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Microsoft OneNote is one of the applications that are in the Microsoft Office 365 set of Applications. These applications have replaced the classic Microsoft programs like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint etc. The Microsoft 365 Applications are like up to date versions of the same programs, keeping the true essence of the old ones and adding things that are essential in today’s world.
Microsoft OneNote is what you would use instead of Microsoft Word. It is an application that works as a Digital book bag, and you can create Notebooks in the app, name them individually, and have all of your notes in one place. It has several different features that help you switch from a regular, offline note-taking system to this one that can be accessed online from anywhere. Since it is a cloud-based application, your notes are uploaded to the cloud in real-time. That allows its users to take notes anywhere, at any time, and share them with whoever they want, who can also add to your notes and create a collaborative notebook.
But there are still a few things that the application hasn’t figured out, one of which is the fact that many people will be using it on their tablets or phones and might want to rotate the device to get that “real notebook” feel while making notes or reading PDFs. Plus, landscape mode is just generally more preferable for people that are using larger tablets that have a lot of room vertically and can get heavy to hold that way. Holding them in landscape mode helps keep the weight of the device more evenly spread and takes away the element of distraction while you take notes.
PDFs and documents in Microsoft OneNote can’t rotate on their own. This is because when you open a PDF in OneNote, the application doesn’t just open it, it “prints it” inside the application itself. So you are shown pages that are exactly like you would see them if you had printed them onto physical paper. Just as you can’t rotate text that is printed on physical sheets of paper, you can’t rotate it on Microsoft OneNote either.
But this doesn’t mean that you are stuck reading PDFs vertically, you can still rotate them, you need to do it using a third-party app or add-in, to do this,
- On your device, open the OneNote Application,
- Go to the File tab and click “Account.”
- There, find the “About OneNote” option and click on it.
- Check if you are using the 32 bit or the 64-bit version of OneNote.
- Visit https://getonetastic.com/ and click “download” to download an add-in for your OneNote Application.
- Pick the version of Onetastic depending on whether you had the 32 or 64-bit version of the OneNote Application,
- Download it
Once the Add-in is finished installing, it will automatically integrate into the OneNote Application, and you can begin using it immediately.
How To rotate a PDF in OneNote
- Go to the image/printout you want to rotate
- Please select it and right-click on it
- It will open a drop-down menu
- Scroll down until you see the “Rotate Printout” option and hover on it
- It will open another side menu where you will have options between rotating the PDF 90 degrees left or right, or flip the image horizontally or vertically. Click on the direction you want to flip your PDF.
- You will now have successfully rotated your printout/PDF.
Although it is a little inconvenient to download an Add-in to be able to rotate files, it is a feature that most people want, and Onetastic gives you the ability to do it easily. Since this add-in blends in seamlessly into the OneNote Application, once you have downloaded it and start using it, it won’t feel like it’s a third-party add-in, instead, that it was part of the application, to begin with! | <urn:uuid:2409d482-1efe-4d22-9fd4-cb6387113df9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myhowtoonline.com/how-to-rotate-pdfs-in-onenote/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937059 | 846 | 1.96875 | 2 |
To continue advancing its mission, University of Nebraska Medical Center built two new facilities that provided the most cutting-edge technology, with a dynamic architectural design, to attract internationally recognized researchers.
In 2004, we constructed Durham Research Center I as a 289,000 square foot, 10 levels tall building. There were 116 research laboratories, 47 tissue culture rooms, 20 instrument rooms, 7 walk-in cold rooms, 18 freezer rooms, 7 dark rooms, 4 imaging rooms, and 2 Biosafety Level 3 laboratory suites. It also included a 319-seat auditorium, classrooms, conference/seminar rooms, computer laboratory, and public spaces.
We returned in 2006 to construct Durham Research Center II. The appearance was nearly identical to the first building, and a covered passageway and interaction space connected the two buildings. The new 10-floor, 252,179 square foot tower contained research laboratories, office space, and laboratory support space. The building also included bioterrorism preparedness labs.
It was critical to keep vibrations at an absolute minimum for both buildings, so the facilities were constructed of cast-in-place concrete rather than structural steel. We mitigated vibrations by constructing a reinforced concrete wide-module joist framing system and installing custom-designed air handling ductwork with protective walls and floors. The structure is all cast-in-place concrete with brick, aluminum curtain wall and precast concrete on the exterior. | <urn:uuid:8c6a2925-827f-4a22-a9ab-ce76e8aa0987> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hawkins1.com/projects/university-of-nebraska-medical-center-durham-research-center-i/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.933497 | 288 | 1.875 | 2 |
On April 8th, 74% of schools and kindergardens in Poland went on strike. The strike’s organizer is The Polish Teachers’ Union (ZNP), close to the Social Democrats, but the strikers are also members of the pro-government Solidarność (Solidarity) union and non-union members. It is the biggest teachers’ strike since 1993 and possibly the biggest in the history of Poland. There is impressive solidarity and grassroots mobilization of a mainly female occupational group. Inter-school strike committees are being launched as well.
The strike also enjoys broad social support. For example, many academic institutions and town halls have announced that their employees, being parents, can come to work with their children. Others are organizing special events for children. Rallies in solidarity with teachers are held all over the country, also organized by pupils. The strike is supported by other occupational groups such as the recently protesting early-stage physicians and employees of LOT Polish Airlines. The strike also enjoys the favor of circles who do not normally support workers’ struggles, including mainstream liberal media opposed to the rule of the radical right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) such as the major daily Gazeta Wyborcza and the largest private TV broadcaster. The Parliamentary opposition is also supporting teachers.
At the same time, teachers are under very strong pressure from the government, which is trying to break the strike in various ways. The personal data of teachers who are on strike is being illegally collected. Vehement anti-strike and pro-government propaganda is broadcast on the Internet and public television, denouncing the strike as communist and anti-national and accusing teachers of harming children. The strike broke out just before final exams in the junior high schools. However, exams were held, as striking teachers were substituted by random people, like office workers, religious instructors including priests and nuns, prison officers and firemen.
“From the very beginning, the government all the time humiliates us,” a striking teacher told LeftEast. “Today again we have got a punch in the face. They treat us as if we do not exist. The government has entrenched its position and is trying to starve the teachers – we will not get paid for the strike days. Some people have quit the strike because of the economic pressure, some because of propaganda pressure – the pro-government propaganda says that we are holding children hostage. I’m not judging them. It is hard – we are still thinking about the pupils. Although in my school the atmosphere is great, this strike is not fun. But we are not striking just for money – we are striking for the dignity of our profession.”
The ZNP demands a raise in teachers’ salaries of 1000 PLN (€250). For many years, teachers’ purchasing power has been systematically declining. At the moment, the basic salary of a graduate teacher (the highest level of the teachers’ career), is 3484 PLN (€870) – 70% of the national average. An early-stage teacher earns 50% of the national average. But it is not only about the earnings. In 2017 the Law and Justice government introduced an education reform: a return to an earlier, two-level (primary school, high school) system after a couple of decades of three-level one (primary school, junior high school, high school). Although the very idea was popular, the reform was seen by many as unprepared (44%). Because of its implementation, the reform was criticized and protested not only by teachers but also by parents and local authorities, which were to bear its costs. The ZNP collected 910,000 citizens’ signatures (almost twice as many as required by law) in support of a referendum on the question of the education reform but it was rejected by the Parliament, where the Law and Justice Party holds the majority.
The implementation of the reform has fueled growing discontent among the teachers who are forced to run every day from one school to another so that they can have a full time job. Another “side effect” of the reform is that in 2019 high schools face twice as many candidates as before, which is particularly stressful for pupils and parents.
“The reform of [Education Minister] Anna Zalewska means for teachers not only new duties, deteriorating work conditions and lower earnings but also everyday discontent from the pupils’ parents who experience the negative effects of the reform. Because of that, teachers more and more often decide to quit their jobs in schools and kindergartens. … Zalewska is responsible for all of that,” Sławomir Broniarz, president of the Polish Teachers’ Union, explained in September 2018.
Because of the growing teachers’ grassroots discontent, the pro-government Solidarność organized their own protests but the union’s leadership was against the strike. Moreover, just before the strike, Solidarność signed a separate agreement with the government, accepting the government proposal, seen not only by the ZNP and its members but also by the Solidarność members and non-union teachers as completely unacceptable: teachers started to quit the union and regional and local leaderships of Solidarność supported the strike and called for the resignation of its national chair.
“This strike is extremely important and it should have been organized many years ago. Teachers, like nurses, are blackmailed by mass media. However, as sociologist Beverly Silver writes, teachers are proletarians. Public opinion must be confronted with the fact that teachers are not only in the position of trust or carry out the ‘mission’ to educate future generations but also an occupational group, who have their own collective interests,” Dr. Marcin Starnawski, a social scientist and a specialist in education, explains to LeftEast. “I personally think that from the very beginning it should have been be a sit-in strike, exams should not have been held. This strike should reorganize everyday life. Acts of public support such as the creation of the national strike fund are wonderful, but we need more of them, perhaps also some forms of daily informal community education and care to help parents of schoolchildren. Let us hope that the striking teachers will overcome,” he adds.
After the collapse of “actually existing” socialism, at the beginning of the 1990s, facing the implementation of neoliberal reforms, teachers organized strikes and protests with their culmination in 1993 – the biggest teachers’ strike in the history of Poland until now, with final high school exams not being held. That strike was not successful. Let’s hope the teachers of 2019 will succeed.
ZNP, Informator strajkowy od 7 kwietnia¸ https://znp.edu.pl/wydarzenia/informator-strajkowy-od-7-kwietnia/ [18.04.2019].
J. Suchecka, Ile powinni zarabiać nauczyciele? Estoński nauczyciel zarabia prawie dwa razy więcej niż polski, „Wyborcza.pl”, http://wyborcza.pl/7,166575,24613944,ile-powinni-zarabiac-nauczyciele.html [18.04.2019].
J. Suchecka, Protest nauczycieli przeciw reformie edukacji. Manifestacja, jakiej szkoła nie pamięta, „Wyborcza.pl”, 19.11.2016, http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,21001936,protest-nauczycieli-przeciw-reformie-edukacji-manifestacja.html [18.04.2019].
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As someone who has cultivated indoor cannabis and harvested outdoor cannabis, I think knowing the difference between the two is critical.
”Cannabis is just cannabis,” well not exactly.
The natural method allows for the plant to grow and thrive without the harsh chemicals many indoor growers use.
Because you are manipulating the growth of a plant that has been outdoors for literally thousands of years, most indoor growers (dispensaries included) don’t have the patience, wherewithal, or knowledge of how to grow the plant without chemically-based nutrients, pesticides, and so on.
If you know an individual who grows cannabis sustainably, even if it costs more, please continue to support them.
Indoor Growing Is About Control
First, it’s important to point out that cannabis can’t be grown outdoors just anywhere. In a weed-heavy state like California, the moist north, with its forests and gullies, is quite hospitable to an outdoor cannabis growing season, while its arid south is a hub of indoor cultivation.
Robert Masterson, a cultivator at A Golden State, told us that standardized methodology is their motivation for growing indoors. “Cannabis grown indoors can be given the perfect amount of light per square foot and unique spectrums of different lighting sources to maximize terpenes and potency,” he said. “Not all indoor cultivators can completely control their environment, but when done correctly they can achieve the highest genetic potential of specific cultivars.“
This means that by using data and technology, cultivators can fine-tune every element of the process for each strain in pursuit of the holy trinity: higher yields, higher potency, and bespoke sensory qualities. For some consumers, this is precisely the type of cannabis experience they are seeking.
While myths about “today’s” THC contents being higher than ever have been circulating since the mid-2010’s, that push has been consumer-driven, not tech-driven. In 2015 The Atlantic reported the “shift toward high potency has arguably more to do with contemporary market forces than with a younger generation of marijuana enthusiasts.”
Flavor and strong THC content are not only driven by indoor cultivation but they are ensured by more consistent growing conditions. As Masterson told us, however, “not all indoor cannabis is grown equally. Make sure you choose a brand that truly understands what they are doing. It costs more to produce cannabis in a controlled environment. Prices at a retail store generally reflect that.”
Outdoor Can Be Quality Too
The corporatization of cannabis costs the ecosystem a lot, regardless of the cultivation method. While growers like A Golden State and Wonderbrett put effort into sourcing sustainable utilities and lowering their impact, while many indoor growers just use as much plastic, electricity, water, fertilizer and resources as they think they need to get the highest yields and THC possible.
That’s why Raeven Duckett Robinson, Co-founder of Community Gardens in Oakland, California is on #teamoutdoor. “It’s like [the] Twizzler versus Red Vine debate. I support outdoor because it’s more affordable—and weed should be grown outdoors anyways; indoor gets over-hyped and it’s bad for the environment.”
She told us, “based on the regulations and the way we need to package, keep records and receipts for a legal cannabis operation, there’s a lot of waste created, especially in terms of packaging. The amount of energy indoor wastes unnecessarily adds to the environmental footprint of the entire industry. The amount of energy it takes to grow the plant [indoors] is significant, and I believe it’s inefficient and unnecessary because they can grow outside with light from the sun.”
Sam Ludwig is in alignment with Robinson’s thinking—that nature makes the best weed. “Indoor products will always look sexier with a denser structure and more visible trichomes on the exterior but indoor typically provides a shallow high and reduced medicinal properties,” he said. “The plant has been growing in nature under the sun, moon and stars for millennia, not indoors in a windowless room [lit by] LEDs.”
Along with Aster Farms CEO Julia Jacobson, Ludwig’s wife and resident dirt scholar, they designed an outdoor operation a little differently: “At Aster we grow in-ground in live soil filled with bugs, fungi, and bacteria breaking down organic matter to feed the plants. We feed the soil because the soil feeds the plants. It’s just a different approach from top to bottom, and we believe it produces a superior product with superior effects.”
Article Compilation By K. Crystal Carter
– K. Crystal Carter is a cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiast who is originally from Oakland, California. She has 7.5 years of experience in the financial industry, and 6 years of being a cannabis hydroponics grow director and cannabis advocate at local City Hall meetings. She currently resides in Las Vegas as one of the lead Earthy Realist team members.
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What is the Proven Treatment for Digital Dermatitis?
Digital dermatitis (also called hairy heel warts, Mortellaro disease, fungus and strawberry foot, or DD for short) is perhaps the most common hoof problem in dairy cattle. It starts as mildly sore feet. In no time, the situation deteriorates and progresses to wart-like lesions, and, in the worst cases, the cow becomes crippled. Without the proper treatment, you quickly find yourself dealing with countless losses.
Digital dermatitis is treated by applying Intra Hoof-fit Gel topically to the affected area. This product is registered as an over-the-counter drug and has a proven success history without the development of antibiotic resistance or residues. A successful protocol also includes a footbath and spraying procedures.
Digital dermatitis is a prevalent disease of the feet of dairy cattle and can be intensive enough to bring operations down in dairy farms. It commonly overshadows other painful lesions that occur concurrently.
The highly contagious – it needs to be treated fast – bacterial disease appears as an erosive infection either on the heel bulbs, in between the two digits or the coronary band region, or at two or all three areas simultaneously. No breed seems to be immune to digital dermatitis.
Digital dermatitis seems to be more prevalent when the hoof is in frequent contact with the slurry. Therefore, the hoof disease is much more common in penned herds where the areas are persistently wet and unhygienic. The rate of infection with digital dermatitis seems highest in the fall and winter when the humidity in the environment is higher.
The infected cows appear to walk on tiptoes and shake their feet. DD is a painful condition that causes lesions and can trigger other hoof problems to aggravate the lameness. The question for vets is how to deal with this effectively, given the growing concern about antibiotic resistance.
Scoring the Stages of DD Lesions
Dr. Döpfer, Assistant Professor in Food Animal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has done great work in classifying the different stages of DD. The M-stages represent stages during the course of DD. Here, the “M” stands for “Mortellaro.”
The five M-stages of digital dermatitis are as follows:
- M0: normal digital skin without signs of DD. Some authors have encountered difficulties finding an example for intact bovine digital skin without signs of any claw diseases, but young animals, such as calves and pre-partum heifers, are candidates for being negative for claw diseases.
- M1: early, small circumscribed red to gray epithelial defect of less than 2 cm in diameter that precedes the acute stages of DD (M2). In addition, M1 stages can appear between acute episodes of DD lesions or within the margins of a chronic M4 lesion as an intermediate stage.
- M2: acute, active ulcerative (bright red) or granulomatous (red-gray) digital skin alteration, >2 cm in diameter, commonly found along the coronary band in addition to around the dew claws, in wall cracks and occasionally as a sole defect.
- M3: healing stage within 1 to 2 days after topical therapy, where the acute DD lesion has covered itself with a firm scab-like material.
- M4: late chronic lesions that may be dyskeratotic (mostly thickened epithelium), proliferative, or both. The proliferation may be filamentous, scab-like or mass proliferation.
Treating Digital Dermatitis
Many antibiotic-based therapies have been invented to treat digital dermatitis, yet the condition appears to be hard to eradicate. In many cases, vets advise owners to learn to manage the disease in a financially acceptable manner in the hope of positive outcomes.
But digital dermatitis is known to return within a few weeks if there is no comprehensive hoof care approach to control the spread of new infections and the treatment of existing cases.
- It is of utmost importance that the hooves are properly trimmed at timely intervals and treated with Intra Hoof-fit Gel.
- Repeat topical treatment with Intra Hoof-fit Gel when needed on days 3, 7, and 10.
- It is also important to provide a dry and comfortable environment for the animals.
- After individual treatments, the whole herd (dry cows – heifers – milking cows) need to be placed on a hoof care protocol.
- Brainstorm and implement other measures that address environmental risk factors for the illness. These range from hygiene at foot trimming to frequent monitoring, and steps to improve yard/pen hygiene are most effective.
Whereas currently most veterinarians prominently use an off-label antibiotic topical to control DD, so far, none of them meet all of the following standards:
- Safe for the cattle, the user, and the environment.
- Assurance that no residues are found in meat or milk.
- Proven long-term efficacy in controlling DD.
- Easy to implement on farms with different pen systems.
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The Move to a Non-Antibiotic Digital Dermatitis Treatment
There is a critical need for effective and long-term control of digital dermatitis given the high costs of culling, milk losses, curative hoof care, and antibiotic treatments. The estimated annual cost per lame cow varies from $295 to $410 per cow, with potentially more losses resulting from declined milk yield and prolonged calving intervals.
While studies show a reduction in lesions and pain in animals treated with antibiotics, these treatments do not result in a bacteriological cure. In light of the recurrent rates of the infection, a long-term solution is still required.
Diamond Hoof Care and Intracare present Intra Hoof-fit Gel, an effective and science-backed non-antibiotic treatment for digital dermatitis. A controlled study of M2 digital dermatitis lesions with the non-antibiotic Hoof-fit Gel shows it is more effective than commonly used antibiotic sprays and gels.
Research conducted on 172 cows in Europe indicates that 92% of ulcerative lesions of the bovine digital dermatitis (BDD) are curable with the zinc and copper chelate Hoof-fit Gel. Additionally, a Canadian study involving 50 cows resulted in a nearly 100% cure rate for M2 lesions.
Intra Hoof-fit Gel uses copper and zinc chelate solutions, which quickens the healing of digital dermatitis lesions. This is because they also cure undetected lesions: tiny ones that are difficult to detect but can heal fast. Overall, Intra Hoof-fit Gel is proven to be 1.58x more effective at treating digital dermatitis than commonly used antibiotic therapies for the disease. All antibiotic use in Canada is under veterinarian prescription and considered an off-label application.
Intra Hoof-fit Gel is…
Safe for Cattle, User, and Environment
Intra Hoof-fit Gel reduces the risk of antimicrobial resistance and superbugs. Superbugs are difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases that we are also encountering in humans, as a result of the overuse of antibiotics. Hoof-fit Gel is not an antibiotic treatment. Intra Hoof-fit Gel is registered to treat DD with a DIN number in Canada.
Proven to have Long-Term Efficacy
The spread and recurrence of DD as currently witnessed in herds stems from therapeutic inefficiencies and possibly overuse of antimicrobial treatments. Intra Hoof-fit Gel uses zinc and copper chelates to kill germs, heal the wound, and prevent DD from spreading. Copper and zinc have been shown to have unique antimicrobial properties and speed up wound healing.
Easy to Implement
Intra Hoof-fit Gel provides strong adhesion to the affected hoof for better coverage. The product comes in the package of your choice: an Intra Hoof-fit Gel jar with a lid or a convenient Intra Hoof-fit Gel SQUEEZ bottle. Both packages come with application brushes to make your work easier.
Directions of use are straightforward:
- Clean the claws three times a year.
- Apply Intra Hoof-fit Gel.
- Wrap with Intra Tape.
- Repeat treatment only on the animals that did not heal after one application.
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This, quite literally, marks the death of pre-fab. If you can DIY a coffin, you can DIY anything. Check out this UK-based company that’s making it possible for you to die not just with dignity, but with design:
Colourful Coffins is recognised as the market leader for personalised and bespoke picture coffins in the UK. Since our launch in 2004, we have continued to lead the field in innovation, quality and personal service, helping thousands of families celebrate the life of their loved one in a unique and special way.
Colourful Coffins offers a range of bespoke burial boxes. The idea is: you were unique in life, so why not be unique in death? I mean, I guess the ancient Egyptians kind of did something like this. Although, it’s true they didn’t exactly do a Sudoku Sarcophagus or anything…
There are some pretty fun coffins here. For instance, I never really thought I’d upload a file to this blog that was labelled “chocoholic-coffin.jpg”. I’m bummed out that their Create Your Own Coffin page doesn’t include a template, since I was poised to get all Rotocasted on one.
But in all seriousness, Colourful Coffins also makes a commitment to the environment. Their designer coffins are available in wood or cardboard. They use only biodegradeable paper or material wraps and environmentally friendly inks, and their “100% recycled cardboard coffin is the greenest in the UK”. They work with Climate Care to offset greenhouse gas emissions each time one of their coffins is cremated, and they plant a tree when one of their coffins is buried.
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His research is based on two data sets: one about the resettlement experiences of refugees in North Carolina and another about the solidarity networks that support the entrepreneurship of Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C.
Mussa Idris, assistant professor of cultural and applied anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has published two new peer-reviewed journal articles related to immigration.
One titled “A microenterprise initiative among newly resettled refugees in a city of the U.S. South: Challenges, successes, and lessons learned” was first published in August in the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Anthropological Practice, which is published by the American Anthropological Association. The article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12129.
The second article is titled “Solidarity and social networks: The invisible backbone that Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C. used to transform Adams Morgan and U Street,” and it was first published this October in the Journal of Refugee and Immigrant Studies, which is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2019.1677973.
Both research projects are based on ethnographic research conducted in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., respectively. Research for the first article involved interviews and participant observation with recently arrived refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to North Carolina, as well as caseworkers at a resettlement agency. The second is based on field notes and interviews conducted with entrepreneurs in Washington D.C. who migrated from Ethiopia and Eritrea and have successfully established small businesses in the U.S. Capital.
Annals of Anthropological Practice is an official publication of the American Anthropological Association, the preeminent association in Anthropology. This journal is ranked by SCImago Journal & Country Rank as a Q2 (Quartile 2, Top 50%) journal in Anthropology.
Journal of Refugee and Immigrant Studies is also a highly regarded journal in the social sciences. This journal is ranked by SCImago Journal & Country Rank as a Q1 (Quartile 1, Top 25%) journal in Demography and also as a Q1 journal in Geography, Planning & Development.
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KUCHING, Nov 12: Latest statistics indicate that teenage pregnancies in Sarawak are on a steady downward trend, the august House was told today.
Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing Women, Family and Childhood Development Dato Sri Fatimah Abdullah said as of September this year, the number of reported cases was 1,539 against 1,645 in 2017 and 1,873 for the same period in 2016.
“It is, however, different for sexual crimes against women and children, which include cases such as rape, incest, indecency, sodomy and sexual misconduct against children,” she lamented in her winding-up speech.
“Police statistics recorded 199 cases for the period from January to September 2018 as to compared to 176 cases during the same period in 2017,” she pointed out, adding that there were only 129 cases during the same period in 2016.
Fatimah assured that her office would continue with intervention initiatives with relevant agencies through various actions and programmes.
“The One-Stop Teenage Pregnancy Committee (OSTPC) and Social Law roadshow is a programme that seeks to publicise the two Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) namely the Teenage Pregnancy Management Guide in Sarawak and the Guidelines on the Management of Violence Against Women and Children and Social Law,” she explained.
She elaborated that the roadshow was also aimed at raising awareness on the importance of collaboration among all parties in addressing the issue of adolescent pregnancies, sexual crimes involving children and domestic violence.
She revealed that since Nov 2017 until Oct 2018, 15 series of OSTPC and Social Laws roadshows had been held involving 2,233 participants from various implementing agencies as well as grassroots community and institution leaders.
Another outreach programme by the ministry is to enhance understanding of teenage pregnancies, the legislation relating to sexual crimes, adolescents, sexually transmitted infections and healthy relationships and sexual education among students in Sarawak through Advocacy on Sexual Education and Awareness Programme.
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Our Cruise Ship Attorneys have dedicated their decades of experience to representing cruise ship passengers that are injured by the acts or omissions of the cruise ship industry and its employees. However, as this blog has mentioned recently, it is sometimes a cruise ship’s crew that is injured by the negligence of a cruise company.
Late last week, the BBC published a report proclaiming that Brazilian law enforcement authorities had boarded a ship belonging to MSC Crociere as it was docked at the city of Salvador, as part of a month-long investigation into allegations of labor abuses. The investigation was launched following a tip-off from MSC crew members claiming that they had been forced to work up to 16 hours a day and some subjected to sexual harassment. According to the story, Brazilian officials said the eleven crew members were working in “slave-like conditions.”
Brazilian Labor Ministry director Alexandre Lyra commented, “The fact that they had signed a contract, even an international contract, does not mean that the basic human rights should not be respected.” In response to the allegations, MSC issued a statement, “MSC Crociere is in full compliance with national and international labour regulations and is ready to co-operate with the authorities.”
The plight of these MSS crew members emphasizes the need for better laws protecting cruise ship passengers and crew while in international waters. Under U.S. law, cruise ship crew members who are injured on the job are protected by the provisions of the “Jones Act.” The Jones Act allows a seamen who is injured as the result of the negligence of an employer or co-worker in the course of his or employment to recover for those injuries.
Specifically, injured seamen are entitled to recover two different type of financial compensation from their employer known as “maintenance” and “cure” benefits. “Maintenance” requires the cruise line to continue paying a crew member wages in the event an on-the-job injury prevents the individual from being physically able to work, while “Cure” is the obligation of the cruise line to provide a crew member with medical care in the event an injury is sustained in the course of employment.
Even with the current dearth of international laws protecting cruise ship passengers and crew, U.S. lawmakers are considering additional legislation further limiting the rights of cruise workers to recover under the Jones Act. That legislation, recently discussed on this blog, would essentially prevent foreign cruise ship employees from filing lawsuits in U.S. courts to recover for injury or illness incurred while working on a cruise ship. Not only would such as measure unfairly discriminate against foreign crew members, but it would further encourage cruise companies to hire only non U.S. citizens, to avoid the potential of being sued in U.S. Courts by non-citizen crew members.
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Hiring a trained expert to safeguard and grow your wealth seems like a foolproof decision, but it can go awry for many people. You should never blindly trust that your advisor has your best interests at heart—and while there are many benefits to working with a financial pro, there are some things you should know first.
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Mueller's Testimony Did Little To Simmer Tensions Between Democrats And GOP
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Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday did nothing to ease tensions between Republicans and Democrats. If anything, it only highlighted their differences. Republicans kept asking about the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and some Democrats struggled to pry any information from the former special counsel that would bolster a case for impeachment.
For some perspective on all of this, we're joined by Kim Wehle. She's a former federal prosecutor. Good morning.
KIM WEHLE: Good morning, Noel.
KING: And NPR justice reporter Ryan Lucas is also with us. Good morning, Ryan.
RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Hey, there.
KING: OK, so, Ryan, did Robert Mueller provide any new information yesterday that Democratic lawmakers could use to fuel a case for obstruction of justice?
LUCAS: The short answer to that question is no. Mueller largely did what he promised he would do, which is limit himself to his report. But these hearings really weren't about new information so much as bringing the information that's in the report to a wider audience, trying to make more Americans aware of what investigators found about Trump's efforts to impede the investigation.
And Democrats want to do that because in Congress, building a case against the president and the ultimate question of impeachment is a political question. And that, of course, involves getting the public behind it.
KING: OK. Kim Wehle, Robert Mueller said yesterday what he said in the report, that the president was not exonerated by his report. On All Things Considered last night, President Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow was asked by our colleagues about that, and here's what he said.
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JAY SEKULOW: Prosecutors don't exonerate. And I will say something. I appreciate the question because this whole issue of exoneration, frankly, is absurd. I think this was a mistake that they put - that somehow got through their editing process because a prosecutor has no authority to exonerate. You're innocent until proven guilty.
KING: OK, a prosecutor has no authority to exonerate. You're innocent until proven guilty. Does he have a point there?
WEHLE: Well, the term exoneration is not a legal term of art. But this isn't a typical prosecutor. Robert Mueller has this OLC memo, and his - the person he was investigating, the president, is uniquely situated to avoid or be immunized from prosecution. So the question that he raises essentially in his report is whether Congress is going to make a determination that there's sufficient evidence of obstruction of justice or other kinds of crimes or wrongdoing to justify impeachment. No other person in the regular private sector - no person in the private sector would be subject to that. So it's not really a big issue here. I think Mr. Mueller walked a very, very fine line. We can disagree as to whether he should actually have made a determination on obstruction, but he did that, frankly, in fairness to the president.
And the other - the question of a presumption of innocence, that's not in the Constitution, actually. That just means at trial if you put beans on one side of the scale, the defendant starts with no beans. All of the burden is on the government. But we - we're not in that moment because Mr. Trump wasn't indicted because he cannot be prosecuted under the OLC memorandum.
KING: Because he is not a regular person. He's the president. OK, thanks for clearing that up. Can you remind us what an obstruction charge would look like because there are a couple different components, right?
WEHLE: Sure. So in law, when you're talking about a crime or a civil action, there are elements. It's like ingredients in a recipe. There are three things that need to be shown for obstruction. One is an obstructive act. Two it's a connection to a proceeding, an official proceeding. And three is corrupt intent - the reason that you took the act was to interfere with the investigation, not for some other reason or by mistake.
KING: OK. Ryan, let me turn this over to you. Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow, again, also said the Department of Justice specifically found that the president did not obstruct justice. Is that the case?
LUCAS: This is a bit complicated.
LUCAS: So Mueller's report documents about 10 episodes in which the president tried to impede the investigation - for example, ordering the White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller. Now the report does not make a decision on obstruction of justice in large part because of what Kim said, this Justice Department policy that you can't indict a sitting president. But the report was clear that investigators could not say that the president did not commit a crime, this whole idea of exoneration.
In March, Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General Bill Barr and his then deputy Rod Rosenstein. They are the ones who decided to make a call on the question of obstruction, and they decided that the evidence was insufficient to establish that the president had indeed obstructed justice. So they were the ones who decided that there would be no charges on that front.
Now Democrats were not happy about this at all. They felt that Barr shouldn't have made a decision on that. They felt that that should have been untainted by a decision from the Justice Department. It should have gone to Congress. And they argued that Barr was essentially acting as the president's personal lawyer.
KING: OK. Kim, there were a couple of interesting exchanges in yesterday's five-plus hours of testimony. Let me play you one between Robert Mueller and Colorado Republican Ken Buck.
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KEN BUCK: Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?
ROBERT MUELLER: Yes.
BUCK: You believe that he committed - you could charge the president of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office.
KING: He's saying you can charge a president with obstruction of justice after he leaves office, but only after - only if the president leaves office after one term. Why is that?
WEHLE: Because there's a general five-year statute of limitations. It means that after five years, you walk free, and you can't be charged. So if he has an eight years - he has eight years in office, then, arguably, he would walk out. And prosecutors would be precluded from bringing an indictment just as a matter of law.
But let me add Mr. Barr made the argument that there was no obstruction claim there because the obstruction wasn't actually executed - that is, Mr. Mueller was not actually fired, and that bear - that bears on intent. That's not in the recipe. That's not number four. So I think there's a realistic possibility that a prosecutor could bring an action if Mr. Trump only had four terms.
KING: OK, that's interesting. Where does...
WEHLE: Or excuse me, four years.
KING: Four years. Where does this go next legally? Or is this where it stops legally? It's now all political.
WEHLE: Yes, it's all political. It will either be resolved in the Congress through impeachment or even just additional hearings like we saw, maybe calling the underlying fact witnesses to tell their stories - Mr. McGahn, for example - so the American people can hear from the fact witnesses, not just a summary witness like Mr. Mueller. Or number two, I think it is an issue squarely for the 2020 election because if the political process does not address this while he's in office, the political process needs to address it at the next election, or we are creating an institution of a presidency that is unaccountable for the rule of law.
KING: Ryan, let me ask you a question about the politics. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been really skeptical of impeachment. Many Democrats say impeaching a president without a conviction in the Senate would just help President Trump win reelection. Did yesterday affect that political calculus at all?
LUCAS: At this point in time, it doesn't seem as though it really has moved the needle all that much, as though it has changed the political calculus. We know that the Senate is still controlled by Republicans. That was the case yesterday. That's the case today. That's going to be the case going forward.
Now Pelosi remains lukewarm on the idea of impeachment. For her right now, she's saying that further investigation is the path to take.
KING: NPR's Ryan Lucas and former federal prosecutor Kim Wehle, who wrote the book "How To Read The Constitution -- And Why." Thank you guys.
WEHLE: Thank you.
LUCAS: Thank you.
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Natural gas fuels the independent spirit of New Hampshire. As an affordable, reliable energy source for heating and cooking that is depended upon by over 120,000 customers, natural gas works for the Granite State.
Natural gas contributed over $1 billion to the state economy in 2015, an investment that is helping to spur interest in expanding distribution infrastructure in New Hampshire – an enterprise that would help add to the already 10,000-plus jobs created by the industry in-state. From an economic boom to cleaner energy for a healthier environment, natural gas will benefit generations of New Hampshirites to come.
Natural gas powers New Hampshire forward.
New Hampshire’s transportation and residential sectors each consume nearly one-third of the energy used in the state, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. More than three-fifths of the natural gas consumed in New Hampshire is used to generate electricity, and 69 percent of residential demand is used for space heating.
As the affordability and reliability of natural gas becomes better understood, residents and businesses are switching to natural gas, helping families stay warm in winter and industries as diverse as paper, plastic and rubber manufacturers improve efficiency and profitability.
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Over 10,000 jobs support the natural gas industry within New Hampshire, and these jobs serve over 121,000 customers. In one year, these hardworking New Hampshirites earn nearly $1 billion in direct and induced labor income, helping to add over $1.3 billion in value to the state economy annually.
From industrial construction to machinery repair and maintenance, to natural gas distribution, the contribution of natural gas to the New Hampshire economy is undeniable, and the possibilities for growth are unbounded.
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Natural gas can dramatically reduce the emissions of harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. For example, when used to generate electricity, natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of coal. As the use of natural gas by electricity-generating plants has increased, power sector CO2 emission levels are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.
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Rectal eczema, also known as anus eczema, can cause problems such as itching, redness, and rash in the anus. Causes of rectal eczema include cow’s milk allergy, food allergy, dry skin, and infection.
Causes Rectal Eczema?
Like all types of eczema, the exact cause of anus eczema is unknown. However, researchers believe the condition is linked to genetic and environmental factors.
- Cow’s milk allergy: Anal eczema can be caused by a cow’s milk allergy. Researchers determined that the causes of eczema in the anus were cow’s milk allergy (47.6%), bacterial dermatitis (17.46%), thrush (15.87%), pinworm (9.52%) and lactose intolerance (9.5%).
- Contact with soap and similar cleaning agents in the rectal area may also cause this situation. Frequent use of soap removes the protective layer of the skin.
- Proctological diseases such as hemorrhoids or fistula disease, genital warts, anus sphincter muscle weakness and often improper anal hygiene trigger this clinical picture.
- Food: Certain foods such as spices, hot sauce, and black pepper can trigger anal eczema. Yeast foods, pickles, chocolate, tomatoes and eggplant (Rectal eczema may improve after you stop consuming these foods.)
- Fish, shrimp, crab, beef and mutton, egg, onion, garlic, wine etc. can also cause eczema in the anus.
- Rectal eczema may also occur as a result of mental stress, depression, neurological dysfunction due to insomnia and endocrine dysfunction.
- Being overweight (Because in this case, the breech area cannot get enough air.)
- There is a high risk of anus eczema in summer. This is because our body sweats more.
- Sitting for a long time can also cause eczema in the area. Standing constantly in a sitting position prevents ventilation of the anus region and an increase in humidity occurs. This brings about eczema on the skin.
- Scratching around the anus irritates the skin more. This also aggravates eczema.
What are Rectal Eczema Symptoms?
Rectal itching is the most common symptom of anus eczema.
- Seeing traces of blood on toilet paper
- Intense itching in the anus
- Dry or scaly skin
- Red rash
- A burning or stinging sensation in the anus
- Anal swelling or inflammation
- Discharge causing the underwear to become dirty
- Stench-induced malodor (This is separate from fecal odor.)
- Wetness in and around the breech
- Itching in that area (Especially at night it will be more.)
- Bleeding may also occur due to irritation due to scratching.
- Another symptom is hardening and thickening of the skin.
- Rectal eczema does not cause pain. It usually manifests itself with discharge, itching and wetness. In fact, it may itch very severely and therefore the person may unintentionally bleed that area. These are not life threatening but reduce the quality of life.
- Breast appearance around the anus
- Deformity and irritation in the breech tissue may cause some tingling, burning and pain.
- Since the skin begins to lose its elasticity, slight crack formations may be observed.
How Is Rectal Eczema Diagnosed?
Generally, taking the patient’s history enables diagnosis. Physical examination is needed to detect rectal eczema. At this point, radiological imaging methods will not work. Anus eczema is more common in men. Performing examinations and x-rays will not make sense. A doctor’s personal examination is required for a definitive diagnosis.
How Is Rectal Eczema Treated?
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In Washington State, starting a home business means that you have to ensure that you notify all the proper agencies of your new home-based business and abide by the Washington State guidelines for the business you would like to create. Research home-based business ideas and try to pinpoint what makes them successful.
Can I start a business out of my home?
You can start and run your small business from the comfort of your own home. Running a business from home allows you to profit without dealing with the high overhead typical of traditional business settings. You also avoid long commutes. Running a successful small business from home isn’t always easy, however.
What qualifies as a small business in Washington State?
(3) “Small business” means any business entity, including a sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity, that is owned and operated independently from all other businesses, and that has fifty or fewer employees.
What type of business license do I need to sell online?
A Seller’s Permit (or Seller’s License) is required for most businesses that sell goods or services online. Nearly all states require a Seller’s Permit to legally sell products online, but the requirements, fees, and other details vary by state.
What is doing business in Washington state?
Definition—Doing business in Washington. A corporation or business entity is “doing business in Washington state” for purposes of RCW 42.17A. 405 if it conducts continuous or substantial activities in Washington state of such character as to give rise to a legal obligation.
Can you run an LLC from home?
While a small business can choose to operate as a sole proprietorship, an LLC or a traditional corporation, there are definite advantages to organizing your company into a Limited Liability Corporation. … You can use your home to start an LLC, and many companies find that a home office works well for their organization.
What kind of business can be done from home?
There are a number of businesses that you can now start to earn from home. Some of the popular ones being: start an online store. conduct online classes.
Service-based home business ideas include:
- House cleaning.
- Freelance writing.
- Personal training.
- Virtual assistance.
Do you need a business license to sell online?
The short answer to whether a business license is a requirement for online selling: yes. A business license is a requirement for online selling and it’s a crucial part of establishing your business as legitimate and legal.
What is sole proprietorship Washington State?
Sole Proprietorships are owned by a single person or a married couple. These businesses are inexpensive to form and there are no special reporting requirements. The owner is personally responsible (liable) for all business debts and for federal taxes.
What is better LLC or sole proprietorship?
Most LLC owners stick with pass-through taxation, which is how sole proprietors are taxed. However, you can elect corporate tax status for your LLC if doing so will save you more money. … However, due to the combination of liability protection and tax flexibility, an LLC is often a great fit for a small business owner.
Do I need a business license if I have an LLC?
In most states, forming an LLC doesn’t require a business license, but you’ll need to follow your state’s procedures. An LLC requires registering with the state and filing the appropriate forms. But even though you don’t need a business license to form an LLC, you probably need one to operate the LLC as a business.
Do I need a business license to sell on Facebook?
If you are going to sell digital products then you don’t have to worry because you don’t need any business licence to sell them. I would suggest you to consult with a legal consultant to know about your country’s policy on selling goods in facebook marketplace.
Do I have to register my business in Washington State?
Washington is one of these states. Virtually all businesses in Washington need to obtain a Washington state business license. To get your license, all you have to do is complete the Washington state Business License Application and pay a $19 fee. You can apply online or by mail.
How do I register an out of state business in Washington State?
4 Steps To Register An Out-Of-State Business In Washington State
- File a Foreign Registration Statement with the Washington Secretary of State.
- File a certificate of existence with the Washington Secretary of State.
- File a business license application with the Washington Department of Revenue.
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I recently decided to watch Agent Carter. Sure, the reason I got into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was the simple fact that Joss Whedon was creating a show set in it, but by now I have become invested in the entire MCU and watching a non-Whedon show set in the universe was the logical next step.
Agent Carter started off pretty good, but today I watched an episode that made me ragequit the series. It was episode 5 (The Iron Ceiling) in which the main characters received an encoded message that wasn't meant for them. Their cryptographer couldn't handle it, so Carter came to the rescue. She mentions it's a one-time pad, says that the puzzle piece the cartographer was missing was that the original message was in Russian. And then, she continues to break the encryption in under 20 seconds.
WAIT. What? That's NOT how a one-time pad works!
A one-time pad is the one method of cryptography that is unbreakable. In fact, it's been proved mathematically that it is impossible to break. Actually, if you know how a one-time pad works, you should be able to come to that same conclusion.
The one-time pad may be unbreakable, but it has some other properties that are the cause for it not really being used in the digital world. Personally I quite like the one-time pad, so perhaps I will write about it in more depth some other time. I like to think about how it can be used in this day and age or even in the future. For example, I'd use it if I were in professional espionage even today. I've also thought of a very good way to use it in a futuristic galactic empire, where it would be especially important because the technology of another empire might be very far ahead of your own.
Another thing I like to think about is the limitations of the system. One of the problems is that you have to keep your "pad" or cryptographical key secret, which is a challenge after you die. Technology can help there, but technology wasn't around during the days of Agent Carter. You would have to keep the key either on you or store it in a safe place. Considering that, it really isn't that much of a stretch it was somewhere in the apartment where they also found the typewriter on which they received the message. Not the smartest move to keep them together, but an easy mistake to make, really.
One of the advantages of tv series is that after rageplugging you can just later pick up where you left once you've cooled down. It had never been mentioned or seen on screen, but both Carter and the cryptographer must have had the pad, which had been retrieved from the original owner's apartment. It's a bit of a stretch I needed to add to make sense of things, but I'm willing to do that. Unlike someone truly breaking a one-time pad message like that, it's not outside my realm of suspension of disbelieve.
As a final note, I did google "Agent Carter one-time pad", expecting to find other people ranting about this same thing. I was a little let down to find less than a handful of people were complaining about this. The one-time pad is really one of the most basic things of encryption and honestly, I feel that every computer scientist should know at least a little about encryption. I'll just choose to believe that very few computer scientists have seen the episode. However, one of the posts in question mentioned a solution similar to mine, but dismissed it because the cryptographer should have recognized the Cyrillic alphabet. The thing that counters this, though, is that the one-time pad can take many forms. It is often explained in a simple form that uses alphabetical operations, but - for example - in the digital age those operations for a simple bitwise XOR makes a lot of sense, because it would allow encryption of any type of data. Likewise, there are definitely variants that hide the fact that the message was in Russian and in fact using one of those makes a lot of sense if your intended receiver is (or was) doing espionage in the United States... | <urn:uuid:e78200ac-89d2-4567-865c-4b17f491adeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.jasperhorn.nl/2015/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.985911 | 862 | 1.828125 | 2 |
There was each day when burning wood in the wood burning fireplace was the only course of action. That’s before the furnace, baseline heaters and central air. So, having a fireplace was a obligation.
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Elon Musk Believes Tesla Model S Travel 400 Miles On A Single Charge, Tests Claim Otherwise
Elon Musk seemed to be confident about Tesla Model S clocking a 400 mile (644 km) on a single charge. While the company had in fact claimed this to be a milestone already achieved, a formal confirmation was needed from the EPA for the same. That, however, was not meant to be.
With the latest test run of the Tesla Model S, EPA has offered a 391 miles (629 km) of range as an official accord to the car. Following the test, Musk alleged that the executive agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection had made a mistake during the test. “EPA had left the car door opened,” said Musk. With the car left with the door open and the key fob inside overnight, 2% of the available battery was drained, bringing down the total power and range, as Musk claimed.
EPA responded to the claim, denying it altogether. A spokesperson for the EPA told CNET RoadShow. “We can confirm that EPA tested the vehicle properly, the door was closed, and we are happy to discuss any technical issues with Tesla, as we do routinely with all automakers.”
With the ball back in Musk’s court, the Tesla CEO has called the denial “weird”. The assertion, however, does not come without proof. “We have precise car logs that confirm it happened. Happy to provide them,” said the tech billionaire.
The to and fro does not amount to much. Musk knows this, “we’re just talking about 2% here, so not much,” and hence, is confident about the Tesla Model S ultimately reaching the desired official number as soon as the retest is allowed.
It looks possible, and quite easily for that matter. Tesla has long maintained the stance that Tesla cars portray a less range on the company’s website. That is because the EPA ratings would stick to those numbers, while the company has conducted internal test runs that state otherwise.
With the Model S rerun, the company was hoping for the same. But as per EPA, there is still time for the company’s trophy EV to reach the milestone. The denial of the official run being fair by Musk shows his confidence in the nearing achievement of the Model S. Then again, this won’t be the first time that the Tesla CEO would be wrong in the bygone weeks.
Elon Musk recently went on a twitter rant against the ongoing lockdown in the US citing the Coronavirus pandemic. With a plea to “FREE AMERICA NOW” in one of his tweets, he further went on to post absurd comments, including calling the Tesla stock prices “too high”. The result, Tesla’s value took a nosedive by $13 billion in a single day.
So clearly, Musk’s notions do not have much validity to them at the moment. Complaining about the way EPA conducts its tests might fall into the same category. That being said, it is certainly not an unachievable task for Tesla to go for the 400 miles range mark. If it does so in the retest, Musk would have a much needed win in this to and fro. | <urn:uuid:6a543771-1bbe-4a64-b424-6b7bf435feab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatimes.com/auto/electric/elon-musk-vs-epa-tesla-model-s-400-mile-range-512529.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966502 | 687 | 1.625 | 2 |
It involves converting layups, conditioning and touch passing.
**NOTE: No dribbles should occur in this drill
1 passes to 2
3 runs their lane
2 passes to the streaking 3
3 catches and converts the layup
1 sprints to the rim and catches the ball going through the net before it hits the ground
After 2 passes to 3, 2 sprints to the far sideline and touches the sideline, getting ready to make the next layup
2 sprints for a layup
1 flip passes to 2
2 makes layup
Meanwhile after 3 made their layup, 3 sprints to the far sideline and has to get the rebound before it hits the floor
After 1 passes to 2, 1 sprints to the far sideline
1 sprints for a layup
3 flip passes to 1
1 makes layup
Meanwhile after 2 made their layup, 2 sprints to the far sideline and has to get the rebound before it hits the floor
After 3 passes to 1, 3 sprints to the far sideline
2 rebounds the make
2 outlets to 3
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History of the Edison Disc Phonograph
Cylinders peaked in popularity around 1905. After this, discs and disc players, most notably the Victrolas, began to dominate the market. Columbia Records, an Edison competitor, had stopped marketing cylinders in 1912. The Edison Company had been fully devoted to cylinder phonographs, but, concerned with discs' rising popularity, Edison associates began developing their own disc player and discs in secret. Dr. Jonas Aylsworth, chief chemist for Edison, and later after his retirement in 1903, a consultant for the company, took charge of developing a plastic material for the discs. The aim was to produce a superior-sounding disc that would outperform the rivals' shellac records, which were prone to wear and warping. Another difference from competitors' discs was that the vertical-cut method was to be used for the grooves. In this manner, the stylus would bob up and down in the groove, rather than from side to side or laterally. Ten-inch records would run for 5 minutes per side at approximately 80 r.p.m.
Although Edison associates initially worked on the project in secret, when Edison discovered it, he took control of this new project and gave it much of his personal attention.
Aylsworth molded phenol and formaldehyde mixed with wood-flour and a solvent into a heat-resistant disc. This material always remained absolutely plane (flat), which was essential as it formed the core of the disc record. A phenolic resin varnish called Condensite was applied to the core, and then the disc was stamped in the record press. The finished 10" disc weighed ten ounces, heavier than most, partially due to the 1/4" thickness of the record. A diamond point was obtained for the stylus. The Disc Phonograph and the Edison Discs were designed to be an entire system, incompatible with other discs or disc players.
The new Edison Disc Phonograph was shown for the first time publicly at the Fifth Annual Convention for the National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 10-13th, 1911. The press reported that the new machine was based on Edison's British 1878 patent in order to deter claims of copyright infringement with Victor or Berliner. The new machine was also mentioned in the Edison Phonograph Monthly in July of 1911, but it was over a year before disc players or discs would be offered for sale.
By the end of 1912, three basic models of the Edison Disc Phonograph had been designed, ranging in price from $150 to $250, and the company salesmen took them around the country. Soon after, the choice of models was extended to feature less expensive players and luxury machines in stylish wood cabinets. Prices for the discs ranged from $1.15 to $4.25, but later were changed to $1.35 to $2.25. The discs were expensive to make because of the complicated chemical processes used for them.
Initial public reaction was not encouraging for several reasons. The Edison cabinets were deemed to be less attractive than the Victrolas, and customers were required to buy Edison discs only for Edison players, since they were not compatible with other players. The laminated surface of the discs also had a tendency to detach from the core material, and surface noise was frequently apparent, which contradicted the aim of perfection that the company was trying to achieve with its recordings. Still, the phonographs and discs were touted as being acoustically better than those of the competitors. In order to bolster claims of superiority, Edison claimed that his records could be played 1,000 times without wear.
Recitals were also conducted to prove the merit of the discs. Edison recording artists would sing along with a disc recording of their voices, daring the audience to be able to tell the difference. In late 1915, Edison began its famous Tone Tests, which featured artists alternating their live performance on a darkened stage with that on the disc in front of large audiences, challenging them to detect a difference. Reaction was positive to these tests, and reinforced the Edison motto that the discs were "re-creations" of performances, not merely recordings of them.
Additional advertising for the Diamond Disc was secured through promotion of the Edison film The Voice of the Violin, made in 1915, which featured a Tone Test by Anna Case. (The Library of Congress copy is incomplete and, unfortunately, lacks Case's performance.)
On the disc label, sides were indicated by "L" and "R", referring to the left side or the right side when stored vertically. The early disc issues contained the Edison trademark, Edison's image, the title of the selection, and the composer, all pressed into the glossy black surface of the disc using a half-tone electrotype. The early issues did not carry the artists' names, reflecting Edison's policy of not seeking out name acts, but supposedly relying on the quality of the music alone. In 1915, the artists' names began to be added to the labels. In 1921, black paper labels with white Roman type began to be used, and were changed at the end of 1923 to white labels.
By 1916, demand increased for console cabinets to house the disc players. The Edison Company produced a series of period models to compete with those of the Victor Company. The designer for the cabinets was H.D. Newson from the W.A. French Furniture Company of Minneapolis. Named "The Art Models," these cabinets came in English, French, and Italian period styles, as well as Gothic styles. Prices ranged from $1,000 to $6,000. Advertising for these models made it clear that the players themselves were the same as lower-priced models; the inflated cost was for the cabinet.
In 1917 when the U.S. became involved in World War I, the Edison Company created the Army and Navy Model in answer to a request for machines from the United States Army Depot Quartermaster in New York. The simple, basic machine sold for $60. The Department of War never purchased any, but individual units bought them, some taking them overseas. The Army and Navy Model was discontinued after the war's end.
By 1917, the Disc Phonograph had garnered considerable success in the marketplace. This good fortune continued for almost seven years. In contrast, the cylinder phonograph business declined; by 1925, the remaining cylinder customers had to order directly from the factory. By 1920, Edison was the only disc company not using steel needles or the lateral method of grooves.
By 1924, business began to sour with the advent of competition from radio. Operations were cut back, and experimentation began with long-playing records. These were introduced in October 1926 along with four new console disc phonographs. As a concession to the marketplace, attachments were also offered so that the Edison phonographs could play the laterally-cut records of competitors.
By the latter half of the 20s, the company started to diversify its interests in an attempt to stay viable. Thoughts of moving pictures with sound led the company to develop an Ediscope which featured still pictures with narration. This was envisioned as being appropriate for the children's market, since it could be used for fairy tales and educational nature talks. Work was also begun on the Cine-Music Phonograph, which was conceived to supply musical accompaniment to motion pictures.
Edison entered into the radio business in 1928 by taking over the Splitdorf-Bethlehem Electrical Company of Newark, a move which allowed him to produce radio-phonographs. The Edison Company further expanded into the field of radio by making programs for radio on long-playing discs. Radio station WAAM of Newark, New Jersey, agreed to use the new Rayediphonic Reproducing Machine and Radiosonic records in 1929, with the first Radiosonic broadcast being aired on April 4. It appeared that the company had finally found a profitable outlet.
In the summer of 1929, the Edison company gave in to the popular trend and introduced the Edison Portable Disc Phonograph with New Edison Needle Records, offering both the Diamond Discs and the new needle records simultaneously.
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Convert Abstract Class to Interface refactoring
This refactoring allows you to convert an abstract class to an interface. This can be useful when you want a class to inherit from more than one abstract classes — then you can easily convert one of them to an interface.
Consider the example below. After applying the refactoring, a class is converted into an interface:
Convert an abstract class into an interface
Select an abstract class in one of the following ways:
In the editor, set the caret at the name of an abstract class.
Select an abstract class in the Solution Explorer.
Select an abstract class in the File Structure window.
Select an abstract class in the Class View.
Select an abstract class in the Object Browser.
Select an abstract class in the type dependency diagram.
Do one of the following:
Press Control+Shift+R and then choose Convert Abstract Class to Interface
Right-click and choose Refactor | Convert Abstract Class to Interface in the context menu.
Choosein the main menu.
If the abstract class contains non-abstract members, ReSharper shows you a dialog notifying that the bodies and/or accessors of such members will be removed. To avoid this, you need to move the logic of non-abstract members to child classes or elsewhere manually, and then invoke the refactoring again.
If no conflicts are identified, the abstract class is converted into an interface with the same name, and modifiers of abstract members are changed accordingly. Otherwise, resolve conflicts.
By default, the naming style for interfaces requires interface names to start with
I. Therefore, if you did not change the settings, the interface name will be highlighted as inconsistently named. Just press Alt+Enter and use the corresponding quick-fix to rename the interface.
This feature is supported in the following languages and technologies:
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It has apparently been decided by the Government of India to execute a system to link Aadhaar Card to LPG Gas Connection, Ration card, Digilocker, Voter Card and different documents in order to make all governmental schemes simply more accessible, like this linking of bank accounts with Aadhar card which is done to credit the amount easily from benefits and schemes of government without any delay or hassle into the bank accounts of the cardholders. There are various methods provided by Andhra bank to link your bank account to your Aadhar card, they are online, offline, SMS or by ATM mode.
Important Documents and Information required for the seeding Aadhar Card:
- The original Aadhar card or E-Aadhar card and its photocopy, along with your bank passbook in case you wish to go with the offline mode.
- The 12 digits Unique Identification Number or Aadhar card number and you internet banking details like your username and password if you are going for the online mode.
Online Procedure to Link Aadhaar Card to Andhra Bank Account:
If you have enabled your internet banking then it is comparably more convenient and effortless and you may easily be able to link your bank account with your Aadhar card online without any need to leave your home, just follow the simple steps given below:
- Keep your Aadhar card along with a photocopy of your Aadhar card ready and accessible for the information.
- Visit the official website of Andhra Bank.
- Login to your internet banking account with your username and password.
- Click on “Registration of Aadhaar number” in Internet banking.
- Enter your 12 digits Unique Identification number or Aadhar number as displayed on your Aadhar card.
- Select your savings account to which you want to link the Aadhar number.
- Click on “Inquiry” to know about the status of your linking request.
- The bank will do the verification manually and upon successful verification you shall receive a notification in the form of an email on your email address or SMS on your registered mobile number informing you the successful linking of your bank account with Aadhar card.
Offline Procedure to Link Aadhaar to Andhra Bank Account:
This procedure is meant for accountholders who do not have their internet banking enabled or would prefer this method over the online procedure, follow these easy steps given below to link your Andhra bank account with your Aadhar card:
- Visit a branch of Andhra bank nearby.
- Ask for an updating form (it is also downloadable from their website).
- Fill in the form correctly with all the relevant information.
- Submit the duly filled form along with a photocopy of your Aadhar card.
The bank will verify your information and documents, and link your bank account to your Aadhar card after successful verification. You will be notified about the successful linking process by a text message on your registered mobile number or an email on your registered email address.
Procedure to Link Aadhaar Card to Andhra Bank Account Via SMS:
This process can be done by the account holders who have registered their mobile number with the bank by simply sending a text message or SMS to the bank by following these steps:
- Type a text message or SMS as: AADHAAR <space> 15 digits bank account number <space> 12 digits Aadhaar number.
- Send this SMS to 56161.
After successful execution you shall receive a notification as an SMS on your registered mobile number.
Procedure for Andhra bank Aadhaar Link by ATM:
You can carry out the linking procedure by an ATM, which is nearby to your location and conveniently accessible to you, and follow these easy steps given below to link your Andhra bank account with your Aadhar card:
- Access any Andhra bank ATM nearby to your location.
- Insert or Swipe the ATM card.
- Select the menu “Service Registration“.
- Select “Aadhaar Registration” in this menu.
- Select your account type and then enter your Aadhar number twice.
You shall receive a receipt of the request upon successful completion of the process and linking of your bank account with Aadhar card.
Linking To Aadhar With Other Banks:
ICICI Aadhar Link
Axis Bank Aadhaar Link
SBI Aadhar Link
HDFC bank Aadhar Link
UBI Aadhar Link
Dena Bank Aadhar Link
Vijaya Bank Aadhar Link
Bank of Maharashtra Aadhar Link
Corporation Bank Aadhaar Link
IOB Aadhar Link
Allahabad Bank Aadhaar Link
Oriental bank Aadhar Link
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Each month we highlight an Ohio 4-H alumnus. Our alumni have amazing stories to share, from their personal experience in 4-H to how they have given back to the program. This month, we feature Sherrill Cropper, Brown County 4-H alumna and new product development lab manager at the Lesaffre Corporation.
Even before Cropper joined 4-H, it was a big part of her life. “My mother, Becky, was the Brown County 4-H agent at the time, and I spent much of my childhood attending meetings and 4-H events with her. My older brother was also an active member, and this allowed me to see all the benefits that 4-H had to offer,” Cropper said. Cropper later joined the Jackson Junior Farmers 4-H Club and several other 4-H programs: “I took self-determined projects, money management, collectibles, And My World, and You’re the Athlete. I was a member of CARTEENS, Kids on the Block, and Teens for the Future, which were all programs offered through Brown County 4-H. In addition, I had the opportunity to be involved with 4-H camp at Camp Graham.”
Through 4-H, Cropper was given many amazing opportunities, especially through the Teens for the Future program. She recalled one of her favorite memories: “In Teens for the Future, we learned about agriculture in other regions. I had the opportunity to travel to Chicago; Cooperstown, New York; St. Louis; Quebec; Burlington, Vermont; and Blacksburg, Virginia. One of the best experiences was our trip to St. Louis, where we toured Purina Farms and we learned about their research, as well as touring the American Soybean Association. We also stopped by the Gateway Arch and the Meramec Caverns.”
Cropper also gained new skills in 4-H that she uses daily: “When I reflect on my time in 4-H, some of the key skills I learned include public speaking, how to conduct an interview, leadership skills and how to work on a team, how to execute a project to meet a deadline, and the importance of proper communication. 4-H provided me with the foundation for project management which is how to plan, design, and execute a project; something I use regularly when I develop ingredients for the baking industry. The different projects I took, especially self-determined projects, allowed me to design my own experiments and projects, as well as pushed me to be creative and think critically about how to share my findings. Other workforce competencies include the value of time management and taking responsibility for your actions. The interview process helped me to see the importance of improvement and the benefits of constructive criticism.”
Cropper went on to say, “Having the passion to help others and giving back by using my hands for larger service are things I try to exemplify every day. And the friendships you build through the activities you participate in are something I truly cherish and value from my time in 4-H.”
Today, Cropper gives back to the 4-H program in several ways: “It’s been a pleasure to share my experience in 4-H and in my career with the next generation. I’ve provided technical expertise for the food science contest at the local county fair, as well as supplying yeast to a local club focused on yeast-leavened bread projects.”
When asked what advice she would give to current 4-H members, Cropper said, “Get involved with the many activities that 4-H has to offer. The program provides many different opportunities ranging from Junior Leaders, Junior Fair Board, CARTEENS, and 4-H camp. These activities will help you gain a variety of leadership skills, but the biggest benefit will be the friendships you gain and build that will be invaluable in the future. You will make connections that will last a lifetime.” | <urn:uuid:252e8418-35fe-4b29-9394-927aa779ce66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohio4h.org/newsletter/ohio-4-h-highlights/january-2021/faces-ohio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.974614 | 832 | 1.507813 | 2 |
5 Incredible Benefits of Maine’s Maple Syrup That You Didn’t Know About
It’s no wonder Maine Maple Sunday is a favorite event in Maine. This local treat not only tastes delicious but has a ton of health benefits that promote healthier alternatives that benefit the body in many ways. What better way to stay healthy!
Maple syrup has become one of the few sweeteners okay to put into my diet to add a little sweetness to smoothies, baked goods, and other things. But, besides it being a 'safer sugar' to put into a diet, the syrupy goodness that is a big industry here in the State of Maine has a lot of other health benefits.
More nutritious than sugar alternatives
According to consumerreports.com, maple syrup is more nutritious than plain sugar. It has nutrients that plain sugar doesn't have, including manganese, B vitamin riboflavin, calcium, potassium, zinc, iron, and magnesium. Even though these are in small amounts it's nutrition that you wouldn't get with other common sweeteners.
Reduces inflammation and can help slow the aging process
A medical journal revealed that maple syrup contains up to 24 various kinds of antioxidants in various quantities. Antioxidants reduce free radical damage which causes inflammation and other causes of chronic medical issues. According to consumerreports.com, darker maple syrups may have more antioxidants and more flavor. According to MaineMapleProducers.com, maple syrup reduces oxidative stress which can aid in slowing down aging and strengthening the immune system.
Better alternatives to the worse alternatives
While we must be careful with the amount of any sugar we consume, ingesting maple syrup compared to other sweeteners allows our blood sugar levels to change more gradually than the quick spikes and crashes of other sugars, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Maple syrup allows us to use less sugar but still have that (occasional) sweetness that we like.
Can protect skin
People actually use maple syrup to reduce skin inflammation, blemishes, and dryness, much like people do with honey.
May help antibiotics work better
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Short Attention Span Summary
Is it ever beneficial to do CPR longer than 10 minutes, as survival theoretically drops 10% per minute? In this Danish study, an amazing 14% with CPR > 25 minutes survived at 30 days (18/19 able to live at home vs. nursing home).
- So it turns out we are the only ones talking about this article… one little bubble in a world of FOAM.
Resuscitation. 2016 May 17. pii: S0300-9572(16)30057-0. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.05.004. [Epub ahead of print]
1Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte. Kildegårdvej 28, Post 635, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark. Electronic address:[email protected].
2Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital. Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen. Telegrafvej 5, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark.
3Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Aalborg University Hospital. Sdr. Skovvej 15, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
4Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte. Kildegårdvej 28, Post 635, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.
5Duke Clinical Research Institute. 2400 Pratt St, Durham, NC, USA.
6Department of Health, Science and Technology, Aalborg University. Niels Jernes Vej 12, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.
7Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen. Telegrafvej 5, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark.
8Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital. Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
9The National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
10Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte. Kildegårdvej 28, Post 635, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark; Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen. Telegrafvej 5, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark.
It is unclear whether prolonged resuscitation can result in successful outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). We assessed associations between duration of pre-hospital resuscitation on survival and functional outcome following OHCA in patients achieving pre-hospital return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC).
We included 1,316 adult OHCA individuals with pre-hospital ROSC (2005-2011) handled by the largest nationwide ambulance provider in Denmark. Patients were stratified into 0-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25 and >25minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by emergency medical services until ROSC was achieved. Nursing home admission and diagnosis of anoxic brain damage were measured as proxies of poor neurological/functional outcomes.
Median time from CPR initiation to ROSC was 12minutes (IQR: 7-18) while 20.4% achieved ROSC after >25minutes. Overall, 37.5% (494) of the study population achieved 30-day survival. Thirty-day survival was inversely related to minutes of CPR to ROSC: ranging from 59.6% (127/213) for ≤5minutes to 13.8% (19/138) for >25minutes. If bystander initiated CPR before ambulance arrival, corresponding values ranged from 70.4% (107/152) to 21.8% (12/55). Of 30-day survivors, patients discharged to own home rather than nursing home ranged from 95.0% (124/127) to 84.7% (18/19), respectively. Of 30-day survivors, patients discharged without diagnosis of anoxic brain damage ranged from 98.4% (125/127) to 73.7% (14/19) for corresponding intervals.
Even those requiring prolonged resuscitation duration prior to ROSC had meaningful survival rates with the majority of survivors able to return to live in own homes. These data suggest that prolonged resuscitation is not futile.
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Scenes at the wharf made headline news. Emotions spilled over as the new arrivals made their way onshore. Men and women sobbed uncontrollably. Many stumbled over luggage as they rushed to reach a familiar face in the crowd.
This is the scene that Margaret Taft conjures of the arrival of the Johan de Witt carrying Jewish refugees on March 16, 1947.
The cargo of holocaust survivors arrived largely through the efforts of Leo and Mina Fink and in the face of resistance from the Australian immigration authorities.
It was one of many such committed actions for Jewish welfare recounted in this biography of the famous couple.
Author Margaret Taft, herself born of post-war Jewish immigrants, enters into the subject with close sympathy.
Leo and Mina Fink lived a prominent life in the Melbourne Jewish community through a particularly important time for Jewish people worldwide.
Born in eastern Europe in the town of Bialystok, between Warsaw and St Petersburg, they were products of an old world - before the Russian Revolution, pre-First World War, in the famed shtetls of eastern European Jewish lore.
But Europe was in the throes of change. There were anti-semitic progroms even before the beginning of the Second World War and the horrors of Nazism.
Mina and Leo were both raised with community values that taught that Jewish survival meant sticking together.
They came to Australia in 1932 and set themselves up in Melbourne, where Leo continued the family textile business.
They became affluent, and turned their attention to community effort.
This was at a time when Melbourne Jewish life was more focused on integration, something the Finks did not favour.
Instead the Finks set about advocating for many Jewish causes and as the Second World War progressed, became crucial in the support from Australia for Holocaust survivors.
Leo Fink was known for organising the transport of Jewish refugees - this book documents his tireless pressure and negotiation with the immigration minister of the day, Arthur Calwell.
Mina, too, was very involved in community leadership - among other things, championing and translating the story of the Lodz ghetto children, and helping set up the Melbourne holocaust museum later in her life.
This scholarly book recounts faithfully the efforts of this community-minded couple who had such an impact on the Jewish community in Australia. It will be an important resource for scholars of Australian history.
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International campaign group Human Rights Watch have today published a detailed, 42-page report on the persecution of gay men in Chechnya.
The group’s investigation was launched after Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta revealed at the beginning of April that up to 100 men had been detained for being gay, with some held in detainment camps and at least three at the time disappearing – feared killed.
Human Rights Watch’s report – They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me’: Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic – is based on first-hand interviews who six former detainees and others affected by the anti-gay purge.
‘The Kremlin has a duty to bring to justice those responsible for the violence’
The report says Police in Chechnya have rounded up, beat, and humiliated dozens of gay or bisexual men in an effort to purge them from Chechen society.
It concludes that the men were held, ‘In secret locations for days or even weeks, and tortured, humiliated, and starved them, forcing them to hand over information about other men who might be gay.
‘They returned most of the men to their families, exposing their sexual orientation and indirectly encouraging their relatives to carry out “honor killings.”
‘Those who have escaped Chechnya remain in danger elsewhere in Russia, with threats continuing against them.’
It says Russian federal authorities must carry out an ‘effective and capable’ investigation into human rights abuses, and calls for foreign governments to provide safe sanctuary to the victims.
‘Men subjected to these gay purges have endured a gruesome ordeal in Chechnya,’ said Graeme Reid, director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights program at Human Rights Watch.
‘The Kremlin has a duty to bring to justice those responsible for the violence and protect all people in Russia, regardless of their sexual orientation.’
Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has denied that the purges have taken place. A spokesperson claimed in April that reports were ‘absolute lies and disinformation’ and there were no gay men in Chechnya.
‘You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,’ said Alvi Karimov. ‘If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return.’
The Human Rights Watch report says that any Russian investigation into the purges will be hampered by the fact that victims will be unlikely to want to speak to any Russian authorities about their experiences for fear of reprisals.
The HRW reports finds that:
- The purges began in February and continued up until at least the first week of April.
- Men arrested had their cell phones scoured for the names of contacts, and were routinely tortured to give up the names of other gay men.
- Many men released have fled the country, but others remain detained.
- Other gay and bisexual men have fled the country for fear of being arrested: they think their contact details might be in the phones of other men.
- The men interviewed by Human Rights Watch were held in unofficial detention facilities in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, and Argun. They said that Chechen officials, including two high-level ones, visited these detention facilities and humiliated the detainees.
- Russian LGBT Network has provided evacuation-related assistance to nearly 40 people, putting them up in safe houses in central Russia and/or taking care of their basic needs: ‘all of them appeared severely traumatized by their ordeal.’
Human Rights Watch says it has been unable to independently confirm that men were killed, but were told by former detainees that three men died: ‘At least three persons died as a result of the purge – a Chechen TV personality and two individuals affiliated with Chechnya’s muftiat (Muslim authority).
‘According to them, security officials returned all three to their relatives in very poor physical condition; one apparently died soon afterwards and the other two were reportedly killed by relatives.’
Queried as to whether arrests have now quitened down, a spokesperson for HRW told GSN, ‘In recent weeks we have not been getting any information about new detentions. We believe that international pressure worked in making Chechen authorities suspend the purge.’
‘They get one person, go through his phone, torture him, make him name some others’
Former detainees gave harrowing accounts of their treatment.
‘It was like a chain. They get one person, go through his phone, torture him, make him name some others, get those others, and so it goes… In the place where I was held, we were four [gay men] at first, but several days later we were already 20.
‘At night, when we were left alone, I tried to convince the new arrivals to buck up, deny everything, not name anyone.
‘I kept telling them that the more people we name, the more information we give, the longer we’ll spend in this hell hole, the longer we’ll be tortured… I was telling them, can’t you see, those who talk are tortured even harder…
‘But the torture was bad–the beatings, and the electric shocks especially–very few could bear it without breaking.’
‘The pain is just insane’
On the subject of electrocutions, a detainee said: ‘They turn the knob, electric current hits you, and you start shaking. And they keep turning the hellish machine, and the pain is just insane, you scream, and scream, and you no longer know who you are…
‘Finally, you faint, it all goes dark, but when you come to your senses, they start all over again. And once they’re done with you and you get your bearings, you hear other inmates screaming, and the sounds of torture are just there all day, and at some point, you start losing your mind.’
Below: Magomed Daudov, speaker of the Chechen parliament, and Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov
The Human Rights Watch report identifies Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, and a close colleague and confidante of Kadyrov, as one of the high-ranking officials to visit the detention centers.
Daudov is regarded as the second most powerful man in Chechnya, where he is commonly just referred to as ‘Lord’.
‘Daudov seems to have played a key role in both securing and giving approval from the Chechen leadership to set in motion the purge.
‘Most of the former detainees interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported hearing the police who held and abused them refer to Daudov and to orders he allegedly issued about violence against gay men. Three of the interviewed detainees witnessed his presence at detention sites in Argun and Grozny.’
Daudov’s visits have previously also been reported by Novaya Gazeta.
Two former detainees also said that Daudov was present when inmates were handed back to their families.
‘They [officials] took us [the interviewee along with other inmates presumed to be gay] to this place and our male family members were there, fathers, brothers, uncles…
‘So, they are there looking at you and they [officials] shout abuse at you, call you names, the most offensive names, and they order you to step forward, admit it to your relatives, admit that you’re gay. And you know they’re likely to kill you if you don’t or they’ll just keep torturing you…
‘Then, they chastise your family members, tell them they brought shame on the family by rearing a pervert, that it’s a huge stain on family honor, a stain that needs to be cleansed… They wouldn’t say it directly but we all knew what it meant.’
Gay Star News has approached Daudov and the Chechen authorities for comment.
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Today is the last day to hunt black bears near Missoula, Montana. But it’s not just black bears who have been “harvested.” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the death of a male grizzly who was killed in the Johnson Creek drainage by a hunter on May 16th, north of Bonner. Grizzly bears, unlike black bears, are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Violating the ESA is a federal crime.
The mistake, so easily avoidable, reminds us of how many times Gray wolves, also protected under the Endangered Species Act, have been illegally poached or allegedly accidentally killed by coyote hunters. A loophole in the interpretation of the ESA, called the McKittrick Policy, makes it difficult for prosecutors to do their job (because they have to prove intent in the mind of the hunter). But we must legally prosecute those who kill federally protected animals or the federal protections have no meaning.
Wolves are vulnerable to the “Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up” actions of hunters and ranchers who don’t feel like abiding by environmental protection laws. Grizzlies are harder to hide. Yet these magnificent bears are found in some of the wildest lands in the lower 48 — without many people to come looking for them. In this instance, the hunter who shot the grizzly reported his mistake, as he is obligated by law to do.
But when it comes to violating the ESA, the intention of the hunter should be irrelevant. If you pick up a gun with the intention of killing an animal, and there are similar-looking endangered animals in that territory, you better be damned sure who you’re shooting. Our laws have to have real teeth.
Although black bears and grizzlies (who are also called brown bears) can vary in color, the size difference — in bulk, teeth, claws, head and neck— don’t really compare. But the enormous hump in the shoulders of grizzly bears and the different profiles of their faces is perhaps most notable.
But even if it wasn’t — even if a trained bear hunter was as easily confused by the species as the average person might be — that only proves the point: We should not allow the hunting of a similar-looking species in the territory of endangered species. There is no rhyme or reason why anyone needs to hunt black bears or coyotes anymore than anyone needs to hunt wolves or grizzlies. If we want to protect grizzlies and wolves, we must protect coyotes and black bears. And that’s exactly why some want to remove ESA protections from Grizzlies and wolves, instead of protecting all four keystone predators and the ecosystems that benefit from their presence.
According to a report in Helena’s Independent Record, a local resident observed that “this spring bear hunt is crazy anyway. Lots of hunters can’t tell the difference between bears. This could be female with cubs, in which case they just killed two, three or four bears.”
And here’s the kicker: that bear was one of two endangered bears killed in Montana within a two week period. Two weeks later, a four year old bearwas found shot, killed, and hidden — dumped over a bridge into the Stillwater River. (State and federal officials are offering a reward for information about this case at 1–800-TIP-MONT).
But beyond the failure of the law to protect (and of hunters to distinguish between species) these endangered bears, a powerful lobby is working hard to delist — that is, to remove Endangered Species Act protections from Grizzlies.
In the West, in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, politicians secure their privilege by openly attacking legal protections for endangered animals like bears and wolves — using these animals to jump up their career ladders and pad their pockets. A majority want these animals protected. But a powerful minority doesn’t and the politicians cater to those wallet-feeders. They do so in denial of science: Grizzlies have only about 2% of their native range and do not meet the population standards of a “recovered species.”
Writer Christopher Ketcham notes in National Geographic that it is the Endangered Species Act (even with its flaws) that has kept grizzly bears and 200 other species from the brink of extinction. Despite catastrophic and mind-blowing, senseless political maneuvers — like the lifting of the ban on point-blank shooting wolves and hibernating bears in their dens in Alaska(can you imagine anything more cowardly?) even on wildlife refuges.
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|Quantum field theory|
Lattice QCD is a well-established non-perturbative approach to solving the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory of quarks and gluons. It is a lattice gauge theory formulated on a grid or lattice of points in space and time. When the size of the lattice is taken infinitely large and its sites infinitesimally close to each other, the continuum QCD is recovered.
Analytic or perturbative solutions in low-energy QCD are hard or impossible to obtain due to the highly nonlinear nature of the strong force and the large coupling constant at low energies. This formulation of QCD in discrete rather than continuous spacetime naturally introduces a momentum cut-off at the order 1/a, where a is the lattice spacing, which regularizes the theory. As a result, lattice QCD is mathematically well-defined. Most importantly, lattice QCD provides a framework for investigation of non-perturbative phenomena such as confinement and quark–gluon plasma formation, which are intractable by means of analytic field theories.
In lattice QCD, fields representing quarks are defined at lattice sites (which leads to fermion doubling), while the gluon fields are defined on the links connecting neighboring sites. This approximation approaches continuum QCD as the spacing between lattice sites is reduced to zero. Because the computational cost of numerical simulations can increase dramatically as the lattice spacing decreases, results are often extrapolated to a = 0 by repeated calculations at different lattice spacings a that are large enough to be tractable.
Numerical lattice QCD calculations using Monte Carlo methods can be extremely computationally intensive, requiring the use of the largest available supercomputers. To reduce the computational burden, the so-called quenched approximation can be used, in which the quark fields are treated as non-dynamic "frozen" variables. While this was common in early lattice QCD calculations, "dynamical" fermions are now standard. These simulations typically utilize algorithms based upon molecular dynamics or microcanonical ensemble algorithms.
At present, lattice QCD is primarily applicable at low densities where the numerical sign problem does not interfere with calculations. Monte Carlo methods are free from the sign problem when applied to the case of QCD with gauge group SU(2) (QC2D).
Lattice QCD has already successfully agreed with many experiments. For example, the mass of the proton has been determined theoretically with an error of less than 2 percent. Lattice QCD predicts that the transition from confined quarks to quark–gluon plasma occurs around a temperature of 150 MeV (1.7×1012 K), within the range of experimental measurements.
Monte-Carlo is a method to pseudo-randomly sample a large space of variables. The importance sampling technique used to select the gauge configurations in the Monte-Carlo simulation imposes the use of Euclidean time, by a Wick rotation of spacetime.
In lattice Monte-Carlo simulations the aim is to calculate correlation functions. This is done by explicitly calculating the action, using field configurations which are chosen according to the distribution function, which depends on the action and the fields. Usually one starts with the gauge bosons part and gauge-fermion interaction part of the action to calculate the gauge configurations, and then uses the simulated gauge configurations to calculate hadronic propagators and correlation functions.
Fermions on the lattice
Lattice QCD is a way to solve the theory exactly from first principles, without any assumptions, to the desired precision. However, in practice the calculation power is limited, which requires a smart use of the available resources. One needs to choose an action which gives the best physical description of the system, with minimum errors, using the available computational power. The limited computer resources force one to use approximate physical constants which are different from their true physical values:
- The lattice discretization means approximating continuous and infinite space-time by a finite lattice spacing and size. The smaller the lattice, and the bigger the gap between nodes, the bigger the error. Limited resources commonly force the use of smaller physical lattices and larger lattice spacing than wanted, leading to larger errors than wanted.
- The quark masses are also approximated. Quark masses are larger than experimentally measured. These have been steadily approaching their physical values, and within the past few years a few collaborations have used nearly physical values to extrapolate down to physical values.
In order to compensate for the errors one improves the lattice action in various ways, to minimize mainly finite spacing errors.
Lattice perturbation theory
In lattice perturbation theory the scattering matrix is expanded in powers of the lattice spacing, a. The results are used primarily to renormalize Lattice QCD Monte-Carlo calculations. In perturbative calculations both the operators of the action and the propagators are calculated on the lattice and expanded in powers of a. When renormalizing a calculation, the coefficients of the expansion need to be matched with a common continuum scheme, such as the MS-bar scheme, otherwise the results cannot be compared. The expansion has to be carried out to the same order in the continuum scheme and the lattice one.
The lattice regularization was initially introduced by Wilson as a framework for studying strongly coupled theories non-perturbatively. However, it was found to be a regularization suitable also for perturbative calculations. Perturbation theory involves an expansion in the coupling constant, and is well-justified in high-energy QCD where the coupling constant is small, while it fails completely when the coupling is large and higher order corrections are larger than lower orders in the perturbative series. In this region non-perturbative methods, such as Monte-Carlo sampling of the correlation function, are necessary.
Lattice perturbation theory can also provide results for condensed matter theory. One can use the lattice to represent the real atomic crystal. In this case the lattice spacing is a real physical value, and not an artifact of the calculation which has to be removed, and a quantum field theory can be formulated and solved on the physical lattice.
In 2005 researchers of the National Institute of Informatics reformulated the U(1), SU(2), and SU(3) lattice gauge theories into a form that can be simulated using "spin qubit manipulations" on a universal quantum computer.
The method suffers from a few limitations:
- Currently there is no formulation of lattice QCD that allows us to simulate the real-time dynamics of a quark-gluon system such as quark–gluon plasma.
- It is computationally intensive, with the bottleneck not being flops but the bandwidth of memory access.
- It provides reliable predictions only for hadrons containing heavy quarks, such as hyperons, which have one or more strange quarks.
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The Rockies are 415 square miles encompass and protect spectacular mountain environments. Enjoy Trail Ridge Road – which crests at over 12,000 feet including many overlooks to experience the subalpine and alpine worlds – along with over 300 miles of hiking trails, wildflowers, wildlife, starry nights, and fun times. In a world of superlatives, Rocky is on top!
Not just a great valley, but a shrine to human foresight, the strength of granite, the power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra. First protected in 1864, it's best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.
On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone became the first national park for all to enjoy the unique hydrothermal wonders. Preserved within are Earth's most active and diverse geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles. | <urn:uuid:f42a676e-4b6f-4d00-b0c2-a6e4b50e91f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.explore.usparkpass.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.914439 | 436 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The First Guided Tour to the Parcham-E-Hind’ Monument, Kupwara was organised for the school students of the Army Goodwill Schools, Wayne and Trehgam, Cadets of the National Cadet Corps, and, girl students from Basera-E-Tabassum, a local shelter for underprivileged girls on 17 Sep 2021.
The prestigious monument, est at Echo Post, Zangli Garrison by the Indian Army and has been dedicated to the people of Kupwara District. exquisitely beautified by the surrounding Shamshabari Ranges, has been presented to the station by the Flag Foundation of India, headed by Mr Naveen Jindal.
A 54 feet tall high mast Tricolour, Parcham-E-Hind’, Kupwara is a monument created to connect the youth with the rich culture and heritage of our beloved nation India, and, the Paradise on Earth Kashmir, and also, to foster bonds of love and pride for the motherland.
The monument effectively showcases the ldea of India’ and its ‘Unity in Diversity’.
This prestigious landmark shall continue to draw large gatherings of students from colleges and schools of Kupwara in the future too, and, would serve as prime establishment, dedicated to nurturing the young minds into good and responsible citizens for the society and our nation.
75 such guided tours are planned for students in the 75 Year of India’s Independence.
The visitors were enchanted by the beauty of the monument and the bundle of knowledge on offer at the site.
Emotions of patriotism and belongingness to the nation ran high on this glorious occasion.
Interacting with the students and NCC Cadets, the Dy GOC 28 Inf Div, Brig Brijesh Dhiman,was profoundly appreciative of the enthusiasm and zeal exhibited by them, towards expressing deep love and respect for the nation. | <urn:uuid:1c98cb58-438a-475b-af80-9e21f8e7f686> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://therealkashmir.com/41556-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.938046 | 401 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) and RWE have signed another long-term power purchase agreement for electricity generated at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm.
Under the new PPA, RWE will deliver 190 GWh of electricity generated at the 288 MW wind farm every year from 2025 onward.
Back in November 2020, Deutsche Bahn and RWE signed a 15-year PPA for the delivery of 260 GWh of electricity annually from Amrumbank West. The electricity will be delivered from 2024 to 2039.
Deutsche Bahn and RWE also have in place a long-term PPA for 25 MW of capacity at the 295 MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm.
Amrumbank West Comprises 80 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines installed some 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland and 37 kilometres west of the North Frisian island of Amrum, inside the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea.
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05 Nov 134. Leadership at Light Speed | Rupert Jaso | Pasadena ISD
In our latest episode, we’re live with Coach Rupert Jaso, Athletic Director at Pasadena ISD.
Coach shares his heart behind transitioning from being a Head Baseball coach for many years to entering into the administration world. He also shares how he transferred what he learned as a Head coach and Assistant coach to his now administration position as Athletic Director.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Athletics help teach your athletes how to turn the page in their struggles.
- The most important play is the next play
- Athletics is leadership in life at light speed
Coach also goes on to share what Pasadena ISD does to ensure that their students and athletes have the tools and knowledge they need to become successful in life.
Coach explains how they teach their athletes that their response to difficult and trying situations will determine whether they make or break it. Your response helps mold your outlook, which can propel you forward, or hold you back.
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Hi there! My name is Melinda, and I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University in the UK in the lab of Dr. Clare Baker (http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/baker/). I’ve just wrapped up my research trip to work on paddlefish embryos in the southeastern state of Georgia in the United States, generously funding by the Development Travelling Fellowship award!
We are used to experiencing the world with five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Many of these sensory systems are generated by placodes, which are regions of thickened ectoderm found in the embryonic head that generate a variety of peripheral sense organs, such as the otic and olfactory placodes, which form the inner ear and nasal epithelium, important for hearing and smelling, respectively. Hearing and balance are mediated by the mechanical displacement of tiny ¨hairs¨ on specialized sensory ¨hair cells¨ in our inner ears (also simply called mechanoreceptors). In fish and aquatic amphibians, a series of lateral line placodes generates the lateral line system, which also contains modified mechanoreceptor hair cells, much like those found in the inner ear. These are used to detect changes in the local water environment important for prey or predator detection and schooling behaviors. In addition to the mechanoreceptors, another type of modified hair cell can be found in all major aquatic vertebrate groups: these are the electroreceptors, distributed in fields of “ampullary organs” on either side of the lateral lines of mechanosensory hair cells.
As the name suggests, electroreceptors allow animals that possess them to detect weak electric fields in water. Similar to mechanoreceptors, this is also used to find prey and for orientation. However land vertebrates (including reptiles, birds and mammals), as well as frogs and most modern bony fish (such as teleosts), have lost this ancient ¨sixth sense¨. They are still found in many aquatic vertebrates including jawless fish (lampreys), cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays), primitive bony fish (e.g. sturgeon, paddlefish), and even some amphibians (salamanders). Interestingly, in a few groups of modern bony fish, such as catfish and “electric fish”, electroreceptors have been independently “re-invented”. Although an evolutionarily ancient sense, electroreceptors were only discovered in the 1950s, and very little is known about their development or formation, i.e., how they develop in the embryo, what genes control their development, and what makes the difference between the sensory hair cells that detect changes in electric fields and those that detect water movement.
That’s where the North American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) can help! This is truly an incredible animal. It has the most electroreceptors of any living vertebrate: between 50,000 and 70,000 “ampullary organs” per adult, many of them located on their rostrum or “paddle”, which is an extension of their cranium that accounts for nearly a third of their total body length (typically 1-2 meters). Although a vulnerable or “threatened” species, conservation and farming efforts have made this primitive fish commercially viable as a source of caviar (No, I’ve never tried it…maybe it’s just me, but I’m not crazy about the idea of eating what I study), thus allowing us to obtain embryos for studying hair cell, and more specifically, electroreceptor development.
Now, contrary to what people initially think about my “field” trips, I don’t even see the adult fish! I go to the lab of collaborator Marcus Davis at Kennesaw State University, which is located on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. The actual process of fertilizing the embryos is done in Missouri at Osage Catfishieries (osagecatfisheries.com) by the Kahrs family, a terrific family owned business that we’ve worked with over the years. Fertilization is external, so mature adults are injected with hormones that, along with weather conditions, dictate whether they are ready to be squeezed (or in the case of males “milked” for sperm). So like buying from Amazon, I get an approximate delivery date and anxiously wait until I get an email saying the box of embryos is on the way. Once there, our game faces come on and, it’s at least 14 days of working all kinds of hours to ensure we maximize the one or two clutches we get per year. That means all experimental manipulations (e.g. injections, electroporations, drug treatments) need to be done in a short amount of time, in addition to the husbandry and collection of fixed specimens for future work. To say it´s intense at times is an understatement.
For me, one of the biggest challenges working at this university is that they are still in “transition” from their previous role as a small two-year college to a large four-year undergraduate college trying to advance scientific research. To give you an idea of what this means, there are no graduate students or postdocs, and I am the first postdoctoral researcher to ever visit this department. While I do get to interact with other faculty and undergraduate students, for the most part, I work alone. While I appreciate the chance to get caught up on all the podcasts I let pile up, it’s a very different environment to what I’m familiar with. Also as a former “commuter” school, it is located just off the major interstate, convenient for drivers, but not close to town. So any excursions require driving, thus making it more difficult to explore the area when you are limited for time.
However, two of my favorite things about going to Georgia (besides working on paddlefish, of course) are southern food and spring thunderstorms. Coming from England, I know drizzling rain. But in Georgia, with little warning, thunder and lightening just roll in. It can be quite a show and then 15 minutes later it’s completely gone and if it’s still daylight, the sun comes back out. Usually, it’s no big deal and quite normal around here. This year was different though. Across much of the southern United States, many states experienced the worst storms and tornados in nearly four decades! Luckily, the area I was visiting was spared much of the destruction: we only had a couple of power outages, but it did make for a few sleepless nights. All in all, not a bad season.
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Preferred Networks Inc. (PFN), has been actively working on applications of deep learning on real world problems. In collaboration with leading companies and research institues, PFN has been focusing on deep learning in three domains: Industrial machinery including manufacturing robots, Smart transportation including autonomous driving, and Lifescience including cancer diagnosis and treatment. In December 2016, together with FANUC, a world leader in industrial machinery and industrial robots, we launch the world’s first commercial IoT platform for manufacturing that has Deep Learning technology at its core. In IoT, among other industries, Deep Learning is not only a research topic any more, but an important key technology in driving business.
The dramatic evolvement in the functional capabilities of IoT devices, and the fact that data generated by devices is incomparably larger than that generated by humans, are two particularly important factors contributing to the fast-paced innovation in various industries. Similarly, advancement in Deep Learning research is expanding its applications beyond pure data analysis to device actuation and control in the physical world. However, in order for algorithms to be able to efficiently learn real-time control of real world devices, a combination of advancement in both Deep Learning and computing is essential. That is the concept of Edge-Heavy-Computing where by bringing intelligence close to the network edge devices, the overall system makes it possible for those devices to efficiently learn in a distributed and collaborative manner, while resolving the data communication bottleneck often faced in IoT applications. In this talk, I will introduce some of the work we have been doing at PFN, highlight some results, and also give examples of how new computing boosts the value brought by Deep Learning.
Toru Nishikawa is the president and CEO of Preferred Networks, Inc., a Tokyo-based startup company specialized in applying the latest artificial intelligence technologies to emerging problems in the area of Internet of Things (IoT). He was one of the world finalists of the ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) while he was a graduate student of University of Tokyo. In 2006, he, together with his collegemates and his fellow contenders at ICPC, founded Preferred Infrastructure, Inc., a precursor company. In 2014, Nishikawa founded Preferred Networks with the aim of expanding their businesses into the realization of Deep Intelligence – a future IoT in which all devices, as well as the network itself, are equipped with machine intelligence. He is an ambitious entrepreneur, programmer, and father of a child. | <urn:uuid:3ba418dc-5146-4949-b404-891f6e331a20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.re-work.co/events/deep-learning-summit-san-francisco-2017/speakers/toru-nishikawa-2133129c-d3fb-4479-a929-2b2ba4c7d6ac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953168 | 498 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Japan Begins Purposely Dumping 100s Of Tons Of Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into The Pacific
This is being done even though water radiation levels near Fukushima spiked to a brand new all-time record high just a few days ago. The radioactive material that is being released will enter our food chain and will potentially stay with us for decades to come. Fukushima is an environmental nightmare that never seems to end, but the mainstream media in the United States decided to pretty much stop talking about it long ago. So don’t expect the big news networks to make a big deal out of the fact that Japan is choosing to use the Pacific Ocean as a toilet for their nuclear waste. But even though they aren’t talking about it, that doesn’t mean that radioactive material from Fukushima is not seriously affecting the health of millions of people all over the planet.
According to the Japan Times, Tepco released 560 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific on Wednesday, and Tepco says that for the foreseeable future we should expect another 100 tons of radioactive water to be released into the ocean every single day…
Tokyo Electric Power Co. began dumping groundwater from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the Pacific on Wednesday, in a bid to manage the huge amounts of radioactive water that have built up at the complex.
The utility, which says the water discharged is within legal radiation safety limits, has been fighting a daily battle against contaminated water since Fukushima No. 1 was decimated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.
Tepco said 560 tons of groundwater captured and stored before it entered reactor building basements was to be released Wednesday, using a bypass system that funnels it toward the ocean after checking for radiation levels.
Using the bypass, Tepco hopes to divert an average of100 tons of untainted groundwater a day into the ocean.
Tepco is assuring us that the radioactive water that is being released is within “legal radiation safety limits”.
Read the full article at: thedailysheeple.com
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Read the contents when using the Facilitate Possibilities to formulate an essay and appropriately imagine about the design and recommendations of composing essays
The phrase essay arrived into Russian language from French and usually will arrive because of the Latin phrase exagium (weighing). French essa can essentially translate phrases, undertake, get a glance at, examination, sketch, sketch. An essay is generally a prose composition a bit of amount and freed from expenditure composition, expressing exact ordeals and sights having a unique situation or challenges, and positively not declaring to be decisive or exhaustive cure throughout the matter. From the Explanatory dictionary of foreign words and phrases and phrases L. P. Rat essay is defined as essay treats any problems not in systematic scientific form, and a hundred per cent free of charge form. Sexual Identity Essay
Big encyclopedic dictionary gives the following definition: an Essay is generally a genre of philosophical, literary-critical, historical, biographical, journalistic prose that combines emphasized certain author’s position with laid-back, all too often paradoxical statement, focused on speaking. Concise literary encyclopedia elaborates: an Essay serves as being a prose composition just a little amount and zero fee composition, treating the distinctive subject and represents an try to convey the specialized pursuits and sights, a person way or another associated with it.
Some signs of an essay:
-The presence of a distinct matter or question. Work for the analysis of a wide range of problems, by definition, cannot be made within the genre of essay.
-Essay expresses special human being impressions and considerations that has a several matter or problem, and positively does not claim to typically be decisive or exhaustive treatment inside the issue make any difference.
-As a rule, the essay suggests a new, subjectively colored expression about anything, such a product may likely have a philosophical, historical, biographical, journalistic, literary criticism, popular scientific or purely fictional character.
The contents within the essay are evaluated first author’s personality – his world, thoughts and feelings.
The genre has developed into popular in recent years. The Creator for that genre for that essay is considered Montaigne (Experiments, 1580). Today’s essay is offered to be a job commonly enough. It is a person belonging towards the main components of documents (for admission to school or employment). Essay contest helps while using the variety of most effective choose the perfect!
It is important designing essays and for young professionals.
How the candidate was ready to apply himself, as explained by their achievements and failures, allows the employer to determine if this human being is good for business, is there enough operating knowledge in order to meet the expectations inside the future and benefit the company (organization, enterprise). Sexual Offenders Essay
The purpose through the essay is to develop skills, such as independent creative thinking and a written statement of own thoughts. Crafting essays is extremely useful because it allows an author to study to obviously and correctly formulate suggestions, organize guidance, use the basic concepts to allocate causal relationships, to illustrate the functioning practical experience of relevant examples to argue their conclusions. The most relevant subject matter for your essay of a young specialist is the theme of me and my career. The theme with the essay was given for the Commission (the employer) was very simple to evaluate the features within your thinking, creativity, enthusiasm and potential. The ultimate way to achieve this result – to put in writing frankly and openly, while remaining honest with ourselves. If you are honest, there is every chance that your essay will check out unnatural.
The framework and layout of essays
- The framework in the essay is determined by the demands requirements:
- the author of an essay to the situation are presented on the form of a brief abstract (T).
- the idea needs for to be supported by evidence – so the thesis followed by arguments (A).
Arguments are facts, phenomena of social life, events, life situations and life ordeals, scientific evidence, reference to your opinion of scientists, etc. It is Better to give two arguments in favor of each thesis, one particular argument seems unconvincing, three arguments can overload the presentation, made inside genre, focused on brevity and imagery.
Thus, the essay takes using a ring composition (the number of theses and arguments depends to the subject matter, the chosen plan, the logic of development of thought):
- the thesis, arguments
- the thesis, arguments
- the thesis, arguments
When putting together an essay it is also important to reflect on the following points:
Introduction and conclusion have to focus over the complication (around the introduction it is put, the conclusion summarizes the author’s opinion). It is necessary to designate paragraphs, break lines, establishing logical connection of paragraphs: this is the integrity on the work. Style of crafting: essays inherent emotionality, expressiveness, artistry. Experts believe that proper effect provide short, simple and easy, varied according towards the tone aided by the proposal, the skillful use of your respective most modern of punctuation – the dash. Sexual Orientation Essay
However, the style reflects the characteristics from your human being, it is also useful to remember.
Before you begin composing your essay, pay attention for the following questions. The answers will allow you to more plainly define what is to write down down on the essay:
Affecting essay private quality or ability, ask yourself:
- are I a person way or another as from those whom I know?
- what is evident is the quality?
About actions you were doing (doing):
- what made me to do this activity?
- why I continued(u) to do this?
On every event your life, which you mentioned:
- why I remember this event?
- if it made any difference for me to be a human being?
- how do I react to that?
- if it was a revelation for me, what I did not know?
About each man or woman you mentioned:
- why did I call that particular person?
- do I long to in general be like him?
- what are his qualities I admire?
- whether what he said is something that I will remember for a lifetime?
- if I had revised their sights?
About each of one’s preferences and what you do not like:
- why I like it or not like it?
- did this circumstance greatly on my life?
- what I have learned?
- something useful I learned from this predicament?
From the point of view throughout the contents to the essay are:
- spiritual and religious etc.
On the literary form around the essay appear inside form:
- lyrical miniatures,
- pages from the diary,
- letters, etc.
There are also essays:
- analytical etc.
In this case, based on compositional features works made while in the genre of essay.
Finally, the classification inside the essay into two large groups:
personal, subjective essay, where the main element is the disclosure of one particular party or another author’s personality, essay objective, where exclusive principle is dilemma to the subject description or any idea.
Essay inside of the young specialist in the various matter belongs to your second group.
It is possible to allocate some General characteristics (features) within your genre, which are typically listed in encyclopedias and dictionaries:
A small amount of.
Any hard borders, of course, does not exist. The amount of essays is from three to seven pages of computer textual content. For example, in Harvard business school essays are quite often written only on two pages. In Russian universities Pets essay to ten pages, however, typewritten textual content.
The distinct matter and emphasized its subjective interpretation.
The essay subject matter is almost always concrete. Essays will not contain a lot of topics or recommendations (thoughts). It reflects only just one option, a particular thought. And develops it. This is the answer to a person question. Without charge composition is an important feature using the essay. The researchers note that essay on nature is arranged so that tolerates no formal framework. It is usually built against the laws of logic, is make any difference to arbitrary associations, guided by the principle All how around.
The ease over the narrative.
The author around the essay, it is important to establish trust and communication style along with the reader in order to frequently be understood, he deliberately avoids the complicated, unclear, overly strict builds. The researchers note that a good essay can compose only a single who is fluent in the subject, sees it from different sides, and ready to present on the reader not exhaustive, but a multidimensional view in the phenomenon that became the starting point of his reflection.
A penchant for paradoxes.
The essay is meant to surprise the reader (listener) is, according to many researchers, its mandatory quality. The starting point for reflection, embodied in an essay is commonly aphoristic, bright statement or definition of a paradox, almost facing at first glance indisputable, but mutually exclusive claims, specifications, abstracts.
Internal semantic unity.
Perhaps this is a single of one’s paradoxes throughout the genre. Altogether complimentary composition, focused on subjectivity, the essay nevertheless has an internal semantic unity, i.E. , coherence of key points and statements, internal harmony of arguments and associations, consistency of those judgments, which are expressed within the individual position belonging with the author.
At the same time are advised to be avoided in essays slang, stereotyped phrases, abbreviations of textual content, too flippant tone. The language used when establishing an essay ought to be taken seriously. So, when composing an essay it is important to determine (to understand) his problem, to define the desired scope and purpose of each paragraph. Start by using a main idea or a bright phrase. Task – to immediately capture the attention belonging to your reader (listener). Here is usually used a comparative allegory, when an unexpected fact or event is associated with all the main subject in the essay.
Rules of crafting an essay
Rules of formal essay delivering can only be called one particular thing – the presence for that header.
The internal framework of an essay is often arbitrary. Since this is recognized as a small-scale written work that do not require a repetition of the conclusions at the end, they might possibly be included within the main textual content or within the title.
The argument could very well be preceded by the formulation of the challenge. The wording through the issue could possibly coincide with all the final conclusion.
Unlike the abstract, which is addressed to any reader, therefore, starts with I want to talk about… And ends I arrived towards following conclusions… An essay is really a remark addressed to a prepared reader (the listener). That is, the human being who in General already have an idea of what will be discussed. It allows the author of your respective essay concentrate in the discovery of a new and not to clutter the presentation for that official details.
Mistakes in essay writing
Unlike tests, essays do not assume the multiple-choice format (when you have a choice of several answers). Essay composing is not limited by time, you?re able to rewrite it many times, ask friends to search through your essay. Enjoy all the possibilities and check out to avoid common mistakes.
The bad look at.
Do not imagine that it’s possible to confine your spell check out. Reread your essay and make sure that there is any ambiguous language, bad turnovers, etc. Examples, which could not get note:
I am proud that I was in a position to resist the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco.
To work in your firm (organization), located in a wonderful place where a lot because of the architecture from the Gothic style, is for me a fascinating challenge.
Tedious Preface. Insufficient amount of detail.
Too quite often interesting essay lost in what constitutes the transfer of claims without illustrating them with examples. Essay typical clichés: the importance of hard work and perseverance, learning from mistakes, etc.
Essay limited to a several number of phrases, so you need to wise up. Sometimes this means giving up some recommendations or details, especially if they are already mentioned somewhere or not have a immediate relationship with the case. Such things only distract the attention belonging to your reader (listener) and overshadow the main theme in the essay.
The longer the sentence, the better – so check out some candidates. However, this is far for the truth. Long sentences still does not prove the rightness in the author, and short sentences generally make a greater impact. Very best of all, when in essay, long phrases interspersed with short. Examination reading the essay aloud. If you feel that you breath, break the paragraph into smaller paragraphs.
When you’re finished crafting essays, do this exercise. Give each paragraph the letter is either S (short) or M (medium) or L (long). S – less than 10 phrases, M is less than 20 phrases, L – 20 or more textual content.
- Right essay has the following or similar order inside the letters – M S M L M S.
- Wrong essay characterizes this sequence of letters – S S S M L L L.
Do not overload essay.
When establishing an essay throw away the time period from encyclopedias. Misuse of such phrases distract the reader’s attention, lessen the importance of the essay.
Avoiding such common mistakes, you will be capable of interest the expert Committee (employer) my come across.
Great importance when manufacturing an essay is the check out to the first version. When building a draft, your main task is to develop the argumentation, to grind the basic thoughts and to arrange them in strict sequence, accompanying their illustrative materials or ancillary data etc. Crafting the first version, give it a day or two to rest up, and then return to work on examine and improving, by having a fresh mind.
When checking essays, first of all, pay attention to inherit important points:
First of all, it is important to remember that the essay genre is subjective, so the rating may very well be subjective. It is best to not focus over the whole mass of employers.
No make a difference what question you answer, you need to reach selected goals. You expect that when you make essays you will have in mind the following:
- Have I answered the question?
- How plainly and accurately I stated my thoughts?
- Natural sounds that I have written, if there were any errors?
Also make sure that you:
- Demonstrated their desire to build a career in a some direction.
- Focused on building a career in a targeted field.
- Included on the story from a particular to three qualities, strengths, characteristics that distinguish you from other candidates.
- Presented at least just one strong argument in favor belonging towards fact that the employer invited you to your business.
- Communication skills / composing.
The essay is also intended to examine your ability to Express thoughts on paper and your crafting skills. Consultant for the selection of experts says, Your essay should certainly not characterize you to be a future writer or a philologist, you are the future leader and Manager. For success in business, it is important the ability to present their creative ideas, and the ability to Express them on paper, there are those who easily communicates with other people.
Poorly written (presented) essays will ensure that you have been accepted into the business.
The image of a real man or woman.
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Constellations > Compass
The compass is a constellation that is located in the southern sky and displays a marine navigation device.
It is one of the constellations created in the 18th century by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. From the beginning he called it “Pyxis Nautica”, but later shortened to “Compass”. It was formerly part of the largest constellation Argo Ship.
It includes several interesting objects, including the planetary nebula NGC 2818, the open cluster NGC 2627 and the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2613.
|An object||Designation||Meaning of the name||Object type||Magnitude|
|1||Alpha Compass||No||Blue giant||3.68|
|2||Beta Compass||No||Yellow supergiant||3.95|
|3||Compass Gamma||No||Orange giant||4.03|
|4||Compass Kappa||No||Multiple star system||4.62|
|5||Lambda Compass||No||Yellow giant||4.71|
|6||Theta Compass||No||Red giant||4.72|
|7||Zeta Compass||No||Multiple star system||4.86|
|eight||Delta Compass||No||Multiple star system||4.87|
Facts, position and map
With an area of 221 square degrees, the constellation Compass is the 65th largest constellation. Covers the second quadrant of the southern hemisphere (SQ2). Can be found at latitudes between + 50 ° and -90 °. Adjacent to Sails, Hydra, Feed and Pump.
|Right ascension||from 8h 22m up to 9h 22m|
|Declination||from -36 ° 45 to -17|
|Square||221 sq. degrees|
|The brightest stars|
|The constellation is visible in latitudes from + 54 ° to -90 °.|
The best time to watch is February.
Accommodates 3 stars with planets and no Messier objects or meteor shower. The brightest star is Alpha Compass, with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.68. It is part of the Heavenly Waters group, where the Dove, Dolphin, Eridanus, Korma, Sails, Southern Fish, Small Horse and Keel are also located. view the constellation diagram Compass on the star chart.
In the years 1751-1752. it was created by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, when he was studying the southern sky. He named it “Boussole”, after which it was renamed in the Latin manner “Pixis Nautica” (1763). In the end, they decided to shorten and use only “Pyxis” (Compass).
It is a magnetic compass used by mariners on their travels. But you shouldn t compare it with the Compass used by the draftsmen. It is located very close to the three constellations that originally represent the Ship Argo (the ship of the Argonauts). It was Lacaille who decided to divide the large constellation into Carina, Sails and Stern. Therefore, the Compass is sometimes considered the fourth constellation and a particle of the ship. Although it never happened. Ptolemy named the stars from Alpha to Delta Compass, but they were all around the ship s mast.
In 1844, John Herschel proposed to name the constellation Mast and thus make it part of the ship, but he was not supported. After being approved by the International Astronomical Union, the Compass entered the modern 88 constellations.
Explore the bright stars of the constellation Compass with a detailed description, photo and characteristics.
Α Compass (Alpha Compass) is a giant (B1.5III) with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.67 and a distance of 880 light years. This is the Beta Cephei variable (brightness changes due to surface ripples).
10 times the solar mass, 6 times the radius, and 10,000 times brighter. Will end its existence in a supernova explosion.
Β Compass (Beta Compass) is a double star (G7Ib-II) with a total apparent magnitude of 3.954 (second in brightness in the constellation) and a distance of 420 light years.
It is a bright giant or yellow supergiant. Exceeds the solar radius 28 times. It is accompanied by a 12.5-magnitude visual companion at a distance of 12.7 arc seconds.
Gamma Compass is an orange giant (K3III) with a visual magnitude of 4.026 and a distance of 209 light years. It is in third place in terms of brightness in the constellation.
Compass T is a binary star, represented by a sun-like star and a white dwarf. Its usual visual magnitude is 15.5, but since it is a recurring nova, it shows magnitude 6.4 during an eruption. Now only 10 new stars are known. Its eruptions were recorded in 1890, 1902, 1920, 1944, 1966 and 2011.
The two stars are close to each other, so the white dwarf takes mass, leading to periodic eruptions. Despite this, the star is gaining mass and it is believed that it will soon explode as a type 1a supernova. This will happen in the next 10 million years. Unfortunately, the forecasts are disappointing. Such an explosion will destroy the ozone layer of our planet and destroy life.
Kappa Compass is a double star (K4 / K5III) with a total magnitude of 4.62 and a distance of 487 light years. In 2.6 million years, it will approach the Sun by 306 light years and increase in magnitude to 3.34. The main object is the orange giant.
Theta Compass is a red giant (M0III) with a visual magnitude of 4.71 and a distance of 522 light years. It was within 241 light years of the Sun at 5.8 million years ago with an apparent magnitude of 3.12.
Zeta Compass is a multiple star. The bright object is a yellow giant (G5III), located 236 light years away.
Delta Compass is a star system with an apparent magnitude of 4.87 and a distance of 226 light years. The main component is a white subgiant (A3IV).
NGC 2818 is a planetary nebula covering a radius of 3.25 light years and 10,400 light years distant from us. Formed when a dying star shattered the outer layers. The rest of the core is a white dwarf.
NGC 2627 is an open cluster with a visual magnitude of 8.4 and a distance of 8,000 light years. Located southwest of Zeta Compass. It contains 40 stars, whose magnitudes are 11-13.
NGC 2613 is a barred spiral galaxy with a “face” view. It is located 60 million light-years from us, and its apparent magnitude reaches 10.6. Reminiscent of the Milky Way.
You have the opportunity to study the constellation Compass of the Southern Hemisphere more closely if you use not only our photos, but 3D models and an online telescope. For an independent search, a map of the starry sky is suitable.
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Implementing Quality Deer Management on Your Property
Robert A. Pierce II
Fisheries and Wildlife State Specialist
School of Natural Resources
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Conservation
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are the most popular game species in Missouri, and the state’s deer population is estimated to be about 1.4 million. The current success of Missouri’s deer management program is a tribute to the science of wildlife management, the increase in suitable habitat and regulation of season length and bag limits.
Historically, deer managers concentrated on increasing deer populations by protecting antlerless deer from harvest.Recent research has demonstrated that the overall quality of a deer herd can be improved through management practices commonly referred to as quality deer management (QDM). Numerous landowners and hunting clubs across the United States have successfully adopted this approach to managing white-tailed deer populations. An increasing number of Missouri deer hunters and landowners are interested in the potential for implementing QDM strategies on property they hunt or own (Figure 1).
Figure 1. A cornerstone of quality deer management is achieving a balanced age structure in the deer herd, which involves allowing bucks to reach at least 3-1/2 years of age before harvesting.
Quality deer management promotes the philosophy of managing deer herds in a biologically and socially sound manner within the existing habitat conditions in an area. QDM is not trophy deer management, where the emphasis is placed on producing bucks with trophy-sized antlers, nor is QDM a program that promotes shooting only does. QDM simply encourages active participation of landowners and hunters in establishing and achieving defined deer management goals.
QDM strives to produce healthy deer herds in balance with existing habitat conditions by protecting young bucks from the harvest and ensuring an adequate number of antlerless deer are harvested. A recommended antlerless harvest is determined by the following criteria:
- Deer density (number of deer in an area)
- Sex ratio (number of bucks relative to the number of does in an area)
- Habitat condition
- Landowner objectives
Hunters who adopt and practice QDM become the managers of the deer herd by improving the age structure (allowing bucks to survive to maturity) and sex ratio, managing the habitat, and keeping detailed records on deer observed and harvested to ensure program success. In essence, QDM promotes sound deer management.
Every area or property has its limitations. Habitat quality, soil productivity and land-use practices influence management decisions on a property. QDM goals are not about putting a “monster buck” behind every tree but are about allowing the deer herd on a property to reach its full potential, with realistic expectations.
Managing a deer herd is complex and is influenced by many factors, some of which are poorly understood even by wildlife biologists. Although many deer management problems are complex, the solutions often involve the application of several simple biological principles. The most effective approach to any deer management problem begins with identifying the biological and social factors that may be limiting management goals. These limiting factors can be ranked in order of importance and addressed with appropriate management actions.
Successful deer management requires an understanding of the biology of white-tailed deer and the management flexibility to respond to changing conditions. Research has shown that three main factors greatly influence deer antler and body development: age, nutrition and genetics.
An understanding of the age structure within the buck segment of the population is one of the most important factors in managing for a quality deer herd. The presence of mature deer in the herd creates normal social behavior during the breeding season, which is often exhibited by a greater number of scrapes and rubs.
A buck typically grows its first set of antlers at 1-1/2 years of age. About 20 percent of buck fawns, however, may develop hardened antlers at about 8 months of age (and are often called “button” bucks). This phenomenon, which hunters do not usually see because it happens after the hunting season, indicates that nutrition is adequate to allow fawns to reach the critical body mass needed to initiate antler growth.
Bucks tend to achieve their maximum skeletal growth at 4-1/2 years old, their peak weight at 5-1/2 to 6-1/2 years old and their maximum antler size at about 6-1/2 years old. However, in some locations more than 80 percent of the bucks harvested each year are yearlings (1-1/2 years old), which means few bucks are surviving to maturity. Reducing the harvest of younger bucks, through either regulation or voluntary restraint, will allow a greater number of bucks to reach older age classes.
A common response of hunters to QDM is: “I plan to shoot any buck I see. If I don’t take him, someone else will.” The attitudes and practices of hunters definitely affect the success of a QDM program.
Even though small properties may not be large enough to contain the home ranges of several bucks, a successful QDM program is possible, particularly if adjoining landowners have similar goals and objectives (Figure 2). Cooperation is the key. Take the time to talk with neighboring landowners and encourage them to work with you in developing a QDM program. The results will begin to show when hunters or landowners begin to harvest and observe older deer on the property.
Figure 2. QDM success often depends on cooperation among landowners because home ranges of bucks often cross property lines and overlap.
The quantity and quality of available forage varies widely from area to area and directly influences body size, antler size, reproductive success, fawn survival and timing of the rut. Body growth, maintenance and survival of an individual deer take precedence over antler growth in a buck and over fawn production and lactation in a doe.
Antler development is greatly affected by the nutritional quality of the forage before and during antler growth. Research shows that several nutritional components — most importantly protein, energy and minerals — interact to develop the bony matrix of antlers. Recent research additionally indicates the importance of a doe’s age and nutritional condition in determining the quality of her offspring’s first set of antlers.
The minimal level of protein in forage required for maximum antler development varies with age. Research has shown that a diet containing as little as 10 percent protein can meet the minimal requirements for adequate antler development for adult bucks. Younger animals that are actively growing, however, require much higher levels of protein. For example, weaned fawns require up to 20 percent protein in their diet for optimum growth. Typically, a diet averaging 16 percent protein will allow for maximum antler development. On many properties, protein content of prevalent forages declines below 16 percent during the late-summer and late-winter months. Actively managing the habitat to provide a diversity of food sources can ensure the availability of high-quality forages throughout the year.
A buck’s potential for antler development is determined by genetic traits that are passed on by both sexes, not just males. All physical characteristics, including antler growth, are genetically based but can also be influenced by environmental factors, such as weather conditions and rainfall patterns. Thus, the genetic potential of a deer herd can never be expressed until adequate nutrition is available and the animals are able to reach maturity.
A topic hunters frequently discuss is whether spike yearling bucks are genetically inferior to fork-antlered yearlings. Research has addressed this question in many locations of the country, but results vary and researchers are still not in complete agreement. Some studies suggest that yearlings with larger racks (six to eight points) will produce antlers with a higher average gross Boone and Crockett score at maturity than yearlings with smaller sets of antlers (spikes and forked-antlered).
Other research indicates that the age and condition of the mother play an important role in the antlers expressed by 1-1/2-year-old bucks. Young females and those in poor condition tend to have later fawning dates, which can result in 1-1/2-year-old bucks with smaller antlers. Body growth and antler development during subsequent spring and summer months affect a young buck’s ability to express genetic potential. Thus, genetics may not be the primary influence of antler size in 1-1/2-year-old bucks. Whether small-antlered yearling bucks will catch up if they survive to maturity remains unclear.
Research suggests that yearling bucks with small antlers (two- or three-pointers) are able to produce quality racks if given the opportunity to mature, assuming nutrition is not a limiting factor. Even if a local deer herd has poor habitat conditions, buck size can be increased by allowing bucks to reach older age classes (4-1/2 to 5-1/2 years old). This will eventually lead to more mature bucks in a given area. Remember this simple fact: Let him go, and he will grow.
QDM, as a management philosophy, is not trophy management. It is a program designed to promote healthy deer herds with a sound social structure in a given area. The genetic influences on a deer herd are complicated by several factors, most of which cannot be manipulated by landowners or hunters. Landowners and hunters participating in a QDM program should focus on providing adequate nutrition through habitat management and improving the herd’s age structure by allowing younger bucks to reach maturity.
Research has shown that the rut is influenced by many factors, including photoperiod (the amount of daylight in a 24-hour period), sex ratio, age structure, nutrition, genetics and weather. The factors hunters can influence are sex ratio, age structure and availability of quality nutrition.
A doe entering estrus (heat) is receptive to breeding for at least 24 hours, and perhaps longer if not bred during the first cycle. While in estrus, a doe may be tended by one or more bucks for a day or more. If a doe is not bred during her first estrous period, she may recycle in about 28 days. Over time, traditional hunting practices (that is, bucks only or limited doe harvest) result in overpopulated deer herds skewed heavily in favor of does, many of which are not bred during this first estrous cycle. This overabundance of does coupled with nutritional limitations can lead to prolonged breeding and fawning seasons.
A prolonged breeding season is when the rut is spread out over a long period. There may be no noticeable “peak” rut where hunters observe an intense period of bucks chasing does. A prolonged fawning season typically results in a higher percentage of late-born fawns, which are handicapped by poor-quality nutrition during the late summer and a shorter period for growth before winter begins. Because of these setbacks, late-born fawns tend to have a higher mortality rate, and late-born buck fawns, those born in late June or early July, tend to produce smaller antlers the next fall when compared with buck fawns born earlier in the season (late May to early June).
Adequate doe harvests can create a more even sex ratio and result in a greater percentage of does being bred during their first estrous cycle. This can bring about a shortened, more intense rut. When bucks are allowed to survive to maturity, a dominance hierarchy is established and real competition occurs between mature bucks for breeding rights. With a balanced sex ratio and improved age structure, rutting activity is pronounced, with increased signpost rubs and scrapes, and hunters experience a noticeable and exciting rut.
Implementing a QDM program takes time and commitment. Changing the quality of the deer herd and improving the quality of available habitat may take quite a few years to accomplish. The ability to communicate goals and objectives and work with others is essential. The first step is to set realistic goals and collect appropriate data to help guide management decisions. Every group should strive to attain the following goals:
- Collect and record data, including the age and weights of harvested deer
- Maintain the deer population within the carrying capacity of available habitat
- Improve the buck-to-doe sex ratio
- Improve the age structure
Involving the entire group of neighboring landowners and hunters in these management decisions can increase the chance of success.
Early deer management programs in the state regulated the antlered buck harvest through bag limits because harvesting bucks has little influence on the total population of the deer herd. As a result, deer populations increased dramatically but few bucks survived to older age classes. More recent statewide management efforts have attempted to define optimal population levels and design hunting regulations to achieve them.
In an effort to balance populations, improve sex ratios and increase the numbers of older bucks, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has developed regulations that promote more liberal antlerless deer bag limits and impose antler point restrictions in select counties, primarily in northern and central Missouri (Figure 3). The point restrictions prohibit the harvest of bucks with antlers that do not have at least four points on one side and attempt to shift harvest pressure from younger bucks to does. These QDM strategies are designed to increase the proportion of older bucks in the population and, depending on the specific goals and objectives, can improve the quality of a deer herd.
Likewise, individual landowners can self-impose harvest restrictions to effectively manage deer numbers and increase the number of mature bucks on a property.
Figure 3. Several Missouri counties have antler point restrictions. To find them online, go to http://mdc.mo.gov and search for "antler restrictions."
One goal of a QDM program is to manage the age structure of the herd by restricting the harvest of younger bucks. Several restrictions can be used to limit the harvest of bucks:
- Antler point
- Antler spread
- Minimum antler score
- Minimum age regardless of antler size
The goal of imposing antler restrictions is to increase the proportion of older bucks in the population. Unfortunately, no single set of harvest restrictions will work in every circumstance. Landowners can use a combination of these techniques to impose harvest restrictions on their property but should have clear goals and data that support those restrictions.
The best policy is to use the appropriate combination of restrictions that helps you meet your management goals and objectives. When implementing a QDM program, remember that one of the goals is to have fun. Although penalties may be required to keep hunters from killing “nonlegal” bucks, these penalties can cause some hunters to become disenchanted and lose interest in the overall goals of the program.
Antler restrictions imposed in a specific area should be based on the deer population and the antler characteristics of bucks in the area. This information is available only if data has been gathered for several years. Ask the MDC or other hunting clubs for data on bucks harvested in the surrounding area, if it is available.
Antler point restrictions
The most popular restrictions used to protect yearling (1-1/2-year-old bucks) and some 2-1/2-year-old bucks include point restrictions, whereby a buck has to have a certain number of total points or points to a side before it can be taken. A review of the data gathered by the MDC or other hunting clubs in the area can help you determine an appropriate point restriction. For example, an eight-point limit (four points to a side) may effectively protect 80 percent of the yearling bucks and 25 percent of the 2-1/2-year-old bucks in one area.
Antler spread restrictions
Spread restrictions limit the bucks taken to those whose antler inside-spread is a specific width or greater. The inside spread is measured as the greatest distance between the main beams. In general, a spread restriction of 15 inches, which is the typical distance from ear tip to ear tip for adult bucks, has been effective in protecting about 95 percent of yearling bucks and, in some cases, up to 40 percent of the 2-1/2-year-old bucks (Figure 4). Again, the percentage of the 2-1/2-year-old bucks to protect depends on your goals.
Figure 4. This buck could be harvested with a 15-inch spread restriction.
Antler score restrictions
Antler score restrictions can also be used to restrict the bucks eligible for harvest. For example, in an area where 2-1/2-year-old bucks grow antlers with seven or more points, a point restriction may not be effective. Thus, the antler spread of the 2-1/2-year-olds would need to be evaluated. If the average spread of 2-1/2-year-old bucks was 15 inches, then a 15-inch spread restriction would not be an effective method for protecting them from harvest. The next option is to set an antler score restriction to protect 2-1/2-year-olds. An antler score is calculated from spread, beam, circumference and point measurements.
Let’s say that a minimum score of 120 inches was set to protect the 2-1/2-year-old bucks, but the deer population includes some 3-1/2- and possibly 4-1/2-year-old bucks that do not score 120 inches. Should they be eligible for harvest even though they don’t meet the score restriction? If the QDM goal is to allow bucks to reach at least 3-1/2 years of age before harvest, the answer is yes. According to such deer management objectives, nothing is wrong with harvesting mature bucks, regardless of antler size or characteristics.
Antler characteristics are only one clue to identifying a buck’s age on the hoof. Body characteristics more accurately identify age, so learning the body characteristics of various age classes is important to achieve a balanced age structure. Refer to MU Extension publication G9485, Techniques for Aging Live Deer, for additional information on aging live white-tailed deer. General descriptions of body characteristics by age class can also be found in Observing and Evaluating Whitetails (Richards and Brothers 2004) and in Mississippi State Extension Service’s publication on aging live white-tailed deer (Demarais, Stewart and Griffen 1999), both of which are listed in the Additional information section.
A major objective of a sound deer management program is to establish and maintain a deer herd that is in balance with its habitat. This can be achieved by harvesting an appropriate number of does because doe harvest affects deer density, sex ratio and habitat quality. Properties that have a history of significant buck harvest and limited doe harvest can have a sex ratio that is skewed heavily towards females. Conversely, properties that have protected the majority of bucks from harvest and harvested effective numbers of does can have a balanced adult sex ratio, which is close to one buck per one or two does. Harvesting equal numbers of bucks and does is appropriate when the sex ratio is even.
In general, the numbers of bucks and does harvested effects a deer population in specific ways:
- Harvesting equal numbers of bucks and does tends to stablize a deer population.
- Harvesting more does than bucks tends to decrease the population.
- Harvesting more bucks than does tends to increase the population.
Does and fawns
The correct number of does to harvest depends on whether your goal is to increase, decrease or stabilize the deer population. In most situations, harvesting 25 percent of the adult does will result in stable deer numbers.
Some people believe that if they shoot a doe with a fawn, the fawn will die of starvation. Research shows, however, that being orphaned does not affect the survival rate of fawns once they become functional ruminants. They become functional ruminants when they are 2 months old and are essentially weaned by 10 weeks of age, about the same time they lose their spots. Although uncommon in Missouri, fawns with spots may be observed as late as September or October in areas with overabundant deer populations and skewed sex ratios.
Correct timing of the doe harvest is important. Many hunters will not shoot a doe until they are finished buck hunting, but for biological and management reasons, the appropriate number of does should be taken when opportunities are presented.
Fawns typically suffer the highest annual mortality rate of any age class. About 60 percent of the fawns born in the spring are recruited into the fall population, and many die in the winter, when food sources are limiting in poorer habitats.
About 40 percent of the antlerless harvest is comprised of fawns each year. When this occurs, the age structure of the doe segment of the population can increase while keeping the population stable and the benefits of having an older age-class of does can be realized. However, a certain percentage of the fawns taken will be buck fawns, or “button bucks,” which may hinder buck recruitment. In some situations, hunters should be careful about harvesting fawns.
A successful deer management program relies on the collection of appropriate data, which is used to evaluate the success of your efforts. Some measure of deer density, sex ratio, age structure and habitat quality is needed to set harvest recommendations for a particular area. Data collection begins with recording deer sightings and evaluating the habitat on your property.
Recording deer sightings
All deer sightings should be recorded on an observation form. (See MU Extension publication G9482, Estimating Deer Populations on Your Property: Observational Data, for information on collecting observational data.) Most hunters are willing to record this information after each hunt; however, emphasize the need to record deer sightings year-round. Over a few years, population trends will become apparent, indicating whether the deer herd is increasing, decreasing or remaining stable. For best results, collect observational data the same way each year, and make comparisons by season or month.
Measuring adult sex ratio
Determining the adult sex ratio of deer on your property is not difficult. An infrared triggered camera survey will provide estimates of the numbers of adult does and bucks. (MU Extension publication G9481, Estimating Deer Populations on Your Property: Camera Survey, describes how to conduct a camera survey.) Survey estimates are best used as trend data. By charting consecutive years of data, you can begin to monitor the success of your deer management program and determine if it is influencing the adult sex ratio.
Collecting harvest data
Keeping accurate records on each deer harvested each year is extremely important, as is consulting a wildlife biologist knowledgeable about deer population dynamics to help interpret data and provide specific harvest recommendations each year. Collect the following data on each deer killed:
- Date of harvest
- Antler measurements
(Refer to MU Extension publication G9483, Estimating Deer Populations on Your Property: Harvest Data, for additional details on collecting age, weight and antler measurements. For an explanation of how to age a deer, refer to MU Extension publication G9484, Aging a Deer by Examining Its Jawbone.)
Sound deer management promotes a well-balanced, healthy deer herd and also helps ensure a quality hunting experience. Landowners are beginning to realize that QDM strategies can also be used to combat increasing deer-crop depredation problems. When landowners and hunters take the steps to implement QDM guidelines, properties experiencing crop depredation have the potential for a larger doe harvest. These strategies can benefit both hunters and landowners: Hunters are allowed to take home more deer (and put more meat in the freezer) while promoting sound deer management, and landowners lose less crop.
QDM is achievable for many landowners, even those with small acreages. The QDM philosophy promotes landowners working together to achieve deer management goals and objectives. Hunting a deer herd with a well-balanced sex ratio and a good number of mature bucks is an exciting experience, one that is being realized by an increasing number of Missouri deer hunters and landowners. QDM may not be for everyone, as some hunters are more interested in deer quantity than deer quality. But for those that want to actively participate in managing a deer herd and desire the opportunity to hunt mature bucks, QDM is the only sound strategy.
- Brothers, A. and M.E. Ray Jr. 1998. Producing quality whitetails (revised edition). San Antonio, TX: Texas Wildlife Association.
- Demarais, S., D. Stewart, and R. N. Griffen. 1999. A Hunter’s Guide to Aging and Judging Live White-tailed Deer in the Southeast PDF (Publication 2206). Mississippi State University Extension Service.
- Missouri Department of Conservation. 2015. White-tailed deer.
- Quality Deer Management Association
- Strickland, B.K. 2007. Using Antler Restrictions to Manage for Older-aged Bucks PDF (Publication 2427). Mississippi State University Extension Service. | <urn:uuid:4a0e2f3f-95a0-4d2a-9ef7-f0e08181a388> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g9480 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936954 | 5,182 | 2.890625 | 3 |
|Date||October 13, 1947|
|Arena||Maple Leaf Gardens|
The First National Hockey League All-Star Game took place at Maple Leaf Gardens, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs, on October 13, 1947. The game saw the Maple Leafs play a team of NHL All-stars. The All-Stars won the game 4–3.
The NHL All-Star Game originated from the Players Committee and was approved on May 23, 1947. For the site of the All-Star Charity Game, it was applied for by Toronto and Chicago, with Chicago receiving the second game, in 1948. It was agreed that proceeds would be divided whereby one-third would go to Toronto charities, and two-thirds would go to the Players Emergency (Benevolent and Disability) Fund. At a later meeting in September 1947, the players agreed to set up a pension fund, with $900 from every player going into the fund and 25 cents from the sale of every playoff ticket and the two-thirds of the All-Star Game proceeds to go into the fund.
The players selected for the game attended a Toronto Argonauts-Hamilton Tiger-Cats football game on the day of the Game. That was followed by a dinner at the Royal York Hotel. The players were given miniature engraved gold pucks. There were extra gifts for the Maple Leafs, who had won the Stanley Cup the previous spring. The Leafs received gold cufflinks from the Ontario government, a free lifetime pass from Conn Smythe. Sponsors gave each player a coat, a hat, a table lighter, golf balls, a tie, cigarette boxes, pocket knives, team photos, silver tea trays, engraved gold watches and silver watch chains.
The All-Stars wore red sweaters with white stripes and white stars across the chest above the NHL shield. The referees wore dark blue sweater. The Leafs wore their white sweaters.
The game was well-contested and was physical. Ken Reardon was assessed a major penalty for cutting Bob Goldham on the head after a dirty cross-check. Reardon was involved in a stick-swinging incident between himself and Bill Ezinicki and Gus Mortson. Maurice Richard was placed on a line with Ted Lindsay. The pair, who would often fight it out in regular games did not share a word, according to Richard.
|Head Coach||Hap Day (Toronto Maple Leafs)||Dick Irvin (Montreal Canadiens)|
|Win/Loss||Turk Broda||Frank Brimsek|
- Referee: King Clancy
- Linesmen: Jim Primeau, Ed Mepham
- Attendance: 14,169
Source: Podnieks(2000), p. 25.
- Podnieks, Andrew (2000), The NHL All-Star Game: Fifty Years of the Great Tradition, Toronto: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-200058-X
|National Hockey League All-Star Game|
· 1948 · 1949
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Trying to work out your pet’s age in human years? We’ve all heard that one human year equals seven dog years, but there are several factors that could alter your cat's or dog's ageing process. Let's look at them.
The first thing to consider is that pets mature at a much quicker rate than people, and the first two years are particularly significant. On their first year of age, our furry companion roughly compares to a 15-year-old teenager, while their second year of age equals 24 years of age in a human. From year 3, each new year counts as about four human years.
Confused? See this table:
Remember this isn't an exact science, but an easy way to guess your pet's approximate 'human' age.
Cats versus dogs
Your pet's life expectancy doesn't depend on age alone. Other factors, such as size, weight, lifestyle, nutrition, and genetics also come into play.
For dogs, size is a key factor, and smaller breeds tend to live longer than large breeds. For example, the average lifespan of a 'giant dog' like a Great Dane is around 8 years whereas a small-sized dog like a Yorkshire Terrier could live past 15 years. So large breeds not only age faster – their organs have to work harder to support cell growth and body mass.
It is also worth noting that purebreds (both cats and dogs) can be more predisposed to inherited genetic disorders.
So what about cats? Well, it seems size and breed have little influence when it comes to how fast our moggies age. However, whether your cat is an indoor or outdoor cat could likely influence their longevity.
Indoor cats tend to live longer (their average lifespan is 12-15 years) in comparison to those who are allowed outside (8-12 years). Although it’s not unusual for a cat to live long into their late teens or early twenties. The oldest cat recorded, Creme Puff, lived until the ripe old age of 38 years!
An outdoor cat’s life expectancy can be affected by many factors: from where they live to day-to-day hazards such as road traffic. Cats exploring the outdoors can also become exposed to diseases and come into contact with poisonous substances (like antifreeze).
Of course, this is not to say that your outdoor cat will live a shorter life. But there are precautions you can take, like considering an indoor life if you live near a busy road, or keeping your cat indoor at night (studies show that 78% of all road traffic accidents involving cats happen at night).
You’ve probably heard the saying “curiosity killed the cat”, so you’ll understand that cats can get themselves into all kinds of mischief!
Can I help my pet live longer?
The short answer is 'Yes'. In fact, how well you look after your friend can have as powerful an impact as genetics.
Both cats and dogs will benefit from a balanced diet. Good nutrition can contribute to their overall health in so many ways: from strengthening immunity to supporting digestion and maintaining muscle mass and joints. Ultimately, it can also help prevent a host of diseases.
Another way to foster health is by encouraging exercise. As with humans, exercise stimulates your pet's mind and body. It also helps regulate their weight and slow down muscle and joint deterioration. And let's not forget how happy it makes our furry friends!
While outdoor cats have the freedom to roam around as they please, creating a stimulating environment for indoor cats is key. Playing with your cat just 15 minutes a few times a day, and having toys and places to climb will keep her fit and happy.
Our cats love watching the birds outside, so we have a few bird feeders installed near windows. It’s a great way to provide hours of entertainment.
Lastly, taking your pet to the vet for their annual checkup is essential to keep abreast of their health. We would also recommend neutering and spaying at a young age. These procedures can prevent certain types of cancer and infections. Plus, they save animals from the stress that comes with heat and pregnancy.
So while there isn’t a fail-safe formula for a long lifespan, one thing's for sure: any care and affection you throw into the mix will make your pet's life a happier one. | <urn:uuid:673788a6-cff1-4fda-91b4-ee32876acee6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicanimal.com/petage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.963855 | 913 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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The Global Landscape Analysis Report prepared by Research Australia gives a global picture of childhood dementia clinical research.
Details the outcomes of the Challenging Childhood Dementia Symposium held on 1 March 2022.
Key issues and comments that emerged from the consumer roundtable co-hosted by Palliative Care Australia and Childhood Dementia Initiative on 24 November 2021.
Our white paper, Childhood Dementia: the case for urgent action highlights the size, scale and wide-reaching impacts of childhood dementia.
The burden study prepared by THEMA Consulting, Childhood Dementia in Australia, quantifies the burden of childhood dementia on patients, carers, the healthcare system and our society.
Presentations and Posters
Presentation delivered by Head of Research, Dr Kris Elvidge PhD, at the Australian Dementia Forum in June 2021.
Sliding Doors: What Happens When Genomics Isn’t Integrated into Healthcare, was delivered by Childhood Dementia Initiative CEO, Megan Donnell at the HealthData21 conference in May 2021.
Head of Research, Dr Kris Elvidge PhD, presentation at WORLD Symposium in February 2021. The Symposium is the annual international research conference for lysosomal diseases. | <urn:uuid:5ddce325-a10c-4d39-859a-a5deadbd3b53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.childhooddementia.org/studies-findings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.873117 | 255 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The World Health Organization warns that malnutrition may lead to delayed mental and motor development that can have adverse effects even beyond childhood. It is well known that nutrition plays a key role in the physical development of every child – the proper growth of bones, muscles, and brain cells is dependent on the sustained provision of healthy, nutritious food with the right combination of calories, vitamins, and minerals. Proper nutrition is also essential for mental development, performance, and productivity.
Click here to download the World Health Organization’s most recent Global Nutrition Report. Download the Report
At Angel Covers, we know how important it is to start with the basics – proper food and nutrition. Our nutrition programs are providing children from birth through high school with essential nutrition. This includes initiatives such as providing school meals at Humble Hearts School in Nairobi, Kenya ensuring that all the children we support receive a daily multivitamin to assist in building healthy bodies.
Kenya is one of the countries in East Africa that has been suffering in recent years from, first, drought, and now flooding, both of which severely impact the availability, quality, and cost of food. For Humble Hearts School, being able to properly feed the children is a daily concern. Our food programs help ease the burden by providing fresh fruit – something which we take for granted but which these children have little or no access to – on a weekly basis.Visit Humble Hearts
Our GATE program in Thailand provides daily lunch and snacks at school, but sometimes that isn’t enough. Often the only good meal the children receive each day are school lunches, because families in poverty aren’t always able to provide enough food for everyone. In those cases, Angel Covers steps in and provides rice, dry foods, and other staples which help to feed the entire family. This can prevent younger siblings who are not yet school age from becoming malnourished, and improve parents’ or grandparents’ immune systems, which can mean missing fewer days from work due to illness. Additionally, families who are subsistence farmers sometimes incur catastrophic losses due to drought or flood. In those cases, we may provide food assistance to help them until new crops can be planted and harvested.Visit GATE | <urn:uuid:30986ed5-2301-403e-ba03-54cb66d5bdcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://angelcovers.org/value/nutrition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955602 | 453 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Whether or not you consider yourself a musician, you may actually own the prime musical instrument of the 21st century – if you’ve got an iPhone or an iPad, you’ve got the potential to make some earth shattering music. Apple shared this notion with the masses when they unveiled GarageBand for the iPad in 2011, later introducing support for the iPhone. This outstanding app got people thinking of making music with their iPad, but there’s a much bigger picture within iOS music production.
A strong passion for music making on the iPhone and iPad has existed for a number of years, spawning a thriving network of apps. Robust synthesizers are spreading like wildfire across the App Store with some of the finest including Animoog, Sunrizer Synth, iMini, Magellan, Alchemy Synth Mobile, and Nave. Virtual guitar amp and effect alternatives like Amplitube, JamUp Pro, and AmpKit are helping a new era of guitar players reach new levels. Full fledged iPad music workstations like NanoStudio, BeatMaker 2, Auria, and Cubasis have allowed music hobbyists to create high-quality tracks. Professionals have even jumped into the mix with outstanding production apps like Auria and Cubasis, resulting in high level musical products. Once you examine the music category of the App Store you can find tools to inspire musical creation in any genre.
With a wealth of tools existing, are people actually taking advantage of this potential and making essential music with their iPads or iPhones? You bet – there’s a lively community of people making valuable original statements created only with their iOS devices. Hip Hop artists Gorillaz used a variety of apps to put together their recent album The Fall exclusively on an iPad. Independent artist Smite Matter created Technopolis Lost, a wide reaching collection of ambient music generated using only his iPhone and iPad. Audio hosting site SoundCloud is stocked full with music produced on iOS devices, with a number of groups fully committed to the iPhone, the iPad, and several music apps. The total amount of music generated on iOS devices is already astonishing and it’s only rising.
The revolution has started and it’s focused on the device resting in your pocket – your iPhone or iPad can take the lead into a new world of musical expression. Even if you’ve never played an instrument before, proceed to the app store and get some music apps today. If you need help proceeding from idea to song, you can find numerous iPad music app tutorials and reviews on the net. You’ll be shocked at the accessible quality of music making on iOS devices and before you know it, you’ll be lost in your own imagination. | <urn:uuid:dd36f037-b128-4654-9dd4-26ef4ac29498> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://serykrot.site/?p=827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931954 | 551 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Johann[es] Arnhold, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and [step-]children [surname: Sander] (Kaspar, age 18; Eva, age 16; Barbara, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 15 June 1767.
In 1795, widower Johannes Arnhold moved from Pfeifer to Semenovka.
Johannes Arnhold from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se09.
The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Arnhold came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Arnold family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Se09, Mv2273.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 384. | <urn:uuid:5cbe0c5e-52b9-4a5a-b8ff-256a6eaf7976> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://volga.domains.unf.edu/surnames/arnhold-pfeifer-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.883676 | 291 | 2.203125 | 2 |
KHMEL'NYTS'KYI BOHDAN (1648-1657)
Zenoviy-Bohdan Mykhailovytsh Khmel'nyts'kyi was born in 1595. Education Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi has received at the Kyiv brotherly school and at Jesuit school in Jaroslav above Syan river. Upon termination of education Bohdan has entered in cossacs army. In August 1621 with 10000 Cossacks he has departed in the sea, where has sunk 12 turkish ships, and the residual of the ships bullied up to Istanbul. In 1629 the Cossacks under the direction of Khmel'nyts'kyi burned of turkish capital suburbs. In 1647 on Sich Khmel'nyts'kyi has declared the schedule of preparation of national liberation war. In May, 8th, 1648 under Zhovti Vody Cossacs army won of the Poles. In one week the Polish army again was broken under Korsun'. The king Vladislav IV at this time has died. Khmel'nyts'kyi has not taken advantage of a situation and, instead of an immediate march to Warsaw, has entered negotiations, which in anything have not reduced. In September 1648 the Cossacks once again victored of Polish army, have taken in siege L'viv and have reached up to Zamostya, whence there was a direct road to Warsaw. But Khmel'nyts'kyi again has wasted time, expecting choices of the new king. In the spring 1649 Khmel'nyts'kyi in union with khan the Islam-Girey began battle operations, has surrounded and victored of a Polish army under Zbaragh and has taken in a captivity of the king. But he again did not use favorable circumstances and began negotiations with captive king. The agreement did not answer neither national dreams, nor actual force Cossacs army, then delicacy of Polish government. Authority and popularity Khmel'nyts'kyi in Ukraine has shaked.
In September, 17th, 1651 under Bila Tserkva he signed humiliating for Ukraine the agreement, which decreased territory and quantity Cossacs, forced the peasants to discharge the duties. In January, 8th, 1654 Pereyaslav Councel has decided to connect Ukraine to Moskovia on such conditions: Ukraine saves all former orders and home rule; het'man saves the right on the international relations; the quantity of Cossacs is magnified up to 60000; all Ukrainian gentry saves behind herself the old rights and freedoms. Het'mans government has undertaken to pay reign taxes. King, with the side, promised to protect Ukraine from Polish expansion. Cossacs the foreman and clergy sharply negatively referred to idea of annexation and in many cases refused to swear Moscow. Khmel'nyts'kyi again has failed to orient in a situation: the demurs between Moscow and Poland have not reduced in a positive take. Bohdan has died in August, 6th, 1657. | <urn:uuid:29c758e3-59a2-4204-b1bb-c5b2e44947cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heraldry.com.ua/index.php3?lang=E&id=1308 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.967469 | 649 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Writing an excellent essay is never easy. And without inspiration, you will find it hard even to start. While you have the essay writing requirements from your tutor, you may feel tired, bored, confused, or disempowered. What matters most in that case, is whether you are inspired or not.
Not to mention, your title is critical. It’s what will inform your outline, the introduction, thesis statement, and essay body. So, if you have sufficient inspiration to come up with a perfect essay title, the rest of the pieces will fall into place. Here are some ways essay writers can use to get inspiration for your essay titles. Make sure you always choose to send your writing work into PDF format and you don’t have worry about editing that PDF file, because you can look sodapdf.com to do your pdf file editing.
1. Choose Something That Interests You
When your teacher reads through the essay, he or she will know whether you are passionate about the topic. The reader can tell from the essay’s flow and the way you put your points. If you have been given a topic, and don’t have much of choice, try to find a more interesting angle to write about.
If your instructor reads the essay and doesn’t find it captivating or engaging enough, you may not be awarded that scholarship or receive top marks for it. However, an essay could be lacking in other areas, but a catchy topic followed by an interesting flow can turn the tables.
2. Select an Area You Know about
Most professors will give you different topics to choose the one you want. Better still, other teachers will give out the requirements and leave you the freedom to select a suitable essay topic. That’s when you realize freedom is good but not easy to exercise.
A fast way to get inspiration for your topic in such a case would be to choose something you are familiar with and have written on before. When you already have information about something, it won’t take you a long time to research and write about.
Besides, the essay will flow, as you won’t lack ideas. So, in your next essay, try to go for a topic you know something about. You will realize that the entire writing process will be easier and faster.
3. Start Researching
Once you select a topic, you know something about and one that interests you; you will need the inspiration to craft a highly informative piece that’s relevant to your course work. That’s not as difficult as you might imagine.
Sometimes, you only need to take a look at your lecture notes, handouts, and course textbooks to get started. While the professor may give you the freedom to write on a topic of your choice, he or she still expects everything to be within the scope of what you have learned so far.
So, when creating the outline, consult the class notes and textbooks to know what concepts, theories, and examples are worth including in your essay body to make it more relevant and interesting.
While you don’t have to duplicate what’s in your notes here, you can use creativity to ensure the essay doesn’t stray from the scope of the topics you have already covered in class.
4. Ask for Guidance from a Teacher or Advisor
Stuck on what angle to take after choosing a topic? Don’t shy off from asking your teacher or classmate on what possible direction the essay topic should take. You can find out what some of your friends have written for the same essay and get inspiration on how to approach the topic.
What’s more, most teachers will ask you to submit a topic, so they check and confirm it first. That’s a great opportunity for you to ask the instructor one or ideas on how to make the topic better. Once you try any of these approaches, you will be surprised at how easy finding inspiration can be.
5. Narrow Your Focus
Once you have an idea what to write about, it’s time to narrow the scope of your topic to something specific. If possible, focus on a single idea and write about it. For example, instead of writing about “Why I love watching psychological thrillers” choose a specific movie in that genre and write about it.
The idea is to avoid writing on a broad topic that lacks focus and choose one idea to write on. This approach will make it easy to write and the paper.
Writing an essay starts with the topic. To write a top-notch essay, be sure to choose the best topic. You can try many ways to arrive at that, including asking the teacher, consulting books and class notes, writing on something you know about and picking a topic that interests you.
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A wedding may be magical. Rips of joy flow while the couple that is happy to possess and hold one another for richer or poorer.
Exactly what in the event that miracle wears down and you receive a breakup? Are you considering stuck along with your spouse’s credit debt and possibly find yourself much poorer than richer?
You will if you’re maybe maybe maybe not careful.
It mainly depends upon a couple of things – in your geographical area and whether you joined into joint records along with your partner. The less you’ve combined your money, the greater.
Overcome Your Debt
Financial obligation management makes it possible to overcome your financial troubles and handle your household spending plan
Community Property States
Preferably, you will not want to call home in community home state. The great news for economically accountable partners will there be are merely nine of them – Arizona, Ca, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Washington, brand brand brand New Mexico and Wisconsin.
In those states, precisely what is obtained throughout the wedding is generally considered equally owned because of the partners. It’s the “property” of their“community that is once-happy.
For example, in the event your good-for-nothing spouse secretly invested $39,000 playing online poker and place it for a Visa card, you may be stuck with half the balance. That is applicable regardless of if your name wasn’t in the bank card account.
You can find nuances from state to mention, but in general, such a thing bought through the wedding is community property. So anything owed being result of these acquisitions –mortgages, automobile financing, personal credit card debt – is community home.
Popular Law Sates
When you look at the 41 “common law” states, you will be accountable limited to debts in your title. That’s why it is essential to think difficult before entering in to a joint account. Know very well what you’re stepping into before signing your title to a merchant account.
If the ex charged that $39,000 on a joint visa card in both your names, you might be similarly accountable for your debt. Additionally, if you co-sign in your spouse’s bank card, you’re on the hook for whatever bills are run through to that account.
No matter what state your home is in, it is quite difficult to completely protect your self. To begin with, it may jeopardize your marital bliss.
Whenever couples sit back to work down their funds, the last thing their love-struck ears like to know is, “I’m madly deeply in love with you, but we worry you may dispose of $39,000 playing internet poker so i do want to have split bank cards and bank reports in the event you grow to be an overall total loser.”
Maintaining Individual Accounts
Since painful as it can be, a genuine conversation of each person’s economic background, philosophy and objectives is much more crucial than choosing out of the wedding cake that is right. Having split reports would truly simplify things if the wedding hits the stones.
In the event that you genuinely wish to leave absolutely nothing to risk, work away an agreement that is prenuptial keeps your revenue and debts split. Against the debts your spouse brings to the marriage, but it will shield you against the debts he or she runs up after the agreement is signed if you live in a community property state, that won’t necessarily protect you.
Even it’s hard to totally disconnect your finances from those of your spouse’s if you sign an iron-clad prenuptial agreement or set up individual accounts.
To begin with, you might be supposedly a group. And teammates are likely to help one another.
Home loan and Car Financial Obligation
In case your partner has a lousy credit rating, you won’t get an appealing rate of interest in the event that you purchase a home or automobile together. Mortgages usually are so big that using independently wouldn’t normally work. However with car and truck loans, the partner utilizing the better credit history could use independently.
When authorized, one other partner will pay their share. The danger that is only if perhaps your title seems regarding the papers, your partner could drive away and you also alone will be responsible for repaying the loan.
Personal Credit Card Debt
It’s the exact same with credit debt. In the event that you allow your spouse use one that’s in your title, you alone are legitimately have the effect of your debt they run up.
There’s just no method across the proven fact that for better and even even worse, money affects a married relationship. Funds will be the leading reason for stress in marriages, relating to a 2015 study by SunTust Bank. About 35% of participants stated cash had been the source that is major of within their relationship.
“Money actually touches everything,” said Emmet Burns, SunTrust’s brand name advertising director.
Plus it’s not merely the possible lack of cash. Divorce magazine (which may never be a wedding that is good, just in case you’re in search of one) reported in January 2017 that divorce proceedings rates are greater among people who have university training compared to those who didn’t attend college.
Associated with incompatibility that is financial. A penny-pincher will probably clash having a shop-a-holic regardless how much cash they have actually within the bank.
And divorce or separation hurts not just emotionally but in addition economically. The U.S. Government Accounting Office reports that divorce or separation or separation resulted in a 41% fall in earnings for females and 23% fall for males, in accordance with a 2012 study.
Financial obligation and breakup
In the event that you have divorced, it is crucial to leave the wedding without any provided financial obligation. Make an effort to pay back joint cards together or divide your debt and move it to cards in each partner’s title. Find out about exactly just how financial obligation is split in a breakup.
Which will protect you in the event the ex-spouse files for bankruptcy single brides net asian brides or perhaps doesn’t spend whatever they owe. For the full amount of the debt if you’re not protected, creditors can go after you.
In a situation like that, consider a debt management program if you find yourself. an organization that is nonprofit act as a financial obligation consolidator and work to lower your rates of interest on the bank card balances.
Customers make only 1 payment per month that is less than the combined re re payments they certainly were formerly stuck with. Credit counselors additionally make use of one to set up a spending plan and monetary objectives to help keep you away from financial obligation.
Such advice could also come in handy much earlier, when couples that are starry-eyed just beginning and not also considering aftereffects of credit debt.
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Andrew Carlos is one of the STEM/Web Services Librarian at California State University, East Bay. He is currently working on a Masters in Instructional Science and Technology at California State University, Monterey Bay.
How many of you use video in your classes? I’m betting most of you raised your hands because of youtube, TED talks, etc.
What if I asked how many of you use INTERACTIVE videos in your classes? I bet most hands have come down.
Interactive videos allow you to create quizzes, check for understandings, engagement with almost any video out there. In my Masters in Instructional Science and Technology program at CSU, Monterey Bay, we recently learned about different ways to add interactivity to your videos. This blog post serves as part one of a two part series on interactive videos. The next post will feature tools you can use in addition to Youtube to create interactive videos.
Perhaps the easiest to use is the built in annotations in Youtube. What this does is create hotspots on YouTube videos that can act as links to other videos, links for additional information, or just contextual text. You don’t need additional software or any other tools to do this – everything works within Youtube itself. When viewing a video that you have uploaded to Youtube, click on the Annotations button underneath the video.
This takes you to a menu in which you can watch your video and add annotations at appropriate moments. You have five options for annotations: Speech Bubble, Note, Title, Spotlight, Label. Each of these performs a different function that is explained pretty well by their name, except for Spotlight – this annotation highlights a specific section of your video and has pop-up text when a viewer hovers over it. To find out more about these annotations, check out Youtube Help: Create and Edit Annotations
Let’s look at an example of using Youtube annotations for instruction: Knewton GMAT Choose Your Own Adventure. In this video, viewers are given the choice of three different types of questions to prepare for. As you work your way through the questions, you are given feedback and explanation. Very well done and simple.
This is a popular method for flipping the classroom – the instruction creates a series of videos with feedback and links them together into a cohesive lecture. However, there is another use that encourages creativity from students.
Students can create their own series of Youtube videos and string them together to create an interactive video that shares their knowledge of a topic. For example, Greg Kulowiec had his students create videos that compared and contrasted the revolutions in France in the 1700s and those in Egypt today. Groups of students planned, scripted, filmed and edited their videos and shared what they have learned with the rest of their classmates. Greg also create a handy little how-to post, should you find yourself interested in making/teaching some of these video techniques.
Author: Brooke Ahrens
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Cognii is an edtech startup and a leading provider of virtual assistant technology to the education and training industry. Cognii’s Virtual Learning Assistant (VLA) uses Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to engage students in interactive learning. The VLA provides automatic assessment of students’ open-response answers and guides them towards conceptual mastery. As education moves online, assessment and engagement are the biggest challenges to providing a scalable high quality learning experience without increasing the burden on human instructors. Cognii VLA is helping students in K-12, higher education and corporate training markets. | <urn:uuid:c70e1d11-b2ab-455a-9216-caf303ae5cb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.re-work.co/events/va-sanfrancisco-2016/partners/cognii-8aa5a5a7-3433-47d9-b731-51bce052042e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.904622 | 117 | 1.5 | 2 |
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A Good Night's Sleep Protects Stem Cells From Premature Aging
If you’re one of those people who is really fond of their beauty sleep, or who never compromises when it comes to getting their full eight hours per night, now you have one more reason to make a full night’s sleep a priority .
A study by scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have found that while environmental stress can damage the DNA in adult hematopoietic stem cells, a good night’s sleep can keep these cells young, contributing to a youthful appearance and preventing cancer.
Healthy sleep patterns lower the risk of DNA damage in stem cells
According to German researchers, under normal conditions a high number of different types of adult stem cells exists in a state of dormancy inside the human body, but they cannot divide, therefore cannot be used for tissue regeneration. This state of dormancy protects the stem cells from DNA damage, keeping us younger and preventing premature aging .
Yet, increased levels of stress in all its forms—from chronic infections to environmental stress—can trigger a rapid division of stem cells, kicked into gear as the body needs to repair its damaged tissues. In such conditions, the dormant stem cells go from no activity to very high activity in a short interval, and this rapid change forces them to increase their metabolic rate and synthesize new DNA.
Doctor Michael Milsom, who coordinated the German study, says that having to simultaneously execute such complicated functions increases the risk of DNA damage in the stem cells, reducing the ability of tissues to repair themselves and speeding up aging [1, 3].
Moreover, scientists believes that the accumulation of stress-induced damage in the stem cells can make one more prone to cancer. Experiments conducted in this study showed that cell division that takes place under stress leads to an increased production of reactive metabolites. These substances can damage DNA, causing the death of stem cells or leading to mutations that can contribute to cancer.
Understanding how to prevent the aging of stem cells or DNA mutations and damage could be the key to delaying the aging process and reducing the risk of developing certain forms of cancer, concludes Dr. Trumpp, co-author of the study’s research paper.
Protect your stem cells for healthy skin and a youthful appearance
The study is not the only one to prove a connection between sleep and the health of stem cells. Another paper, published in the journal of Cell Research by scientists from the University of California Irvine, showed that circadian rhythms regulate the metabolism of skin stem cells, and that getting enough sleep during the night can maintain healthy cell division, nurturing stem cell differentiation .
Although the study was conducted on mice, the findings are worth exploring further to determine whether a disruption in the healthy circadian rhythm can alter the normal function of stem cells, leading to accelerated aging.
Professors Andersen and Gratton, who conducted the Irvine study, focused on the effects stem cells have on the skin, already knowing that stem cells found in the dermal layers protect the skin and help in the repairing the epidermis after injuries.
Using innovative technologies, the two researchers measured the metabolic state of stem cells, discovering that the circadian clock does regulate one form of intermediary metabolism in target cells. According to researchers, it’s the same component of metabolism that creates oxygen radicals, harmful substances that can cause DNA damage.
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MIT today announced an innovative solution aimed at giving students an alternative to swapping music online. Built around the existing on-campus cable television infrastructure, it relies on a blanket licensing approach that offers a possible model for solving the Internet file-sharing dilemma.
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Yesterday was Day Four of the five-day camp I'm running at Fairhill Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia, with 14 players, ages 6 to 12. (John and Wen Hsu are assistant coaches, with Wen the administrator.) The focus yesterday was footwork (as usual), serving, and lots and lots of smashing. We also did a lot of relay races.
After four days of camp, all 14 of the kids can hit forehands and backhands pretty well, at least in multiball. All can smash, push, and move side to side. Most can put spin on their serves. I think I've put more emphasis in this camp on smashing and serves, and the players are well ahead on those two aspects. All were beginners when we started on Monday, though some had been playing on their own.
When I do multiball forehand smash training, I like to do two players at a time. One stands on the forehand side, the other on the backhand side. The one on the forehand side starts, smashing three forehands in a row, one from the forehand side, one from the backhand side, and one from the forehand side. After the third shot he steps back, and the other player gets three smashes, one from the backhand side, one from the forehand side, and one from the backhand side. Then he steps back, and we repeat with the other player. The drill is continuous, so the players get lots of smashing and footwork practice. If I have a lot of players, I'll do three or more players at a time, with the players smashing forehands from the backhand and then forehand side, and then circling back to the end of the line as the next player gets two smashes. There are many variations, such as smashing on the forehand side and then backhand side, or mixing in backhand smashes, or even doing the "2-1" drill, with the players hitting a backhand from the backhand side, then a forehand from the backhand side, then a forehand from the forehand side, and then rotating to the end of the line.
Sometimes a simple suggestion cures a problem. One kid was having difficulty timing his forehand - over and over he'd start too soon or too late, and end up with wild swats and lunges. I suggested he start his forward swing right as the ball hit the table, and presto! Instant success. Another couldn't get spin on his serve because he kept patting at the ball. I reminded him that serving with spin is a violent motion, and that if you want the ball to spin 100 mph, you have to get the racket to move 100 mph. Within minutes he was serving serious backspins that often stopped over the table, with a couple even coming back into the net.
I brought out the serving bar so they could practice serving low. (This is an adjustable bar that goes over the net. Here's a picture of it set high, and here's a picture of it set low. John Olsen made this for our club. It has about ten height settings.) The kids had a great time trying to serve under the lowest setting - they insisted on that one. Even I hit the bar about 1/3 of the time with that setting. I also brought out the soccer-colored balls for more spin feedback on serves. Besides spin serves we also practice fast serves.
I spent the last 20 minutes of the day serving to the kids, who lined up to try to return them. I'd call out where their returns would go in advance, even having kids take turns standing to the side and catching the returns off my sidespin serves. Then I started telling them what they had to do to return them, and some of them were able to make some returns. I also threw in a lot of "trick" serves - backspin serves that bounced back and over the net, under-the-leg serves, fast serves, "blowing serves" (where I'd serve high but then run to the side of the table and blow the ball sideways or back into the net on the opponent's side), and about a dozen others. I also threw in a few 50-foot serves from the side.
Zhang Jike: The Two-Toned Ball is Okay
Plastic Ball Reviews from Professionals
Here's the article, with reviews from five world-class players.
Hong Kong Cadet and Junior Open
100-Day Countdown to Change in the ITTF's Presidency
Former USATT President Sheri Pittman Cioroslan is doing an article every day during the last 100 days of Adham Sharara's ITTF presidency, counting downwards from 100. Previous ones are linked from the USATT News page, as well as in my past blogs. Seventy-six down, 24 to go!
- Day 25: Alison Burchell Hopes to See the ITTF Become the Best Integrated IF
Athletes in Excellence
Here's the info page. "The Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development recognizes exceptional athletes who uphold the values of good sportsmanship and fair play on the field as well as off the field. Do you know of an athlete who spends countless hours volunteering their skills and time to better the lives of others? Submit your nomination to The Foundation for Global Sports Development, and share the athlete’s good deeds around the world. A total of ten athletes (five international and five domestic) will be awarded unrestricted grants each in the amount of $10,000. Award winners will be announced in fall of 2014."
Three Amazing Points
Here's the video (1:54). Ding Ning vs. Seo Hyowon, Ma Long vs. Jun Mazutani, and Ma Long vs. Fan Zhendong.
Casts of Hot in Cleveland and Glee Play Ping Pong
Doug McDermott vs. Nick Johnson - NBA Basketball Players Play TT
Here's the article, with a link to a 16-sec video.
World Series of Beer Pong
Here's the info page. Oh Jeez!!!
Ulf Carlsson Playing with Racket in Pants
Here's the video (20 sec) of the 1985 World Men's Doubles Champion (with Mikael Appelgren).
Cat Playing Table Tennis
It's been a while since I've shown a video of a cat playing table tennis, so here's one (26 sec) that's probably the best pong-playing cat I've seen on video. We'll ignore that he's standing on the table, touching the net, has no racket, and isn't wearing legal attire.
Non-TT: Top Ten Ways for Orioles Fans to Cope with a Winning Team
After 14 consecutive losing seasons (1998-2011), the fans of the Baltimore Orioles pretty much got used to losing. They have begun winning the last three years, but many fans are still not used to this weird thing called "winning." So here is my Top Ten List for how they can cope - published at Orioles Hangout. (Here's the thread on their forum where a few are discussing the list.)
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Info about Sentinel, Oklahoma (United States)
Sentinel is a locality in Oklahoma, in United States (US).
Sentinel names are also Barton, Sentinel, its latitude is 35.1578300, and its longitude is -99.1753600.
With 901 inhabitants, this city timezone is America/Chicago (America/Chicago_cet).
Things to do in Sentinel are climbing, geological formations, water sports, secret over United States.
More details about Sentinel in United States (US)
In Sentinel live 901 inhabitants, if we consider 2010 census. Do You want to dial local numbers. You can use 580 as local dialing code for calling local phone numbers. Sentinel postal code is 73664, for this reason, if you want to send anything via post in Sentinel this can be done by using this postal code as per description.
Its dimension is 1 square km., so Sentinel is very small place a nice solution for trippers that like small destinations as a cheap base location on a trip, an incredibly calm area with no confusion that you find in large cities. Here you can find cheap accommodations due to Sentinel economic room costs, and this is why you and your friends could have it as basecamp to move across United States and Sentinel near things to do.
Sentinel meters above mean sea level, specifically meters above sea level (MASL), is about 500 meters. That is why it is a perfect destination when you and firends want high ground to go to for your next holiday and love trail if you are on holiday to visit new places.
Sentinel things to do and activities: best trip destination for:
Interactive Sentinel (United States) Map and attractions
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Alan Wiggens: “The dog in the photo was trained to identify life after earthquakes. His posture and the fact of staying fixed as seen in the image is the posture that tells the rescuer that there is life in that place. And look at nothing more and nothing less where and in front of who is placed: in front of Christ Eucharist, living God among us. Glories and praises to Jesus Sacramented, alive and glorious. Amen!” See here.
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“Saint Hippolytus had been an antipope during the pontificate of Pope Saint Callistus. He was banished to Sardinia where he submitted to the legitimate Pope and urged his followers to submit also. He atoned for his sins by his martyrdom.” https://t.co/NF4UsOJlFj18 hours ago
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“One day, when the Saracens were besieging Assisi and trying to enter the Convent of Saint Damian where she and her nuns lived, she lifted up a monstrance in which the Blessed Sacrament had been placed and called upon Jesus to put the Saracens to flight…” https://t.co/jaXM7qORXi2 days ago | <urn:uuid:4124971a-1f66-4be5-ae9e-300126470712> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicism.org/photo-of-watchdog-on-duty-before-tabernacle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973184 | 279 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Tinnitus: Sounds Heard Without An External Source
Covid-19 may make people’s tinnitus worse https://t.co/KM2tJzl9hd
— NBC News Health (@NBCNewsHealth) November 5, 2020
Health Editor’s Note: Many of us are afflicted with a condition called tinnitus which varies from being a ringing, buzzing, whooshing, or hissing noises heard by only ourselves. You are never in a completely quiet environment because tinnitus is always there in some amount. We might have gotten this annoyance by exposure to loud noises, damage to the inner ear, and stress. Now we find that the coronavirus could increase the symptoms. Even stress of dealing with the pandemic as well as from life and the presidential election can amplify tinnitus.
Some COVID-19 patients have decreased hearing even when they have had no previous hearing issues before contracting the virus. The damage to the hearing mechanism could bey caused b the body’s immune response to coronavirus.
Now to sort out whether new tinnitus symptoms are caused by the coronavirus or the stress of worrying about getting sick from coronavirus…..Carol
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. | <urn:uuid:aae7e484-114c-435f-b505-5bebf63e72a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/06/covid-19-may-make-tinnitus-worse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964583 | 397 | 2.28125 | 2 |
If you live near the tropical coast of Queensland, or visit this area, please consider helping to build up better information about PIP/TIP behaviour and habitat use.
PIPs/TIPs are easy birds to identify. Timing of your participation is flexible; you decide what suits you. Any clear and accurate information will be valuable.
If you can spare a few hours on one afternoon, please consider doing a coast count during November, December and January.
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For years, Illinois' high school juniors took the ACT college entrance exam for free at school, like their brothers and sisters and friends before them.
Many students took ACT precursor tests in junior high and early in high school, or signed up for ACT prep classes after school or during the summer. That would lead to the actual ACT exam, which the state has covered for 11th-graders since 2001 as a way to get kids of all backgrounds on the path to college.
But with school starting within weeks in most parts of the state, districts have no clue if a free ACT exam will be given to juniors in the spring because of uncertainty in Springfield about funding and state testing.
And there's a significant twist: The ACT may not be the state-paid college entrance test administered, if one is given.
The testing giant's contract with Illinois expired June 30, and ACT's archrival, the College Board's SAT, is preparing to compete for a new pact. This year, the College Board won a similar testing contract in Michigan, making significant inroads into the Midwest, where the ACT has been popular.
If the College Board wins in Illinois, public school juniors long conditioned to take the ACT will suddenly take the SAT — and a new one at that. The SAT has been redesigned and will be given starting in March 2016. Both tests produce scores that can be submitted to colleges and universities, and both can be taken on a national testing date outside of the school day, with students paying unless their fees are waived. It's not uncommon for students to take both.
Continuing to offer a free college entrance exam takes money, and that remains an issue as lawmakers wrangle with Gov. Bruce Rauner over the state budget. The Illinois State Board of Education still has no assessment dollars for statewide exams in 2015-16, provoking local districts to create a backup plan: Use their own funds to give the ACT to their juniors in spring 2016.
About five dozen districts so far, including some of the largest and most affluent in the state, have signed on with ACT to administer the exam, typically in March or April, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. The price of the test ranges from $39.50 to $56.50 per student, depending on whether a writing section is included.
Local administrators and ACT officials have confirmed that districts can cancel those exams if the state board decides to pay for a statewide college entrance test.
"I think in general there is an expectation that this type of test be provided, based on historical precedence," said Patrick Nolten, who oversees assessment in the sprawling Indian Prairie School District 204 based in Aurora. "There is community interest in using a well-regarded high-stakes test" that can be used for college admissions, Nolten said.
His district would spend at least $100,000 to give the ACT to some 2,300 juniors, Nolten said, though "everyone is sort of crossing their fingers that the state delivers."
Districts including New Trier 203, Hinsdale 86, Glenbard 87, Maine 207, Evanston 202 and Elmhurst 205 have signed up with ACT or are considering giving the exam in the spring if the state doesn't pay for it. Chicago Public Schools has not signed on, a district spokesman said.
"One of the things that people care the most about is post-secondary opportunities," said David Bain, an associate superintendent at Community High School District 117 in north suburban Lake Villa, which has signed on to offer juniors the ACT at district expense. "We still see college entrance exams as being one of the most important assessments for our students and families."
Beginning in 2001, the ACT became an integral part of required state exams given annually in Illinois. But last year, the State Board of Education bumped the ACT from the roster of required state tests, instead making it optional for districts in 2015. The state agreed to pay for the optional ACT for the 2014-15 school year, while new PARCC exams were launched for third- through eighth-graders and some high school students.
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams test students in math and English language arts and literacy, and is based on Common Core standards that focus on critical thinking and problem-solving.
The exams spurred confusion and rebellion across the state last school year, over everything from the computer format to the lengthy hours of testing that caused hundreds of students to skip the exams. This coming year, PARCC tests will be condensed and take less time, changes that may appease parents who allowed their children to opt out.
Meanwhile, high school administrators have grown increasingly concerned about the exams because, unlike ACT and SAT, PARCC is not used for college admissions.
That pushed the issue of a state-paid college entrance exam into the General Assembly, where Sen. William Delgado, a Chicago Democrat and chairman of the Education Committee, filed legislation to ensure that the state would administer an annual test that could be used for college admissions.
The bill was approved by lawmakers and sent to the governor's office. A Rauner spokeswoman said the governor has not yet taken action on it.
Of concern to Delgado is that the free college entrance test for juniors was designed to give all kids a chance to go to college even if they never dreamed they'd qualify.
As it stands, students in districts that signed up with ACT will get to take the exam in the spring, while students in other districts won't unless they schedule and pay for it on their own. That creates inequities if the board of education doesn't give a statewide college entrance test. "They're just making the situation worse," Delgado said.
The ACT has four sections — English, reading, math, and science — with a top composite score of 36. There's also an optional writing test. The redesigned SAT includes tests in reading, writing and language, and math, with a top score of 1600. There's an optional essay.
The two testing organizations would be in intense competition for what would be a huge contract — more than 100,000 public school juniors in Illinois have taken the state-paid ACT college entrance exam annually since 2001. In recent years, Illinois has paid more than $100 million to ACT to administer the exam to juniors as well as the ACT precursor tests for younger students, state records show.
In Illinois' graduating Class of 2014, 158,037 students took the ACT exam — the largest number of test-takers of any state in the nation. That includes public high school juniors in Illinois who took the ACT at school as part of state testing in spring 2013, as well as public and private school sophomores, juniors and seniors who took the exam at various testing sites.
Testing data show 1.8 million students in the Class of 2014 took the ACT in the U.S., with almost every Midwest state showing high percentages of graduates taking the exam.
The College Board reported that 1.67 million students took the SAT, which includes students who are citizens of other countries. In the U.S., SAT attracts a significant number of test-takers in East Coast states as well as California. In Illinois, only 6,468 students in the Class of 2014 took the SAT.
Still, the SAT has name recognition in Illinois, in part because of the PSAT test that can qualify students for merit scholarships. In addition, students and families are familiar with the College Board's popular AP courses, with scores on AP exams potentially giving students college credit.
The College Board is reviewing Illinois' request for proposals for a college entrance exam, "And we stand ready to help more Illinois students benefit from all that our redesigned assessments have to offer," said Cyndie Schmeiser, chief of assessment at the testing organization.
While Illinois districts have long been associated with ACT, some administrators are open to a change.
Jeffrey Smith, director of research and evaluation in Arlington Heights-based Township High School District 214, said the district has signed up to give the ACT to juniors this spring if the state doesn't come through with funding. But he isn't ruling out that SAT could win the contract in Illinois, given that the College Board was successful in getting Michigan's contract.
"We have looked at the SAT, and we've talked to them and we've been interested," Smith said.
ACT spokesman Ed Colby said, "We believe that the ACT is the most effective measure of college and career readiness in the industry. Our understanding is that the redesigned SAT will look considerably more like the ACT. We perceive that, in part, to be a testimony to the success of the format and design that the ACT has maintained since it was introduced more than 50 years ago."
In Elmhurst 205, administrators signed up to give the ACT in the spring, but district spokeswoman Melea Smith said that if there's a switch to the SAT, students likely will adjust. "I feel like if they are academically prepared, they should be able to take either test. I think the parents might be freaking out more than kids." | <urn:uuid:bc517b2f-4d3f-4adf-aaf7-5b3d487fc346> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-act-sat-state-tests-met-20150724-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.970927 | 1,884 | 2.125 | 2 |
Their impressive stature and long-lasting existence are a testament to their splendor. They provide us with plenty of things, from fruits as well as shade and the building materials. This video will present some surprising facts about trees. If you own a tree that you need to be removed, it is worth calling a professional tree company.
It is not uncommon that giant trees are found. The Sequoia trees found in northern California form the Redwood Forest. It even has car tunnels in these trees. It is possible to build a house inside of these trees, just like the characters in The Lord of the Rings. They are also very old.
We humans and trees have one of a kind connection. In reality, we’re dependent upon each other. The oxygen we breathe is produced by trees. In fact, it takes about two trees to provide enough oxygen for a family of four. Humans make carbon dioxide which is what trees need to be healthy. This creates a kind of positive and mutually beneficial ecosystem. This is also why it’s important to protect our forests. | <urn:uuid:1fb5a07e-6eb5-4a49-8e2e-5f65a379968e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seoresellersblog.com/2022/04/unusual-tree-facts-entertainment-videos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966317 | 229 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Impact of COVID-19 on Mission Education Center
The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America.
Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased.
SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school.
Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores,
enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.
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This benchtop test provides empirical evidence for the continued structural integrity of the devices when subjected to mechanical fatigue replicating in vivo conditions. The test is designed to simulate the device radial fatigue due to expansion and contraction of the surrounding vessel. Physiological strain of a healthy vessel is first modeled using mock arteries implanted with the device. The test is then accelerated to obtain results in less time than physiological rates would allow. The test is conducted under simulated physiological conditions with saline at 37°C.
Commonly tested devices include:
The testing objective is to meet the requirements for in vitro mechanical fatigue testing stated in ASTM F2477-07 “Standard Test Methods for in vitro Pulsatile Durability Testing of Vascular Stents” as well as ISO 25539-1, 7198:1998, and 99128. The test demonstrates the integrity of the device under mechanical fatigue for a minimum of 10 years post-implantation. A device failure is defined by the device manufacturer (for example, any broken or cracked strut visible at 30x magnification during or at the end of the test). The device manufacturer will also examine the devices post-testing against the acceptance and/or failure criteria.
MDT uses ElectroForce 9100 Series Stent Testers which operate on the principle of fluid displacement. The SGTs are fitted with custom fittings to accommodate tubes with a customer-defined radius to simulate the device's physiological deployment site. Electrodynamic linear motors on each end of the tester apply a sinusoidal pumping action which forces fluid into and out of mock arteries causing them to expand and contract. A laser micrometer measures the radial strain by scanning the outside diameter of the arteries at 1200 scans per second. The laser heads are mounted on a multi-axis micrometer to accommodate measurements along the radius.
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|> 5.0mm||4- 8||Device-dependent||Up to 45Hz|
*estimates based on 3% - 5% physiological compliance
MDT tests are conducted in accordance with ANSI/ISO/IEC 17025-2005. Testing schedules and resource needs are determined during project kickoff meetings with MDT engineers and the customer. The services are performed in accordance with standard operating procedures and test protocols specific to the service. Standard tests do not begin without a protocol signed by both the customer and an MDT representative. For feasibility or non-standard tests, MDT will develop a method and protocol with customer input and will review the final process with the customer prior to initiation of the test.
The test equipment software monitors the cycle count, displacement, and pressure throughout the duration of the test. MDT engineers monitor the test daily and record the temperature and pressure for the system, as well as the outside radial strain at predetermined positions for each device being tested. MDT sends weekly updates to ensure customers are apprised of the status of their test. Updates include raw data collected throughout the week for the customer’s analysis.
MDT offers several inspection methods including:
MDT tests are conducted in accordance with ANSI/ISO/IEC 17025-2005. In compliance with this standard, MDT test reports include comprehensive documentation and summary of the test protocol and results. All reports are GLP compliant and can be submitted directly to regulatory agencies. Any test method deviations, additions or exclusions are documented and reviewed with the customer prior to beginning the test. Information within the report includes the specific test conditions, statements of compliance with test protocol, and the estimated measurement uncertainty. The reported results only relate to the items tested. Any opinions and interpretations provided will be clearly marked as such in the test report. Additional information required by customer-specific methods will also be noted. At the conclusion of the test, MDT provides the customer with a Microsoft Windows formatted CD containing copies of all raw data, inspection results, and other information collected during the test (see example test reports).
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Successful training about Business and Human Rights in India
The training “Responsible Business Behaviour for Creating Child Labour Free Zones” strenghtens organizations in cooperating with companies to realize child labour free production in India.
In November 2017, the first training sessions on Business and Human Rights, that are planned under the Stop Child Labour programme ‘Getting Down to Business’ (2017 -2019), took place in Uganda and Mali. The last training under this programme took place from 26 – 27 March 2018 in Dehli, India. The training was organized by the Stop Child Labour India Platform.
Also in India there was a lot of interest in the training, which was organized as a first step towards further collaboration between local organizations and companies in setting up child labour free zones. Each sector has different challenges and opportunities with regard to such collaboration. The trainings have contributed greatly to the exchange of ideas and best practices between different sectors and actors. And provided new insights on how to work together in the fight against child labour.
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Harry Potter fans are some of the most dedicated in the world, and even though the entire series takes place in a fictional realm, that doesn’t mean things wouldn’t be different if the demographic was. It’s no secret that most of the students at Hogwarts are white–so how different the would the school be like if they incorporated Black culture? A hilarious hashtag started trending on Thursday: #BlackHogwarts, and people are imagining the scenarios that would go down at school if the students at Hogwarts were Black. These tweets absolutely nail the differences between what Harry Potter shows, and how things would go differently at Black Hogwarts.
The lesson plans in class would inevitably a little bit different
But sorting would still stress everyone out just the same.
And if anything is for certain, Rick Ross would most definitely play the role of Hagrid…
Peep the next couple of pages to see all of the other things that would go just a little bit different at Black Hogwarts. | <urn:uuid:deb78c1e-4004-4524-9874-e700662de22f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalgrind.com/4246735/black-harry-potter-fans-are-imagining-how-different-hogwarts-would-be-if-they-attended/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.961991 | 202 | 1.554688 | 2 |
KIDZANIA LONDON LAUNCHES UK’s FIRST ENTREPRENUER FESTIVAL FOR KIDS
Whether your child is a media mogul in the making, or hatching plans for digital domination, more and more children are taking the world of business head on. To celebrate and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs, KidZania London, the indoor city built for kids located at Westfield, London, Shepherd’s Bush, is hosting its first ever KidPreneur Festival on Saturday 11 November.
The festival is designed to champion kids in the real world and teach kids the skills they need to set up their own businesses and make their dreams a reality. KidZania’s first KidPreneur Festival welcomes some of the UK’s most inspiring young entrepreneurs to the main city stage. Children aged 4-14 years can learn first hand from some of the UK’s youngest and brightest minds, from nine-year-old robotic whizz kid Callum Daniels CEO of iCodeRobot, to global teen influencer Inspiring Vanessa and13-year-old lifestyle brand CEO Henry Patterson, to find out what a day-in-the-life of a KidPreneur looks like. Discover how these KidPreneurs got to where they are today. The event aims to blend learning with entertainment for a fun-packed day. Speakers will include;
- Nine year-old robotic whizz kid Callum Daniels who is CEO of robotics company iCodeRobots, which teaches kids between the ages of six and 12 how to build and code robots. He set the company up aged 8 years old and has received sponsorship from Loughborough University London and the London Design and Engineering University Technical College (LDEUTC)
- 13 year-old lifestyle brand CEO Henry Patterson is currently writing a book entitled ‘How to Double Your Pocket Money’. His entrepreneurial path begun at the age of just five and he began to buy toys at car boot sales and re-sell them on eBay. The business which has made him successful is his online shop Not Before Tea. His grandma always used to say to him ‘not before tea‘ and he began by selling unusual sweets in jars, which is where the name originated. His business now manufactures over 40 products and these are sold in over 75 retailers across Europe.
- Alex Brownsell started hairdressing at the age of 12 and launched Bleach London, a hair salon based in East London aged 20. Alex’s business successes also include launching a product line in Boots and a pop up bar. Alex’s latest business venture is Hairmoji - a hair crafting tapestry kit aimed at kids
Eddie Kemsley CEO KidZania London says; “We are thrilled to be launching our first KidPreneur festival which aims to encourage children to think creatively and learn vital life and business skills. We hope the event will be a fun and entertaining way for children to be inspired about their future careers.”
Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor for Business, said: “You are never too young to start your own business! This event will celebrate the next generation of London entrepreneurs – and encourage youngsters to think creatively and develop ideas that could change the way we live and work.”
Mark Hilton, Skills Director at business group London First, said:“It’s clear that the earlier we start getting kids interested in the world of work, the more options open up to them in later life. Festivals like this offer a great introduction to the wide choice of careers ahead of young people, and to their future opportunities”
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Artist and designer Erin Kelly doesn’t like to get too comfortable when it comes to her faith.
She’d known about the Catholic studies major before choosing St. Thomas, but she was worried it would be “too safe.”
“I thought, ‘I’m already Catholic; what more do I need to know?’” But then a friend invited her to Mass at Sitzmann Hall. “I quickly became drawn to the building, the professors and the program. I saw it was anything but comfortable; in fact, every day, every class was so challenging and emotional and pushed me to be uncomfortable – in the best, most beautiful way.”
Kelly, who since graduating St. Thomas has been active in communicating “that Catholic thing” in writing, design and art, noted just how important beauty is in forming the soul and how difficult it is for organizations to find truly Catholic creatives who can effectively communicate the deepest and most beautiful truths of the faith. Her companies specifically serve Catholic organizations and individuals, helping them to communicate their message and mission to modern audiences through targeted storytelling.
“[Josef Piper once said], and I agree, that ‘man’s ability to see is in decline,’” she says. “I also think our ability to create is in decline. There isn’t much space for art, creativity, silence, musing, leisure or hobbies these days … But the joy of creating is good for the soul, as is the beauty of the art itself. It calls us outside of ourselves. It makes our world a little bit bigger. And it’s OK and even good to use modern communication methods to bring beauty into the world. We have to speak in a language that our audience can understand to lead them to the beauty. … Beauty is a vehicle for communication and conversion.” | <urn:uuid:95f1c683-bf89-4a7b-aaff-b45737c284d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.stthomas.edu/publication-article/the-illustrator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.974608 | 395 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Industrial casters rust, is a common phenomenon.
Is also a heavy duty castor, some is easy to rust, some are hard to rust.
In a humid place of industrial caster wheel is easy to rust, kept in dry places of ultra-low heavy-duty casters but it is not very easy to rust;
Exposed in the air casters is easy to rust, the paint of the suspension castor wasn't very easy to rust.
Why will appear this kind of phenomenon?
Heavy duty castor rust and what factors?
Through the experiment we found that water and oxygen is to make the cause of industrial casters are easy to rust.
Light has water won't rust industrial casters, only when the oxygen dissolved in the water in the air, oxygen in water environment and heavy-duty casters chemical reactions occur, will generate something called oxidation castor, this is the castor rust.
Castor is a substance of palm red rust, it is easy to fall off.
After a castor completely rust, the volume can be increased 8 times.
If you don't remove castor rust, the spongy castor rust is particularly easy to absorb moisture, castor will rust faster.
Know the secrets of industrial casters rust, we can effectively prevent the formation of castor rust.
Casters in wet or humid place easier than dry place of heavy duty castor to rust, because industrial casters in wet or humid place easier than dry place shock absorption castor contact with water.
And painted the ultra heavy duty caster wheel is not easy to rust because of the paint have played an important role in isolation from the air and water.
And if you want to reduce industrial casters rust, can from the conclusion of experiment, arbitrary cut off one of the conditions of rusty.
If paint above and then cut off the heavy duty castor and air of contacts to prevent rust products.
Surface treatment of castor, is one of the important measures to effectively prevent the caster and rust, its main divided into galvanized and electrophoresis two methods, the two methods are widely used, not only because of its unique antirust effect, but also has other advantages, specific as follows: galvanized surface treatment advantage 1, low processing cost, the cost of galvanized anti-rust than other paint coating cost is low;
2, rust resistance is strong, galvanized after processing of castor for years is not easy to rust;
3 good, reliable performance, the metallurgical bonding between the galvanized layer and steel, as steel part surface, so the coating durability is more reliable;
4 strong toughness, coating, galvanized layer to form a kind of special metallurgical structure, can withstand the caster's movement and use by mechanical damage;
5, comprehensive protection, plating pieces of each part can be galvanized, even in the universal wheel, castor sag, sharp corners and hidden can be fully protected;
6, do not affect welding, metal surface can still be welded after galvanized processing, such as: welding after assembly.
Advantage 1 electrophoresis surface treatment, the intensity is high, when the temperature is 150 ℃ baking, the hardness can be up to 3 -
2, good flowing property, paint film feeling is strong, paint film is slippery feeling good;
3, good adhesion and penetration, coating pervasive, wet film and dry film adhesion is strong;
4, resistance to discoloration and corrosion performance, when baking temperature reaches 180 ℃ -
190 ℃ artifacts also does not change color, such castor lasting bright color products, excellent corrosion effect;
5, electrophoresis uniformity is good, paint film is uniform flat, in the 30 -
Can pass over to 10-150 - v
25 um, high efficiency, low power consumption;
6, impact resistance and good artificial sweat resistance;
7, electrophoresis all sorts of color, such as: black, brown, red, blue, green and other kinds of color, cooperate with matte ion, also can achieve a dumb and other effects.
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Summer causes many families to fall out of healthy routines. While the kids are out of school, you’re taking family vacations, staying home more and probably having a little too much ice cream!
Here at 1Dental, we have a lot of families with young children, so we made this list of tips for getting back in gear and creating a healthy back-to-school routine for your kids.
1. Get Enough Sleep
This back-to-school tip goes for both you and your kids! Preparing for a good morning begins the night before.
Most kids and teens need 7-9 hours of sleep — and really, that’s a great amount for you, too — but small children need even more. Here is a handy resource to discover how many hours of sleep your kids need at each age.
Another Sleep Tip: Make each bedroom a “screen-free zone.” Blue light affects everyone’s ability to get a good night’s sleep, especially kids.
Recommending “getting more sleep” is one thing — but how do you reset kids’ internal clocks when you’ve been lax about sleep schedules all summer?
2. Be Active Together
One way to help kids get more sleep is to get your energy out as a family! Here are some great ideas for incorporating natural movement into your family schedule:
This family activity has the added benefit of teaching your kids to like vegetables! Kids are more likely to be excited to try something they’ve worked for and helped grow with their own hands. Here are some ideas for veggies you can grow with your kids.
Whether you each jump on a bike or have a couple of shared bikes, riding bikes together as a family is a great way to be active and have fun!
Walking the Dog
Since you have to walk the dog anyway, why not walk him as a family? Another idea is going to a local dog park together.
Being active together as a family will also have the added effect of naturally reducing kids’ screen time — and they’ll be having so much fun they’ll hardly notice.
Exercise Tip: Exercise should be either a morning activity or right after kids get out of school. Your kids need time to calm down before bedtime so exercise doesn’t interfere with their sleep.
3. Make Healthy Meals
Another important part of a healthy back-to-school routine (not to mention taking care of your children’s teeth and preventing cavities) is eating right. Eating well helps kids pay better attention in class, sleep better and get sick less frequently.
It’s not always easy to pack more veggies into your kid’s lunch box, but here are some ideas to help:
- Sneak them into smoothies! Baby kale and spinach blend in easily and don’t have much taste — especially when combined with powerful flavors like banana or peanut butter.
- Make a healthy veggie dip, and present the veggies in a fun, snackable way (bento box, ants-on-a-log and cute veggie critters are just a few examples)
- Put more vegetables into your soups. Especially if they’re chopped up small and mixed with other things like meat and potatoes, your kids may not even notice they’re there!
4. Schedule Dental Appointments for the Year
If you’ve tried calling a dentist recently, you may have noticed that back-to-school time is one of the most difficult times to get an appointment! You are competing with all the other parents.
Instead, why not arrange all your appointments in advance throughout the year? Find a dentist in your area with flexible hours so your kids don’t even have to miss school. Many dentists now keep some Saturday and evening hours.
Start keeping an Excel sheet or Google calendar with each of the yearly appointments your kids need — checkup at the doctor, cleaning at the dentist, and whatever else they may require — and go ahead and schedule each appointment months in advance. Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease in children, so yearly dental checkups are not something you can afford for your children to miss.
5. Make Hydration a Habit
As much as possible, try to minimize sugary sodas and other drinks in your household, and make water your family’s drink of choice. Set a good example for your kids by drinking lots of water yourself!
Make drinking water fun for your kids. Here are some great ways to do that:
- Infuse it with some fruit
- Freeze some berries into ice cube trays
- Use the “When…then” approach: “When you’re done drinking this big cup of water, then you can go play” or something similar
- Make it a family rule that when you eat out, you each have to get a glass of water in addition to (or instead of) another drink, and drink at least half of it.
6. Prepare the Night Before
In building healthy back-to-school habits, one way to make school mornings less stressful is to do as much as possible the night before. Involve your kids in the preparation! Ease your own burdens while giving your kids greater agency and responsibility.
- Let your kids help select their lunch
- Give them choices and let them assemble their own bento box or lunch box
- Pick out outfits the night before, and give your kids as many opportunities to choose as possible
- Have an organized “school shelf” with their backpack, notebooks and anything else they may need
7. Create a Healthy Habits Checklist
Many parents make a morning/evening routine chart for their little ones. This is a fun way to encourage healthy habits and develop responsibility in your kids!
You can use stickers, dry erase markers or Velcro to check off items on the chart when they’ve done each activity.
Your healthy habits checklist might include:
- Brushing Teeth
- Washing Face
- Combing Hair
- Picking Up Toys
- Taking a Bath
- Making Lunch
And whatever else makes sense for you and your child.
Forming a Healthy Back-to-School Routine
Back-to-school time doesn’t have to be stressful; it can be a lot of fun for your kids and can help them grow as they learn responsibility! You might try focusing on each of these habits one-by-one and gradually adding one as each gets mastered in the weeks leading up to going back to school.
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Named for the appearance of the large seedheads that look like overloaded ice cream cones. Selected out of 'Brightest Brilliant', this new variety reaches 6-7' tall with little branching when spaced a foot apart in rows 16" apart. The large heads ripen uniformly, making harvest more straight-forward than in varieties with many large branches. Seeds are white or buff in color. We are still learning the growing range and traits of this variety. Excellent yield and performance overall in Kevin Murphy’s 2013 WSU trials. Farm Original Variety! OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety.
Oregon Tilth Certified Organic Seed!
Scientific Name: Chenopodium quinoa
Seed Count Information:
- Seeds Per Packet: 500
- Seeds Per Gram: 714
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Available in 24V DC power supply with battery back-up or 230V AC mains power supply as required. Natural smoke ventilation uses the inherent buoyancy of hot smoke to rise above escape routes thus leaving the occupants with a greater chance of making a safe escape. By introducing automatic window at high level that open upon detection of smoke, the smoke is allowed to escape to the atmosphere.
Automatic opening inlet windows at low level maintain the smoke reservoir at a safe level above head height to increase occupant’s visibility during escape.
It may be advantageous to use the windows (which are already installed in the fabric of the building) to provide additional fresh air to supplement an existing heating and cooling strategy. Control of the windows can deliver a low cost solution.
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Grey was knighted in 1475 and was nominated four times to membership of The Most Noble Order of the Garter between 1476 and 1482. His political role also started in 1475, the year he was knighted, when he began to serve in Wales and the bordering English counties as part of the political rule of the council of his other half-brother, Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward V). Grey served as a Justice of the Peace in Herefordshire from 1475 and sat at sessions of the peace in Hereford and Ludlow in 1476 and 1477.
He was a friend of Philip Doddridge, was well known to Samuel Johnson, who admired his learning, and was intimate with John Moore. He died 28 February 1771, and was buried at Hinton, where he had been rector for fifty years.
Munster (Irish:an Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan, pronounced[ə ˈvuːnʲ], [ˌkuːgʲə ˈmuːn]) is one of the provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, it was one of the "fifths" ruled by a "king of over-kings" Irish:rí ruirech. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties.
Munster has no official function for local government purposes. For the purposes of the ISO, the province is listed as one of the provincial sub-divisions of the State (ISO 3166-2:IE) and coded as "IE-M". Geographically, Munster covers a total area of 24,675km2 (9,527sqmi) and has a population of 1,246,088 with the most populated city being Cork. Other significant urban centres in the province include Limerick and Waterford.
Münster is located between Rain and Thierhaupten. The village is separated in a lower an a higher part, because it's built on the Lechrain.
Coat of arms
On the coat of arms of Münster in the lower part a swung line, representing the river Lech, is drawn on red and silver ground. The key and sword stand for the two patron saints of the local parish St. Peter and Paul.
The Munsterkerk is the most important example of Late Romanesque architecture in the Netherlands. It's the only surviving part of an abbey, the rest of which was demolished in 1924. The church was restored by architect P.J.H. Cuypers between 1863 and 1890; during this restoration the frontal towers were added while a Baroque tower was removed and the originally octagonal eastern towers were replaced by square ones. | <urn:uuid:375f347a-3e85-4e01-af63-3c6c60138aa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fr.wn.com/Munster_(Album_Edit)_Richard_Grey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.981047 | 604 | 2.75 | 3 |
Endodontists' specialized training will put you at ease and keep you comfortable.
As with a first visit to many new medical practices, on your initial visit to an endodontist you’ll complete paperwork, which will include your medical history and consent forms. Prepare for your visit with a list of all prescription and over-the-counter medications you take, information on your medical history including any prior dental health issues, and the contact information for a referring dentist.
Completed forms will be reviewed by an assistant who will take X-rays of your teeth before the endodontist sees you. Your endodontist will review your X-rays and paperwork and talk with you about your symptoms before examining the tooth in question along with adjacent teeth. Once the exam and any required tests are completed you’ll discuss treatment options and the benefits and risks associated with each so that you can make an informed decision on how to proceed.
If you decide to receive treatment, it will be scheduled or may start immediately depending upon the severity of the problem with your tooth. Several visits may be necessary to complete the prescribed treatment. Once the procedure is completed X-rays will be taken again to determine the success of the treatment. Before, during and after your procedure you should feel free to address questions or concerns with your endodontist and the office staff.
Recommended Patient Education Video
ENDODONTISTS: THE SUPERHEROES OF SAVING TEETH
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Global Standard Program (Winter Program) – This program is designed to give middle school or high school students a 7-21-day English and cultural immersion experience in one of our partnering schools. Students follow an American student during the first part of the day while the second part of the day is a combination of English lessons and cultural experiences. The program also includes visits to a few top American universities in the Boston area. Students live with a host family during their US stay. Chaperones or parents are welcome to travel with students, but there are no separate programs for parents. This program often takes place during the Lunar New Year holiday in Asia.
Global Academic Program – This program is more demanding than our Global Standard Program. Students attend a partnering school for 3-6 weeks and students are fully immersed in the curriculum of the school. They attend class each day for the full day along with their American partner student. The program includes weekend activities, as well as visits to top American universities. Students live with a host family during their US stay. Chaperones or parents are welcome to travel with students, but there are no separate programs for parents.
Summer Program – This program is a 3-week summer program based in Maine, with an intensive 2-day program held at Harvard University. The program is designed for students of ages 10-16, who are entering grades 6-10, who want to improve their English pronunciation, writing and communication skills while learning about the American culture. All students stay with host families.
The first two weeks of the program is designed to increase a student’s reading ability, vocabulary, pronunciation, as well as writing skills. The program of instruction uses popular children’s literature that provide students with a sense of American culture through story lines.
By reading and discussing the stories with their teachers and other students, GSC summer camp students not only acquire useful vocabulary and improved reading comprehension skills, but also a boost in confidence to use and to communicate in the English language. Students also have opportunities for outdoor activities, including boating, water skiing, tubing and mountain climbing.
During the final week of the summer program students will also be enrolled in Dexter Regional High School and Middle school for 1 week of instruction in English, US History, Math and Physics. This will give students the experience of a US classroom and the same instructional methods used by American teachers in 4 key subject areas (English, History, Math and Science).
The program has an enrollment cap of 12 students to ensure an intensive English experience. Chaperones or parents are welcome to travel with students but there are no separate programs for parents and children will be in the summer program separate from parents.
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10 largest cities in Germany
Frankfurt am Main
Essen is a large city in the center of the Ruhr area and the
Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. After Cologne, Düsseldorf and
Dortmund, Essen is the fourth largest city in the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia and one of the regional centers. The independent
city in the administrative district of Düsseldorf is one of the ten
largest cities in Germany with 582,760 inhabitants (as of December
31, 2019). As an important industrial and business location, Essen
is the seat of well-known large companies and, with the University
of Duisburg-Essen, also a university location. In 1958 the city
became the seat of the newly founded diocese of Essen.
The city on the Ruhr, which dates back to the Frauenstift Essen founded before 850, is a member of the Rhineland Regional Association and the headquarters of the Ruhr Regional Association. As part of the project RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture, Essen was European Capital of Culture in 2010 on behalf of the entire Ruhr area. Due to its central location in the Ruhr area, Essen is also seen as the "secret capital of the Ruhr area".
In addition to the Essen monastery, the Werden monastery founded by Liudger around 800 was a center of the late antique-early Christian text tradition. Elevated to a free imperial city by Emperor Karl IV in the 14th century, Essen had been an armory since the late Middle Ages and with industrialization rose to become one of the most important centers of the coal and steel industry in Germany (with its own Kuxbörse). After a massive decline in heavy industry from the mid-1960s, Essen developed a strong service sector in the course of structural change. Today the Essen Minster and the oldest extant sculptural statue of the Virgin Mary in the Christian West (Golden Madonna) remind us of the city's medieval history. At the same time, monuments of industrial culture bear witness to its heavy industrial past, especially the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein. The cityscape is also characterized by striking high-rise buildings.
With the Folkwang Museum, Essen has a renowned collection of modern paintings, sculptures, graphics and photographs. The opera house, which was built according to plans by Alvar Aalto, the Folkwang University of the Arts, the Grillo Theater and the German Poster Museum are renowned art and cultural institutions.
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions - even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same.
Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the palliative society is transformed into a society of survival. The virus enters the palliative zone of well-being and turns it into a quarantine zone in which life is increasingly focused on survival. And the more life becomes survival, the greater the fear of death: the pandemic makes death, which we had carefully repressed and set aside, visible again. Everywhere, the prolongation of life at any cost is the preeminent value, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything that makes life worth living for the sake of survival.
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RF Radio Frequency – the Latest Generation with Tripolarity Technology and the Biostimulating Laser
A hi-tech treatment in aesthetic medicine, which quickly and effectively improves your appearance – RADIO FREQUENCY (RF). Its scope is very wide, but in short, we can say that it enables the lift of the face, neck and décolletage without the scalpel, not only eliminating the effects of aging but also acting preventively by increasing the density and resistance of the skin. The use of RF also contributes to the reduction of excess body fat, cellulite and helps body shaping.
On the market, there are many types of systems using radio frequency in the struggle for a beautiful appearance but without a doubt, one of the most effective and based on the latest technologies is the Tri-Polarity system with the biostimulating laser.
Who Can Benefit?
The treatments are especially recommended for those who want to keep their youthfulness longer as well as those who expect an intensive care of flabby and wrinkled skin. The system also guarantees excellent results in reducing cellulite and fat.
Effectiveness – Science Above All
Currently on the market, there are three generations of devices based on the technology that uses radio frequency:
The first generation is Mono-Polar, in which one electrode delivers the RF energy, and the second electrode is passive. Current flows through a large area of the body, which does not make this technology effective because the energy is not focused on the place that we would like to correct.
The second generation is Bi-Polar. Both electrodes deliver the RF energy, but this time it is focused on the treated area only.
Third generation is Tri-Polar – three electrodes, through which current flows and the focused energy is delivered. The inventive arrangement of three electrodes in the head of the device increases both efficiency and safety. The waves flow only through the treated surface. In addition, Tri-polar heats both the dermis and subcutaneous tissue. Its effect is based on heating the layers of the skin by currents of radio frequency of about 500kHz (0,5MHz). When the skin temperature rises by 10 °C, the temperature of the fat cells rises by 33 °C. This technology uses the difference in resistance of the fat cells, which put three times more resistance than the skin cells.
How is the fat reduced?
Selective heating of the fat cells leads to their increased metabolism and a secretion of liquid fat in the form of fatty acids. This fat moves to the intercellular space, enters the bloodstream and lymphatic system, and then is digested and excreted from the body.
What Is the Process Of Firming the Skin?
The skin is composed of the epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous layer. The collagen in the skin is responsible for its elasticity but with age, it is degenerated. There appear wrinkles, skin flabbiness and the production of collagen in fibroblasts decreases. Heating the skin causes a contraction of existing collagen fibers and an increased metabolism of fibroblasts, which leads to the production of new collagen, and thus the firmness of the skin.
The Tri-Polar device is the most modern radio frequency system for a wide range of treatments: lifting and smoothing of the skin, fat reduction, cellulite elimination and body shaping. Besides, they relieve swelling, reduce fat pads under the eyes, eliminate dark circles, fine wrinkles and sagging cheeks, chin and neck. Due to the unique abilities of these devices, during a single treatment you can get excellent results, often compared to the liposuction results.
The Tri-Polar system affects the selected area, not the whole body, as the Mono-Polar system. The advantage is a better than ever control of the depth, in which the waves penetrate the skin: the outer layer (dermis) and subcutaneous (hypodermis) – up to 20 mm. The wave beam is cumulative, therefore, the results can be seen immediately. The precise assessment of the RF dose guarantees a painless procedure without the need for additional cooling. It also reduces the number of contraindications.
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From Ghazi to Sipahi
The ghazi warriors who provided the original cutting edge of Ottoman expansion were land-hungry freebooters of diverse origins. An increase in the size of this group was essential if the Ottoman state was to continue expanding. The timar system provided an economic basis for a numerous class of such sipahis, whose obedience was ensured by institutionalizing denial of the hereditary principle in the Ottoman law of feudal land-holding, and whose appetite for warfare was stimulated by the enticing prospect of fresh plunder perpetually available across the frontiers of the empire. According to the Venetian ambassador…there were 80,000 sipahis in European Turkey in 1573 [C.E.] and 50,000 in the Asiatic provinces, together with 15,000 sipahis ‘of the Porte’, household cavalry who were paid by the treasury and did not receive timars. The sipahis remained an unruly class, militarily valuable but politically untrustworthy, whose turbulence it was necessary to balance and control by increasing the numbers and improving the efficiency of public administrators and by establishing a body of household infantry whose effectiveness on campaign and loyalty to the sultan were beyond question. It was in response to these requirements that the Ottomans of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries developed slavery as a fundamental social institution; organizing by this means a supply of obedient and talented soldiers and administrators on a scale suited to the demands of a great imperialist power. | <urn:uuid:8d0f4638-bd0a-4869-8968-10d73e1fea71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.xenograg.com/748/book-excerpt/from-ghazi-to-sipahi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964473 | 301 | 3.6875 | 4 |
TO CARDINAL RATZINGER, PREPARE COMPENDIUM OF THE CATECHISM
Pope John Paul II
Compendium should contain basic elements of faith
An International Catechetical Congress took place in Rome from 8 to 11 October 2002. It was organized to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the original edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the Latin editio typica andthe publication of the revised edition of the General Catechetical Directory (1997).
The Presidents of the Catechetical Committees of Bishops' Conferences and many representatives of the local Churches, involved in their different capacities in catechetical service in their own countries and in international and national organizations established to promote catechesis, took part.
During the Congress, many people, expressing a widespread need in their dioceses, shared the proposal that a synthesis or compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church be compiled. This new work should contain all, and onlythe essential, fundamental elements ofCatholic faith and morals formulated briefly and succinctly, taking the Catechism of the Catholic Church as its source and model. The aim of the Compendium isto make available an authoritative text containing the essential and fundamental elements of the Catholic faith in an integral and complete form which, approved by the Holy Father, could be translated into the various languages to become a "point of reference" for the compilation of local catechisms to meet the many different needs of the particular Churches.
The proposal was presented to the Supreme pontiff who, in his Letter of 2 February to Cardinal Ratzinger, approved it and invited the Cardinal to set up a special commission and an editorial committee in accord with the Secretariate of State, to draft a Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here is a translation of the Holy Father's Letter to Cardinal Ratzinger, in which he expresses his decision to have this Compendium drafted and gives suitable instructions for its finality and modality.
To my Venerable Brother
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith
Last 7 December, we marked the 10 years that have passed since the promulgation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC),a decade that has demonstrated the importance of this text, desired and suggested by the Synod of Bishops in 1985. As I said to the participants in the International Catechetical Congress that gathered last October to commemorate this event, the Catechism has kept unaltered its character as a privileged gift,made available for the entire Catholic Church. It is a gift offered to every man and woman who asks Catholics to account for the hope that is in them, because they are interested in knowing what it is that the Church believes. The far-reaching dissemination of the text in the different regions of the world is an obvious proof of its usefulness and timeliness. Especially in recent years, many summaries of the Catechism have been prepared in various languages and in many countries. This shows how broad and deeply felt is the need for a brief compendium which contains all the fundamental elements of Catholic faith and morals, formulated simply and clearly. Experience shows, however, that it is not easy in these syntheses always and entirely to preserve the full integrity of the content of the Catholic faith.
At the recent Congress, the urgent need to have a brief Catechism for the faithful emerged and many asked for an authoritative, reliable and complete compendium to be drafted. Indeed, it is indispensable that, on the essential aspects of Christian faith and morals, this text faithfully reflect the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
I too consider this to be a relevant proposal, and therefore, I ask you, Your Eminence, in accord with the Secretariate of State, to set up a Special Commission whose task it will be to draft a Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.Tothis Commission, which you will head, will be joined an apposite Editorial Committee.
The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church should contain, in a concise form, the essential, fundamental content of the faith of the Church whose completeness and doctrinal integrity it must fully respect so as to be a vademecum (handbook) that will allow persons, believing or not, to embrace in a general way, the entire panorama of the Catholic faith. It will take as its constant source, model and point of reference the current Catechism of the Catholic Church whose authority and importance will be kept intact. A compendium of this kind will be an incentive to examine the Catechism more deeply and, more generally speaking, will serve as a further instrument for education in the faith.
Before it is approved, the Compendium willbe submitted for the assessment of all the Cardinals and the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences.
I am conscious that this new publication will entail a great deal of work, but, confident in the help of God and knowing your capacity and industriousness, Your Eminence, and that of your collaborators, I am sure that it will be completed in a relatively short time.
As I thank you for the constant dedication that defines your service to the Apostolic See, and for the availability you have shown on this occasion, upon you and upon all who will work with you to produce the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Iinvoke the motherly protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Incarnate Word, and I cordially impart a special Apostolic Blessing to all.
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19 March 2003, page 2
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On-line Gear Calculator for Internally-Geared Hubs
This article show how to determine the correct length of a Sturmey-Archer indicator spindle by measuring the axle and the position of the toggle key which shifts the hub. Read this article in connection with our main article about indicator spindles.
The effective length of an indicator spindle is from the base of the threads to the shoulder before the first link of chain (between the points of the green arrow in the image below).
Most newer hubs need a thinner indicator spindle, like the one iin the image below. These spindles have a painted mark, which may be on the rod, or on the chain. The red arrow in the image indicates the length from the base of the threads to the mark. No matter where the mark is, the length which affects compatibility is from the base of the threads to the shoulder, same as with the thicker rod, as indicated by the green arrow.
In the image below, the blue arrow shows what I call the solid-axle length and the orange arrow shows what I call the toggle-key depth (KD) -- measured to the rightmost extent of the toggle key, not to the flats. For clarity, the drawing shows the planet cage in place, but the measurement can also be taken without the planet cage. Just make sure that the clutch assembly is pushed as far onto the axle as it will go. The parts shown are from a classic AW 3-speed, but the principle is the same for other hubs.
The toggle-key depth can be measured with the hub completely assembled, by inserting a 13-gauge bicycle spoke into the end of the axle and measuring the insertion depth. A fatter rod could be used with a hub that uses a thick indicator spindle, but don't use a thinner spoke: it could pass through the threaded hole in the toggle key.
The solid-axle depth can be measured only on the bare axle.
In older 3-speed hubs which accept the AW style fat rods, the correct (shoulder to shoulder) length is 'L' where
L = 'solid-axle length' + 5.7mm and
L = 'toggle-key depth - 7.7mm
In most newer, no-intermediate gear 3-speed hubs (not CS-series and not S3X)
L = solid-axle length' + 9mm
L= 'toggle-key depth - 7mm '
'solid-axle length' = the length from the RH end of the axle
slot to the RH end of the axle (measure on a bare axle) and
'toggle-key depth' = depth of toggle key when hub is set in the top gear (slackest control cable),
measured from axle end e.g., using vernier calipers.
The correct single toggle 5-speed control rod length appears to be given by;
L= KD-14mm (for dog locking sprinters and (W) hubs) and
L= KD-15mm (for ball-locking sprinters)
KD values for ball locking hubs are also less than dog lockers by about 4mm; thus similar-looking ball locking hubs require shorter
control rods than dog-locking ones, by about 5mm. Ball-locking 5-speed internals may be identified by a chamfer on the left end of the axle.
As noted, we don't have calculations for CS-series (hybrid-gearing) and S3X (fixed-gear) hubs, though our other article does identify and give lengths for indicator spindlesfor these hubs. Some newer hubs use rotary shifting: the cable rotates a pulley concentric with the axle, next to the sprocket.. These do not use an indicator spindle.
|Three-Speed Parts from Harris Cyclery|
|English Three Speeds, Care and Feeding|
|Sturmey-Archer Hubs, General Information|
|Sturmey-Archer 1935-38 Catalogues|
|Evolution of the Raleigh Sports|
Sheldon's old Robin Hood
|Martin Hanczyc's roadster pages.|
Tony Hadland's Sturmey-Archer Pages
including the 1956 master catalogue with
rebuilding information for SWs and others.
|Sturmey-Archer documents at the Veteran Cycle Club Library.|
|Hubstripping web site|
|John Allen's spreadsheets of internal-hub gear ratios|
|SW Hubs by Brian Hayes|
Jane Thomas's site with
Sturmey-Archer service manuals.
Menotomy Vintage Bicycles
Chat forum on English bikes.
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The first exhibit about the Holocaust displayed in Cuba opened December 18 at the Centro Sephardi in Havana. The exhibit, “We Remember – The Holocaust and the Creation of a Living Community,” shines a light on the Cuban Jewish experience of the Holocaust and raises awareness that a small Jewish community makes Cuba its home.
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Information about Bellevue Hospital in Richmond, VA during the Civil War
Bellevue was a private hospital. It was located on the Northwest corner of 22nd and Broad Streets.
Bellevue Hospital had 51 patients in September 1861. Dr. James Bolton was the doctor in charge.
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Purposely developed to perform with PPF (paint protection film) & painted surfaces, MMT Ceramic Coating offers unrivaled gloss, superior hydrophobic protection, and UV protection with a single application. Wether you wash your own vehicle or have some one else wash it, ceramic coating will make it easier for you to wash it and you will wash it less.
Ceramic Coatings - What do they do?
Car wax doesn't actually bond to your vehicle's clearcoat in any way, it merely sits in the pores of the finish. Car wax is not just wax, it's a complex mix of silicones and oils as carnauba wax is actually hard like a rock and could be thrown through a glass window. What's the problem with this? When you wash your car, you are using a detergent. Detergents are used to break down grease ie oils, waxes, silicones and by cleaning, it will also clean away your beautiful glossed up wax finish. Nano coatings however are covalantly bonded to the clearcoat surface, this means it actually becomes part of the clearcoat by sharing electrons and is not easily removed unless if it's polished or sanded off. For this reason, ceramic nano particles will not be washed off the vehicle and will continue to shine, protect from uv damage, repel dirt, grime and water for a year or more.
What is hydrophobic? Technically it's a fear of water. In scientific terms, it means that water does not have the ability to easily stick to a surface. I definitely find it satisfying to watch a hydrophobic finish throw water beads in every direction as I'm rinsing a car. The measure of how hydrophobic a surface performs is it's contact angle. Some ultra high performance coatings like MMT Ceramic Coating will offer a contact angle of 115 degrees, this creates such tension that the water really wants to run off of the car. What's the other benefit of hydrophobic coatings? As you're rinsing your vehicle, these beautiful beads of water will help to pick up some dirt and debris and carry it away from your car. This makes it so you are cleaning a cleaner surface and minimize the opportunity to induce wash scratches into it's finish. As you continue on to your foam cannon rinse, followed by a two bucket hand wash with grit guards and drying with plush microfiber towels, you will be rewarded with a ultra glossy finish that would impress the best of detailers.
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Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any child he may conceive from inheriting their father’s moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a marriage with a man that Kate has admittedly ceased to love, she transfers her original affections for Denis to their son.
Denis dies suddenly and Kate is left to raise their young son. Knowing that Dick could have inherited the faults of his father, Kate anticipates a time when Dick’s morality will be severely tested. That time comes years later when Dick, an eligible bachelor and aspiring professional, is faced with a dilemma that will affect the course of his life.
With the precision, beauty, and sharp awareness of the cracks in upper-class New York society that made her one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton offers a subtle critique of the nature versus nurture debate that raged in the early 1900s. Sanctuary is a spare and moving investigation of the forces that impel human beings toward sin, self-doubt, and redemption.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth.
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Insufficient iron in diets is a leading cause of anemia, a condition that particularly affects pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as children under the age of five. Through collaborative plant breeding efforts with farmers and other partners, CGIAR scientists have developed and scaled up dozens of varieties of iron-biofortified beans in an effort to address the problem.
Hundreds more varieties are developed through the Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA), a bean research network established in 1996 as a uniquely collaborative, multi-stakeholder platform of research for rural transformation that develops improved beans and complementary technologies. PABRA aims to enhance food and nutrition security, incomes, resilience to climate change, and gender equality for improved rural and urban livelihoods in 32 African countries.
To date, PABRA members have released 536 varieties of beans and made them available to more than 30 million households. Developed in response to farmer and market demand, the improved varieties are early-maturing, high in iron and zinc, climate-smart, and tolerant to droughts, pests, and diseases. Newer improved varieties have significantly replaced those from 1980s, which were still widely used in the 2000s. Common bean yields have increased in 14 countries over the past 20 years. Currently, 45 new biofortified bean packed with high iron and zinc have been developed and made available to more than 10 million people across PABRA countries. Improved varieties, including biofortified ones, contribute to improved nutrition, health, and household livelihoods. These have made significant contributions to food security in most countries in Africa.
To date, PABRA members have released 536 varieties of beans and made them available to more than 30 million households.
In Burundi, PABRA in partnership with the private sector and the Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU) in 2015, scaled-up production of composite bean flour for weaning infants and lactating mothers. Besides meeting nutritional needs of children and women, the innovation aimed to generate income for entrepreneurs and farmers supplying biofortified beans. One entrepreneur, Christella Ndayishimiye, expanded her team of employees from one to 21 (61% of whom are women and youths), and now distributes her products to 19 wholesale shops and 139 retailers in Burundi, 10 traders in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and two traders in Rwanda. Her earnings are more than $102,350, with which she bought a vehicle to ease the distribution of her products. She is now mentoring other women processors across PABRA member countries.
Under the HarvestPlus Program – part of the CGIAR Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) – 40 iron-biofortified bean varieties have been released in six African countries so far, including in Rwanda. About one in five women and four in 10 children in Rwanda are anemic. Rwandans also have the world’s second-highest per capita rate of bean consumption.
CGIAR scientists through HarvestPlus, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (then CIAT, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture), and the Rwanda Agriculture Board partnered in 2004 to develop iron-biofortified beans for Rwanda; the first varieties were released in 2010, and 10 varieties have been released to date. By the end of 2018, an estimated 20% of beans produced in Rwanda were high-iron varieties, consumed by 15% of the population, or 1.8 million people. Iron bean yields were about 20% higher than other available varieties, providing $57–78 additional profit per hectare for smallholder farming families growing them.
The Rwanda effort has been an innovative proof of concept for sustained biofortification delivery. In 2019, the entire iron bean program was handed over to the Rwanda Bean Alliance, which includes representation from value chain actors, and engages in activities from research through consumer education.
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) and its members (National Agricultural Research Systems and bean value chain actors in 32 countries) including, Totahara Ltd (a woman-owned bean flour company in Burundi), Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), National Agricultural Research Organisation-Uganda (NARO), the Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB), the Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), numerous Rwandan and Burundi partners, Eastern Agricultural Development Company (EADC)-Uganda.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Feed the Future Initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the MacArthur Foundation, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), HarvestPlus core funding, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC), the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the African Development Bank through Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), the Alliance for African Green Revolution (AGRA), and Colombian and African Government members of PABRA.
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This issue of DACnews looks at numerous areas where change and innovation are not only aspirations, but fully engaged processes underway to prepare for the challenges of post-2015. From the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, to capturing opportunities offered by global value chains, to devising new measures for concessional finance, to greening growth in Zambia – change and innovation are the key words. The DAC has recognised this by creating a prize for taking innovation to scale.
POINT OF VIEW Seven reasons for success: the first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation
By Brenda Killen, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate
The first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, supported by the OECD and the United Nations Development Programme was held in Mexico City, 15-16 April 2014. Participants in the meeting agreed on a forward-looking communique backed by some 40 voluntary initiatives to implement this agreement.
Why was Mexico such a big success? Here are my seven reasons:
An inclusive discussion: More than 1 600 participants from 156 national governments and 25 international organisations attended the conference; they included representatives of governments (donors, middle-income countries and low-income countries), multilateral development organisations, UN agencies, civil society, private enterprise, philanthropic foundations, parliamentarians, think tanks and trade unions. The diversity of participants highlights the particular value of the Global Partnership as a forum where all development actors can share best practices and identify practical solutions that work.
A frank conversation about official development assistance: Discussions and agreements in Mexico underlined that official development assistance (ODA) remains a precious resource that is key to development. ODA’s relative predictability, flexibility, timeliness and focus on poverty reduction are unique features that contribute to making it the most important source of development finance for poor, fragile and vulnerable states. The High-Level Meeting coincided with the announcement of a real increase (6%) in ODA in 2013, with new players (the United Arab Emirates and Turkey) playing a major role. But concern was raised about the fall in ODA to Africa – to be effective, aid must reach the poorest.
Real progress inmoving forward: With an overall conclusion that “no country should be dependent on others’ resources for its own development”, the High-Level Meeting featured dynamic and focused discussions on how to complement ODA by raising additional resources for development. The forward-looking agenda that emerged from the meeting builds on the partnership’s diverse membership and the opportunity it offers to break silos between different forms of development finance and build alliances to ensure that countries (and communities) receive the mix of assistance they need, in the right way and at the right time. Agreement on concrete actions included initiatives that are already being implemented to raise domestic resource mobilisation and tackle illicit financial flows.
Recognition of the role of theprivate sector: Open and frank discussions on the role of the private sector – among partners that included CEOs, civil society, parliamentarians, trade unions and national governments – were some of the liveliest sessions on the agenda. There was no question as to whether business can contribute to development – the discussions centred, rather, on how to ensure business has a stronger positive impact on driving progress. Private sector leaders were clearly interested in discussing their contribution to development and building bridges with vastly different constituencies – but they were also challenged by their colleagues to live up to their commitments, starting with the Busan principles of transparency, accountability and results.
Accountability at the core of development: The High-Level Meeting made it clear that the principles agreed in Paris, Accra and Busan remain relevant in today’s rapidly changing development landscape. With revitalised commitment to getting the most from all available resources, a wide range of partners are using these principles as the basis for their own accountability, including donors who are new to the monitoring process, private foundations and business CEOs. The High-Level Meeting also renewed commitments to deliver on the “unfinished business” of Busan.
Words into action: The Mexico meeting positioned the Global Partnership as the ‘go-to’ forum where political will turns into action. Some of the almost 40 voluntary initiatives agreed to push effective development co-operation forward are already being implemented; for example, the OECD is extending its work on automatic exchange of tax information and Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS) to address the priority concerns of low-income countries.
A place to “do business” on development: Mexico saw a strong call for the Global Partnership to be part of the implementation of the post-2015 agenda. In his opening speech, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined that the Global Partnership “has a crucial contribution to make” and that he expected the High-Level Meeting outcomes to “strengthen country ownership, uphold development co-operation commitments and inform our discussions at the United Nations.” Participants welcomed continuing discussion on development finance as a means of building relationships and trust among all players while sharing lessons on good practice.
In the words of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, together the members of the Global Partnership can “build the new architecture of international aid necessary to realise the post-2015 development agenda.”
On 25 June, the DCD held a very successful multi-stakeholder workshop on “The new development finance landscape: partner countries’ perspectives and implications for post-2015 debate”. The overall aim of the workshop was to examine the evolving development financing landscape in order to improve the understanding of how partner countries are dealing with its increasing complexity and risks. The workshop also looked at the measurement of development flows and proposed a means of enhancing transparency to contribute to partner countries’ strategic planning needs. The workshop brought together more than 120 participants, including senior policy makers from 15 developing countries, DAC and non-DAC providers of development co-operation, international finance institutions, NGOs and think tanks. They debated synergies with the emerging post-2015 framework and highlighted the fact that ODA will remain critical in the post-2015 universe from a recipients’ perspective, concluding that the international community should continue to provide highly concessional finance in accordance with the 0.7 UN target. In light of the increased complexity of the development finance landscape, it is also fundamental to enhance transparency around resource flows beyond ODA; this will require a joint effort from all actors, both sovereign and non-sovereign. The workshop was viewed as a success by all involved; in particular, the multi-stakeholder nature of the event was applauded. The workshop is expected to inform the OECD/DAC’s work on modernising its monitoring of global resource flows in order to ensure it is fit for a post-2015 accountability framework.
DAC Development Debates The potential of global value chains
The complex and interconnected production process that goods and services undergo – from conception and design through production, marketing and distribution – is often referred to as a global value chain (GVC). In recent decades, international production has become increasingly fragmented, with the distinct stages of production along these chains occurring in different locations.
Integration into existing value chains can provide access to networks, global markets, capital, knowledge and technology much more readily than building a full value chain from start. Developing economies can link into value chains by opening their markets to trade and foreign direct investment, improving their business and investment environment, and strengthening their domestic supply-side capabilities.
On 16 May, the OECD DAC hosted a DAC Development Debate with Ganesh Wignaraja, Director of the Asian Development Bank Institute, Jan Rielaender, Head of the Development Centre’s Multi-dimensional Country Reviews Unit and Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry on the challenges involved.
Mr. Wignaraja argued that in Asia, progress was made possible by global factors such as technological advances, declining trade costs, and the dismantling of trade and investment barriers coupled with supportive domestic policies. While Asia now holds a 50% share of global value-chain merchandise exports, today ‘Factory Asia’ is under stress: activity has been too concentrated in a few countries, multiple shocks challenge the resilience of Asian value chains and a rise in protectionism threatens the overall enabling environment.
Jan Rielander looked at the challenges from an African perspective. For the most part, Africa remains peripheral in value chains, although with notable exceptions (in clothing, automotive parts and agri-foods). The key question for Africa is one of how to combine integration into global value chains with economic and social upgrading. The panellists differed in their views on Africa’s ability to take advantage of the opportunities offered by value chains, especially since trade costs remain high and capabilities on the continent are narrowly concentrated. In addition, industrial policies, preferential trade agreements and tax incentives there have had mixed results, and many African economies continue to struggle with the complex policy responses required.
Dirk Pilat highlighted the importance of data in interpreting value chains, in particular the WTO/OECD Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database. He noted the rise of South-South trade, the growing inclusiveness of innovation and the emergence of new technologies – which will lead to new products, markets, consumers and production processes in developing countries.
Serge Tomasi, Deputy Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, moderated the debate. He concluded that global value chains offer a framework for thinking about how to wire together policies as diverse as education, trade, infrastructure, taxes and development assistance to help low-income countries create enabling conditions for development, urging further work in the OECD on this strategic topic.
The Asian Development Bank Institute and the OECD will continue to build the evidence base, collect data and analyse and assess the global contribution of value chains to helping developing countries realise the development benefits of global value chains.
On 20 June another DAC Development Debate looked at multilateral concessional finance ─ the core of all development co-operation efforts ─ in the context of the likely “graduation” of many countries from the International Development Assistance (IDA) and other soft windows of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and the challenges this presents. Against this background, Germany’s BMZ commissioned a study to Helmut Reisen and Christopher Garroway, which proposes four options to deal with the “double donor dilemma” (countries being either too rich or too fragile for multilateral funding):
Redefining IDA eligibility criteria, shifting from absolute poverty to relative poverty measurements and/or using more comprehensive measures, such as the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
Smoothing transition periods from IDA loans and grants to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loans, guarantees, risk management products, and analytical and advisory services. An intermediate point: "IDA+ transitional window."
Strengthening provision of concessional finance to local governments and NGOs, taking into account rural-urban duality and disaster impoverishment.
Opening-up the “soft windows” for regional and global public goods.
To meet the diverse needs of different countries:
New actors will have to be given more voice in the decisions of the international financial institutions.
A better division of labour is needed among the international financial institutions.
More attention should be given to insurance approaches (in the place of lending).
Nonetheless, it was noted that IDA graduation does not mean that countries no longer need concessional funding, so it is important to redefine the graduation threshold and consider the options proposed.
Domestic resource mobilisation via taxation is a key complement to external financing and wealthier countries should be able to have better tax performance. There is also a need to finance a broader agenda including for example infrastructure, resilience and crisis prevention. It was agreed that there is room for improvement in the allocation of public funding, as for example to transit from fossil fuel subsidies to increasing funding for social protection and climate change resilience.
Jon Lomoy, Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, concluded by noting the need to evaluate whether the tools created to finance poverty reduction are also appropriate to finance risk mitigation and promote resilience.
Listen to Prof. Dr. Helmut Reisen, Shifting Wealth Consulting and University of Basel:
David Kaluba is National Co-ordinator for the Interim Climate Change Secretariat of Zambia's Ministry of Finance. In 2012 he was elected by the Least Developed Countries Group to serve on the board of the Green Climate Fund and participates in steering the future of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
We have celebrated another World Environment Day on 5 June. What does this mean for partners in development?
Reconciling development with environmental protection and sustainable natural resource management is fundamental if we are to avoid depleting the world’s natural capital, curb climate change, and minimise social and national security risks. This is particularly critical for developing countries, which are highly exposed and/or acutely vulnerable to natural resource scarcity, extreme weather events linked to climate change, and environmental risks such as air, water and soil pollution. Yet developing countries can also set the example of how growth can be achieved in a way that protects and enhances the future of all generations.
Take the case of my country, Zambia, where the majority of the population relies heavily on natural resources and the environment to sustain its livelihood. Zambia is particularly vulnerable to global climate change, which is likely to negatively affect most of its crops through increased temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. And while Zambia’s, carbon and ecological footprints, like those of many other African countries, are comparatively low, development and population growth are putting pressure on local environments. The resulting land degradation, deforestation, pollution of freshwater sources, and limited availability of water for agriculture, mining and urban centres increases the country’s ecological footprint and lessens its options for growth – especially among the most vulnerable groups.
In such circumstances, ensuring inclusive, greener growth is critical to long-term sustainable development. Green growth rests on recognising and integrating the value of natural capital into economic decision making and development planning. It requires attention to pressing social issues, such as lack of access to basic services and infrastructure, or the threats to stable livelihoods posed by resource scarcity or mismanagement.
Zambia aspires to grow in an inclusive and green manner, in line with the recommendations of a number of international organisations, including the OECD. Zambia has put inclusive green growth at the heart of its Revised Sixth National Development Plan (2011-15) and its long-term Vision 2030, which lays a green path for Zambia to become a middle-income country by 2030. Zambia is also preparing an Inclusive Green Growth Strategy to help mobilise domestic and international resources in a number of “green” sectors, including agriculture and forestry, energy (including hydro-power expansion), waste management, water and sanitation, and infrastructure. The government of Zambia has established an interim Inter-Ministerial Climate Change Secretariat within the Ministry of Finance to ensure that national interventions are co-ordinated and to integrate climate change and green growth issues within all governmental activities, in particular into national development planning and budgeting, and targeting the sub-national levels through District Integrated Plans.
Development co-operation providers can support these efforts to grow green, in Zambia and elsewhere. While recognising that country situations differ, they can work with partner countries and multilateral institutions such as the Green Climate Fund to make green growth an integral part of their development. In fact, OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ official development assistance (ODA) commitments to environmental concerns (e.g. biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and desertification) have increased since 2007, as exemplified by Zambia’s case.
Source: OECD DAC Creditor Reporting System (June 2014)
The government of Zambia continues to welcome support in key areas, including the formulation and implementation of the Inclusive Green Growth Strategy; building institutional capacity (in areas such as project cycle management, fiduciary standards, environmental and social safeguards); and preparing “sustainable development champions” through training and transfer of knowledge. A National Scoping Workshop on Inclusive Green Growthheld in July 2013 was an important step in this direction.
Achieving the common goal of inclusive, green growth is not only a good thing to do – it is a fundamental step for all developing countries and their partners, enabling them to set an example for the rest of the world of why it is good to grow green.
The distinguished jury for the first DAC Prize for Taking Development Innovation to Scale was recently announced. The members of the jury represent the public and private sector, politicians and development leaders, academics and development professionals from around the world. The DAC Prize – to be announced during the DAC Senior Level Meeting in early October this year – is awarded for initiatives that take an innovative approach and have shown to have strong potential impact beyond the pilot phase to wider application. Fundamentally, it is about doing more of what works. Over 40 submissions have been received and are being reviewed.
DAC Prize jury:
K.Y. Amoako, President, African Center for Economic Transformation
Julius O. Akinyemi, Resident Entrepreneur at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for the Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
Geoff Lamb, Chief Economic and Policy Advisor to the co-Chairs and CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Dato Lee Yee Cheong, Chairman, International Science Technology and Innovation Center for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC), Malaysia
The OECD Global Forum on Development, to be held 2 July 2014 at OECD Headquarters in Paris, will focus on Innovating for Development: Rethinking Structural Challenges for Post-2015. The role of innovation in development will be examined from several points of view:
What is the potential for innovation to unleash new sources of growth and overcome structural bottlenecks to development?
What innovative approaches can support developing countries’ efforts to achieve more inclusive development?
What kind of innovation can best deliver inclusive development and reach the poor?
At this meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 18 June, Ministers and high-level representatives from g7+ and development partner countries as well as civil society organisations reflected on the key political messages from the New Deal experience so far, and discussed how the New Deal can help address the challenges of countries in crisis and transition, with a focus on the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, and Guinea Bissau. In the afternoon, Justice Ministers from g7+ countries, development partners and justice experts met to exchange and share experiences on the Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Goal number 3, “Justice for all”. They discussed opportunities and challenges for reforms in the justice sector. At an earlier meeting of the Implementation Working Group (17 June), members took stock of the findings of the first New Deal Monitoring Report. This included a discussion on lessons learnt about the monitoring process itself, with a view to improving it. Members also discussed how New Deal partners can build on achievements to draw up a set of goals by the end of 2015. The Global Meeting of the International Dialogue was followed by the 7th Consultative Group Meeting on Sierra Leone, which highlighted the country’s transition towards resilience through its Agenda for Prosperity and how providers of development co-operation can best support this process.
Summarising the outcome, DAC Chair Erik Solheim stated: “PISA for Development is an excellent example of an OECD initiative that is highly relevant for all countries. Since its launch in 1997, as a leading reference on the quality of education systems worldwide, PISA is a powerful tool for policy making, one that has been used to great effect in my own country, Norway, and in more than 70 others.”
The meeting opened with the signing of an agreement between Ecuador and the OECD for Ecuador’s participation in the project. Subsequently, Zambia has also signed a Participation Agreement with the OECD for the project. Participation Agreements are currently being processed for six other countries: Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania.
The OECD Development Co-operation Directorate and the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik – DIE) convened a technical workshop on results-based funding, 19-20 May. Several multilateral banks and development agencies have already started to pilot and implement results-based funding – through which the funder pays for upon achievement of results agreed in advance – and evidence on how such an approach works is emerging. The workshop looked at diverse experiences with a view to promoting cross-fertilisation among the more than 70 experts participating – representatives of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, partner countries, non-governmental organisations and think tanks. Discussions focused on emerging lessons and challenges in the design and implementation of results-based funding modalities, including sector-specific challenges in climate change, education, energy, health and governance. Participants also looked at the implications of these new modalities on the funder-recipient relationship. The discussions highlighted how the explicit focus on results could have positive spill-over effects on public policies. The participants encouraged further experimentation and evaluation of the political economy of results-based funding, including analysis of the role of financial and non-financial incentives at the partner, implementer and donor levels.
OECD roundtable discussion on external financing for development
An OECD roundtable discussion on external financing for development was held on 12 April at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund CSO Policy Forum in Washington, DC. In the post-2015 context, the DAC has taken upon itself to look at whether its current statistical system, centred on the measure of official development assistance (ODA) as defined in the early 1970s, is still fit for purpose. There have been two main changes in the global development landscape. First, many new actors are addressing global development challenges, often with innovative financial instruments and modalities. Second, ODA’s share in total resource receipts by developing countries fell from around 50% in the 1960s to 20% in recent years, despite ODA having increased in real terms by 63% over the past decade. Other flows such as foreign direct investment or remittances are increasingly available to developing countries, and more efficient and catalytic ways of using ODA need to be found.
The DAC is consulting widely with various stakeholders and seeking input on these new ways of measuring development finance, which will be addressed at the DAC’s High-Level Meeting, 15-16 December 2014. This work will feed into the international process leading up to the International Financing for Development Conference to be held in Addis-Ababa in July 2015. The DAC is envisaging a wider measure to complement - not replace - ODA and to support the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. This includes examining how non-ODA finance for development, peace and security, climate and other global challenges could be included, while distinguishing between official flows and private flows mobilised by official action.
Better Policies for Development 2014:Policy Coherence and Illicit Financial Flows focuses on detrimental effects of illicit financial flows on development and growth. It shows that coherent policies in OECD countries in areas such as tax evasion, anti-bribery and money laundering can contribute to reducing illicit financial flows out of developing countries. It provides an update on OECD efforts to develop a monitoring matrix for policy coherence.
Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: Measuring OECD Responses identifies the main areas of weakness in combatting money-laundering, tax evasion, foreign bribery, and in freezing and returning stolen assets. It identifies areas for action, looking in particular at the role of development agencies, and point out some opportunities for a scaled-up role for these agencies.
Evaluation Insights 9: Creating jobs in small businesses explores the challenges faced by low- and middle-income countries in creating new jobs, in particular “good” jobs. The paper summarises the main lessons from a systemic review of job creation interventions and reveals key success factors. Finally, it shows that, despite enthusiasm for supporting small businesses to create employment, there is very little evidence that such interventions work.
Social Protection and Climate Change provides a condensed review of current knowledge and evidence regarding the role of social protection in reducing the impact of climate change on the poorest populations. It provides a series of recommendations for practitioners and for strengthening the evidence base.
Food and Nutrition (in-) Security and Social Protection explores the conceptual synergies between social protection measures and food and nutrition security and assesses the linkages between the two in the international development policy agenda. It examines the evidence of practical benefits that different social protection instruments can deliver and identifies the main challenges and trade-offs that DAC members and their partners are likely to face when attempting to integrate the two issues within development policies.
PARIS21 is looking for Regional Programme Co-ordinators to join the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) and play an active role in strengthening on-going country and regional activities in (a) Africa and the Middle East as well as (b) Latin America and the Caribbean. | <urn:uuid:f5491a47-80c0-4259-be1c-2ff0e515e359> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oecd.org/dac/dacnewsjuly2014.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.933974 | 5,217 | 1.617188 | 2 |
How to cross a backcountry river
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Tips for successfully crossing backcountry rivers on foot, alone, or in a group.
Before you cross
Think about weather conditions. If it’s rained during the past few days, the water level may be higher than usual, and it may be a good idea to wait for it to drop before you cross.
Otherwise, it starts with scouting. Crossing a river takes time, and searching for a good place to ford will make things immensely easier…and could save your life.
The ideal place to cross a river is shallow, wide, and with good visibility both up- and downstream. Look for the widest part of the river, which is likely to be the most shallow.
Both the entry to the river (where you’re standing now) and the point of exit should be clear, with no tree branches overhead and no high river banks to climb up. There should also be no overhanging branches downstream from your crossing spot — these are especially dangerous if you’re carrying a big backpack as they can, in the event of a fall, push you underwater.
To measure the depth of the water, use a hiking pole or tree branch. Don’t test with your feet, as the current can sweep you away. After you’ve found a good place to cross, look at the footing and choose the path with the least amount of big, uneven rocks.
When you’re ready
Undo any backpack straps, including the hip belt — this will give you a way to get the pack off quickly if you are to fall into the river.
It’s better to cross all major rivers with boots on (yes, your feet will get wet and probably feel like icicles for the next 15 minutes) because sharp, jagged rocks can cut your feet (and the last thing you want on a backpacking trip is not to be able to walk) — or, worst-case scenario, you can slip, fall, and twist / break your ankle.
Face upstream when you cross, carefully finding your footing with each step and using a hiking pole / branch for support.
Solo crossings aren’t advised, as there’s no one to spot you or save you if you fall. The advantages of crossing a river in a group are that, as you cross, one or two of your friends can be standing downstream with their hiking poles out (or large branches of some sort) ready to give you a hand if you do fall in.
For small / slow rivers: Cross in a pair, holding hands by grasping the wrist of the other person in a locking position. Any remaining people should act as spotters and stand downstream with their hiking poles out.
For large / swift-flowing rivers: These should only be crossed in a group using the ‘eddy method’ that’s taught by the National Outdoor Leadership School.
The strongest or tallest group members are placed in the front and back of a line, with the front person leaning on their hiking pole with both hands for support. Each person behind the leader puts their hands on the backpack of the person in front of them.
The whole line should move in unison, so that while yelling “Step!” everyone in line takes a step at the same time. The line should face upstream so the people in the middle are shielded form the current.
You fall into the river. First and foremost, remove your backpack; it will only drag you down.
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march 2019 | Volume 177
Most of what I know about the Irish struggle for independence, especially the events around the Easter 1916 Dublin uprising, come from W.B. Yeats’ poetry. Joan Bryans’ new documentary play, Changed Utterly, takes its title from Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916.” Referring to the Irish nationalists who partook in that failed revolutionary moment, he writes that they were “changed, changed utterly:/A terrible beauty is born.”
Bryans focusses on one particular member of the movement, Countess Constance Markievicz, an Anglo-Irish woman born Constance Gore-Booth who moved to London, married a Polish count, then returned to Dublin to join the revolution. Yeats celebrated her—sort of—in two poems, including “Easter 1916”: “That woman’s days were spent/In ignorant good-will,/Her nights in argument/Until her voice grew shrill.”
As in her other feminist plays, Bryans recuperates her heroine’s reputation from its relative obscurity as well as from the kind of sexist portrait that Yeats’ poem has left to posterity. The Constance who emerges from this play is an extraordinary, intrepid woman who organized, fought, was captured, condemned to die, served time in an English prison (her death sentence was commuted), got elected as a Sinn Fein candidate to the new Irish parliament, and proved anything but ignorant or shrill.
But she isn’t changed utterly. In Naomi Wong’s wonderfully radiant performance, this Constance never really changes at all. With her posh English accent, her pistols and fancy hat, from first to last she’s indomitable. “The battle is lost but the future is ours,” she says confidently from prison after the uprising has been crushed. And “no one has it in their power to make me unhappy.”
Other standouts in the cast of twelve include Kurtis Maguire as revolutionary organizer James Larkin, and Gordon Law as both Larkin’s successor James Connolly and harsh English judge Sir George Maxwell. Jeremy Driscoll does a nice job reciting Yeats’ poetry. Carolyn Costigan, Breanne Doyle, Alyssa Hanson-Smith, Celeste Musseau and Lindsay Nelson play the other women in Constance’s circle, the latter as Maud Gonne, the unrequited love of Yeats’ life.
In attempting to capture all the major political events in this complex, eventful period in Irish history as Constance experienced them, Bryans’ script tends to sacrifice dramatic impact for information and exposition. Not even the songs, arranged by musical director Pat Unruh and sung without instrumental accompaniment, do much to bump up the theatrical energy. In her director’s hat Bryans needs to tighten up the entrances, exits and cues.
But with its vivid portrait and performance of Constance Markievicz, Changed Utterly has given me a whole new perspective on the Irish independence movement and the part women played in it. As well, I’ll never be able to read Yeats the same way again.
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8 Tips for Crafting Ransomware Defenses and ResponsesAssume Hackers Retain Remote Network Access Until Proven Otherwise, Experts Warn
Ransomware-wielding attackers are increasingly doing much more than just crypto-locking systems with malware and demanding a payoff in return for the promise of a decryption tool.
Too often, security experts say, organizations that discover a ransomware outbreak treat it as an isolated event tied to just a few endpoints. Instead, they say that all organizations that discover ransomware must assume that the attackers are still inside the network until proven otherwise and execute a prepared incident response plan to mitigate further damage.
Some ransomware attacks involve a smash-and-grab approach, with limited repercussions. But an increasing number of ransomware-wielding attackers are employing "big game" tactics, which means they gain remote access to a network, take their time to move laterally and escalate privileges, try to identify and exfiltrate sensitive data and only then deploy ransomware.
Here are eight tips for better crafting ransomware defenses and responses.
1) Identify Attackers' Ongoing Capabilities
For any attack that involves ransomware, the fallout can be much more extensive than simply dealing with the malware. And organizations that don't quickly see the big picture will struggle to recover as quickly and cost-effectively as they might otherwise be able to do (see: Ransomware + Exfiltration + Leaks = Data Breach).
That's why understanding not just what ransomware attackers did inside a network, but what they might still be capable of doing - inside the network, as well as by leaking - is an essential part of any incident response plan, security experts say.
So too is identifying how intruders got in - or might still get in - and ensure those weaknesses cannot be exploited again, says Alan Brill, senior managing director in Kroll's cyber risk practice.
"If you don't lock it down, it's very simple: You're still vulnerable," he tells Information Security Media Group. "If you lock down what you thought was the issue but you were wrong - it wasn't the issue - that they weren't just putting ransomware in your system but they've been in there for a month examining your system, exfiltrating data and lining up how to do the most damage when they launched the ransomware, you may not even know what happened."
2) Expect Data Exfiltration
With more attackers practicing data exfiltration, senior executives should put a plan in place for how they will respond to such a situation.
In the first six months of this year, Emsisoft's free ID Ransomware service, which helps ransomware victims identify the strain of ransomware used against them and identify potential decryption options, received 100,000 submissions. "Of those submissions … just over 11% related to attacks by the groups that overtly steal data, Emsisoft writes in a blog post.
Obviously, this is a broad-brush look at data exfiltration, because gangs don't do it all the time, and some attackers may simply be doing it on the sly. "All ransomware groups have the ability to exfiltrate data," Emsisoft says. "While some groups overtly steal data and use the threat of its release as additional leverage to extort payment, other groups likely covertly steal it."
From an extortion standpoint, stealing data gives an attacker more tools. Any organization that does not meet an attacker's ransom demands - almost always payable in bitcoins - may see the attacker bringing increased psychological pressure to bear by starting to leak stolen data (see: Crypto-Lock and Tell: Ransomware Gangs Double Down on Leaks).
3) Learn From Others' Mistakes
Victims' failure to successfully detect attackers inside their network and eject them in a timely fashion can have serious consequences. And victims must avoid assuming that because ransomware is involved, the crime gang wielding it might not still be camped out inside a network.
Last month, for example, the REvil gang began auctioning data from Canadian agricultural company Agromart Group, with an opening bid set at $50,000. The firm appears to have been hacked in late May and had about 22,000 files stolen, darknet monitoring firm DarkOwl reports.
Allegedly stolen emails posted by REvil to its data-leaking site, shared with ISMG by Emsisoft, include detailed conversations about how Agromart planned to respond to the attack and to potentially negotiate with the gang - suggesting that attackers were still inside the victim's network. Clearly, attackers' ability to eavesdrop on these types of communications gives them an edge on any negotiations.
4) Assume Attackers Still Have Access
Here's one strategy for better avoiding these types of scenarios: "Organizations should assume their perimeters will be breached and monitor their environments for signs of compromise," Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Emsisoft, tells ISMG.
Per the so-called "cyber kill chain" model, defenders may have multiple chances to spot suspicious behavior - and respond - before attackers do something really bad.
"For example, Emotet, which is often used as a launchpad for attacks, may be present on a network for days, weeks or even months before being used to deploy ransomware," Callow says (see: Emotet, Ryuk, TrickBot: 'Loader-Ransomware-Banker Trifecta'). "This provides organizations with a window of opportunity during which the threat can be detected and neutralized before a ransomware attack takes place."
5) Move Quickly
Detecting such attacks quickly is the best way to blunt their impact.
To do so, organizations should watch not just for malware but also "any evidence of lateral movement and data exfiltration within the environment," says security firm Trend Micro in a teardown of recent attacks tied to the Nefilim gang. "An attack's point of entry may not be where the important data is found; therefore, threat actors would need to be able to move around within the environment (host-to-host) to get to the parts of the system where the juicier data is stored,” the report states. “Being able to identify unusual outbound traffic patterns for hosts (host-to-external) is equally important, as this represents potential data exfiltration.”
Finding attackers after they have compromised a network but while they're still conducting reconnaissance can be challenging - but it’s essential, says incident response expert David Stubley, who heads Edinburgh, Scotland-based security testing firm and consultancy 7 Elements.
"If organizations do more proactive analysis of their environments and find traces of compromised assets at an earlier stage, they are likely to put themselves on the front foot and deal with what is an annoying compromise before they're having to deal with a ransomware outbreak," Stubley tells ISMG.
Organizations cannot rely on anti-virus alone for protection, he says, because "if the attackers have got any savvy, they'll be using payloads that don't trigger the latest AV signatures. So there's a degree of likelihood that the exploit will successfully run, bypass AV and give them a period of time in which they won't be detected."
The nuances of how to best monitor any given organization will vary according to their infrastructure, but ideally "you should be looking for anomalous outbound traffic and odd events going on in your environment," Stubley says.
6) Monitor for Odd Events
“Odd events” may include the use of innocuous-looking living-off-the-land tactics, including binaries - aka LoLBins - that are normally part of an operating system but which attackers may have subverted, as security researchers at Cisco Talos have described in an analysis of WastedLocker ransomware tactics tied to a group called Evil Corp. According to news reports, one of the gang's latest victims was fitness wearables maker Garmin.
"The adversary behind these attacks is taking advantage of various 'dual-use' toolsets, such as Cobalt Strike, Mimikatz, Empire and PowerSploit to facilitate lateral movement across environments being targeted," the researchers say.
"These toolsets are typically developed to aid with penetration testing or red-teaming activities, but their use is often co-opted by malicious adversaries as well," they say. "Additionally, the use of native operating system functionality, and what are commonly referred to as 'LoLBins,' allows attackers to evade detection and operate under the radar until they are ready to activate the ransomware and make their presence known."
Defenses against these types of tactics may include malware detection tools, web scanning tools designed to detect malicious sites, next-generation firewalls and intrusion prevention systems and malicious binary detection tools. Other steps include using Snort alerts to more quickly block known attacks well as blocking users from connecting to known-bad IP addresses and domains, Cisco says.
7) Prepare a Secure Communications Channel
In light of attacks – such as the incident affecting Agromart - in which criminals were able to spy on victims' response, Vitali Kremez, chairman of threat-intelligence firm Advanced Intel in New York, suggests organizations prepare a separate, secure communications channel as well as a walled-off storage channel to store data related to any digital forensic investigation (see: Surviving a Breach: 8 Incident Response Essentials).
"Treat ransomware attacks as data breach incidents with the hypothesis that the attackers might still be inside the network," Kremez tells Bleeping Computer. "Therefore, victims should work from the bottom up, trying to obtain forensics evidence that validates or invalidates the hypothesis."
Identifying all of the ways attackers gained access, or might have gained access, enables breached businesses to strengthen their defenses.
8) Don't Restore, Rebuild
Effectively responding to incidents that involve ransomware requires much more than just wiping and restoring systems - if companies have backups safely stored offline - or considering whether to pay a ransom in return for the promise of a decryption key. "Post-incident, companies need to rebuild their networks and infrastructure rather than simply decrypting their data or restoring it from backups," Emsisoft's Callow says. "This is the only way to eliminate the possibility of a second attack."
When organizations see a ransomware outbreak, they may need to bring in disaster recovery processes, negotiate with attackers, tap digital forensics to identify gaps in defenses and work with cybersecurity experts to better lock down the network. But if data was exfiltrated, attackers could leak it at any time, requiring the organization to notify any individuals whose personal details were compromised to comply with data breach notification rules. | <urn:uuid:6f64423c-f655-44cc-a322-d47b374e8949> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/8-tips-for-crafting-ransomware-defenses-responses-a-14724 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953477 | 2,200 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Roasted under a low temperature of 140ºC for 130 mins to retain its nutrients
Rich source of Vitamin A, Iron, and Thiamin
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Description of Macadamia:
A rich source of Vitamin A & Bs, iron, and folates.
Contains manganese, phosphorus and magnesium for bone and teeth mineralization.
Natural Macadamia, sea salt
Helps lower cholesterol level.
High dietary fiber.
High in antioxidants and flavonoids which helps to fight inflammation
Good source of vitamins and minerals essential in a healthy diet.
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Roasted under low temperature - Minimal nutrient loss
Natural salt added for great taste
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Recommended Daily Serving Size:
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Provides Daily Value of 9% Dietary Fiber, 5% Protein, 54% Manganese, 25% Copper,10% magnesium, 8% Phosphorus, 6% Iron
What our nutritionist says:
Just like any other nuts, macadamia nuts are DIABETIC FRIENDLY - thanks to their low glycemic index (GI). GI measures how fast a food increases your blood sugar levels. Low GI foods are digested and absorbed comparatively slower, thus they help with diabetes management. All nuts are good for diabeteic people - so make sure you get a variety. Other than macadamia, walnuts and almonds are great choices too!
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Macadamia is generally safe and healthy to be consumed during pregnancy
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Best consumed within 2 months after opening.
Away from sunlight.
Refrigerate unused portions.
Avoid exposing contents to moisture.
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If you’ve ever owned a prefab metal building, you already know they’re incredibly useful tools for protecting vehicles, valuables, and equipment. They’re so useful that they’ve long moved away from simple backyard sheds and equipment buildings into commercial and industrial structures. Customers trust metal buildings for their strength, flexibility, and long lifespan, no matter the application.
But custom metal buildings are more than just simple sheds! In recent years, tech advances and modern machinery have made steel structures some of the most versatile construction methods on the market. These buildings can now be built to any size or layout and can be fully customized for many uses.
As a result of these advances, metal building sales have skyrocketed, quickly becoming a popular choice for many different commercial installations. These structures cover everything from retail storefronts and restaurants to automotive garages and everything in between.
Before advances in engineering and steel construction, metal buildings were only available in specific pre-designed formats. You’d order a carport, a garage, or a warehouse exclusively. However, modern steel structures are far more adaptable than their predecessors. Breakthroughs in the construction process now allow these structures to be built in many different formats and styles. Their uses can even be combined! For example, combination buildings offer the protection of an open carport with the added benefit of an enclosed structure.
And that’s just the beginning! These structures can now be constructed in almost any fashion and for any purpose. In fact, some designs like clear span buildings can be built at immense dimensions with little to no need for internal supports. This makes them especially useful for large warehouses, manufacturing facilities, sports facilities, and even riding arenas!
With an expanding population and a skyrocketing housing market, rental properties are becoming scarcer with each passing day. This trend is expected to continue and will only be exacerbated by climate change. And with the soaring cost of lumber, wooden construction can be costly. However, steel structures are quickly gaining notability for their housing capabilities. No longer straightforward backyard equipment sheds, these structures can now be finished with electricity, plumbing, drywall, and all the amenities of a traditional home.
Not only can these structures be fully customized to make perfect homes, apartments, and guest houses, they can be built in a fraction of the time compared to similar stick-built options. And they’re more affordable than traditional construction!
So, if you’ve been looking for a long-lasting, cost-effective alternative to renting, a metal structure might just be your dream home in waiting.
It’s no secret that steel is a tough material. After all, we commonly use it for some of the most heavy-duty projects in the world. You’ll find it in bridges, airliners, cruise ships, and almost anything else that has to support thousands of pounds daily. Bearing that in mind, it makes sense that steel structures are some of the toughest building types on the market. And they are.
Prefab metal structures are incredibly durable, capable of taking on intense winds, heavy snowfall, and worse without missing a beat. It makes them the perfect construction choice in regions with volatile weather patterns.
Climate change and deforestation are becoming increasingly dire issues in today’s world. And that’s another perfect reason to choose a prefab metal building for your next construction project. Here’s why:
With this in mind, it makes sense to choose metal over wood in almost any setting.
One of the best features of prefab metal structures is their level of customizability. In fact, almost every facet of these durable structures can be changed, altered, or reinforced to your desires. You’ll be able to customize:
Do you want vertically oriented paneling or horizontal? Would you prefer different trim and wainscoting? The choices for your paneling are virtually endless!
You’ll have several roofing types available to you, each with its own aesthetics and capabilities. These include boxed-eave roofs that feature overhanging awnings to vertical roofs that allow debris to fall away from your structure. The choice is yours!
Your structure doesn’t have to be dull and lifeless. Easily alter the color of your building’s paneling, roofing, trim, and more!
As the industry standard, most residential structures use 14-gauge framing and 29-gauge roof paneling. However, if you live in a region that regularly sees high winds and heavy snowfall, you might need to opt for thicker, 12-gauge framing and 26-gauge roof paneling.
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- Safe RA Drugs During Pregnancy
- Miscarriage Risk
- C-Section Risk
- RA Diet During Pregnancy
Which rheumatoid arthritis drugs are safe during pregnancy?
Corticosteroids: They are considered relatively safe in pregnancy when used in low doses and are designated as category B medications. Category B drugs are those which have been found to be safe in pregnant animals although they lack adequate studies in pregnant women. Corticosteroids have potent anti-inflammatory action. They may, however, increase the maternal risk of high blood pressure, swelling, increased sugars during pregnancy, poor bone health in pregnancy, premature delivery, low birth weight babies, and birth defects such as cleft palate in the newborn. Certain corticosteroids such as prednisone and hydrocortisone are safer for use without adverse events in the fetus.
Hydroxychloroquine or HCQ: HCQ is considered safe during pregnancy. It is a category C medication, which means that animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in humans, but potential benefits may permit the use of the drug in pregnant women.
Certain other drugs such as azathioprine and abatacept are used in the treatment of RA in pregnant women only if the risks of side effects are outweighed by the benefits of these drugs. These drugs have been found to cause fetal defects in a few studies.
Hence, the ultimate decision to use a certain drug should be made only in consultation with the doctor.
Can rheumatoid arthritis cause miscarriage?
Most studies on RA suggest that RA does not increase the overall risk for a miscarriage. Some researchers suggest that both disease activity and certain RA medications may have a role in causing miscarriage in some women such as those with severe diseases.
Does having rheumatoid arthritis increase the chances of cesarean delivery?
Generally, delivery by cesarean delivery does not appear to be performed more commonly in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Any pregnancy, with or without RA, may be associated with factors that demand the baby to be delivered by cesarean delivery.
None of the studies done so far conclusively say that RA mandates or increases the chance of cesarean delivery. In some women with RA, who have severe disease, the need for cesarean delivery may be higher than in other women.
What should a pregnant woman with rheumatoid arthritis eat?
Because rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects the joints, it is important to eat right during pregnancy.
- There should not be excess weight gain in pregnancy.
- At the same time, the mother and baby’s nutritional needs should not be compromised.
- Pregnant women with RA are advised to have a low-fat, high-carbohydrate, and high-fiber diet. This includes
- a diet rich in vegetables,
- mushrooms, and
- They should avoid fried and grilled foods, pastries, pasta, and other processed foods.
- They can have fish oils in moderate quantities during pregnancy only after consulting their doctor.
- Pregnant women with RA should avoid over-the-counter (OTC) herbal remedies and supplements.
- They should take routine oral calcium and vitamin D supplements as advised by their doctor.
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Barcelona's biggest ornamental fountain, which was built in 1929 for the International Exhibition, offers a spectacular display of music, water acrobatics and lights which generate over 50 kinds of shades and hues. The Montjuïc Magic Fountain has become one of Barcelona's most popular attractions and is where the "Piromusical" is held, a true balletic spectacle of water and light.
Every year, Montjuïc's Magic Fountain is the chosen site for the "Piromusical", a huge firework display with a music and laser show, which is the closing event for Barcelona's main festival, La Mercè. The display is very popular in Barcelona. The Magic Fountain is located at the end of the Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina just below the Palau Nacional, and even when the fountain is not in operation is a privileged viewing point that boasts spectacular vistas of Barcelona from the Plaça Espanya to the slopes of Tibidabo. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the fountain operates on recycled water in order to save drinking water.
Visit the original control room, under the fountains, and see the mechanisms that operate the water and light show. The water jets are illuminated by 120 skylights and 4,760 light bulbs. The infinite number of shades of colour is achieved by a series of rotating pentagonal prisms, designed by Buïgas, and stacked on top of one another. They have a motor, brakes and a speed-reduction system, which allows the water jets to gradually change from one colour to another and achieve seven billion possible permutations of water and light.
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Are you thinking of relocating to a new city for work? If so, you’re not alone. Many people relocate to new cities every year in search of new opportunities. The process of relocating to a new city can be daunting, but if you plan ahead and follow these tips, you’ll be able to make the transition as smooth as possible.
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Within the last 30 years Additive Manufacturing (AM) became an important method for the treatment of craniofacial injuries. This is true for the direct application of AM made implants as well as for its indirect application via counter casting. Many successful cases have been published. But little is known about the long term behavior, especially if applied on big heavy loaded implants and older people. The report is a 10 years study about a 64 years old planter that suffered from a severe head injury. After several treatments he finally got an AM implant made from Titanium and recovered successfully. | <urn:uuid:064c9039-334f-4f9b-9f2e-8797fa46c31d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.journals.infinite-science.de/index.php/ammm/article/view/514 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955842 | 152 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Design and development of an apparatus to study atom-surface interactions using Rydberg atoms
Haich, Christian Allen
Dunning, F. B.
Master of Arts
An apparatus has been developed for studying the interaction of Rydberg atoms with surfaces, particularly the perturbation of Rydberg states by a nearby surface and the distance from the surface at which resonance ionization occurs. For this purpose, a source of metastable Xe(3P 0,2) atoms was constructed and characterized. Using single photon laser excitation from the 6s'[1/2]0 state, the nf[3/2]1 Rydberg series for n = 16--20 has been observed with signals well above the background. Measurements of the energy levels of these Rydberg states has identified systematic errors in quoted energy levels from earlier work. The isotopic structure of the 20f Rydberg state was resolved, and the effect of Rydberg excitation in an electric field was investigated. Studies are underway to better understand the behavior of Xe(nf) Rydberg atoms in an electric field. This information will be used in subsequent experiments to study Rydberg-surface interactions.
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The Science Behind Our Mobile Tasks
What if cognitive testing took place early and often? What if people could be empowered to change their behavior? What if cognitive research could deliver personalized, simple, and actionable recommendations to improve health? Consider the impact of detecting risk factors and digital biomarkers to improve patient outcomes. This is the value of Savonix. We leverage our powerful database of cognitive, lifestyle, and other health data to assess and monitor your brain health over time.
Our clinically validated, neurocognitive test provides real-time results for: instant and delayed verbal memory, impulse control, attention, focus, emotion identification, information processing speed, flexible thinking, working memory, executive function, visual learning, and spatial memory.
The Role of Memory in Dementia
Memory impairment is not always the first symptom of dementia disorders. Studies show that up to 20 percent of people who later develop dementia show no signs of memory impairment in the early stages and that impairments in one domain alone are often benign.1 In contrast, studies have also shown that multidomain assessment can pick up a range of cognitive problems at an early stage and up to 60 percent of people who later develop dementia present with multidomain impairments at the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage.2
20% of people who later develop dementia show no signs of memory impairment in the early stages.
60% of people who later develop dementia present with multidomain impairments in the early stages.
Verbal Memory Recognition Task
This task includes immediate and delayed verbal memory recognition. In 1916, Édouard Claparède published the Test de mémoire des mots (Test of Memory for Words), a list of 15 words accompanied by a set of instructions for using the list as a measure of cognitive function (Boake, 2000). This test would become the basis for André Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT; Rey, 1964), and subsequent tests of verbal learning, including the Savonix Verbal Learning Task. Though Claparède’s test has been modified from its original form, it has been in near continuous use for the past 100 years, and similar tests are considered a “gold standard” in the field of cognitive assessment for verbal memory. The Rey AVLT (1964; Schmidt, 1996) is the basis for the Savonix Verbal Learning Task. Like many modern tests of verbal learning, it presents patients with a list of words, which are to be committed to memory. Patients are tested on their ability to remember the words immediately after the original list is removed, and then again after at least a 15-minute delay. The recognition trial of the AVLT, the most similar condition to the Savonix task, has been demonstrated to have high test-retest reliability (r= 0.72; Delaney, et al., 1992), and the AVLT as a whole compares favorably to other tests in terms of its ability to discriminate between patients and controls (Powell, Cripe, & Dodrill, 1991). The academic journal search tool Google Scholar lists 19,900 articles that reference the Auditory Verbal Learning Test.
The Go/No-Go task has been widely used in research and clinical practice to measure response inhibition and impulse control. In Alexander Luria’s highly influential, Higher Cortical Functions in Man (2012; originally published in 1962), Luria describes a method for presenting subjects with varying auditory stimuli, some requiring a response and some requiring no response. In this task, the subject is presented with two stimuli and must respond to one while not responding to others. Another method used by Luria, in the Savonix version, a green circle is presented frequently (Go) and a red square infrequently (No-Go) on the screen. The subject is required to inhibit the screen tap responses on the square and tap quickly on the circle when presented. Versions with visual stimuli have been widely used for the past 60 years. Neuroimaging studies have found that frontal lobe functions underlie performance on the Go/No-Go task. In the Savonix version of this traditional method, our mobile task measures response accuracy, response time, and errors of commission and omission. This data is used to assess the capacity for suppressing automatic responses.
Savonix’s Verbal Interference Test is based on the Stroop effect (Dodrill, 1978). The Stroop effect has been widely used in clinical and research settings for the past 50 years as an accurate measure of cognitive control and processing speed. John Ridley Stroop first published research on this in English in 1935 (Stroop, 1935), though it had been previously discovered. Stroop described an experiment where participants were presented with color words such as red, yellow, green, or blue, which were printed in a different color of ink (e.g., red printed in blue ink). Participants were able to easily read the words but found it more difficult to name the color of the ink. Stroop observed that the learned response of reading the words “interfered” with the unfamiliar task of naming the ink color. Naming the ink color requires inhibiting the well- practiced, interfering tendency to read words. This ability to inhibit a practiced response is similar to situations individuals are faced with in their day-to-day lives. The Savonix Verbal Interference task measures focus by assessing the subject’s ability to inhibit automatic and irrelevant responses. Additionally, people with dyslexia experience more interference when reading the colors of words than those without dyslexia. Scientists had originally hypothesized that people with dyslexia would experience less interference because reading is more challenging, and therefore they would be able to bypass reading in favor of reporting color. However, the larger degree of interference suggests that reading is such an automatic process and difficult to suppress whether or not reading comes easily (Everatt, 1997). The Stroop test is often used to gauge the severity of ADHD (Mishra 2016). The academic journal search tool Google Scholar lists 102,000 articles that reference the Stroop test.
Savonix’s N-back task is based on a procedure described by Muriel D. Lezak in her book, Neuropsychological Assessment (2004). This task has been widely used in research settings for the past 20 years. The first example of N-back was in Psychology of Aging by Dobbs and Rule (1989). In the Savonix task, users are presented with a sequence of stimuli on the screen and asked to indicate when the current stimulus matches the one from ‘n’ steps earlier in the sequence. The load factor ‘n’ can be adjusted to make the task more or less difficult. 1-N means that you have to remember the position of the item, ONE turn back. 2-N means that you have to remember the position of the item TWO turns back, and so on. A 1-back is used in the child’s version of the assessment, and a 2-back is used in the adult version. The outcome variables include response times and number correct and incorrect. This is a measure of sustained attention in a continuous performance task. N-back also tests working memory, that is, how well a subject can temporarily hold information and then replace it with new information as needed. N-back is commonly used to assess patients with disorders that are associated with poor working memory, such as schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis (Sweet 2011). Additionally, this task caught media attention in the 2000s as a way to improve fluid intelligence. This idea was based on a study by Jaeggi et al. (2008) that linked working memory training through the N-back task with better performance on reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The academic journal search tool Google Scholar lists 11,700 articles that reference the N-back test.
The Savonix Emotion Identification task was developed based on protocols used in research studies (e.g., Hornak, Rolls, & Wade, 1996). Ekman and Friesen’s (1975) pioneering work on facial expressions forms the basis of this work and has been used in research settings for decades. The Savonix version of this task uses facial images with different facial expressions (surprise, fear, disgust, happy, sad, neutral). Recognition of facial emotions is a complex process that has profound implications for rehabilitation of patients with brain damage who exhibit socially inappropriate behavior. Hornak and colleagues (1996) found that patients with frontal lobe damage who exhibited inappropriate behavior also showed impairments in recognition of facial expression of emotions, indicating that these areas are implicated in this task.
Trail Making Task
The Trail Making task is based on the classic test developed by Reitan (1958), used frequently since its development. Part A of this task is a measure of visual scanning and information processing speed. The user is presented with a pattern of 13 numbers (1-13) on the screen and is required to touch numbers in ascending sequence (i.e., 1, 2, 3...). As each number is touched in correct order, a line is drawn automatically to connect it to the preceding number or letter in the sequence. This allows the user to visualize the path touched.
The outcome variable is time to completion as well as number of correct responses versus incorrect responses. Part B of this task is a measure of cognitive flexibility and attention switching. The user is presented with a pattern of 13 numbers (1-13) and 12 letters (A-L) on the screen and is required to touch numbers and letters alternatively in ascending sequence (i.e. 1, A, 2, B, 3, C...). As each number or letter is touched in correct order, a line is drawn automatically to connect it to the preceding number or letter in the sequence. This allows the user to visualize the path touched. The outcome variable is time to completion as well as number of correct responses versus incorrect responses in comparison with results from Trail Making Part A. Level of education and age are the two factors that affect scores the most. More education correlates with better scores. While accuracy remains relatively constant over age, older subjects tend to take longer to complete the trail and thus have a lower score (Meyers 2011). Snyder performed a meta-analysis of studies describing neuropsychological measures of executive function in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) in 2013. The meta-analysis found that patients with MDD performed worse on both Trail Making Part A and B. The manual for administering the Trail Making test has been cited over 1,300 times in scholarly works (Reitan 1986). Overall, the academic search tool Google Scholar notes 48,100 articles that refer to the Trail Making test.
Maze learning is a classic experimental condition used in both humans and animals to investigate specific learning and memory functions. Many maze tasks exist and have a rich history in neuropsychological testing, the Porteus Maze (Porteus, 1965) and NAB Maze (Stern and White, 2003) as examples. The Savonix Maze task is similar to the procedure reported by Milner (1965). The Milner Maze is sometimes referred to as the Austin Maze. In Milner’s task, bolts were attached to a wooden board. No markings were on the board; subjects were required to discover the path of the “maze” through trial and error. When subjects touched the bolts with a metal-tipped stylus, a sound would alert the subject if they were on the right path. The Savonix test is similar in principle to the Milner Maze, but the maze is displayed on a device screen and feedback is provided visually rather than auditorily. Milner’s (1965) study examined the sensitivity of his maze task to hippocampal, frontal lobe, and cerebellar lesions.
Complex Figure Copy Task
Savonix’s Complex Figure task is based on the figure test first developed by Rey (1964) and standardized by Osterrieth (1944). The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) is a measure of visual spatial memory, and has been used clinically to evaluate attention, planning, and executive function. The ROCF or similar tests have been used for the past 50 years, and have high reliability and internal consistency (Berry, 1991). The Savonix Complex Figure task adapts the method developed by Rey and Osterrieth for a touchscreen device. Similar to the ROCF, the outcome variable of the Savonix Complex Figure is accuracy of the reproduced figure against the original figure, as measured by errors versus correct features. Consistent with the ROCF, following at least a 15-minute delay period, a free recall is administered in which subjects attempt to redraw the original design from memory. Both delayed cued and free recall memory paradigms have been identified as being important measures used in evaluating Alzheimer’s disease (e.g. Papp et al., 2015). Older individuals tend to require more time to complete the complex figure task compared to younger people. It is commonly used to assess dementia (Bigler, 1989) and cognitive development in children (Anderson, 2002). A study published in the British Medical Journal also used this task to determine that even moderate drinking of alcohol results in adverse brain outcomes (Topiwala, 2017). The academic journal search tool Google Scholar notes 16,800 articles that refer to the Complex Figure test.
Savonix’s Digit Span task is similar to the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Wechsler, 1994). The Forward Digit Span task consists of a number of trials where a series of digits are presented at a constant rate on the device screen. Immediately after each trial, the user is required to enter the digits on a keypad in the order in which they were flashed. In the Reverse Digit Span task, the user is required to enter the digits in reverse order. Sequence length varies between three and 10, with two trials for each length and with trials presented in ascending sequence order. The task ends when the participant fails two trials of any sequence length or when all trials are completed. The outcome variables are the longest sequence lengths correctly completed forwards and backwards. This task is used as a measure of attention and working memory. It is often used in the process of assessing a patient for attention deficit disorders. Rudeland Decka (1974) determined that different hemispheres of the brain are involved with forward vs. backward digit span. Those with left hemisphere dysfunction had a noted disadvantage in the forward digit span task. Meanwhile, subjects with right hemisphere dysfunction performed worse on backward digit span compared to the control group. Digit span scores of seven or less are associated with high specificity in healthy and brain-injured cohorts (Etherton 2005). Digit span was used in a study funded by the Grammy Foundation to assess whether music education improves cognitive function (Zuk 2014). This task was also used as a measurement by Low et al. to determine whether iron supplements improved cognition in children with anemia (Low 2013).
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This steroid not only rips the body off but also adds to the strength levels of your body and this is because this steroid is androgenic. Also, it is known to increase your sex drive and fertility. How to use Aromatase Step 1: Use 1 g of Aromatase supplement immediately after every meal Step 2: Take 3 mg 3 times a day or 30 mg of Aromatase 3 times a day Step 3: You can take it once a day or even in between meals Step 4: Take 1 to 2 g of it as needed before a workout, body steroid oil. The dosage can differ with each one, however, if you use your favorite dosage, then a 1 g for 2 days or 3 g to 3.5 g every other day is ideal Step 5: Keep it up every day for some time and you will surely reap great results (3 to 4 days) Side Effects, side effects, side effects In some cases, side effects can appear due to side effects from other medicines as well as any medical conditions, steroid use fertility. Side effects are often severe and you can have any number of issues. However, these are the side effects you have to be worried about: Itching Hair loss Headaches Nausea Dizziness Sweating Blurred vision Mood swings In addition to the above, if you have any health issue, also avoid taking Aromatase. It is advised that you seek the advice of your doctor before taking Aromatase product, steroid use by police2. It is also advised that you avoid the use of medications that have been shown to increase your sexual drive which can also result in you taking Aromatase. Aromatase can also make your penis hard and lead to some minor sexual issues, which can be a reason to avoid taking it in case of an erection or sexual activity. If an erection or sexual activity happens, you may want to consult your doctor or pharmacist as it may be a possible side effect of the steroid, steroid use by police3. If the erection or sexual activity does not happen and there is nothing wrong with your body in such process, then it is best you discontinue it and avoid the use of Aromatase in case they come up again. The final thing to keep in mind is that you can still gain many benefits from your Aromatase.
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