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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has condemned a G-8 warning that it could face more
sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, the country's official Islamic
Republic News Agency reported.
Mohamad Ali Hosseini, the
spokesman of Iran's foreign ministry, said Iran welcomed diplomatic solutions
"to answer questions and possible ambiguities over its peaceful nuclear
program," IRNA said late Saturday.
Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, IAEA, left, and Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema meet in Rome,
Thursday, June 7, 2007, during an international conference on nuclear
But Hosseini said the G-8 statement went against what he called the intent of
the international community, to work on the nuclear issue through talks and
He reiterated that Iran would not accept demands that it suspend uranium
enrichment, which can be used both to generate energy and to create a nuclear
weapon, before any negotiations.
The Group of Eight indudstrialized countries said Friday they would "support
adopting further measures" if Iran refused to put a halt to its uranium
The G-8 leaders, at a summit in Germany, said they would back UN Security
Council moves on a third set of sanctions against Iran if Tehran failed to
suspend the program.
On Tuesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran's nuclear program could
not be stopped, and that any Western attempt to force a halt to uranium
enrichment would be like playing "with the lion's tail."
The Security Council first imposed sanctions on Iran in December and modestly
increased them in March over Iran's refusal to suspend enrichment.
Iran says it is within its rights to pursue uranium enrichment for peaceful
The United States and some of its allies fear that Iran is pursuing a nuclear
weapons program under cover of its civilian nuclear activities.
Iran denies that and says its program is aimed at peaceful purposes such as
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WikiLeaks has just released a set of documents named “Dark Matter,” which contain information proving that the Central Intelligence Agency has developed tools to infect Apple products, like MacBooks and iPhones. The tools date back from 2009 to 2013 and are not likely to affect newer technology developed by Apple. The documents haven’t been identified as legitimate or altered yet.
WikiLeaks released a press statement saying that it was likely that the tools were used by the CIA to infect Apple products, by interdicting mail orders and other shipments leaving the United States. The CIA has declined to comment on the authenticity of the documents, reissuing a statement they released earlier in March when WikiLeaks published documents that showed CIA’s hacking tools to break into phones, cars, computers and Samsung Smart TV’s.
CIA hacking tools infected iPhones and MacBook Airs
The CIA has said that their actions have been carried out to protect the country from foreign threats. The tools affect Apple’s firmware, which means they affect the operating system even if it is reinstalled. One of the projects, called “Sonic Screwdriver’” consists of a device that would allow an attacker to boot its attack software, even if a firmware password is enabled. The “Sonic Screwdriver” infector is stored in an Apple adapter, the Thunderbolt to Ethernet.
The CIA has also developed another tool to infect MacBooks through a Thunderbolt port, called the “Thunderstrike 2.” Other tools include the “DarkSeaSkies,” which is an implant that persists in the firmware of a MacBook Air computer, a MacOSX malware dubbed “Triton” and the “NightSkies 1.2,” which is an implant tool for iPhones. WikiLeaks noted that the “NightSkies” was designed as early as 2008.
“Noteworthy is that NightSkies had reached 1.2 by 2008, and is expressly designed to be physically installed onto factory fresh iPhones,” said WikiLeaks. “The CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets since at least 2008.”
WikiLeaks also posted recently some documents called “Vault 7,” which link the CIA with the development of hacking tools that could affect some technologic devices and software such as Android phones, Windows computers, and Linux computers.
The hacking tools affecting the gadget would make possible to access data and messages shared through the device in WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram. Other hacking tools were able to turn a Samsung Smart TV into a listening device, although the hack would have been unsuccessful by simply unplugging the TV.
WikiLeaks has a long history of leaking top secret government-related documents, and CBS News reported that the “Vault 7” documents were being revised by experts who believed the documents were legitimate.
Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, and founder of cybersecurity company Redbranch Consulting, was reached for comment by CNET earlier this month. Rosenzweig said that if the tools are in fact being used, they would have great value for the CIA. Unfortunately, he believes that if the CIA has been able to find the holes in the electronic devices to hack them, those vulnerabilities could also be known by the Chinese or the Russian.
The “Vault 7” documents were leaked after a year-long debate among government officials trying to access electronic devices. The debate started after the U.S. Department of Justice asked Apple to open an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple refused the request, and the FBI said that it had managed another way to access the iPhone.
The CIA ‘negligence’
Government agencies are fighting to obtain access to encrypted information in devices linked to crimes. As the owning companies refuse to comply with the orders -as their customers’ privacy is protected under the First Amendment- the agencies could be developing or buying hacking tools to access the data.
Experts believe that the new leaks will further strain the relationship between the U.S government and electronic devices companies because people are starting to distrust their devices, which is bad for the companies.
WikiLeaks has criticized the CIA’s negligence in safeguarding the documents that they leaked. In a press release issued on March 7, WikiLeaks detailed CIA’s negligence, which allowed them to get hold of the documents.
“Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation,” said WikiLeaks. “The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.” | <urn:uuid:03011e53-cce6-479f-82af-6f4589d2e9e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pulseheadlines.com/wikileaks-cia-hacking-tools-infect-iphones-macbooks/61024/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.969265 | 1,017 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Join the national Hispanic Heritage Month celebration
National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 - October 15.
Thursday, Sept. 28 join us for live entertainment, music and free food from various Latin American countries as we celebrate and recognize the National Hispanic Heritage culture! The celebration will from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on the campus mall in front of the Eunice & James L. West Library.
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BROKEN HILL, THE HERITAGE CITY
Broken Hill is a fascinating city, and we warmly encourage you to get to know it whilst enjoying your stay at our Broken Hill hotel and Broken Hill caravan park. In 2015 it became the very first city in Australia to have the honour of being added to the National Heritage List.
In addition to its rich and colourful history, Broken Hill also has a bold and energetic art scene, famous festivals and delicious Outback pub fare in beautiful heritage buildings. Broken Hill is often considered the quintessential outback town with its warm hospitality, rich heritage, wide streets and remarkable aesthetic. It is a unique and remote city that offers a charming combination of grand, historical buildings and ramshackle miners’ huts.
Broken Hill is the largest regional outback centre in western New South Wales. The city has often been described as the ‘Capital of the Outback’ or ‘The Silver City’ – the latter for its long association with mining, specifically silver and mineral deposits. Mining in Broken Hill has been essential to Australia’s development as a nation and the natural geographic significance of the region cannot be understated. It is home to a rare volume of minerals with close to 300 mineral varieties and remains one of the world’s richest deposits in silver, lead and zinc.
Broken Hill Australia is well known for its mining history and as the birthplace of BHP (1885). But while the mining industry still plays an integral role in the city’s life, tourism and hospitality are becoming increasingly important. The Out of the Ordinary Outback Group are proud of the part we are playing in the growth of tourism in the Outback jewel that is the far-west of New South Wales, particularly with our accommodation in Broken Hill.
THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND BROKEN HILL, AUSTRALIA
With so much to do in the region, the Broken Hill Tourism Information Centre is a great place to start. It’s open 364 days a year (closed Christmas Day) and located on the corner of Blende and Bromide streets. Whilst you’re there, be sure pick up a map too.
A wander through the city on foot is also worthwhile. Walk along the wide streets and view the architecture reflective of the prosperity of the 19th century. Check out some of the Broken Hill restaurants and shops, too.
The vast red, rocky landscapes surrounding Broken Hill have long inspired artists and the city is home to a vibrant artistic community. The richness and diversity of the outback has influenced many an artist, photographer and filmmaker and Broken Hill is home to more than 30 art galleries and numerous museums too.
Here are just a few suggestions:
The Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery is the oldest regional art gallery in New South Wales. Even the historic building (Sully’s Emporium) in which the gallery is housed has won numerous heritage awards for restoration and refurbishment.
Wynam Street’s Pro Hart Gallery is home to a broad selection of Pro Hart paintings as well as hundreds of works from other well-known Australian artists such as Sir William Dobell, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker. The gallery was designed by Hart artist himself and in true artistic fashion, the art has been arranged in an unconventional manner around the gallery.
Bruce Langford Visitor Centre at the RFDS Base
The centre is located at the Royal Flying Doctor Service base. Kids and grown-ups alike will get a real kick from the interactive museum, located within a working RFDS base and airport. The centre offers a terrific insight into the history of the RFDS and visitors can tour the base and view the aircraft.
While a must for anyone with a passion for aviation, a tour also showcases an incredible service. The dedicated pilots, doctors and nurses of the RFDS offer medical assistance to people spread across a staggering seven million square kilometres. Admission and merchandising proceeds go toward aircraft and medical equipment.
Broken Hill Sculpture and Living Desert Sanctuary
Viewing fabulous sculptures in the desert as the sun sets across a majestic backdrop is far from an everyday experience but a visit to the Broken Hill Sculpture and Living Desert Sanctuary makes it possible. Located in the Barrier Ranges about 10 minutes from Broken Hill, 12 sandstone sculptures from worldwide artists adorn the landscape. The 2400- hectare reserve in Broken Hill Australia is the perfect spot to soak up the magnificent scenery. The reserve is also home to a flora and fauna sanctuary and offers several walking trails. | <urn:uuid:a6c77107-cd63-4fe3-97d1-a353bfb4dd7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brokenhilloutbackresort.com.au/about/broken-hill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.951966 | 938 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Train might assist enhance coronary heart well being and general health in folks with coronary heart failure. Nonetheless, these people ought to get the approval of a healthcare skilled earlier than beginning an train routine.
Because of this, the physique may not get as a lot oxygen because it wants, and on a regular basis duties might really feel tougher.
This text appears on the potential advantages of train for folks with coronary heart failure. It additionally discusses the appropriate varieties of train and supplies ideas for exercising safely.
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The authors add that the Heart Failure Association Guidelines advocate average, common train for folks with coronary heart failure. This may increasingly assist by:
- lowering signs
- bettering the useful capability of the center
- lowering the danger of hospitalization
Individuals might want to test with a healthcare skilled earlier than beginning an train program. Some workouts may not be suitable for folks with sure coronary heart situations, akin to:
- obstruction to left ventricular outflow
- decompensated coronary heart failure
- unstable variable coronary heart fee
In response to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the advantages of normal train for folks with coronary heart failure embrace:
- elevated perform
- lowered signs of coronary heart failure
- improved high quality of life
- elevated capability to hold out on a regular basis actions
- retained independence
- improved general well being and health
Different advantages of normal train
- elevated vitality ranges
- elevated bodily power
- elevated endurance and skill to train
- weight reduction or upkeep
- higher administration of any extra well being situations, akin to excessive blood sugar, blood stress, or ldl cholesterol
- stress administration
- improved sleep
- improved psychological well being, akin to lowering signs of melancholy or nervousness
Healthcare professionals emphasize the significance of “listening to” the physique.
It’s regular to expertise the next when exercising:
- feeling comfy and relaxed
- being conscious of the breath however not out of breath
- feeling barely drained
- feeling barely sweaty
If folks expertise any of the next, they might want to cease exercising and call a physician:
- chest discomfort
- worsening shortness of breath
- fast coronary heart fee
- excessive fatigue
It’s important to name a physician or 911 if the next happen:
- chest ache
- swelling within the decrease physique
- worsening dizziness or confusion
- shortness of breath when resting
A mixture of various train varieties might assist profit folks with coronary heart failure.
Reasonable depth resistance coaching
Resistance coaching, also referred to as power coaching, entails making the muscle tissue work towards a drive, which may be within the type of weights, resistance bands, or physique weight. Resistance coaching may also help work all the main muscle teams within the physique.
Examples of resistance coaching embrace:
- workouts with hand weights
The ACSM recommends average depth resistance coaching a minimum of twice per week, which can assist enhance useful capability and general well being. Lifting a weight 10–15 instances counts as average depth.
Cardio or cardio train
Cardio train helps enhance circulation and decrease blood stress. It additionally helps management blood sugar.
A average stage of train is one throughout which an individual continues to be capable of discuss with out being too out of breath.
Examples of cardio train embrace:
- brisk strolling
- leaping rope
Individuals can start with low to average cardio train, aiming for a minimum of 150 minutes per week.
It should probably be best to separate this all through the week, aiming to be energetic for a minimum of 30 minutes on 5 days of the week.
Flexibility, stretching, and stability workouts can complement cardio and resistance coaching.
Flexibility train helps support the musculoskeletal system by lowering or stopping joint ache, cramping, and muscle aches.
Kinds of train that may enhance flexibility embrace:
Individuals can do flexibility exercises every day, in addition to earlier than and after cardio or resistance coaching.
Warming up and cooling down are vital parts of train.
Stretching earlier than and after train can help scale back stress on the center and muscle tissue, in addition to serving to stop harm.
The phases of train are as follows:
- dilating blood vessels, making certain an excellent provide of oxygen to the muscle tissue
- warming up the muscle tissue to extend flexibility and effectivity
- elevating the center fee regularly to cut back stress on the center
- growing vary of movement and lowering stress on the joints and tendons to assist stop harm
Individuals can heat up for a minimum of 5–10 minutes earlier than exercising by:
- stretching all main muscle teams
- performing low depth cardio that’s just like deliberate train — for instance, gently jogging on the spot forward of going for a run
- warming up the entire physique, akin to by strolling on a treadmill
This time period refers back to the train session itself, which can contain cardio, resistance, or flexibility coaching. In some instances, an individual might go for a mix of various train varieties.
Cooling down after train is vital to assist hold blood flowing by way of the physique. Cooling down helps be sure that physique temperature and coronary heart fee decrease regularly.
Individuals might want to quiet down by strolling at a sluggish tempo for five minutes or till the center fee lowers under 120 beats per minute.
Stretching is an effective solution to scale back a buildup of lactic acid within the physique, which may trigger the muscle tissue to cramp or really feel stiff.
Ideas for stretching embrace:
- holding every stretch for 10–30 seconds
- with the ability to really feel the stretch with out it being painful
- avoiding bouncing the physique when stretching
- sustaining constant respiratory by inhaling when going into the stretch and exhaling whereas holding the place
Individuals with coronary heart failure can maximize their possibilities of exercising safely and sustaining an everyday apply by:
- discovering train that’s pleasing and might happen at an appropriate time
- discovering others to train with if this helps with motivation
- breaking train up into sections, akin to a brief yoga routine upon waking and a lunchtime stroll, whether it is tough to suit it into the day
- avoiding giving up after lacking a exercise and simply beginning once more the following day
- avoiding exercising shortly after consuming
- avoiding workouts that require holding the breath
- exercising in gentle temperatures, as very chilly, scorching, or humid climate could make it tougher
- ingesting loads of water to remain hydrated
- consuming a nutritious, well-balanced weight loss plan
- setting easy objectives, akin to bettering mobility or on a regular basis perform
- beginning with low affect actions, akin to strolling or swimming
- starting with shorter periods of 10–15 minutes and regularly increase the period and frequency of train
- pausing for breaks every time essential
- utilizing a pedometer or exercise tracker to watch progress
Train might profit folks with coronary heart failure, as it will possibly strengthen the center and muscle tissue whereas bettering general well being and health.
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Solving Quadratic Equations by the Quadratic Formula is an excellent source of learning for many different kinds of mathematics. It has a wide variety of useful applications and is easy to use. Once you have it under your belt, you’ll be able to solve many more problems that you could solve without it.
There are a lot of different ways to solve a quadratic equation. Some require precise computations that are beyond what a general calculator can handle. Other quadratic equations can be solved with just a small hand calculator, and still others can be solved using a large and expensive graphing calculator. So, it comes as no surprise that there are a lot of people who have not had much success with either of these approaches.
But there is a way to solve a quadratic equation that is so simple that even the cheapest graphing calculator can’t handle it. A quadratic formula worksheet is simply a spreadsheet that contains the formulas that you need to solve quadratic equations. Using a worksheet like this is an extremely effective way to solve any kind of a quadratic equation, no matter how complex or difficult they may be. A quadratic formula worksheet can save you a lot of time and frustration.
So how do you use a worksheet to solve a quadratic equation? It’s really quite simple. The first thing you need to do is fill in all of the cells that you know are going to be needed to solve the quadratic equation.
Next, enter the value of the first term in the quadratic equation. The formula for the first term is quite simple. Once you have entered this, all you have to do is the “Calculate” button and you will get back the answer to the quadratic equation.
After entering all of the values, you need to make sure that all of the cells in your worksheet are checked. You need to make sure that you only enter the first value and nothing else. Once you do this, you will have a reference for all of the values you enter.
If you want to enter more than one value, you will need to calculate them all before entering them. You will find that a worksheet like this makes solving quadratic equations very easy. You will be able to solve a quadratic equation in seconds with this type of sheet.
You don’t have to spend hours trying to figure out how to solve a quadratic equation. All you need is a calculator, and a worksheet that give you everything you need to solve your quadratic equation. These are two simple tools that can help you solve any type of quadratic equation. | <urn:uuid:d126e205-7889-466a-a8bd-0a35149d9c5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.semesprit.com/64620/solving-quadratic-equations-by-quadratic-formula-worksheet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959525 | 559 | 3.4375 | 3 |
San Salvador, El Salvador – Elmer Villalobos was 26 when the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang grew irritated that the private bus firm where Elmer’s older brother, Gustavo, worked refused to pay extortion fees in their neighborhood of Cuscatancingo.
Gunmen from the gang – sometimes known for wearing body and face tattoos and fighting to the death — stormed the bus station, sending drivers and toll-takers scurrying into a nearby eatery that made the locally famous “Pupusa,” El Salvador’s twist on a quesadilla or arepa. The gang members opened fire on Gustavo, who was peaceably dining, shooting him eight times and causing his death.
Central America is a region racked with drug and gang-related violence. Its murder rates are so high that Villalobos and others compare it to a war zone. New statistics from 2014 indicate El Salvador is re-capturing the ignoble distinction (from Honduras) of being the most murderous nation state on earth.
In March, at least 481 people were murdered in El Salvador, a record rate of 16 people per day and a 52 percent increase from the same period last year and the most violent month in 10 years. The numbers threaten the leadership of leftist president Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who has proposed less mano dura (“iron fist”) crackdowns and more prevention, social programs and prison reform.
But along with violence, religion also is seeing an uptick in El Salvador, Villalobos said.
“You see church growth and crime growth at the same time,” said Villalobos, who is active in the evangelical movement in El Salvador. “We see Catholics and Christians who don’t change their heart. They come to church to pray but don’t change their values.”
Evangelical Christianity is growing robustly in El Salvador, rising to 40 percent of the population (50 percent are Roman Catholic). But, so far, the booming evangelical megachurches seem ill-equipped to make a dent in the astronomical murder rates and widespread extortion problem.
Villalobos said many gang members in El Salvador come from evangelical families. “Families are active in church but sometimes forget their kids,” he said.
Local journalists and pastors said recently that up to 60 percent of gang members come from evangelical family backgrounds. When I pressed them on the source for that statistic, no one could produce specifics, saying it comes from informal surveys of gang members rather than a scientific study. But this rumored stat raises the question of what Protestant and Catholic churches can do about the violence in Central America.
In the capital of San Salvador, men with sawed off shotguns guard customers at gas stations, shopping malls and fast food outlets. Gangs extort from many small and mid-size businesses to pay for protection. Most public buses stop running around 8 p.m., and working people scurry home before gangs take over barrios in bloody after-hours battles. The U.S. State Department warns about traveling to the country where thousands of known gang members from several gangs including MS-13 and Eighteenth Street (M18) kidnap, murder and extort terror on the city.
“We’re very worried at the levels of insecurity and violence across Central America and El Salvador,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in San Salvador in January.
As a 2012 truce between those two gangs collapsed in the past year, El Salvador has become the most dangerous country in the world with 3,942 murders in 2014 – roughly 11 per day – in a country of 6.1 million people, according to research firm InSightCrime. That’s a 57 percent jump from 2013 when El Salvador was the third-most deadly country behind Honduras and Venezuela.
The violence creates a chilling effect on the nation’s economy as few multinationals want to locate factories in the region, and few tourists venture to the nation because of the violence. And small business owners are intimidated to pay gangs for protection, which throws hurdles into the free market. The country has hired former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani to advise them on how to stem the violence.
At the same time, El Salvador shows signs of Catholic and evangelical Christian life at every turn. Churches blanket the city with billboards and buses advertising Jesus Christo. Churches own roughly 30 media outlets in El Salvador, including some of the most influential in the country.
Megachurches such as Baptist Tabernacle and Elim both own TV stations, radio stations and newspapers. These churches draw as many as 70,000 people to services on Sundays. Small group Bible studies and home churches are present across the city. Just 9 percent of Salvadorians claim no religion.
“Most of the churches in Central America have been local and insular,” said Tito Muralles, a director of an independent Christian newspaper in Guatemala called La Palabra. “We’re accustomed to seeing crime already. It’s normal. When you see bodies fall next to you, it doesn’t surprise you.”
News personality Edwin Gongora of Orbita TV said Christian media and churches in the country largely focus on music, preaching, teaching and the word of God.
“Some are starting to shift to talk more on social issues such as violence,” he said. Gang members often become more hardened in prison and, if they try to leave a gang after prison, are often murdered by one side or another. In the past, gangs would allow a member to leave for only a few reasons, one being if the gang member wanted to pursue a devout Christian life. According to researchers, gangs would sometimes monitor the person to make sure they remained devout and did not join another gang.
Surely some pastors and churches are working to combat criminality in their neighborhoods. But many believe churches can and should play a larger role in addressing the social problems of crime, poverty and economic development.
Villalobos said Edgar López Bertrand Jr., a pastor of local megachurch Tabernaculo Biblico Bautista (slogan: “Amigos de Israel”) interviewed imprisoned gang leaders during the recent truce between the country’s two main gangs. A Catholic chaplain Bishop Fabio Colindres helped broker the temporary truce between the gangs according to the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University.
Mario Vega, senior pastor of the other megachurch in San Salvador called Elim Christian Mission (Mision Cristiana Elim Internacional), told criminal justice news site Sala Negra that he believes discussions with gang leaders can improve the situation. He said the problem of mafia isn’t easy to fix as 10 percent of the population are part of gangs, the gang problems stem from economic inequality and infiltrate nearly every aspect of El Salvadoran society.
“The worst thing is that we as Salvadorians are getting used to this kind of life,” said the Rev. Carlos B. Calderon, who is pastor of the 60-member Iglesia Alianza Cristiana y Missionera church. “We are losing our capacity to feel pain, our capacity for shame. We see the violence happening, and we are not surprised anymore.”
He said government plans from the right and left have largely failed so far. Idea sharing by nonprofits and churches could have an impact. He noted that gang leaders actually respect Christian leaders and don’t attack them. But, what would happen if the star pastors at megachurches started preaching against the gangs and telling their
congregation to stop paying extortion fees?
“They would say, ‘Pastor, will you help me? Will you protect me? Will you prevent my employees from being killed and my business from being set on fire?’” he said.
Calderon said it is painful for pastors to admit that children from their congregations are heading to street gangs and that churches bear some responsibility. Some churches in Central America, he said, have focused too much on adding members and gaining more influence over rival churches. “We have been careless about discipleship and helping families,” he said.
After thinking about the dilemma at a recent dinner in San Salvador, Calderon sighed and said he and his fellow pastors must exercise more conscience at some point, even in the face of danger.
“If God doesn’t help us to raise leaders to change directions of the country, there is no real hope for us,” he said. “Every pastor should renounce this kind of sin openly.”
The violent gangs of El Salvador began in the United States as Latinos formed gangs to battle other street gangs in Los Angeles and other cities. As members were arrested and deported to El Salvador in the 1990s, their gangs filled a power vacuum in their home country that was fresh off a civil war that stretched from 1979 to 1992. The Cold War era that saw Marxists and Maoist insurgencies throughout Latin America subsided and created a further power vacuum for drug and extortion gangs to fill.
Villalobos, whose brother was killed by gang violence, said he and other neighborhood kids marveled at gang members who started populating their poverty-stricken barrio in 1992.
“Many of us youngsters liked how they dressed and their graffiti. We saw it not as a style of living but a new mood,” he said. “When we saw it wasn’t just a dress code, we decided not to admire them anymore.”
Villalobos, who is now 36, and his brother came from a poor family of six children. His parents eventually split, and his mother couldn’t afford to keep more than three of her children, so she sent three of them to cousins to raise. Villalobos didn’t meet these siblings until his mother’s funeral a few years ago.
He found his way to the Universidad de El Salvador, majored in journalism and took a job at local news outlet Diario El Mundo, the same year his brother was killed. His news beat was covering the crime and violence plague on San Salvador at El Mundo and another newspaper.
“When I covered crime, I tried to portray the effect it had on people left behind – the siblings, parents and friends of those murdered,” he said. “My stories tried to show the effects of crime and the pain it causes.”
Now, he writes for a magazine about health care.
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Transgenic tobacco and Arabidopsis thaliana expressing the bacterial enzyme salicylate hydroxylase cannot accumulate salicylic acid (SA). This defect not only makes the plants unable to induce systemic acquired resistance, but also leads to increased susceptibility to viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens. The enhanced susceptibility extends even to host-pathogen combinations that would normally result in genetic resistance. Therefore, SA accumulation is essential for expression of multiple modes of plant disease resistance.
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The laws of Texas define sexual harassment as any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, including actions of either a verbal or physical nature. Sexual advances, creating a hostile work environment that is blatantly sexual in nature, and sexual advances are some of the more frequent forms of sexual harassment amongst employers.
How does Texas Law Prohibit Sexual Harassment?
First, Jasper employers can be required to formulate company policies that specifically address sexual harassment in the workplace. These must be posted in a visible area such as a break room. These policies may include contact information for an employee to report sexual harassment, the process for handling such claims, and the corrective measures for when a claim is proven.
Furthermore, federal and Texas laws create specific agencies which are responsible for handling sexual harassment cases. The agencies are given authority to investigate workplaces in Jasper to determine if the incidents alleged in the complaints they receive are true. Furthermore, under these laws, employers may not fire or retaliate against any employee who has alleged sexual harassment in a claim.
How can a Texas attorney help?
If you do not have any expertise in the applicable laws, it may be difficult to investigate and show a claim involving sexual harassment. The federal agencies that handle initial claims of sexual harassment are frequently understaffed and overworked. Thus, hiring an attorney in Jasper can be the safest way to file your claim within the deadlines for sexual harassment claims that Texas has defined. | <urn:uuid:a6daaa54-bfc3-45c6-8958-85f0dd0c34bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://employment-law.legalmatch.com/TX/Jasper/sexual-harassment-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937925 | 284 | 2 | 2 |
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora.
It is the largest and most well-known species of fox.
Red foxes has the widest distribution of any canid. They are found throughout much of the northern hemisphere from the Arctic circle to Central America, the steppes of central Asia, and northern Africa. Red foxes have also been introduced to Australia and the Falkland Islands.
Red foxes utilize a wide range of habitats including forest, tundra, prairie, desert, mountains, farmlands, and urban areas. They prefer mixed vegetation communities, such as edge habitats and mixed scrub and woodland. They are found from sea level to 4,500 meters (almost 15, feet) elevation.
The lifespan of red fox is about 2 to 5 years in the wild and up to 15 years in captivity.
On average, adults measure 35 to 50 cm (14 to 20 in) high at the shoulder and 45 to 90 cm (18 to 35 in) in body length with tails measuring 30 to 55.5 cm (12 to 22 in).
Coloration of red foxes ranges from pale yellowish red to deep reddish brown on the upper parts and white, ashy or slaty on the underside. The lower part of the legs is usually black and the tail usually has a white or black tip. Two color variants commonly occur. Cross foxes have reddish brown fur with a black stripe down the back and another across the shoulders. Silver foxes range from strong silver to nearly black and are the most prized by furriers.
Like a cat’s, the fox’s thick tail helps it balance, but it has other uses as well. The tail of a red fox can be like a flag to communicate with other red foxes. The tail is also something of a food store.
The species often produces individuals with other colourings, including albinos and melanists.
Red foxes are usually together in pairs or small groups consisting of families, such as a mated pair and their young, or a male with several females having kinship ties.
Red foxes are highly adept hunters, and have the necessary senses to help them in their endeavors. Their senses of smell, vision and hearing are all strong.
They use a variety of vocalizations to communicate among themselves. They can produce 28 different sounds to
communicate with each other. They also use facial expressions and scent marking extensively.
The red fox is mostly nocturnal, although it will sometimes venture out in the day. The red fox, unlike other mammals, hears low-frequency sounds very well. It can hear small animals digging underground and will frequently dig in the dirt or snow to catch prey. The fox stalks its prey, much like a cat.
Red foxes are essentially omnivores. They mostly eat rodents, eastern cottontail rabbits, insects, and fruit. They will also eat carrion. Red foxes also store food and are very good at relocating these caches. Red foxes have a characteristic manner of hunting mice. The fox stands motionless, listening and watching intently for a mouse it has detected. It then leaps high and brings the forelimbs straight down forcibly to pin the mouse to the ground. They eat between 0.5 and 1 kg of food each day.
A 2008–2010 study of 84 red foxes in the Czech Republic and Germany found that successful hunting in long vegetation or under snow appeared to involve an alignment of the fox with the Earth‘s magnetic field.
The red fox mates in spring. The gestation period lasts 49–58 days. The average litter size consists of four to six kits, though litters of up to 13 kits have occurred. The female will make one or more dens right after mating. The extra dens are used if the original den is disturbed. Both the mother and father share the care of pups. Even older siblings will help take care of their younger brother and sisters by bringing them food.
Although the red fox tends to kill smaller predators, including other fox species, it is vulnerable to attack from larger predators, such as wolves, coyotes, jackals and medium- and large-sized felines.
Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade.
Too small to pose a threat to humans, it has extensively benefited from the presence of human habitation, and has successfully colonised many suburban and urban areas. Domestication of the red fox is also underway in Russia, and has resulted in the Domesticated red fox.
The word “fox” comes from Old English, which derived from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.
The small, slender body of a Red fox allows it to run nearly 50 km/h (30 mph).
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Do you regularly download helpful 3rd-party apps? Find out how hackers infiltrated the homes of Alexa users with an app while highlighting Alexa privacy issues.
Undoubtedly, these are smart questions to have when we consider the expanding integration of voice assistants into everything, including business applications.
A recent voice assistant hack from one group demonstrates that we should be aware of potential risks. We’ll look at what those risks are, how companies uncover new threats in the complex world of voice assistants and what company’s like Amazon are doing to address those risks.
Nothing More Harmless Is Getting Your Horoscope
Unless you’re relying on horoscopes to guide your career and personal life, there’s probably nothing more innocuous than viewing what the “stars are telling you”. According to the Smithsonian Institute, an estimated 23% of Americans look at them daily. Many just for fun. Others rely on them.
Recently, hackers exploited this interest in star guidance by creating a horoscope app for Alexa, which allowed them to listen in on households and businesses who’d installed the app.
But as horrifying as this may seem, there is a silver lining.
How White Hat Hackers Keep Us Safe
While the term “hacker” may carry a negative connotation, there are also hacker groups who make it their job to try to infiltrate the devices businesses and individuals trust. And they do it, not to steal your identity. These “ethical” hackers do it to make these technologies safer.
As is the case in many situations, these hackers, known as “white hat hackers”, sent a report outlining the vulnerability to Amazon. Amazon then immediately researched the weakness and put measures in place to prevent hackers with evil intent from using the same virtual window to enter the homes and businesses of Alexa users.
Why Do They Do It
For many, it’s the thrill of the hunt. It’s that dopamine rush you get when you finally solve a complex problem. It’s that feeling when you finally beat a worthy opponent. Or the bragging rights that come along with it.
But these independent hackers may also get paid by the company. Companies like these pay white hat hackers to find their vulnerabilities:
- Goldman Sachs
- The US government
For example, in 2016, Facebook paid over $5 million to hackers in India, who identified these kinds of bugs.
Alexa Privacy Concerns: What to Do
Assessing your risks is essential. But we can also rest assured that companies are continually working to address these vulnerabilities. When they find one, they generally create a patch. Customers must often download those patches to erase the vulnerability. So install updates quickly, especially security ones.
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Ocean Science Sequence Workshop Held - 04.20.2011
COSEE OCEAN’s efforts to implement an ocean education curriculum in an urban school district are underway. In late March, seven Boston Public School teachers met with a curriculum developer from Lawrence Hall of Science’s Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) to explore the ocean through the Ocean Science Sequence (OSS) for grades 3-5. Each of the three units addresses a different question about the ocean:
• Unit 1: What kind of place is the ocean?
• Unit 2: What is life like in the ocean?
• Unit 3: How are humans and the ocean interconnected?
This spring, two teachers will pilot each unit, and one teacher will pilot all three units. The teachers will meet regularly to discuss successes and challenges, and will provide important feedback on how to integrate the OSS into the existing curriculum. The feedback from this spring will help direct efforts to implement the curriculum more broadly in the Boston and Milton public school districts in 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years.
Concurrent with the introduction of the OSS material this spring, COSEE OCEAN will also be reviewing the curriculum and talking with the piloting teachers to identify opportunities for developing and incorporating videos from scientists to enhance existing materials.
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After a worldwide epidemic, discussions on proper sanitation have become widespread. People are increasingly worried about stopping the spread of the COVID-19 virus and protecting themselves from infection.
The talks are especially prominent among medical professionals since they are seen as the “front lines” in the fight against the epidemic. Researchers found that germs on a healthcare worker’s uniform persisted for up to 48 hours after their shift finished.
This otherwise depressing story’s bright side is that buying Christmas scrubs online are more vital than ever.
Practitioners are regularly exposed to the virus and may continue to be exposed to it through their clothing even when they are not on the front lines. People who come into contact with their infected garments inside that 48-hour window will be at risk, not just them.
Clothing and uniforms hold a high value in the healthcare sector. Each type of uniform and clothing, from a lab coat to a set of scrubs, has a specific role and helps keep workers safe and productive. It is necessary to have medical personnel dress in scrubs. Their work at the hospital is essential to providing proper medical treatment.
Scrubs are designed to keep you safe from infectious diseases and other bodily fluids.
Fabrics used in high-quality medical scrubs are designed to be thick enough to prevent the wearer’s skin from coming into touch with a patient’s body fluids.
Scrubs are helpful in terms of cost-effectiveness.
The main feature of buying Christmas scrubs online is to last and to save money. Made from high-quality cloth that can resist many piles of washing without losing its shape or colour, they are affordably priced and highly durable. They may be easily replaced after years of washing and use.
Facilitating Ease of Use and Mobility
Doctors, nurses, and other medical staff have one of the most taxing occupations in the world. Their physical and mental health is suffering due to the increased workload caused by the present epidemic.
A surgeon may be on their feet for the whole shift, whereas a nurse may have only brief opportunities to sit. Medical scrubs are designed to be worn for lengthy periods in both a standing and seated position, making them ideal for this type of work. They can move freely, so they can run and play without becoming tired.
Given the anatomical variances between men’s and women’s medical scrubs, they are also manufactured to measure.
Scrubs simplify the wearer’s life by allowing for greater mobility and a more significant number of pockets.
Use for Authentication and Personalisation
Anyone who has ever worked in or visited a hospital knows how vital agility is in the workplace. If a critical patient needs to be rushed into the emergency department, it’s helpful to quickly recognise the appropriate medical staff based on what they’re wearing. It’s not uncommon for them to dress in hospital garb.
Buying christ mass scrubs online are a quick and easy way to recognise doctors and other medical professionals who can provide immediate and appropriate care. Nurses may wear a different shade of scrubs than doctors, and non-medical staff may be dressed casually or in a hospital-issued uniform.
In addition to the usual hospital busyness, people are now scrambling to get tested for or treated for the coronavirus. Visitors must be able to quickly and easily identify themselves so that assistance is provided.
It’s essential to wear scrubs to prevent contamination.
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Injuries sustained in the workplace can be life changing. Most may heal up on their own, however, some more severe injuries caused in the workplace can directly stop you from working indefinitely. Trying to get your life back on track can often be hard, especially financially.
If you have been affected by a workplace injury, no matter how big or small then you may be entitled to Workers Compensation. Workers compensation is designed to help you receive any treatment that may be needed in order to get you back working full time or as healthy as possible. Compensation all depends on your injury and how it was sustained.
What are Common Types of Workplace Accidents?
Workplace accidents can be caused by many different things. Below are some of the most popular reasons workers seek compensation.
- Slips, trips and falls
- Vehicle accidents
- Injuries caused by another person
- Falling objects or dangerous contact with work equipment
If you have been affected by any of the above and suffered a workplace injury then you should seek legal advice as soon as possible. When you have been hurt at work, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and out of your depth when it comes to dealing with management.
Seeking legal advice will ensure that you know your rights and what to expect if you decide you want to seek compensation for your injuries.
Who Can Claim Workers Compensation?
It is often a misconception that if you are not employed full time that you cannot claim compensation for work related injuries. Any of the below are eligible to claim for workers compensation:
- Full-time employees – this includes current and previous employees
- Part-time employees
- Temporary employees and subcontractors
Strict time limits apply to workers compensation cases, so, if you do fall into one of these categories make sure you speak to a legal professional before time runs out.
What Entitlements Can You Receive?
This all depends on your situation, when you speak to a legal expert they will be able to give you more of an idea of what entitlements you can expect if your claim is successful. Generally, you can receive compensation to cover:
- Pain and suffering caused by your injuries
- Medical and/or rehabilitation costs
- Loss of wages
Workers compensation cases can be complex and no two cases are the same. At the time of your initial consultation, if you have a case, your legal expert will be able to give you a rough idea of what you can expect and how long it may take to receive your entitlements.
How AJB Stevens Can Help
AJB Stevens are the experts in Workers Compensation. Our team ensure you receive sound advice that you can trust. No matter what your situation we will be able to advise whether you have a sound claim or not. We can also help you if:
- Your workplace injury has been incorrectly diagnosed.
- You have been injured on someone else’s property while doing your work.
- You have been injured on your way to or from work.
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A Human Resource Administrative Assistant has the primary role of managing and maintaining data for business employees. They perform administrative tasks as well as assist in employee training and recruitment. They are the main support personnel for HR executives.
Daily, they are involved in compiling the organization's personnel records, maintaining HR databases, assisting in payroll preparation, managing HR paperwork, scheduling calendar activities, and developing reports for management. Besides that, they also attend phone calls and assist with employee orientation.
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Currently (2012) an hotel
Wording on the National Monuments Council Plaque
BUILT BY EARLY JOHANNESBURG MINING ENGINEER
HENNEN JENNINGS (1854 – 1905)
WHO LIVED HERE 1895 – 1898
RESIDENCE OF LORD MILNER: 1901 – 1905
ON OCCASION ALSO THE RESIDENCE OF
LORD SELBORNE, DUKE AND DUCHESS OF
CONNAUGHT AND VISCOUNT GLADSTONE
ARCHITECT FRANK EMLEY F.R.I.B.A.
GEBOU VIR DIE VROEË JOHANNESBURGSE
MYNINGENIEUR HENNEN JENNINGS (1854 – 1905)
WAT VAN 1895 TOT 1898 HIER GEWOON HET
LATER BEWOON DEUR LORD MILNER: 1901 – 1905
EN BY GELEENTHEID OOK DEUR LORD SELBORNE,
DIE HERTOG EN HERTOGIN VAN CONNAUGHT
EN BURGGRAAF GLADSTONE
ARGITEK FRANK EMLEY F.R.I.B.A.
Wording on the Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust plaque
The house was built in 1895 for Hennen Jennings, a mining
engineer. In March 1901 it became the official residence of
Sir Alfred (later Lord) Milner, British High Commissioner,
and the man generally blamed for the outbreak of war.
As governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies,
Milner introduced civil administration more than a
year before the war ended and was responsible
for the post war construction.
He left South Africa in 1905.
These notes were last edited on 2020 03 06
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LIBERTY HILL, Texas (KXAN) — Dave Wigton, 23, is studying at Austin Community College. Before he is able pursue a bachelor’s in computer programming, he needs to save the money he earns from his new job at a clothing store.
Having a driver’s license and being able to get himself to work will help him achieve this goal, said Dave’s mom, Vicki Wigton. When he got his license, it freed up some of her time as well.
“It has made things easier for me, but it’s also put up a set of worries that maybe most parents don’t have,” Vicki said.
Dave was diagnosed with autism when he was 3-years-old. Vicki said he functions at a high level but still has challenges with communication. If pulled over for a traffic stop, Vicki worries the officer may not understand that Dave communicates a little slower than a person not on the autism spectrum.
“If he is not acting like somebody typical, (the officer) has got to do what’s in his judgment is the best thing. And, unfortunately, the best thing to defend himself may be to hurt my child,” Vicki said.
“I get a deep, deep worry that the officer isn’t going to understand Dave,” she added.
To reduce this fear, Vicki went to the Williamson County Tax Office to record Dave’s communication challenges on her vehicle registration. But when she went to submit the forms, she said she was told it was only possible when registering her vehicle for its annual renewal.
“That’s nine to eleven months that nobody knows what his disability is or what to expect if he’s stopped any time during that time period,” Vicki said.
Ensuring better interactions with police
The program that Vicki attempted to use is called the Samuel Allen law. The law is named after a Texas man diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome whose mom, Jennifer Allen, advocated for better interaction between law enforcement and people with communication impediments. A state program also was introduced in conjunction with the law to instruct law enforcement on that interaction.
If someone with communication difficulties would like to record this on their registration, they must complete an online form, print it and submit it at their local tax assessor-collector’s office.
Sgt. Bryan Washko of the Texas Department of Public Safety said there have been instances in his agency where someone on the autism spectrum has reacted slowly at a traffic stop and raised an officer’s concern.
“You automatically think red flags. What are they trying to hide? Are they possibly wanted? Are they about to run? But, in fact, that is somebody who is on the autism spectrum (and) is just having difficulty at that moment,” Sgt. Washko said.
“The main focus is to make sure that these people are treated fairly, just like anyone else at a traffic stop,” said Rep. Armando Martinez, D-Weslaco, a House sponsor of the bill that became the law.
A representative at the tax office told KXAN this was a training issue and extended apologies to the Wigton family. After our team reached out, the office asked for Vicki’s phone number, assured us the issue would be resolved and said it would soon offer more training to staff.
Though Vicki was eventually able to get Dave’s information added to her registration, Vicki feels requiring someone to go in person to utilize the Samuel Allen Law is a barrier.
“You can’t do this by mail, you can’t do it online. We register our cars online. When COVID came, we didn’t want to be out in the offices. But you cannot do (it online), you have to be in person,” Vicki said.
Martinez said it may be necessary to revisit the law.
“Oh, absolutely,” Martinez said. “(If this is) something that can be done online, maybe we should be doing it. And if it needs to be created through legislation, we’ll have to do that. And we’ll definitely consider doing that this next session.” | <urn:uuid:80f4cc68-5c5d-4414-84b9-e9ce1ce5bddb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan.com/investigations/mother-of-son-with-autism-advocates-for-easier-entry-into-crucial-driving-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.979033 | 911 | 1.9375 | 2 |
At leats 31 people were killed in a suiciding bombing in the city of Yola.
After a bomb blast Tuesday evening in Yola, Nigeria, took the lives of at least 31 people, Facebook announced the activation of its Safety Check feature, a button that enables people in disaster areas to let their friends and family know they’re out of harm’s way. Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on his Facebook page. “After the Paris attacks last week, we made the decision to use Safety Check for more tragic events like this going forward,” he wrote. “We're now working quickly to develop criteria for the new policy and determine when and how this service can be most useful.”
Last week, when Facebook engineers activated the feature for those affected by the Paris bombings, there was unexpected backlash. If Paris got a Safety Check, why not Beirut? Why not Garissa? Who gets a Safety Check and why? The event seemed to say something more profound about the value of human life and selective news coverage. The implication, of course, is that as members of the “developed world,” French lives seemed to matter more. Meanwhile, the bombings in Beirut, Garissa, and Yola City had been accepted as the “norm,” a regular feature of daily life in those parts of the world.
The criticism was so harsh that Zuckerberg himself was compelled to respond on his Facebook page, commenting, ““You are right that there are many other important conflicts in the world… We care about all people equally, and we will work hard to help people suffering in as many of these situations as we can.”
In a longer statement, Alex Schultz, the vice president of growth, explained that “in the case of natural disasters, we apply a set of criteria that includes the scope, scale, and impact. During an ongoing crisis, like war or epidemic, Safety Check in its current form is not that useful for people: because there isn't a clear start or end point and, unfortunately, it's impossible to know when someone is truly ‘safe.’” He went on to write that they would be deploying the button for other disasters as they happen. Nigeria is the first case.
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BuyVM supports the most popular operating systems and their derivatives including *BSD, Debian, Redhat based distributions, Turnkey Linux (100+ free easy-to-use software solutions), Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows. All operating systems are included for free.
FreeBSD is an opensource Unix based operating system with an incredibly powerful networking stack. FreeBSD aims to be a general purpose server operating system and includes key features like IPFW, and ZFS, everything BTRFS wants to be.
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In past weeks, we have described the partnership framework that exists within Kairos and reviewed various types of partnerships (Legacy, Integrated, and Collaborating). The final category in the partnership framework is Operating Partnerships, and that is our focus for today. As we begin, it is important to note that this type of partnership is unique in that has a greater potential to touch multiple aspects of our mission. In addition to being one of the largest and most diverse system of accredited competency-based theological education in North America, Kairos is also home to a multi-state, multi-faceted clinical mental health system that meets people where they are and offers them hope.
Operating partners may be related to “back-office” functions of the organization or to a resource that is shared. In some cases, it means sharing costs with another organization or working together to provide a service. In other cases, it means finding ways to reduce costs by sharing services or software packages. Operating partners are an important aspect of making theological education and integrated counseling truly affordable because they reduce the cost to serve those God places in our care.
In this post, we will provide more details about Operating Partnerships, share a few examples, and outline how such operating partners are identified, developed, implemented and supported.
If you have been following along as we have shared about each type of partnership, you may find this next sentence to be redundant! Operating partners are identified through the day-to-day work that occurs within Kairos. As staff, mentors, therapists, faculty, and other partners engage in their work, we pay close attention to other organizations that seem to share a common commitment to developing affordable, accessible, relevant, and faithful systems of theological education and integrated counseling. Rather than actively pursuing new operating partners, Kairos responds to opportunities and conversations that occur naturally in the course of our work.
In practice, this means an operating partner is often already engaged in the work of theological education and/or integrated counseling. In most cases, operating partners choose to collaborate with Kairos because they are:
- Interested in sharing costs related to some type of resource (e.g., facilities, software, technology);
- Open to sharing personnel (e.g., staff, faculty, therapists, etc.);
- Looking to launch a new initiative that requires multiple participating organizations (e.g., creating a joint initiative to address student debt through a grant, conducting research);
- Hoping to share processes (e.g., student/client billing, student registration, mentor training).
Whatever the reason, an operating partner sees Kairos as a “co-worker in the vineyard” and believes working with Kairos will help it pursue its mission and serve a wider array of people in the process.
Once an organization identifies itself as a potential operating partner or responds positively to such an invitation from Kairos, the conversation moves into the development stage.
During the development stage, the potential partner enters into a process of mutual discernment with Kairos. It is in this stage that we work together to consider the specific aspects of the partnership (e.g., personnel, resources, initiatives, etc.). As we learn more about what is possible and discern what God might be inviting us to do together, we outline this information in a partnership overview document. Such a document is not a formal agreement or anything like that. Rather, it outlines the high-level aspects of the implementation process so that others who were not part of the conversation can understand and engage in the implementation process.
When the partnership overview document has been completed, we move into the implementation stage of the process.
The implementation process happens in three phases:
1) Formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and/or Legal Arrangements (if necessary) – Using the partnership overview document as the guide, this phase focuses on wrapping up the details related to the partnership. Because Operating Partnerships are often related to some particular business process, cost center, or revenue stream, it is common for an MOU or a formal legal document to be required. In the spirit of open-handed and transparent collaboration, we hope to limit the use of such documents. However, when it is necessary, we are sure to complete this step before moving forward.
2) Process and Personnel Alignment – Using the partnership overview document (or MOU or legal document) as the guide, this phase also focuses on wrapping up the operational details related to the partnership. In particular, the appropriate Kairos and operating partner staff are connected to enable efficient and effective communication. In most cases, this means identifying a liaison – someone within Kairos that serves as the primary point of communication with the operating partner and vice versa.
3) Communication – Once everything is outlined and fully understood, we move to the communication phase. By this point, there has most likely been a good amount of communication already happening. The communication in this phase is focused on any internal and/or external communication that still needs to occur in order to help a wider audience understand and/or engage with the result of the partnership (e.g., helping students know how to access a shared library or register for shared courses).
As with all partnerships, the support stage is ongoing. Even after all the processes, communication and day-to-day operations are fully operational, the work of supporting operating partners does not end. We are always looking for ways to enhance operating partnerships and want to make sure such partnerships continue to work well for all involved.
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Do us parents, grandparents and adults send out conflicting messages about stranger danger? I think some of us behave in a very questionable and confusing way.
Just the other day I wrote this blog post about the school run of my childhood. In doing so, I confessed that on one occasion I willingly accepted a lift from a stranger as I walked home along an isolated country road.
It was a slightly awkward situation as this guy knew my uncle. As a result, he knew who I was, but I had no idea of his identity. Regardless, I willingly got into his van and he drove me home, the journey passing without incident, other than me having a small panic when I realised I’d broken all the rules and accepted a lift from someone I didn’t know.
In response to that post, the rather brilliant Simon Ragoonanan, who writes the ManVsPink blog, left a comment. It turns out he had done exactly the same thing on the way home from school. Just like me, he was dropped off at home untouched.
Thing is, should adults behave in this way? I would argue the individuals that took Simon and I home were acting inappropriately. To an adult this behavior may seem like an act of kindness and generosity. The flip side of this argument is that they’re undoing all the work parents have done hammering home the stranger danger message.
It may seem like a harsh reaction, but I always feel uncomfortable when someone sparks up a conversation with my kids in public. We’ve all been there. It’s very often an older person who says hello to your kid and tells them how pretty they look etc.
They clearly mean no harm and have the best intentions. Only thing is, approaching a child in this way, even if they are with a parent or guardian, sends out the message that it is okay to talk to strike up a conversation with an unknown adult.
Personally, I’m always very guarded when I speak to children I don’t know. There are limits. If a child takes a tumble in front of me I’ll help them up and check they are okay. If a child is lost, I’ll help. If, however, a child tries chatting to me in public, I usually do my best to ignore them. It’s not that I’m trying to be rude, I simply don’t want to encourage them to speak to people they don’t know.
Tell me, is my approach wrong? Should I be more willing to speak to children in public? Does it bother you when strangers talk to your children in public? Please do leave a comment below outlining your thoughts.
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Posted Mar 2, 2017 by Martin Armstrong
Healthcare costs have continued to outpace inflation and just about everything else within the economy. Generally speaking, prices rise when demand increases relative to supply. The scheme of Obamacare was to force the youth to buy healthcare they did not need to pay for everyone else. The fines have been less than the costs so many of the youth just pay the fine. Forcing people to buy insurance to artificially lower the costs failed because healthcare is no different and has risen, not declined, with the false rise in demand.
Additional forces have also been contributing namely political decisions from Obamacare, additional taxes, and increased regulations have combined to impact healthcare costs. There has also been the notorious increase in lawsuits which influence the cost of malpractice insurance for medical practitioners forcing costs to also rise. Congress would never introduce Tort Reform because there are too many lawyers who would see their big paydays vanish.
McDonald’s is starting to replace people with auto-self-serving. Now Wendy’s is doing the same thing. Wendy’s plans to install self-ordering kiosks at 1,000 stores by the end of 2017. McDonald’s already beat them to the punch but we are witnessing this trend in many other businesses as well, such as movie theaters and airports. Corporate costs will decline with robots and automated order machines contributing to increasing corporate profits since they are not lowering prices. American Airlines is really anti-consumer. They charge $200 to speak someone to change your ticket when the ticket cost is even just $174. Healthcare costs rising faster than everything else will force companies to abandon workers whenever possible and this is impacting both manufacture as well as services.
So, what is the issue? Is it really just hourly wages? No! Any business with more than 25 employees are being hit with rising healthcare costs that amount to a monopoly from which the only possible relief is to eliminate people. Many small companies have tried to pay healthcare and have been forced to keep raising the deductible. Effectively, healthcare is devolving into catastrophic coverage. Many doctors are refusing to take people on government programs including Medicare because the government cheats them and is slow to pay.
Bill Gates may have been great at creating Microsoft, but when it comes to economics and law, he is off in the Cloud lost in his mind. What he has come out as a solution is to tax machines as if they are people? Gates said, “You’d think we’d tax the robot at a similar level” as humans and then the taxes a company pays would support society? So we become a world of couch potatoes?
Just maybe, we stop the subsidizing of healthcare, introduce Tort Reform, and replace government workers with robots to eliminate taxation on the people. That would be one alternative if we are looking at this new future world. In places like Greece, it is the government that accounts for 40% of GDP. In the USA, Fiscal Year 2017 is estimated at a total of all US government spending, federal, state, and local, to be $7.04 trillion. This will be 36% of GDP.
The US National Defense will be 4% of GDP while government pensions will be 7% plus government healthcare will be 8% compared to welfare is only 2%. Even education is 6% and that is highly questionable for it is really subsidizing the socialist philosophy. Our problem is government workers – not welfare or even military.
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At WISE, we believe that the only way to effectively use our water is by establishing a unique system which work with all different sectors. As we know, many other agencies, like LEED, succeeded in gaining the recognition in their specific field. WISE will be the new way of saving water with its rating system used to generate the best water management in specific infrastructures. WISE is just for water. water is for all.
Wise part I : Rating System
Water rating to designate proper used of water in a specific building.
Wise part II: Cities and towns
Water management ideas with a goal to save as much water as possible
We strongly believe that everybody should be part of the water problem. Thus, we made the effort to bring most people in the program.
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If you are in a classroom that uses 1:1 mobile devices, I hope you have experienced an amazing transformation in the way that students and teachers are able to participate in learning. In my 15 years of teaching, nothing has changed my perspective and approach more than the moment when my students all received their own personal i-Pad. I have heard a lot of tech experts talk about how important it is to be a paperless classroom. While this is a novel and green idea, that’s not my goal. Don’t get me wrong. I have definitely printed fewer documents and I have mad love for the environment. But my daily goal is to harness the power of technology in order to enhance the way my students learn, share, and explore in my classroom. Whether your classroom has i-Pads, chrome books, or BYOD; the potential for a revolutionary change in learning exists!
With the help of the i-Pad, I am able to explore pathways of communication that were previously unavailable. One of my favorite relevant apps is edmodo. It is like Facebook for the classroom and it is definitely our home base. I use it to post directions, assignments, links, files, electronic quizzes, pictures, and videos. The difference maker, however, is that students are also able to make posts. With edmodo, I can ask a question to the class and everyone can answer at once. The important thing here is that everyone can answer. As the teacher, it is my job to find out what my students know. Asking a question and simply calling on a few students until I hear the answer I’m looking for is superficial and ineffective feedback. Providing a quick, efficient method for all students to participate provides me with a greater insight into what each student can do. It makes it possible for me to plan more effective lessons because I know where each student needs me to guide them.
Allowing students to post on edmodo also levels the playing field. As a former student, I know that in most classrooms it was easy to hide during lessons if I just kept quiet. My experience as a teacher has shown me that the shy student who never raises his hand to answer a question suddenly finds his voice on a mobile device. Since edmodo chats are electronic, I also have a record of students’ answers. This allows me to go back later and “review the tape” in order to analyze performance. Teachers worried about students simply copying an answer that has already been posted can adjust the setting s to moderate all posts. To be honest, I haven’t had that issue in my classroom, but I get that question a lot. What I’ve witnessed is that students feed off of each other and it leads to some magnificently engaging, electronic discussions. After all, I do not want my students to simply know the answer. I want them to demonstrate learning by being able to talk about it.
Mobile devices have enabled me to considerably change the way I assess my students. Using the socrative app, students can take quizzes and immediately receive feedback. I consider myself to be a quick grader by returning assignments and tests the next day. But I simply cannot compete with immediate results. Technology wins. I still give old-fashioned tests with paper and pencil. But by consistently embedding short socrative quizzes in my lessons, I am able to plan more effectively and better meet the needs of my learners. I can differentiate my teaching because I know the specific needs of my students in real time, before I continue. The icing on the cake is that my students usually think we are playing a game when using socrative. I obviously don’t mind. Socrative also stores results for each student which can be accessed at any time. In other words, pull them up at conference time or copy and paste them into your grade book for a minor assessment.
Edmodo is also great for assessment. My 3rd graders learn quickly how to access files, write comments, and post pictures and videos in edmodo. Students can post videos of themselves performing a task, reading for fluency, or explaining how they solved a math problem. Students can post pictures of science projects, completed word sorts, or multi-step math problems that require drawings. These methods lend themselves to being more authentic and revealing than a multiple choice or short response test. One such example occurred when my students were studying the properties of shapes. I wanted to see where they stood in their understanding of squares. My task was for them to find a square in the classroom, take a photo, and post it to edmodo with a description of what makes it a square.
Some students nailed it. Others were missing information about right angles. Others still forgot to mention 4 equal sides. Not only did I know who knew what, but I was able to pair up students who mentioned sides, but forgot angles with students who did the opposite. They compared pictures and words and there were a lot of “oh yeah, that’s right” kind of moments. Not only that, they were teaching each other. Win-win!
My favorite evidence of knowledge from that activity came from the girl who found a square, photographed it, and then said she really wasn’t sure. On a multiple choice test, she could have very easily gotten it correct. She knew what a square looked like, but her depth of knowledge ended there. Her picture and caption helped me understand exactly where she and I needed to go next in her learning journey.
I love collaboration and discussions in my classroom, especially when students are leading the way. So, during math lessons I often ask my students to work in groups to solve word problems or multi-step problems. I give them paper and markers because they still love these supplies. They talk it out, work out the problem, and show all their work. Since they’re using markers, they get into it with the drawings and explanations. Then one member of the group takes a picture of the finished product and posts it to the edmodo feed I began specifically for this task. As a class we are then able to view every groups’ response in my edmodo feed displayed on the SMART board. Right away. Together. Large! It is big enough for all to see it easily and we can also continue to write on it. The discussion continues about each one, and I can even leave a comment. For the paperless fans, I guess it helps me save on my chart paper. But the idea here is that we save time trying to stick it to the wall somewhere and we are able to view it even larger on the screen. There is also an added element of excitement due to the fact that students are taking a picture which shows up on the screen. It also saves the work to be viewed again later because it is in everyone’s edmodo feed.
The use of mobile technology has infiltrated the environment of my classroom and I love it. It’s not about adding an app to the end of a lesson or playing a game to review. It’s about changing the way things are done. My students are so familiar with mobile devices that they even make lunch choices electronically using the socrative app. My star students showcase their items and pictures with their own classflow lesson. Sometimes I even give directions without saying a word by merely holding up a little sign with the edmodo label on it. Paper still exists, but technology is alive and gaining momentum. Feedback is immediate. Communication is constant. Students are engaged and empowered! | <urn:uuid:5c4009d0-62c0-433f-9369-48a328d5c637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://positiverolemodel.wordpress.com/2015/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.975163 | 1,561 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Latest Laois News: Final journey of ‘The Portlaoise Flyer’ sees it come home
The Portlaoise Flyer, the plane built by Frank and Louis Aldritt in the early part of the 20th century has returned home to Portlaoise. The plane, which is believed to be the first plane to fly in what later became the Republic of Ireland, had been bought by a collector in the UK. It was purchased, restored and returned home by the Colonel Fitzmaurice Commemoration Committee, who hope to use it as a centrepiece of a display on Portlaoise Aviation History.
Teddy Fennelly, President of the Fitzmaurice Commemoration Committee said “We are absolutely delighted to see this plane coming back to its rightful home in Portlaoise. I’d like to thank all the management and elected members of Laois County Council and Portlaoise Municipal District who have helped the plane on its journey so far, and we look forward to working with them in finding a permanent home for this invaluable artefact”.
The Plane will be stored at a secure location in the town while further restoration work is finalised. An event to introduce the pane to the public is planned for Heritage Week, on Saturday 21st August. The plane will be displayed on Fitzmaurice Place, in tribute to the builders of the plane, the crafts people who have restored it and to Col James Fitzmaurice, who was involved in the building of it as a young boy.
Catherine Casey, Heritage Officer with Laois County Council said the following:
“It’s a proud day for Portlaoise as this priceless link with our past returns home. We are looking forward to sharing the plane with the people of the town during Heritage Week, and we will also have a chance to share details of the Heritage Council funded project to conserve newspapers and other archives relating to the first East West Transatlantic flight in 1928. As Colonel Fitzmaurice himself said he was inspired to take up his flying career by working with the Aldritts on the Portlaoise Plane, it is fitting that we celebrate the Plane in the square named after Fitzmaurice in Portlaoise during Heritage Week.
For more information on Col Fitzmaurice and the restoration of the Portlaoise Flyer click here
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OGDENSBURG, NY — In light of the serious health risks to vulnerable populations, and mindful of the instructions of medical professionals, the Bishops of New York State have urged the faithful to use their prudential judgment on whether or not to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days during the coronavirus outbreak. This is in keeping with the teaching of the Church, which has always exempted those with serious medical issues which would prohibit them from attending Mass, as well as for all people in times of general emergencies. This is especially true during this coronavirus outbreak, particularly for adults over the age of 60, people with underlying medical conditions, and family members of such individuals, who should take special care in discerning the best course of action.
Masses throughout the Diocese of Ogdensburg will continue to be offered at this time, contingent on emergency restrictions regarding large gatherings. We are taking steps to make attendance at Mass safe for those who attend. Additionally, to those choosing not to attend Mass due to illness or having an underlying condition, Bishop LaValley hereby grants a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass beginning immediately and continuing until further notice. Persons with underlying health conditions are especially encouraged to remain at home at this time. Those who do attend Mass are reminded that they should follow the guidelines in place, such as receiving Holy Communion reverently in the hand, not receiving the Precious Blood, being sure to wash hands/use sanitizer before and after Mass, and avoiding physical contact with or close proximity to other persons.
Additionally, at this time, we are asking pastors to ensure good and regular cleaning of surfaces that are touched regularly (such as door handles), that ministers of the Eucharist exercise good hygiene (washing or sanitizing their hands prior to distributing Holy Communion), and that holy water fonts are emptied.
During Mass, the sign of peace will not be announced or exchanged. If the parish has the habit of holding hands during the Lord’s Prayer, this practice should be halted at this time. We ask all participants to refrain from shaking hands before, during or after Mass. A complete listing of precautions can be found our diocesan website via a link on the diocesan homepage.
Those who will not attend Mass can follow the Mass on radio, television, or online where possible. This includes The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM (10:15 a.m. EDT from Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and 1:00 p.m. EDT from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels), and the Mass from St. Mary’s Cathedral at 8:00am Sunday on WQTK 92.7 FM, and television broadcasts (8:00am and 12:00pm on EWTN, 9:00am from St. Andre Bessette Parish, Malone, on Spectrum and 11:00am and 8:00pm from St. Bernard’s Church, Saranac Lake, on Spectrum).
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Czech tradition since the year 1939
The history of Mlékárna Hlinsko dates back to 1939. The dairy was founded by the Swiss company Nestlé. The construction of the dairy itself, later nicknamed the "Nestlovka", was officially launched on July 4, 1940. Nestlé decided on the location of the site based on the purity of nature and the quality of the milk. | <urn:uuid:34302196-6af4-4957-9f20-7f40c20cead2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tatramleko.cz/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950507 | 89 | 1.507813 | 2 |
9,900-year-old Mexican female skeleton distinct from other early American settlers
A new skeleton discovered in the submerged caves at Tulum sheds new light on the earliest settlers of Mexico, according to a study published February 5, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Wolfgang Stinnesbeck from Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
Humans have been living in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula since at least the Late Pleistocene (126,000-11,700 years ago). Much of what we know about these earliest settlers of Mexico comes from nine well-preserved human skeletons found in the submerged caves and sinkholes near Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Here, Stinnesbeck and colleagues describe a new, 30 percent-complete skeleton, 'Chan Hol 3', found in the Chan Hol underwater cave within the Tulum cave system. The authors used a non-damaging dating method and took craniometric measurements, then compared her skull to 452 skulls from across North, Central, and South America as well as other skulls found in the Tulum caves.
The analysis showed Chan Hol 3 was likely a woman, approximately 30 years old at her time of death, and lived at least 9,900 years ago. Her skull falls into a mesocephalic pattern (neither especially broad or narrow, with broad cheekbones and a flat forehead), like the three other skulls from the Tulum caves used for comparison; all Tulum cave skulls also had tooth caries, potentially indicating a higher-sugar diet. This contrasts with most of the other known American crania in a similar age range, which tend to be long and narrow, and show worn teeth (suggesting hard foods in their diet) without cavities.
Though limited by the relative lack of archeological evidence for early settlers across the Americas, the authors suggest that these cranial patterns suggest the presence of at least two morphologically different human groups living separately in Mexico during this shift from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (our current epoch).
The authors add: "The Tulúm skeletons indicate that either more than one group of people reached the American continent first, or that there was enough time for a small group of early settlers who lived isolated on the Yucatán peninsula to develop a different skull morphology. The early settlement history of America thus seems to be more complex and, moreover, to have occurred at an earlier time than previously assumed." | <urn:uuid:c14dcf09-3121-48a7-8f30-7f1dbcd0efe5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phys.org/news/2020-02-year-old-mexican-female-skeleton-distinct.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947074 | 506 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Roughly one in ten soldiers returning from Iraq faces ongoing struggles due to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and other conditions, according to a new study published in the June issue of the Archives of Psychiatry. In the study, a team of researchers led by Dr. Jeffrey L. Thomas, chief of military psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, analyzed anonymous mental health surveys completed by more than 18,000 soldiers following deployment in Iraq between 2004 and 2007.
Researchers asked soldiers to complete questionnaires both 3 months and 12 months after returning from deployment in Iraq and used their responses to screen for incidence of PTSD, depression, alcohol abuse and aggression issues. The surveys also asked returning soldiers whether residual mental health struggles interfered with their daily lives.
Thomas and colleagues found that, using only the narrowest diagnostic criteria, as many as 11.3% of returning soldiers suffered from symptoms of PTSD, while up to 8.5% showed symptoms of depression. Using broader diagnostic criteria, however, they found that between 20.7% to 30.5% of soldiers suffered from symptoms of PTSD, while between 11.5% to 16% exhibited signs of depression. On average they found that between 9% to 14% of soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq suffered PTSD or depression symptoms severe enough to affect functioning in their day to day lives.
What’s more, even a year after returning from service in Iraq, most soldiers’ mental health struggles showed no signs of abating, and among soldiers who had been called up from the National Guard in particular, many actually saw symptoms worsen with time. Gaining a better understanding of the residual mental health impact of war-time service is critical to determining the best possible way to protect U.S. soldiers while also protecting national security, the authors point out. They go on to conclude:
“If soldiers who are struggling with serious functional impairment as the result of a previous deployment are deployed again, there is potential that this could impair their performance in combat. This has implications for the safety of unit members and mission success. Further research is needed to understand the effects of self-perceived serious impairment and military occupational performance… It will continue to take a collective effort from Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, community providers, and veteran organizations to help this generation’s veterans readjust after service in Iraq and Afghanistan.” | <urn:uuid:7c16baa9-dd8d-451f-82ee-4573b5860b1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthland.time.com/2010/06/07/for-many-soldiers-mental-trauma-lingers-at-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964387 | 484 | 2.734375 | 3 |
How to Build Your Horse’s Fitness
Building your horse’s fitness is like building our fitness – it takes time. Fitness is much more than how long you ride; it’s about your horse’s cardiovascular system, muscles, mental state, and soundness.
It’s helpful to have your own fitness program away from the barn. Riding and barn work certainly help in the fitness department, but having an exercise plan teaches you one major component of horsemanship – understanding. When you experience sore muscles, stiffness, and lack of motivation, you understand the holistic fitness process you are asking your horse to do.
- Slow and steady is the best mantra for increasing the exercise requests for your horse. Daily work for shorter periods is safer and more effective than being a weekend warrior.
- When addressing fitness daily, give your horse a routine and allow for gradual gains. As your plan takes shape, increase the time or speed that you work your horse. Factor in the exercise difficulty, too. Cantering for 3 minutes in the arena is more manageable than 3 minutes of cantering up and down hills.
Horses that are out all week (hopefully) but are weekend warriors won’t feel great on Monday.
Other factors to consider about your horse’s fitness
Tailor a plan for your horse. Consider a few things:
Young and old horses take longer to develop fitness, as do horses coming off a long-term break from work or injury.
Many times, an injury will sideline a horse. Develop a recovery plan that addresses healing and avoids re-injury. You should absolutely work with your vet on exercises that help an injury recover, and what exercises are too risky for that particular injury.
Current fitness levels
A horse that walks the kiddos around the farm a few times a week is quite different from the same horse that’s ridden daily at trot and canter.
Overweight horses are at a fitness disadvantage. Joints carry more stress, and the extra weight interferes with thermoregulation.
Heaves and anhidrosis are two great examples of disease processes that hamper fitness. Compensate for any medical issues as you design a plan with your vet’s help.
The temperature and humidity can help or hinder your horse’s fitness. Weather extremes challenge your horse’s body, and should limit what you ask of your horse. Respiratory health and thermoregulation are challenging in hot, cold, or humid conditions.
Horses need to be acclimated to working in extreme temperatures.
Make a fitness plan
- Start by logging the work your horse does now. You could collect data for a few weeks to notice trends. Notice if your horse needs help building strength or stamina, or both.
- Then, increase the time walking, trotting, or cantering by 5 to 10 minutes a workout – more for walking and trotting, less for cantering or galloping. Consider that cantering adds to cardiovascular health more than walking, but walking can help build strength in a low-impact manner.
- Follow this formula for a week before adding another layer, such as hills, or more time.
Add more walking and movement everywhere you can
Take every possible step to have your horse walk more.
- Give your horse more turnout.
- Take the long way from the field to the barn.
- Cool out for 15 minutes instead of your usual 10.
- Hand walk after a bath to dry.
- Use the hot walker or treadmill if your facility has one.
- You can also add a 20-minute hand walk into your horse’s day, separate from his exercise.
The bonus is that YOU will log more steps, too!
Go slow and steady!
Get creative and cross-train
No one wants to do the same exercise, day after day – horse or human. Mix things up to take advantage of your facility.
- Use hills to maximize the benefit per step. A few hills up and down will build fitness more than those same steps on a flat surface.
- Use streams and ponds if you have them. Trudging through water is hard work, as is swimming. If you have the means to do this safely, it’s an option. A quick dip in the creek is also nice after a ride to cool off, too.
- Add cavaletti to the mix. Aside from building strength, cavaletti stimulate your horse’s mind, improve balance, help your horse find a steady rhythm, and build topline muscle.
- Go on more trail rides. Hitting the trail offers a change of scenery, and a chance to work on different surfaces. You may not want to gallop along the trails, but uneven ground can make your horse move their body differently than they would in the arena. It’s similar to hiking for one mile versus walking around a flat track for the same distance.
Go on trail rides!
Borrow exercises to boost your horse’s fitness
- Try a different discipline. The fundamentals of all riding disciplines are the same – the engine is in the hind end, and the horse must lift their back to power up. You will pick up some new exercises to help cross-train your horse when playing in a new discipline.
- Take to the fields for trot and canter sets. Steal a page from the evening world and do trot and canter sets. These are defined times of exercise with walk breaks in between. Perhaps you do 5 sets of trot for 3 minutes with a one-minute break. You can work up from there, adding more sets, longer sets, or bump it up to canter.
- Use the shoulder-in during your rides. The shoulder-in is the best exercise to encourage your horse to step under their body. It can be done at all gaits, helps smooth the transitions between gaits, and builds that hind end engine strength.
- You can add lungeing into a fitness plan, but constantly exercising on a smaller circle challenges your horse’s body and should not replace an exercise session. You could switch directions frequently to prevent fatigue.
Form and function matter
- There is a difference in how a horse walks, trots, or canters in different “frames.” A long-rein lolly-gag around the farm will not build fitness the way an active march “on the bit” will. It is vital to allow your horse to stretch and relax the neck and shoulders, but you can turn a trail ride into an exercise session by having your horse march with some contact.
- And sure, keep your horse’s form in mind, but do allow his body to warm up and cool off casually. The same goes for walk breaks. A horse’s frame can’t be held for the entire ride – they need to stretch. And not feel trapped, or develop a fear of being ridden due to discomfort.
Let your horse have walk breaks.
Days off matter
Sometimes horses just need to be naked, without a rider, just doing horse stuff. It’s the same for human athletes – their bodies need to rest and rejuvenate.
How to track your horse’s fitness
Now that you have a fitness plan, you can measure your horse’s fitness. The easiest way is to log your horse’s heart rate.
There are a few critical times to note your horse’s pulse rate:
- At rest, before a ride.
- Immediately after exercise stops.
- Every five or 10 minutes after exercise ends. This logs the recovery time – how long it takes for the pulse to return to normal.
As your horse’s fitness increases, his pulse after exercise and the recovery period will decrease.
How to measure your horse’s pulse
- You can manually take the pulse rate using a stethoscope or feeling the artery under your horse’s jaw.
- Wearable heart rate monitors also log the pulse throughout your ride. There are many styles of wearables for horses – only some of them measure the pulse. Others log steps, speed, location, or similar metrics and are worn on the saddle pad or boot.
- Most wearable fitness monitors link back to an app on your phone. This makes tracking data much easier than the pen and paper style of logging.
A quick refresher on taking your horse’s vital signs
Don’t worry about your horse’s fitness being a straight line up; there will be days when it may SEEM like you are taking a step back. Look for overall trends over weeks and months, not from day to day.
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Friday, June 28, 2013: This is the first time that the solar credits for the Indian projects have dropped to floor prices. The drop was as much as 19 per cent this June compared to the previous month data and this is the first time that such a fall has been registered since the trading had begun from last year. It hasn’t been too long that the sun powered plants have come on the share markets and we are already witnessing a fall.
The current credits which were floated by the several industrial consumers and power distribution companies to help meet the mandates for clean energy was sold at Rs 9.300 ($154 approx) as reported by the REConnect Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
The Indian system requires companies like Tata Power Corp and Coal India Ltd. to derive as much as 10 per cent from the renewable energy sector. Those that are unable to source the targets locally will have to balance the same through credit buying from wind, solar, biomass and hydro power plants in both the exchange markets.
Each credit here would represent 1 MW of energy fed into the power grid system. This is also the reason that the bids from these solar utilities are four times higher than the buy bids, according to the company. The solar capacity for India has increased by 79 per cent since the last year as many plants have been awarded in government auctions and many of them have been completed and functional. | <urn:uuid:66bb225a-aeb5-4eb9-b50b-fb43b5c9ba9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electronicsb2b.com/industry-buzz/solar-credits-drop-to-floor-price-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.987106 | 281 | 1.820313 | 2 |
“The edges of my garden beds never look right, and I would like some suggestions on how to do better before I start working on them this spring.”
— Sandeep Patel, Chicago
Most garden beds tend to have irregular edges without any rhythm. Reworking the bed edges so that the curves are smooth and flowing will improve the overall appearance of your garden and be much easier to mow along.
Many gardeners and commercial landscape firms edge garden beds as part of the spring clean-up routine. I like to use a pliable garden hose or rope to lay out new bed lines — it is easy to review and modify how the new bed lines will look by moving a rope or hose to change the lines.
Try to make gradual curves with the size determined by the scale of your garden. Err on the side of fewer curves versus more curves. Cool weather days will make some hoses very hard to work with, as they will be difficult to bend into a gentle curve. Not all garden hoses will work either, as some are too stiff to form into good curves.
The types of rope that arborists use for climbing trees work very well for delineating bed edges, as they are easy to use to form curves and can be purchased in long lengths. They should not be used for climbing trees if used for gardening practices other than climbing.
Once the rope or hose is in place marking the edges you want to create, you can either paint the edge with marking paint (special paint for marking the ground) or use a spade to cut the edge, using the rope or hose as a guide. Use the bedside edge of the rope or hose as a guide for your spade. If you have a steady hand, you may be able to mark a bed line freehand with the paint.
A sharp, flat spade will work best to edge the beds; you will not get a good bed line using a spade with a curved blade. A dull spade will make cutting through any grass difficult. I prefer to make the edge around 2 inches deep, at a slight angle away from the turf area.
Take your time to follow the rope, hose or paint line you are using as a guide to keep the new edge consistent. Be sure to remove all clumps of grass from the bed to avoid having it get established in your beds and becoming a persistent weed problem.
Any clods of soil should be broken up and spread around the bed or completely removed. Generally, you will not need to remove all of the soil, unless you are more dramatically expanding the bed with sections of sod being removed. A weed whip can be used to maintain a crisp edge over the course of the growing season.
Use twine attached to the trunk of a tree to provide a guide in order to create an even circle around the trunk — the longer the length of twine, the bigger the tree ring will be, so adjust according to your needs.
As you circle the trunk with the twine, you will be able to mark a uniform circle around the tree with marking paint. You can also tie the twine around the handle of the spade as a guide to maintain a good circle as you are edging.
As you cut the edge around the tree, avoid creating a “volcano effect” around it by piling soil and mulch up around the base of the tree. You will likely need to remove the sod clumps to avoid this when edging tree rings.
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Suicide is when a person causes their own death on purpose. Before trying to take their own life, a young person may have thoughts of wanting to die. This is called suicidal ideation. The young person may also have suicidal behavior. That’s when a person is focused on doing things that cause their own death.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death in young people ages 15 to 24. The CDC reports that:
Youth and young adults ages 10 to 24 years are at risk.
Boys are 4 times more likely to die from suicide than girls.
Girls are more likely to try to commit suicide than boys.
Guns are used in more than half of all youth suicides.
The teen years are a stressful time. They are filled with major changes. These include body changes, changes in thoughts, and changes in feelings. Strong feelings of stress, confusion, fear, and doubt may affect a teen’s problem-solving and decision-making. They may also feel a pressure to succeed. Even preteen children can be affected.
For some preteens and teens, normal developmental changes can be very unsettling when combined with other events, such as:
Changes in their families, such as divorce, siblings moving out, or moving to a new town
Changes in friendships
Stress from social media activities, including being a victim of cyber bullying
Problems in school
These problems may seem too hard or embarrassing to overcome. For some, suicide may seem like a solution.
A young person’s risk for suicide varies with age, gender, and cultural and social influences. Risk factors may change over time. They are:
One or more mental or substance abuse problems
Stressful life events such as being bullied or recent losses, such as the death of a parent
Family history of mental or substance abuse problems
Family history of suicide
Family violence, including physical, sexual, or verbal or emotional abuse
Past suicide attempt
Easy access to guns or prescription medicines in the home
Exposure to the suicidal behavior of others, such as from family or peers, in the news, or in fiction stories
Many of the warning signs of suicide are also symptoms of depression. They are:
Changes in eating and sleeping habits
Loss of interest in normal activities
Withdrawal from friends and family members
Acting-out behaviors and running away
Alcohol or drug use
Neglecting their personal appearance
Obsession with death and dying
More physical complaints often linked to emotional distress, such as stomachaches, headaches, and extreme tiredness (fatigue)
Loss of interest in school or schoolwork
Feeling they wants to die
Lack of response to praise
Another warning sign is making plans or efforts toward committing suicide:
Says “I want to kill myself,” or “I'm going to commit suicide.”
Gives verbal hints, such as “I won't be a problem much longer,” or “If anything happens to me, I want you to know ....”
Gives away favorite things or throws away important belongings
Becomes suddenly cheerful after being depressed
May express strange thoughts
Writes one or more suicide notes
These warning signs may seem like other health problems. Set up an appointment with your child's healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Threats of suicide are a cry for help. Always take such statements, thoughts, behaviors, or plans very seriously. Any young person who expresses thoughts of suicide should not be left alone and should be assessed right away. Talk with your child’s healthcare provider about suicide and have a written emergency plan that you share with trusted others.
Many parents develop a written contract with their children. In it, the child agrees to alert parents if they are starting to have thoughts of self-harm. The parents agree to help the child interrupt the behavior in a non-judgmental fashion. Examples of this could be as simple as taking them out to dinner and talking, or as intense as taking them to the emergency room for assessment and a possible inpatient stay. The important piece is the fact that your child knows you are approachable and non-judgmental when help is critically needed.
Any child who has tried to commit suicide needs a physical checkup first to rule out life-threatening health problems. They should then get a mental health evaluation and treatment until they are stable. This often will take place at an inpatient facility to make sure of the child’s safety.
Treatment will depend on your child’s symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Treatment starts with a detailed evaluation of events in your child’s life during the 2 to 3 days before the suicidal behaviors. Treatment may include:
Family therapy. Parents play a vital role in treatment.
An extended hospital stay, if needed. This gives the child a supervised and safe environment.
Treatment doesn't end when your your child is discharged from the inpatient facility. Ongoing follow-up, will help ensure they recover. Follow-up may include individual therapy, family therapy, and medicines. Emergency plans should be in place. Your child needs to be an active participant in these plans. The more open communication can be about thoughts of suicide, the easier it can be for them to ask for help.
Learning the warning signs of youth suicide can prevent an attempt. Keeping open communication with your child and their friends gives you a chance to help when needed. Also take these steps:
Keep medicines and guns locked and away from children and teens. Don't let the child know the combination to a safe or where the key is located.
Get your child help for any mental or substance abuse problems.
Listen to your child. Take the initiative. Something as simple as saying: "You seem sad. Would you like to talk? Maybe I can help." These simple statements will let them know you care and you are aware that something is not right. Just listen and try not to criticize.
Help your child understand that asking for help is not showing weakness. It is the most brave thing a person can do.
Show interest. Find out what's happening in their life. Ask about social media activity, what they enjoy and dislike, what's important to them.
Stay connected. Take the time to enjoy each other in a non-stressful environment. A walk with you, even if much of it is in silence, can be comforting to your child.
Become informed about youth suicide. Resources include the public library, local support groups, and the Internet.
Know the warning signs for depression:
Feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or loneliness
Declining school performance
Loss of interest in social and sports activities
Sleeping too little or too much
Changes in weight or appetite
Nervousness, agitation, or grouchiness
Young people can take these steps to help prevent suicide if they see warning signs in a friend:
Take their friend’s behavior and talk of suicide seriously.
Encourage their friend to seek expert help. Go with the friend, if needed.
Don't leave your friend alone, not even for a moment, until a responsible adult is with them.
Talk right away with an adult they trust about their friend.
Call or text 988 if their friend has suicidal thoughts, a suicide plan, and the immediate means to carry out the plan. The Lifeline is available 24/7 to provide free and private support for people in crisis.
Call your child’s healthcare provider right away if your child:
Feels extreme depression, fear, anxiety, or anger toward themselves or others
Feels out of control
Hears voices that others don’t hear
Sees things that others don’t see
Can’t sleep or eat for 3 days in a row
Shows behavior that concerns friends, family, or teachers, and others express concern about this behavior and ask you to seek help
Make sure your child has emergency numbers in their phone. These would include parents, other trusted adults, the healthcare provider, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255). When people call or text 988, they will be connected to trained counselors who are part of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network. An online chat option is also available. Help your child understand that reaching out for help is the most brave and important thing to do if they are considering self-harm.
Call 988 if your child is at immediate risk of harming themselves or others. This includes having a suicide plan and the means to carry out the plan. Don't leave your child alone, even for a moment.
Suicide is when a person causes their own death on purpose.
Suicidal ideation is when a person has thoughts of wanting to die.
Suicidal behavior is when a person is focused on doing things that cause their own death.
Normal developmental changes combined with stressful life events may cause a young person to think about suicide.
Many of the warning signs of suicide are also symptoms of depression.
Any child who expresses suicidal thoughts should not be left alone and should be evaluated right away. Call or text 988.
After treatment starts, it will take a while for your child to feel better. Make sure they know this and support them while their symptoms improve.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your child’s healthcare provider:
Know the reason for the visit and what you want to happen.
Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments, or tests. Also write down any new instructions your provider gives you for your child.
Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed and how it will help your child. Also know what the side effects are.
Ask if your child’s condition can be treated in other ways.
Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.
Know what to expect if your child does not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.
If your child has a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
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Is nationalism capable of dealing with, or even addressing, the issues of our time? Dealing with this question, the Balkan Society for Theory and Practice (BSTP) – supported by transform! europe – held its second annual workshop in Prishtina, Kosovo.
In National Independence: The Only Possible Outcome, Frantz Fanon argues that nationalism is strictly a regression. For example, the French public views Algerian nationalism as extremist, backwards and anti-progressive. That definition aligns with the way nationalism is generally discussed today in relation to far-right parties, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, the desire to establish a “Christian Europe”, whiteness, and Eurocentricity. Nationalism is understood to align the past, present and future in a timeless continuity, thus reducing all "external" elements, such as immigration and global capitalism, to threats. Nationalism is understood to be furthered by strict immigration policies, Euroscepticism, and anti-globalisation, among others. The Economist even coined the term New Nationalism to denote contemporary nationalism as inherently anti-globalisation. This new nationalism is understood to facilitate a rejuvenation of national pride, which has supposedly been wounded on the international scene. Besides New Nationalism, new terms like Trumpism are employed to denote specific forms of nationalism today.
Authoritarian populism, national movements, Trumpism and Brexit are all interpreted to represent challenges to the global community. These movements (examples often include Russia, Turkey, India, Austria and Sweden, to name but a few) are thought to be products of populist leaders who mobilise people against foreign influence and “the establishment”, thus creating the conditions for an emergence of authoritarian tendencies and extreme national ideologies. In response, people turn their backs on international institutions and the ideal of global unity. In other words, nationalism is placed in direct conflict with democratic capitalism.
The popular understanding of nationalism obfuscates its revolutionary potential. Firstly, the conflation of terms like “nationalism”, “populism”, “right wing” and “fascism” has left space for reactionary voices to claim nationalism as fascism with another name. Secondly, there is a lack of serious engagement in demands for nationalist strategies because such strategies are viewed as relics of the past. Specifically, nationalism is seen to have failed alongside anti-colonial wars and socialist projects. Thirdly, nationalism, which cannot be disarticulated from the nation-state model, appears anachronistic in our increasingly globalised world. With globalisation and the demise of traditional colonisation, to the liberal mind, nationalism simply signifies a backwardness that should have been replaced by transnationalism. It should be understood that these narratives of nationalism are very different from those developed by formerly colonised countries, for whom nationalism was often a strategic feature of decolonisation.
BSTP workshop sessions discussed examples of revolutionary nationalism, such as Vietnam; black nationalism within the United States (e.g., the Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army); numerous African nationalist movements, including Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique; numerous South American nationalist movements, including Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Peru; and nationalist movements among First Nations populations in the Americas, which have lasted for centuries. Given BSTP’s orientation towards the Balkans, we considered these nationalist movements alongside those that have emerged prior to and after the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
To discuss the understanding and potential of nationalism, BSTP gathered participants and scholars from all over the globe representing a range of disciplines, including philosophy, political science, anthropology, sociology, oral history and architecture.
Source: BSTP Archive
The daily workshop sessions included two presentations per day. Each participant had 30 minutes to present their work, followed by a 1.5-hour-long discussion. Topics presented ranged from political relations between Kosovo and Serbia, multilingualism in Kosovo, and physicalist theory in managing impediments to democracy and peacebuilding in the Balkans, nationalism and internationalism among Serbian youth, oral history, Belgrade new wave, nationalism in South Sudan, and feminism during the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, to name but a few.
Source: BSTP Archive
BSTP ensured that the wider public was also involved in these discussions by holding public lectures. For the 2019 edition, BSTP hosted four guest speakers. The first event was a panel with Branislav Radeljić and Arber Zaimi. Radeljić is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of East London and presented on Kosovo’s independence, official dilemmas and policy preferences. Arber Zaimi has been an activist for Vetevendosje since 2009 and is a political advisor and member of the presidency for the Movement for Self-Determination. He presented on the work of the movement and independence and social justice in Kosovo. The second public event was a lecture by Denijal Jegić, who is a researcher, writer and editor. Jegić presented on nationalism in Palestine and Israel. Anikó Imre, a professor of Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies, was the third guest speaker. Imre presented on queer nationalism and how the televised, annual pan-European music competition Eurovision started as an aspirational cultural forum to create a sense of European belonging among post-war nations. In addition to the workshop and public lectures, BSTP organised a screening of Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem by Akram Zaatari, followed by a public discussion.
BSTP daily workshops were held at the RIT University in Kosovo. Public events were held at Kosovo 2.0, a pioneering independent media organisation, and the screening of the film was held at Kino Armata.
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Pets offer us a unique form of companionship that can help reduce stress and improve our overall mood. They are also known to provide us with physical activity, which is important for our health. Therefore, it is important to make sure that both you and your pet are getting the right amount of attention, love, and exercise. This article will discuss some tips for keeping yourself and your pet happy and healthy
Make sure your pet gets enough exercise.
Pets need plenty of exercises to stay healthy and happy. Dogs, in particular, need a lot of exercises to burn off energy and stay mentally stimulated. A good rule of thumb is to walk your dog for at least 30 minutes per day. If you can’t commit to that much time, try to at least take your dog for a walk around the block a few times per day.
In addition to walking, there are plenty of other ways to exercise your pet. You can play fetch with a dog or take them to a nearby park to run around. Cats need exercise too and benefit from playing with toy mice or balls.
Give your pet plenty of attention and love.
Pets need attention and love just as much as we do. Give your pet plenty of attention, especially if you’re away from home for long periods. You can do this by playing with them, petting them, and talking to them. This will help keep them happy and healthy. It’s also critical to ensure that you’re giving your pet the attention and love they require and spending time with them.
Spend time playing with your pet.
Playing with your pet is a great way to bond with them and keep them happy. It’s also a lot of fun! Try to play with your pet every day. This can include playing fetch with a dog, taking your cat for a walk, or playing hide and seek. The more you play with your pet, the happier and healthier they will be. So make sure to set aside some time each day to engage in fun and playful activities with your furry friend!
If you’re looking for more ways to keep yourself and your pet happy, consider joining a local pet club or participating in pet-related activities. This can include going for hikes with your dog, attending obedience classes with your cat, or simply getting together with other pet owners to socialize.
Keep your pet groomed and healthy.
Grooming and keeping your pet healthy are essential aspects of owning a pet. Pets need to be groomed regularly to keep them clean and looking their best. This includes brushing their fur, cleaning their ears, and trimming their nails. It’s also important to ensure they are getting the proper vaccinations and preventive care. This includes taking them to the vet for regular check-ups and getting any necessary medications or treatments.
Ensure that your pet has a comfortable place to sleep and play.
Make sure your pet has a comfy sleeping and playing area. One of the essential things you can do for your pet offers them a suitable resting and play location. This could be a bed, a blanket, a toy, or any other designated spot. Pets love routine, and knowing where they can go to relax and feel comfortable is key. You may also want to create a space for them outside if they enjoy being outdoors. This could be a fenced-in area or a spot in the yard where they can run and play.
Get a professional to train your pet.
Many pet owners choose to get professional training for their pets. This can be a great way to help your pet learn new tricks, improve their obedience, and socialize with other animals. Professional trainers can also help you address any behavioral issues your pet may be having.
If you’re thinking about getting professional training for your pet, do your research first. Talk to other pet owners about their experiences, check reviews online, and ask for referrals from your vet or local animal shelter. You should also consider scheduling a consultation with potential trainers to assess their training methods and see if they are a good fit for you and your pet.
Make sure your pet has access to fresh water and food.
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When receiving a holiday present, it’s usually very attractively wrapped. But to discover what wonderful new item awaits you requires tearing off the wrapping.
Think about traditional knowledge in your business and industry (its “conventional wisdom”) as the wrapping paper. While understanding conventional wisdom provides some attractive guiding principles to help speed decision making, it also sits between you and potentially wonderful new insights about your business.
So in the spirit of the holiday season, try this exercise to “unwrap” conventional knowledge that may be getting in the way of discovering shiny new possibilities:
- Write down ten pieces of conventional wisdom in your business. These are the things that everybody who has been around the business knows and understands to be true (i.e., in the restaurant industry, it might be that you turn tables as quickly as possible to maximize the number of people served).
- For each piece of conventional wisdom, remove it from your knowledge, in effect “unwrapping & discarding” your traditional view of the business.
- Imagine that you never knew the conventional wisdom you’ve now discarded. Ask yourself - What are five new approaches to my innovation challenge that are different because of what I now don’t know?
In the restaurant example, the five possibilities might include:
- A one price lunch with dessert included to increase the average check size.
- Providing some more private meeting space for business lunches.
- Not explicitly charging for the private meeting space; simply charge more for the food & beverages.
- Having selected pre-made grab & go items from the sit-down menu for quick lunches on the run.
- Give diners a signal to indicate that they’re leisurely settled and want the wait staff to take their order.
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Change is one of the toughest situation for kids. Such as moving from one town to another town or one school to another school. These activities from transitions are one of the hard things for kids. An effective transition strategy can help in prevent meltdowns and lower anxiety in children. Transitions are even more difficult for some kids, such as children with autism, Sensory Disorder, PTSD, and other special needs. This can lead to face challenging behaviors. All children, especially those with special needs require a sense of predictability while transitioning. These may take place before or after the transition. There are several cbse board school in howrah provides excellent strategies to prevent transition symptoms among kids. In this blog, we will discuss some of the best strategies to improve child transition for kids.
Transition Strategies for Kids
Prepare their mindset
It is important to prepare their mindset which helps in giving them some advance time before the transition. It creates in settling the mindset of the child during the transition. You will also be able to know what to expect in a day. The list of cbse schools in howrah always influences such secure mindset strategies during the transition process.
Create a visual schedule
Do you know by creating a visual schedule you can easily observe the mindset of your child. It helps in making it clear what a child can expect and what would be there upcoming reaction. Therefore, you can easily put the activities that are most challenging for the child closer to the beginning of the day when they are less tired.
Create a visual countdown system
The visual timer and countdown are almost similar to the visual schedule. Therefore, in this part, you can also fix the activities under a certain amount of time.
Use special objects before the transition
It is one of the sensitive and special strategies every top 10 schools in howrah For some kids something is special, like a special blanket, doll, or pets animal with them can smooth transitions. This especially applies in the terms of a child transitioning from one location to another such as from home to school. Bringing a collection of the photo album or laminated pictures of mom or dad can also be helpful.
Choose the best transition activities
Pick up the favorite transition activities for your kids that help in encouraging and motivating them to transit from one place to another place.
Give extra time
Always try to allow some extra time to your child before the transition. It is one of the hardest things for your child to face. Therefore, they need some extra time to stay calm before adjusting to the new place. Hence, don’t try to rush on such a crucial situation.
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Hungary / Ukraine – Hungary vetoed the convening of the next NATO-Ukraine summit. This follows a disagreement between Hungary and Ukraine over the recent education reform that, according to Budapest, threatens the Hungarian community in Ukraine.
In early September, Ukraine voted a reform of education. For the Hungarian Government, this reform seriously undermines – in particular – the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that because of this “stabing in the back”, Hungary would no longer support Ukraine on the international scene as long as long as a change regarding the Hungarian minority would not take place. The Hungarian minister stresses that until the vote of this reform, Hungary was nevertheless the biggest support of Ukraine for its integration, including by supporting the visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens.
The Hungarian minister’s threat to Ukraine was held: Friday, October 27, Hungary vetoed the convening of the NATO-Ukraine summit scheduled for December. According to the Hungarian Ministry, Ukraine is not only deviating from international agreements, but also from NATO’s integration program which aims to enforce the rights of minorities.
The Foreign Ministers of Hungary and Ukraine met in Budapest on October 12 to discuss the issue, but no compromise was found. However, according to the Russian news agency TASS, the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that “infamous law on education that has been condemned in the world as discriminatory will be amended with new provisions on preferences to the Hungarian language and other European Union languages”. This suggests that an agreement regarding minorities linked to countries that could support Ukraine’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic bloc would be under discussion; in this case, the position of Hungary vis-à-vis Ukraine could return to normal – as before September 2017 – according to commentators of the Hungarian press.
For the Hungarian Foreign Minister, this law on education drastically reduces the rights of minorities – including the 150,000 Hungarians. For the Ukrainian authorities, this reform will allow all Ukrainian citizens to master the official language of the country. However, in Hungary, it is pointed out that the Hungarian teachers’ corps of Subcarpathia / Transcarpathia has been reporting this problem for more than 10 years, and offers its help to find solutions. “If they wish to strengthen the teaching of the Ukrainian language, then they must reorganize the teaching of the Ukrainian language, not remove the right of minorities to education in their mother tongue,” said Péter Szijjártó. | <urn:uuid:21f6662a-d37e-4ac0-87a6-8aed5eba6a5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://visegradpost.com/en/2017/10/29/hungary-vetoed-the-nato-ukraine-council-due-to-the-discriminatory-ukrainian-educational-law/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.955041 | 525 | 1.875 | 2 |
Originally established in the Mid-Taisho period as a temple in 1902, deemed Enmei-ji Ichiba, Kuromon Ichiba Market came to be when the temple was destroyed by a fire in 1912. “Kuromon” (which means “Black Gate” in Japanese) refers to the large black gates that used to serve as the entryway to the temple. What originally began as a simple fish market has evolved into a tremendous open-air marketplace brimming with colourful sights, smells, and tastes. Over 600 meters long, the market consists of 180 fish, produce, flower, dessert, restaurant, and dry goods stalls. However, seafood seems to be the standout attraction of the market, as nearly half of the stalls focus on fresh seafood.
Go With the Flow of the City
Like most markets, Kuromon Ichiba Market is a central part of the community – here, you will see chefs picking out their ingredients for the day, locals exchanging niceties with their usual shopkeeper, and Japanese grandmas steadily pushing ahead a cart filled with dinner ingredients. It’s a marketplace for the people and by the people. The influential undercurrent of food in the community is palpable. It is obvious that the fare is fresh and locally sourced, despite being in the centre of Osaka. The produce is healthy and bright, the fish scales glimmer, and deserts are cooked on a daily basis. When it comes to food, the Japanese standard of quality is exceptionally high, and the market is no exception. The layout of the market even synchs to the flow of the crowd – the south end of the market concentrates on wholesale fish and raw ingredients for restaurant owners, meaning that this end of the market has usually reached its peak of business and is ready to close up shop by early afternoon. Closer to Nippombashi station, the stalls are teeming with freshly prepared and boxed foods for the workers on their way home for the evening and is bustling with businessmen and tourists alike in the afternoon and into the evening hours.
Come on an Empty Stomach for a Fulfilling Experience!
It’s best to come on an empty stomach and an open mind. You’ll find yourself taste testing and sampling courses as you make your way throughout the market. The stalls offer a beautiful arrangement of seafood and produce, most of which are unique to the Kansai region. The typical fare of the seafood stalls are oysters, sea urchins, octopus, tuna, scallops, and of course puffer fish (fugu in Japanese). Usual street food sweets such as warabi mochi (soft gelatinous sweet sprinkled in roasted soybean powder), taiyaki (fish shaped cake filled with azuki bean paste), dorayaki (castella pancake sandwich filled with azuki bean paste), dango (sweet rice flour balls served on a skewer), among many others, are also all available to eat on the go. Specialty dessert shops, dry foodstuffs, and teashops make up the majority of the other shops. There are even a few “Western” style markets within the market, which stand out among the delightful chaos of the market with their division of aisles, shelves stocked with packaged foods, and checkout stands. In more recent times, vendors have come to offer food that is available to eat on the spot or fish that is freshly cut and immediately packaged.
Eating On the Spot
Being so close to the Osaka Central Fish Market, it makes perfect sense as to why Kuromon Ichiba is comprised of nearly 50% fish vendors. Freshly shucked oysters and sea urchins are some of the most popular choices of seafood to be eaten on the spot. Vendors often reserve a small corner for you in their stall to enjoy your seafood on the spot. Oysters and sea urchins are separated by size, so there are options to fit any budget and appetite. With a simple garnish of soy sauce, lemon juice, and wasabi, these oysters aren’t for the haphazard or casual oyster consumer – these oysters are for the hard-core oyster fanatics. Suffice to say, Japanese summer oysters are usually much larger than the ones derived from the West. You might be surprised to take a good 3 mouthfuls and 5 minutes to finish a single oyster!
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Eating on the Go –The Convenient Choice
If raw shellfish and sashimi isn’t your thing, much of the fresh seafood that you see displayed in the stalls is available to be eaten raw, or vendors will quickly grill it on the spot. The typical choices are prawns, scallops, crab legs, squid, octopus legs, and oysters. Skewered and grilled on a stick, these are the perfect portable snack to walk around with while you’re deciding on your next bite.
The gratifying condition of sensory overload
Kuromon Ichiba is a concentrated area that merges two essential elements of Japan – food and shopping. There are so many colors, sights, and smells to take in at once that you might find yourself unsure of where to focus. Everything is worthy of a try and it doesn’t hurt to walk down the same path multiple times.
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Norristown Educational Theatre is a PA Non-Profit, 501 (c) 3 organization. Our mission is to present theatre as performance and a teaching tool across the
curriculum, with special emphasis on literature, history and social issues. We seek to take performance to the student whether in the classroom, cafeteria, and library or community room. Of
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Hello readers, in this article, I am going to talk about company analysis for long term investors. I will also go through the steps involved in it. Company analysis usually divided into two parts i.e., qualitative and quantitative analysis.
If you decide to invest in a company that means you are about to become part of the ownership in that company. In that case, the investor should carry out an analysis before making any decision. So let me explain to you how to do that in a proper manner.
Qualitative and Quantitative analysis should be performed to complete the company analysis. Long term investors should carry out both analyses for the final result. Let us start with qualitative analysis.
While performing qualitative analysis investors should go through the company business model, management and competitive advantage.
1. Understand the Business
- Don’t invest if you don’t understand the business and its income generation sources.
- Go through the business model.
- The business model of a company involves “what the company is doing? How is it generating income? Who are the targeted customers?” These can be helpful for analysis.
- After analysing the business model, long term investors should have to come up with a few more questions like “Does this business model work in the future? Does this idea make sense? How macro and microeconomics affect the business? ”
There are thousands of companies in the stock market. Instead of more diversification, it is better to invest in those companies whose business you can understand.
2. Competitive Advantage
A company is said to have a competitive advantage if it has an edge over its competitors. Having a competitive advantage can improve sales and services and bring more profits when compared to other companies in the same sector.
A company can enjoy a competitive advantage if it has characteristics like a strong track record, strong and ethical management, a monopoly in a particular industry, technology superiority, better cost structure than competitors.
The main types of competitive advantages are Comparative Advantage and Differential Advantage.
Let us say there is a store (X) that offers household products at some fixed price. But there is another store (Y) in the same locality which is offering the same products at a discounted price.
In the above situation, the consumers prefer the store which is offering the same products at a discounted price. The store (Y) has a competitive advantage over (X) because of discount prices. This drives more customers into the store and increases sales.
If a company provides more superior products or products with more features at the same price than its competitors then such a company is said to have a differential advantage.
Let us say company X offers a mobile phone having a quad-core processor at a Price of Rs.5000. But another company Y offering octa-core processor mobile phones at the same price then consumers prefer company Y over X. ( Just an example please don’t compare iPhone features over the android phones. In this case, the good brand building provides an advantage to Apple).
3. Management Quality
Strong and ethical management provides a good foundation for the company. The investor should do research on the management of the company before investing.
The investor should ask questions like who is the management?
What is the educational background of management? Who plays important roles like CEO, CFO, COO in the company? What are the past experiences of these people? What is the vision and goals of the management? Etc.,
“I look for integrity, energy, and intelligence in management” – Warren Buffet
In our article “company analysis for long term investors”, quantitative analysis is the second part. If I want to invest in a company, the first thing I do is Qualitative Analysis. Later on, I will check the past performance of that company using financial statements. In simple terms, analysing the financials of a company is called quantitative analysis. Without quantitative analysis, we cannot completely analyse a company.
Financial Statements play a major role in quantitative analysis. This Statement includes
- Balance Sheet
- Income Statement
- Cash Flow Statements
1. Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet gives information about Assets and Liabilities. If you want to read more about assets and liabilities you can read it here – assets and liabilities.
The Assets column includes information about Fixed assets and Current assets. Whereas Liabilities include Current liabilities, Long Term Debt, Shareholders Equity.
In a balance sheet Assets should always match with Liabilities according to the Double-entry accounting rule.
2. Income Statement
The income statement ( Profit and Loss Statement) gives information about the revenues, expenses, Profit of the company.
Inside the income statement, you can observe terms like operating costs, Profit before tax, Depreciation and amortization and a few more. Most of these terms will be self-explanatory.
After analysing all these investors can come to know the performance of the business in that quarter. He can also compare it with the previous quarters to measure the growth or decline in revenues.
3. Cash Flow Statement
This is my favourite one. Whatever business you do, at the end of a quarter or a financial year what comes into count is “How much money got into your Pocket”. Using a cash flow statement one can analyse that.
The cash flow statement gives information about the Cash Flows of
- Operating Activities
- Investing Activities
- Financing Activities
Let us say a company sold machinery with a profit of 5 lakh rupees but the sale is done on credit. In this case, the income statement shows the profit of Rs.5 Lakhs but there will be no money with the company. Transactions like this will be mentioned in the Cash Flow Statement.
Quantitative analysts derive some useful ratios using the data in the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statements. Ex- Liquidity, Solvency, Profitability, Debt Ratios.
Do not invest in companies you can’t understand. Perform company analysis before making any investment decision. Quantitative and qualitative analysis is the major part of the company analysis. Perform them well for better results. It is never too late to invest to safeguard your future. So, what are you waiting for? Click here to open a demat account with Upstox. By saying this, I will end this article – “Company analysis for long term investors”. To learn about PE ratio, click here
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Michael Carvin, the attorney arguing on behalf of the plaintiffs in the King v. Burwell case, said this challenge is different because the argument against the law centers on a statute that was “written by white women and minorities.”
Carvin’s comments were published in a Wall Street Journal profile of him on Tuesday, a day before oral arguments began in the King v. Burwell lawsuit.
Carvin argued that the difference between this lawsuit and the one in 2012 is that unlike the 2012 challenge, the argument on Wednesday is on “a statute that was written three years ago, not by dead white men but by living white women and minorities.”
“It hasn’t had time to ‘grow’ or ‘evolve,'” Carvin added, a jab that mocks terms liberals have used for constitutional doctrines that conservatives have argued aren’t supported by the Constitution.
Carvin actually cited Atticus Finch of “To Kill A Mocking Bird” as an inspiration for his fight to overturn the law, according to the Journal profile. Finch was the lawyer who defended a black man who was charged with raping a white woman.
In an interview with TPM in September 2014, Carvin repeatedly suggested that it didn’t matter what Obama-appointed judges thought of Obamacare.
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As part of its national education and media outreach program, Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy in Angola is carrying out several activities to promote education in the United States. On Monday, June 1, Public Affairs Officer Jeffrey Lodermeier spoke to two different academic audiences in northern Uige province to address two issues of interest to Angolans: An Introduction to the U.S. and education opportunities there.
The two events generated huge interest within the academic community of Uige province, having congregated about 700 students and teachers from different faculties of the public Kimpa Vita University. Issues regarding the U.S. elections, U.S. Foreign Policy making process, scholarships, exchange programs and education cooperation protocol were among others the most asked questions from the audiences.
Organized in partnership with the Government of Uige province, the two lectures helped the Embassy to share vital information about education exchange programs, such as YALI, Fulbright, Humphrey, SUSI and several others in order to diversify and broaden the origin of candidates for these programs.
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The latest technological developments have made it easy to disperse education to students all across this globe via world wide web (internet). Online education is a type of educational instruction that is distributed via the internet to students using their home computers. During the last decade, online degrees and courses have become a popular alternative for a wide range of nontraditional students, include those who want to continue working full-time or raising families. Most of the time, online degree programs and courses are offered via the host school’s online education platform, although some are delivered using alternative technologies. Although there are detailed differences, the main difference between online and traditional learning is the fact that online education frees the student from the usual binding of on-campus degree programs including planning their schedule around classes, driving to school and being physically present for each sequence of their coursework
Global Online Education Industry Projections-
- Today, it’s expected that about 46% of college students are taking at least one course online. However, by 2019, roughly half of all college classes will be based on eLearning.
- According to a report issued by KPMG, the Indian online education industry will register a 6X growth in 2021. From approximately 1.6 million users in 2016, it will grow to 9.6 million users by 2021. It will also be worth $1.96 billion.
- Corporations currently report that e-Learning is the second most valuable training method that they use. This is no surprise, on condition that e-Learning saves businesses at least 50% when they replace traditional instructor-based coaching with e-Learning. Not to mention that e-Learning cuts down training time by up to 60%.
- E-Learning is also very Eco-friendly. Recent studies conducted by Britain’s Open University have found that e-Learning consumes 90% less energy than the regular courses. The amount of carbon acid gas emissions (per student) is also reduced by up to 85%.
- Over 41.7% of worldwide Fortune 500 companies now use some form of educational technology to instruct employees during formal learning hours, and that figure is only going to regularly increase in future years.
- The world’s most rapidly growing e-Learning markets are most of the Asian countries. In fact, the supposed 5-year annual growth rate for the Asian e-Learning market is 17.3%. That is the best compound annual growth rate of any global region. Here are a number of more key e-Learning stats for other parts of the world:
- Self-paced e-Learning’s growth rate in the Middle East is 8.2%, and its revenues are expected to touch $560.7 million by 2016.
- The self-paced e-Learning market growth rate in Western Europe is 5.8%, and it’s expected that their revenues will be at $8.1 billion by 2015.
- Africa’s compound annual growth rate for self-paced e-Learning is 15.4%, and their revenues are supposed to reach $512.8 million by the year 2016.
- As per the study conducted by IBIS World, the global online education industry will reach up to a whopping $37.8 billion till 2020.
- According to a report issued by IBM, companies who utilize e-Learning tools and techniques have the potential to boost productivity by up to 50%. For every $1 that the company spends, it’s estimated that they can receive $30 worth of productivity.
- According to a recent study carried by The Research Institute of America, e-Learning has the ability to increase information retention rates by up to 60%. That means that not only is e-Learning lot of cost-efficient but also it’s also much more effective (in terms of what amount of knowledge is truly acquired during the learning process).
- It’s been expected that nearly 25% of all employees leave their job because there simply aren’t enough training or learning opportunities. On the other hand, companies who offer e-Learning and on-the-job instruction generate about 26% more revenue per employee.
- About 72% of companies who were included in a recent survey stated that e-Learning helps them to keep up-to-date with changes in their industry, which helps them to remain competitive within their niche. It was further found, in a study led by Bersin & Associates that companies and organizations that did have a strong learning culture did great in their market than those who do not. For example, these organizations are 46% more likely to be the leader in their industry, noted a 34% increase in their capacity to respond to the needs of the customer and they are 17% more likely to become the market share leader.
- About 33% of college students are taking at least one course online, according to a survey by the Babson Survey Research Group. Schools and employers are recognizing that online study can be just as effective and sometimes more efficient than classroom courses.
- This allows online colleges and universities to allow cheaper tuition rates compared to traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities. The average student will typically spend anywhere between $100 to $400 per credit hour.
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Y.A. Liu receives award for innovations in green process engineering from American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Y.A. Liu, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Frank C. Vilbrandt Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has won the Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the leading global organization for chemical engineering professionals with more than 72,000 members in more than 110 countries.
The international award recognizes an individual's outstanding professional achievement in advancing innovations in green process engineering for sustainable energy and environment and distinguished contribution as a professional engineer or chemist, industrial leader, or educator.
Liu was selected specifically for his “contributions to the reduction of water use and wastewater discharge in chemical processes, and reduction of energy consumption in CO2 capture processes.”
One of his most significant contributions is a patented CO2 capture process developed with Ph.D. student Stuart Higgins. It reduces both the heating and cooling utility consumptions of a solvent absorption process and consumes the least solvent regeneration energy of 1.67 GJ per ton of CO2 captured.
In mid 2020, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) — the No. 2 company on the Fortune Global 500 list — began implementing the technology at its Shengli oil field power plant to capture one million tons per year of CO2 for injection into oil field for enhanced oil recovery.
“My colleagues and I were so impressed with the lowest solvent regeneration energy requirement of this new process that is leading competing processes internationally,” said Cao Xianghong, SINOPEC’s former chief technology officer, a past president of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, and among the five professional leaders who nominated Liu for the AIChE award.
Liu had an earlier influence on SINOPEC when, on sabbatical from Virginia Tech in 2004-05, he trained engineers from the company’s 45 refining and chemical subsidiaries. The engineers applied water-saving strategies and design tools from his textbook, “Industrial Water Reuse and Wastewater Minimization” (McGraw-Hill, 1999), authored with his Ph.D. student James Mann, to develop engineering proposals to save freshwater consumption and minimize wastewater discharge. Subsequently, from 2006 to 2008, SINOPEC invested 1.8 billion RMB ($280 million USD) to implement these engineering proposals, resulting in a 60 percent drop in freshwater usage and a 65 percent decrease in wastewater discharge since 2004.
Liu’s successful water-saving methodology was also adopted by Formosa Plastics Group in Taiwan, resulting in similar reductions.
Another of Liu’s nominators, Lawrence B. Evans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus, past president of AIChE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, noted Liu’s industry outreach, unique leadership, and lasting influences on the education and practice of green process engineering through seven groundbreaking textbooks.
“Professor Liu is richly deserving of this recognition for his outstanding and continuing contributions to educating 3,500 chemical engineering students and training 7,500 practicing engineers on sustainable design and optimization, energy and water savings, and CO2 capture,” Evans said.
In conjunction with the award, Liu has been invited to speak at a plenary session at the AIChE annual meeting in November about his research in the area of energy reduction with heat pumps for CO2 capture processes.
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New Delhi/Islamabad – India and Pakistan have both emphasised the importance of de-escalation in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, while carefully avoiding ascribing responsibility for the violence, with the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours attempting to walk differing diplomatic high-wires, analysts say.
On Sunday, Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke via telephone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, reiterating Pakistan’s call for a cessation of hostilities.
The language of Pakistan’s statements on the crisis has been similar to that of India’s at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and in telephone conversations between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Russian and Ukrainian leadership.
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On Saturday, Modi spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressing the need to end the violence without ascribing responsibility for it.
“[Modi] reiterated his call for an immediate cessation of violence and a return to dialogue, and expressed India’s willingness to contribute in any way towards peace efforts,” read an Indian foreign ministry statement following the call.
Two days earlier, on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Modi spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin using similar language.
“Prime Minister [Modi] reiterated his longstanding conviction that the differences between Russia and the NATO group can only be resolved through honest and sincere dialogue,” read an Indian statement.
“[Modi] appealed for an immediate cessation of violence, and called for concerted efforts from all sides to return to the path of diplomatic negotiations and dialogue.”
At the UNSC, India abstained from a vote on a resolution that would have “deplored” Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
On Thursday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was in Moscow for talks with President Putin on a major gas pipeline deal and regional issues, including Afghanistan.
The Russian statement on that meeting was brief, making no mention of Ukraine, while PM Khan’s office took a guarded approach to broaching the subject of the invasion, saying Pakistan “regretted” the current situation.
“Prime Minister [Khan] stressed that conflict was not in anyone’s interest, and that the developing countries were always hit the hardest economically in case of conflict,” said the Pakistani statement.
“He underlined Pakistan’s belief that disputes should be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.”
So, why all the apparent equivocating?
India’s longstanding ties with RussiaIndia and Russia have had warm ties for decades, which analysts say are mainly due to Russian arms exports to the South Asian country as well as other areas of cooperation.
India has also developed much closer ties with the United States in recent years, evidenced by India’s in the US’s Asia-Pacific “Quad” defence alliance aimed at countering China.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an estimated 23 percent of all Russian arms exports between 2016 to 2020 went to India, accounting for 49 percent of all Indian arms imports in the same period.
In December 2021, India said it had begun to receive deliveries of the Russian S-400 ground-to-air missile defence system, following a visit that month by President Putin to New Delhi.
Analysts say India’s abstention at the UNSC vote could be a result of both the large arms imports and India’s more nuanced position on issues related to conflicts involving the US, Russia and China.
“I see it mainly with respect to India’s longstanding ties with Russia and the fact of our dependence on military supplies and partially we believe that Russia has some genuine concerns which could have been taken into consideration,” said Sanjay Kumar Pandey, who teaches Russian foreign policy at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Pandey added that India’s statements, focused on the need for diplomacy, make it “very difficult to derive a clear-cut meaning”.
“India has […] not supported Russia’s actions, Russia’s recognition of breakaway republics [in eastern Ukraine], or Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine,” he said.
“But at the same time, if we say diplomacy was not given a chance, it can be construed mainly against Russia, but also partially Ukraine and NATO.”
On Thursday, President Joe Biden said the US was still in unresolved “consultations” with India over the crisis.
PS Raghavan, a former Indian ambassador to Russia, said that when people say India has not taken a “clear stand” on the conflict, they are focused on one thing: “India is not condemning Russia. That’s all that they mean when they say that.”
Raghavan said it was “not a matter of pleasing both [the US and Russia]”.
“We have very strong relations with Russia, we have very strong relations with the US. Our relations with the US have become stronger in the last decade, but each stands on its own. We don’t have any binary in the international system any more after the Cold War.”
The conception of there being a diplomatic tightrope or balancing act, he said, “is actually a creation of […] the media and some of the academic community”.
On the question of Pakistani PM Khan’s presence in Moscow on the day of the invasion, both analysts suggested it was more a case of coincidence.
“[PM Khan] did not know Russia is going to attack [Ukraine] on that day,” said Raghavan. “That’s just coincidental because I don’t think anybody knew Russia was going to attack.”
Realignment of Pakistan’s interestsIn Pakistan, PM Khan faced domestic criticism from some quarters for having visited Russia on the day of the invasion, sitting alongside Putin for a photo opportunity before a roughly three-hour meeting between the two leaders.
Pakistan’s ties with Russia have increased in recent years, after being unfriendly during the Cold War, when Pakistan was a key US regional ally in countering Russian forces in Afghanistan.
Khan’s visit to Russia was the first by a Pakistani prime minister in more than two decades, although former president Asif Ali Zardari met then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow in 2011.
High on the agenda was meant to be the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline, a proposed 1,100km (684-mile) pipeline running from the Pakistani port city of Karachi to the central Punjab province. The project was conceived in 2015 but faced numerous delays until new agreements were drawn up in 2021.
The pipeline, to be built at an estimated cost of $2.5bn, will be capable of transporting 12.4bn cubic metres of natural gas annually.
Analysts say that while the gas pipeline would likely not be increasing Russian gas exports, it may divert some Middle East gas supplies to Pakistan, making Europe more reliant on Russian natural gas.
Pakistan and Russia have also increased contacts through the former’s now full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
In December, Pakistani PM Khan has also lauded President Putin’s comments on how insults to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad should be seen as a “violation of religious freedom”.
Analysts say the main takeaway from the talks should be the new importance Russia appears to have taken on.
“Pakistan has little to do with Russia’s decision to go ahead with a war being planned for months,” said Salman Zaidi, director of programmes at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute think-tank.
“The objective of the meeting was strategic symbolism for both sides, and definitely stoked anxieties in capitals accustomed to Islamabad’s traditional alignment with the West in security cooperation.”
Zaidi said the fact that no major agreements were signed during the visit was secondary.
“The way the meeting was orchestrated by the Russians shows they view this relationship with new importance,” he said.
Zaidi said regional developments since mid-2021, including the US exit from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover, have “demand[ed] realignment from countries like Pakistan”.
“Pakistan will stay in the Western camp, but potentially counterbalance its security needs with a partnership with Russia in the long term,” he said.
As for Ukraine, given the limited economic and other ties between the two countries – total trade between them in 2020-2021 was $350m, according to Pakistani central bank data – Zaidi says the stakes for Pakistan are relatively low.
“[Pakistan] does not have a voting position at the UNSC, nor has it been called upon by Ukraine to demand an end to violence,” he said.
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We tested the hypothesis that afterslip should be accompanied by tremor using observations of seismic and aseismic deformation surrounding the 2002 M 7.9 Denali fault, Alaska, earthquake (DFE). Afterslip happens more frequently than spontaneous slow slip and has been observed in a wider range of tectonic environments, and thus the existence or absence of tremor accompanying afterslip may provide new clues about tremor generation. We also searched for precursory tremor, as a proxy for posited accelerating slip leading to rupture. Our search yielded no tremor during the five days prior to the DFE or in several intervals in the three months after. This negative result and an array of other observations all may be explained by rupture penetrating below the presumed locked zone into the frictional transition zone. While not unique, such an explanation corroborates previous models of megathrust and transform earthquake ruptures that extend well into the transition zone. | <urn:uuid:38ce80c1-cab8-4759-8358-67e07c49c284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/102/2/892/349957/Afterslip-Tremor-and-the-Denali-Fault?redirectedFrom=fulltext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.912035 | 194 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Distribution process to a business is as important as limbs are to a human being. Distribution performs one of the important functions of a business: To carve out a path of access, delivery and ensure sell for products. Hence, it is important for companies to be able to trust and build long-term relationships with their distributors. One company who has received unequivocal backing from major companies around the world is, Serial System. The company proudly distributes finished consumer products and electric component to some big names including Texas Instruments, Broadcom Limited, Fairchild Semiconductor, etc. The company currently is thriving on strong partnerships with more than 7,000 suppliers and customers.
Serial System primarily distributes electronic components such as semiconductors and finished consumer products in a wide variety of sectors. It serves sectors as varied as household appliances, medical, automotive, telecommunications, etc. Apart from being one of the biggest distributors in Asia based on the size of their network, it is also the biggest company by revenue and geographic reach. Currently, Serial System has over 1,000 employees all over Asia and grosses over US$1 billion in revenues annually.
From Flowers to Distributing Electronic Chips
Serial System has become synonymous with trust for their suppliers but this journey was long and extremely challenging on many levels. The Founder and CEO of the company, Dr. Derek Goh was running a small operation at the back of his wife’s flower shop in 1988. He used to trade electronic components and was in need of large capital to make an impact in the market. He eventually put together $100,000 in capital and started expanding the business to turn into a juggernaut as it has become today. Initially, Derek imported electronics from Taiwan, formed joint ventures and built relationships to build a billion-dollar company surpassing all expectations.
The company is an ode to the manual of successful management strategies in more ways than one. Thanks to the lightning-quick expansion, the company was eventually listed on SESDAQ in 1997 and was later welcomed to the Mainboard in July 2000. The company today enjoys the reputation of being the largest Singapore-listed electronic distributor by sales. Despite the enormous success of the company in the initial phase, it keeps investing in diversifying their portfolio, welcoming new opportunities with open arms.
Learning Pragmatism the Good Old Way
Entrepreneurs are often encouraged to learn through practical experience and many entrepreneurs distinguish experience as the single most important factor for their success. Dr. Derek Goh learned entrepreneurship through the good old tough experience and hard work. He was brought up in a household with 12 children and worked on his family’s hawker stall every day. He learnt some of the key traits like pragmatism and diligence while running the family business. An observer can only watch in awe as he went onto to turn simple qualities into a one-man operation and expanded it into a business with 53 offices and 13 warehousing facilities. Currently, the business has expanded into Singapore, Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, The Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Born with a natural drive to succeed and enriched by the valuable experience during childhood, Derek has never let the success drift him away from the society. He is the founder of Taoist Charity Group, Zhi Zhen Tan Dao Xue Hui among many. Serial System has donated millions of dollars to various charity organizations under his leadership and he continues to remain committed to his ideals. Some other charity organizations which Dr. Goh takes a personal interest in are five Community Development Councils, the Singapore Children’s Society, Ren Ci Hospital, World Learner Exchange Programme, Broadrick Secondary School for Hearty Breakfast Programme, Seng Kang Secondary School and Halogen Foundation Singapore, etc.
The Business Model worth Cherishing
Serial System works in an industry where customer trust can be the most important asset for a company. The company certainly sees it that way. The company over the years has put special emphasis on meeting the expectations of their clients with various solutions. One such solution is timely and reliable delivery which has helped the company secure clients like Hewlett Packard, Intel on a continuous basis. The company also aims to provide comprehensive solutions which means the clients find all much-needed solutions under one umbrella. Additionally, the saved time also makes it easier for major manufacturers to get their products to consumers as quickly as possible. Moreover, Serial System is investing in streamlining processes in recent years to achieve synergies across the entire international distribution network.
However, according to Dr. Goh it is not just the strategy that has made the company successful. According to Derek, several factors such as values of Perseverance, hard work, integrity and teamwork have built the company into a billion-dollar enterprise as it is today. During the initial days of the company, Dr. Goh handpicked employees because he believed that investing them and rewarding them with an open mind was the way to lead the company into the future.
A Future that Does Not Sleep
Serial System has experienced challenging times due to the competitive industry, economic downturns, etc. However, if their past is anything to go by – their future is going to a heavenly achievement for their team. The semiconductor industry is set to grow by a 19.7% year-on-year jump for 2017 according to a research by Gartner. This is likely to be the biggest growth in the industry since the 2010, global financial crisis. This future growth is most likely to come from China and Hong Kong, through Merger and Acquisitions. The company has a competitive edge in these countries as they already run operations in the respective countries. Hence, despite the currency volatility, stiff competition, cash and credit risks; Serial System aims to grab the upcoming opportunity with both the hands. The company aims to achieve US$10 billion in revenues, a tenfold increase in the next decade.
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Once upon a time, people would solely read from newspapers, books and magazines: Customers would know about businesses with printed newsletters and adverts. A few decades down the line, blogs play a huge part in how we communicate today – so why blog?
The question we should answer first; what are blogs exactly? According to the Oxford Dictionary…
- a personal website or web page on which an individual or company records opinions, information, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.
So now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s look at the reasons why – as a business- you should have a blog.
1. Blogging adds personality to your business. Customers are more likely to be attracted to, and return to companies that have a voice behind them. Don’t be too personal, and try to create content that is readable, but practical. It’s a fun disguise for marketing.
2. It drives traffic to your website. If someone reads your post, they will be exposed to the rest of your website (if the blog is embedded) or at least a link to your website from an outsourced platform. (eg: WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger etc) It’s a no brainer.
3. SEO (search engine optimisation). The more content you have on your website, the better when it comes to SEO (if you do it right, that is). Use buzzwords, images and popular topics to your advantage. You’ll be surprised at how you can spin current trends to relate to your business, within reason of course.
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It’s difficult to read a national newspaper–your choice–for longer than a week without coming across at least one article dealing with the environment. Why should a blog be any different? Jokes and polar bears aside, the environment is in need of some true student TLC, and students have plenty of it to give. Here are some things each of us can do to help.
1. Get educated Change starts with education. When searching for potential colleges, take into consideration the variety of classes offered. The more options schools have, the more you can dabble in various interests, especially the environment. By educating yourself about environmental issues, you can learn about ways to improve the situation, and what’s more, inspire others with your newfound knowledge. When you let people see how the environment affects them personally, you are more likely to convince them that their efforts and time are worth the investment.
2. Turn off the lights Saving money and energy is a click away, or a clap clap. Remember to turn off lights and appliances when you are through with them. Pay extra attention to air conditioners—open windows and running air conditioners make mother earth cry.
3. Live by the triple R’s Many of us already reduce, reuse and recycle to some extent, but most of us don’t really crack down on bad habits. By making the three R’s your mantra, you can reduce emissions, save some tree lives and fatten your piggybank.
4. Write to Congress This one is for the ambitious. Begin a petition in support of the Kyoto Protocol to be sent to Congress; or at least sign the one you make your friend create. So far, 172 countries and governmental entities have signed the pact limiting emissions. Somehow the U.S. is not one of them.
5. Take public transportation A great benefit to most on-campus travel is the abundance of public transportation. Taking the bus or train to school can reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and it can also free up some time to chat or study. It may not be the most convenient way of getting around, but improvement isn’t always convenient. For those who live close by, riding a bike, rollerblading or walking is also a good option.
6. Bring your own bags and mugs Try stuffing your groceries into a backpack, and bring mugs to coffee shops. (Or visit ones that offer in-house cups.) Some stores and coffee shops will even give you discounts for doing so.
7. Be laptop savvy in class You won’t look like you’re too cool for school by bringing your laptop to lectures—really. Students can save much paper by appending and saving posted online notes on laptops. By bringing a laptop to class, you can save trees and increase the likelihood of future legibility. Plus, editing is easier on a computer, and most students can type more quickly than they can write. If you’re not one of them, it’s about time you practiced.
There are plenty of things students can do to make a difference, and many are already hard at work. This year, Scholarship.com’s annual Resolve to Evolve scholarship prizes were awarded to students who wrote the best essays on problems dealing with standardized testing and the environment. See what the winners had to say on the topic, and check out Scholarships.com's new Resolve to Evolve $10,000 essay scholarship. You can also search our database for college scholarships and grants; begin finding money for college today!
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Workplace design is an ever-evolving art as much as a science. From their physical layout -- closed vs. open spaces, for example -- to the color of the walls and the arc of the lighting, scientists and designers are constantly at work to improve American offices for the planet, human health, and corporate productivity. Top office designers are predicting several strong trends in the industry for 2017:
1. Increase in co-working mentality
With the rise of the start-up culture came a boom in "co-working" spaces, with landlords taking an increasingly active role.. "Landlords are beginning to break their spaces up into a co-working organizational format, and collect the fees for these renovations directly from the renter," explains Anne Kniffen, Principal at lauckgroup. "This new trend leads to higher returns, but still lends risk to the landlord of not being able to fill a space to capacity."
As of 2017, landlords will do more than just split up space. "Co-working is not just a response to working with others; it's the access to amenities and the ability to plug into an outside environment," say Michael Horton and April Warner, Senior Project Managers at lauckgroup. "Being in the right location gives staff the agility to access specialized spaces as well as an array of lifestyle amenities. Makerspaces and enrichment spaces are just a few examples of experience-based designs that engage and support an individual's productivity."
Big companies are getting into the game too. "Co-working is not just an option for an individual in need of a desk, but rather a new attitude and style of working," says Jeff Miller, VP of Design at Poppin. "Companies are now inviting outsiders to co-work in their offices, and sending workers outside the office to co-work elsewhere. This fluidity of staffing creates a sense of community and leads to an exchange of information and upped creativity."
2. Movement toward separate, private retreats
As office layouts continue to trend towards more open workspaces, not everyone loves the new designs. "Not only are some employees complaining about the lack of privacy in an open office floor plan, but the square footage of the actual workspace designated to any one employee continues to get smaller," says Steve Delfino, VP of Corporate Marketing and Product Design at Teknion. "In 2017, we will see more furniture specifically designed to offer modern workers flexibility and privacy from the distractions of the open space workplace. We will notice a larger movement towards separate spaces and the creation of areas that offer employees who want them places to retreat from noisy work stations."
3. Return to elegance: the mid-century design era
Maybe Gatsby era glitter is still lingering in the air, but mid-century design will continue to be hot in 2017. "The 21st century office has quickly become predictable in its design," says Jeremy Levitt, Co-founder of Parts and Labor Design. "Too often, we're seeing the same youthful millennial-driven concepts that make some spaces look and feel more like adult teenagers' rooms than offices. In a new co-working space we are designing in NYC, our intention is to bring back the elegant tones and attractive materials of the mid-century era, while integrating intuitive technology with modern industrial accents."
4. Story, detail and character inform lighting fixtures:
Walk into an office, and the first thing you'll most likely notice will not be the lighting -- but modern designers are thinking hard about how to illuminate the office of the future. "You are really starting to see the blurring of aesthetic and functional lines across offices, residential uses and hospitality settings, as businesses cater to a transient working culture and a millennial mindset.These employees expect that their behavior, preferences and expression will remain largely unaltered across work and play environments alike," says Shant Madjarian, founder of Juniper. "What that means for office lighting is a need for warmer finishes, mixed materials and more story, detail and character underlying each choice. However," Madjarian clarifies, "we are not seeing a corresponding decrease in the need for advanced system-based lighting systems. The key is to blend it all together into a seamless and highly functional whole." | <urn:uuid:f575ff73-51fa-49e3-9ed8-0b3f3f1e9602> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inc.com/kate-l-harrison/2017-top-workplace-design-trends.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.958432 | 865 | 1.5 | 2 |
Events of the past few months has caused me to reflect on the importance of the Roanoke River Basin Association (RRBA) to the citizens, and communities presently and in the future. The RRBA represents the people, and advocates for conservation and appropriate development and use of one of the greatest natural resources in the USA.
The key events I thought of are the threat of uranium mining in Southside VA, the Dan River Coal Ash spill of 39,000 tons of contaminated coal ash and the 24-year endeavor to finally achieve a protocol for flood control and operating procedure of water releases out of Kerr Reservoir that do the job without causing environmental destruction. That new process called Quasi-Run of the River just proved its worth in handling the floodwaters created by Hurricane Matthew. The Roanoke fared far better than other basins in NC which do not have the same level of flood control protocol. There are other activities that bear watching in the future as well. Poultry farming and Pipelines are just two, that if not done properly could endanger clean water and other natural resources of the Basin.
This, of course, is nothing new for the RRBA as the advocacy mission has existed for over 7 decades starting with the building of the Dams after WW II. Previously the Roanoke River was known as “the river of death” due to major flood events causing destruction and fatalities downriver to the coast.
During all of these years it is worthy to note that the RRBA has gained many allies and affiliates that are required in order to carry out its mission. They include government agencies, other non-profit groups and municipalities all with a common interest whether by regulation or voluntary community service. While the RRBA may not be revered by all groups at times, it is clear it is respected by all as a group representing all the citizens of the Basin from the mountains of Virginia to the coast of North Carolina. As a 501 C (3) charitable organization our membership consists of many County, Cities, Towns, Businesses and Individual Citizens.
Among the groups we work with and allies and affiliates of the RRBA are:
- US Army Corps of Engineers – Wilmington District
- VA Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
- NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
- Roanoke River Basin Bi-State Commission
- US Wildlife Service
- NC wildlife Service
- VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries
- The Albemarle Commission
- The Upper Coastal Council of Governments
- The Kerr-Tar Council of Governments
- The Piedmont/Tremont Council of Governments
- Virginia Beach Public Utilities
- Vance County Dept. Of Tourism
- Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District
- Henry County Public Service Authority
- The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)
- Duke Law and Environmental Clinic
Other 501 (C) Organizations
- The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
- Dan River Basin Association (DRBA)
- Roanoke River Partners
- Lake Gaston Chamber of Commerce
- We the People of Virginia
- Hands Across the Lake
- Kerr Lake Park Watch
- Virginia Coalition – Against Mining Uranium
- NC Coalition – Against Mining Uranium
- Upper Reach Program
I believe you would agree that this is an impressive list and I apologize if I neglected any group. Also, worthy to note at this current time are two important activities on-going:
- As a result of the 2014 Coal Ash spill in the Dan River, the RRBA is engaged in an intervention suit filed on our behalf by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC). It intervenes in a suit brought about by NC DENR against Duke Energy in order to get remediation in a number Coal Ash Sites in NC. Among those are Hyco Lake and Lake Mayo in the Roanoke Basin. We are intervening due to the fact that we believe the remedies being sought by DENR are not sufficient to protect our rivers and lakes from further coal ash contamination. We seek removal of all coal ash from the sites on our rivers and lakes to adequately lined storage facilities away from our waters. The intervention action has just concluded the discovery phase and so far, we have made good progress in that regard. Also, as a result of discovery we have disclosed a number of violations of the Federal Clean Water Act by Duke Energy at Hyco Lake near Roxboro. Duke is dumping coal ash pollutants from that site into tributaries flowing into the Dan River and Kerr Lake. This is in violation of Federal permitting and this week in our behalf the SELC has filed an intent to sue in the Federal Court notifying both Duke Energy and NC DENR.
- Relative to Uranium Mining in south Virginia we have partnered with many allies such as the Uranium Ming Working Group, Virginia and NC Coalition, the SELC and others to successfully stop actions by Virginia Uranium Inc. (VUI) to get the current ban on uranium mining lifted by the commonwealth of VA. While VUI continues to file suit against the Commonwealth they have been unsuccessful to date. We remain diligent in this regard.
A few words on the Upper Reach Program as a major activity of the RRBA. Over many years, it seemed like all our efforts and expenditures were aimed at preventing and mitigating bad things for the Basin by whistleblowing, advocacy and legal actions at times. Then a few years ago, Scott Murray, current Director of the Upper Reach Program, contacted us and proposed conducting activities that did good things for the Basin. To me it was a godsend.
Since inception the UR has developed launch ramps, paddle and hiking trails mapping and signage of greenways and blue ways, conducted outdoor excursions and geo-caching, wildlife enhancements and educational programs. Gaining Federal and Commonwealth grants UR has constructed world class Launch Ramps (handicapped and wounded warrior accessible) both at the spillway below the Kerr Lake Dam, downriver at the US 1 Steel Bridge site, as well as a ramp on the Andrew Lester access at Leggett’s Bottom on the Dan River. These projects have received Federal and Municipal awards and there are more coming. The RRBA is proud to have the UR a crucial part of its mission and purpose.
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Fera is part of a new project (BIPESCO), funded under the LWEC Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Initiative, which will develop entomopathic fungi (EPF) and botanicals to control insect pests that are a major problem in forestry and tree nurseries, and an emergent threat to trees and human health. Botanicals (essential oils, extracts or plant derivatives) with attractant or repellent properties will be used alone or with EPF in novel pest control strategies.
EPFs are considered natural mortality agents and environmentally safe, and there is worldwide interest in their use and manipulation for biological control of insects and other arthropod pests. Attractant compounds will also be used to improve pest monitoring and deployed in mass trapping programmes. The project is a collaboration between University of Swansea, Fera and Forest Research (Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian).
Pest control is still heavily dependent upon the use of chemical insecticides, but pressure is increasing to develop environmentally friendly products and strategies. Key drivers include the EC-wide withdrawal of 67% of pesticides, public concerns regarding the risks posed by chemical pesticides to human health and the environment, increasing incidence of resistance developing in pest populations, and EU legislation.
Fera scientists will be contributing expertise in insect physiology (including insect immunology, biochemistry, proteomics, molecular biology, insect culturing and bio-assays), and the preparation and utilization of insect pathogens. Fera also has state-of-the-art insect quarantine facilities and a strong record in the development of more benign, sustainable and novel strategies for insect pest control based on disruption of essential physiological processes within the target pests. | <urn:uuid:c5ea414d-b0ca-4c35-839d-0b96357ddfbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://proarbmagazine.com/pest-control-insects-threaten-tree-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.924666 | 347 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Create a relationship first and ensure they resonate along with your core values. I once met a coach whom I thought was terrific. Unfortunately I found she employed some shady enterprise maneuvers. At an event, she was secretly going to others and telling them not to work with so and so, because she was so significantly better. It did not sit nicely with me. Who wants a catty coach?
You need to retire or hand on your business to your family What does this actually imply? What you’ve carried out or what has occurred prior to now – is simply that – the previous! Rising a business is about utilizing the past as your basis but looking forward to new prospects and new opportunities.
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Employers can considerably reduce the sum of money they spend on an worker’s medical insurance plan by using plans with high deductibles, which make sure that their workers are protected in case of major sickness or harm. Moreover, deductibles place many of the annual bills on the employee, with the employer serving as backup in case of life threatening sickness, expensive operations, and different expensive procedures, similar to CT Scans or MRIs.
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If being profitable in enterprise is essential to you, then there is no such thing as a different but to take advertising very severely indeed, and to teach your self to change into very, very good at it. Frankly, the level of promoting experience I see from most small enterprise house owners is embarrassing. Gross sales training can teach colleagues exterior of your sales management staff the importance of
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E-Evaluation in virtual environments: automated versus personalized methodologies
Stephen Beaumont, Argentina, ID LLCE2016-280; When designing any educational process, we must analyze all the variables involved in this process: curriculum design, didactic transposition, the learning environment, evaluation methodologies, etc. In particular, evaluation methodology is a key component and as such we must analyze it and try to optimize it in order to achieve a feedback to keep improving this educational process. Of course, this evaluation is not only applicable to students or course participants but to all these other variables we mentioned. Therefore, we must clearly define and implement a correct evaluation methodology when designing any virtual teaching process. In the particular case of e-learning pedagogical processes, we can find a wide range of methodologies, from automated to personalized ones. To illustrate this with examples, I would like to analyze two completely different models. First we analyzed the peer review methodology, where each participant in a virtual course, to complete the assessment of each module should evaluate at least a determined number of works from their peers. This methodology is popular in one particular scenario which is not present (at least in equal dimensions) in classroom teaching processes. This is the possibility of including, within one particular course, an enormous number of participants which would be impossible even to imagine in a classroom teaching process. This is where the concept of “mass education” appears, and with it, the concept of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). On the other hand, we can see the results of personalized methodologies, in which the main instructor or a coordinator or assistant interacts directly with each student and performs feedback on each of the work, inquiries or suggestions from them.
Keywords: Educational process, e-learning, mass education
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|Session Name:||Lighting a Legend: Art Pipelines in 'Hold The World' with Sir David Attenborough|
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|Overview:||'Hold The World' (A Factory 42 production for Sky TV), is an interactive VR experience with Sir David Attenborough. This session takes developers through how Dream Reality Interactive combined several leading edge technologies to create a photorealistic one-to-one with a TV legend. This includes world class volumetric capture of Attenborough from Microsoft, photogrammetry environments from Alter Equals and highly detailed scanned objects from The Natural History Museum and The Mill. We will reveal the challenges faced by the art team along the way including lighting, interactivity and getting the balance right between a game ready asset and a scientifically approved model.This talk will be a high level look at how to use assets from different sources and combine them using pragmatic methods into a coherent VR experience. This includes working with fantastic specimens captured using a variety of scan types including LIDAR and CT, adapting for both mobile and tethered VR platforms, and developing pipelines to create a final, stunning visual result.| | <urn:uuid:f1077ab8-551c-4772-8dca-66e9159901ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025583/Lighting-a-Legend-Art-Pipelines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.88894 | 318 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Water supply scheme to Kohima near completion
Kohima, March 28 (EMN): Under the water supply schemes, the scheme for augmentation of water supply to the State capital is being taken up under 90:10 funding under the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.
PHED in its annual administrative reports 2016-17 said the project involves pumping of water from Zarü stream at Kigwema village through two stages of pumping. From the reservoir, water will be conveyed to the State capital by gravity.
The design capacity of the project is 3.80 million litres daily. It said 95% of the works have been completed, and the completion of the project has been re-scheduled to 2017-18 taking account the delay in release of funds.
Augmentation of water supply to Kohima town phase-II from sources of Southern Angami villages and augmentation of water supply to Zunheboto town –phase II both under negotiated loan has commenced from 2016-17.
Meanwhile, the department has undertaken State funded scheme for improvement of water distribution system in Dimapur town.The main feature of the scheme, it said, is to provide better water supply coverage and service to consumers which are expected to generate more revenue for the State by way of improving equitable water distribution.
Earlier in his budget speech, chief minister Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu, minister-in-charge Finance, expressed happiness to note that the project for augmentation of water supply to the capital town of Kohima is finally being put in place.
The project, he said, will be inaugurated during the month of April 2017 and hopes to bring much relief to the residents of the capital city, especially during the lean season.
Rs 212.98 cr on meat import
The State imported animal husbandry products worth of Rs 212.98 crores as per the Sample Survey Report of 2015-16 given in the annual administrative report of the Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services.
The State produces only 52% of the total requirement worth Rs 116.40 crores leaving a shortfall of 48%. On the bright side, the year 2015-16 shows the decline in import quantum as compared to 2001-02 when the import of animal husbandry products stands at Rs 375.00 crores.
The per capita availability shows 64% achievement in terms of meat and 68% in milk respectively.
40,972 deletions in electoral roll
During the National Electoral Rolls Purification (NERP) 2016, Election Department has deleted 40, 972 voters from the electoral list, while a total of 27,357 additions were made.
While 22,339 errors were corrected, about 7063 duplicate voters were removed, 13,661 ASD (Absent/shifted/Dead) voters identified and deleted and 1043 dead voters were identified and deleted based on registered death records.
As per the population projected in 2017 out of the 2,17,3184 population, the Final Photo Electoral Roll (PER) identified a total of 1,13,8215 about 52% (male- 5,77,793 and female- 5,60,422) as electorate population during the special summary Revision of Electoral Roll 2017.
19,024 visit State museum
During the year 2016-17, a total of 19,024 persons with entry ticket visited the State museum generating a revenue of Rs 1,27,000 and Rs 38,910 fee realised from photography.
The State museum also received 6 VVIPs, 48 VIPs and 2922 students, police, para military forces, NCC and scouts and guides in uniform.
The State library has a total number of 56,990 books with total enrolled members of 3279 and new enrolment of 169 members
With the department of Art and Culture continuing to identify and register antiques from different corners of the State, fifteen (15) antiquities have been registered during 2016-17, adding to the present total 1895 number of antiquities registered till date.
State WWII Museum, Kisama, (20 kms from the capital) has become an attraction for visitors both domestic and international. It boasts a collection of 432 relics. The revenue generated during the year 2016-17 was Rs 1,08,400. | <urn:uuid:92e2aad0-5d41-49b6-a096-a26b106380e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://easternmirrornagaland.com/water-supply-scheme-to-kohima-near-completion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947811 | 885 | 1.53125 | 2 |
What in the Name of God is Strategic Superiority?
BARRY BLECHMAN and Robert Powell examine the nuclear warnings issued by the Eisenhower administration as part of its strategy to end the Korean War and conclude that the actual effect of these warnings is uncertain. They also stress that strategic balance in the 1980s is so fundamentally different from the balance of nuclear forces in 1953 that no valid lessons for contemporary problems may be drawn from this incident.
Congress and the Cold War, Robert David Johnson Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam, Gil Merom Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
Civil Wars and Foreign Powers: Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict, Patrick M. Regan Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
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The search for and development of new liposuction technologies and techniques has grown steadily over the past decades in order to keep pace with patients requirements and expectations for greater efficacy, safety and minimal scarring.
The 1470nm laser light beam has suitably low melanin and hemoglobin absorption for skin penetration and respectively high water and fat absorption for selective photothermolysis. The 1470nm diode laser proved to be safe and selective for laser lipolysis, with a marked reduction in the duration of the procedure and improved tolerability by patients.
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Review the 7 Domains of Success for both Strategy and roadmap to identify best practices and how to achieve them.
Create and publish a firm 6-month roadmap and softer 12-18 month list of features/integrations to deploy including the title, short description, priority, business owner, Admin team owner, dev/testing/training/deployment dates, etc.
As you begin to define and formalize key business goals and KPIs, it is important to map them to Salesforce capabilities and an implementation timeline. Hence, the overall roadmap should be reassessed and updated as these business goals/KPIs are defined.
In consulting work, we often find that the final outcome of a project is more of a work in progress and the path to get there is iterative, meaning it requires a process of repetitive steps that deliver results little by little. In work like this, the Agile process of project management comes in handy.
Agile is the umbrella term for various technical practices, principles, and values that call for flexibility with workflows and iterative changes to the product. People often think Agile is only used for software development projects, but project managers actually use Agile techniques for all sorts of project types, especially in consulting.
Sometimes project managers use another project management process, called Waterfall. This is a less flexible process in which everything is planned upfront, and each step must be completed before moving on. It’s often used when the outcome or deliverable is set in stone.
Which process you choose depends on what you know—or don’t know—when you start the project.
Plan vs. Adapt
If you’re trying to decide which process works best for you, consider this: If you’re painting a picture, and you’ve decided on your colors, your setting, how much time you’ll spend painting, and what your final piece will look like, then you’ve made little room to make changes along the way. That's not to say the painting won’t be a Picasso, but your process isn’t set up to incorporate new ideas or feedback that can change the final image (for the better, of course). That’s when you might use the Waterfall approach.
But when you paint iteratively, you can expect to make changes based on early feedback, new ideas, or even new learnings (those colors clash!) rather than painting in a planned, incremental, order. That’s the Agile approach.
The conditions a product or project must satisfy to be accepted by a user, customer, or other stakeholders.
A list of activities a team may deliver in order to achieve a specific outcome. It’s the single source for things a team works on. If it isn’t in the backlog, it doesn’t happen. Conversely, if it’s on the backlog, this doesn’t guarantee it gets delivered.
The activity of refining the backlog on a regular basis to ensure it contains the appropriate items, that they’re prioritized, and that they’re in a state of readiness to move forward.
A set of guidelines dictate everything a team is required to do before they call the work truly done.
Agile projects intentionally allow for repeating activities and for potentially revisiting the same work products.
The version of the deliverable allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validation with the least amount of effort.
The role is responsible for making sure the team delivers the desired outcome.
A type of Agile process with defined roles, meetings, and deliverables that provides the structure to deliver high-quality value to customers faster.
The role that’s responsible for making sure the team follows Agile principles, along with any practices they agree on.
A sprint is a fixed time period for a continuous development cycle. Within a sprint, a planned amount of work has to be completed by the team and made ready for review.
An event at the beginning of a sprint when teams determine the items to work on during that sprint.
Work divided up into functional increments.
The Front Office is where revenue is directly generated for your company, so ensuring you have a good process for it is important. As with anything, developing a strategy is key to success. Whether you’re a new business or an existing one, get to know your market and develop a business strategy around it. Analyze the current market, gather business intelligence, and look into marketing programs such as Partnership Growth Program or SPIFF, where salespeople are immediately rewarded through bonuses for sales.
With your business strategy developed, it is time to really delve into marketing. To make sales, customers need to know that you’re an option. Get the word out there through a marketing campaign. Advertise your business through the web, TV or radio, attend trade shows, launch email campaigns, and send mail to potential consumers. Once the word is out there, Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) should work to organize potential leads for the sales team.
Sales are next in the front office process. Use the leads that marketing has created and convert them into sales. Configure Price Quote software or CPQ, can be used to generate accurate quotes for potential customers in real-time, in order for a salesperson to have a quote readily available to convert a lead.
When a sale has been made, track that order using your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. This will help the front office process by allowing salespeople to look at existing orders when trying to keep clients or convert new leads.
As an executive, you have goals and strategies you want to be met and followed. Measuring the performance of these goals and strategies can be achieved using an executive scorecard. First, split your goals into different areas of focus such as improving your company’s brand, tracking how well the company uses its budget, or how it uses opportunities.
In each area of focus, mark what goals or strategies were implemented in that area. For example, in the Opportunities focus area, your goal was to capture 100 leads and generate $1M in revenue. Then, compare the actual results of each year to your goal. Using these results for each goal, a grade can be created for a focus area. These grades show broadly how well the company meets its goals and follows through on its strategies.
Engaging with your customers helps build brand loyalty as well as change how they feel about your business or product. Having a variety of effective customer touchpoint methods is, therefore, necessary to improve public perception of your company, its products and its brands.
As a small or medium sized business there are a variety of ways to improve and add new customer touch points. Emails can be automated to welcome new users to your product or thank them for their purchase. They can also be sent as a reminder for to renew their subscription to your services, keeping your company on their mind.
As your business grows, scale up your touch points as well. Technology makes this easier than ever to connect with your customers. Use surveys to collect feedback to both give the customer a voice, which can make them feel more welcome as a customer, and to gain valuable insight into what consumers think.
As a business development owner, you are tasked with identifying new business prospects, developing leads, contacting leads, and winning over new customers.
Generate prospects and group them into hot, warm or cold depending on how close the customer is to needing your business. A hot prospect will be in clear need of the service or product your company provides, such as having visited your website.
A cold prospect will not have had any with your company. Next, get in contact with those prospects and try to win them over as customers. Record all activities used to contact and win over customers and log your new customer in a tool such as Salesforce 1.
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Audrey Josephine CAHN
Also known as: née Osborne
Born: 17 October 1905
Died: 1 April 2008Special Achievements:
1928 - First woman to complete the newly established agriculture degree at Melbourne University.Additional Information:
Cahn's mother, a medical practitioner, was interested in nutrition, and her dietetic surveys in American hospitals led to the establishment of the first dietetics school in Victoria, St Vincent's Hospital. This created in Cahn a life-long passion for nutrition science.
She was the first woman to graduate with agriculture degree. Her first job, as a microbiologist and food analyst, was for Kraft.
After her divorce with Leslie Chan, with whom she had two children, she started working in the newly opened Dietetics unit in the St Vincent's Hospital. In the 1930s, she didn't have much opportunities of professional career in Agriculture or Science as a woman. She became the chief dietitian at the St Vincent's Hospital, and later on moved to the Victorian Mental Hygiene Department.
In 1936, Cahn was one of the founders of the Dietetics Association. In the same period, she updated her qualifications by submitting a diploma thesis for the newly established (by her father) study program at Melbourne University. The topic of her thesis was "Aspects of Hospital Dietetics".
When the World War II started, she was working in the Royal Perth Hospital. Returning to Melbourne, she joined the army on the position of chief dietitian at the Heidelberg Military Hospital, and, as such, reached the rank of major.
Cahn became a dietetics lecturer for Melbourne University in 1947. She perceived nutrition as a holistic discipline and was advocating the idea that nutrition and dietetics should be preventive medicine. With her believes, she was ahead of her time. She was a preacher for the idea that there is a need to reduce the fat intake and substitute the polyunsaturated fatty acids with saturated fats. | <urn:uuid:70280838-aa83-40dc-898a-2a3dc29e171e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wmoa.com.au/herstory-archive/cahn-audrey-josephine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.977917 | 405 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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The McLaren P1 will be able to crack 0-62mph in just 2.8sec, one of several astonishing performance figures officially confirmed by McLaren for the first time.
The new hypercar will then go from 0-124mph in 6.8sec and from 0-186mph in 16.5sec, making it one of the fastest-accelerating performance cars in history. It can cover a standing quarter of a mile in 9.8sec and a speed of 152mph, while the top speed is electronically limited to 217mph.
The figures eclipse those of the Porsche 918 Spyder, which cracks 0-62mph in 2.8sec, 0-124mph in 7.9sec, 0-186mph in 23.0sec and goes on to a top speed of 211mph.
The P1’s other great hypercar rival, LaFerrari, has only had its 0-186mph time of 15.5sec confirmed. The 0-62mph time will be “less than 3.0sec” and the 0-124mph time “less than 7.0sec”, but the top speed will not be announced “because it doesn’t matter”.
The P1’s real trump card – although one trumped itself by LaFerrari – is the 0-186mph time, which is 0.2sec faster than the Veyron Super Sport and 5.5sec quicker than the P1’s spiritual predecessor, the McLaren F1.
Official economy details of the P1, which is powered by a twin-turbo 3.8-litre V8 engine and electric motor with a combined 903bhp and 664lb ft of torque, include combined economy of 34.0mpg and 194g/km CO2 emissions. The P1 can travel up to 6.8 miles solely on electric power.
Stopping performance is equally as impressive, due to a bespoke carbon-ceramic braking system developed by Akebono and Pirelli tyres. The P1 can go from 62mph to rest in 30.2metres; the Highway Code’s suggested stopping distance from 60mph to rest is 73 metres. To stop from 124mph the P1 takes 116 metres and 246 metres from 186mph.
McLaren has also confirmed the first of 375 P1s have rolled off the line at the McLaren Production Centre in Woking. It was collected by a UK-based customer at the end of September.
Autocar has produced digital books on the McLaren P1 hypercar as well as the F1 and 12C supercars. | <urn:uuid:91c0c061-f3ce-4655-b3a1-e84eabb2b11f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/mclaren-p1-official-performance-figures-revealed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950124 | 555 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The presence of background noise in signals adversely affects the performance of many speech-based algorithms. Accurate estimation of signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), as a measure of noise level in a signal, can help in compensating for noise effects. Most existing SNR estimation methods have been developed for normal speech and might not provide accurate estimation for special speech types such as whispered or disordered voices, particularly, when they are corrupted by non-stationary noises. In this paper, we first investigate the impact of stationary and non-stationary noise on the behavior of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) extracted from normal, whispered and pathological voices. We demonstrate that, regardless of the speech type, the mean and the covariance of MFCCs are predictably modified by additive noise and the amount of change is related to the noise level. Then, we propose a new supervised method for SNR estimation which is based on a regression model trained on MFCCs of the noisy signals. Experimental results show that the proposed approach provides accurate estimation and consistent performance for various speech types under different noise conditions.
|Name||2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)|
|Conference||2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)|
|Period||15/04/18 → 20/04/18|
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Today, students typed their body paragraphs in GoogleDocs and some classes wrote their intro paragraphs.
1. Formatting. Double check to see that all of your paragraphs are color-coded according to who wrote them.
2. Finish typing body paragraphs. All body paragraphs should be typed in GoogleDocs by tomorrow at the beginning of class.
3. Intros. We reviewed intro paragraphs and read four examples. Download them here: The Introduction Paragraph.
4. Writing the intro. In 4th and 7th periods only we began writing our intro paragraphs collaboratively, choosing one option out of the four on “The Introduction Paragraph” handout.
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Watches are an item that has been around for thousands of years. They started off as sundials and evolved into the wristwatches we know today. The first known watch was created in 1510 by Peter Henlein who lived in Germany during the Renaissance period. This invention changed timekeeping forever, but it wasn’t until after World War I that they became popularized among common people. Now watches have become a staple item in every modern person’s wardrobe, whether you wear a Rolex or a Swatch!
The invention of watches is one of the most fascinating stories from history because it shows how much society has advanced over such a short period of time. Watches have come so far since their inception almost 500 years ago and will continue.
What Side Do Men Wear Watches?
When you go to buy a watch, what side do the hands point to? If your answer is that it doesn’t matter because they’re just watches, then you need this blog post. The placement of a watch can mean something different for men and women. For one thing, when to buy the watch for someone else, knowing where they prefer their timepiece can help in choosing the perfect present.
Who Invent The Watches?
What is the point of a watch? Is it to tell time? Yes, but there is more to it than that. Watches have been around for centuries and have evolved from being just a tool for telling time into a fashion statement. What started as an invention by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 has now become one of the most popular accessories today. In this blog post we will explore who invented watches and how they have changed over time. In the early 17th century, there was a man named Peter Henlein who invented a watch. The first models were made of brass and had a large face with metal hands. Watches have been around for centuries, but the first timepiece inventor is still unknown to this day. What we do know is that these little pieces of machinery are here to stay! | <urn:uuid:86da3cc1-3d03-4cc1-8d5a-4680f2191515> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.latestblogpost.com/when-were-watches-invented/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.984472 | 420 | 2.21875 | 2 |
There are many books and resources about Pascal out there, but too many of them talk about the old Pascal, without classes, units or generics.
So I wrote this quick introduction to what I call modern Object Pascal. Most of the programmers using it don’t really call it “modern Object Pascal”, we just call it “our Pascal”. But when introducing the language, I feel it’s important to emphasize that it’s a modern, object-oriented language. It evolved a lot since the old (Turbo) Pascal that many people learned in schools long time ago. Feature-wise, it’s quite similar to C++ or Java or C#.
- It has all the modern features you expect — classes, units, interfaces, generics…
- It’s compiled to a fast, native code,
- It’s very type safe,
- High-level but can also be low-level if you need it to be.
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Come on a journey this summer. Experience the magic of a timeless Indian tale – Mahabharat. Meaningful art company, eARTHkala returns to The Civic in Barnsley to perform a tale of heroes, jealousy and battle told through Indian and Western dance styles.
Set in Ancient India, Mahabharat is a story of five heroic brothers and their fight to claim the throne. After a childhood spent learning and playing with their cousins, jealousy splits apart the family as they fight for their rightful place on the throne. An epic battle begins!
In their journey through life, they learn the strength of love and brotherhood and the futility of anger and war.
The colourful and timeless epic is told through a fusion of vibrant Indian classical, folk and western dance styles.
Special Indian dance workshops will be held this summer to accompany the show. Children aged 8-16 will have the chance to experience vibrant Indian dance styles along with ballet and modern dance.
In the workshops young people will learn from a highly talented and professional team, work towards their ‘Arts Award’ certificate and have the chance to perform before a public audience all while being inspired, making new friends and having fun. After the workshops children will get the chance to perform in the show at The Civic on 9 September.
Mahabharat is at The Civic on Saturday 9 September 2017 at 6:00pm. Tickets are £14 full price and £10 concessions.
Recommended for ages 3+
Workshops will take place on 24 July – 26 July and 31 July – 4 August from 9.30am – 3.30pm
£75 – 1 week | £130 – 2 weeks (Limited Bursaries Available)
For more information about workshops please contact Vrata Chigateri on [email protected]
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Critical Reflection on Ableism
Assignment 1: Personal/Professional Learning Journal
During the semester, students will be exposed to various ideas and experiences of others that may be challenging to their worldview and personal beliefs or values. As developing critical self-awareness is a major objective of the course, this assignment is designed to help students consider reactions/responses they have to assigned readings and classroom experiences. Each student will complete 4 journals to be turned in as indicated on the course outline and the schedule listed below:
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Journal entries are expected to demonstrate self-analysis based on thoughtful reflection and critical self-assessment. Simply stated, the point of this assignment is to turn “the eye inward” and conduct an honest self-assessment. The journal entries will be graded on students’ ability to thoughtfully reflect about their reactions/responses and walk themselves through this process. Students’ journals will be kept private, meaning that they will only be read by the instructor. However, at the instructor’s discretion, they may be shared with the program director if there is a concern for issues related to students’ academics, adherence to the code of ethics, and/or professional behaviors.
Journals should be approximately 2-4 pages, typed, double-spaced, with citations as appropriate. They will be assessed based on the following criteria:
Evidence of advanced level of reflection, providing thoughtful, critical, and honest self-reflection and analysis; focal areas, those more important to the assignment purpose, have been identified with “FOCUS” after the prompt.
Integration of assigned readings and class activities in reflection
Ability to produce a well-organized journal, within the standards set in the APA 7th edition style manual, with no grammatical errors
Please note – The journal assignments are designed to encourage self-analysis and critical reflection. This does not mean, though, that journals must include “negative” assessments or biases. Students are not required to hold or support specific points of view; however, students are expected to maintain professional standards as set forth in the NASW Code of Ethics. Questions or concerns should be addressed with the instructor.
CRITICAL REFLECTION JOURNALS (Journals 1, 2, and 4)
Each journal focused on critical reflection must include your reactions/responses/
Please follow the prompts below:
Briefly, in one or two paragraphs, describe the initial incident.
For example: is your reflection based on an experience in class? From your past? An interaction you witnessed or participated in? If the connection is unclear, please explain how this initial incident links to the course contents.
What was your immediate reaction to the selected topic/assigned readings/class activities? Has your reaction changed? If so, how?
What do you think influenced your immediate reaction? How might your reaction been different from others connected to the initial incident?
For example: can you connect your reaction to previous personal or professional experiences? Family or cultural heritage? Societal messages? Prejudices, biases or lack of knowledge/exposure?
Is there anything you have newly learned in relation to the selected topic? If so, how would or did this affect your perspectives/beliefs/value, etc. toward the selected topic? (FOCUS)
What strengths/limitations would you identify for yourself, based on your reflections and how might these strengths/limitations affect your social work practice? How would you strengthen or improve the identified strengths/limitations as it relates to your profession as a social worker? (FOCUS)
Because the focus of the critical reflection journals may encompass a wide array of experiences students are encouraged to expand or modify the prompts above to accommodate their learning. Should any journal entry deviate markedly from the format above, please consider seeking the input of the course instructor.
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The purpose of this study is to explore teachers’ responses to cross-district professional development created by their principals in a multi-district, rural, small-community setting.
This study is guided by the following questions: What benefits, if any, accrue for teachers from professional development that intentionally incorporates a multi-district focus? In what ways does this professional development benefit from support from cross-district, Tribal, and university partners? In particular, this study examines the extent to which cross-district collaboration benefits teachers in developing and presenting culturally relevant science lessons. In addition, the current study is inextricably connected to the setting in which the study occurred: two small, rural school districts that are deeply influenced by their proximity to and relationship with a Native American Tribe and its culture.
Funded by a 21st Century Consortium Grant, Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education and Huxley College of the Environment, in collaboration with the Swinomish Tribe, formed a partnership with the La Conner and Concrete School Districts to immerse K-12 teachers and principals in the Since Time Immemorial (STI) curriculum (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2012). The Concrete School District is situated near the headwaters of the Skagit River in northwest Washington State; the LaConner School District rests near the point where the Skagit River meets Salish Sea. Historically the Swinomish and Upper Skagit Tribes have relied on fishery in the Skagit River as a major source of cultural identity and a vital part of the Tribes’ food supply. In keeping with the aims of the partnership, participating principals guided teachers in collaborative professional development to create science lessons focusing on topics such as salmon recovery, tideland impacts, and water use in the “Science and the Swinomish” project.
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Reflexology Woodbridge Suffolk (IP12): When your ongoing health problems cannot be solved by simply taking some aspirin you don't need to stress. It could be you ought to try out something different, maybe one of the alternative therapies like might help you out more. An alternative therapy that is being employed successfully in Suffolk and all around the globe, reflexology is helping large numbers of folks with their health problems.
While there are numerous health benefits which can be acquired through reflexology techniques, it should not be thought to be an alternative for traditional medicine. It can be employed in combination with standard National Heath treatment options as a type of double whammy solution to your complaint. You'll be able to figure out if this type of treatment will help with your condition by tracking down a professional reflexologist to chat with.
What is Reflexology?
In places like India, China, Japan and Egypt therapies which were comparable to reflexology have been practiced for many centuries. The reduction of pain by applying pressure to certain areas of the body (particularly the hands and feet), is a concept of reflexology which has been adopted over the centuries by different peoples and civilizations. During the early 1900's the contemporary variation of reflexology was created, largely owing to the hard work of Doctor William H Fitzgerald. His practices were further expanded on during the nineteen thirties by physiotherapist and nurse Eunice Ingham (1889 - 1974), who mapped the feet.
is a holistic alternative and complementary method of treatment that works by harmonizing the natural through the body to reach balance, wellness and thus help in healing processes. The general notion is that it's upon the feet and hands that a reflexologist solely works. This isn't exactly true however, as there are also energy pathways in the face, ears, lower leg and hands, so these areas can also be worked on to obtain pain relief. During the reflexology treatment, is applied to certain zones of the body to reposition the energy pathways.
Reflexologists use their magic touch to relieve a range of ailments such as: maternity ailments, irritable bowel syndrome, sleeping disorders such as insomnia, back pain, sports injuries, bladder problems, period pain, headaches, pain in the joints and panic attacks. To find out precisely what might be done for you, get hold of your local Woodbridge reflexology practitioner and explain your ailments, since there are disorders that can be alleviated other than the ones in the list above.
By responding to questions on your heath, diet and lifestyle and providing your full patient record, a course of treatment will be prepared by the therapist. The objective is to deliver a plan of treatment that is specifically formulated for you, and these information allow them to do this. Your reflexologist will want to make clear all of the details of your treatment plan and exactly how it will alleviate your condition, they will also be able to answer any worries and questions that you might have regarding the procedure.
It needs to be stressed that your Woodbridge reflexologist will not diagnose conditions or provide you with professional medical advice as this is outside of their remit and terms of service. Prior to seeking treatment from a reflexologist or in fact any other holistic or alternative practitioner, you must invariably seek seek medical advice from your G.P. If it is the opinion of your doctor that treatment by a reflexologist might help, then this can be used alongside conventional procedures. As you move forward with your reflexology healing, you must keep your G.P up-to-date with the outcome.
Every practicing reflexologist needs to have proper insurance and be a member of a professional organization, for example the British Reflexology Association (BRA) or the(AOR). To officially practice reflexology they should have a minimum of a Level 3 Diploma in Reflexology and . The treatment of patients in the British Isles isn't allowed if they have not received this specific Diploma.
Reflexology treatments can be found in Woodbridge and also in nearby places like: Eyke, Ufford, Clopton, Grundisburgh, Sutton, Waldringfield, Pettistree, Hasketon, Martlesham, Burgh, Melton, Great Bealings, Little Bealings, Bromeswell, Bredfield, Newbourne, Martlesham Heath, and in these postcodes IP12 1EA, IP12 4EL, IP12 1EQ, IP12 4BF, IP12 1DS, IP12 4BU, IP12 1HW, IP12 1BX, IP12 4EA, IP12 1FE. Locally based Woodbridge reflexologists will most likely have the dialling code 01394 and the postcode IP12. Verifying this will ensure that you access local providers of reflexology. Woodbridge residents will be able to benefit from these and lots of other related services.
Even though in the UK, hand reflexology isn't as widely used as the traditional foot reflexology, it is equally as effective. In a similar way to the feet, the hands have got reflex zones which correspond with the glands and organs, manipulating them will enhance blood circulation and relax and rebalance your body. A hand treatment could be extremely effective even though the reflex points are far deeper and the hands are not so sensitive as the feet. It is possible to use hand reflexology procedures either on their own or along with other reflexology therapies.
Facial Reflexology Woodbridge
Reflexology dates back to ancient Egypt, but it is really only since the 1980's that facial reflexology was introduced. Facial reflexology is a non-invasive, holistic treatment which uses specific pressure zones in the face to encourage energy flow to regions of the body.
The method calls for light massage over the whole face, with soothing strokes that head up towards the ears and hairline. A lot of people in Woodbridge treat facial reflexology as a kind of natural facelift, as it is also proven to have a beneficial effect on the muscles and skin of the face.
This treatment has also been proven to be particularly effective for sleeping disorders and insomnia, based on some scientific studies carried out in the US. The lowering of anxiety, improved blood circulation and the easing of muscular tension that are achieved by facial reflexology are all associated with an improvement in sleep patterns.
The advancement of current reflexology therapy has involved a number of people including: Eunice Ingham, Doreen Bayly, Dwight Byers, Dr Edwin F. Bowers and Dr William H Fitzgerald M.D (1872 - 1942).
How Soon Does it Take Effect?
Patients will notice some improvement in their condition instantly, if not within a few minutes of receiving the procedure. Headaches and migraines often disappear right away and sinuses also often drain while the treatment is being undertaken. Patients who have edema and retain fluids will often stand up and visit the bathroom before the reflexology session is even complete due to their condition improving quickly.
Reflexology Pregnancy Woodbridge
Reflexology is an alternative therapy where a patient's hands, feet and sometimes the ears are massaged to produce a beneficial effect on various parts of the body. Throughout pregnancy, reflexology can help expectant mothers in Woodbridge to reduce the unpleasant effects of morning sickness, pelvic pain, insomnia and back pain. The anxiety and pain of childbirth can also be helped by a maternity reflexology treatment during labour.
For women who are going through pregnancy for the very first time, reflexology is a beautifully relaxing complimentary therapy which can help in pacifying the strong emotions caused by hormonal changes, and lower stress and anxiety levels. Additionally reflexology is a safe, non-pharmacological treatment treatment that can be employed at any time throughout the pregnancy. Before beginning any course of reflexology, you should discuss it with your GP or midwife, in particular if you've recently experienced vaginal bleeding, have a history of hypertension, or have been advised you could have placenta previa.
There are actually specific reflex points within the hands, face and feet that correspond to organs, systems and glands located inside the physical body, it's these reflex points that reflexology focuses on. It should not be regarded as a foot massage (which simply consists of rubbing the the feet), because it is targeted on pressure areas within the feet. What is more, these reflex points are deep down and reflexologists have to hit these points at correct and precise angles with perfect pressure, so that it is more than just a foot massage. They will commence working on the pressure points with their thumbs and fingers and also they might administer a smidgeon powder or essential oil to make the whole procedure simpler.
Around Suffolk you'll likewise find: Halesworth reflexology sessions, Lavenham reflexologists, Haughley reflexologists, Leavenheath reflexologists, East Bergholt reflexology, Bungay reflexologists, Great Waldingfield reflexology sessions, Aldeburgh reflexologists, Hitcham reflexology sessions, Ufford reflexology treatments, Wickhambrook reflexology, Claydon reflexology treatments, Saxmundham reflexology, Sudbury reflexology sessions, Risby reflexology sessions, Gislingham reflexology treatments, Rougham reflexology sessions, Reydon reflexologists, Ufford reflexology, Trimley St Mary reflexology, Hitcham reflexology treatments, Pakenham reflexology, Red Lodge reflexology sessions, Sutton reflexology sessions.
A certified Woodbridge reflexologist will offer a wide range of therapies and treatments to help with a whole host of medical ailments. They will be able to assist you with reflexology for, reflexology for constipation in Woodbridge, palm reflexology Woodbridge, reflexology to help , for migraines, reflexology for women, reflexology for kidney disease, hand reflexology for pcos, facelift reflexology, digestion reflexology Woodbridge, in Woodbridge, infertility reflexology Woodbridge, reflexology for , reflexology for , reflexology for tennis elbow, reflexology for stress in Woodbridge, insomnia reflexology Woodbridge, for sciatica, reflexology for dizziness, reflexology for indigestion, ear reflexology Woodbridge, for nausea in Woodbridge, reflexology for in Woodbridge, reflexology for chronic back pain, pregnancy reflexology to induce labour in Woodbridge, reflexology for sporting injuries in Woodbridge, , reflexology for endometriosis in Woodbridge, reflexology for heartburn in Woodbridge, reflexology for allergies Woodbridge, reflexology for relaxation, reflexology for babies, baby , for lymph drainage, pregnancy reflexology Woodbridge, and numerous other reflexology related treatments. These are just a selection of the tasks that are conducted by those specialising in reflexology. Woodbridge professionals will keep you informed about their full range of reflexology services.
Reflexology Enquiries Suffolk
Recently posted Suffolk reflexology client enquiries: Emanuel Sanderson from Wrentham, Suffolk needed to arrange some reflexology treatments for anxiety. Audrey Bright from Beccles, Suffolk was looking to arrange some reflexology treatments for dizziness. Catherine Barnes from Kedington, Suffolk needed to book some reflexology sessions for tennis elbow. Sumaya Reeve from Kessingland, Suffolk was looking to book some reflexology treatments for menstrual cramps. Juliette Bowles from Onehouse needed maternity reflexology. Wiktoria Long from Mildenhall was asking about scheduling some reflexology treatments for heartburn. Ameera Howes in Horringer wanted to try maternity reflexology. Kaison Redfern in Rickinghall, Suffolk needed to book some reflexology treatments for heartburn.
Also here.: Grundisburgh reflexology, Melton reflexology, Newbourne reflexology, Waldringfield reflexology, Hasketon reflexology, Little Bealings reflexology, Ufford reflexology, Burgh reflexology, Clopton reflexology, Eyke reflexology, Martlesham reflexology, Great Bealings reflexology, Bromeswell reflexology, Sutton reflexology, Martlesham Heath reflexology, Pettistree reflexology, Bredfield and more. All these villages and towns are covered by those who do reflexology. Woodbridge residents can get reflexology price quotes by going
Reflexologist Help, Information and Social Media
You can take a look at the Wikipedia webpage to learn info regarding an explanation of reflexology, the success of reflexology treatments, UK regulations concerning reflexology, the history of reflexology and the claimed mechanics of reflexology. To discover reflexology pictures and related social media promotion check this out. If you are keen on a career in reflexology you are able to learn about current reflexologist opportunities in Woodbridge, the ways by which become a reflexologist in Woodbridge, working environments, the day by day duties of reflexologists, the professional bodies associated with reflexologists, the normal working hours for a reflexologist, how to obtain a reflexologist apprenticeship in Woodbridge, the skills and knowledge required to be a reflexologist in Woodbridge, restrictions and requirements, career prospects and pathways for reflexologists in Woodbridge and the necessary qualifications needed for university or college courses, by visiting the National Careers website. To learn more about reflexology foot charts check this out. Get a step by step You Tube step by step guide on reflexology here To look for recommended and accredited reflexologists in Woodbridge you could head off to the Association of Reflexology.
People in the following Woodbridge areas recently had reflexology sessions: Bullard's Lane, Bilney Road, Barton Road, Sutton Close, St John's Hill, Hamblin Road, Beresford Drive, Seckford Street, Girton Close, Lady Margaret Gardens, Cemetery Lane, Ransom Road, Cumberland Street, Conach Road, Fitzgerald Road, Gonville Close, Vicarage Hill, Warren Hill Road, Theatre Street, Briarwood Road, Grove Road, St Edmunds Close, Crown Place, Oxford Drive, Quay Side, as well as folks with the following postcodes: IP12 1EA, IP12 4EL, IP12 1EQ, IP12 4BF, IP12 1DS, IP12 4BU, IP12 1HW, IP12 1BX, IP12 4EA, IP12 1FE. People in these places recently asked about reflexology. Woodbridge residents received reliable and top notch reflexology services on each occasion.
Choice of further reading: Sole Guidance (Holly Tse), Trigger Points: Use the Power of Touch to Live Life Pain-Free, Language of the Feet: What Feet Can Tell You, Crystal Wands: For Massage Therapy, Reflexology, and Energy Medicine (Ewald Kliegel), Reflexology: Health at Your Fingertips (Barbara Kunz and Kevin Kunz), Reflexology: The Definitive Practitioner's Manual, Reflexology for Fertility: A Practitioners Guide to Natural and Assisted Conception (Barbara Scott).
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Our idea when creating this article was to answer a couple of of the most common concerns that prospective reflexology patients often ask when they are looking to receive treatment, like "where can I locate a reflexologist near Woodbridge?", "what experience does a reflexologist need to practice?", "what is reflexology?" and "what can be cured by reflexology?". If we've done our job properly, we will have given you an insight into just what reflexology is about, and satisfied most of your questions.
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Skilled worker shortage – Problems occupying open posts
More and more companies are struggling to find qualified professionals
This is a problem that can inhibit economic growth. While the study results in Germany report 260,000 job vacancies due to lack of skilled workers, the demand for skilled workers in domestic companies is 160,000.
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Health Canada has approved the use of an antibody drug developed by Vancouver company AbCellera Biologics to help treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19.
The move comes as AbCellera — which has formed a partnership with U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly to produce and distribute the drug — revealed last Friday that it planned to go public on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol ABCL.
In a prepared statement, AbCellera founder and chief executive Carl Hansen said Health Canada had granted authorization for the use of bamlanivimab to treat people over the age of 12 with mild and moderate COVID-19 symptoms who were at high risk of the disease progressing.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency-use authorization for bamlanivimab on Nov. 9. Lilly anticipates manufacturing one million doses before the end of the year, and has already reached a deal with the U.S. government for 300,000 doses.
AbCellera is entitled to receive a specified percentage of proceeds that Lilly receives from these sales.
“As a Canadian company, we are proud to contribute to the global fight against COVID-19 and hope our efforts will help people in Canada and around the world in the face of this medical emergency,” said Hansen, a former UBC professor who owns 26 per cent of the private company.
According to Bloomberg News, AbCellera is expected to be worth several billion dollars after it is publicly listed.
Eli Lilly struck a deal with AbCellera last March to co-develop antibody drugs to treat and prevent COVID-19, using Abcellera’s technology that quickly identifies immune cells that can be replicated and used to attack infections.
AbCellera researchers used a blood sample from one of the earliest COVID-19 survivors from the U.S. to get their work started.
The company’s antibody discovery platform provides “lab-on-a-chip” technology to help biopharmaceutical companies identify next-generation drug candidates.
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Home » WOU Community Health + Polk County COVID-19 Project » COVID-19 Project Outreach and Engagement
COVID-19 Project Outreach and Engagement
We work to engage with community members and provide the information they need to stay safe during the pandemic. Our team attends multiple outreach events where we provide contact tracing and COVID-19 safety guidelines information, as well as safety supplies for the community.
Our Community Outreach Events
April 22, 29, & 26, 2022:Polk County Library Events
February 11, 18, 25 & March 4, 2022:WOU Gentle House Vaccine Clinic
Jan 25, & Feb 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2022: Polk County Fairgrounds Vaccine Clinic
Our team co-hosted and supported the Polk County Fairground Vaccine clinics. 92 vaccines were distributed on January 25.
January 27 & February 17, 2022:Ash Creek Annex Vaccine Clinic
January 21, 2022: FHDC Vaccine Clinic
Our team co-hosted and supported the FHDC Vaccine Clinic. Over 84 vaccines were distributed.
November 19, 2021: Monmouth/Indy Health Fair
Our team hosted a vaccine event and distributed 287 vaccines! A hot meal and educational materials were also provided.
November 9, 2021: Ella Curran Food Bank
Our team distrubted safety materials and survyed familes to ask questions about Covid-19, vaccines, and our Family Thrive Kits.
October 11, 2021: Oregon Public Health Association: Poster Session
Our team presented two posters at the Oregon Public Health Association this year to highlight our work with the bilingual Family Thrive Kits and the Data Briefs.
September 11 & October 2, 2021: Family Building Blocks Vaccine Event
June 29 / July 2, 3, & 21, 2021: Central High School Vaccine Clinic
June 2, 2021: WOUWOU Vaccine Incentive Table Eventon WOU Campus
May 27, 2021: Academic Excellence Showcase Plenary Session
Our team presented at the Academic Excellence Showcase Plenary Session and shared the many things our team has accomplished as well as lessons learned.
May 27, 2021: Academic Excellence Showcase: Poster Session
Our team presented two posters at the Academic Excellence Showcase this year to highlight major parts of our project.
MAY 19, 2021:Latinx Family Spring Newsletter and Kit Distribution
We distributed 1,000 newsletters and vegetable starting kits to families in Polk County.
April 24, 2021:Polk County Free Clinic Event
March 12, 2021: Older adult kit & family thrive kit distribution at the Grand Ronde Food Pantry
March 5, 2021:Older adult winter newsletter distribution
We distributed over 1,000 older adults newsletters and 120 flower starting kits to individuals all over Polk County.
January 28, 2021: Monmouth / Independence Rotary Club Meeting
We shared updates about our project and discussed information regarding vaccines and the new COVID-19 variant.
January 22, 2021: Family kit distribution at the Grand Ronde Food Pantry
December 29, 2020: Volunteering at Testing Event at Polk County Fairgrounds
December 11, 2020: Food box distribution at Ash Creek Elementary
October 27, 2020: Rotary Club Meeting
We shared updates about our project and talked about general COVID-19 information and contact tracing.
October 24, 2020: Public health screenings
Our team provided child and adult reusable and disposable face masks to Polk county members. We also distributed educational handouts and educated community members on contact tracing and general COVID-19 information.
September 21, 2020: Salem Dream Center
Our team provided hand soap, masks, and activities for children to Polk County members. We also shared informational handouts while educating county members about contact tracing and general COVID-19 knowledge.
August 6, 2020: Rotary Club Meeting
We shared updates about our project and talked about general COVID-19 information and contact tracing.
April 23, 2022:Fam Jam 2022 Event
April 18-22, 2022:Polk County COVID-19 Hotline Door Hanger Distribution
February 4 & 25, 2022:OCDC Vaccine Events
Our team co-hosted and supported the OCDC Vaccine Clinics. 20 vaccines were distributed on February 4th.
January 28 & February 18, 2022:Dallas High School Vaccine Clinic
January 16 & February 16, 2022:Walker Middle School Vaccine Clinic
December 10, 2021: Monmouth/Indy Health Fair
Our team hosted our second vaccine event and distrubted 503 vaccines! Food boxes and educational materials were also provided.
November 16, 2021: FHDC
Our team distributed safety materials and surveyed families to ask questions about Covid-19, vaccines, and the Family Thrive Kits at the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation.
October 19 & 21, 2021: Salem Dream Center
Our team distributed Family Thrive kits, and surveyed families to ask questions about Covid-19, vaccines, and the thrive kits.
October 11, 2021: Oregon Public Health Association: Panel Presentation
Our team presented a panel presentation at OPHA to highlight our project, the needs of entry level public health workers through the lens of the Polk County Health Department, and our preliminary results of student exit surveys.
October 8, 2021: Volunteer at Smith Fine Arts Series
Our team volunteered at the WOU Smith Fine Arts Series event to check vaccination status of participants.
August-September, 2021:Fall Latinx Family Thrive Kit Distribution
We distributed 725 newsletters and kits to families in Polk County.
June 15, 2021:Latinx Family Thrive Kit Distribution to the Central School District
We distributed an additional 80 newsletters and kits for a Spanish speaking Family Event at Central School District.
June 1, 2021: Our team presented about our project and the federal aid student receive through three rounds of federal COVID relief to the House Education Committee.
May 28, 2021:Latinx Family & Older Adult Newsletter Distribution in Grand Ronde
MAY 19, 2021:Older Adult spring newsletter and kit distribution
We distributed over 1,000 newsletters and 200 rock painting kits to individuals all over Polk County.
May 14, 2021: OSU Class Presentation
Our team did a presentation and activity on health literacy and communication for a Spanish “Salud y Migración” OSU class taught by Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos.
April/May, 2021: WOU Student Vaccine Campaign
Our team distributed many educational resources throughout the WOU Community to educate students on COVID-19 vaccines and encourage students to get vaccinated.
April 9, 2021: 2021Vaccine door hangers county wide distribution
March 11, 2021:Family kit distribution
500 family kits were distributed to twelve community partners in Polk County.
February 5, 2021: La Junta Comunitaria
A few of our team members gave a presentation during a Spanish community meeting via zoom and Facebook live. We shared information about our project, discussed what contact tracing is and what we do to help keep our community well informed with accurate and accessible information.
January 26, 2021:Testing event at Polk County Fairgrounds
January 5, 6, & 7, 2021: WOU Athletics COVID-19 Prevention Presentation
December 18, 2020: Food box distribution at Ash Creek Elementary
December 10, 2020: Testing at Polk County Fairgrounds
October 12, 2020: Oregon Public Health Association Conference
Our team was invited to participate and present a poster in the annual Oregon Public Health Association conference, where our poster won the Outstanding Student Poster Award. Our poster shared updates about the current work of our project in the community.
September 23 – 26, 2020: WOU Move-In
We volunteered at the WOU Move-In event to complete health screenings for all students and guests moving into the residents halls.
August 26, 2020: Colonia Amistad testing event
We handed out safety supplies and educational handouts while informing Latinx community members and families about COVID-19 transmission and contact tracing information.
Populations We Serve
Latinx and K-3 Families
- The Latinx community is at greater risk for COVID-19, according to the Oregon Health Authority (2020) about 40% of COVID-19 cases are Hispanic. This population also has a lower education completion level, which is associated with lower health literacy levels and results in a lack of education or confusion around COVID-19 knowledge.
- The language barrier is one of the most frequent challenges this community faces. Limited access to materials or services in their native language leads to lack of credible and easy to understand information. This population also tends to have demanding, lower paying jobs or occupations with no benefits or supports. Individuals are unable to take time off work due to financial needs and this increases their chances of being exposed to the virus.
- Lack of health insurance, access and utilization also places this community at a higher risk for COVID-19. Even though people may be eligible for health insurance there are still factors such as distrust in the healthcare system, lack of transportation, language barriers and cultural differences that affect people’s willingness to seek care.
- The older adult population is at greater risk for a severe COVID-19 illness, especially those with pre-existing medical conditions. This risk increases with age and means that a person with COVID-19 may require hospital care or a ventilator. According to the Oregon Health Authority (2020), older adults are much more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19.
- Older adults are also more likely to be isolated during this time. Without work, restricted family visitation, and many organizations temporarily not meeting in person, older adults tend to be more isolated from the community. Isolation increases feelings of loneliness and can increase negative emotions such as stress and anxiety. We are working with this population to provide clear and current COVID-19 information, and address mental health concerns.
WOU Students, Faculty, & Staff
- Individuals ages 20-29 currently have the highest case rate of COVID-19 in Oregon. People in this age group are less likely to show symptoms of COVID-19 and therefore more likely to spread the disease. Younger adults may perceive they are at less risk and are more likely to attend social gatherings and venture into society as it reopens.
Our team is working to address the unique needs of each population and provide each community with informational materials that are culturally diverse and appropriate, to improve understanding and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Our team is working to provide appropriate COVID-19 information, increasing prevention behaviors in the community.
- COVID-19 Information for WOU students, faculty, and staff
- Polk County Health Services
- Family and Community Outreach in Polk County
- Oregon Health Authority (OHA)
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- COVID-19 Testing Locations (English & Spanish)
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Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cause several neuromuscular disorders. Frequently these mutations are heteroplasmic – i.e. mutant and wild-type molecules coexist within the same cell. It is therefore important to define the mechanisms that govern the organization, mobility and segregation of mtDNA in human cells. Using antibodies directed against DNA, mtDNA-binding proteins and other mitochondrial proteins, Manuel Rojo and co-workers have analysed the localization and dynamics of mtDNA in cultured human cells (see p. 2653). They observe that the cell's mitochondrial network possesses several hundred nucleoids, each of which contains 2-8 mtDNA molecules along with associated proteins. They then show that these exhibit a mobility similar to that of soluble mitochondrial matrix proteins and can spread efficiently into mitochondria lacking mtDNA following cell fusion. By contrast, such fusion-mediated transfer is more limited if the recipient mitochondria already contain mtDNA. This reduced mobility leads to spatial segregation of different mtDNA molecules and has significant implications for individuals who have a mixture of mutant and wild-type mtDNA molecules. | <urn:uuid:af50d0a5-2961-45f0-b8a5-34f55c3ebb37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/117/13/e1305/27587/Mitochondrial-DNA-dynamics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.926908 | 222 | 2.890625 | 3 |
With summer in full swing, now is the time to get out there and take a vacation. Whether it be a lengthy week long trip to a city or shore far distant, or a day’s drive to a “not so nearby” locale, there’s nothing like the thrill of going somewhere new. For the historically minded, vacations often involve adventures such as visiting a museum, rediscovering a National Park, or just taking a selfie with a historical marker off the highway. No matter what form they may take, vacations allow us to make our own marks and memories in places outside our everyday lives.
I’ve long said that the story of Lincoln’s assassination is told all over this nation. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been in the middle of nowhere when suddenly I find a reference to the assassination staring me right in the face. The impact of Lincoln’s death and the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth reached around the globe. Over the last week, I have been working diligently to update the Maps section of this website in order to demonstrate how far reaching it truly is. The result has been the creation of five new maps, four which cover the entirety of the United States and a fifth map representing the rest of the world. All of these maps provide the locations, a brief description and the exact GPS coordinates of different sites related in some way to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
The maps are still in the beginning stages. The 225 locations currently marked are little more than a drop in the bucket of the potential sites worldwide. Everyday, however, new sites pop into my head and I diligently research to determine their exact GPS coordinates. I’ve analyzed Civil War era maps to determine their modern counterparts, struggled with foreign languages in order to find international sites, and I have even spent hours staring at aerial pictures of cemeteries trying to determine the exact locations of specific graves. It is very slow work, but by pinpointing these sites with GPS coordinates, we can ensure that they will never be lost. The buildings and terrain around them may change but, with GPS, where they once stood can always be found.
With this in mind, I encourage you all to check out the newly updated Maps section of BoothieBarn. See if there’s something “not so nearby” that you might want to drive and see. Better yet, if you are already planning a trip somewhere, take a look and see if you’ll be passing by something assassination related. I mean what kid wouldn’t love to make a detour on their way to Disney World in order to visit a cemetery in Geneva, Florida? “Forget Cinderella’s Castle, Mommy. What I really want to see is the grave of Lewis Powell’s skull!”
So check out the Maps section here on BoothieBarn by clicking the image above. Then get out there and have yourself an assassination vacation! | <urn:uuid:bc3a217b-4c31-4522-a257-77dfa9c88794> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lincolnconspirators.com/2015/07/02/take-an-assassination-vacation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931927 | 619 | 2.21875 | 2 |
This is how these things happen. AMAZING. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that Dietrich Bonhoeffer NEVER said “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.” But it’s EVERYWHERE on the internet that he said that. But he didn’t. Who said it? Eric Metaxas. On page 486 of my Bonhoeffer book I sum up a theme of his and put it in those words. It is what I believe, but I came to put it in those words while writing my book on Bonhoeffer because it’s a theme of his. I was trying to help the reader understand Bonhoeffer’s thinking.
But Bonhoeffer NEVER EVER actually said it himself.
But the toothpaste is out of the tube and the quote is EVERYWHERE on the internet. The number of places you will find that he said that is practically infinite. Click here to see. It’s mind-blowing. So if YOU put it out there and can put your tiny piece of toothpaste back in the tube, you will be doing a service to history. Let’s see if it is POSSIBLE to correct this error immediately. Such mistakes really do a terrible disservice to history. But can you imagine how far this mistake has gone already? Let’s try and correct it as an experiment… If you put it out there, please fix it. On behalf of history and accuracy, I thank you. | <urn:uuid:9de67abd-ccb4-4f81-8ee0-1c19e5a27825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ericmetaxas.com/blog/bonhoeffer-never-said/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.953663 | 328 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Fashion style for Entrepreneurs
Because startup entrepreneurs have to take on many roles while building their companies on a shoe string budget, they sometimes end up with little or no time (and a limited budget) to attend to their style/fashion needs. Appearance makes a good part of business especially when you are still climbing up the ropes and trying to spread your tentacles in the business world. It is however important for an entrepreneur to consider the industry in which they operate while putting together their wardrobe.
Its best to keep in mind that what works for a tech entrepreneur who is constantly in meetings with investors might not necessarily work for a creative entrepreneur who attends more of networking events.
Overall, the aim is to find a fashion style that’s affordable and gives a good impression of you as an entrepreneur especially when it matters the most .
Here are 2 factors to putting together a wardrobe that works for you and fits your budget.
Fashion style for entrepreneurs
DEFINE YOUR STYLE
– COMFORT : Always have it in mind that whatever your style is, its important to be comfortable in clothes. Clothes that are not comfortable can affect your mood, esteem as well as your general well being. Ensure that whatever your style is, keeps you comfortable.
– CONFIDENCE : Even after dressing up in clothes, you must exude a level of confidence that helps you stand out in a crowd; So as you build your fashion style , remember to always step out with confidence and charisma.
– COLORS – Determine the colors that work best with your skin tone. After this you can go further to determine which of these colors are most appropriate for formal then casual outfits. Overall, the goal is to understand how to coordinate outfits color wise so you always step out looking well put together.
– PHYSIQUE – Once you understand your physique, you can easily go for clothes that are the perfect fit for the kind of body you have ; clothes that flatter your good features and minimize the appearance of your flaws.
– ACCESSORIZE – Accessories can easily be used to give outfits an edge , depending on the occasion. Having accessories (like brooches, cuff links, belts,lapels, pocket squares, glasses ,scarves, earrings….) as part of your wardrobe can help you create different looks even without owning so many clothes.
FASHION STAPLES EVERY ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD OWN
1) A well tailored fitted blazer (preferably black) – This can easily be put together nicely to achieve different formal and business casual looks.
2) Jeans (dark rinse /black)- Ladies can pair this with heels and blazers to attend networking events; men can also pair with sneakers and blazers for the same purpose.
3) Functional footwear – For women, neutral colored pumps should easily do the trick as they are comfortable, blend with other colors and are suitable for formal and business casual looks. Men can also switch up their style for meetings and networking events with the on trend fun colored socks.
4) Hand bag or briefcase – A basic handbag/briefcase should do, it does not necessarily have to be expensive but should be in very good condition ( not worn out).
5) Dresses / pencil skirt (for women) – Dresses and pencil skirts are very versatile . They can be styled differently (with or without accessories) to get a variety of business looks. Ensure the fit is right and the length not too short.
Fashion style for entrepreneurs
– Choose quality over quantity when shopping for a business wardrobe ; endeavor to buy the best quality you can afford.
– Handle your formal and business casual clothes with care especially when washing so you don’t have to replace them so often.
– Avoid clothes that are distracting and too revealing .
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A Jockey is a highly trained professional, contracted by a licensed trainer to ride their horses at public race meetings. They may race either on the flat (on a race track without obstacles) or across jumps (known as National Hunt racing). Jockys usually specialises in either flat or jump racing, although some take part in both.
You would enter the industry as an Apprentice Jockey then work with a Jockey, Trainer or Owner to become a Jockey yourself after registering and gaining experience.
Work would include:
- Planning racing strategies with the owner and trainer
- Taking advice from the trainer on tactics to suit the horse and the track
- Riding every day to train and exercise the horses
- Riding at flat or jump races at race tracks around the UK.
A Jockey would work around 40 to 45 hours a week depending on the number of races they take part in. There will be a significant amount of travelling involved as they attend races at courses throughout the UK.
The work is physically demanding, often involving early starts and late finishes.
A driving licence may be useful.
Salaries vary with experience, qualifications and between companies, but here's a guide to what you can expect.
Jockeys usually start off working as a stable hand (also known as groom), work rider or as an apprentice, doing tasks like filling hay nets, sweeping the yard, mucking out stables, grooming, feeding and watering horses, and taking horses through exercises.
A Jockey’s weight limit is about 9 stone 7lbs as a Jump Jockey and about 8 stone as a Flat Jockey.
The first step to become a Professional Jockey is to become employed on a racing yard as an Apprentice (flat racing) or Conditional Jockey (Jump Racing) and then attend training courses.
An Apprentice or Conditional Jockey receives training on the job. The trainer is responsible for choosing suitable horses to ride and deciding when riders are competent and ready to race, usually after about two years.
Apprentice /Conditional Jockeys then apply to the British Horseracing Authority for a license to ride. This includes a 5-day residential Apprentice or Conditional License course and a medical at the BRS in Newmarket or the NRC in Doncaster.
Once the license, is awarded, an apprentice or Conditional Jockey would complete the Apprenticeship at the trainer's yard. You would usually do this between the ages of 16 and 25 (27 for racing over jumps), after which you can become a Professional Jockey.
To keep the license, Jockeys then need to continue their development by taking a 4-day Apprentice or Conditional Continuation course and an advanced Apprentice or Conditional course.
What experienced workers can do
- Identifying, planning and setting programmes to improve your technical skills, physical capabilities and sporting commitments
- Recognise signs of equine illness and deliver basic health care treatment to horses
- Introduce young horses to equipment for the schooling of racehorses
- Ride racehorses to improve performance
- Assist with designing training programmes for racehorses
- A high level of skill in riding and handling horses
- Maintaining the health and well-being of equines.
Personal qualities you should have
- The ability to work well with others
- Good eyesight and fast reaction speeds
- Determination and dedication
- Fitness, strength and stamina.
There are more than 550 racing stables around the country, mainly in rural areas. Employment prospects for trained stable hands are usually good but progression to apprentice Jockey is difficult and becoming a successful Professional Jockey even more so.
A Professional Jockey may work for one trainer or owner, or ride for different trainers and owners as a self-employed jockey. There are opportunities to work for stables overseas, especially in Dubai, Japan and the USA.
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Child Healthcare Closer to Home (C3), Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Started: May 2014
Region: Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield and who are registered at one of the listed pilot practices.
Background / Motivation
The journey of the child through acute care can be fragmented, with the focus being around a specific professional and building rather than the family.
Partners from Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield Health & Social care organisations have worked collectively to deliver improved services for local children, with the overall aim of developing enhanced paediatric provision and expertise closer to the child’s home.
Empower families to have the confidence to manage their own health conditions and know when to seek help appropriately.
Provide acute care for children and young people closer to home.
The service model
- Two multi-professional care clinics
- One of the clinics is based in a local GP surgery and the other is in a local children’s centre in a deprived area
- Pilot sites refer through choose and book
- User and referrer experience is at the heart of the project
- Interventions are recorded via an electronic-shared record, which has aided timely communication across primary and secondary care
- The project is developing pathways of care, education and expertise for use within primary care
- The initial model offered a five tier approach to delivery
- Self-Care – educating and encouraging children, young people and their families to maintain healthier lifestyles
- Universal offer – delivery of a co-ordinated campaign of health promotion and early interventions
- Community Nursing Plus – criteria based referral system from Primary Care to Community Nursing
- Community Specialists – Locality based Paediatric Care
- Cascaded learning and development – to include a programme of training – bridging gaps in Paediatric expertise.
Offer services in ‘family-friendly’ hours –weekly between 4pm -8pm
Clinics held on a 1-2 weekly rota afternoon/evenings.
Consultant Paediatrician, GP, APNP and CCN.
Who can refer
Referrals are accepted from pre-selected pilot site GPs
- CCG funded
- Host employer is Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust
- Applied for further funding from the Health Foundation
- 2nd six month evaluation is underway
- Working with Nuffield Trust to explore innovation in community delivered services
The most common reasons were musculoskeletal problems, skin and continence problems including constipation.
Age ranged between 0-17, with babies under one being the highest.
During initial 12 month pilot 1638 contacts with patients, 844 face to face or clinical telephone contact. Phase 378 new referrals for CYP and 12 follow-ups.
Multi professional approach compared to a traditional consultant only delivered care in general outpatient’s provision. In Calderdale 33% of patients were seen by a Consultant compared to 100% of care that would be offered in a traditional outpatient setting. 29% of the clinic activity was offered by a GP and 38% was delivered by an APNP.
DNA 11.5% compared to 14% in hospital based general paediatric clinics.
The new to follow-up rate was 0.3 compared to 1.9 in a normal general paediatric clinic. Some of the variation will be due to the length of time clinic has been running and due to the fact that all the patients are new to this service rather than being existing patients with long term conditions. Anecdotal evidence suggests that practitioners are utilising telephone follow up, and discharging children and young people back to the care of GP when appropriate, which would validate the results.
Challenges, successes, lessons learned and advice
- Hope to increase their activity in primary care, with a move towards 8am-8pm hours and weekend opening.
- It is important to establish good relationships and buy-in from commissioners and providers at the start.
- Change requires tenacity and enthusiasm.
- Effective communication is key.
- Strong administration support is required.
- The project has encouraged communication and shared learning between primary and secondary care.
- It has ensured that health and self-care is high on the agenda of community services, families and children’s centres.
Contact for more information
Cat Brown, Children’s Community Nursing Sister
Calderdale 01422 224164, Huddersfield 01484 342872
This project is finished on 30/6/16
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Ellis Island Quarantine, NY: Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911
THE FORGOTTEN OF ELLIS ISLAND
Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911
Photo Gallery for Quarantine Station and Ellis Island
The Forgotten of Ellis Island Database
Search the Database
My Search for Apollonia Spiegel
Quarantine Station for Ellis Island and the Port of New York
Photographs and Pictures
Sign the Guestbook!
Some Resources to Use in Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors
A Short Bibliography for Quarantine and Ellis Island
Repositories or Archives
Links to More Sites related to Quarantine and Immigration
New York Harbor
Some Ellis Island Images
Other Sites containing Images of Ellis Island
- Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920
From the Collections of the Library of Congress:
- New York, NY, Ellis Island -- Immigration: 1900-1920
University of California, Riverside
Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography
- Images from the History of the Public Health Service
- Page 11: Marine Hospital Service (1970)
- Page 12: National Quarantine Act (1878)
- Page 14: Quarantine Boarding Launch "Walter Wyman" (1939)
- Page 15: Fumigation of ship, hydrocyanic acid gas (New York City, 1913)
- Page 16: Yellow Fever Detention Camp (Camp E. A. Perry, 1888)
- Page 17: Yellow Fever Quarantine Inspection of Troops (Spanish-American War, 1899)
- Page 18: Fumigating/Disinfecting team (New Orleans, 1939)
- Page 20: Immigration Law of 1891, Ellis Island
- Page 21: Quarantine Detention (Ellis Island, 1930)
- The August Sherman photographs:
- Alice Austen's photographs — Ms. Austen was asked by Dr. Alvah Doty in the 1890s to take photographs of the Quaranine Station which she did over ten years. Her negatives for her photographs are today held by the Staten Island Historical Society.
Some Photos and Images Taken While Filming the "ANCESTORS" TV series.
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Prince Stops Working and Gets to Work in ‘Let’s Work': 365 Prince Songs in a Year
To celebrate the incredibly prolific, influential and diverse body of work left behind by Prince, we will be exploring a different song of his each day for an entire year with the series 365 Prince Songs in a Year.
There's a difference between working and work, and it's not just semantics. Many are the people who can attest—nay, testify, like they do in church—to Prince's penchant for working, for putting in the hours necessary to do what it was he did that dragged us all (willingly, mind you) into his gravitational pull.
He understood that it takes effort to get creative expression from one's head and heart into a form that others could engage with. Sometimes, one has to sacrifice short-term benefits for longer-term gains, even if it means running counter to one's reputation.
"Nobody can be what they are twenty-four hours a day, no matter what that is," he told Rolling Stone in 1985, responding to a comment that his fans see him as a "wild sexual person." "You have to eat, you have to sleep, you have to think, and you have to work. I work a lot, and there’s not too much time for anything else when I’m doing that."
"He runs on energy, adrenaline,” Paisley Park engineer Hans-Martin Buff once said of him. "He works long hours, but he accomplishes a lot. No one works more quickly. I’ve been at sessions [with other artists] where it takes half a day to bring in a keyboardist or a bassist to play a part, but if something’s missing in one of his arrangements, he just does it himself and moves on."
That's working—thousands of hours of it, over the course of 40 or so years.
Then there's work.
Work is what you allow yourself to do when the working is done. It's physical, spiritual, sexual; it takes place on the stage, on the dancefloor, in the bedroom. When Prince got his falsetto going and recorded "Let's Work" for Controversy in 1981, this is the kind of work he was singing about. "C'mon let's have some fun," he invites, "we'll work till morning comes." He's not talking about construction work; he's not talking about retail work; he's not talking about working. He's talking about … well … this:
"I'd love to turn U on, I'd work U all night long / If I could get U in the raw, I'd make U climb the walls / Oh yeah nothing can stop us now, I'm gonna show U how / Show U how to work"
Nobody's clocking in. Nobody's writing down orders. Nobody's taking union-negotiated breaks for lunch. If anybody's taking a break, it's probably just to snuggle or get a drink, before getting back to work. Yes, it's a night shift, but after working "till the morning comes," you can imagine feeling the satisfaction of a job well done.
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Why do some LDS books have empty pages at the back? I just finished reading a book that had all of five empty pages between the end of the story and the back cover, and it got me thinking. Now I’m checking all my LDS books. Some don’t have any empty pages, some have two, and some have three. There’s no consistency among books by the same publisher, and no reason for it that I can see, so I was just wondering.
This is an easy one. Books are printed in “signatures”–that’s one big sheet of paper printed on both sides, then folded to create the individual pages of the book. The most common signature holds 32 pages, so the number of total pages in your book will be a multiple of 32. Sometimes you can go down to 16, or 8, but that’s not as economical.
So let’s say the text of your book is 250 typeset pages. It would be printed on 8 signatures of 32, giving you a total of 256 pages. The extra 6 pages would be used as the title and copyright pages, table of contents, about the author, etc. But let’s say your text only uses 245 pages. You’ll have extra pages that you either need to fill up or leave blank.
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Becoming Field Educators
|“Students make us come alive, and they hold us accountable. It is prestigious to be a field instructor. Sometimes they even give us gifts and feed us! Students give us a different perspective, they say something different….They keep us fresh and client-focused.”
– Emeline Homonoff, 2008
The development of competence in the professional practice of social work is a primary objective of all social work programs. Field education offers students learning opportunities through which knowledge can be integrated and applied to practice, and competence in practice skills can be developed. Indeed, it has been identified as the most significant component of the social work curriculum in preparing competent, effective, and ethical social workers (Bogo 2015).
Your current field instructor as well as your Faculty-Field Liaison, are sources of information about your future role as a field instructor. Check out the links below to learn about other experiences. We hope that you are inspired to become a social work educator of tomorrow.
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Judging from the photographs taken on Inauguration Day, the Bible in Jill Biden’s hands for the swearing-in ceremony must have been at least 10 pounds. With a five-inch thick binding and metal clasps to hold the pages together, that was one big Bible. The president evidently chose that particular book because it’s been in his family for 127 years. So, we may ask: Does it matter what Bible one chooses when being sworn into public office? Are there any requirements for the book used when taking the oath?
The U.S. Constitution makes no requirement that any federal official has to use a Bible, much less a written text at all. Technically, an incoming officeholder could use a copy of Charlotte’s Web or even a box of truffles. It’s basically up to the individual to decide what object – usually a written text – allows for the best expression of their personal values. Or, sometimes, it may be a decision involving what’s closest at hand.
In 1825, when John Quincy Adams took the oath of office, he chose to lay his hand on a law book. In 1901, following the chaos of President William McKinley’s assassination, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was hastily sworn in with no book at all. When Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office aboard Air Force One in 1963, just two hours and eight minutes after President Kennedy’s assassination, no Bible was in range. Someone grabbed a Catholic missal (the liturgical book for Catholic mass) that was in Kennedy’s working desk on the plane. On that, LBJ laid his left hand.
Keith Ellison was America’s first Muslim congressman and, in 2007 at his swearing-in, used Thomas Jefferson’s original copy of the Koran in English. When Barack Obama took his oath, Michelle Obama held two Bibles – one the Bible of Abraham Lincoln and the other one once having belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. Donald Trump also used two Bibles, one of which was the Lincoln Bible kept inside a protective box on his inaugural day. Senator Krysten Sinema, the only current U.S. senator to list herself as “religiously unaffiliated,” took her oath on the Constitution. Suzi LeVine made news in 2014 when she assumed the ambassadorship to Switzerland and Liechtenstein by taking her oath of office on a Kindle or e-reader, open to the Nineteenth Amendment. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, the first Hindu in Congress, took her oath on the Bhagavad Gita.
In the Middle Ages, English courts adopted a practice of using a book, typically a Bible, for the oath-taker to place his hand, speak the oath, and then kiss the book. In time, this oath-taking in the legal system came to adopt a practice where witnesses swore “to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” While most American oath-takers conclude their acceptance of office with the words “so help me God,” the Constitution allows the option of making an affirmation instead of an oath. An affirmation permits one to omit reference to God, if that be the preference, and to allow one to say “I affirm,” rather than “I swear.” | <urn:uuid:4bc4dfdf-c05d-4330-ab2f-ca69cc9fa179> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stpaulqc.org/blog/swearing-in-ceremonies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960517 | 703 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise has developed a written Title I parental involvement policy with input from Title I parents. This policy was developed in partnership with parents and Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) meetings throughout the school year. It has distributed the policy to parents of Title I students by posting it on the school website, at PTO meetings, and through the parent newsletter. The policy describes the means for carrying out the following Title I parental involvement requirements [20 USC 6318 Section 1118(a)-(f) inclusive]. The parent involvement policy included in the annual review of the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) / Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). This policy must be updated periodically to meet changing needs of parents and the school, with adequate representation of parents of Title I children [20 USC 6318 Section 1118(c)(3)].
Involvement of Parents in the Title I Program
To involve parents in the Title I program at Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise, the following practices have been established:
The school convenes an annual meeting to inform parents of Title I students about Title I requirements and about the right of parents to be involved in the Title I program. The meeting is held in conjunction with the Parent Teacher Organization.
The school offers a flexible number of meetings for Title I parents, such as meetings in the morning or evening. The meetings are held through Coffee with the Principal and/or Parent Teacher Organization meetings which are held monthly.
The school involves parents of Title I students in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s Title I programs and the Title I parental involvement policy. The Parent Coordinators, and other school staff, meet regularly with the parents in a variety of parent workshops, meetings, and special events and solicit feedback from parents.
The school provides parents of Title I students with timely information about Title I programs, such as math and English Language Arts intervention classes, and after school tutoring.
The school provides parents of Title I students with an explanation of the curriculum used at the school, the assessments used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet. If requested by parents of Title I students, the school provides opportunities for regular meetings that allow the parents to participate in decisions relating to the education of their children. Frequent communication regarding student academic progress occurs for parents in a variety of methods, including calls home, monthly newsletters, quarterly progress nights, and ongoing access to student grades through the Student Information System (SIS), PowerSchool.
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise distributes to parents of Title I students a school-parent compact. The compact, which has been jointly developed with parents, outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement. It describes specific ways the school and families will partner to help children achieve the State’s high academic standards. It addresses the following legally required items, as well as other items suggested by parents of Title I students, such as the school’s responsibility to provide high-quality curriculum and instruction; the ways parents will be responsible for supporting their children’s learning; and the importance of ongoing communication between parents and teachers through, at a minimum, annual parent-teacher conferences; frequent reports on student progress; access to staff; opportunities for parents to volunteer and participate in their child’s class; and opportunities to observe classroom activities.
Building Capacity for Involvement
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise engages Title I parents in meaningful interactions with the school. It supports a partnership among staff, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement. To help reach these goals, the school has established the following practices.
The school provides Title I parents with assistance in understanding the State’s academic content standards, assessments, and how to monitor and improve the achievement of their children. The school provides Title I parents with materials and training to help them work with their children to improve their children’s achievement. The school provides workshops led by the Director of Student Services, and other Back to School Night, Open House, and Progress Night events.
With the assistance of Title I parents, the school educates staff members about the value of parent contributions, and in how to work with parents as equal partners. Parent feedback is highly valued and solicited at various family events throughout the year, as well as in the annual parent survey.
The school coordinates and integrates the Title I parental involvement program with other programs, and conducts other activities, such as the parent resource center and various parent meetings, to encourage and support parents in more fully participating in the education of their children.
The school distributes Information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities to Title I parents in a format and language that the parents understand. Announcements are made by phone and newsletter format in both English and Spanish.
The school provides support for parental involvement activities requested by Title I parents. Parents are highly encouraged to participate in a variety of parent events held on campus each year.
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise provides opportunities for the participation of all Title I parents, including parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory students. Information and school reports are provided in a format and language that parents understand. Meetings are held to further allow discussion and explanation of the schools plans and Title I Services.
Latest adoption by the School Site Council on September 25, 2019.
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MultiCOM software module in Windows environment allows the simultaneous link to the peripheral devices connected to the PC and can be activated directly from the CNC keyboard without any input from the management PC.
- Simultaneous communication :
simultaneous transmission and/or reception of ascii or binary files to as maximum of 128 RS 232 C peripheral devices via multiport serial board, ethernet or wireless.
- Part program Remote management:
file transmission and/or reception through commands sent from the NC. The commands are inside files on the CNC.
- RCM remote management:
file transmission and/or reception through commands sent from light pens, barcode readers, computer terminals or PC in LAN.
- Line state display:
possibility to install a display near the CNC keyboard which highlights the line state and the availability of the management PC ( V.S.M. ).
- Communication monitoring:
information displayed on the screen highlighting the state of the communication line by means of a synoptic table of the workshop layout.
- Event log :
display and record of activities carried out between the management PC and the CNC peripherals.
- Syntactic check:
of the program to be sent or received on the PC and comparison between Part-Programs.
- Integrated management of CNCs in LAN:
management by browser specialized in transmission from / to CNC in LAN.
- Integrated management of CNC states:
state acquisition, display and storage on DB (CNC ON, axis movement, spindle, Override Feed, T.C.) acquired by means of specific hardware. (Ref. MDA software)
- Additional information:
Storage of program information (order, Customer, drawing, notes...) with possible assisted research.
- Part program local management:
file transmission and/or reception through commands given from MultiCOM interface panels, while keeping the communication in progress.
- Hardware and software requirements:
RS232 C serial port
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Smart home living is no longer limited to the rich or tech-savvy individuals. Today, the average homeowner also embraces smart home technology. In fact, the global smart home market is predicted to grow to over 53 billion by 2022.
It’s no lie that smart home products are making our daily lives easier, faster, and more comfortable. Every day, more and more products are being released. As we approach 2020, here are some smart home trends you can look forward to:
The technology behind wireless charging has been present for the last decade. Top tech brands like Apple and Samsung already utilize the technology where two surfaces should be touching for your device to charge.
Another intriguing wireless charging technology that is quickly gaining ground is the Wi-Charge. This technology uses invisible light across the room (about 530 square feet) to charge smartphones and other small home devices with less hassle. Currently, Wi-Charge can provide up to 3W of power over 32 feet, but we can expect more power as more homes embrace this technology.
Embracing WiFi 6
Also expressed as 802.11ax, the WiFi 6 is an improved wireless connectivity that brings more than just fast connectivity speeds to the table. If your household has a host of toting devices, chances are your WiFi connection is heavily congested even if you have reliable speeds and coverage.
WiFi 6 comes with two main benefits: the ability to efficiently handle requests for bandwidth and a significant improvement in the battery life of your devices through swifter data transfer transmission and enhanced range.
As the number of devices per household increases, this latest wireless standard will not only add convenience to your day-to-day life but also add a vital extra layer of security with its WPA3 protocol.
Adoption of 5G for Smart Home Devices
5G is the latest generation of wireless comms, and it will certainly be a game-changer in smart home living. Unlike other previous wireless standards like WiFi and Bluetooth which struggle with matching up different devices, 5G will allow your devices to connect seamlessly while addressing the problem of latency. This will go a long way in solving the issues of device incompatibility.
Without a doubt, this high-bandwidth, low-latency, and energy-saving network will deliver a seamless smart home experience over the next year.
Increase in Popularity of Streaming TV
In 2019, more and more individuals are warming up to internet TV and live streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime videos, YouTube TV, and many more. We can expect the number to increase in 2020.
With the increase in internet bandwidth and faster broadband, streaming services are now easily accessible by the average homeowners. In fact, you only need a minimum download speed of 5 megabits per second to enjoy HD video streaming. You can confirm your internet bandwidth speeds on sites like SpeedCheck.
The popularity of video streaming has made many household cut cable. As a result, the entertainment sections of most smart homes are less crowded with cords, especially with the inception of other smart electronics like smart TVs and wireless home theaters.
Another huge advantage of streaming TV is that users can watch their favorite shows anywhere at any time.
Adoption of Smart Furniture
Not all smart home devices are aimed at improving safety and saving you money. Some are just fun to have around. For example, there’s a new line of tech lamps that can wirelessly charge your devices. Other smart furniture that you may want to have in your home include:
- Smart kitchen shelving that helps you find recipes and keeps track of what is available in your pantry.
- Smart wardrobes and closets that organize your outfits as well as help you choose an outfit for a particular occasion.
- Smart couches that can be automatically adjusted for comfort using an app on your phone.
- Smart beds for children that send you instant alerts when your child is out of bed or when they have a fever.
There are so many smart furniture products currently in development. You can expect to see more of them in the next few years.
Improved Sensor Technology
Several smart home devices (such as smart thermostats, smoke detectors, and security systems) already use sensor technology. But expect more from this technology in 2020. For example, there are termite detection devices equipped with sensors that can help detect termite infestations early enough to mitigate the damage.
Other devices that may also utilize this technology include HVAC systems, water heaters, electrical boxes, and furnaces. These devices will give homeowners heads up whenever something damaging is taking place.
Smart Home Living is The Way to go in 2020
More homeowners are turning to smart home devices for a more comfortable, efficient, and affordable life. Don’t be left behind; stay up to date with the smart home living trends above.
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We all love our streaming. Video, audio, real-time, and on-demand, we constantly want to consume content. While the convenience of streaming is amazing, it takes a lot of resources, mainly bandwidth. This can be extremely hard on your home network.
Make it a priority
Fortunately, most router systems have a setting to name a certain device on your network to get the lion’s share of the internet. This prioritization can make it so that your Netflix streams don’t buffer or console gaming doesn’t lag. Google WiFi is not different and the app makes it super simple to create priority devices.
Despite its simplicity, it is a few menus deep in the UI. Let us show you how to make it happen.
How to turn it on
This will give you incremental settings to set a priority device on Google WiFi. During this time the selected device will receive more of the internet resources from your mesh network than any other connected unit.
- Find your Google WiFi app and open it
- Hit the devices button on the main screen
- Click the green button at the bottom right (Shows a computer with a star)
- Tap the internet-connected device you want to be the priority
- Select the drop-down to create a time frame between 1,2, and 4 hours
- Make sure to hit Save at the top right
There you go! You should now have your favorite home device set for priority over your network. This will allow you to avoid the dreaded buffer bug the next time you and the family sit down to enjoy the movie of the week.
During that time the priority unit will be at the top of the internet chain inside your local network, hopefully alleviating those bandwidth issues. You can also go back to the Devices list in Google WiFi at any time inside your set window to cancel the device priority. | <urn:uuid:9b99d560-eaaa-455c-97c9-77f2ada2f324> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.androidguys.com/tips-tools/how-set-priority-device-on-google-wifi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.904346 | 389 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Radio is one of those things that most people just don’t get enthusiastic about.
Sure, it’s nice to have on in the background when you’re driving, but the days of gathering around the radio for the latest news, radio dramas and presidential addresses pretty much ended with the introduction of TV. Radio gave a voice to black communities across the United States, public forums for politicians and commentators of all political persuasions, and allowed people to hear music they never would’ve dreamed of pre-Internet.
And yet people tend to forget that noncommercial radio is pretty much the only place where free speech in its most raw form still exists on a public forum. Although I’m only halfway through reading “Rebels on the Air” by Jesse Walker, I’ve gotten the point that the history of radio is colored with innovation springing from state regulations and creative middle fingers to the bureaucrats who attempted to control the airways. One of the best examples of this is the development of frequency modulation:
“As the 1920s progressed, the inventor [Edwin Howard Armstrong] became obsessed with the idea of eliminating static through a technology he called Frequency Modulation, or FM. Most engineers believed that this was impossible – in the mathematician John Renshaw Carson’s then famous words, that, “static, like the poor, will always be with us.” In 1933, Armstrong unveiled his invention and proved Carson wrong… Armstrong tried to convince his old friend David Sarnoff, the head of the RCA, to invest in his work, but Sarnoff believed the future of broadcasting lay in television, not FM… So he used his clout at the Federal Communications Commission to hinder Armstrong’s invention.”
Long story short, after a bunch of uphill battles against regulatory measures, FM became a mainstay of radio. Walker’s book was published in 2001 however, right before the explosion of podcasts and Internet radio.
My own love affair with radio began when I was a senior in high school in 2011 (yes, Clinton was in office when I was born) when I got a chance to work on OutCasting, a radio show that started out as a bit on WDFH, a now-defunct public radio station based in Westchester County, NY. OutCasting has since been distributed to 41 Pacifica-based public radio stations across the country, and is readily available as a podcast. The project started as a way to give a voice to LGBT youth, is mostly created and produced by high school students, and is looking at a pretty bright future. During my second year of college, I interned at Townsquare Media of the Hudson Valley, which distributes several commercial radio stations.
I’ve seen firsthand the way radio fosters community, even though it’s easy to scoff at commercial outlets. The popularity of podcasts like Welcome to Night Vale harken back to the days where a “War of the Worlds” broadcast was mistaken for a real alien invasion, PRX’s Love and Radio turns the mundane into a surreal sound experience, Opie and Anthony have brought their crass, deliberately un-PC stunts to the airways for twenty years, C4SS has its own podcast feed, and still more podcasts are produced by people without soundproofing, advanced audio technology or professional producers.
Podcasting is something literally anyone with a microphone and a little bit of patience can do. Trevor wrote an excellent guide to studioless podcasting awhile back, and I guess this is something of a call to action to fill the Internet airways and iTunes libraries with whatever the hell you want.
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