of the lignin-carbohydrate matrix enhances the digestibility of pretreated cornstalk, the degradation rates of cellulose and hemicellulose in resulting different pretreated cornstalk samples varied with different pretreatment conditions. As shown in Figure 4, the cellulose and hemicellulose components were decreased gradually accompanied by an increase of lignin for all substrates. However, the highest hemicellulose consumption rate was found in fungal pretreated cornstalk. This may attribute to the higher content of hemicellulose preserved in fungal pretreated cornstalk than the other pretreatments, since strain T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 has been reported to preferentially utilize hemicellulose .
Consistent with the degradation of substrate, the maximum cumulative H2 production of 35.9 mmol/L was obtained with the alkaline pretreatment (Figure 3b). It should be noted that fungal pretreatment could also largely enhance H2 production; a cumulative H2 production of 33.9 mmol/L was observed after 72 h fermentation, which was 2.9 times higher than that of the untreated cornstalk (10.9 mmol/L). Moreover, the results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) suggested that the cumulative H2 production results between alkaline pretreated and fungal pretreated cornstalk were statistically not significantly different (P >0. 05), which suggested that the application of fungal pretreated cornstalk was as efficient as alkaline pretreated cornstalk. In comparison, the cumulative H2 production of diluted acid pretreated cornstalk was decreased to 20.8 mmol/L, which could be attributed to the low hydrolysis of the substrate.
In order to understand and compare the utilization characteristics of different pretreated cornstalk samples by T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 for H2 production. The cumulative H2 production data depicted in Figure 3b were fitted with the Gompertz equation and the determined constants were listed in Table 2. The determination coefficient (R2) of over 0.98 for all the regressions confirmed that H2 production by strain T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 was well applied to the modified Gompertz model. As seen in Table 2, the order of enhancement for H2 production on the basis of the maximum potential H2 production was alkaline pretreatment > fungal pretreatment > diluted acid pretreatment > untreated, which was similar to the experimental data. Maximum H2 production rates (Rm) were also greatly improved after pretreatments. The highest Rm of 0.93 mmol L-1 h-1 was achieved by fungal pretreatment, which was nearly five times higher than that of the untreated (0.19 mmol L-1 h-1), while the effect of alkaline and dilute acid pretreatments on Rm was less obvious; the values were 0.79 mmol L-1 h-1 and 0.44 mmol L-1 h-1, respectively. Therefore, it could be assumed that hydrolysis of fungal pretreated cornstalk by T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 was much faster than hydrolysis of alkaline and diluted acid pretreated cornstalk. Moreover, the lag time of fermentation was shortened from 6.3 h to the lowest time of 4.4 h after fungal pretreatment, further implying that strain M18 preferred fungal pretreated cornstalk for H2 production. Based on a total H2 production and an uptake of cornstalk from different pretreatments, the yields obtained on using alkaline pretreatment and fungal pretreatment were in general roughly equivalent. In comparison, a lower yield of H2 was observed on dilute acid pretreated cornstalk (Table 3). In all cases, acetate and butyrate accounted for more than 80% of the total volatile fatty acid, accompanied by small amounts of ethanol, butanol, and propionate.
Enzymatic activities of T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 under different pretreatments
The activities of enzymes during the whole fermentation process are shown in Figure 5, in accordance with the weight loss of substrate (as shown in Figure 4). Xylanase activity increased rapidly during the initial 48 h and reached a maximum level of 0.62 IU/mL, 2.1 IU/mL, 1.5 IU/mL, and 2.35 IU/mL, after 60 h fermentation when using untreated, alkaline, diluted acid, and fungal pretreated cornstalk as substrates respectively. However, the activity of endoglucanase, exoglucanase, and β-glucosidase were increased slightly less during the whole fermentation process; the order of maximum endoglucanase, exoglucanase, β-glucosidase activities were fungal pretreatment > alkaline pretreatment > acid pretreatment > untreated. Apparently, when fungal pretreated cornstalk was used as the substrate, the enzyme activity reached the highest, which may be an important explanation for why high relative degradation rate of biomass and yield of H2 was obtained on fungal pretreated cornstalk.
Two typical thermochemical pretreatments were selected for comparison with fungal pretreatment. Alkaline and diluted acid pretreatments have been widely used for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for bioenergy production. Pretreatment with alkali such as NaOH could cause swelling of biomass, decrease the cellulose crystallinity, disrupt the lignin structure, and break the linkage between lignin and other carbohydrate fractions in lignocellulosic biomass, thus increasing the susceptibility of cellulose to enzymes -. However, during the pretreatment, lots of alkali is consumed, and the resulting alkali solution cannot be recovered due to the dissolution of lignin. The dissolved substances are toxic to the fermenting organisms and also cause pollution to the environment. Dilute sulfuric acid, commonly used as the acid of choice, is usually mixed with lignocellulosic biomass to solubilize lignin and hemicellulose so as to increase the accessibility of the cellulose in the biomass -. Nevertheless, lignocelllulosic biomass subjected to dilute acid pretreatment is hard to ferment directly because of the presence of fermentation inhibitors. In addition, corrosion caused by diluted acid pretreatment with sulfuric acid mandates expensive construction material. Compared to thermochemical pretreatments, fungal pretreatment reduces the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass by lignin-degrading microorganisms, and no inhibitors are generated during the pretreatment process; thus, fungal pretreatment potentially provides an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient pretreatment technology for biofuel production . The only problem to be discussed is the pretreatment efficiency of fungal pretreatment.
In order to understand the feasibility of using fungal pretreatment to improve H2 production in consolidated bioprocessing from cornstalk, two typical pretreatments of alkaline and diluted acid were used as a comparison in terms of the biodegradation characteristics of pretreated substrate, potential of H2 production, and cellulolytic enzyme activities. The results showed that alkaline, diluted acid, and fungal pretreatments all had a major impact on these parameters. The difference in the amounts of H2 produced from different pretreatments might be due to the differences in the ensuing lignocellulose structures, the constitutions after pretreatment, and their effect on cellulase and xylanase activities. Among the alternative pretreatments, alkaline pretreatment resulted in the highest lignin removal and cellulose conversion. However, the loss of hemicellulose resulted in the reduction of holocellulose content, which in turn led to a great waste of biomass and thus affected the substrate utilization efficiency. Taking into account the loss of biomass after alkaline pretreatment, the H2 yield obtained according to the initial cornstalk was only 3.9 mmol/g raw substrate. Fungal pretreatment could be considered as a moderate pretreatment method because of its lowest dry matter loss and the highest level of hemicellulose retained. Even though the delignification of fungal pretreatment was not as efficient as that of alkaline pretreatment, a similar yield of H2 was produced on fungal and alkaline pretreated cornstalk, implying that the same amount of material was degraded, but that the initial degradation rate of hemicellulose in fungal pretreated cornstalk was faster. This initial higher rate of degradation can be attributed to the higher amounts of readily accessible hemicellulose and the corresponding higher activity of cellulosic enzymes. As expected, the low loss of degradable biomass for fungal pretreatment resulted in the highest H2 yield according to the initial material; the value was up to 5.86 mmol/g raw cornstalk. Compared with the fungal pretreatment, a lot of hemicellulose was lost with lower removal of lignin for the acid pretreated cornstalk. Correspondingly, a low yield of H2 and low enzyme activities were obtained. These results indicated that although the removal of lignin is a crucial factor in determining the effect of pretreatment, retaining more degradable holocellulose during the pretreatment process is equally important. Overall, from the aspects of lignin removal, cellulose and hemicellulose preserved, and H2 yield, fungal pretreatment would be advisable as the optimal pretreatment method for enhanced CBP performance of lignocellulose to generate H2. The results presented here demonstrate for the first time the combination of fungal pretreatment with CBP to ferment cornstalk to H2, providing a new way for biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to H2 that is environmentally friendly and energy efficient.
The complex structure of cornstalk was pretreated with several leading pretreatment methods for enhanced H2 production by CBP performance of T. thermosaccharolyticum M18. Major differences in substrate composition and H2 yield using different pretreatment methods were demonstrated. Of the methods examined, fungal pretreatment was considered the most suitable in contrast to other pretreatments with respect to the higher recovery of hemicellulose and cellulose, more efficient delignification, and higher yield of H2. Overall, fungal pretreatment could enhance H2 production directly from cellulosic materials and could be a good candidate for lignocellulosic biomass bioconversion processes.
The cornstalk used in this research was collected from the suburb of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. Prior to use, the cornstalk was dried in the air and then ground to pass through a sieve with a 40-mesh (0.425-mm) screen. After that it was dried at 60°C and stored in plastic bags at room temperature to avoid possible interference.
The pretreatment methods used in this research were alkaline, diluted acid, and fungal pretreatments. Alkaline and diluted acid pretreatments were carried out in 500-mL flasks with a NaOH concentration of 2% (w/v) and H2SO4 concentration of 1.7% (v/v) for 120 min at 100°C and 121°C, respectively, with a solid-liquid ratio of 1:10. All remaining pretreated samples were centrifuged and thoroughly washed with deionized water to neutral, this washing step favors the removal of phenolic compounds, which are known to inhibit or deactivate enzymes . Fungal pretreatment was carried out with the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (CGMCC5.776); the seed culture for pretreatment was prepared at 29°C, at a rotation speed of 150 rpm for 3 d. Then fungal pretreatment was performed in solid state using a 250-mL flask containing 10 g of raw cornstalk and seed culture at a moisture content of 70% at room temperature for 15 days as described by Zhao et al.. Solid fractions were dried at 40°C for 24 h and then kept at 4°C for further chemical analysis and CBP process.
Biohydrogen potential tests
Treated and untreated samples were digested in batch anaerobic conditions. Strain T. thermosaccharolyticum M18 isolated from rotted wood crumb by Cao et al., was used as H2 producer. Fermentations were conducted in 100-mL serum bottles with 50 mL culture medium containing (g/L): K2HPO4, 3.0 g; KH2PO4, 1.5 g; NaCl, 1.0 g; KCl, 0.2 g; MgCl2, 0.2 g; NH4Cl, 1.0 g; yeast extract, 2.0 g; peptone, 2.0 g; cysteine-HCl, 0.5 g; vitamin solution, 1.0 mL; trace element solution, 1.0 mL ; and raw or pretreated substrates, 5.0 g. The initial pH was set at 7.0. Then the culture was incubated at 60°C and 150 rpm in an orbital incubator shaker for 96 h. All biohydrogen potential tests were performed in triplicate.
The chemical composition of untreated and pretreated cornstalk before and after the fermentation was determined by the procedures outlined by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) ,. The microstructural changes in the cornstalk after different pretreatments were detected by scanning electron microscopic (SEM). The specimens which were mounted on stubs coated with gold using a sputter coater were observed under a SEM (JEOL JSM-840). To characterize the functional groups change in pretreated cornstalk, FTIR spectroscopy was carried out using a Magna-IR 750 (Nicolet Instrument Co., USA) as described by Zhao et al. . Spectra were recorded between 4000 and 400 cm-1. The background spectrum of pure potassium bromide was subtracted from the sample spectrum.The activities of cellulases and xylanase secreted by M18 were analyzed by the method as described by Ghose . All activities were expressed in International Units, one unit of activity corresponded to the quantity of enzyme hydrolyzing one mmol of substrate or releasing one mmol of reducing sugars per minute . High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a refraction index detector (LC-10A, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan) was used to detect any glucose, xylose, arabinose, and cellobiose that may have existed in the supernatant of the culture broth .
The activities of cellulases and xylanase secreted by M18 were analyzed by the method as described by Ghose . All activities were expressed in International Units, one unit of activity corresponded to the quantity of enzyme hydrolyzing one mmol of substrate or releasing one mmol of reducing sugars per minute . High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a refraction index detector (LC-10A, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan) was used to detect glucose, xylose, arabinose, and cellobiose that may be existed in the supernatant of culture broth .
Gas products (H2 and CO2) were analyzed by gas chromatography equipped with a thermal conductivity detector, N2 was used as carrier gas, and the column was packed with Molecular Sieve 5 Å (102 G, Shanghai Analysis Instrument Company, China) . The soluble metabolites were analyzed by gas chromatography (4890D, Agilent Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA) with a hydrogen flame-ionization detector (FID) as described before .
In this research, cumulative H2 production curves with respect to time were obtained first from the H2 production experiments; then the modified Gompertz equation (Eq. (1)) was applied to determine the H2 production potential, H2 production rate, and lag phase:
where H denotes the cumulative H2 production (mL H2 L−1 culture), P denotes the maximum potential H2 production (mmol H2 L−1 culture), λ denotes the duration of the lag phase (h), Rm denotes the maximum H2 production rate (mmol L−1 h−1), t denotes the incubation time (h), and e = 2.71828.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed on the date, and a Tukey’s post hoc test was conducted to compute significant differences among different pretreatment methods. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Maximum H2 production rate
Scanning electron microscopic
Volatile fatty acids
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Numbers 51178140, 30870037, and 31100095), the Shanghai Tongji Gao Tingyao Environmental Science & Development Foundation, the Academician Workstation Construction in Guangdong Province (2012B090500018), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20110491053), the Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Number LBH-Z11133), and the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment (Harbin Institute of Technology) (Number 2014TS07).
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
LZ designed the study, executed the experimental work and data interpretation, and drafted the manuscript. GLC participated in the experimental design and data interpretation and reviewed the manuscript. AJW reviewed and commented on the manuscript. HYR assisted with the laboratory work. KZ revised the final manuscript. NQR contributed to the design of the study and to the data interpretation and reviewed the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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Zhao, L., Cao, GL., Wang, AJ. et al. Consolidated bioprocessing performance of Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M18 on fungal pretreated cornstalk for enhanced hydrogen production. Biotechnol Biofuels 7, 178 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-014-0178-7
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Your walking style says a lot about your personality. When you walk with a swagger in your shoulder, your personality automatically becomes attractive. So don’t ever walk like a Quasimodo. However, make sure that you look natural while walking.
Ditch That Slouch
Good posture can boost your attractiveness and can take it a notch ahead. A study conducted in America found that good posture, even if maintained for a short period of time can increase the level of testosterone; a hormone that is associated with confidence. Not only this, but the hunchback can also affect the life of your spine. So start working on your sitting posture to look handsome.
Men, your eyes need all the care you can provide for them because if you don’t, it begins to show really quickly. Not just that, the skin around your eyes is also important, which is why a proper sunblock is good for your skin, and using an under-eye gel for the dark circles is a great idea. To get all this convenience in one item, use bigger sunglasses every time you step out.
Your skin is the largest organ in your body because it covers the entire body. You can choose to look amazing or you can choose to get wrinkly early, but trust us, the former will look better. So invest in proper skincare, not just for your face, but also for your hands and feet as well. Get rid of the blemishes and the dark circles that are giving you a bad look, and start to look fresh every time you step out.
Nobody likes someone who would look great otherwise but has little to no care for their own oral hygiene. Stained teeth, crooked teeth, or bad breath are some of the most significant factors in making a great first impression. Get in touch with a good dentist at the best dental clinic in India and sort these issues out, while also maintaining a proper dental care routine. Brush twice a day, floss once, use mouthwash, stop smoking, and schedule regular dental check-ups.
Your days of wearing baggy oversized clothes and long-waisted jeans are gone with your boyhood. Men wear properly fitted clothes, especially when you want to make a great first impression. Get your shirts, and if you wear them like Barney Stinson, suits tailored to fit your torso. Nothing says Classy like someone who looks great in their clothes. Making sure they fit you like your own skin is the first step you need to take.
No matter where you are going, even if it is a workplace that does not have a strict formal wear policy, make sure that you bring your tie with you every day. It makes you look professional and serious. Plus in a world of casuals, a formal dress code will definitely help you to stand out. So make sure that even when you are not wearing a suit, you always have a tie and belt on you.
Men who smell good more often are the ones that are liked more. It takes out some of the efforts you put into making a great impression. Make sure that you match your fragrance with your personality and don’t overdo it. It is one thing to smell good and totally other to smell like a perfume factory.
Classy and Quality Accessories
Finally, it is very important to choose quality over quantity when it comes to accessories. Whether you are choosing shoes, watch, or even your earphones, make sure that you choose what is classy, not what is flashy. Quality accessories are designed with your comfort in mind, which is why it is better to include more quality. Comfortable is always classy, keep in mind that.
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A joint resolution, designated H.J. Res. or S.J. Res. Requires the approval of both houses and the signature of the president, just as a bill does, and has the force of law if approved. There is no practical difference between a bill and a joint resolution. A joint resolution generally is used to deal with limited matters, such as a single appropriation.
Joint resolutions also are used to propose amendments to the Constitution in Congress (Article. V.). These do not require presidential signature, but become a part of the Constitution only when approved by two-thirds of each chamber of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. (See also Bill.)
Rules Committee Hearing H.J.Res. 41, 40, 38
- Chapter 2. F. Joint Resolutions in Congressional Procedure
- Bills / Measure / Passed (CongressionalGlossary.com)
- Joint Resolutions – Congress.gov
- Joint Resolutions – Govinfo.gov
- “Bills and Resolutions: Examples of How Each Kind Is Used,” CRS Report 98-706 (6-page PDF)
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- “Enrollment of Legislation: Relevant Congressional Procedures,” CRS Report RL34480 (10-page PDF)
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Klever Wallet enables ICP's blockchain as well as ICP Staking.
For months, Klever and Internet Computer have been collaborating to activate parameters inside the Klever app; those features are now available in Klever's new Update 4.6.0 for Android and iOS.
New Features include:
Internet Computer blockchain support
With Klever Wallet, you can easily and securely receive and send using ICP. In addition, we have activated our Charge feature, perfect for selling products or billing for services.
Klever staking of ICP is a sort after feature which has also been seamlessly integrated into the Klever App.
What Is Internet Computer (ICP)?
A blockchain that operates at web speed with boundless capacity, the Internet Computer is the world's first. Along with Bitcoin and Ethereum, it represents the third major innovation in blockchain - a blockchain computer that can scale computation and data, run smart contracts at web-speed, process and store data with efficiency, and provide powerful software frameworks for developers.
Through this, the Internet Computer enables a complete reimagination of software development by enabling the creation of tokenized internet services, cross-industry platforms, decentralized financial systems, and even traditional enterprise applications and websites.
Dominic Williams founded the project in October 2016, which attracted significant interest from the crypto community. Among the contributors to DFINITY were Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Scalar Capital, SV Angel, Electric Capital, and ZeroEx, as well as several early Ethereum supporters. More than 50,000 registered participants received ICP utility tokens in an airdrop in 2018. Internet Computer's alpha mainnet was launched by DFINITY on December 18, 2020.
On May 10, 2021, DFINITY released the Internet Computer into the public domain as a final step in the decentralization process. As a result of this milestone, the internet has now been transformed into a decentralized global computer based on the release of all the Internet Computer's source code into the public domain, as well as ICP tokens for community members that allow them to govern the Internet Computer network.
The Internet Computer: What Makes It Unique?
The Internet Computer is designed to extend the public internet and serve as the world's computing platform. There are currently systems and services available on the internet which are run by private infrastructure. Scientific breakthroughs such as Chain Key Technology, non-interactive distributed key generation (NI-DKG), Network Nervous System (NNS), Internet Identity, and others make up the Internet Computer. It is composed of cryptographic protocols which orchestrate the communication between the nodes which make up the Internet Computer.
The Internet Computer has a single public key, which is one of the fundamental breakthroughs behind it. Using the Internet Computer allows any device, including smart watches and mobile phones, to verify the authenticity of artifacts. However, traditional blockchains cannot do this.
It's important to understand that the single public key on the Internet Computer represents just the beginning: Chain Key Technology is the engine that makes the Internet Computer work. This allows for infinitely scaling the network with new nodes, replacing faulty or crashed nodes with new ones without ever stopping, reviving subnets even if too many nodes have failed, and upgrading the Internet Computer Protocol seamlessly, enabling the network to fix bugs.
ICP Tokens: What Are They?
ICP tokens are native utility tokens that serve three key functions on the network:
By participating in network governance, ICP tokens can be locked, allowing neurons to vote and earn rewards through voting.
Production of Cycles: ICP provides a source of value that can be converted into cycles. Those are the cycles that power computation in the form of fuel consumed when they are used. NNS converts ICP to cycles at a variable rate, so users of the network can always create new cycles at an approximately constant cost in real terms, so fuel acquisition costs can be predicted.
As part of the incentive program, participants receive ICP as a reward for participating in the network. This includes: a) voting rewards for participation in governance; b) voting rewards for operating the network's nodes; and c) other rewards.
What Do Cycles Do?
Fuel is the computation power of cycles. Additionally, they have a constant value over time, unlike ICP, which will naturally fluctuate. Furthermore, Cycles will be backed by the SDR, a logical currency unit established by the International Monetary Fund, and 1 SDR of ICP will be fully convertible into exactly one trillion Cycles for computation.
What Do Neurons Do?
Neurons lock a balance of ICP utility tokens, enabling their owners to participate in network governance and earn voting rewards.
In what way does the Internet Computer Network Nervous System work for voting?
By receiving proposals and voting activity from the network participants, the NNS decides whether to adopt or reject them. Participants can also submit proposals using neurons. Proposals are either adopted or rejected after submission, which can occur almost immediately or after some delay, depending on how the totality of neurons votes.
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Harry Potter as a Christian allegory – gullibility as a horcrux
Sue has posted some interesting thoughts about the Harry Potter series in Abstractions: Harry Potter as a Christian allegory.
While I don’t think it is really accurate to describe the series as an allegory, there are some allegorical tendencies within it, for example the satire on educational bureaucracy I pointed out in an earlier post on Zemblanity in Education. But satire is not necessarily allegory.
One of the things in Sue’s post can be accurately described as allegorical though — (warning, spoilers ahead) — when Sue describes the process by which a satirical post in The Onion was believed as literally true by some Christians in the USA, and was propagated as truth.
The way in which Harry Potter himself turns out to be a horcrux in which part of Voldemort’s soul is hidden is perhaps an allegory of the way in which the gullibility of some Christians led them to believe and propagate an urban legend that was not merely untrue, but harmful.
I was able to observe this at first hand because someone sent the piece from The Onion to me by e-mail, with no indication of its source, and urged me to pass it on to many others in a kind of spam operation. I read it, and suspected that it was probably satire, as it was too over the top to be true. I did a web search for Harry Potter and The Onion, and bingo – there it was. I wrote to the person who had sent it to me, warning them that they had been duped into accepting a satire as true. So yes, the way Harry Potter became a horcrux that contained part of Voldemort’s soul is indeed an allegory of the way in which the devil gets a foothold in the souls of Christians, and incites them to do his work by spreading malicious gossip in the belief that by so doing they are serving God. | <urn:uuid:81c83aa0-14ae-4a65-a368-caa88a332a76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/harry-potter-as-a-christian-allegory-gullibility-as-a-horcrux/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.982588 | 405 | 1.625 | 2 |
SpaceX has postponed the launch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites that had been planned for Sunday morning from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The company said it needed more time to conduct additional inspections on the Falcon 9 booster.
SpaceX also announced it was planning an additional launch of 60 Starlink satellites at the end of next week from the SLC-40 pad at the adjoining Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on Thursday, Feb. 4. It was the second Starlink launch of the year and the fourth SpaceX flight of 2021 overall. The company now has more than 1,000 satellites in orbit. | <urn:uuid:86fd4e64-a9f3-4bbc-8e84-ab54aa50a8ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/02/06/spacex-postpones-planned-starlink-launch-scheduled-for-sunday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.938989 | 134 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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Proud Macedonians in Gorna Dzumaja, Pirin Macedonia
International Helsinki Federation 1999 Human Rights Report | International Helsinki Federation Report on Bulgaria
Amnesty International Press Release
The following are two quotes from Jorn Ivar Qvonje, Professor of Balkan Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen: 3
In Bulgaria, in Pirin Macedonia, there was in 1919 a compact Macedonian population of about 250,000. Official Bulgarian policy and statistics following the Second World War showed different figures in different periods concerning the number of ethnic Macedonians in the country. The encyclopedic handbook Ethnic Minorities in Europe quotes data from the official censuses. In 1946 there were 300,000 people enumerated as Macedonians and in 1956 - 188,000. According to the sources quoted, in 1990 there were about 250,000 Macedonians living in Bulgaria. It is important to note that according to the 1956 census, when 187,789 inhabitants declared themselves as Macedonians, they constituted a majority in a large part of Pirin Macedonia. In the Blagoevgrad District alone, which comprised 281,015 inhabitants, 178,862, or 63.7% declared themselves as Macedonians. There are also many Macedonians living in Sofia and other parts of Bulgaria. In spite of all claims by Bulgaria to European orientation and the acceptance of European democratic values, during the 1992 population census the Macedonians were not allowed to declare their ethnic affiliation under a separate heading.
In a short period after 1947, the Macedonians living in Pirin Macedonia had schools in their mother tongue and their own theatre. More recently, Amnesty International, the Organization for International Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch/Helsinki have given documentary evidence about the situation there and about the violation of the individual and minority rights of the Macedonians.
The authorities have been refusing the registration of the Ilinden United Macedonian Organization and the Macedonian Democratic Party, although they fulfill all the necessary legal conditions. The 1995 U.S. Department of State report underlines "the Government's refusal since 1990 to register a Macedonian rights group, OMO Ilinden," and that this is a "restriction of the constitutional rights to express opinions and to associate". Police and judicial repression against the leaders and activists of OMO Ilinden and other Macedonian organizations is continuing. In order to prevent the celebration of anniversaries of historical events by the Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia, special police forces are used and even military manouevres are organized at that time.
In 1994 and 1995, the periodicals of the Macedonian organizations in Pirin Macedonia came under attack from the Public Prosecutor of Bulgaria. Several periodicals, including Makedonska Volja, however, continue to write openly on the discrimination against ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria. An illustration of the extent of this discrimination is the expulsion from the Bulgarian Writer's Association of the writer Slave Makedonski, whose works have been translated into several world languages, owing to the fact that he has publicly declared his Macedonian ethnic affiliation. A number of writers, artists, and other individuals are harassed or denied access to jobs because of their Macedonian feeling.
OMO (United Macedonian Organization) Ilinden is an organization of Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia that are dedicated to achieving cultural and human rights. It was established in November of 1989 during the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. As citizens of other countries were finally attaining their freedom, Bulgaria, along with Greece, remained determined to deny their minorities any rights. The Bulgarian government has consistently denied this group the right to register as a "legal" organization.
"In July 1990, OMO Ilinden applied for registration at the district court of Blagoevgrad but was turned down as the 'targets of the organization and the means of its attainment are directed against this nation's (Bulgaria) unity, and are aiming at spurring a national and ethnic hostility' (Bulgarian Telegraph Association, July 18, 1990) and the Blagoevgrad prosecutor warned that the leaders faced prosecution under Article 162 of the penal code which allows for up to six years imprisonment." 5
Other articles of the Criminal Code that are frequently used to prosecute Macedonians and other national minorities are Articles 108 and 109 which deal with "anti-state agitation and propaganda" and Article 39 of the People's Militia Law which "allows administrative punishment (that is without trial), which has reportedly been used to forcibly resettle members of the Macedonian ethnic minority in other areas of the country." 6
The following quotes are from the Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada, on behalf of OMO Ilinden, made at the OSCE Human Rights Conference in November, 1998 in Warsaw, Poland.
To read more about MHRMC's presentations at the conference regarding Bulgarian and Greek discrimination against ethnic Macedonians, please click here
The Current State of Bulgarian State Compliance with Its Obligations Respecting Freedom of Expression, Free Media and Information, Freedom of Association, and the Right of Peaceful AssemblyFreedom of Expression and Free Media
With respect to those citizens who identify themselves as Macedonians the Bulgarian government has and continues to place unlawful restrictions on a number of fundamental rights of these people. Whether it be through uneven application of laws which on their face do not seem to discriminate against the Macedonian minority, or through unlawful conduct of officials, the effect is the same: Macedonians in Bulgaria who choose to openly call themselves Macedonians suffer abuses of their human rights repeatedly. As regards freedom of expression and free media and information, for instance, the Macedonian human and minority rights organization, OMO-Ilinden has recently suffered the following outrageous act at the hands of the Bulgarian authorities.
On April 14 of this year, OMO-Ilinden began the publication of a newspaper which was intended to serve as a voice for its members and their concerns and interests. Just two days later, on 16, April, 1998 seven policemen broke up a meeting of this organization without a search warrant and after 8:00 p.m. (the latest time in which searches can be conducted legally). Notwithstanding the statement of police sergeant Krsomir Karonfil, that he was ďsent by the authorities to come and search your organizationís headquarters and seize what is necessary,Ē when asked for evidence of his legal right to conduct such a search, he was unable to provide such evidence. Fearing violence, OMO-Ilinden members allowed the search to continue without any other protest, hoping that they could achieve some measure of relief after the fact through the court system. All equipment and supplies necessary to publish a newspaper (including what is for those in Bulgaria a particularly expensive item, a photocopier) were seized and, as of today (some six months later) have not been returned. Nor, subsequent OMO-Ilindenís official complaint to the regional authority who oversees these kinds of searches, and to the highest military authority in Sofia, has there been a response to the complaints lodged.
In addition to forcibly restricting the right of OMO-Ilinden to publish its own newspaper, the government of Bulgaria uses, or permits others in the private sphere to use, the media to discredit the legitimacy of OMO-Ilinden and, by extension, the central tenet of the organization: the existence and significance of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria. OMO-Ilinden is either portrayed as a fringe organization of mentally unstable people (the implication being, to believe you are Macedonian in Bulgaria must mean you are insane) or as a terrorist organization responsible for a whole range of criminal activity (implying that only criminals call themselves Macedonians). Examples are very numerous. In all cases, despite the governmentís direct or indirect involvement of the promulgation of untruths about OMO- Ilinden, the organization is, perhaps not surprisingly, forbidden access to the same media for purposes of rebuttal. Furthermore, when OMO-Ilinden has attempted to seek redress through the courts, they are denied standing at the first stage and a court-derived remedy is denied them.
Following are specific examples of comments made in the following newspapers: 24 Chassa, Trut, 168 Chassa, Duma, Makedonje, Struma and Pirin News:
The following are excerpts from the IHF's 1999 human rights report. For the full text please visit their website
Throughout 1998 Bulgaria was ruled by a government consisting of the United Democratic Forces (UtDF), formed after the elections of April 1997. In contrast to previous years, 1998 was not marked by political or economic upheavals. The government continued its policy of reform and reiterated its willingness to abide by European human rights standards. This created a favorable public climate both for legislative reforms as well as for NGO activities.
However, the actual development of the human rights situation in Bulgaria in 1998 was contradictory. While authorities continued their dialogue with human rights NGOs and carried out investigations into past abuses, sentences for human rights violations were very mild. On the whole, in most spheres of human rights the situation did not change, in some a setback was observed.
Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly
The rights of ethnic and religious minority groups as well as trade-union activists to association and assembly were restricted. The only positive development was the government's June decision to register the moderate Macedonian culture-based organization TMO-IMRO, led by Georgi Solunski.
Protection of Ethnic Minorities - Macedonian Minority
In early July the European Commission of Human Rights admitted the complaint submitted by ethnic Macedonians regarding the violation of their right to peaceful assembly. Despite this fact, violations continued.
∑ On 18 April several hundred activists of UMO "Ilinden" were prevented from placing flowers on the grave of Yane Sandanski, a historic Macedonian figure on the basis of an order of the Blagoevgrad District Prosecutor's Office. People attempting to approach the site of the grave near Rozhen were turned back because of their "technically faulty vehicles." Vassil Gyudjemov, who still managed to reach to the grave, was detained for not carrying a passport and beaten by the police.
∑ On 2 August the mayor of Petrich banned the UMO "Ilinden" celebrations of the anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising in the Samouilova Krepost locality near Petrich. Yordan Toshev, a local UMO "Ilinden" activist, was arrested for having thrown flowers at the policemen's feet.
Report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Geneva, 16 March - 24 April 1998
(Item No. 16)
Protection of the ethnic and cultural identity of the minorities in Bulgaria is inadequate. Members of ethnic minority groups appear today to have less chance of receiving instruction in their mother tongue than in previous years. A request by members of the Bulgarian Turkish community to receive instruction in and about their own language was rejected by the authorities.
On 4 December 1997, the government adopted Decree N 449, setting up a National Council on Ethnic and Demographic Questions at the Council of Ministers. The Council is a consultative body expected to develop and propose strategies of demographic policy, promote tolerance and understanding between ethnic and religious groups, and to coordinate support for Bulgarians abroad. This strange combination of functions raises serious doubts about the Councilís capacity to fulfill them.
The Macedonian Minority
Under the new government of the United Democratic Forces, policy towards ethnic Macedonians has remained unchanged. Macedonians are subjected to various forms of harassment, including confiscation of their publications, being prevented from holding assemblies and book presentations, and officials refusing to let them meet on public premises.
On 28 August 1997, customs officers at Stanke Lissichkovo border checkpoint confiscated 31 books from Georgi Hristov on the ground that he had not declared them upon entry and that they had a "pro-Macedonian nationalistic content."
On 20 April 1997, the Blagoevgrad district prosecutor banned a rally by activists of UMO "Ilinden," a pro-Macedonian group, at the grave of Yane Sandanski in the Rozhen Monastery. In May, the prosecutor banned them from celebrating the 94th anniversary of the death of Gotse Delchev, and the activists involved were detained.
22 APRIL 1994
BULGARIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES AUTHORITIES TO ENSURE POLICE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS
Amnesty International is urging the authorities to ensure that police abide by international human rights standards at tomorrow's ethnic Macedonian commemorative assembly, following the violent events which overtook the assembly last year.
The commemorative assembly at Rozhen Monastery is an annual event, traditionally organized by OMO "Ilinden" (United Macedonian Organization "Ilinden") to commemorate the death of Jane Sandanski, a local hero of the struggle against Ottoman rule at the turn of the century.
On 24 April 1993, dozens of ethnic Macedonians, many of them members of OMO "Ilinden", were ill-treated by police officers in Lozenitsa and Spatovo after attempting to visit Rozhen Monastery.
Three ethnic Macedonians are already reported to have been detained in Blagoevgrad while peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression. On 15 April, Stoyan Machkarov, Khristo Yanev and Lubomir Vasilev were reportedly arrested by members of the Regional Security Service of Blagoevgrad and charged with putting up posters to announce Saturday's assembly. All three were allegedly beaten while in the police station before being released that day.
Amnesty International considers their detention and alleged ill- treatment to be a violation of the ICCPR. As a State Party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Bulgaria is bound to initiate a prompt and impartial investigation wherever there is evidence that torture or other ill-treatment has occurred.
Amnesty International has written to Zhelyu Zhelev, the President of Bulgaria, urging him to initiate an independent and impartial inquiry into the alleged beatings in Blagoevgrad, to make public its findings and to bring to justice anyone responsible for human rights violations. The human rights organization has still not received any reply to its letter of July 1993, to Minister of the Interior, Viktor Mikhaylov, that expressed its concern at the police violence at last year's assembly. The human rights organization called on the Bulgarian Government to initiate an independent and impartial inquiry into the alleged ill- treatment of people in Lozenitsa and Spatovo, to make public its findings and to bring to justice all those found responsible. Amnesty International is not aware whether such an investigation took place.
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6 “For wisdom is a kindly spirit, but will not free blasphemers from the guilt of their words;
because God is witness of their inmost feelings, and a true observer of their hearts, and a hearer of their tongues.” ~ The Wisdom of Solomon 1:6 (NSRV)
Message to the LGBT Community
On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse Night Club and shot and killed 49 people. He did this because they were different from him, they embraced a different lifestyle than him, they believed in something different than he. In many ways if we search hard enough all of us could find differences in each other that we completely disagree with, the management of those difference is found in one word, tolerance. The problem with Omar and anyone else who would kill another person because of differences in belief or lifestyle is found in the innermost place within their soul which has been taken over by hatred, perhaps even by Satan himself. Their actions can be in some instances a cry for help, but the in the end these actions show a lack of humanity. I write this though I disagree with the LGBT or GLBT community and the political movement they have been pursuing to change the idea and legal definition of marriage from its biblical roots, though I would never campaign against them, slander them, or take a gun and or harm any member of that community. We are all people, we all have the right to voice our disagreements and to disagree in a humane manner. So, instead of focusing on the evil act, let us turn this negative into a positive and allow God to be the supreme judge for everyone who harbor ill thoughts and beliefs within the innermost places of their soul, and let God judge us all based upon are words we speak to each other as well the messages those words relay to the community of mankind. For the reaction of this killing is as important and carries as much if not more meaning than the act itself. True wisdom begins with love and ends with love and on this point, I join hands with the LGBT community in prayer for those lost in such a brutal way… Let Us All Pray.
Prayer of Love
Dear Lord, my supreme savior hear my voice and the voices of the families of the Pulse shooting of which so many you have called home. Dear Lord, I humble myself in the
Dear Lord, I humble myself in your presence as I call upon you to fill my heart with love, love which takes away the pain, love which takes away the heartache of those who have suffered because of this one selfish act.
Dear Lord, my creator I boldly stand against those who believe they have the right to murder for the sake of murder, to take away what you have given, but I do so with my words which you shall be the judge.
Dear Lord, let those who have lost, mourn within the comfort of your love, let them feel your love, let them know your love.
Dear Lord, it is in these things I pray through your son Jesus Christ our savior who died and was raised from the dead and who did these things out of a perfect love.
Please pray these words every night until the United States Government actually takes meaningful action on Gun Control.
My brothers and sisters, I humbly invite you to contact me directly at [email protected]. Let’s open a dialog and share the good news with each other.
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Rainwater has acidic properties that can affect the water in your swimming pool. This happens because rainwater absorbs industrial gases in the atmosphere. So what do you do if the weather is calling for rain?
A little bit of rainwater shouldn’t do much damage. A heavy rainfall can. Let’s learn a bit more about why rainwater can affect your pool water.
Why Does Rain Make a Difference?
Rainwater has a naturally lower pH than what you keep your pool at. Most swimming pools are kept around 7.4 to 7.6. Rainwater, on the other hand, has a pH of around 5.0. If enough rain falls into the pool, it can lower the pH levels.
The reason why pools are kept at a higher pH is because the human eye has a pH of 7.5. Fluctuations in the pH can lead to serious discomfort such as burning. That’s why you sometimes hear people complaining of their eyes burning when they swim. This isn’t the chlorine causing the burning, but the pH level.
Do I Have to Adjust My pH Every Time it Rains?
If there is a light rainfall, you shouldn’t have to adjust the pH level. While the rainwater may lower the pH level right after it rains, this shouldn’t be for long. If you do a good job of maintaining the proper chemistry of your pool water, you really shouldn’t have anything to worry about.
If there is a big rainstorm, however, you will have to adjust the pH level. The best way to do this is by draining a bit of the water and re-testing the chemicals.
What About Runoff?
Another factor to consider is rainwater that comes off your landscape or deck and then runs into your pool. Not only does the water contain a lowered pH, but also it contains other runoff elements that can change the calcium, hardness, alkalinity and total dissolved solids in your pool. Plus, things like dirt and debris can bring contaminants into the water and cause damage to some of the pool parts.
Can Rain Ever be a Good Thing?
In some instances, rain can be beneficial. There are certain chemicals (calcium, stabilizer) in the pool water that cannot be lowered without diluting the water, which rainfall can help with.
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Gif. Learn more about your symptoms and how your at 16 weeks pregnant, your bump is likely starting to show, so it may be noticeable that you're expecting. At 16 weeks pregnant, your baby is nearly 5 inches (crl), 7 inches in height, and weighs around 5 ounces.
Lately, it might seem like your body has a baby's first hiccups ahead! Learn more about their development and pregnancy symptoms like pregnancy glow and thicker hair. The wide variety of baby bumps can be attributed to everything from a woman's size and shape to whether this is her first pregnancy or her second, third or fourth.
At 16 weeks pregnant you may even feel your baby move.
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Dr. Sam Boles, an Annapolis eye doctor, specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of glaucoma.
According to the Glaucoma Research Foundation, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. In the United States alone, more than 120,000 are blind from glaucoma, accounting for 9% to 12% of all cases of blindness. Fortunately, with early detection and early treatment glaucoma is manageable. When was your last eye exam?
Glaucoma comes in many forms, including Primary Open Angle Glaucoma, Angle Closure Glaucoma, Normal Tension Glaucoma, Congenital Glaucoma, and Secondary Glaucoma. Over the next several weeks, we will take a closer look at each type of glaucoma, giving you a better understanding of the condition. This week, we are going to look at Congenital Glaucoma.
About Congenital Glaucoma
Congenital Glaucoma, also known as childhood glaucoma, pediatric glaucoma, or infantile glaucoma, is characterized by the incorrect development of the eye’s drainage system before birth. This leads to increased intraocular pressure (IOP) and damage to the optic nerve. This rare condition may be inherited and is typically diagnosed within the first year of life.
Symptoms of Congenital Glaucoma include:
- Enlarged eyes
- Cloudiness of the cornea
- Photosensitivity (sensitivity to light).
With early diagnosis and treatment, this challenging form of glaucoma is often manageable. Although vision loss is irreversible, it is possible to optimize a child’s remaining vision.
Congenital Glaucoma Treatment in Annapolis
Board certified ophthalmologist Dr. Samuel Boles, s Medical Director of the Anne Arundel Eye Center, specializes in the treatment of glaucoma and cataracts and has helped restore and preserve thousands of patients’ vision. If your son or daughter is displaying any of the above warning signs, schedule an appointment with the Anne Arundel Eye Center at your earliest convenience.
Treatment for Congenital Glaucoma typically involves both surgery and medication: topical eye drops and oral medications. There are two primary types of surgical treatments available:
- Filtering Surgery: Also known as micro surgery, filtering surgery aims to create a drainage canal in the eye.
- Laser Surgery: With the use of a small but powerful laser, a small opening is made in the eye tissue.
Staffed by caring and knowledgeable professionals, Anne Arundel Eyes Center’s state-of-the-art treatment center is dedicated to making the best eye care accessible to everyone.
If you have any questions about Congenital Glaucoma Treatment in Annapolis or wish to schedule an appointment with Anne Arundel Eye Center, please contact Dr. Boles, Dr. Corinne Casey, and the eye care specialists here at AAEC by calling 410-224-2010 or visiting AnneArundelEyeCenter.com today. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube as well!
For more eye care advice and information, please take a look at our previous blog posts.
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