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Outpatient Joint Replacement
Outpatient Joint Replacement Overview
Total joint replacement surgery can now be performed on an outpatient basis. This means patients can recover in the comfort of their own home rather than staying 3-5 nights in the hospital. Patients who are interested in outpatient joint replacement are encouraged to make an appointment with a Carolina Orthopaedics and Neurosurgical Associates’ (CONA) specialist to find out if they are a procedure candidate.
How is outpatient joint replacement performed?
Outpatient joint replacement surgery is performed using the same steps as inpatient joint replacement surgery:
- Muscles and soft tissues are gently retracted to expose the joint
- Arthritic bone and cartilage are carefully removed
- Metal and plastic components are bonded to the bone to form a new joint
- Deep and superficial tissue layers are carefully closed
A local anesthetic or nerve block is usually given to control pain and discomfort. This decreases the need for intravenous pain medications that can only be administered in a hospital setting.
What conditions can outpatient joint replacement treat?
Outpatient joint replacement treats knee and hip osteoarthritis. Select candidates undergo the procedure. Candidates are usually patients who are in good physical condition and have no medical conditions or illnesses that could affect results.
What are outpatient joint replacement advantages?
There are several key outpatient joint replacement advantages:
- At home recovery and physical therapy
- No intravenous pain medications
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3D Culture of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in PEG-4MAL Hydrogels Increases Exosome Production with Bacterial Sphingomyelinase Treatment
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Exosomes are becoming increasingly popular in the fields of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering for their immunomodulatory potential to enhance tissue regeneration. Exosomes are a membrane-bound extracellular vesicle with a diameter between 30-150nm that act as a non-immunogenic delivery method for biological molecules to communicate between cells, regulating cell function and activity. Despite the growing interest in exosomes, the lack of an established production method limits further research. Our lab has previously modulated sphingolipid signaling in human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) via sphingomyelinase (SMase), an enzyme that converts cell membrane sphingomyelin to ceramide, increasing cell membrane curvature and subsequent endosome production, the initiating step in exosome biogenesis. We showed that SMase treated MSCs cultured in tissue culture plastic increases overall exosome production compared to untreated MSCs, likely from SMase-mediated sphingomyelin to ceramide conversion. Here, we demonstrate increased exosome production in a 3D microenvironment by encapsulating MSCs into 4-arm polyethylene glycol-maleimide (PEG-4MAL) hydrogels with and without SMase compared to tissue culture plastic controls. We utilize nanoparticle tracking analysis to quantify changes in exosome production induced by a 3D biogenesis. We confirmed the immunomodulatory potential of these exosomes by evaluating their effect on TNF-a levels in LPS-stimulated Macrophages and found anti-inflammatory effects among all exosomes. Not only do these findings contribute to more effective methods for extracellular vesicle production, but further, this platform can be leveraged as a delivery vehicle of exosome-producing-MSCs to a range of pre-clinical injury and disease models as a novel immunotherapy. | <urn:uuid:bdcad2cc-d429-4403-9126-1504be5d8549> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/66707 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.902508 | 438 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The EU's Data Protection Working Party is investigating the changes and has written to Google's CEO Larry Page asking for more time to examine the new policy before it comes into effect.
Pause for thought
The Data Protection Working Party's letter explains, "We call for a pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google's commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens, until we have completed our analysis".
"We wish to check the possible consequences for the protection of the personal data of these citizens in a coordinated way."
The scrutiny should come as no surprise to Google, as Sophos' Graham Cluley told TechRadar: "Google has been dragged over the coals by privacy regulators in the past, and chances are that these changes will also be scrutinised by the powers that be."
Shows what we know - according to a source speaking to the Telegraph, Google was surprised to receive the letter although this mysterious Googler went on to say that "the tone of its letter was significantly less aggressive than those Google has received in the past".
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Fully Printed Infrared Photodetectors from PbS Nanocrystals with Perovskite Ligands
February 26, 2019
For the deposition of the PbS nanocrystal ink within ABS frames a Freedom Evo 100 (Tecan Group AG, Switzerland), a pipetting robot was used, whereby the system was handled by the software EVOware Standard (version 2.7).
Colloidal nanocrystals from PbS are successfully applied in highly sensitive infrared photodetectors with various device architectures. Here, we demonstrate all-printed devices with high detectivity (∼1012 cm Hz1/2/W) and a cut-off frequency of >3 kHz. The low material consumption (<0.3 mg per detector) and short processing time (14 s per detector) enabled by the automated printing promises extremely low device costs. To enable all-printed devices, an ink formulation was developed based on nanocrystals stabilized by perovskite-like methylammonium iodobismuthate ligands, which are dispersed in a ternary solvent. Fully inkjet printed devices based on this solvent were achieved with printed silver electrodes and a ZnO interlayer. Considerable improvements were obtained by the addition of small amounts of the polymer poly(vinylpyrrolidone) to the ink. The polymer improved the colloidal stability of the ink and its film-formation properties and thus enabled the scalable printing of single detectors and detector arrays. While photoconductors were shown here, the developed ink will certainly find application in a series of further electronic devices based on nanocrystals from a broad range of materials.
YousefiAmin, A; Killilea, NA; Sytnyk, M; Maisch, P; Tam, KC; Egelhaaf, HJ; Langner, S; Stubhan, T; Brabec, CJ; Rejek, T; Halik, M; Poulsen, K; Niehaus, J; Köck, A; Heiss, W;
Journal: ACS Nano
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SWCOEH celebrates North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
HOUSTON (May 2, 2022) – North American Occupational Safety and Health Week (NAOSH Week) is an annual observance held in the first full week of May to spread awareness about occupational safety and health and to bring in systems that ensure the safety and well-being of workers. In 2022, NAOSH Week is May 1-7. The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) at UTHealth Houston will celebrate NAOSH Week by highlighting different aspects of the SWCOEH and our commitment to Occupational Safety and Health.
Here is the schedule of program highlights: Monday – SWCOEH’s Academic Programs; Tuesday – Continuing Education; Wednesday – Outreach; Thursday – Pilot Projects; Friday – Research.
The Southwest Center, one of 18 NIOSH-funded Education and Research Center’s (ERC) in the United States, offers academic programs in four primary areas: Industrial Hygiene (IH), Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency, Occupational Epidemiology (Occ Epi), and Total Worker Health®. Traineeships covering full tuition & fees and providing a monthly stipend are available on a competitive basis to full-time students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Requirements for the traineeships include acceptance into the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (IH, OEM, and TWH) or Epidemiology (Occ Epi) academic programs, maintenance of a minimum course workload, and satisfactory academic progress.
SWCOEH alumni have emerged as leaders in a variety of fields. Learn more about their stories here.
Current trainees within SWCOEH’s academic programs and our alumni consistently take part in research and co-author published articles in their fields of study.
Kelly Oyer-Peterson, JD, MPH, RN, is an Occupational Epidemiology trainee at SWCOEH. She was the first author of a pilot study on VOC exposure among domestic cleaners. The study, “A pilot study of total personal exposure to volatile organic compounds among Hispanic female domestic cleaners,” was published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene in January.
The SWCOEH Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency aims to train practicing physicians to be qualified for careers in occupational and environmental medicine in private practice, industry, government, military, or academia. The two-year program includes completion of the requirements for a Master of Public Health degree, and 12 months of full-time experiential rotations in various aspects of professional practice in the field. Graduates are eligible to apply for board certification in Occupational Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
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Cruce del Golfo was the first passenger ferry company to provide regular sailings across the Gulf of Fonseca, between La Union in El Salvador and Potosi on the coast of Nicaragua, in Central America.
Saving you around ten hours of crossing the land border by bus, Cruce del Golfo offers a much faster route between El Salvador and Nicaragua. It’s also a far more scenic journey, taking you through the largely untraveled gulf which measures over three thousand square-kilometres, with pods of dolphins in the waters, mangroves along the coast and dramatic volcanoes diminishing on the horizon.
The boat, named Stella Maris, was purpose-built in 2016 for crossing the Gulf of Fonseca, holding up to twenty eight passengers with ample room for luggage. Designed with a hard-top roof, open sides and stainless steel safety railings, it’s powered by top-of-the-range 140BHP outboard engines and equipped with GPS, radio communication and life jackets.
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Camouflaged objects are difficult to detect, for both humans and artificial intelligence. But now an AI has been trained to parse objects from their backgrounds.
This could have a variety of applications, such as being used for search-and-rescue work, detecting agricultural pests, medical imaging or in military settings.
Detecting camouflaged objects requires visual perception and knowledge. Until now, many AIs have struggled with this task because their algorithms rely on visual cues, such as …
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Even the smallest particles of dirt can cause damage to hydraulic components if, for example, they cause valve blockage. HANSA-FLEX has therefore expanded its service portfolio to include a laboratory for testing technical cleanliness. In this way HANSA-FLEX documents, on the one hand, compliance with the guidelines and customer requirements with regard to cleanliness.
In the room, which is classified as a clean room in accordance with Volume 19 of German Automobile Association (VDA) guidelines and ISO 16232, HANSA-FLEX provides comprehensive technical cleanliness checks for hoses, pipes and other hydraulic components. For the cleanliness analysis, particles are extracted by rinsing or spraying the components.
For this purpose an extraction unit with which both extraction processes can be carried out is applied. The extracted liquid is separated by an analytical filter. This filter is then dried in a drying oven and desiccator (chemical drying) and a photo-optical analysis (microscope) is performed. In this way the number, size and differentiation of the dirt particles (metallic gloss, non-metallic, fibres) can be determined. In addition to the so-called “photo-optical standard analysis”, HANSA-FLEX also caries out a gravimetric analysis in which the total particle load is determined by weighing the analytical filters before and after extraction. For this purpose a precision balance with a minimum resolution of 0.1 mg is used. After the examination the customer receives a detailed report which is standardised in accordance with VDA Volume 19.
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Botanical name: Neopicrorhiza minima Family: Plantaginaceae (Isabgol family)
Small Bitter-Root is a small, perennial, rhizome-bearing herb, 4-7 cm tall, including the inflorescence. It is closely related to Figwort Bitter-Root. Flowers are 2-lipped, 7.5-10 mm long, tubular, bluish-purple, glandular velvet-hairy outside, hairless inside; tube 3.5-5 mm long; upper lip oblong, galeate, 4-5 mm long, tip deeply notched; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes equal or subequal, oblong, 3-4 mm long, tip blunt-rounded. Stamens are 4, not protruding out, 5-7 mm long. Style is 7-10.5 mm long, hairless, bluish-purple, projecting 1-1.5 mm beyond upper lip of flower; stigma head-like. Flowers are borne in 4-9-flowered, head-like raceme, 1-1.5 cm long. Bracts are leaf-like, elliptic-lanceshaped, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Flower-stalks are 0.7-1.5 mm long, velvet-hairy. Sepals are 5, glandular-hairy outside, purple or purplish-green, unequal, inverted-lanceshaped-spoon-shaped, 3-4 x 1.3-2 mm, margins fringed with hairs, entire. Leaves are basal, 3-8, in rosette; blade spoon-shaped or obovate-nearly round, 5-15 x 3-10 mm, tip round, hairless on both surface, margins rounded toothed, with 7-10 teeth; leaf-stalks 3-15 mm long. Flowering stem is 1.5-5.5 cm long, densely velvet-hairy, elongated to 2-7 cm in fruit. Capsules are ovoid, 5-6 mm long, tip tapering, hairless, black when ripe. Small Bitter-Root is found in Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan and Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. Flowering: June-October.
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During the administration of Birmingham Mayor David Vann, the city established a local development company and chose the name Birmingham City Wide. The incorporators of this economic development organization read like a list of who’s who among business leaders, all of whom understood the value of small business growth and development. William Green, Anthony Henry, James White, Ferd Weil, John Schoppert, Joseph Knight, and John M. Livingston were the visionaries who helped to establish this initiative. They were all committed to assuring the economic growth of Birmingham by assisting the development of its small business community.
Birmingham City Wide (BCW) falls under the Small Business Administration’s classification of a Certified Development Company. These organizations are independent of the SBA but licensed by it. Certified Development Companies track their establishment back to 1958, five years after the United States Government launched the Small Business Administration in 1953. Like other CDCs, BCW worked with the SBA and local financial institutions to provide offerings that strengthen local businesses by helping them become property owners, improve, and revitalize business facilities, increase employment, and set in motion long-term community growth.
In 1978 the year Birmingham City Wide was established, the city of Birmingham was on the move. New leaders who were not part of the regime that promoted segregation were in place. City government was integrated, banking and finance was a burgeoning industry, and economic development was at the forefront of the list of things to be accomplished. The new CDC was envisioned as one dedicated to the economic development of the Birmingham region. Even by that time, economic development had evolved into a professional industry of highly specialized practitioners who maintained two key roles: providing leadership in policymaking and administering policy, programs, and projects. City Wide’s loan program fits the latter.
For the past 43 years, Birmingham City Wide Development Company has served the needs of the small business community in Birmingham and, now, all over Alabama. SBA lending through organizations like BCW is more popular today than it has ever been. SBA 504 lending allows small businesses to own and develop real estate, purchase heavy machinery and equipment, and support community economic development.
Birmingham City Wide operated out of City Hall until the Birmingham Business Resource Center (BBRC) establishment in 1996. The BBRC was asked to take over the management of the development company. That proved to be a wise move by then-mayor Richard Arrington, Jr., and economic development head C. Mark Smith. Over the past 25 years, Birmingham City Wide approved over $1.3 billion in loans to small businesses. The CDC staff, led by Birmingham business leader Bob Dickerson, founder of the Birmingham Business Resource Center, contains some of the most talented and capable lenders, loan servicing administrators, and quality control professionals in the industry.
City Wide staff members Connie Lowe and Kimberly McCall and loan originators Jan Roberts and Nicole Reed form the core of the CDC’s operations. With over 110 years of banking and development company experience, there’s nothing that this group hasn’t seen and done. A description of the BCW team would encompass words like committed, expert, customer-focused, dedicated and innovative. It is difficult to imagine another group that has held a comparable collection of talent, ability, and experience together for so many years.
There are many examples of projects supported by Birmingham City Wide in partnership with local financial institutions and the SBA that have benefited the city and state of Alabama for over four decades. Based on the current impetus on achieving economic development through the formation and growth of small businesses, it appears that City Wide’s role in helping this community grow is set for another 40 years. | <urn:uuid:7cc57b2f-5d07-4ae4-a3c1-6d29c968be98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foundationcapital.biz/our-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956513 | 752 | 1.765625 | 2 |
There are many health benefits to pickling vegetables. This unique range of home made pickled vegetables are produced from natural and organic plants, cultivated on the farms in Thailand. Marinated with extra virgin oil and a variety of beautiful herbs and spices, they make colorful garnishes for salads, sauces, sandwiches and meals. You can also just enjoy these crisp and crunchy veggies as a snack with a cracker or piece of home made bread.
Our Marinated Cucumber Pickles in extra virgin olive oil contains the following ingredients:
Extra virgin olive oil: 55%
Organic Cucumber: 40%
Black Pepper: 0.3%
Himalayan Pink Salt: 0.3%
Bay Leaf: 0.1%
Dry Chili: 0.1%
Capacity: 473 ml
Gross Weight: 660 g
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Title of the the PhD project: Local phenomena in superconducting nanostructures
In the last decade, study of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids has become one of the most active research areas in mesoscopic condensed matter physics. The combination of the rich spin physics of a low-dimensional semiconductor and electron pairing provided by the superconductor allows revealing uncanny phenomena. This includes proximity-induced superconductivity, which allows the supercurrent flow through the semiconducting material or the appearance of elusive Majorana quasiparticles that can store topologically protected quantum information [see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.04512.pdf for a nice review].
Within this project, we will theoretically investigate the possibility to go beyond the "blind" spectroscopic measurement, so far used to characterize those devices. In particular, we will study local phenomena, i.e., electron-hole charge distribution and trajectories, their spatial coupling through a nearby superconductor, which can be used to understand the properties of hybrid nanostructures. We will focus on scanning gate microscopy technique and analyse theoretically its suitability for detecting the formation of Majorana bound states and on spectroscopic signatures of topological transition in multi-terminal devices.
The student's work will be closely related to the ongoing experimental progress, as the research will be conducted in collaboration with experimental team of prof. Stefan Heun [http://web.nano.cnr.it/heun/] .
The PhD will be carried out under the SONATA BIS project "Topological nanostructures and their junctions" [https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2020-06-15vp... .
The research will be carried out in the theory team of ACMiN AGH [https://acmin.agh.edu.pl/en/2021/06/theory-of-quantum-systems/] , which actively collaborates with the theory group of Faculty of Physic and Applied Computer Science AGH and several theory and experimental teams.
The research equipment available for the student will include local computational clusters, TeraACMiN supercomputer, the Prometheus supercomputer at ACK Cyfronet, and a personal desktop and laptop. We will use state-of-the-art numerical tools (including Kwant Python package) and a remote computational environment (Project Jupyter).
Travel expenses, foreign visits, and a stipend (in total 5 000 PLN per month) for the PhD student will be covered by the NCN SONATA BIS project.
Ph D Position In Tr Arpes (1.0 Fte), University of Groningen, Netherlands, about 14 hours ago
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“Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.” ~J.K. Rowling
Having a skill set, using that skill to the best of your ability, and using it wisely for good, these are all aspirations to work toward.
The Magician here shows confidence in his abilities and does not appear to be using any up-his-sleeve,or slight of hand techniques. Of course he would not be much of a Magician if that were easy to spot. No longer a trickster, The Magician, has come a long way in his abilities. He is creative, practical, inventive, self-reliant, and self confident. The ability to imagine, create, and see ideas through to completion. The art of persuasion, or the ability to influence others.(pg 9 lwb)
This last sentence is where we see the influence of the Seven of Swords. Often known as the “thief” card, this character is obviously up to something and it looks to be on the more devious side. He is best know for manipulation, extortion, stealth, and getting away with it. What is that cunning smile hiding? Like a thief in the night, he does not have your best interests at heart. He’s only out for what will profit his interests.
The Eight of Sacred Circles (Coins or Pentacles) shows the subject working diligently at their craft. An apprenticeship to learn a valuable skill. The subject has the energy of The Magician behind them, so we know the ability to do well and succeed is there. However, the energy of the Seven of Swords would encourage taking short cuts, not taking the lessons/tasks seriously and likely turning out less than their best. “Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” ~Hunter S Thompson
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In 24-27 June 2019, the NEMESIS team participated in the 7EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise which is one of the world’s central meeting places for all researchers that are involved in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social and solidarity economy research across the globe.
The first day of the Conference was launched with a Transdisciplinary Forum and NEMESIS was presented during three sessions. In the first session, a fishbowl technique was used and the 20 participants had the chance to get information about the project and reflect upon social innovation in education. In the second NEMESIS session, the OPERA technique was utilized enabling people to reflect upon how could education help society in the 21st century. In the last NEMESIS session, Catherine Brentnall (SEI) gave a presentation on NEMESIS as an alternative to competitive Enterprise Education.
In the second day of the conference, NEMESIS was presented through two research papers by the project partners Stimmuli and ILI-FAU, focusing on discussing the Social Innovation Learning Framework and the Social Innovation Open learning platform developed by the project.
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas. Knopf. New York, 2018; 304 pp: ISBN 9780451493248
Juniper Glass: I didn’t think I would like this book. I had a knee jerk reaction to the slickness of both the title and the author’s hairdo. And, I must admit, by how much buzz the book has received. Wouldn’t author Anand Giridharadas be just another of the celebrated but vacuous “thought leaders” that his book criticizes? I thought Winners Take All would be a presumptuous, superficial approach to the topic of how the world is to be changed for the better. Instead, the book is an in-depth cultural critique. Giridharadas effectively analyzes the presumptuous, superficial concepts about what change is, who can create it, and how, which have come to dominate global social change narratives.
What makes the book so readable is that each chapter focuses on one main character to explore a fallacy in the usual narratives. The people profiled are not made-up characters but real-life figures – including a do-gooder millennial working for McKinsey, a social justice-minded philanthropist, a Hooters server who became a corporate social responsibility executive, and a former president of the United States. Through these stories, marked as they are by paradoxes, Giridharadas leads the reader to see beneath a powerful set of concepts and values that currently hold great sway in global elite culture, including:
- The market is the most important vehicle for solving the world’s problems;
- Governments get in the way: for real change, we have to go above or around public policy;
- The best solutions are win-win (when creating social benefits we should also create financial profits);
- Technological innovation can solve most problems (we can invent our way to prosperity and wellbeing);
- To achieve progress, we just need to make doing good easier (rather than make doing bad harder); and
- Individual agency and responsibility are supreme (per neo liberalism).
Many of the characters featured are people Giridharadas already knew, some quite well. That is because he himself was immersed in “MarketWorld,” a term he coined for the global network based on these values, as an emerging celebrated thought leader on the elite conference circuit. The detail and depth with which Giridharadas is able to delve into the concepts and contradictions of actors in this culture is largely due to his intimacy with it.
“MarketWorld is an ascendant power elite that is defined by the concurrent drives to do well and do good, to change the world while also profiting from the status quo. It consists of enlightened businesspeople and their collaborators in the worlds of charity, academia, media, government, and think tanks. It has its own thinkers, whom it calls thought leaders, its own language, and even its own territory, including a constantly shifting archipelago of conferences at which its values are reinforced and disseminated and translated into action. MarketWorld is a network and community, but it is also a culture and state of mind (p. 30).”
Buzz about the book made its way to my Facebook page. A critical mass of folks in Montreal were grappling with the challenges Giridharadas poses for social entrepreneurship and many other dearly-held and popular social change trends. When an acquaintance offered to host a book group to discuss Winners Take All, I jumped at the chance to chew on these meaty ideas with others. The most inspiring people I met were Julie and Clelia, two young women with different backgrounds and experiences of international migration, race, family, education, and work, but who both find themselves today in Montreal and in the global culture of MarketWorld. They generously and humbly agreed to share some of their thoughts about how they are wrestling with, and digesting, the deep cultural critique contained in Winners Take All.
Tell me about your work, and how it relates to the challenges identified by Giridharadas.
Julie Savaria: I work for a B Corp named Emzingo. We design leadership programs coupled with social impact consulting projects, seeking to empower the next generation of leaders to exhibit a more responsible style of leadership (thinking about profit, yes, but also people and the planet). We work in multiple countries, but have our biggest presence in South Africa, Peru, Spain and the United States. My role is to oversee our academic programs, manage our global internal affairs and our diversity, inclusion, and equity programs. This book hit a chord for multiple reasons: 1) We are a B Corp, 2) Our fellows and staff are all from a privileged backgrounds in our respective contexts, therefore we have been evolving in what Giridharadas qualifies as “MarketWorld,” 3) According to Giridharadas, we are part of the problem as we want to equip leaders with skills to lead responsibly in their own sphere of influence.
Clelia Cothier: I have been working for Desjardins’ innovation Lab for almost three years, where I have been pushing the social innovation agenda. [The] Desjardins Lab has been created to enable and accelerate innovation within this large financial cooperative. Today, I am part of the open innovation team and shape the social innovation strategy for Coopérathon, an international open innovation competition that connects citizens, communities, entrepreneurs, researchers, academics, and large institutions to develop, together, a socially responsible future. In many of the projects and roles I have played within the team, I have contributed to connecting ecosystems: internal, external, tech, social innovation . . . Navigating between these worlds has both taught me good “translating” skills, and made me practice my flexibility. The “win-win” approach Giridharadas is mentioning is part of our DNA to bring a wide diversity of people together. We organize large gatherings and conferences to share big ideas and inspire people to start their own projects; his criticism of “MarketWorld” events and thought leaders definitely hit a chord for me as well.
Which chapter had the most impact on you and why?
Julie Savaria: The prologue impacted me for a simple reason: I had underestimated the power of the message and the tone of the book. The desire of the author to make the readers shift perspective is clear and straight to the point, in a way that you cannot escape. The introduction to Winners Take All and the overview of what is to come filled me with excitement and discomfort as well, as the author attacked some institutions and movements I saw as positive for the world. For example, seeing the B Corp movement depicted as a good try, but pointedly called out with the observation “if you want nothing to change, you have to change something,” made me defensive at first then pensive. It is an idea that is really important in the book: that we talk a lot about creating change when fundamentally, most of our reforms and adjustments are actually making an inequitable system more tenable, not actually shifting the system. Those who have lots of power and resources keep their power and resources while global inequity continues to increase. What if the author was on to something that was right in front of me all along but that I could not see because of my educational, intellectual, and professional background?
Clelia Cothier: I agree with Julie that the book had a strong start, and I share that sense of excitement and discomfort: a lot of my models and frameworks were shaken while reading the book. The most personal one was Hilary Cohen’s story in Chapter 1. Hilary is a young woman with a good education [who] wants to make a difference in the world. She followed a path that many privileged, well-intentioned, and ambitious young people take these days: working for global consulting firms, first Goldman Sachs, then McKinsey, because of the promise for incoming junior associates of the opportunity to work on files with social meaning. I recognized myself in many of the choices she made in her life and am going through similar challenges. As a young woman launching my career, I too was told that “the era of big government is over” and I would not have any impact going into the public sector. I too believe(d) that “there was more power in building up what was good than in challenging what was bad,” and that “to be a leader in the world, you need this [business/consulting] skill set.” Winners Take All made me re-question the pace and direction I am taking through work. It does have a tone you cannot escape. Reading the book was for me both amazing, as I could feel I that my secret doubts were actually shared by many, and destabilizing as I do not want to contribute to the “elite charade” Giridharadas describes in such excellent detail. That charade ultimately maintains a broken system.
What is your main takeaway? How has the book impacted your perspective on your life and work?
Julie Savaria: I honestly loved Winners Take All. I think these types of books are much needed as we are getting more individualistic and are losing sight of the big picture. We have lost track of how to truly help communities strive. We are too content in our own privilege and comfort to reflect on how we can meaningfully support change. But that requires that we stop thinking about ourselves. The book showed me a different perspective on how to look at our world today. I thought I was very open and knowledgeable being Canadian and Senegalese and having lived in multiple African countries. Working with Emzingo exposed me to different ways of thought that showed me how clouded my judgement was, and this book further pushed the envelope by putting a mirror in front of my privilege. I agree that democratic governments and institutions need more power and trust to play the central role they did in the past, but I also believe that all sectors should work together to achieve greater impact. A change in perspective from the top 1% is crucial as well, and we need to stop multiplying the top-down initiatives to “help” the less privileged and eradicate poverty. We need to come together, from all spheres, to think about how we can achieve this. The social entrepreneurship sector is still very white and Western and needs to be decolonized. Same with the international aid and not-for-profit sector. For this to happen, we need to bring all parties to the table to design solutions that are relevant.
Clelia Cothier: The book had a lasting effect on me. Since reading it, I have had additional checks and balances in my head. I am more mindful, more careful and ask myself many questions to make sure I am not missing any blind spots. I became more aware that although intentions are good, that is not always enough: throughout my work I now try to be more critical and constructive in designing programs that will be inclusive.
Winners Take All did not help me answer all questions but brought me more good ones: I acknowledge my part in perpetuating the problem. I am a mix of confused, relieved, and frustrated. I share the ambivalence of Andrew Kassoy, co-founder of B Lab, which led to the proliferation of the Benefit Corporation model around the world. In the epilogue, reflecting on the limitations of the market-based model he helped promote globally, he concludes “I believe there is a very strong role for the state. And I don’t know how to make it happen.” As much as I want to believe in the role of the public sector, I do not think the shifts in perspectives will happen fast enough if we focus only on government actors, especially in the light of societal challenges we face and which are getting worse: climate change, migration, massive inequalities. I share Julie’s faith in a multi-sectoral approach. I believe in the strength of working together, across sectors (public, private, academic, social), valuing inclusion and diversity of actors, and bringing more humility into the process. To me, Winners Take All did not provide a short-term, concrete solution on challenging the problematic status quo, but rather is an amazing resource for deeper introspection to encourage the reframing of assumptions for aspiring changemakers.
Juniper Glass: I agree with Giridharadas’ insight that“MarketWorld-style change crowded out the habit of democracy.” But I also agree with your frustration that the book’s main conclusion is that democratic institutions need to be strengthened as the rightful locus of coordinating societal change and reducing inequalities. Giridharadas explores this notion in greatest depth with the final “character” presented in the book, Chiara Cordelli, a political philosopher (and author of another book I previously reviewed for The Philanthropist). Cordelli explains the paternalism inherent in MarketWorld elitist approaches:
“It seems to me that these days everyone wants to change the world by themselves. It’s about them; it’s about what they do. But there are other people around you, and you owe it to them to support institutions that can, in the name of everyone, including in [your] own name, secure certain conditions for a more decent life. . . You can’t speak in their name [people you are trying to help]. I can maybe speak in the name of my child, but other people are not your children (emphasis added) (p.262).”
I wholeheartedly agree that democratic processes and institutions are the rightful place for discussion and decision-making. But governments can become as elitist as MarketWorld. I think democratic institutions and public policy need to be leaders in bringing about the solutions we need, but only if in close communication (both harmonious and challenging) with civil society and social movements led by people with lived experience. Almost entirely missing from the book was any reflection on the grassroots and working classes. Real innovation cannot come about without involving these “users” or “beneficiaries,” and not just informing the design of new social innovation projects as often happens in “design thinking” contests, but having communities actually leading, directing resource use, and benefiting economically from success.
Sprinkled throughout Winners Take All are hints from Giridharadas at what a meaningful narrative of true global systems and social change should include. He does not go into depth, as that was not the mandate of the book, but I found inspiration in the glimmers of hope in each chapter. What will changing the world really take? Mostly likely all of these and more:
- Focus on addressing root causes and making systemic change;
- Power redistribution;
- Surrender by elites of excess privileges and resources;
- Holding those that “do bad” to account (not just celebrating those that “do good”); and
- Supporting and improving public institutions to be a central driver of change for the good of all.
Personally, I do not have faith that
market forces (and whichever big philanthropist feels ascendant at the moment)
will bring about the change we need for a just, sustainable, healthy future on earth.
I put my trust in collective wisdom, improved democracy, seeing and addressing
root causes, collaborative, inclusive, feminist leadership, and initiatives
that aim to bring about deep shifts in culture and systems.
The author writes about his hair in this article in The Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-am-whats-wrong-with-america_b_57b32ad4e4b0a8e1502555d4
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Zakynthos. Zakynthos, what a lovely island! Its green nature, the beautiful clear blue sea with steep rock formations, the amazing sandy beaches, the old villages, the Blue Caves, the ship wreck, the impressive Caretta-Caretta sea turtles.
Zakynthos is located in the south of the Ionian Sea and is also called "Zante," a name given by the Romans and Venetians who centuries occupied the island. They also called the island, "Il Fioro di Levante," meaning "flower of the East." Levante is also the n ame ofthe wind that blows in summer from the east and which cools the places on the east coast.
Zakynthos is also the name of the son of Dardanus, king of Troy. He's the first who built the city on the island, according to the myth. Others claim that the name is derived from the flower, "Yakinthos," which is common in Zakynthos. According to Homer, the island belonged to the kingdom of Odysseus. Homer called the island "Iliessa," which means forest.
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One of the main attractions of Zakynthos are the "Blue Caves." From Aghios Nikolaos, the most northeastern fishing town of Zakynthos, you can sail by boat to the Blue Caves. And literally, here you can take a dip in the blue water. Your skin tone turns blue during this dive, deep blue! This is, of course, an optical illusion and disappears when you come out of the water.
The Shipwreck of Zakynthos, the wreck on Navagio Beach in the northwest of the island, is one of the most photographed spots in Greece. Of course, we too wanted to see this phenomenon up close. The freightliner ran aground during a storm in 1980. When you visit the shipwreck nowadays, you will discover that unfortunately, the boat is in very poor condition and covered with grafitti.
When you approach the beach from the mountains, you can take beautiful pictures of the beach and the wreck, there is a viewpoint about 250 meters above the water where you can take pictures. The sea is beautiful clear and turquoise in color. From here above, it is spectacular and breath-taking to see. That’s why this beach is so popular and printed on many cards and calendars.
There are many beautiful beaches on Zakynthos. Which are the most popular?
Zakynthos town, is the capital of the island. The locals call the town "Chora," as often a capital is called on Greek islands. A severe earthquake nearly ruined the city in 1953. Now it is a modern town with many buildings in classical style. There are streets with arcades, churches with imposing bell towers, beautiful squares and major monuments. The port of island Zakynthos is also located in this town, from here there is direct connection to Peloponnese (Kylini).
The bay of Laganas is one of the most important ecological locations in the world, where the Caretta-Caretta turtles lay their eggs. I was very curious about this turtle and hoped to "watch" these impressive animals, but in a responsible way, where we were not intruding in their habitat. To accomplish this we boarded an ecological turtles trip, the "ECO Turtles excursion," offered by Nefis Travel in Agios Sostis.
The Dutch Jackie Boots-Gklavas of Nefis Travel, who for years has lived on Zakynthos with her Greek husband, organizes turtle-friendly trips and also gives the volunteers of the turtle protection organization an opportunity to raise awareness about these animals.
On board the boat, which is part of the Marine Park, we met volunteers from the Greek Archelon, the organization for the protection of this endangered species. The volunteers gave presentations about their important work in the "National Marine Park" on Zakynthos.
I was wondering if the promised turtles would really show up today. What makes the Loggerhead Turtles so special? The size of the Caretta-Caretta is impressive, they are as an adult, one meter (about 3 feet) long. The turtles lived in the Mediterranean long before the prehistoric times. Sixty percent of these turtles are born in Greece, and of those 40 percent are born on Zakynthos.
Every summer, from mid-May to late August, hundreds of female turtles come to lay their eggs. The weird thing about the story is that all these females come back to where they were born about 26 years earlier, to lay the eggs! That's something that we as humans, cannot understand. How do they know so exactly where they were born, because they swim all over the world. Each female turtle returns one night and lays about 120 eggs.
The turtles bury their eggs in the sand where they lie for 60 days, under the warmth of the sun before they hatch. The mother turtle does not interfere more with the eggs, but is recovering from the heavy task and, gathers energy enough to lay another batch, once more, a few weeks later.
After 60 days, the small turtles come out from their eggs, they crawl to the sea to embark on the great adventure of life. These little turtles are now on their own to survive. They have to crawl to the sea themselves. This is crucial, and they train so their muscles and lungs can sustaon them.
Some think of helping by carrying the turtle to the sea, however it doesn’t help at all, in contrary, this causes the little ones to die earlier.
When the turtles are very young, they cannot see well but they have their own "navigation" system in order to reach the sea. They go towards the light that is reflected from the moon and the stars in the sea. The natural enemy of the Caretta-Caretta is also, unfortunately, the human being with lighted cities and disco lights on beaches, which confuse the young turtles' efforts and so they can’t reach the sea.
Speed boats and fishing nets are unfortunately a cause of many deaths among the Caretta-Caretta turtles. Of the thousand of eggs hatched, there is only one turtle back after 26 years to lay eggs, most others are in their first three years of life not saved, because they are the most vulnerable, their shell is still not hardened.
Fortunately, more and more is done to protect these unique and beautiful animals.
Before we left, the first Caretta-Caretta presented itself already. It appeared to be a female, which is reflected in the small tail coming out from under the shell. A male has a longer tail.
The great lady showed her beautiful head and claimed loud enthusiasm of the passengers on the boat. Moments later, we spotted another adult turtle and admired its beauty.
All in all a fantastic opportunity and an absolute must to experience the VIP ECO turtle-spotting trip of Nefis Travel Zakynthos!
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About 6,000 girls who don't attend school in poor western regions will have the chance to develop specific skills next year, thanks to an explorative Sino-UK programme to promote gender equality in rural areas.
The programme started five years ago in six counties in the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu, and will conclude at the end of next year, having received a combined fund of 2 million pounds (US$3.49 million).
A total of 12,000 girls from these regions aged between 15 and 18 will have obtained basic skills in the areas of planting, poultry raising and embroidery, by the end of next year.
Chen Minghui, a 15-year-old girl from a remote village in Yunnan, said she is able to earn an average monthly salary of 1,600 yuan (US$198) through her embroidery work, a skill she acquired through the programme.
She also attended some other lectures offered on the programme covering topics on reproductive health and job hunting.
Girls below the age of 18 in the country, especially in western rural regions, often face discrimination in the areas of education and employment.
Growing up in a family of five depending on growing corn, Chen lost the chance to continue her education four years ago due to poverty, despite an outstanding performance in her studies.
Chen said that in her village, almost every family has two children, with at least one boy and most of the girls only having elementary school education.
"When I was in primary school the proportion of girls to boys was about 1:3," Chen said.
She followed by saying that she has gained not only life skills from the programme, but also a passion to explore the world beyond home.
"I want to find a job outside my county, maybe even outside the province," she said.
Jiang Yuee, a senior official with the All-China Women's Federation, would rather call this programme a tentative approach to addressing widespread discrimination against women in rural areas.
"I think the programme adopts a down-to-earth approach," said Jiang at a three-day national forum on opportunity development for girls in China.
Gender inequality seems to be fomenting because of social problems due to the migration of the rural population and increasing divorce rates.
"Most of the more than 20 million rural children who are left at home by their parents seeking jobs in big cities are girls," said Yang Jin, vice-director of the Ministry of Education's elementary education division.
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Textual Data- Challenges to HR
- Maybe there is no other domain or function that deals with so much text (and least data) as HR. Consider the millions of resumes and the number of lines of text in them, the number of job descriptions and lines of texts in them, and then the interview evaluation forms, training forms, performance appraisal forms and so many others where so much of text is created.
- The problem with textual data is that it is difficult to create. Not everyone is equally adept at writing text. And when forced to, we tend to be brief and may miss out important aspects. I have seen so many forms where even managers write “Good”, “Consider”, “Needs to improve” even when they are provided big boxes to write text.
- Text is losing its charm. Because of the paucity of time and our attention being drawn to so many places, we read less and less. And also communication is moving towards numbers, visuals, 140 characters, and such.
- Finally and very importantly textual data is very difficult to crunch. How easy can it be to compare two resumes say of even 2 pages each? Mind will be required to pick some keywords from the first, store them in its mind, read the next, pick the keywords from that and now do a comparison on text between the two.
So what can be done?
- We can reduce text in HR drastically, at least the free text. Instead we can have words and phrases that people can pick to express information, comments, feedback and such.
- Such use of words and phrases will help make it easy for the person expressing them and those who are crunching information say, HR or Recruiters to understand and appreciate.
- Finally such a structured, simple and normalized information model will lead to better flow of information and utility of the same.
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On January 22, 2014, Environment New Hampshire's Madeline Page and Travis Madsen gave oral and written testimony before the New Hampshire House Energy, Science and Technology Committee in support of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Full written testimony below:
On October 12th, 2020 a coalition of groups sent a letter urging Whole Foods to take bold action on reducing plastic waste. Now, an even larger number of groups are writing to reiterate the need for action and to demonstrate the breadth of support for Whole Foods to put Planet Over Plastic by eliminating all single-use plastic packaging from its stores.
Today, we face a plastic pollution crisis that threatens wildlife, wild places, and the health and wellbeing of our communities. Whole Foods’ efforts to reduce its plastic footprint, which include recycling and lightweight plastic initiatives, must be expanded to remove single-use plastic items from its shelves.
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Primary Care Outreach & Support Services
Supporting Carers in our community is essential, but sometimes they're overlooked.
It’s not always apparent that someone has taken on the role of caring, so it’s crucial that we help other healthcare professionals identify Carers so that they can receive the support they need and deserve.
Who is this service for?
We work with Primary Care Networks across South Tees, to encourage professionals to identify Carers and support them in their caring role.
Our dedicated Primary Care Link Workers work alongside Primary Care services to meet the aims of the NHS long term plan to grant Carers greater recognition and support, so that their own health and wellbeing needs are addressed.
Primary care services include
- general practices
- community pharmacies
- dental and optometry services
- any other service that provides first point of contact for Carers in the healthcare system
What we can do to help you
We work with primary care services to
- identify Carers at the first point of contact
- raise awareness of the We Care You Care carers support platform
- provide information on commissioned services or community-based services for support
- signpost staff to relevant Carers awareness training
- signpost Carers to relevant services for support
- develop Primary Care Carers Champions
The benefits of our support
We can support practices to become Carer friendly by using a quality marker assessment and offering support and guidance to achieve a Carers friendly status.
Quality markers include:
- identification and registration of Carers - how does the practice proactively identify Carers?
- holistic support - how does the practice use its Carers Register to support Carer health and wellbeing?
- in practice support - how does the practice understand and promote the needs of Carers within the practice?
- appointments and access - how does the practice make it easier to access services?
- information, involvement and communication - how does the practice inform, involve and communicate with Carers?
- awareness and culture - how does the practice promote a Carer friendly culture?
How can you access this service?
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Let’s start with an obvious but important point: I don’t know what Terry Pratchett’s view on the gender politics of 2021 would be. No one does. The much-beloved Discworld author died in 2015.
Being dead, however, hasn’t stopped Pratchett being drawn into the increasingly vicious row over trans rights, which was supercharged last year when JK Rowling plunged headfirst into the debate by claiming that gender identity doesn’t overrule a person’s biological sex. Pratchett’s name was invoked after a Twitter user went viral on 30 July for claiming that “the GCs” (Gender Criticals – a name adopted by those arguing against some trans rights on the basis of biological sex) “are trying to recruit Terry Pratchett posthumously”.
The Gender Criticals’ argument seemed to be that Pratchett’s down-to-earth style and indomitable and expertly drawn female characters suggest the author would have been sympathetic to their views. Pratchett’s daughter, Rhianna, responded: “my father would most definitely not be a GC if he was still alive. Read. The. Books.” Pratchett’s friend and collaborator Neil Gaiman backed her up, recalling the author’s pride that trans people saw themselves in his dwarf characters, who are boxed into identifying as male, regardless of their actual gender, by social convention. The intervention of Gaiman and the younger Pratchett, who between them have nearly three million Twitter followers, sparked a social media storm that soon went viral.
I revisited all 60 of his novels and read hundreds of articles and interviews when researching my biography of Terry Pratchett. Even with all of that swimming around my head I wouldn’t dream of second guessing his views on this issue, and not just because predicting the opinions of someone who has been dead for six years is a fairly pointless exercise. The way he approached social issues in his books evolved over time. By 2014, when he completed his final novel, the tone of his work had grown far away from the more thinly sketched fantasy satires of the 1980s. It would still be evolving. When he wrote the third Discworld novel, Equal Rites, in 1987, the tale of a young girl who wants to break into the male-only world of wizardry, he specifically said that it wasn’t a feminist story, and that the character Granny Weatherwax (one of his greatest creations) wasn’t helping her young charge because she genuinely thought women should be wizards – she was doing so out of stubbornness because someone had told her she couldn’t.
Indeed, many of his jokes and stories take aim at PC culture, like the “Campaign For Equal Heights” that advocates for rights for dwarves and gnomes but is mostly run by over-earnest humans, or the undead activist Reg Shoe, who goes to cemeteries to beg his fellow corpses to “not take it lying down”. Back on Earth, rather than the Discworld, the teenage protagonists of 1993’s Johnny and the Dead struggle to make sense of a world where acceptable language is always changing: “you’re not allowed to call them dinosaurs anymore,” says one. “You have to call them pre-petroleum persons”.
And yet, as Pratchett’s writing became more sophisticated, the analogies and ideas became more nuanced. Monstrous Regiment (2003) deals with desperate teenage girls disguising themselves as boys to join the army, and has an emphatically queer-coded, beautifully written relationship between two young women simmering in the background. By the end of the story (and this is a massive spoiler, so look away if you’ve not read this one) the formidable Sergeant Jackrum is revealed to have been a woman all along, but decides to continue to live his life as a man, going back to his home town to meet the son he gave up and introduce himself as a long-lost father. His biology doesn’t come into it – Pratchett simply allows him to be who he is.
One pertinent seam running through the Discworld books involves dwarves. Pratchett has some fun riffing off an aside in Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings – that male and female dwarves are identical down to the beards (“Dwarf courtship involves, in delicate and circumspect ways, finding out what sex the other Dwarf actually is”). However, as is typical in his writing, what starts as a throwaway gag soon becomes a thematic focus: what if a dwarf wanted to embrace their femininity in a male-presenting society that has no separate gender identities or gendered pronouns?
Enter the character of Cheery “Cheri” Littlebottom in Feet of Clay (1996), who scandalises dwarf society by declaring herself female, sparking something of a social revolution. Pratchett uses the journey of dwarves “coming out” as women to explore the idea of restrictive, deeply traditional cultures that allow for no deviation from the norm. There are all sorts of real-world analogies there, from fundamentalist religion to – yes – gender conformity. Pratchett always called the Discworld a “world and mirror of worlds”, and what we see there is usually a cracked and revealing reflection of ourselves.
[See also: How Marvel conquered culture]
“Seeing yourself” is, of course, the reason there is such contention about what Pratchett truly thought. You take away from books what you bring to them, and often the reader’s views are confirmed rather than challenged, regardless of the author’s intention. If a “gender critical” reader wanted to find support in Pratchett’s novels, they probably could. You’re supposed to work it out for yourself. One of the main themes – perhaps the main theme – of Pratchett’s huge body of work is that ultimately your life is your own; that no one can tell you what to think or who to be. There is a burning fury at injustice at the heart of his best writing, and it’s always fuelled by the policing of someone else’s agency. The very worst sin, as Granny Weatherwax herself says in 1999’s Carpe Jugulum, is to “treat people like things”.
We cannot know Pratchett’s views on the gender wars, but we can assume they would be insightful, compassionate and wise. He knew that people were nuanced and complicated, messy and changeable, that there are no simple answers, no meaning of life. People are not fundamentally good or bad, but “fundamentally people”.
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On Monday, Palestinan president Mahmoud Abbas met with Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour in Cairo. The visit to the country was Abbas’s first since the military overthrow of former president Mohamed Mursi, and it is dedicated to talks about the bilateral Palestinian-Egypt relationship and the renewed negotiations between Israel and Palestine.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation of Palestinian officials arrived in Cairo on Monday on the first diplomatic visit in the country since the change of government in July this year. Upon arriving, the delegation met with Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour and deputy minister Mohamed El-Baradei.
Last month’s political turmoil in Egypt, that resulted in a military overthrow of former President Mohamed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood government, has created certain challenges to the Palestine-Egypt relations.
The Palestinian Hamas party has been accused by Egypt of having ideological connections to the overthrown Muslim Brotherhood.
Since the change of government, Egypt has closed the Rafah border crossing to Gaza as well as 80% of the tunnels used to transport goods into the isolated land strip, an action that has resulted in losses of millions of American dollars, according to PNN.
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By Patricia B. Mirasol
I Am the Change in Climate Change, a children’s book written by geology professor Alyssa M. Peleo-Alampay, shows how sustainability and climate change can be tackled at an individual level.
Stewardship of the earth is taught in schools, said Ms. Peleo-Alampay, but not in a way that makes students feel that they can be part of the solution.
“The most important takeaway should be that the climate change we are experiencing today as global warming is not going to go away in our lifetime. It will take the earth some time to adjust since the change has already started,” she told BusinessWorld in an e-mail, adding that the Philippines is a country which is and will continue to be among the worst hit by global warming and climate change.
“The message of being good to, and taking care of, the earth will help improve our way of life for the present and the immediate future for our generation. It is a win-win situation.”
Aimed at children between six and twelve, the book includes interactive activities, environmental lessons, and illustrations by members of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan, a local association of artists.
It was produced with the help of Union Bank of Switzerland, which is also distributing the book in the communities it supports.
STARTING THEM YOUNG
Greenpeace Philippines campaigner Marian Ledesma said it’s never too early to educate children on climate change and sustainability, including through hands on-activities.
“Address misconceptions at an early age,” she said in a separate e-mail. “Allow kids to create their own content. You can get an idea of how they understand environmental problems and engage them from there.”
Filipinos are starting to walk the talk when it comes to sustainability, and companies are taking note. Corporations such as Monde Nissin, for instance, are giving their product development and innovation plans a health and sustainability emphasis by offering meat alternatives like Quorn, for example.
Others firms, like building solutions provider Holcim Philippines, Inc., are offering more environment-friendly products such as blended cement.
Meanwhile, a 2021 survey by GlobeScan, an insight and strategy consultancy, noted that only 24% of experts believe the pandemic will make sustainability a lower priority, down from 49% in 2020.
A third of respondents also think that more attention will be given to the environment because of the pandemic.
As a Singaporean respondent from Singapore put it, “If the world can find the money to deal with the economic and health impacts of the pandemic, it must do the same for the climate crisis.”
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Acai Berries benefits to your immune system can’t be over stated. Among the most significant methods your body has is the immune system. With this system out, the tiniest little germs or virus floating around the surroundings would kill you. Life in the world could be completely wiped out in a few days, if everybody’s immunity went away.
So obviously, it’s essential to protect it. Fortunately, there are lots of things you can do to safeguard your immune system from damage. And to keep it in its most powerful. Getting a great deal of rest, and decreasing your stress level goes a long way towards security of the crucial disease fighting function. As does eating fresh vegetables and fruits. But what if you diet isn’t sufficient? What if you would like to give your body extra security? Fortunately, one of the ways to protect your self is extremely straightforward.
Supplementing your diet with Acai Berry juice might be exactly what you will need to keep your body efficient at fighting disease. One of the body’s major protections from disease is actually its main organ. This is of course your skin. Your skin provides a barrier that helps to keep germs, bacteria and parasites outside. Vitamin A has been demonstrated to be a superb supplement in protecting your skin. Besides keeping you looking good.
Most individuals know that Vitamin C is very important to good health. 100’s of years back, sailors would become extremely sick and die due to scurvy, which is brought on by a deficiency of vitamin C. Also, who has not heard that you need to drink orange juice for those who have a cold? This is due to the vitamin C that’s present from the Orange Juice. Well, Acai berry has a much greater concentration of Vitamin C, than lemon juice. Free radicals are called contaminants which roam around your bloodstream searching for cells to attach to.
Antioxidants have been demonstrated to attach themselves to those free radicals. Then remove them safely in the body. Acai berry has among the greatest degrees of anti-oxidants of any food on earth. This marvellous berry is also packed with fiber and omega 6 and 9 fatty acids. All of which are shown beneficial for your health. A healthy immune system is crucial to good health. And makes it possible to avoid disease and get over viruses faster when they happen.
Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fiber all help preserve a health immune system. As with any diet modification, you need to talk with your physician. But, Acai berry is a fruit, exactly like an apple or a banana. It just happens to be high in vitamins and antioxidants than many. Keeping a strong immune system can allow you to enjoy your life more, as you will spend less time sick. Do what you can to keep it strong. | <urn:uuid:fe402a01-eda3-4568-bf17-5ffb2a476d0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nomadli.st/does-acai-berry-benefits-your-immune-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.961704 | 595 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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With circumcision comes apprehension. Although it is a proven fact that the pros of circumcision outweigh its cons by a great margin, people still have varied opinions about the procedure.
These differences in opinion have led to a never-ending debate. One of the most common questions people debate about is if circumcision is good or bad.
Male circumcision is an operative procedure to remove the covering of the tip of the penis. This covering of skin is called the foreskin. This of course makes one imagine it to be a painful procedure with lots of discomforts. But those days are gone. Today the scenario regarding male circumcision has changed and we will further tell you how.
The good aspects of circumcision
Well, to clear the air about male circumcision, we want to bring to your knowledge that male circumcision is not just a religious practice, but a medical procedure too. Many medical organizations and doctors agree that circumcision has numerous medical benefits and can even act as a treatment procedure for certain conditions.
Getting circumcised can make your life much easier. It can prevent as well as cure a number of penile problems and save you from a lot of pain and complications.
Let’s get an insight into the benefits of circumcision.
- Easier to maintain cleanliness- It is quite obvious that maintaining the hygiene of a circumcised penis is way too simpler than an uncircumcised penis. No extra efforts needed, just wash your penis every day and that would suffice. Very easy!
- Prevents and cures foreskin-related issues- We can’t tell you enough about the importance of this point! Circumcision is the prevention and treatment procedure of many foreskin-related problems like tight foreskin, paraphimosis (stuck foreskin). Circumcision even helps in getting rid of inflammatory conditions of the penis such as balanitis, and balanoposthitis.
- Reduces the risk of urinary tract infections– When the foreskin of the penis is tight or inflamed, there are high chances of catching a UTI. Whereas in the circumcised condition, it is simpler to wash away any harmful microbes and smegma building upon the penis.
- Saves you and your partner from sexually transmitted infections– Recent studies have shown that circumcision reduces the risk of sexually transmitted infections like syphilis, gonorrhea, etc. significantly. Not only does it save you from STIs, but it also reduces the risk of cervical cancer and HPV in your partner too.
- Penile cancer keeps away- Infant male circumcision reduces the risk of penile cancer to a great extent. According to researches, if a male child is circumcised as an infant, the risk of penile cancer reduces by about 90 percent.
You must have understood here that circumcision is not bad. All these positive aspects of the procedure are clear enough to point out its need in today’s day and age.
Yes, the stories of painful experiences after open circumcision have been common. And similar is the case of the postoperative complications. This is why many men take a step back being hesitant about circumcision. Many people might consider open surgery for circumcision as ‘bad’. That is why it becomes our priority to tell you that there is no such complications and pain associated with the modern-laser circumcision
Laser circumcision is no less than good news for you. You might not have heard of it before. Getting to know about laser circumcision here will shatter your fear of pain and complications that you may have heard so far.
Benefits of modern circumcision (laser procedure)
The benefits of modern circumcision will allow you to understand the simplicity and efficacy of the procedure. So, in case you have to undergo circumcision, you will be able to figure out the best choice for you.
Laser circumcision is a state of the art procedure which is known for its minimally invasive yet very effective nature. The entire procedure takes only 10-15 minutes and is absolutely pain-free. Laser circumcision does not carry out any big incisions and does not leave behind any wounds or scars. There is minimal bleeding and the risk of complications during or after the surgery is nil.
Unlike open surgery, there is no swelling or pain in the penile region after laser circumcision. You just need to take a few precautions and there won’t be any major discomforts.
The best part about laser circumcision is that it ensures fast and smooth recovery. No long downtime after the procedure, you can get back to your normal routine in 2-3 days and live a happy and healthy life.
When do you need to undergo circumcision?
Although it is a personal decision whether or not to undergo circumcision, there are certain conditions in which circumcision becomes an absolute necessity.
For instance, in cases of prolonged and severe phimosis or paraphimosis, it is very much possible that all other treatment options fail to work and the only option left is to get circumcised. In such cases, you should not ignore or delay the procedure. Delaying treatment in this condition can give rise to serious complications and further add to your misery. (Also read: Why should phimosis be cured?)
Any severe or prolonged inflammatory condition of the foreskin and the glans also requires circumcision. It is certainly the permanent solution for those going through these miseries every day.
Therefore, if your doctor suggests circumcision for your condition, do not take it casually.
The ‘good’ or ‘bad’ conclusion
Hopefully, we have bust some myths around circumcision in your mind. It is clear by now that circumcision is a good procedure for medical necessity. All that you have read here about circumcision is absolutely credible. You can even get reassurance on this from a specialist.
On the last note, we just want you to take that step for your health if you identify yourself with any of the earlier mentioned penile problems. So, please reach out to a specialist doctor to get rid of any penile problems. Stay aware, stay confident, and stay healthy. Nothing comes before your health. | <urn:uuid:5c30879f-f595-426d-b1a6-355ed2a7853b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pristyncare.com/blog/is-circumcision-good-or-bad-pc0441/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948898 | 1,234 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Humans and prairie voles are among the 3-5% of mammals known to have monogamous relationships. Now, a study looking at prairie voles has found that when it comes to bonding, longing may be just as important as being together.
For the study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder used small cameras and technology known as in-vivo-calcium imaging to observe the brains of dozens of voles at three-time intervals. These were when they were meeting another vole, three days after they mated, and 20 days after they had practically ‘moved in’ together. They also observed how these voles interacted with others besides their partners.
Previous research has shown that when humans hold hands with a romantic partner as opposed to a stranger, their nucleus accumbens, the part of the brain for processing rewards, activates similarly to when using heroin or cocaine. To the researcher’s surprise, however, these findings were not present in voles. Whether with a stranger or a partner, the voles’ brains looked practically the same.
The researchers did nevertheless find differences in the voles’ brains while running to meet their partners. These differences were marked by the nucleus accumbens lighting up. They also found that the longer the voles had been together, the more this brain region would light up. Meanwhile, while approaching strangers, a completely different set of cells lit up.
The researchers suspect that chemicals such as oxytocin, dopamine, and vasopressin, all known for establishing closeness in animals and humans, are involved in this process. But how exactly they interact with the clusters of cells that lit up remains unknown.
Whether the same findings are present in humans also remains unknown until further research is conducted. The researchers nevertheless say that the study shows that monogamous animals are uniquely hardwired to be with one partner. | <urn:uuid:85a8ba3d-5979-4d1d-abb4-67e31142cc3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.labroots.com/trending/neuroscience/17592/brain-hard-wired-longing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.975971 | 387 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Here’s a brief set of success patterns I’ve shared with a few colleagues.
These are the patterns I see that make a difference in getting results.
1. Success Pattern #1 – Listen Empathically
Empathic listening is listening until “the other person feels they’ve been heard. “
Once they feel heard, they’re more likely to listen to you. You can do this 1:1 or in a large meeting.
Stephen Covey uses an “Indian Talking Stick.” The person with the stick talks until they feel heard.
A former Softie told me his team used an eraser as “the mutex.”
2. Success Pattern #2 – Establish Rapport Before Influence
This is true whether it’s a presentation, interview … etc..
For example, go to a comedy club and see how the comedian gets the crowd laughing only after they have rapport.
3. Success Pattern #3 – Remember that Character Trumps Emotion Trumps Logic
If you base all your arguments on logic, but fail to persuade, now you know.
4. Success Pattern #4 – Match Their Style
You don’t have to go overboard, but a little bridge can go along way.
If somebody is visual, could you whiteboard it for them? If somebody’s detail oriented, can you provide the details?
If somebody needs to hear action, can you turn your ideas into action?
5. Success Pattern #5 – Ask WIIFY (What’s In It For You)
Ask the question What’s In It For You?
If you’re a marketer, this might come natural for you.
If you’re an engineer, this might feel weird.
It’s about shifting the focus from the thing to the person.
If nobody shows up to your meetings, tailor the invite to be explicit about what’s in it for the attendees.
6. Success Pattern #6 – Distinguish Between Responsibility and Authority
Know whether you influence a decision or own it.
When you don’t have authority, but you need to get results, leverage the model in the book Influence without Authority.
7. Success Pattern #7 – Turn Chickens into Pigs
A pig’s committed while a chicken’s involved.
Don’t let a chicken have a controlling vote on your project’s future, without turning them into a pig.
8. Success Pattern #8 – Adapt, Adjust, or Avoid Situations
Learn how to read situations. Some situations you should just avoid.
Some situations you should adapt yourself, as long as you play to your strengths.
Some situations you should adjust the situation to set yourself up for success.
9. Success Pattern #9 – Know the System
Analyze the problem from a system standpoint.
What are the components and subsystems?
What are the inputs and outputs?
Who are the players?
What levers can you pull that make the most impact?
If you don’t know, who does?
10. Success Pattern #10 – Analyze It Over Time
Look at the problem or solution over time.
Build your temporal skills.
The more you play “what ifs” in the future, the easier it gets to anticipate.
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Its new pouches are made from mono-polypropylene, which is not suitable for standard at-home recycling but can be recycled through flexible plastic collection schemes.
Can rice pouches be recycled?
We recently launched a new range of dry rice blends in 375g cartons that are 100% recyclable. … The laminate part of pouch which is in contact with food cannot be made of recycled content but we are looking into whether the other layers can be.
Is Uncle Ben’s packaging recyclable?
In fact, we’ve committed to 100% of our packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025 alongside a 25% reduction in virgin plastic (vs 2015).
Can food pouches be recycled?
Take your pouches, along with any other soft plastics to your nearest participating supermarket and drop them into the REDcycle bin.
Can plastic pouches be recycled?
Most plastic bags, like grocery bags, produce bags, newspaper bags, zipper sandwich bags, and some cereal bags can be recycled through Store Drop-Off.
Can you recycle sachets?
Paper Sachet – Recyclable Sachet
Widely Recyclable – pop it in with the paper in your home recycling box. Packaging eligible to display a recycling symbol.
Can I recycle Capri Sun pouches?
Capri-Sun’s ongoing commitment to recycling and eco-friendly packaging. Since 1969, Capri-Sun, has been firmly committed to reducing the environmental impact of our packaging. … Although the pouch consists of very thin layers of foil and plastic, it is recyclable through a process that separates the different materials.
How do you recycle Capri Suns?
If you pack any drink pouches, such as Capri Sun, Tropicana or Honest Kids pouches, make sure they get tossed in the trash, along with their straws and plastic packaging. Drink pouches are not recyclable.
Can you recycle applesauce pouches?
Gerber says that both its current and future fruit pouches can be recycled with the technology at play there, which involves sophisticated optical sorting systems. Material from the pouches can be turned into plastic pellets or industrial materials such as composite lumber or roofing.
How do you recycle pouch caps?
TerraCycle GoGo squeeZ® Recycling Program
You can collect empty food pouches and ship them for free to the GoGo squeeZ® Recycling Program, a free recycling and fundraising program that collects any brand of plastic pouch, as well as the caps.
Are Milk cartons recyclable?
Cartons are made mainly from paper, with a thin layer of polyethylene (plastic), so cartons can be recycled. Milk, soup, and milk alternatives, like soy and almond milk, are just some of the products packaged in cartons that are recyclable in your blue box or container cart!
Can you recycle Styrofoam?
Can “Styrofoam” be recycled? … Although you may think it’s recyclable because of the chasing arrows symbol, the truth is, with some exceptions, those foam egg cartons, meat trays, peanuts, or any other type of EPS are not recyclable in your curbside recycling cart.
Can you recycle yogurt pouches?
Yoghurt. Squeeze pouches of yoghurt may be popular items, but in most cases they are unrecyclable, says Collins. “Take a look at the pouch inside and outside and if you see the material it’s made from is a combination of foil and plastic, it will need to go into general rubbish.” | <urn:uuid:12a09928-d558-4d87-a0c4-49fcdeec82a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldctx.com/garbage-dump/can-you-recycle-microwave-rice-packets.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.918647 | 785 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Chapter advisers are encouraged to submit details of successful projects and activities, along with photographs.
Examples of chapter activities include:
- Offering an hour of tutoring per week on request to undergraduate students
- Sponsoring study sessions for students in engineering and computer courses
- Conducting book drives to enrich on-campus and community libraries with current engineering publications
- Writing grant proposals for equipment purchases that would improve engineering technology instruction
Chapters are also encouraged to participate in service-related activities, and student members should be encouraged to take the lead on chapter activities, with advisers available for guidance. Some examples of service activities include:
- Assisting local nonprofits and schools with tutoring primary and secondary school students with STEM.
- Toy and book drives for underrepresented communities.
- Sponsoring a run to benefit a charity (such an activity would both benefit a charity and bring awareness to the Tau Alpha Pi chapter).
Student leaders are encouraged to initiate conferences or workshops. ASEE is available to assist with planning, and advisers should make themselves available for guidance.
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A New Kind of Analysis, by Jennifer MacDonald
A NEW KIND OF ANALYSIS
Jennifer MacDonald, Smyrna High School
When I was first asked by my administration to consider signing up for the Delaware Writing Project, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I assumed it would be more work on the SAT analysis prompt. I am quite thankful that I was wrong. The idea of doing an analysis that connected canonical texts to modern societal issues made the prompt appealing to both me as a grader and my students as the writers.
To give context, my group based the Delaware Writing Project essay off of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The prompt asked students to consider how a play from the 1950s, based in 1692, could still remain relevant today and what warning it might send to a present audience.Students seemed to like the prompt for the essay. I gave it out on the second day of reviewing The Crucible (after Act 1) so that they would have some guidance in the reading. It actually led to some great discussions during the rest of the reading because students were already beginning to compare character actions and decisions to news stories and events they’ve witnessed in today’s world. At the end of the reading, we brainstormed as a class how this remains relevant. I was really surprised at how many topics my students considered! Some of the most powerful topics brought up were the power of false accusations and how it can be career ending, how public opinion sometimes seems to take the place of the courtroom and true justice, and how teenagers are sometimes oppressed and then leap to extreme behaviors when set free (ie: college). We also discussed the effects of mass hysteria, specifically in the medical world and political world, scapegoats, and the desire to purify or whitewash a community from “undesirables” like the homeless, people of color, immigrants, etc.
When surveyed, one student suggested adding more time to the brainstorm session and perhaps having a Socratic circle on the reading and prompt ideas before beginning the writing piece of the unit. Student interest was much higher than usual for a typical argumentative essay, most likely because students could make it relevant to their own interests in the world. At the end of the project, I had students rate the prompt on a scale of 1 – 10 in terms of interest and relatability. Students rated the prompt on a scale of 1 to 10 from 3 – 10, with 68% scoring it at a 7 or higher. 1.5% rated the essay as a 3, 4.55% as a 4, 12% as a 5, 14% as a 6, 36% as a 7, 15% as an 8, 6% as a 9, and 11% as a 10. There were two students that liked the prompt but suggested a more interesting text than The Crucible; another 2 felt the prompt could use more clarification. I also had two students suggest more writing time in the future, and more time to analyze the text itself. This was a survey of 66 students.
Throughout the reading of The Crucible and the writing of the essay, I had my students regularly write judgment-free responses. Students did not like the notebook time that was based on broad images. They felt it was “too elementary” and “basic.” They didn’t see the point, even after discussion tied the overarching theme to the text itself. Buy-in was low here. They did, however, like responding to the quick writes or rhetorical analysis of The Crucible. I have a feeling that they were more comfortable with this because it was more like what we normally do in class. Despite student complaints, they did very well responding to the notebook time prompts. They also did well responding to the prompts on The Crucible itself.
On day three of the warm up notebook time, students finally began to come around. They particularly enjoyed the “work place revenge” statistics and did a great job connecting these back to themes from The Crucible. At the end, 55% of my students said they felt that they benefited from the warm ups, 29% said they did not benefit, and 16% said they didn’t benefit but they still enjoyed doing the writings. 11% felt strongly enough against the warm ups that they suggested either not using them in the future, or changing the warm ups in some way.
THE MINI-LESSONS: Successes and Thoughts for Next Time
Once the reading of The Crucible was finished and we had finished our brainstorming, we went into the mini-lessons on writing. My group had a total of 8 mini-lessons on the following topics: writing introductions, thesis statements, using evidence, writing conclusions, writing counterclaims, working with parenthetical comments, using rhetorical questions, and making use of the “magic three” in writing.
The first four mini-lessons (thesis, introductions, evidence, and conclusion) came after we had finished reading and discussing The Crucible. The class before, we wrapped up our review of the text and had our discussion on how this play could still be relevant in today’s world. For homework, students had to craft an outline for the essay that included a thesis statement, topic sentences and a general idea of what evidence to use from the play and from contemporary society. I started the lesson off by having students take out their outlines during the review of the thesis statements. I reviewed thesis statements via PowerPoint and a handout that had the mentor texts on it. I verbally reviewed what made a good position or concession thesis and then gave students time to read the mentor texts and supply commentary on what made the thesis work well in pairs. I then took student volunteer responses to share out what it was that made these thesis statements work. For an AP class, this assignment was fine. I would not use this for my CP students as an introduction to thesis statement writing. I feel that it would be better to already have the explanations on why these statements worked upfront. This way students know what to model in the future. In my AP class, I extensively covered thesis statement types at the beginning of the year and reinforce it each marking period. Since we are now in the third marking period, this was a review rather than introductory information.
Once we finished reviewing the thesis statements from the mentor texts, I had students go into their outline and begin revising the thesis statement while I went around the room to give advice. Students that finished early were told to begin typing their introductory paragraphs. Checking the thesis statements took about ten minutes and went well.
At this point, most of my students were ready to start writing their introductions while a few early finishers had already started. I brought the class back together as a whole group to then review the mini-lesson on introductions. This lesson went very well as presented on the board. I also included the PowerPoint to this lesson on the Google Classroom assignment page for future student reference. This was apparently a good idea since I saw several students taking pictures of the slides before I reminded them to check Google Classroom. The fact that they wanted pictures of the information on the slides though tells me that this was good information for them. Once we finished reviewing the mentor texts in this mini-lesson, I gave them ten minutes to start on their introductions. If this were a CP class, I would extend the time to at least thirty; since this is an AP class that is well versed in timed writing, it
felt like a good amount of time. While students were writing, I circulated around the class to offer help when needed.
After the ten minutes, we then jumped into choosing evidence. Looking back, I wish I had done this lesson out of order before they wrote their outlines. I think it would have helped them choose their evidence prior to writing the outlines and would have given them a more detailed outline to draft their essays. After reviewing the information and mentor texts, I gave students time again to jump back into writing. This is where the lesson got a little wonky in my opinion. I gave students the rest of class minus fifteen minutes to work. The last fifteen minutes I called them back to cover the mini-lesson on conclusions. It didn’t feel organic to the writing process since not a single student was ready to write their conclusion, but I felt like I needed to still cover it then and there since homework was to finish writing the first rough draft. In the future, I will probably cover conclusions on the second day of drafting and just have students write an introduction and body paragraphs for homework. Once again though, since this was an AP class, a lot of this part felt like review and it didn’t seem to throw the students off.
Covering four mini-lessons in one day was a bit much. I know that we originally thought of introductions and thesis as one mini-lesson, but I feel that they are in reality, two different concepts that deserve to be split. So moving forward, I would suggest doing the choosing evidence lesson before students do their outlines, then covering thesis statements and introduction lessons on day one of drafting, and then cover some of the voice and conclusion lessons on the next day of writing.
The next day, we covered three mini-lessons (counterclaims, rhetorical questions, and parenthetical comments). This was much more doable than the previous lessons.
The counterclaim and refutation lesson went really well. I had already reviewed counterclaims with my students, but showing them the three different examples gave them different ways of looking at how to present them. It was also one of the first times my students actually got the idea that a counterclaim didn’t have to be its own separate paragraph and that they could have multiple counterclaims sprinkled throughout the essay with refutations used as reinforcement.
Rhetorical questions and parenthetical comments also went well. I approached both of these lessons as suggestions for students to use in their writing, but not necessarily a requirement like the other lessons. I will do the same when I cover the mini-lesson on the use of three. I asked my classes how many of them felt that they sometimes repeated themselves over and over in their writing. As expected, multiple hands went up. I then made the point that if they feel like they are repeating themselves, imagine how it feels to be a reader reading 70 essays that are on the same topic and all repeating themselves. After a good laugh, I suggested using these suggestions as a way to make their papers more individualistic. I made the statement, “I want to read Sarah’s paper, then Parthena’s. Not paper #63 and #64.” They seemed to get the idea.
My last day of the mini-lessons focused on the use of threes. Of the three stylistic choices (rhetorical questions, parenthetical comments, and the use of three), I found this to be the one students felt most comfortable using. Next time, I would probably suggest covering the three style mini-lessons together. In order to accommodate the changes suggested below, this is my suggested “new” timeline: Cover intro, thesis, and conclusion on day 1; choosing evidence, counterclaims on day 2; rhetorical questions, parenthetical comments, and the use of three on day 3. The three style lessons were the most
preferred lessons by students because they felt like it was “new” material and practice at authentic writing.
Originally, my group had decided that we would also have a mini-lesson on dashes. I was unable to teach the mini-lesson on dashes because I did not have access to it by the time I was ready to deliver it. Since I felt that it could potentially become redundant to the use of parenthetical commentary mini-lesson, I decided this wasn’t a major concern.
At the end of the mini-lessons, 78% of the students said the information was useful; 12% said it was not, and 10% were neutral. One student suggested frontloading the unit and teaching all 8 mini-lessons in one day before the writing started because they then felt “rushed” during the writing process.
At the end of the day, so to speak, I found this project to be quite eye-opening. Students surprised me with how many different angles they took to answer the same prompt. Even though we read the same play and discussed the same details, each student had a different takeaway, and this was reflected in their writing. The best moment of this project would have to be during the teacher conference day – it was absolutely amazing seeing how far my students had come and what it had done for their confidence. What surprised me the most about this project was the length of student writing. Most of my essays were between 3 and 5 pages. I did not give students a page limit or word count requirement, and previous essays were about 2 pages in length, maybe 2 and a half for a “really developed” paper. I never would have imagined some of my “lazy” 1-page writers to suddenly turn in a 3 or 4 page paper – and to do it entirely on their own!
My most challenging moment of this project would be dealing with the mixed responses I received from students on the single-point rubric. I liked using the single point rubric while helping students in the drafting process. I felt like I was able to quickly read student essays and give them valid feedback by checking off what they had and what they were missing without becoming an editor or just a proofreader. However, quite a few students wanted to know what the essay would score if it were in the final drafting stage. I found this frustrating because I didn’t want them to focus so much on a “magic score” rather than on improving their writing in general.
Overall, I found the writing project to be quite influential on my teaching practices, not just in regards to analytical writing, but all writing instruction. Giving students mentor texts – real mentor texts – has been a great resource. I found myself continuing to find mentors for other prompts throughout the marking period and I plan to continue doing so for the remainder of the year. Ideally, I’ll be able to add to this list over the summer to have a decent selection to pick and choose from as needed. | <urn:uuid:68ff6995-0e7e-47b4-9889-2b25c3ad60c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dwp.udel.edu/2019/08/13/a-new-kind-of-analysis-by-jennifer-macdonald/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.981553 | 2,999 | 2.453125 | 2 |
6 (Kilometers, km) - unit for measure
distances, lengths, heights and widths in Metric Units. One kilometer is equal
to 39370.0787402 inches.
On this page we consider in detail all variants for convert 6 kilometers to inches and all opportunities how to convert kilometers with usage comprehensive examples, related charts and conversion tables for kilometers. Here you will find all the ways for calculating and converting kilometers in inches and back. If you want to know how many inches are in 6 kilometers you can obtain the answer in several ways:
To indicate kilometers, we will use the abbreviation "km" to indicate inches we will use the abbreviation "in". All options to convert "km" to "in" we will look more detail in individual topics below. So, we're starting explore all avenues of transformation six kilometers and conversions between kilometers and inches.
To convert 6 kilometers into inches we consider using the online converter on the web page. The online converter has very simple interface and will help us quickly convert our kilometers. The online kilometer converter has an adaptive shape for different devices and therefore for monitors it looks like the left and right input fields but on tablets and mobile phones it looks like the top and bottom input fields. If you want convert any kilometer values, you must only enter required value in the left (or top) input field and automatically you get the result in the right (or bottom) field. Under each field you see a more detailed result of the calculation and the coefficient of 39370.0787402 which is used in the calculations. The big green string, under the input fields - "6 Kilometers = 236220.472441 Inches" further enhances and shows final result of the conversion. Calculator for converting units of measurement works symmetrically in both directions. If you enter any value in any field, you will get the result in the opposite field. Clicking on the arrow icons between the input fields you can swap the fields and perform other calculations. We are all made for easily converting any values between kilometers and inches.
Results conversion 6 kilometers into inches. 6 kilometers to "in" is equal to 236220.472441 inches.
If you came to this page, you already see the result work of the online calculator. In the left (or top) field you see the value of 6 "km" on the right (or bottom) box you see the value of result is equal to 236220.472441 "in". Write briefly: 6 "km" = 236220.472441 "in"
We have briefly reviewed how to use the unit Converter on this page, but this is only part of the features of the page service. We made an interesting possibility to compute all possible values for units of measure in the lower tables. These tables are used to convert basic units of measurement: Metric conversion chart, US Survey conversion chart, International conversion chart, Astronomical conversion chart. Please, find these 4 tables at the bottom of this page they have the headers:
To answer this question, we start with a brief definition of kilometer and inch, and their purpose. The kilometer and inch units of length which can be converted one to another using a conversion factor which is equal to 39370.0787402. This coefficient answers the question how many inches are equivalent to one kilometer. The value of this multiplier determines the basic value to calculate all other lengths, sizes and other transformations for these units (kilometer and inch), it is enough to know the value, i.e. to remember that 1 kilometer = 39370.0787402 (in). Knowing the number of inches in one kilometer by simple multiplication we can calculate any values. Let's do a simple calculation using the multiplication:
6 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 236220.472441 (in)
Thus it is seen that after multiplying by the coefficient we get the following relationship:
6 Kilometers = 236220.472441 Inches
We have already seen how to convert these two values and how change kilometers to inches. So in summary, you can write all possible results that have the same meaning.
6 kilometers to inches = 236220.472441″ (in)
6 km in inches = 236220.472441″ (in)
6 km into inches = 236220.472441″ (in)
6 km in = 236220.472441″ (in)
6 km is 236220.472441″ inches
six kilometers = 236220.472441 inches
To convert 6 kilometers into inches we can use many ways:
In the calculations for kilometers and inches, we will use the formula presented below that would quickly get the desired result.
Y (km) × 39370.0787402 = X (in) Y - value of kilometers X - result in inches
That is, you need to remember that 1 kilometer is equal 39370.0787402 inches, and when converting kilometers just multiply the number of kilometers (in this case 6 kilometers) by a factor of 39370.0787402. For example, we transform the set of values 6.0 km, 7.0 km, 8.0 km, 9.0 km, 10.0 km into inches and get the result in the following examples:
6.0 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 236220.472441 (in) 7.0 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 275590.551181 (in) 8.0 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 314960.629921 (in) 9.0 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 354330.708661 (in) 10.0 (km) × 39370.0787402 = 393700.787402 (in)
In all variants we multiplied the all kilometers in range from 6.0 (km) to 10.0 (km) with the same ratio of 39370.0787402 and got the correct results in calculations.
To calculate the proportions you need to know the reference value in inches for 1 kilometer and according to the rules of arithmetic we can calculate any value in inches for any length in kilometers. See the next examples. We form the proportion for 3 values our kilometers 6.0 km, 7.0 km, 8.0 km and calculate results values in inches:
1 (km) — 39370.0787402 (in) 6.0 (km) — X (in) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 6.0(km) × 39370.0787402(in) ÷ 1(km) = 236220.472441(in)
1 (km) — 39370.0787402 (in) 7.0 (km) — X (in) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 7.0(km) × 39370.0787402(in) ÷ 1(km) = 275590.551181(in)
1 (km) — 39370.0787402 (in) 8.0 (km) — X (in) Solve the above proportion for X to obtain: X = 8.0(km) × 39370.0787402(in) ÷ 1(km) = 314960.629921(in)
All proportions used reference value 1 kilometer = 39370.0787402 inches
You can use our basic universal online converter on the current web page and convert any your length dimensions and distances between kilometers and inches in any directions free and fast.
Currently, the field for kilometers contains the number 6 (km) you can change it. Just enter any number into field for kilometers (for example any value from our set: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 kilometers or any other value) and get the fast result into field for inches. How to use the kilometer online calculator you can more detail read at this link manual for the calculator.
For example, we take the 11 values into kilometers and will try to calculate the result values in inches. Also, we will use the web calculator (you can find it at the top of this page). In the set up a table in the left margin we write the value in kilometers in the right margin you see the values that you should obtain after calculation. You can check it right now, without leaving the site and make sure that the calculator works correctly and quickly. In all calculations, we used the ratio 39370.0787402 which helps us to get the desired values of computation results in inches. Please, see the results in the next table:
|5199044 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686771654e+11 (in)|
|5199045 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686811024e+11 (in)|
|5199046 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686850394e+11 (in)|
|5199047 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686889764e+11 (in)|
|5199048 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686929134e+11 (in)|
|5199049 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04686968504e+11 (in)|
|5199050 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04687007874e+11 (in)|
|5199051 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04687047244e+11 (in)|
|5199052 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04687086614e+11 (in)|
|5199053 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04687125984e+11 (in)|
|5199054 (km)||× 39370.0787402||= 2.04687165354e+11 (in)|
We're briefly describe the possibility for using our calculator for converting 6 kilometers. The calculator allows you to convert any value for lengths and distances not only in kilometers but also for all other units. Our conversion tables which we mentioned earlier are also included in the logic operation of the calculator and all these calculations you can get in one application if you download and install the software on your computer. Converter easily converts 6 "km" for you in offline mode. All the details of the work of this application for conversion of the heights and widths, lengths, sizes and distances described in kilometers or other units of measurement you will find in menu "Software" of this site or by the link: InchPro Decimal. Please, also see the screenshots for acquaintance.
Many people can hardly imagine the relationship between kilometer and inch. In this picture, you can clearly see the ratio of these quantities to understand them in real life. The ratio of the lengths of the segments is retained on screens with any resolution as for large monitors as well as for small mobile devices.
The graph shows the relative values the kilometers in the form of rectangular segments of different lengths and colors. As well as the visual representation of 6 (km) with the reference value in inches.
The graphs of the relationship between kilometers and inches are expressed in the following colours:
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|6 (km) to micrometers microns||= 6000000000.0|
|6 (km) to nanometers||= 6e+12|
|6 (km) to decimeters||= 60000.0|
|6 (km) to meters||= 6000.0|
|6 (km) to millimeters||= 6000000.0|
|6 (km) to kilometers||= 6.0|
|6 (km) to decameters||= 600.0|
|6 (km) to hectometers||= 60.0|
|6 (km) to centimeters||= 600000.0|
|6 (km) to survey chains||= 298.257575759|
|6 (km) to survey feet||= 19685.0000001|
|6 (km) to survey furlongs stade||= 29.8257575759|
|6 (km) to survey leagues||= 1.24273989899|
|6 (km) to survey statute miles||= 3.72821969698|
|6 (km) to survey inches||= 236220.000001|
|6 (km) to survey rods perches poles||= 1193.03030304|
|6 (km) to survey links||= 29825.7575759|
|6 (km) to inches||= 236220.472441|
|6 (km) to feet||= 19685.0393701|
|6 (km) to miles||= 3.72822715342|
|6 (km) to yards||= 6561.67979003|
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In the digital world in which we live today the public is presented with an overwhelming quantity of information, much of which is unscientific. STEM professionals seeking to navigate this information space need new strategies for breaking out from the pack and targeting new audiences. This webinar is brought to you by the iAMResponsible project, a nationwide team of researchers and extension experts working to develop and deliver effective outreach on antimicrobial resistance for diverse audiences, from the farm and pharma to family. In this webinar we will apply the lessons learned from antimicrobial resistance and health communications to more science communication challenges. We’ll be joined by a panel of communication experts discussing how the public forms their perceptions of science and health information, the kind of information sources they trust and seek out, and how socioeconomic and cultural differences impact audience engagement with scientific information.
An application for continuing education credit for Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs) and members of the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) will be submitted.
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(PRESS RELEASE) AMSTERDAM, 9-Dec-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — In December 2020, Social Links, in partnership with Corma.de – the German private investigative agency, is launching an Academy that explains the principles of OSINT activities. It expounds in detail the methods of extracting information from a very wide number of online sources and clarifies the principles of analyzing this information. The course constitutes a series of videos on the application of more than 900 Social Links Transforms for Maltego software – a widely used solution in the areas of law enforcement and cybersecurity. The online course is available by subscription and included in the package for customers who order Social Links Box, a full-fledged cyber security and threat intelligence unit solution.
Due to lockdowns and mass migration of people to the Internet, 2020 is officially recognized as the year of digitalization. This trend has also been picked up by companies that are increasingly resorting to the Internet not only as a communication tool, but also as the main source of open information, which they ultimately rely on in their business decisions. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) – originally born as part of intelligence and homeland security, is a set of methods and tools for working with the analysis of open data. OSINT has always been fundamental in intelligence and business (up to 90% of the valuable information on which decision-making is based can be obtained through open sources). Today, the technology is successfully used by companies of various scales, allowing to reduce specific risks to almost 100%.
Corma.de Social Links academy is prepared by the head of the agency and the lead trainer of Corma – Jörn Weber. He spent many years working in the German police and retired with the rank of Kriminalhauptkommissar (Detective Chief Inspector). He and his team now support corporate security departments and brand protection teams from international clients with the successful execution of their investigations. Jörn Weber has been teaching OSINT technologies for many years and has gained vast practical experience, not only in the investigations themselves, but also in the transfer of his skills and knowledge. He devoted a significant place in the Social Links OSINT Academy courses to general approaches to working with data, analyzing real cases, and building an investigation strategy.
“For 6 years, we have been working with the leading OSINT specialists, platforms and clients, which allows us to use their knowledge and experience to develop Social Links services. Everything we do in one way or another is based on the experience of this collaboration and we understand the importance of proper automation of data collection and analysis processes more than anyone else. The only thing that no OSINT service can do is to teach an investigator’s way of thinking. Such a mindset coupled with the right tool is the key to successful investigations, so it is extremely important to get a theoretical basis from an experienced instructor, which is undoubtedly Joern Weber,” says Andrey Kulikov, CEO of Social Links.
The course is available by subscription and included in the package for customers who order Social Links Box, a full-fledged cyber security and threat intelligence unit solution.
Social Links is the leading provider of OSINT tools for investigations in Social Media, Open Source, Blockchains and Dark Web Intelligence that allows users to search in 50+ various sources from social media to leaked databases to connect individuals, companies, internet accounts and activities. Among the company’s products are the Maltego add on Social Links PRO, custom and private corporate solutions, standalone Social Links BOХ, and Gamayun – a web based solution for instant digital investigations. More than half of European law enforcement agencies use our products.
Corma is an experienced training provider in the area of online research and investigation located in Brüggen, Germany. Over the course of his years of work as a senior police detective, Jörn Weber mainly worked on homicide, fraud and cybercrime cases. With Corma, he has been working for 20 years in corporate investigations to uncover fraudulent and damaging actions, stop financial losses and provide corporate security.
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NASA is currently in the process of replacing its three Bell Huey 2 helicopters with new Airbus H135 helicopters at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA has been using the Hueys for about 30 years, and a lot of the staff have expressed their sadness to see them go.
So far, two H135 helicopters have arrived at Kennedy Space Center from Columbus, Mississippi, and a third is expected to arrive in the spring of 2021. When the third one finally arrives, NASA’s helicopter fleet upgrade will be complete, and they will all be put to use.
The new helicopters will be capable of performing every task just as well, if not better than the old ones were, noted John Graves, a member of flight operations at Kennedy Space Center. One of the most significant upsides to the new helicopters is that they possess two engines instead of the single engines that the Hueys had. Having two engines will make flying much safer and allow the helicopters to travel much farther.
Graves had this to say on the dual-engine capabilities of the new helicopters:
We’ve been pretty limited on how far offshore we’re comfortable going, just because of that single-engine capability. With these new aircraft, we can go 20 to 25 miles offshore safely, whereas before, we could go maybe a mile. So that greatly expands that mission skill.
NASA couldn’t have picked a better time to upgrade its helicopter fleet. With crewed flights to the International Space Station increasing and the Artemis program in full swing, human spaceflight out of Florida is rapidly growing. The Flight Operations team having more capable aircraft will make their job easier and more efficient when having to deal with a potential emergency.
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Examining differences in prescription opioid use behaviors among U.S. adults with and without disabilities
We aimed to identify differences in prescription opioid-related behaviors between adults with and without disabilities in the U.S. We analyzed data from the 2015–2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (128,740 individuals; weighted N of 244,831,740) to examine disability-based differences in (1) reasons and sources of last prescription opioid misuse and, in multivariate models overall and stratified by disability, the likelihood of (2) prescription opioid use, and if used, (3) misuse and prescription opioid use disorder (OUD), overall and stratified by disability. Adults with disabilities were 11% more likely than adults without disabilities to report any past-year prescription opioid use, adjusted for sociodemographic, health, and behavioral health characteristics. However, among adults with any prescription opioid use, which is more common among people with disabilities, likelihood of prescription OUD did not vary by disability status. Pain relief as the reason for last misuse was associated with 18% increased likelihood of prescription OUD, if any use. To reduce risk of opioid misuse among people with disabilities, accessible and inclusive chronic pain management services are essential. Further, the substance use treatment field should provide accessible and inclusive services, and be aware of the need for pain management by many people with disabilities, which may include the use of prescription opioids. These findings highlight essential opportunities for public health and policies to improve access, accommodations, and quality of health and behavioral health care for people with disabilities, and to encourage a holistic perspective of people with disabilities and their needs.
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Rebecca draws on over 15 years of experience working as a Clinical Massage Therapist, specialising in ScarWork (Scar Therapy) to help individuals recovery well after surgery. Sharon Wheeler's Scarwork techniques are gentle and non-invasive. Rebecca understands the body, and the physical, emotional and psychological impact that can occur after surgery and /or an accident.
What can we help with
Reconnecting with your body
After any trauma, especially surgery, the person can feel a sense of “disconnection” with the body part which has been operated on. There may be a sense of weakness in that area, of pain (both emotional and physical) and the fearfulness of touching that “injured” part of the body. At Reactiv8 Therapy, we take our time in helping clients talk about the emotional impact their surgery has had on them or following an accident. We help clients become accustomed to look and even touch their own scar. We offer advice, treatment and ways to re connect with that body part; to help trust and engage with the body as a whole.
Tightness around the scar
Many people experience a tightness around their scar, sometimes years after surgery. You may be able to feel the tightness when you exercise, sit, walk or stretch in certain positions. Often the cause for this tightness, results from the scar tissue under the surface forming adhesions, which can limit movement. The body is an amazing machine, which compensates for this restriction, but over time can result in aches and pains elsewhere in the body. Here at Reactiv8 Therapy, we use gentle massage based treatments, which can help breakdown and realign “stuck” scar tissue. This offers the body a more natural way to move and function.
Many people can experience a decrease in circulation, as part of the aging process, after surgery or trauma, or from a genetic condition. Here at Reactiv8 Therapy our gentle massage based treatment techniques can help increase circulation around the body, helping the body to reconnect and the individual to feel globally better. Using “feather light touch” to influence cellular changes under the skin, can aid in circulatory improvement.
Restricted mobility due to scaring
Wherever the scar is on your body, this will have an impact on your overall movement. For example; if the scar is on or around your tummy, then the body tends to compensate by “leaning forward” in order to protect the area which is healing. This can sometimes lead to lower back pain, tightness around the hips, and referred pain across the shoulders and neck area. Likewise, if the scar is on the shoulder, then this can reduce movement in the arm, neck, back and can sometimes lead to headaches. We at Reactiv8 Therapy, offer tailor made, holistic and individualised assessments to ensure we correct posture, help re align the body and advise specific exercises and stretches in order to maintain “normal movement.”
Stimulate and boost healing
After surgery and/or a trauma, the body will find its own way of healing and recovering. Here at Reactiv8 Therapy, we encourage this healing process and stimulate cellular changes under the skin, with our light “hands on” massage techniques. This helps boost the healing process, and can help the individual feel physically and emotionally revived. Scar massage is also recommended by some surgeons, to help minimise long term complications.
Improve your confidence and overall wellbeing
After any surgery and/or trauma your body will start to recover. However, did you know that your muscles have a memory and can hold onto physical and emotional pain? Regardless of where the scar is on the body, it will have an effect both physically and emotionally on the body. Here at Reactiv8 Therapy we work with the client, putting them at the centre of everything we do. We understand the body and combine listening and careful advice, regarding topics such as diet and nutrition, exercise prescription, posture advice, scar gels/creams and aim to help you feeling “more you” again.
Scar sensitivity, pain, itching and numbness
Regardless of the age of the scar, some individuals will find their scar is still sensitive, causes them pain and could be itchy or numb. When a scar is sensitive, it could be due to the individual not engaging or touching the scar. In the early stages, the scar could be painful and sensitive due to the early healing phase of recovery. At Reactiv8 Therapy, we use extremely gentle massage based techniques to help reduce pain and normalise sensitivity of the scar. Did you know that a scar takes up to two years to reach maturity? With this in mind, associated symptoms maybe present long after surgery. Numbness can occur around the scar due to nerve damage, and disassociation with the scar. Our intricate techniques can help increase overall normalised sensation of scar tissue.
Lymphoedema is a long-term (chronic) condition that causes swelling in the body's tissues. It can affect any part of the body, but usually develops in the arms or legs. The lymphatic system is a network of channels and glands throughout the body that helps fight infection and remove excess fluid. Swelling occurs when the lymphatic system does not work properly. This dysfunction could be because of damage to the lymph nodes during surgery, some or all of the lymph nodes being removed or injury to the lymph nodes. Also, after a severe infection, if the lymph nodes have been damaged, then swelling can occur. While there is no cure for Lymphoedema, Reactiv8 Therapy can help manage symptoms, by using lymphatic massage and drainage techniques, to help relieve the swelling in the affected limb.
Put you in control of your recovery
Our main priority is you. Our clients are at the center of everything we do. Every suitable treatment option is explained and tailored to the individual. We take our time to listen and work in conjunction with the client, throughout their recovery journey with us. In our relaxing bespoke clinic rooms, the client can focus on their treatment and recovery. | <urn:uuid:549fc2b2-2595-449d-95aa-d94f490129d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reactiv8therapy.co.uk/how-can-we-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.944373 | 1,268 | 1.679688 | 2 |
This essay discusses Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl as a complicated figuration of the Russian and Soviet literary traditions. A comparison is drawn with the Japanese documentary Little Voices from Fukushima (2015) by the antinuclear activist Hitomi Kamanaka. The comparison accentuates the literary nature of Alexievich’s philosophical pessimism and its indebtedness to an antithetical paradigm (Soviet voluntarism versus Russian passivity) in its refusal to entertain the possibility of another future.
Chernobyl, the Unheard Prayer: Svetlana Alexievich and the Little Voices of Fukushima
Olga V. Solovieva is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago and the author of Christ’s Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics (2017). She is currently working on two books, “The Russian Kurosawa” and “Thomas Mann’s Russia.”
Olga V. Solovieva; Chernobyl, the Unheard Prayer: Svetlana Alexievich and the Little Voices of Fukushima. boundary 2 1 November 2018; 45 (4): 203–221. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7142801
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SUEZ's boiler water internal treatment programs provide highly effective protection against corrosion and scale formation to ensure optimum performance and availability of our your steam system while reducing the total cost of ownership and environmental footprint through energy and water savings.
Accurate measurement of steam purity is essential to identifying the cause of potential or existing steam purity problems in modern boiler plants. One reason for this is that superheated steam turbines have an extremely low tolerance for solids contamination in the steam. Fortunately, techniques are available to determine steam contamination in the parts per billion range to satisfy the demands of most systems. The test results make it possible to determine the effect of changing boiler operation on steam purity.
Impurities present in steam can be solid, liquid, or gaseous. Solids are usually dissolved in water droplets or are present as dust. Because water treatment practices are such that most soluble chemical constituents of boiler feedwater are converted to sodium salts, most solids present in steam are sodium salts, with minor amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron, and copper also present.
Gaseous constituents commonly found in low-pressure steam (less than 2000 psig) are ammonia, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, amines, and silica. Of these, only silica contributes to the difficulties commonly associated with impure steam; the other constituents are of concern only where they interfere with the measurement of steam purity.
Several methods of measuring steam purity have been available and used for many years. Each offers its own distinct advantages.
Specific conductance is one of the most commonly used methods. The specific conductance of a sample, measured in microsiemens (µS) or micromhos (µmho), is proportional to the concentration of ions in the sample. When boiler water is carried over in steam, the dissolved solids content of the boiler water contaminates the steam, and steam sample conductivity increases. Measurement of this increase provides a rapid and reasonably accurate method for determining steam purity.
One of the disadvantages of using specific conductance is that some gases common to steam (such as carbon dioxide and ammonia) ionize in water solution. Even at extremely low concentrations, they interfere with measurement of dissolved solids by increasing conductivity. This interference can be appreciable in a high-purity steam sample.
For example, in a sample containing less than 1 ppm dissolved solids, specific conductance may be in the range of 1.0-2.0 µS. The presence of any ammonia or carbon dioxide in this sample significantly increases the conductance reading:
- ammonia by 8.0-9.0 µS per ppm of ammonia
- carbon dioxide by 5.0 µS per ppm of carbon dioxide
Neither of these gases is a dissolved solid. In order to obtain a proper measure of dissolved solids, the influence of each gas must be determined, and conductivity readings must be corrected for their presence. When the ammonia and carbon dioxide contents of the sample are known, accurate conductivity correction curves may be obtained to allow proper corrections to be made.
Equipment is available to degas a sample prior to measurement of conductance. Hydrogen-form cation exchange resin columns are used to reduce ammonia and amines to negligible levels. Cation conductivity analyzers apply this technology to detect acid-producing anions, such as chlorides, sulfates, and acetates. They also take advantage of the high conductance of solutions containing hydrogen ions. These solutions have a conductivity several times greater than that of a solution with an equal concentration of ions formed by a neutral salt (Figure 17-1).
In a Larson-Lane analyzer (Figure 17-2), a condensed steam sample is passed through a hydrogen-form cation exchange resin column. This resin column removes ammonia, amines, and sodium hydroxide from the sample. The sample then flows through a reboiler, which removes carbon dioxide. Conductivity is measured after this process and may also be measured at the analyzer inlet and ion exchange column outlet. When conductivity is measured at all three points, a fairly complete picture of steam composition is provided.
Sodium Tracer Technique
Another commonly used method for measuring steam purity is the sodium tracer technique. This technique is based on the fact that the ratio of total solids to sodium in the steam is the same as the ratio of total solids to sodium in the boiler water for all but the highest-pressure (greater than 2400 psig) boiler systems. Therefore, when the boiler water total solids to sodium ratio is known, the total solids in the steam can be accurately assessed by measurement of sodium content. Because sodium constitutes approximately one-third of the total solids in most boiler waters and can be accurately measured at extremely low concentrations, this method of steam purity testing has been very useful in a large number of plants.
Sodium Ion Analyzer. The instrument most frequently used for sodium measurement is the sodium ion analyzer (Figure 17-3). A selective ion electrode similar to a pH electrode is used to measure the sodium content of the steam sample.
In typical operation, a regulated amount of an agent such as ammonium hydroxide is added to a regulated amount of condensed steam sample to raise pH and eliminate the possibility of hydrogen ion interference. A reservoir stores the conditioned sample and feeds it at a constant flow rate to the tip of the sodium ion electrode and then to a reference electrode. The measured electrode signal is compared to the reference electrode potential and translated into sodium ion concentration, which is displayed on a meter and supplied to a recording device.
Good results have been reported with various sodium ion analyzers. According to the manufacturers, the instruments operate in a concentration range of 0.1 ppb to 100,000 ppm of sodium ion with a sensitivity of 0.1 ppb. Recalibrated on a weekly basis, these instruments are valuable for continuous, long-term testing and monitoring.
The acceptance of the sodium ion analyzer as an accurate, reliable steam purity evaluation instrument is evidenced by its widespread use for continuous monitoring as well as for field testing. Many steam generating plants have switched from previously accepted methods to sodium ion analysis in order to improve accuracy.
Although sodium ion analyzers measure total contamination, they do not show rapid changes in sodium concentration. This is due to a lag in electrode response and the dilution effect of the reservoir, which dampens sharp, momentary changes in conditions. Because of this, peaks that exceed boiler guarantee limits or a known carryover range may not show up on the analyzer. This would affect interpretation of test results.
Flame emission spectroscopy and flame spectrophotometer testing. Flame spectrophotometer testing is much more sensitive to quick changes in operating conditions and detects peaks in solids concentration. Flame emission spectroscopy also provides accurate measurement in the low parts per billion range despite quick variations. Neither method is suitable for continuous, unattended monitoring.
Interpretation of Sodium Test Results. The exact ratio of sodium to dissolved solids in the boiler water and consequently in the steam can be determined for each plant but is approximately 1:3 for most plants (i.e., for each 0.1 ppm of sodium in the steam there is approximately 0.3 ppm of dissolved solids present).
Initially, the use of the sodium tracer technique for steam purity evaluation required collecting sample bottles and transporting them to the laboratory for analysis. This technique is still a valuable tool for steam purity measurement. Samples are gathered in special laboratory-prepared, polyethylene bottles, and care is taken to protect against contamination.
In the preferred sampling procedure, three or four samples are drawn within a 15-minute period to ensure representative sampling. If there are excess solids in the steam, the bottle samples are used to define the range of the problem before implementation of an in-plant study with continuous analyzers. Bottle samples can also be used to monitor steam purity on a periodic basis.
Experience has shown that solids levels as low as 0.003 ppm can be measured with either shipped bottle samples or in-plant testing.
Occasionally, it is of interest to determine the amount of anions (chlorides, sulfates, acetates, etc.) in the steam. Degassed cation conductivity provides a measure of the total anion concentration in the sample. In addition, chloride-specific ion electrodes and ion chromatography are used to detect low levels of specific contaminants.
In order to ensure accurate analysis, samples must be truly representative of the steam being generated. When the sampling procedures are not followed properly, the steam purity evaluation is of little or no value.
Sampling nozzles recommended by the ASTM and ASME have been in use for many years. The nozzles have ports spaced in such a way that they sample equal cross sectional areas of the steam line. Instructions for these nozzles can be found in ASTM Standard D 1066, "Standard Method of Sampling Steam" and ASME PTC 19.11. Field steam studies have shown that sampling nozzles of designs other than these often fail to provide a reliable steam sample.
Isokinetic flow is established when steam velocity entering the sampling nozzle is equal to the velocity of the steam in the header. This condition helps to ensure representative sampling for more reliable test results. The isokinetic sampling rate for many nozzles that do not conform to ASME or ASTM specifications cannot be determined.
Accurate sampling of superheated steam presents problems not encountered in saturated steam sampling. The solubility of sodium salts in steam decreases as steam temperature decreases. If a superheated steam sample is gradually cooled as it flows through the sample line, solids deposit on sample line surfaces. To eliminate this problem, the steam can be desuperheated at the sampling point. | <urn:uuid:c50a18e9-2f9c-496f-834b-4c988544e3a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.watertechnologies.com/handbook/chapter-17-measurement-steam-purity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937131 | 2,028 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Diabetes treatments followed by vigilant monitoring of sugar level in the blood are of utmost importance for a diabetic patient. Harnessing that potential, in the diabetic context, means researchers could devise ways of tweaking stem cells to become the insulin-producing cells that diabetics lack, helping them to control high blood sugar and stay healthy. This helps in reducing your post-meal sugar excursions. The truth was that insulin was not good for type 2 diabetes – it was only good for reducing blood glucose. First of all, new research has shown that the physiological response to gum disease is a body-wide inflammatory response that raises TNF-alpha which in turn increases insulin resistance, a finding earlier seen in the diabetic Zucker rat. But the conclusion most researchers drew from this finding was that gum disease was simply just another complication of diabetes. If you have diabetes or prediabetes and do not yet have significant gum disease, the single most helpful thing you can do is to floss your teeth every day. I cannot find any research to back this up, but over the years every hygienist who has cleaned my teeth has remarked on how little scale they have accumulated, even when I have gone longer than usual periods between cleanings.
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Obama and the Culture of Death
By its own admission, the Arab world loves death more than it loves life.
Consider that "during all periods of their history, the ancient Egyptians seem to have spent much of their time thinking of death and making provisions for their afterlife. The vast size ... and the ubiquity of their funerary monuments bear testimony to this obsession."
Consider that the Palestinian world teaches its children to embrace shahid, or martyrdom. It is an aberrant culture where parents celebrate their own children's deaths by the promotion of suicide terrorism.
Consider that these suicide/homicide bombers are taught that death will bring them sexual pleasure. Thus, "[s]hahada or death for Allah mandates Muslims to aspire to die in combat for Islam ... where the most prominent reward are the '72 dark-eyed virgins in Paradise.'"
Consider the partying and exuberance of the Palestinian world when hearing of the 9-11 attacks and the deaths of 3,000 Americans of all races and religions.
Consider the recent three-finger salute among the Arabs and handing out of candy regarding the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenage boys.
Consider that Islamic jihadists have no problem with using children as shields in their fight against the infidel.
Which makes one wonder how Barack Hussein Obama could maintain that "Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme. I witness that there is no god but Allah" is "one of the prettiest sounds on earth." It is not the "Stars and Stripes" nor "America the Beautiful" that he cites. It is the call to prayer for a "culture of death," as affirmed by Pope Francis's secretary, Father Yoannis Lahzi Gaido, an Egyptian Christian Copt who speaks fluent Arabic.
In fact, Obama, the president of the United States, smiles when Bergdahl's father recites the Arabic prayer intimating the caliphate capture of land.
Obama cannot come clean about the murder of Ambassador Stevens and instead speaks at the United Nations "shoring up his fake narrative [about Benghazi] by warning the UN General Assembly that the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam." Nary a word to those who would slander America or to those who would torture and murder Americans – not to those who daily bring carnage and chaos to the world as they scream Allah Akbar and abduct, murder, maim, rape, burn, and pillage communities. How ironic that one of the many horrors of the Islamist menace occurred by the very ruins of ancient Egypt. And yet, this terrorist cancer has metastasized a hundredfold since then.
But Obama's destructive worldview is not confined to things Islamic. He is comfortable with telling a woman that her vibrant but elderly mother simply does not have the "right" to extend her life. Instead, Obama retorts that she'll just have to take a pill, and too bad that she has the desire to live. Obama, the imperial president, now plays God, too.
Obama loves the cessation of life. He is the most pro-abortion president to date. He voted not once, not twice, but three times not to save babies who survived attempts to abort them. Not surprisingly, he lied about his voting record on this issue.
Obama is setting the stage for the decimation of the military. U.S. Army Reserve Major Montgomery J. Granger writes that "[t]he danger of electing a president with no military experience, or respect for those who do serve, is coming home to roost. Obama hates the military and takes every opportunity to humiliate and endanger U.S. forces, especially our elite marines and Navy SEALS, and now is striking at the heart of our forces: The Army."
No amount of appeal moves this robotic individual unless it is in his best interest to cover up the crimes against the spirits and bodies of Americans. And unlike Midas, who "swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer," Obama revels in his executive overreach so that everything he touches seems to be destroyed – jobs, the economy, American dreams, law and order.
Obama smiles that solid waste-eating grin and claims there is "not a smidgen of scandal" concerning the IRS, even while the whiff of scandal grows each day. Americans' political freedom of choice was systematically decimated, but not to worry, as "America staggers from one contrived disaster to another, ... Barack – god of chaos – cackles up his sleeve ... pretending to be an icon of rectitude, restraint and moral probity."
Obama looks the other way when Hamas terrorists abduct and murder three young Israeli teenagers who were hiking but warmly welcomes the very people for whom this is a moment of exultation as they continue their charade of peace talks. Instead, as Bob Unruh explains, "[u]nder the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Obama administration, U.S. policy has undergone such a drastic shift in the direction of outright support for these jihadist movements – from al-Qaida militias in Libya, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both al-Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood-linked rebels in Syria – that it is scarcely recognizable as American anymore.”
Obama has mandated that any reference to Islam and terrorism be expunged so American law enforcement agents are not being educated about this dire threat to the country. How many more people will be hurt or killed because of his indifference to this global threat?
Obama was educated in a Muslim country; he celebrates his annual iftar dinners by saying how much the Muslim world has contributed to humanity. Does he mean the apartheid system rampant throughout the Muslim world? Or perhaps he is talking about the modern-day slave trade that racks the continent of Africa as Muslims swoop down and capture people? Perhaps he had women's honor killings in mind, or the young girls whom the Taliban splashed with acid as they tried to attend school? Or perhaps Boko Haram? Does Obama understand as Nonie Darwish has written that the "values of joy, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and making the world a better place, do not exist in the Quran"?
Elie Wiesel, who has far too much experience with Holocaust depravity and death, has written that "the opposite of life is not death; it's indifference."
One is reminded of the comment of Charles Woods, father of slain Tyrone Woods:
[Obama's] face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere [.] Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was 'like shaking hands with a dead fish.'
Obama has imbibed the culture of death and destruction endemic in the Muslim world. It has been emboldened because of his leftist, socialist, Marxist, and/or communist leanings, but the end result is the same: the death of opportunity, of creativity, of beauty, of vision, of life itself.
That is the legacy of Obama, and the sooner more Americans see this pattern of ruin, the sooner the call for impeachment must come. And, yes, I am sick and tired of hearing we cannot impeach the First Caucasian Black President. If he breaks the law, he is to be treated the same way as any other American. He is not to be above the law.
In the introduction to American Boomerang by Nick Adams, Lt. Colonel Allen B. West recalls the words of French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote that "everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure." It is time to put the brakes on Obama – not because of his race, but because of his defiance of the law, his willful and deliberate actions that hurt Americans, and his belief that he can sanction murder, whether it be under the Islamic rubric or the leftist/communist one.
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It’s an interesting consideration what makes the zodiac signs nervous. In astrology, for some, life is something that is cool to go through, and for others, it is a never-ending game of worries and fears.
Most can be found somewhere in the middle, but the reality is that none of us can escape the triggers that shock waves of personal nervousness, whether it’s in the form of a horoscope, driving at night, or even putting off a project.
Being nervous is a habit; some develop it early and it accompanies them all their lives.
Astrology gives us several different ways of responding to nervousness, including stimulation.
What are some of the things you can say about the zodiac signs to make them really nervous?
ARIES (March 21st – April 20th)
“Wait a minute, who are you? I’ve never heard of you. ”
Showing an Aries indifference to himself or herself is enough to arouse massive self-doubt and nervousness in him.
Taurus (April 21st – May 20th)
“Be here this time, okay? Please don’t be late. “
Taurus has great difficulty being on time, so if you specifically tell them to be there on time, the thought will make them sweat.
TWINS (May 21st – June 21st)
“I need a decision now.”
The twins live in deferment mode. They are only happy when they DO NOT make decisions, so if they are forced to make a decision in a timely manner they break down with nervous energy.
CANCER (June 22nd – July 22nd)
“It might be necessary to travel a little.”
Telling cancer that they may need to be away from home is like telling them that they will have brain surgery in a few minutes.
LEO (July 23rd – August 23rd)
“I like him/her better than you, I’m sorry.”
Leo is not good at handling rejection. This sends him on a trip of self-doubt and nervous worries. He can handle being number one, but number two? Never. Immediate nervous reaction.
VIRGIN (August 24th – September 23rd)
“I think I’ll win.”
Do not tell a Virgo that you feel successful in any way because her inner nervousness will manifest itself in a nasty attack on you.
Virgo makes a living from making you small, so when you show confidence in the day she gets nervous and reacts violently.
Libra (September 24th – October 23rd)
“I heard something about you.”
Libra can’t stand the thought of someone talking about them behind their back for a second. If you mention that she’s involved in gossip in some way, the Libra will freak out with fear and excitement.
SCORPIO (October 24th – November 22nd)
“I feel really good today.”
Oh, that makes the Scorpio sad! You can’t feel good around a Scorpio because your misery will delight them, and if they can’t make you unhappy the moment you mention that you are feeling good, they will get really nervous.
Sagittarius (November 23rd – December 21st)
“I have no plans at all.”
Nothing drives Sagittarius more insane than standing still. If you don’t have plans, it could mean he won’t have any plans, and you can’t! Sagittarians need plans, and without them they get nervous.
CAPRICORN (December 22nd – January 20th)
“I can not find it.”
Oha. That makes the Capricorn very nervous. Order and organization are his specialties, and when he is told that something is as wrong as the LOSS of some “thing”, the Capricorn will nervously begin to cramp.
AQUARIUS (January 21st – February 19th)
“Please respect my wishes, thank you.”
The naturally rebellious Aquarius really can’t stand decisions being made for him, even if they are of tremendous importance to you – like being respected.
If Aquarius can’t just “do what they want,” they become fidgety and weird with nervousness.
FISH (February 20th – March 20th)
“I can’t do it.”
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Elshibli, Sakina , Korpelainen, Helena .
Excess heterozygosity and scarce genetic differentiation in the populations of Phoenix dactylifera L.: human impact or ecological determinants.
Extensive research has been conducted on the characterization of thousands of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars worldwide. However, the population genetics of date palms has never been studied. In this study, we collected 200 individuals from 19 populations from different geographic locations in Sudan. The collection sites grouped according to the type of dates (date palm fruits) that dominates in the area. Ten microsatellite markers were used to investigate the genetic diversity within and among populations, and the correlation between the genetic and geographic distances. The tested microsatellite markers showed a high level of polymorphism. A total of 261 alleles were detected at the ten loci. The overall mean value of fixation indices equalled -0.163, which shows the presence of excess heterozygosity. However, the chi-square tests conducted for every locus in each population indicated no significant deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The AMOVA analysis exhibited that about 95% of the total genetic variation existed within populations, while significant differentiation within the type groups could be detected. Although significant isolation by distance (r2 = 0.552, p < 0.022) was detected by a Mantel test, it seems that the spatial effect has become complicated as a result from the exchange and introduction of different kinds of plant material by date palm growers and traders as well as seed dispersal. This complexity was clearly apparent in the weak clustering relationships among most of the tested populations.
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Research themes in Applied Biology Department, University of Helsinki;Molecular, ecological and population genetic projects
1 - University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Biology, P.O. Box 27, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
2 - University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Biology, P.O. Box 27, Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland
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Some Incredible Benefits Of Taking A Shot Of Olive Oil In The Morning
For decades we have been following the faulty advice to lower our fat intake to a bare minimum when increasing the amount of sugar in everything.
Even a renowned brand of packaged macaroni and cheese contains added sugar, leaving us wondering why noodles and cheese may possibly need to get sweetened.
Understanding why fat is important
Fat is a macronutrient with many benefits, one of which is the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. It is also a building block of every cell membrane in the human body. It provides energy, slows the absorption of other nutrients (so you feel full longer after a meal) and is required for healthy liver function. And let's face it, fat makes food taste better.
Also, did you know that the human brain is more than 50 percent fat? The brain needs fats -- and especially essential fatty acids -- for perfect health. The body doesn't synthesize essential fatty acids so it needs to obtain them from a healthy diet.
Olive oil is Critical to the Mediterranean diet
It is no secret that Southern Europeans who eat a more Mediterranean Diet, consisting of vegetables, fruits, a great deal of fish and plenty of olive oil, have a higher life expectancy with fewer diseases.
An average, Italians and Spaniards consume about 13 gallons of olive oil per person each year. While the entire diet does play a significant role in how healthy men and women are, it appears the use of extra virgin olive oil is the major contributing factor to longevity and health.
In a study published in 2013, researchers followed two groups of individuals for five years. One group ate a higher fat Mediterranean diet while the other group followed a low-fat diet plan. The higher fat group had a lower incidence of heart disease, diabetes and much better success with weight loss.
Olive oil to Decrease inflammation
The high-grade extra virgin olive oil contains around 30 polyphenols that act as antioxidants and decrease inflammation within the body. The monounsaturated fatty acids in extra virgin olive oil aid increase HDL ("good") cholesterol while decreasing LDL ("bad") cholesterol. ) Additionally, the additional antioxidants have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Our European neighbors have known for many centuries of the many benefits of olive oil -- they use it within the body and out! On the skin, they use it as an exfoliant mixed into a sugar scrub or as a moisturizer. However, you don't have to smear olive oil all over you; drinking it will offer known anti-aging chemicals, such as antioxidants and vitamin E.
Olive oil for weight loss
From the Mediterranean, many men and women start their day with a quarter cup of olive oil. The oleic acid in olive oil has a satiating effect. As mentioned above, it also slows the absorption of other nutrients, so you will feel full longer and will not have to reach for that mid-morning sugary snack. While the calories in olive oil may be high, the overall intake of calories throughout the day will drop when you're just not that hungry.
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Drinking olive oil can greatly increase the production of pancreatic juices and bile (which, incidentally, gives poop its brownish color). With oil, the risk of gallstones decreases and bile is important for the breakdown of fats so they can be absorbed into the intestinal wall.
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The polyphenols in extra virgin olive oil act as antioxidants to rid the body of free radicals that could otherwise damage cells, or even lead to cancer.
A study found that drinking olive oil inhibited colon cancer at various stages of the disease. So why don't you use it to fend off cancer to begin with? This is not to say that you should skip those recommended colonoscopies after age 50, but go ahead and add olive oil to your daily regimen as a preventative measure.
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It is time for a shakeup in international arbitration. For too long, Africa and other regions of the world have punched below their weight on matters of continental and international arbitration. People like Senegalese Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue of the University of Geneva think it’s time things changed.
“There are more and more voices among nations that are calling for better geographic diversity in arbitration,” Prof Makane told Justice Hub’s Janet Anderson during an interview on the sidelines of the I Polyphonic Day on International Justice recently in The Hague.
Prof Makane says Africa needs a place at the table in international arbitration and is encouraged by what’s already being done to make the needed changes.
Justice Hub: The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) exists as one of the lesser known mechanisms that can be used by states and private companies to solve disputes peacefully. Is the PCA functioning well?
Prof Makane: I think that today there is a consensus at the international level on the need to rethink certain dispute settlement mechanisms and in particular, investment arbitration. There has been a lot of criticism, justified and not justified sometimes, with respect to what we call Investor-State Dispute Settlement – ISDS.
Justice Hub: What does that mean – ISDS?
ISDS means the possibility for a foreign investor – a private company for instance – to initiate a dispute against a state. That’s why it is called “Investor-State Dispute Settlement”.
Justice Hub: Is it the case that normally the state has all the power and that’s why it can be difficult for an investor?
Most of the time, apart from the exception of human rights courts, dispute settlement at the international level occurs between states. Investment agreements and in particular bilateral investment agreements contain provisions allowing investors to initiate a dispute against a host state when they have a dispute with that state. So if you’re a Dutch investor investing in Senegal and if it happens that there is a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between the Netherlands and Senegal, then as a Dutch investor you can initiate arbitration against that Senegal. So it is usually the investor who is initiating the dispute.
The most known avenue for investment arbitration is the ICSID (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes) which is based in Washington DC. ICSID is part of the World Bank group.
The Hague-based PCA has recently become very well known too and it is used as an avenue for investment arbitration. That’s why when you talk about ISDS nowadays, you also cover the PCA.
Justice Hub: Is the PCA very active in Africa?
The PCA has some centres in Africa. They have one centre in Mauritius for example. There is a project to to conclude an agreement as well with the African Union (AU) so that the PCA can have a centre in Addis Ababa which hosts the AU’s headquarters. The PCA is developing the idea of having some sort of decentralised centres in Africa which is actually a very good idea.
Justice Hub: Why is having bases in Africa a good idea?
Because many African countries and also negotiators of investment agreements believe that it is better to solve disputes in Africa. Investment disputes raise several local concerns, local specificities and cultural concerns. There is a belief that a settlement in Africa would better take into account the African concerns. This idea of having dispute settlement centres in Africa is very welcome today among the negotiators.
Justice Hub: Why not have an African started, an African grown, an African-owned arbitration institution?
Well, last year we finalised the negotiations of a new investment legal instrument called the Pan-African Investment Code. It is supposed to be the new model for investment agreements at the African level. It was a project of the African Union.
What we have inserted there in the Pan-African investment code is that when investment arbitration occurs, it must be settled within dispute resolution centres in Africa. We also mentioned that it could as well be the PCA centres in Africa. So there is actually a trend that says “let’s opt for investment arbitration, let’s opt for ISDS but let’s have it in Africa.”
The other concern is not just to localise in Africa. Many countries and negotiators believe as well that there is a problem of diversity in investment arbitration today. If you pay attention, you will realise that most of the arbitrators come from certain countries and certain parts of the world – that is the developed world. Yet, many of the disputes come from another part of the world – the developing world. There are more and more voices among nations that are calling for better geographic diversity in arbitration.
Having disputes being settled in Africa might allow for African arbitrators to be appointed more often. It might maybe create a change of mentality that since the disputes are happening in Africa, there might be more effort to find arbitrators from Africa.
Justice Hub: What difference would that make to the actual result?
I want to clarify something. Having investment disputes being settled in Africa doesn’t mean that arbitrators from other parts of the world should not be involved in the settlement of investment disputes involving African states. When I talk about diversity, I am really talking about more participation from different arbitrators from different parts of the world. The idea is not to exclude any part of the world.
So what’s going to be the impact of this? I think that law is law, of course. But in many of those investment disputes, you have certain peculiarities. What happens in Africa is maybe different from what happens in the European, North American or Latin American contexts in respect of investment disputes. Therefore, it is very important to have in mind these particular concerns that are proper to a region when settling investment disputes.
I don’t believe that the law operates in a vacuum. When states in Africa today take certain measures regarding natural resources or mining, there are reasons for them to take those measures. I think it’s important therefore for the arbitrators to be sensitive to the particular contexts of those countries which might be very much different from contexts of other countries.
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मीटर, इंच लांबीचे माप, छंद, वृत्त, (वीज, गॅस इ.च्या वापराचे) मोजमाप करणारे यंत्र
Noun(1) the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards(2) (prosody(3) rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
(1) Individual coal balls range from a few centimetres to over a metre in length.(2) the Horatian ode has an intricate governing metre(3) the wall was less than a metre high(4) Form poems are also noted for their traditional use of rhyme, metre and stanza.(5) Skelton used the octosyllabic metre , and a rough manner which was to be paralleled in later times by Butler in Hudibras, and by Swift.(6) Rates of sedimentation may range from a few centimetres to about a metre per thousand years.(7) a dance song in fast quadratic metre(8) This form of poetry comprising more than a dozen couplets in the same metre has come a long way and so have ghazal singers.(9) Significantly both these phrases stand out as exceptions to the anapaestic metre .(10) unexpected changes of stress and metre(11) This was rhythm, a voice singing over the reliability of the metronome piano beat, the metre .(12) The plants ranged in height from five centimetres to over a metre .(13) Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.(14) We can deduce the stress pattern of a word from the metre of a line.(15) Electro magnetic frequency meters will measure fluctuations in electromagnetic frequency, which could suggest a spirit is using the energy to manifest.(16) The oddest thing was losing the feet and inches and changing to metres and centimetres.
(1) square meter :: चौरस मीटर
(2) parking meter :: पार्किंग मीटर
(3) cubic meter :: घनमीटर
(4) water meter :: पाणी मापक
(5) flow meter :: मीटर प्रवाह
(6) hour meter :: तास मीटर
(7) light meter :: प्रकाश मीटर
(8) electric meter :: विद्युत मीटर
(9) electricity meter :: वीज मीटर
(10) meter reading :: मीटर वाचन
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Relationships are complex, but they can be made simple and easy with more effort. Sometimes two partners can’t think the same way, having the same personality and understanding, but providing relief and making space for the other person in your life makes the relationship easier and more hassle-free.
Relationships sometimes seem like a burden that interferes with our professional lives and makes us unhappy. It happens when you don’t look for loopholes in a relationship and don’t try to make it better. The better we feel for each other, the more comfort we get from each other’s company, and in the end, the relationship lasts forever. Keep these tips in mind as you show your love to your partner this Valentine’s Day, so you two can be together forever.
Loving yourself is the most crucial thing people must learn. We can ruin our relationships if we always feel negative about ourselves and want others to make us feel good. Therefore, it is the best key to love yourself in the first place before even showing your love to someone.
Self-love makes us grateful for the good things that happen to us and makes us happy, which in turn adds to the good things in our relationship. Love yourself, but do not think about yourself, and do not forget your partner.
It is the responsibility of two people to manage the relationship. Relationships won’t last long if one partner puts in more effort and the other lays down doing nothing. If you expect something from your partner, make an equal effort and give it to your partner. A relationship is a transaction of mutual concessions.
Give and take is a mechanism inherent in all personal relationships. However, you cannot expect to receive anything unless you take turns offering. Difficulties arise when the balance between giving and receiving is broken, and the partner feels he is not receiving too much in their relationship.
Intimate moments are important to keeping a relationship young. So plan hot dates, engage in hot moments in the bedroom, flirt with your partner, seduce, and more. Intimacy makes you feel alive and young with your partner and is a beautiful part of every relationship.
Don’t let your relationship grow old over time. Keep doing what you were doing when you started the relationship. Don’t let the spark disappear; always try to work things up.
The best thing you can do is to surprise her no matter the duration of your relationship. There are many ways to surprise her. Randomly surprise her with roses. There are many options available; one of them is long lasting roses which will be forever with her.
Conflict can only be resolved through healthy communication. Don’t let your egotistical behavior burn your connection. If both fight, communicate and settle the dispute. Don’t wait for another partner to start. Just take one step forward.
Compromise is essential in conflict resolution and successful relationships but can be challenging. Decide what you’ll have for dinner, or find a waypoint where you’ll both be happy with the results. It doesn’t make you small in any sense if you compromise your healthy relationship.
Love fades over time, but if you value and respect your partner, she will be with him forever. So be kind to them and respect them in front of others and personally.
Respect means accepting others for who they are, even if they are different or disagree with you. Respect for relationships creates trust, security, and well-being. Respect means recognizing that your partner is a complete person, not a means to get what you want. This means that you know that your partner has different experiences and opinions, and that’s okay.
Implementing these tips can be difficult or uncomfortable at first. But if you need to improve your relationship, it won’t change by acting the way you’ve always done it. Small gestures can make a large difference in any relationship. Just like women, men who help with household chores without asking questions are also attractive. For men, the adventurousness and boldness of a girlfriend can be a big factor in love. So go one step further. Then your relationship will last to the end. | <urn:uuid:128c0ae2-2722-446c-b194-d7607738ab33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theblogism.com/keep-your-love-immortal-by-doing-little-things-for-each-other-5-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95238 | 871 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.—Philippians 4:8
…give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.—1 Thessalonians 5:18
Here is a little tidbit for anyone who is trying to understand the Bible better and to walk more closely with Jesus: The Bible never tells us to do anything unless it is within our power to do, with God’s help. Everything the Bible commands is possible. This doesn’t mean it isn’t difficult, or even that it won’t require the supernatural assistance of the Holy Spirit. It just means the writers of the Bible were clear on the things that are our responsibility, and the things that are God’s responsibility.
The Bible never tells pastors, for example, “Make sure no one in your church ever gets divorced,” because this is not within our power to do. It never tells parents “Make sure your children become whole-hearted Christ-followers who never make bad choices,” because that is not entirely up to us. It doesn’t say “make sure the laws and morals of your society line up with Biblical teaching,” because the unbelieving world typically doesn’t ask Believers their opinion before deciding what will be considered right and wrong. God never lays burdens on us that are beyond our power to bring about.
But the reverse is also true: if God does lay a burden on us, we can do it. This is important because the Bible sometimes give commands about things that we tell ourselves we don’t have control over, like our emotions, attitudes, and responses to life. We act like victims when we are not. “I behaved like that because she made me so mad.” “I’m grumpy because nothing is going my way.” We want to blame people and circumstances for the condition of our heart. But the Bible teaches that our heart is our responsibility. Paul tells the Philippians in Chapter 4 to “Rejoice in the Lord always.” This must mean that rejoicing is an act of the will; we can choose joy. Specifically, we can always rejoice in Jesus, in the beauty of who He is and what He has done.
Then Paul tells them to think about things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy. Apparently I am in charge of what I think about. I am not at the mercy of whatever thought comes into my head; the Bible tells me to think about good things instead of bad things, so it must be within my power to do this.
Choosing what I think about is on my mind lately because Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away, which is a holiday named after an attitude. It’s a day, or a season, set aside for us to be intentionally grateful, to focus on the good things we have been blessed with. It’s an especially appropriate holiday this year, when so many things have happened that we could choose to be frustrated about. I believe it is a part of our fallen nature that most of us are natural critics and complainers. Negativity comes easily, but if we want to be thankful, we have to work at it. So I am working on intentional gratitude, on keeping the good things at the forefront of my mind and shoving aside the complaints that rise to the surface when I let my mind wander.
This season and always, I want to remember that I am grateful for Jesus. Without Him I would be living for meaningless things, sinning much more than I already do, in ways that would cause me to hide my true self from others out of shame. I would have no hope for eternity, no inner source of joy and peace, no assurance that I am loved by my Creator. I am grateful for His love, His strength, His humility, His cross, His resurrection, and thousands of other things I don’t have room to list. He is God’s greatest gift to me, and I am grateful.
I am grateful for life. I’m grateful for a body and a mind, for work to do, for family and friends, for busyness and down times, for good food, for the mountains and the ocean and the colors of the changing leaves. I’m grateful for my parents and my children and the mystery of how we age and grow. Life in this fallen world is hard sometimes, but it is good, and I am grateful.
I am grateful for my wife. To make our long story very short, it was 4 and a half years from the time I began wishing Carey could be mine to the time I took her on our first date, to see Toy Story 2 at the big movie theater in downtown Spokane, Washington. She is the greatest answer to prayer I have ever received, and the biggest reason outside of Jesus that my life is as happy as it is. Marriage in this fallen world is hard sometimes, but it is good, and I am grateful.
I am grateful for the church. I’m grateful for brothers and sisters to be on the journey with. I’m grateful for people who are faithful in prayer, for people who have a hunger to know God better and to share His love. I’m grateful for genuine worshipers and faithful volunteers and sacrificial givers of themselves. Church in this fallen world is hard sometimes, but it is good, and I am grateful.
And that is just the beginning. I am grateful for my country, for my home, my health, for challenges that have shaped me, for the things God has protected me from, and so much more. What are you grateful for? Let’s not wait until one day in November to rattle off a quick list of good things in our lives before the turkey gets cold. Let’s take God’s word seriously and choose to be thankful. If He commands it, we can do it, with His help. And if He commands it, you can bet it is good for us. I hope you have a great week, full of good things to be thankful for.
…And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.—Colossians 3:15-18 | <urn:uuid:866dd345-7052-45e0-82c5-09695e12fb74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lifefromaboveblog.com/thank-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.964354 | 1,413 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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Set up a fun sponge geometric art activity for kids experimenting with colour and pattern. This process art idea is similar to using pattern blocks only way more messy and fun!
Creating art from shapes is a good way for younger kids learn and practice shape recognition. Older kids will enjoy the creative process of designing patterns and combining the shapes to make pictures.
This art idea was originally published in 2014 and has been updated and reshared for today’s audience.
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My preschoolers adore making patterns using almost anything. They make them from blocks, paper rolls, plastic toys, pom poms, art materials – you name it.
They have always loved traditional pattern blocks so I thought I’d try creating my own from sponges which could be used to stamp pictures.
The girls really took ownership of this activity. When I set this up, I imagined they’d create pictures of ‘things’ like houses, flowers or simple people (like I would do myself), but they surprised me. The sponge stamps didn’t just get used to make patterns, but were smeared and used as paintbrushes as well.
This ‘shape village’ is a quick example I created myself, but you can see the girls had their own ideas.
Want to set up this activity at home or in the classroom? It’s easy!
How to create sponge geometric art
- Kitchen sponges
- Poster or acrylic paint
- Ice cream lids or similar to use as paint pallets
- Table cover and optional covering for clothing (this activity can get messy)
- Cut the kitchen sponge into a selection of basic geometric shapes. Ours consisted of:
- Two circles, one large and one small
- One square
- Two rectangles, one long and one short
- One diamond
- Two different triangles
You could experiment with other shapes and incorporate different sizes, don’t feel limited to these ones.
- Place each sponge stamp in a different colour paint.
- Stamp away!
More ways to learn using shapes
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We have been taught the lesson that more is better since childhood. So we try to apply the same when we start working with data.
We start with dissecting data in all sorts of ways and add it to dashboards/ spreadsheets. There are all kinds of good intentions, and we end up introducing ‘top 20 metrics’ for a simple product. The ratio of noise keeps increasing until there is data fatigue. People get overwhelmed with these dashboards and they end up putting lesser use of these dashboards.
Data overload is a real thing. Don’t believe me? Search ‘data puke’ on Google. This is what you get
How do you say goodbye to data overload? By putting everything in a logical order and cutting out the noise. Data should always tell a coherent story, whether it is present in dashboards or spreadsheets.
A story is always easy to understand and remember. Good for us that all of data/growth analytics can be summed into three logical steps:
Start with understanding how users are using your product. This step helps you focus on which steps are important and what % of users are completing those steps.
Divide your users into different groups based on their traits and behaviour. Repeat step 1 for these groups to find which groups are finding your product useful and which aren’t.
Track the behavior of users over time.
Let’s start with step 1
How users are using your product?
Whether you have launched a new product or have just joined a startup/company, the quickest and most effective way to understand key metrics is to understand product usage.
As there are 100s of events that users do on the website/app, it is humanly impossible to go through all kinds of analysis. The user flows also vary from product to product. Now you may ask, is there a universal way to analyze product usage? Yes, there is one. The best framework I have found so far is AARRR, also known as pirate metrics. Here are the different steps of AARRR.
(A)cquisition — # of users coming to your product. This could be on any page - home page, category page, product page.
(A)ctivation — # of users doing meaningful action(s). For eCommerce, this could be searching a product, or visiting a product page. For social media, this could be adding friends.
(R)etention — Does the user come back again? As we have already mentioned in earlier posts, retention is a leading indicator of product-market fit.
(R)evenue — Revenue is a synonym for conversion. Revenue can come through multiple ways: product purchase, in-app purchase, ads.
(R)eferral — Does the existing user brings more users? We covered referrals extensively in the last post. Now we know that referral is an acquisition channel, so why give it a different space in this framework? Share/referral is the only channel that can lead to exponential growth, i.e. scales non-linearly. It is very different from other channels of acquisition.
This generic framework helps you understand the usage of the product, and figure out the avenues of growth. AARRR can also be called a conversion funnel because the # of users in each subsequent step reduces. Your goal to convert the maximum % of users to revenue.
The image below will help you understand it better and remember it. Please note that the growth drivers and metrics change for every product.
A note on funnels
AARRR is really useful for the whole product. A lot of you might be owning a part of the product. Funnels are really useful in even analyzing smaller parts of the product. Suppose you are looking at checkout experience for an eCommerce platform. The funnel that you will be looking at is this one.
You can see 70% of users dropping off between shipping and billing. Now, you can try to figure out why it’s happening. And the next thing you have to do to figure out why it’s happening is to ‘divide your users into different groups based on their traits and behavior’
Divide your users into different groups based on their traits and behavior
The formal term for dividing your users into different groups based on their traits and behaviour is called segmentation.
Traits of a user can be the device, browser, geographic location, etc. Behavior is what they do on your website/app. Users coming to your website or app have different traits and behaviors. Some users have iPhones whereas others have android devices. Some spend 30 mins every day, whereas others come only once a week.
How does segmentation help?
If you are lucky, you may find a segment that is converting very low compared to other segments. Now you can address this problem by
building hypothesis on why that is happening, talking to the users in this segment to validate the hypothesis and gain insights
act on the insights to improve conversion
It is important to spend significant time on segmentation because it helps you identify a loyal group of users and target similar users. This in turn can improve your metrics significantly.
Segmentation also helps you identify groups for which the product doesn’t work and either improve it for those groups or stop targeting them.
From the checkout example, if you do segmentation analysis, you may found that this is just happening on iPhone devices. What do you do next? You check whether it’s a recent behavior by analyzing cohorts.
A cohort is a group of people with a shared characteristic. For growth, a cohort is a group of users who performed certain actions (such as made a purchase or downloaded your app) within a certain period of time in the past (Dec’19 for example).
For example, all the users who signed up for the first time in Dec’19 can be called the ‘Dec’19 new user cohort’. All the users who purchased something in Dec’19 can be called the ‘Dec’19 customer cohort’.
Why do we need cohort analysis? Because over time, you are going to change your product experience and other things. Cohort analysis helps you understand whether you are moving in the right direction or wrong direction. As we covered in this post over PMF
If you are doing something right, over time the retention curves should start moving upward like shown in the picture below.
You should look at the retention curve for different cohorts, weekly or monthly.
How does cohort analysis help you?
Understanding the behavior of users over time can help in calculating LTV and creating revenue/growth projections. For example, you can look at the users who joined the product 12 months back, and how much they have spent in the last 12 months. This gives you a sense of how much money does a new user spends in the first year. Once you have this data, you can take the # of users who joined last month and multiple it by average spend to get revenues for the next 1 year or so.
In the last section of this post, we are going to cover how to find the right tools for growth analytics.
From the checkout example, you may found that the drop-off between shipping and billing has been this high since the last 2 weeks on iPhone. 2 weeks ago, the team released a new app version. You also get to know that there was some work done on the billing page. You work with software devs to finally figure out that on the Safari browser, which is almost exclusively used on iPhones, there is a bug because of which users aren’t able to load the billing page.
Finding the right tools
I have been using product/growth analytics tools for the last 6 years. Over time, I have evaluated many tools. If you are wondering, which tool to use for your product, here is a simple framework to use. It really comes down to 3 things:
The cost you are willing to incur
The volume of data (# of monthly active users, # of events)
How well the tool does funnel, segmentation, and cohort analysis?
Most useful tools in no particular order — Google Analytics, Amplitude, Clevertap, Heap Analytics, Mixplanel, Localytics, Adobe Omniture.
If the volume of data is low, a lot of these tools discussed below are free (up to 10 million events per month). You can check the respective websites to know more about how pricing varies with the volume of data.
Google Analytics is a good starter tool for many products as it’s free and very easy to implement. It also provides user-level insights like age, gender, demographics which isn’t available in other tools.
But if you want strong funnel, segmentation and cohort analytics capabilities, this is the order you should go for
Amplitude > Clevertap/Heap Analytics > Localytics/Mixplanel > Adobe Omniture > Google Analytics.
Should you build in-house analytics capabilities?
Unless you are going to spend > $200 k per year in the next 2 years, you shouldn’t consider building in-house analytics. It takes a good team of data engineers and data analysts to build, maintain, and upgrade your in-house analytics. It also takes 6-12 months to build the first usable version.
So keep cost and time to build in mind while making this decision.
What everyone on your growth team should know?
Everyone on your growth team (PMs, Marketers, Senior leaders) should be comfortable with using your analytics tool of choice. They should also be taking a training/formal course in spreadsheet or excel! I see so many brilliant minds wasting lots of time because they aren’t aware of the powerful capabilities of excel/spreadsheets. The entire finance and consulting industry runs on the top of excel/spreadsheets and they are the ones who do a lot of number crunching, why shouldn’t you learn it and use it then.
There are multiple sources of learning spreadsheet/excel and it only a takes couple of weekends. So if you haven’t done it yet, do it next when you have time :)
That would be all for this week. We will discuss how to define the north metric next week, along with ‘what not to do’ in data analytics. Message me if you have any questions or suggestions to improve this newsletter :)
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What Makes A Successful Lean Manufacturing Implementation?
Choosing to apply lean manufacturing principles inside your company’s organization is one of the smartest moves for any manager wanting to get ahead in the business. In today’s competitive world, being one step ahead of everyone else is a major advantage. Lean manufacturing can be the turning point for any organization.
Many companies who have tried lean manufacturing have experienced production growth of up to 25%, cost reduction from key areas of the organization and have developed a more personal relationship with the company as an identity. This is due to an effective lean manufacturing implementation plan.
Lean manufacturing implementation planning begins with the executive management. After laying down the departments and areas in production that needs immediate attention, planning for the lean manufacturing implementation begins. Depending on the gravity of one point, say cutting production time to 10%, the steps for achieving it is listed down.
There are a lot of detractors for lean manufacturing implementation. Many say that the principle is easy enough to understand — reducing the seven wastes (overproduction, waiting time, inventory, processing waste, motion, underutilizing people and making defective products) in a company. However, things and money get lost in the actual lean manufacturing implementation.
Because of this creating a planning for the lean manufacturing implementation in a department can be very useful. You can measure the success of the lean manufacturing implementation in quantifiable terms like percentage growth in production time or the cut in production time to meet the predetermined goals of the company.
Phases of a lean manufacturing implementation plan
For lean manufacturing implementation to work, it has to run in phases within the company. The first phase is Core Disciplines. It requires all the concerned employees and managers to undergo lean manufacturing training. Once they’ve grasped the concepts and principles of lean manufacturing, they can now make plans for the lean manufacturing implementation in their departments.
When people understand what is required of them to become active members of a unit (the company, in this case), cooperation is easy to achieve. That is why the changes experienced in Phase one of the lean manufacturing implementation are usually dramatic, its results are immediate and the benefits are clear.
Phase two of the lean manufacturing implementation builds on the core disciplines. This means whatever changes have been implemented on the first phase, it is fine tuned in the next one. Systems are placed, as a permanent part of the organization’s routine and training for sustaining those systems is an ongoing process.
The last phase is called Continuous Improvement. After the lean manufacturing implementation throughout the organization, the improvements made by the new systems gradually becomes part of the production process. The improvements may be small but as the months go by, it builds up like compound interest.
Phase three of the lean manufacturing implementation never ends. As long as the plans for lean manufacturing implementation are followed, the company will continue to feel the positive effects of the change. This will mean additional profits for the company through money saved from the cost reductions.
Keys to a successful lean manufacturing implementation
Depending on how effective the plans for lean manufacturing implementation have been to the specific department, there are still a few considerations to take for the plan to be successful.
First is prepare and motivate people. Quality training and recruiting of workers with appropriate skills can help lead an organization to lean manufacturing implementation success. The creation of teams to instill pride in one’s work and organization is very good tool to get the people involved and really care about the company’s growth.
Second, share information with the concerned people or those who are directly affected with the kaizen events and manage expectations by making the goals realistic. When people see that they are part of something important, they become empowered and it makes the lean manufacturing implementation a whole lot easier.
Third is to make an atmosphere of experimentation possible for any person in the organization. Small, calculated risks are allowed but major mistakes may cause the company to close down. It is important to draw the line of between honest mistakes from a corporate blunder.
Fourth is to install realistic performance measures, fair evaluation, and solid reward systems. When everything is manageable, the workload is eased and there are more opportunities to reward good performance.
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from SHELUZANI MAKHESE in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
CHIREDZI, (CAJ News) – VILLAGERS in southeastern Zimbabwe have vowed to resist reported plans to evict them from their ancestral lands and make way for a project to produce stockfeed.
This puts the Chiredzi Land Taskforce on a likely collision course with authorities, who have allegedly reportedly concluded plans with an unknown investor to turn the Chilonga/Masivamele communal areas lands into farms to produce the alfafa crop, also known as lucerne, for livestock.
The lands in question are all in the Chiredzi District.
The areas reportedly earmarked for the project are communal, with over 1 000 families set to be displaced.
They are bordered by the Gonarezhou National Park to the south, Malilangwe Conservancy in the east, Triangle and Hippo Valley to the north and Mkwasine sugar estates to the west.
Vonani Majoko, the spokesperson of the Chiredzi Land Taskforce, expressed villagers’ opposition to the plans by authorities.
Majoko cited lack of consultation by government and the likelihood of locals not benefitting from the establishment of the lucerne project.
“These real concerns worry and frighten us,” Majoko said.
“In the circumstances we are inclined to be opposed to the project which, like many before it, threaten our very existence as communities,” he said.
Majoko hinted at the locals approaching the courts to stop government’s plans.
“To protect our communities, ancestral lands and posterity we are determined to do everything legally in our power as affected communities to protect our communities from further deprivation and impoverishment,” Majoko said.
He said local communities had over the years been deprived of their land, hence the opposition to the setting up of the stockfeed project at the expense of villagers.
“The communities enclosed by the investments named are the small remainder of what little land is left after systematic displacements and forced removals over the years, dating back to colonial displacements,” Majoko added.
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For Dolly Parton’s generations of fans, the country music icon’s Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee is an experience that keeps visitors entertained and giddy, from roller coasters and waterslides to stylish lodging and over-the-top dinner shows.
Dollywood Parks and Resorts can now offer something else for its employees: Their fees will be covered by Parton’s company if they want to earn a degree.
Herschend Enterprises, Dollywood’s parent company, announced Tuesday that Dollywood will pay 100 percent of the tuition costs, fees and books for employees who pursue higher education. Starting on Feb. 24, all 11,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time employees at Herschend’s 25 U.S. attractions, including Dollywood, can register for the GROW U pilot program.
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Shri Nitish Kumar
Chief Minister Of Bihar
RD Minister Of Bihar
The Government of Bihar (GoB), through the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS), an autonomous body under the Department of Rural Development, is spearheading the World Bank aided Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP), locally known as JEEViKA with the objective of social & economic empowerment of the rural poor. Subsequently, the Livelihoods Restoration and Enhancement component of Bihar Kosi Flood Recovery Project (BKFRP) was also taken into the fold of JEEViKA.
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- What is a Software Architect?
- Levels of Architecture
- Typical Activities
- Important Skills
- Architect's Technology Roadmap
- Types of Solution Architects
- Suggested Books
What is a Software Architect?
- A software architect is a software expert who makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. (Source: Wikipedia: Software Architect)
- Software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system, represented by its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment, and the principles that determine the design and evolution of the system. (Source: Handbook of Software Architecture)
Levels of Architecture
Architecture can be done on several “levels” of abstractness. The level influences the importance of necessary skills. As there are many possible categorizations possible my favorite segmentation includes these 3 levels:
- Application Level: The lowest level of architecture. Focus on one single application. Very detailed, low level design. Communication usually within one development team.
- Solution Level: The mid-level of architecture. Focus on one or more applications which fulfill a business need (business solution). Some high, but mainly low-level design. Communication between multiple development teams.
- Enterprise Level: The highest level of architecture. Focus on multiple solutions. High level, abstract design, which needs to be detailed out by solution or application architects. Communication across the organization. See Link to learn more.
Sometimes architects are also seen as “glue” between different stakeholders. Three examples:
- Horizontal: Bridge communication between business and developers or different development teams.
- Vertical: Bridge communication between developers and managers.
- Technology: Integrate different technologies or applications with each other
To understand the necessary skills an architect needs, we first need to understand typical activities. The following list contains from my perspective the most important activities:
Define and decide development technology and platform
Define development standards, e.g., coding standards, tools, review processes, test approach, etc.
Support identifying and understanding business requirements
Design systems and take decisions based on requirements
Document and communicate architectural definitions, design and decisions
Check and review architecture and code, e.g., check if defined patterns and coding standards are implemented properly
Collaborate with other architects and stakeholders
Coach and consult developers
Detail out and refine higher level design into lower level design
Note: Architecture is a continuous activity, especially when it is applied in agile software development. Therefore, these activities are done over and over again.
To support the laid-out activities specific skills are required. From my experience, read books and discussions we can boil this down to these ten skills every software architect should have:
What makes a good design? This is probably the most important and challenging question. I will make a distinction between theory and practice. To my experience, having a mix of both is most valuable. Let’s start with theory:
- Know the basic design patterns: Patterns are one of the most important tools an architect needs to have to develop maintainable systems. With patterns you can reuse designs to solve common problems with proven solutions. The book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” written by John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm, Erich Gamma is a must-read to everyone who is in software development. Although the patterns were published more than 20 years ago they are still the basis of modern software architecture. For example, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern was described in this book, which is applied in many areas or is the basis for newer pattern, e.g. Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM).
- Dig deeper into patterns and anti-patterns: If you already know all basic Gang-of-Four patterns, then extend your knowledge with more software design patterns or dig deeper into your area of interest. One of my favorite books about application integration is “Enterprise Integration Patterns” written by Gregor Hohpe. This book is applicable in various areas whenever two applications need to exchange data, whether it is an old-school file exchange from some legacy systems or a modern microservice architecture.
- Know quality measures: Defining architecture is not the end. There are reasons why guidelines and coding standards are defined, applied and controlled. You do this because of quality and non-functional requirements. You want to have a system which is maintainable, reliable, adaptable, secure, testable, scalable, usable, etc. And one piece to achieving all of these quality attributes is applying good architecture work. You can start to learn more about quality measures on Wikipedia. Theory is important. Practice is equally—or even more—important if you do not want to become an Ivory Tower Architect.
- Analyze and understand applied patterns: Have a look at any current framework, e.g., Angular. You can study a lot of patterns in practice, e.g., Observables. Try to understand how it is applied in the framework, why it was done. And if you are really dedicated, have a deeper look into the code and understand how it was implemented.
- Be curious and attend User Groups. Meetup
An architect needs to be able to take decisions and guide projects or the entire organization into the right direction.
- Know what is important: Do not waste time with unimportant decisions or activities. Learn what is important. To my knowledge there is not a book which has these information. My personal favorites are these 2 characteristics which I usually consider when evaluating if something is important or not:
- Conceptional Integrity: If you decide to do it in one way, stick to it, even if it is sometimes better to do it differently. Usually, this leads to a more straightforward overall concept, eases comprehensibility and eases maintenance.
- Uniformity: If you for example define and apply naming conventions it is not about upper- or lowercase, but to have it applied everywhere in the same way.
- Prioritize: Some decisions are highly critical. If they are not taken early enough workarounds are build up which are often unlikely to be removed later and are a nightmare for maintenance, or worse, developers simply stop working until a decision is taken. In such situations it is sometimes even better to go with a “bad” decision instead of having no decision. But before it comes to this situation, consider prioritizing upcoming decisions. There are different ways to do so. I suggest having a look at the Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) model which is widely used within agile software development. Especially the measures time criticality and risk reduction are critical to estimate the priority of architecture decisions.
- Know your competence: Do not decide things which are not in your competence. This is critical as it may ruin your position as architect significantly if not considered. To avoid this, clarify with your peers which responsibilities you have and what is part of your role. If there are more than one architect, then you should respect the level of architecture in which you are currently deployed. As an lower level architect you better come up with suggestions for higher level architecture instead of decisions. Further, I recommend checking critical decisions always with a peer.
- Evaluate multiple options: Always lay out more than one option if it comes to decisions. In the majority of the cases I was involved in, there was more than one possible (good) option. Going with only one option is bad in two respects: First, it seems that you did not do your job properly and secondly it impedes making proper decisions. By defining measures, options can be compared based on facts instead of gut feelings, e.g. license costs or maturity. This usually leads to better and more sustainable decisions. Further, it eases to sell the decision to different stakeholders. Besides, if you do not have evaluated options properly you may miss arguments when it comes to discussions.
Keep in mind the problem-solving principle Occam’s Razor which states to prefer simplicity. I interpret the principle as following: If you have too many assumptions about the problem to solve your solution will probably be wrong or lead to an unnecessary complex solution. Assumptions should be reduced (simplified) to come to a good solution.
- Shake the solution: To get solutions simplified, it often helps to “shake” the solution and look at them from different positions. Try to shape the solution by thinking top-down and again bottom-up. If you have a data flow or process, then first think left to right and again right to left. Ask questions such as: “What happens to your solution in a perfect world?” Or: “What would company / person X do?” (Where X is probably not your competitor, but one of the GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, & Amazon) companies.) Both questions force you to reduce assumptions as suggested by Occam’s Razor.
- Take a step back: After intense and long discussions, highly complex scribbles are often the results. You should never ever see these as the final results. Take a step back: Have a look at the big picture again (abstract level). Does it still make sense? Then go through it on the abstract level again and refactor. Sometimes it helps to stop a discussion and continue the next day. At least my brain needs some time to process and to come up with better, more elegant and simpler solutions.
- Divide and Conquer: Simplify the problem by dividing it into smaller pieces. Then solve them independently. Afterwards validate if the small pieces match together. Take the step back to have a look at the overall picture for this.
- Refactoring is not evil: It is totally ok to start with a more complex solution if no better idea can be found. If the solution is making troubles you can later rethink the solution and apply your learning. Refactoring is not evil. But before you start refactoring, keep in mind to have (1) enough automated tests in place which can ensure the proper functionality of the system and (2) the buy-in from your stakeholders. To learn more about refactoring I suggest reading “Refactoring. Improving the Design of Existing Code” by Martin Fowler.
Even as an Enterprise Architect, the most abstract level of architecture, you should still know what developers are doing on their daily basis. And if you do not understand how this is done, you may face two major problems:
- Developers won’t accept your sayings.
- You do not understand challenges and needs of developers.
- Have a side project: The purpose of this is to try out new technologies and tools to find out how development is done today and in the future. Experience is the combination of observations, emotions and hypothesis (“Experience and Knowledge Management in Software Engineering” by Kurt Schneider). Reading a tutorial or some pros and cons is good. But this is just “book knowledge”. Only if you try out things by yourself you can experience emotions and can built up hypothesis about why something is good or bad. And the longer you work with a technology the better your hypothesis will get. This will help you to take better decisions in your day to day work. As I started programming I had no code completion and only some utility libraries to speed up development. Obviously, with this background I would make wrong decisions today. Today, we have tons of programming languages, frameworks, tools, processes and practices. Only if you have some experience and a rough overview in the major trends you are able to take part of the conversation and to steer development into the right direction.
- Find the right things to try out: You cannot try out everything. This is simply impossible. You need a more structured approach. One source I recently discovered is the Technology Radar from ThoughtWorks. They categorize technologies, tools, platforms, languages and frameworks into four categories:
- Adopt: “strong feeling to be ready for enterprise usage”.
- Trial: “enterprise should try it in one project that can handle the risk”.
- Assess: “explore how it affects your enterprise”
- Hold: “process with caution”.
With this categorization it is easier to get an overview of new things and their readiness to better evaluate which trend to explore next.
Architectural documentation is sometimes more and sometimes less important. Important documents are for example architectural decisions or code guidelines. Initial documentation is often required before coding starts and need to be refined continuously. Other documentation can be automatically generated as code can also be documentation, e.g. UML class diagrams.
- Clean Code: Code is the best documentation if done right. A good architect should be capable to distinguish between good and bad code. A really great resource to learn more about good and bad code is the book “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin.
- Generate documentation where possible: Systems are changing quickly and it is hard to update the documentation. Whether it is about APIs or system landscapes in form of CMDBs (Configuration management database): The underlying information often changes too fast to keep the corresponding documentation up to date by hand. Example: For APIs you could auto generate documentation based on the definition file if you are model driven, or directly from the source code. A lot of tools exist for that, I think Swagger and RAML are a good starting point to learn more.
- As much as necessary, as little as possible: Whatever you need to document, e.g., decision papers, try to focus on only one thing at a time and include only the necessary information for this one thing. Extensive documentation is hard to read and to understand. Additional information should be stored in the appendix. Especially for decision papers it is more important to tell a convincing story instead of just throwing tons of arguments. Further, this saves you and your co-workers, who have to read it, a lot of time. Have a look at some documentation you have done in the past (source code, models, decision papers, etc.) and ask yourself the following questions: “Are all necessary information included to understand it?”, “Which information are really required and which could be omitted?” and “Does the documentation has a red line?”.
- Learn more about architecture frameworks: This point could be applied to all other “technical” points as well. I put it here, as frameworks like TOGAF or Zachmann are providing “tools” which feel heavy on the documentation side, although their added value is not limited to documentation. Getting certified in such a framework teaches you to tackle architecture more systematically.
From my observations this is one of the most underestimated skill. If you are brilliant in design but cannot communicate your ideas, your thoughts are likely to have less impact or even fail to succeed.
- Learn how to communicate your ideas: When collaborating on a board or flip chart, it is essential to know how to use it properly in order to structure you and your peers’ thoughts. I found the book “UZMO — Thinking With Your Pen” to be a good resource to enhance my skills in this area. As an architect you usually do not only participating in a meeting, usually you need to drive the meeting and to moderate it.
- Give talks to large groups: Presenting your ideas to a small or large group should be doable for you. If you feel uncomfortable with this, start presenting to your best friend. Enlarge the group slowly. This is something which you can only learn by doing and by leaving your personal comfort zone. Be patient with yourself, this process may take some time.
- Find the right level of communication: Different stakeholders have different interests and views. They need to be addressed individually on their level. Before you communicate, step back and check if the information you want to share have the right level, regarding abstractness, content, goals, motivations, etc. Example: A developer is usually interested in the very little detail of the solution, whereas a manager prefers to know which option saves most money.
- Communicate often: A brilliant architecture is worthless if nobody knows about it. Distribute the target architecture and the thoughts behind it, regularly and on every organizational level. Schedule meetings with developers, architects and managers to show them the desired or defined way.
- Be transparent: Regular communication mitigates missing transparency only partially. You need to make the reason behind decisions transparent. Especially, if people are not involved in the decision-making process it is hard to understand and to follow the decision and rationale behind it.
- Be always prepared to give a presentation: There is always someone with questions and you want to give the right answers immediately. Try to always have the most important slides in a consolidated set which you can show and explain. It saves you a lot of time and it gives security to yourself.
(7) Estimate and Evaluate
- Know basic project management principles: As architect or lead developer you are often asked for estimates to realize your ideas: How long, how much, how many people, which skills, etc.? Of course, if you plan to introduce new tools or frameworks you need to have an answer for these kind of “management” questions. Initially, you should be able to give a rough estimate, like days, months or years. And do not forget that it is not only about implementing, there are more activities to consider, like requirements engineering, testing and fixing bugs. Therefore, you should know the activities the used software development process. One thing you can apply to get better estimates, is to use past data and derive your prediction from that. If you do not have past data, you can also try approaches such as COCOMO by Barry W. Boehm. If you are deployed in an agile project, learn how to estimate and to plan properly: The book “Agile Estimating and Planning” by Mike Cohn provides a solid overview in this area.
- Evaluate “unknown” architecture: As architect you should also be able to evaluate the suitability of architectures for the current or future context(s). This is not an easy task but you can prepare for it by having a set of questions at hand which are common for every architecture. And it’s not only about architecture but also about how the system is managed, as this also gives you insights about the quality. I suggest to always have some questions prepared and ready to use. Some ideas for general questions:
- Design practices: Which patterns does the architecture follow? Are they consequently and correctly used? Does the design follow a red line or is there an uncontrolled growth? Is there a clear structure and separation of concerns?
- Development practices: Code guidelines in place and followed? How is the code versioned? Deployment practices?
- Quality assurance: Test automation coverage? Static code analysis in place and good results? Peer reviews in place?
- Security: Which security concepts are in place? Built-in security? Penetration tests or automated security analysis tools in place and regularly used?
- Quality comes at a price: Earlier I talked about quality and non-functional requirements. If you overdo architecture it will increase costs and probably lower speed of development. You need to balance architectural and functional requirements. Over engineering should be avoided.
- Solve contradicting goals: A classic example of contradicting goals are short- and long-term goals. Projects often tend to build the simplest solution whereas an architect has the long-term vision in mind. Often, the simple solution does not fit into the long-term solution and is at risk to be thrown away later (sunk costs). To avoid implementation into the wrong direction, two things need to be considered:
- Developers and business need to understand the long term vision and their benefits in order to adapt their solution and
- managers who are responsible for budget need to be involved to understand the financial impact. It is not necessary to have 100% of the long term vision in place directly, but the developed piece should fit into it.
- Conflict management: Architects are often the glue between multiple groups with different backgrounds. This may lead to conflicts on different levels of communication. To find a balanced solution which also reflect long-term, strategic goals, it is often the role of architects to help overcome the conflict. My starting point regarding communication theory was the “Four-Ears Model” of Schulze von Thun. Based on this model a lot can be shown and deducted. But this theory needs some practice, which should be experienced during communication seminars.
(9) Consult and Coach
Being pro-active is probably the best you can do when it comes to consulting and coaching. If you are asked, it is often too late. And cleaning up on the architecture site is something which you want to avoid. You need to somehow foresee the next weeks, months or even years and prepare yourself and the organization for the next steps.
- Have a vision: If you are deployed in a project, whether it is a traditional waterfall like approach or agile, you always need to have a vision of your mid- and long-term goals you want to achieve. This is not a detailed concept, but more a road-map towards everyone can work. As you cannot achieve everything at once (it is a journey) I prefer to use maturity models. They give a clear structure which can be easily consumed and give the current status of progress at every time. For different aspects I use different models, e.g. development practices or continuous delivery. Every level in the maturity model has clear requirements which follow the SMART criteria in order to ease measuring if you have achieved it or not. One nice example I found is for continues delivery.
- Conduct open door sessions: One source of misconceptions or ambiguity is lack of communication. Block a fixed time slot, e.g. 30 min every week, for exchanging hot topics with your peers. This session has no agenda everything can be discussed. Try to solve minor things on the spot. Schedule follow-ups on the more complex topics.
Your ideas are great and you have communicated them well but still nobody wants to follow? Then you probably lack marketing skills.
- Motivate and convince: How do companies convince you of buying a product? They demonstrate its value and benefits. But not just with 5 bullet points. They wrap it nicely and make it as easy as possible to digest.
- Prototypes: Show a prototype of your idea. There are plenty of tools for creating prototypes. In the context of enterprises who love SAP check out build.me in which you can create nice looking and clickable UI5 apps fast and easy.
- Show a video: Instead of “boring slides” you can also show a video which demonstrates your idea or at least the direction. But please, don’t overdo marketing: In the long term, content is king. If your words do not come true, this will damage your reputation in the long term.
- Fight for your ideas and be persistent: People sometime do not like your ideas or they are just too lazy to follow them. If you are really convinced by your ideas, you should continuously go after them and “fight”. This is sometimes necessary. Architecture decisions with long term goals are often not the easiest one’s: Developers do not like them, as they are more complex to develop. Managers do not like them, as they are more expensive in the short term. This is your job to be persistent and to negotiate.
- Find allies: Establishing or enforcing your ideas on your own can be hard or even impossible. Try to find allies who can support and help convincing others. Use your network. If you do not have one yet, start building it now. You could start by talking to your (open-minded) peers about your ideas. If they like it, or at least parts of it, it is likely that they support your idea if asked by others (“The idea by X was interesting.”). If they don’t like it, ask for the why: Maybe you have missed something? Or your story is not convincing enough? Next step is to find allies with decision power. Ask for an open-minded discussion. If you fear the discussion, remember that sometimes you need to leave your comfort zone.
- Repeat It, Believe It: “[…] studies show that repeated exposure to an opinion makes people believe the opinion is more prevalent, even if the source of that opinion is only a single person.” (Source: The Financial Brand) If you publish few messages often enough, it can help to convince people more easily. But be aware: From my perspective such a strategy should be used wisely as it could backfire as a lousy marketing trick.
Architect's Technology Roadmap
Types of Solution Architects
- Refactoring. Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
- Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Gregor Hohpe
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm, Erich Gamma
- Experience and Knowledge Management in Software Engineering by Kurt Schneider
- Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
- UZMO — Thinking With Your Pen
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Faculty & Research 400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States Jun 21, 2022 By John HolbeinMichael Barber 400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States One of the core tenets of a well-functioning representative democracy is that the people who vote to elect government officials are representative of the public. Here we reinforce the idea that reality is far from this lofty ideal. We document the extent and nature of inequities in voter participation in the United States with a level of granularity and precision that previous research has not afforded. To do so, we use a unique nationwide dataset of approximately 400 million validated voting records across multiple election cycles. With this novel dataset, we document large and persistent gaps in voter turnout by race, age, and political affiliation. Minority citizens, young people, and those who support the Democratic Party are much less likely to vote than whites, older citizens, and Republican Party supporters. Minorities, youth, and democrats are also much more likely to live in local communities where fewer individuals vote—areas that we term turnout deserts. Turnout deserts are especially pernicious given that they are self-reinforcing—bolstered by the social dynamics that fundamentally shape citizens’ voting patterns. Our results show just how glaring inequities in political participation are in the US. These patterns threaten the very fabric of our democracy and fundamentally shift the balance of political power in the halls of government towards the interests of whites, older citizens, and republicans. They illustrate that participation in the United States is strikingly unequal—far from the ideals that this country has long aspired to. Link to Paper Areas of focus Political Science Domestic Policy & Politics John Holbein John Holbein is an assistant professor of public policy and education at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Holbein studies political participation, political inequality, democratic accountability, political representation, and education policy. Read full bio Michael Barber Related Content John Holbein Civilian national service programs can powerfully increase youth voter turnout Research Enrolling young people to participate as Teach For America (TFA) teachers has a large positive effect on rates of voter turnout among those young people who participate. This effect is considerably larger than many previous efforts to increase youth voter turnout. After their 2 years of service, these young adults vote at a rate 5.7 to 8.6 percentage points higher than that of similar nonparticipant counterparts. These results suggest that civilian national service programs targeted at young people show great promise in narrowing the enduring participation gap between younger and older citizens in the United States. Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people? Research Although previous attempts have been made to measure everyday discrimination against African Americans, these approaches have been constrained by distinct methodological challenges. We present the results from an audit or correspondence study of a large-scale, nationally representative pool of the American public. We provide evidence that in simple day-to-day interactions, such as sending and responding to emails, the public discriminates against Black people. Batten Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Teaching, Service, Research and Engagement News This academic year, Batten School professors won a slew of internal and external recognitions for excellence in teaching, service, research and engagement. African Americans Are Less Likely to Receive Responses to Emails, Study Finds News New evidence from a team of researchers, including Batten professor John Holbein, suggests that everyday racial discrimination is far more widespread than previous studies have indicated. | <urn:uuid:d82d26d5-fda5-4088-a9ae-f446481875af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://batten.virginia.edu/faculty-research/400-million-voting-records-show-profound-racial-and-geographic-disparities-voter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.943036 | 722 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Plots are the best way to show simulation results.
Here are some examples of figures with multiple subplots and axes with Python and Matplotlib.
The example code can be found at the end of this post.
Please find the complete code to generate the figure above at the end of this post.
The galley section in the Matplotlib website is full of great examples.
I have experimented with several ways of plotting. Here is an example that shows much of the typical functions needed to generate plots with subplots and several axes.
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If from the outside Tai Chi instructors all seem the same, what should prospective students look for to avoid buying the high-performance sports car with a cheap engine we mentioned last post?
Obviously any beginning Tai Chi instructor who has gone through Tai Chi training will know at least a form or two of 24 Moves or more. So instead, look for endorsements and talk to students who have gained real benefits from practicing Tai Chi from the instructor whose class you are considering.
Do your homework.
Visit several schools or facilities and try out some free classes.
Ask the instructors specific questions about their training and level of knowledge about Tai Chi, Taiji, Taichi Chuan, Taiji Quan, or Tai ji Quan (all specialized names for Tai Chi) . If an instructor is unwilling to openly and fully answer your questions or does not know what you are talking about then I recommend that you find a different school or instructor.
If the instructor is both open with you and gives educated answers to your questions then realize that individual answers will vary and often will be situation dependent, but there is an obvious difference between an educated opinion and someone who does not have a clue about the subject matter and specific terms that are related to the subject matter.
Just listen carefully and you should be able to get an idea of an instructor’s knowledge or lack thereof particularly if you are armed with some of the terms I am referring to in this post.
Many Western medicine doctors, specialists and therapist have different opinions about causes and treatments of various medical conditions but anatomy and physiology basics and the medical terms for them are going to be pretty much the same from one human being to another.
The same is true with Tai Chi. Even though approaches may be different, words like Chi, Jing, Peng, Sung, Tao, Yi, Shen and Li will be known by any real teacher. Anyone offering Tai Chi classes who does not have at least a working understanding of these terms simply does not have enough knowledge to properly teach Tai Chi.
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NumberLens is a set of web browser based data visualisation tools designed to help you bring clarity to your data.
Developed from the ground up to make the creation and sharing of stunning visuals of your data quick and easy.
As easy as 1,2,3:
- Upload your data from virtually anywhere; from your PC, Mac or device, cloud storage e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive etc. or simply type in your dataset into the easy to use interface
- Create visualisation from the library of available types
- Download to your device, embed in your web site, save to cloud storage, email or post your creation to social media.
All you need is a web browser, an Internet connection and that’s it!
From presentations to weekly or monthly reports; from school assignments to telling your data story on the web - NumberLens is the answer.
No more wrestling with spreadsheets or statistical packages to get the perfect graph. With a wide range of graphical representations to choose from and full help every step of the way, NumberLens provides powerful visuals with a few clicks that can be quickly and easily inserted into presentations and reports and saved for future use.
Charts and reports can be embedded in websites, linked to directly or exported by downloading to your computer or device, sending via email or by saving to a cloud storage platform (currently Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive). Charts
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The Korean Society of Spine Surgery is an organization that provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between health care professionals so as to promote research in spinal surgery.
The society was founded in 1984 and has since become the longest-running organization specializing in the spine in Korea, while the number of registered members and published papers are still growing steadily. It holds an annual meeting twice a year in spring and autumn and provides instructional courses for surgeons and related professionals on a yearly basis.
The organization publishes two journals in two languages, which are The Journal of the Korean Society of Spine Surgery written in Korean and the Asian Spine Journal written in English.
The Korean Society of Spine Surgery endeavors to create optimal care for patients with spinal diseases through education for both professionals and patients as well as the support of research by its members in the name of advancing the academic field of spinal surgery. | <urn:uuid:1281b548-c871-4542-a849-dcd697b175b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://journal.kci.go.kr/krspine/info/society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.968109 | 181 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Why is world Peace Day celebrated?
The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. This day is celebrated around the world to strengthen the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. This day promotes global solidarity for building a peaceful and sustainable world.
When was the first world day of peace?
International Day of Peace – 21 September “Peace is the United Nations’ highest calling.” The first Peace Day was celebrated in September 1982. It is used by the UN to call for a 24-hour global ceasefire to provide hope for people living through war and armed conflict, and show that worldwide peace is possible.
What is the theme of International Peace Day 2020?
The International Day of Peace 2020 will be held on the theme “Shaping Peace Together.” To celebrate the day, the world is invited to: spread compassion, kindness and hope in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic; and stand together with the UN against attempts to use the virus to promote discrimination or hatred.
What happens on world day of peace?
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.
Who Found Peace Day?
Background. The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire.
How do I get mental Peace?
To help, here are 9 ways to experience inner peace and enjoy life on a deeper, more satisfying level:
- Focus your attention on those things you can control.
- Spend time in nature.
- Be true to yourself.
- Mind What you Eat.
- Exercise on a regular basis.
- Do Good Deeds.
- Be assertive.
How do we celebrate Peace Day?
Look for Peace Day activities in your own community and around the world: *Minute of silence at 12 noon (all timezones) *Peace education events *Intercultural and interfaith dialogues *Workshops on the UN Peace Day theme *Meditation and prayer *Planting peace poles *Community gatherings *Vigils *Concerts and festivals …
Will there be peace one day?
Peace One Day are producing Climate Action Live on 21 June 2021.
How do you find peace in troubled times?
4 Ways to Find Peace for Yourself
- Focus on the eternal. It’s hard to feel at peace when you’re focused only on short-term worries.
- Let go of what you can’t control. When something outside your control takes away your peace, it’s tempting to feel hopeless or angry.
- Forgive others.
- Repent and rely on Christ.
How can I live in peace?
How to Live a Peaceful Life: Tips for Slowing Down & Enjoying…
- Decide what is important.
- Examine your commitments.
- Do less each day.
- Leave time between tasks or appointments.
- Slow down and enjoy every task.
- Single-task; don’t multi-task.
- Don’t let technology take over your life.
When is the world day of Peace celebrated?
The World Day of Peace is a feast day of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to universal peace, held on 1 January, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
When does the Holy Father celebrate World Day of peace?
Every year on January 1, the Holy Father marks the World Day of Peace with a special message inviting all people to reflect on the important work of building peace.
Who was the pope on the world day of peace?
This year’s message is the latest in a long tradition of messages for this day that began with St. Paul VI in 1967 and continued with St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis . Read more about how to pray, learn, and act with this World Day of Peace handout. | <urn:uuid:c34096fe-6882-49a9-8d3c-2bc21bdcec27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://runyoncanyon-losangeles.com/blog/why-is-world-peace-day-celebrated/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.892267 | 885 | 3.328125 | 3 |
About this episode
Before the first living organisms were brought into being, molecules were already moving and changing. Many energy sources, including light and heat from the sun, were available to provide the energy needed to drive chemical reactions. Mechanical energy, which describes the energy of motion, was also readily available before life’s emergence. Dr Helen Greenwood Hansma from the University of California in Santa Barbara explores how mechanical energy could have driven the processes that gave rise to early life.
Original Article Reference
This is a summary of the paper ‘Mechanical Energy before Chemical Energy at the Origins of Life?’, in Sci. doi.org/10.3390/sci2040088
What does this mean?
Share: You can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt: You can change, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
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In this episode of 5 Things You Need to Know - a mini training series featuring training and education manager Cody Mack, temperature creep and why it occurs in domestic hot water recirculation is explored.
Cody discusses these 5 THINGS in the brief video that follows:
1. Cause of creep
2. ASSE valves
3. Proper Piping
4. Proper Balancing (oh no ... not droop, too!)
5. Avoid the headache!
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8 incredibly wonderful places that one must visit in South Africa
South Africa, the land of the wild, the uniquest animals, gorgeous expansive grass fields, and awesome landscapes, is one of the most interesting and adventurous places to visit in the entire world. South Africa has all the features that make it a heaven for wildlife lovers, nature enthusiasts, and adventure lovers. A land of pleasant weather, gorgeous scenery, beautiful lakes, breathtaking beaches, incredible accommodations, and mouthwatering cuisine.
The southern region of Africa also offers a wide range of exotic beaches, safari, and underwater world. Here are some of the most popular and beautiful cities, towns, and national parks.
Johannesburg is the hub of economy of Africa and the most common point of entry in South Africa. With about 3 million residence it is also the second largest city on African continent. Johannesburg is the place where people go to make money in Africa. While Johannesburg has been stereotyped as a concrete jungle, which is plagued by crime, there are many gorgeous places to see in here. Most of the South Africa tour packages have itinerary that include Johannesburg.
2. Cape Winelands:
Most of the vineyards of the country are situated in the lush green Boland Basic, which is located about 80 km to the northeast of Cape Town. The river valleys that freely flow into the basic are perfect for the growth of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. Also, there are many five-star hotels, boutique hotels, and charming restaurants where you can spend a few days in peace amid beautiful nature.
3. Addo Elephant National Park:
Addo Elephant National Park is one of the largest national parks in Africa. Situated in the eastern Cape region, the national park is a popular place for elephants with special brownish skin color. Other than the elephants, there are animals including antelopes. ostriches, and warthogs.
4. Garden Route:
Situated on the southern coast of Africa, the gorgeous Garden Route in Hermanus is known for its mesmerizing shores and whale watching. The shallow waters of this region attract whales and it makes a perfect environment for them to mate and breed. It's a 10 Km. long cliff side walk and there are telescopes and benches that offer incredible views of these lovely animals.
Home to the second largest city in South Africa, Durban is situated on the eastern coast of South Africa. The subtropical climate, the scenic beaches, and proximity to Johannesburg have made this wonderful town a coastal heaven. The English Colonial architecture of the city will also make you fall in love with it. The mosques, temples, and churches have brilliant architecture too.
6. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park:
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is situated in the lush green Kalahari region of Botswana and South Africa. It came to existence after their merger of Gemsbok National Park and Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa. The national park offers marvelous views and breathtaking red sand dunes. One can also spot cheetah, lion, leopards etc.
A gorgeous mountainous region, Drakensberg creates a boundary between South Africa and the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. This place offers wonderful views of South Africa's landscapes.
8. Kruger National Park:
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Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has described the Islamic State militant group as a modern "plague" that poses a "threat to global security."
According to his press service, Rahmon also express concern that hundreds of young people have left Tajikistan to fight with IS in Syria.
According to AFP, Tajikistan's security forces estimate more than 300 Tajiks have joined the fighting in Syria, with at least 50 killed.
"These young people, when they return home, bring instability to society," Rahmon said.
"They are a threat for Tajikistan because they recruit for extremist groups in Syria and Iraq."
In November, Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim Central Asian state, announced the arrest of 12 members of the outlawed Islamist group Jamaat Ansarullah on suspicion of enlisting would-be jihadists for Syria.
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PrizeWinner in Build (architecture)
ArtistWanlu Liu & Tak Ying Chan
In 2020, as the world becomes globalized, pandemics are now a worldwide problem. Metropolises are faced with difficulty finding relief procedures, lacking preparation and space. As a metropolitan shelter, this project presents a disaster relief solution. This building design has 2 phases of being. Taking inspiration from the idea of an umbrella, the design utilizes its expandable form as the structure of the design. In emergencies, the building expands to utilize horizontal space above ground, accommodating needs such as healthcare, living, and education programs for the unemployed. | <urn:uuid:e1e03a9e-0e13-408b-9453-4f31871f8cde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=122014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.931691 | 145 | 1.625 | 2 |
Directional Boring, also known as Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), is a trenchless excavation technique that is used to bring pipes, conduit and cables underground. HDD can be used for diameters up to 3 meters and lengths up to 1.5 km.
This technique offers some important advantages over normal digging:
– Virtually no damage to the environment
– Ability to dig under existing infrastructure (roads, rivers, sewers)
– Controllable under the ground; flexible bore path possible
Technique (for an animation click here)
An HDD starts with a pilot drilling. This brings a drill string into the ground from the point of entry to the exit point. The drill string consists first of a drill bit to loosen the front soil. This is followed by a corner piece (a bent piece of drill pipe) that can change the working direction of the drill bit by rotation. The drill bit and corner piece are also referred to as the drill head. Following the drill head, there are drill pipes of limited diameter. This is always smaller than the diameter of the drill bit.
Integrated in the drill head is the transmitter (sonde) of the measurement equipment (locating system) to determine the location and direction of the bore. Click here for an explanation.
A relatively small borehole is created with the pilot hole. Drilling fluid (bentonite) is applied here. This has a double function: lubricant for the drill pipes to be installed and counter pressure to prevent the borehole from collapsing due to soil pressure. It also serves as a drainage medium for released soil at a later stage. The bentonite is prepared by a bentonite mixer, consisting of a pump and a storage tank. Movie clip of a Vermeer MX240 mixer
After the pilot bore has reached the exit point, the borehole can be cleared / enlarged. A rotating reamer is coupled to the drill string and pulled through the ground to the entry point. Of course, a drill string is also coupled on the other side of the reamer. This gives the borehole a larger diameter. This process can be repeated until the moment that the borehole has the desired diameter.
The last step is to install the ready product line. The (largest) reamer is coupled to the drill string. A swivel is attached to the reamer, with the product line attached to it. To pull the product line into the prepared and cleared borehole, the drill string is retracted to the drilling rig and disassembled there. The intermediate swivel prevents the rotation of the drill string from being transferred to the product line. Upon retraction, the drilling fluid is also removed, containing the released soil. Drilling – reaming process
If done properly, behind the reamer with swivel not only a single product line can be coupled, but also pipe bundles can be drawn with pipes of different diameters or materials. | <urn:uuid:6648e61d-bff8-45f8-9724-9f91f2eef50b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vermeerusedequipmentbenelux.com/hdd-drilling-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.940958 | 605 | 3.5 | 4 |
State tourism fares better than national average in 2020, governor says
Despite a global pandemic, people around the country chose South Dakota as a vacation destination in 2020, Gov. Kristi Noem said in her address at the 2021 South Dakota Governor's Conference on Tourism on Thursday.
The state was only one of a handful to refuse state-wide lockdowns or mandates, and Noem credited this, and the work of local businesses, to South Dakota's relative success last year.
While South Dakota's visitor numbers were down by 18% in 2020, the national average was down about 45% across the country, according to statistics from the South Dakota Department of Tourism.
The state was home to several large events in 2020, including the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, PBR Rodeo and July 4th fireworks event at Mount Rushmore.
South Dakota gave visitors a place "away from the crowds, away from the lockdowns and away from everything that confines them," Noem said.
But critics say Noem put the economy ahead of South Dakota residents' health during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the state's response was among the most lax in the country, South Dakota has the second-highest per-capita rate of cases, with 12,027 cases per 100,000 people, second only to North Dakota, according to the New York Times.
The state's death rate (189 per 100,000 people) is No. 6 in the country.
Noem's address was optimistic at the conference, citing record breaking numbers for hunting and trail permits issued, park visitor numbers and a record-breaking 2 million visitors to Custer State Park.
Visitors spent $3.4 billion, generating $276 million in state and local tax revenue. But it was still a hard year, with $2,778,840 missing from last year's generated tax revenue.
"More than ever, travel is important for South Dakota," Noem said.
She finished the conference by saying that 2021 will be an "unforgettable yet."
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For someone who already made decision to take one of the 6 HSK levels tests, you may also got a study plan by yourself. But for someone who is still thinking about which level to take and wonder how long does it take to prepare for each level, this article can help you a lot.
If you have no or very limited knowledge of Chinese and know nothing about basic Chinese words and phrases, you need to start from scratch and go through the survivor Mandarin. After you acquire 150 basic Chinese words (written in Pinyin) from the HSK Level 1 vocabulary list and master the most basic HSK 1 grammar, you will be ready to take the HSK 1 test.
Before you take the test, make sure you can understand and use very simple Chinese words and phrases, and meet the most basic communication needs. This process might take about half year depending how much commitment you make.
If you know some basic words and phrases but find it hard to produce fluently the daily communication in Chinese, your objective would be a good grasp of basic Chinese and can communicate in simple way. To pass HSK 2, the single method is to learn another 150 Chinese words of HSK Level 2 vocabulary list plus the previous 150 words from HSK 1, and master HSK Level 2 related grammar. Based on the HSK 1 knowledge, you’ll find yourself more competent to finish all the HSK 2 preparation within one year.
HSK 3 is a combination of HSK 1 and HSK 2, but the huge difference is that from HSK 3, all the questions in the test paper will be written in characters, meaning no Pinyin to rely anymore. So test takers should start learning Chinese characters systematically. HSK 3 asks the test takers to communicate in Chinese at a basic level in their daily, academic and professional lives. To achieve this, you need to review the words from HSK 1 and 2, plus another 300 words from HSK 3 vocabulary list, all in characters. Sounds complicated already, huh? Don’t worry, if you already passed HSK 2 and had knowledge of characters while learning HSK 1 and 2, this process will take much less time. For example, 2-3 class hours per week for 1 year will guarantee you an acceptable note for HSK 3.
HSK 4 test is designed for test takers who want to discuss a wider range of topics in Chinese and are capable of communicating fluently with native speakers. Also a 600 words vocabulary list and HSK 4 related grammar make sure you express yourselves with confidence on familiar subjects related to your daily and professional lives.
In order to prepare for the HSK Level 5, make sure you already can talk with native speakers in Chinese fluently and effectively. But you may still have difficulty in delivering a long speech. If you want to further your study and read Chinese newspapers and magazines, watch Chinese films without English subtitles, then you need to acquire 1500 Chinese words (including words from HSK Level 1 to 4) and master HSK Level 5 related grammar. This may require you to spend 2-3 class hours per week for one year and half, which means its total hour would be about 800 hours.
You will need over 2500 words written in characters and master HSK Level 6 related grammar to pass HSK 6. This level is designed for test takers who can understand a wide range of demanding topics, understand implicit meanings, but still have some difficulty in expressing yourself spontaneously, and precisely. Therefore, by preparing for the HSK 6, you will be able to easily comprehend written and spoken information in Chinese and can effectively express yourselves in Chinese, both in written and oral form. | <urn:uuid:62767235-ac7b-45ba-a34f-940023128719> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learnchineseforfree.com/article/1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952704 | 751 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Asymptomatic blunt trauma patients over age 14 with a negative CT abdomen/pelvis (CTAP) did not have delayed missed injuries.
Why does this matter?
Missed blunt traumatic injuries may be potentially dangerous to patients, especially if they are admitted to another non-trauma service or discharged home. But this study seems to raise more questions than it answers.
So…just scan all asymptomatic patients?
This was a prospective study of patients at a level 1 trauma center who had CTAP. 806 were able to be evaluated. 59.4% (479/806) of these were asymptomatic, defined as no pain, external signs of trauma, and no tenderness. Of these, 13.6% (65/479) had injuries identified on CT, 11 of which were serious solid organ injuries, 3 of which required surgery. There are a couple issues with this study. First of all, the only patients included were those in which the decision to obtain CTAP had already been made, which means someone must have had suspicion of injury. Also, how adequate was the assessment of tenderness in these patients with GCS 15, yet over 13% had intra-abdominal injuries? Are we to believe these patients with shattered solid organs had no pain and no tenderness…really? Not that I have never seen this, but generally this doesn’t square with my experience and with common sense. Regardless, they all got scanned. And the point of this study was that those who were scanned did not need a prolonged period of observation for injuries missed on CT but were clear to go to another service…aka Trauma says, “Not it!”
Negative CT can Safely Rule out Clinically Significant Intra-abdominal Injury in the Asymptomatic Patient After Blunt Trauma: Prospective Evaluation of 1193 Patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2017 Sep 20. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001705. [Epub ahead of print]
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You will not battle with anyone about area to keep your books. Unlike the computer systems, its very mild you’ll be able to easily carry it to your destination.
Whatever kinks may exist in the system, as long as the extensive savings margin nonetheless exist, there would still be plenty of folks prepared to develop and enhance the system to give higher service to anyone who wants to chop costs. If you wish to know the way necessary VoIP is, you just want to consider that VoIP might be the technology that supersedes our old and outdated telephone methods. As time goes by the technology continues also to grow. First the introduction of computer and now the introduction of this new kindle. You can discuss with it as an electronic machine that’s used to download books, magazines or newspapers.
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Excursions in Chopta
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The way to reach Deoria Tal is quite easy. All you need to go through the 2 km trek whose starting point is Sari village situated on Guptkashi-Gopeshwar road. It is located at an elevation of 2,438 mts above sea level and surrounded by forests. Here you can get the outstanding view of Chaukhamba peak in the crystal clear water of Deoria Tal that must be captured by your camera.
This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva which is situated at an elevation of 3,680 mts above sea level. The temple is acknowledged as the highest temple of Lord Shiva and situated only 4 kms away from Chopta. You can reach to this place by simple 4 kms trek. The place is very much popular; reason could be Tungnath is one of Panch Kedar.
This place is acknowledged as the highest point of Mountain where Chopta and Tungnath temple is situated. Here you can find the 360 degree gorgeous view of the enormous Himalayas. It is situated at an altitude of 4090mts above the sea level which is really breath taking.
The place has well-known reorganization as sidha peeths and has very crucial religious importance. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Kali and you can find the massive crowd here at the time of Navratras.
As Gopeshwar town is the administrative headquarters of Chamoli district thus you can find the fabulous view of Chamoli from this place. There are so many tourist spots are here to visit such as Vaitarni kund, ancient temple of Lord Shiva, Great Himalayas view that attracts a majority of customers every year.
Gaurikund has very special religious importance. It is assumed that Lord Shiva agreed to marry with Goddess Parvati at this place and later married with her @Trijuginarayan. The place is situated only 50kms away from Chopta but if you’d like to go from eh Kedarnath then you can reach to this place with a simple 14kms trek.
Probably you’ve heard about this place as it has reorganization as one of the holiest pilgrims of India. The place is especially dedicated to Lord Shiva and located at an elevation of 3,584 mts above sea level. As per the Mythology, Pandavas wanted to come out from their sins as they killed their own brother during Mahabharata war and therefore they’d like to meet with Lord Shiva. But Lord Shiva was very much angry on him and didn’t want to bless them thus he converted himself into big bull and hid himself under the ground. The place comes amongst twelve Jyotirlingas and thus hub of tourist every year. | <urn:uuid:bc82bc6a-1426-4fee-9818-eaa896f56f67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.99uttarakhand.in/chopta-excursions.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.968638 | 620 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Maintaining a healthy lawn involves implementing expert lawncare practices throughout the growing season – proper mowing, fertilizing, irrigation and de-thatching provide a dense, healthy, superior looking lawn.
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The importance of good lawncare practices are often overlooked; mowing has a major influence on the turf density, uniformity and aesthetic quality of a home lawn. It is also the most repetitious and time-consuming maintenance practice and is often done incorrectly – Hire a professional!
Understanding and implementing a well-balanced fertilizer program is one of the most important factors in maintaining an attractive healthy lawn. The three main nutrients required by lawns are:
- nitrogen (N)
- phosphorus (P)
- potassium (K)
Nitrogen promotes dark green colour, leaf and blade development, and density of the turf. Phosphorus is important for good root and rhizome development and promotes plant maturity. Potassium contributes to the general vigour of the plant and promotes wear, drought tolerance and winter hardiness.
When normal rainfall does not provide enough moisture during the growing season, grass goes dormant and turns brown. To ensure a high-quality lawn, the lawn must be watered. Signs that a lawn needs water include:
- grass blades folding inward
- footprints remain while walking across the lawn
- a slight change in colour to dark green-blue
Frequency and Timing
Water in the early morning when there is little or no wind. This provides more even water distribution. Water before midday, when the evaporation rate is the lowest. Watering can be done in the evening, but this may encourage disease development. Most disease-causing fungi require several hours of leaf wetness for infections and disease to occur.
Overseeding and Sodding
Overseeding is a method of thickening up a lawn that has become thin or damaged by insects, diseases, weeds, drought, excessive traffic or other types of damage. To ensure success, add compost, peat or topsoil before overseeding. Overseed at double the seeding rate for establishing a new lawn. The best time to overseed a lawn is in the fall (mid-August to mid-September). Keep the overseeded area moist by watering several times a day. One week after seeding, reduce watering to twice a day until seedlings are established.
Sodding is another method of repairing damaged lawns. Cut out dead or damaged areas to a depth of roughly 4 cm. Rake the soil, add fertilizer and place the sod on top of the soil. Insure good sod/soil contact by stepping on the sod or rolling it. For the best results, sod should be watered within an hour of being laid. Water sod frequently and make sure it does not dry out until it is fully rooted. Newly sodded areas will be rooted in 10 days to 2 weeks. | <urn:uuid:4f509dfa-8c5a-46a5-bbce-3c1500df0a0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aapropertymaintenance.ca/share-the-secrets-of-tasty-and-healthy-food/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936506 | 605 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March as the first World Water Day. Since then every 22 March is marked as a day to celebrate water, make a difference for the members of the global population who suffer from water related issues as well as prepare for how water will be managed in the future. The theme for 2015’s world water day was Water and Sustainable Development. In his speech in last year’s World Water Day, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon stated,"To address the many challenges related to water, we must work in a spirit of urgent cooperation, open to new ideas and innovation, and prepared to share the solutions that we all need for a sustainable future."
22 March each year is therefore a platform where attention can be focused on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Water is at the core of sustainable development. Water resources, and the range of services they provide, underpin poverty reduction, economic growth and environmental sustainability.
It is under this background that KEWASNET participates in this year’s 2016 World Water Day whose theme is, “WATER AND JOBS”.
In partnership with the International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP), KEWASNET seeks to advocate on the need of multi-stakeholder action to address business water-related risks which will affect future employment opportunities if unaddressed during the World Water Day. This will be done by bringing together private sector and civil society organisations (CSOs) to raise awareness on corporate water stewardship and the need to engage CSOs and government to ensure sustained impacts on the projects. KEWASNET will also support the Ministry of Water and Irrigation event which will be held in Naivasha. Stakeholders in the water sector from private sector, civil society organizations (CSOs), government and development partners need to work together to address the water crisis thus ensuring sustained social and economic development.
As an activity, KEWASNET in partnership with Kisumu County Government(Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources), GIZ-IWaSP, Umande Trust , SUSWATCH Kenya, KIWASCO, NEMA, WRMA agreed to undertake several Activities during the World Water day all geared towards restoring Auji River in Kisumu County. Main activities of the day will be Auji River clean up and Tree Planting.
Auji River is a perennial stream whose origin in kajulu hills. It flows downstream, traversing Kisumu East Constituency through the expansive Manyatta and Nyalenda informal settlements into Lake Victoria. The stream consist a constructed water concrete channel to provide easy flow and reduce erosion.
The stream like many urban water bodies is exposed to a myriad of challenges occasioned by urban dynamics of the urban environment such as human encroachment, pollution and various forms of degradation.
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Everyone Social Footprint is the impact that a company’s social policies have on the world, such as its employees, its partners (including its subcontractors) and the society as a whole. It’s the idea that there can be no long-term economic performance – i.e. growth and profitability – if there isn’t a synergy between three types of footprints: economic, environmental and social.
- The economic footprint refers to the economic performance.
- The environmental footprint refers to the fact that there can be no business without protecting the environment and the resources that surround a company.
- The social footprint is the realization of the positive and negative externalities of a company on its ecosystem. If the ecosystem is not well, the company cannot develop itself sustainably. From an economic standpoint, that’s what we are going through today: there is a crisis of liquidity and a problem in terms of financing companies. Socially, unemployment and education have an impact as well.
Beyond that, if companies do not weigh on their ecosystem to make it evolve, they will have a hard time implementing social policies within their own companies, because the ecosystem will limit them.
a) Is social footprint really taken into account during these times of crisis?More and more, yes, even though it’s not called such. Take the LH Forum for instance (France’s first international forum dedicated to a positive and responsible economy, that took place on September 13th and 14th). Times where full employment and no downsizing were the rule are long gone. We are now in a more complicated period where one needs to renew oneself.
b) How does social footprint differ from Corporate Social Responsibility?In the collective unconscious, CSR either refers to a group of programs that are meant to repair, or to the generosity of a company that has succeeded. Social footprint, in turn, has become a strategic lever. In times of crisis, I will freeze programs that are not important. But if the social footprint is considered as a strategic lever, it will be perennial. But we need to be cautious: social footprint is different from company to company.
c) Why is social footprint specific to each company?It depends on the business plan and the branch of activity. A company that works in high value services like Accenture cannot have the same social footprint as an industrial or chemical company. Forcing companies into having the same social footprint through institutional constraints for instance, is a fundamental strategic mistake, one that is counter productive economically and in terms of social dialogue.
In Sp1ndex we are developing trategies and setting parameters that will evolve as the conversation around social footprint moves forward. There can be social footprints that are more focused on some points than others. The aim is not to cover everything if it doesn’t correspond to Company branch of activity and to its business plan. Sp1ndex rather try to improve a specific social footprint inside the path settled by its Exceutives. | <urn:uuid:8446cc4f-ff21-44e2-9a87-f188690e1ce5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sp1ndex.com/understanding-social-footprint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950885 | 611 | 2.6875 | 3 |
NCAA Governing Board Allows College Athletes to Receive Compensation
On October 29, the NCAA Board of Governors voted to allow Divisions 1, 2 and 3 to permit athletes to receive compensation for their personal brand or celebrity, while not also becoming employees of their university. The three divisions must change their bylaws by January 2021 and with those changes, ensure that athletes will not be classified as professionals. This change of NCAA policy is likely in response to bills like California’s Fair Pay for Play Act, which mandates that athletes receive fair compensation for their work and will take effect in 2023.
The NCAA has been under siege for years. As the governing body for college sports, it has reaped the rewards of sponsorship contracts for broadcasting rights and shared little with the athletes performing on the field, court, track, diamond, course, or arena. Universities belonging to the Big 5 athletic conferences are additional beneficiaries, awarding multi-million dollar contracts to successful coaches and few benefits beyond college scholarships to their athletes. The NCAA’s dual role as regulator and enforcer is arguably influenced by the value of those big network contracts as evidenced by the verdict of no punishment for the University of North Carolina’s athletic program for steering athletes into “paper classes.” On the surface, one can only assume that the NCAA ordered its attorneys to find a loophole to avoid punishing one of college basketball’s perennially strongest programs.
“The wind of change is blowing” is the opening phrase from a speech that UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave to South Africa’s Parliament in 1960, referencing its policy of apartheid. Apartheid formally ended in April of 1994. There have been several player compensation lawsuits against the NCAA, the most famous of which may be the O’Bannon v. NCAA anti-trust case initially won by O’Bannon and his fellow plaintiffs at the District Court level in August 2014. That verdict was partially affirmed and partially reversed at the Appeals Court level in September 2015 and appealed to the Supreme Court, who voted not to hear the case.
ESPN analyst and former Duke basketball star Jay Bilas said the NCAA had plenty of opportunities to be proactive instead of reactive but instead failed to take the initiative a long time ago, noting that “…This has been coming for a long time. The state government just sped it all up…”
The O’Bannon case is not the major “wind of change is blowing” date for the NCAA, and I’m not sure what event and date might deserve that tag. Given the level of attention that the NCAA’s policy of no pay for athletes is receiving at the state and federal legislative level, I predict extremely turbulent waters for the next few years, particularly as California’s law goes into effect along with other states considering similar legislation. | <urn:uuid:131509de-c20c-482a-96c8-62ad4f8859d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wallyboston.com/ncaa-board-college-athletes-compensation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.968086 | 584 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Careers Education at GCS
Gladesmore Community School takes Careers Education very seriously. We know that for many pupils careers education provides a goal for pupils building intrinsic motivation for hard work at school.
Our Careers programme is part of our well-developed PSHE curriculum. There is an explicit careers unit in each year group and the focus for each unit is appropriate for the age of the pupils.
In Year 7 pupils learn about the skills required to be successful in the workplace and reflect on how school is helping them to acquire these skills.
In Year 8, pupils learn about the world of work including reflecting on the differences between work and school, learning about how to apply for jobs, the experiences of being an entrepreneur and also thinking about how they can build useful experiences now e.g. through volunteering and extra-curricular activities.
In Year 9, the Careers unit is part of our structured and supported Pathways process. Pupils are encouraged to identify their strengths and areas for development to help them choose subjects which will support them in a career path.
In Year 10, the Careers unit focuses on the financial aspects of Careers with pupils learning about payslips, taxes, pensions and debt. There is a dedicated lesson looking at student finance specifically. In addition, student learn about some newer ways of working including zero hours contracts, self-employment and the gig economy.
In Year 11, the Careers unit is part of structured and supported pathways process. In particular, pupils look at post-18 pathways including university, apprenticeships and work.
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Learn how to cook some traditional Fijian dishes to impress your friends back home. Fijian food reflects influences from Polynesia, India, China, and Western worlds.
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EASTPORT, Maine — About two hours is all one needs to witness the dramatic difference in the tidal waters surrounding Eastport, and like other coastal Maine communities, the difference between high tide and low tide can be sweeping.
At about 12:30 p.m. Monday, vast mudflats lay uncovered by the ebb tide. A family was gathered on the mudflats near the entrance to the town, apparently digging for clams.
Barely two hours later, those acres upon acres of mudflats were submerged by the incoming tide.
It is the energy behind the flowing tidal waters that Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. seeks to harness and convert into electricity.
The company’s pilot project to accomplish that task has been underway about a year with a deployed a turbine generator in Cobscook Bay, to the west of Eastport, producing electricity as the incoming and outgoing tide pushed the foils of a device.
The company removed the turbine generator — resembling a rotary lawnmower with a generator in the middle — last month for a yearly inspection, maintenance and service. It sits at the facilities of The Boat School in Eastport, a wooden scaffold erected around it to make it accessible to workers.
It is the first commercial pilot project in North America that converts the power of the tides into electricity and connects to the energy grid. When operating, it generates enough electricity to provide power to about 25 homes.
The company has been learning from the yearlong project and is moving forward to phase two — the deployment of two more devices in 2014.
In fact, ORPC will seek to deploy another 18 turbine generators at two different sites around Eastport within five years, John Ferland, vice president of project development, said Monday. The process of obtaining the required federal and state licenses will begin later this year or in early 2014, he said.
The next generation of the company’s tidal turbine generators will be deployed in the Western Passage, the body of water east of Eastport and between the peninsula and Deer Island, Canada. The newer equipment will be in faster-moving, deeper water, and the generators will be tethered to the bottom, not anchored. In some areas the turbines will be stacked in a vertical configuration.
A notable difference, however, is that — unlike Cobscook Bay — the Western Passage is a busy commercial shipping lane and an active fishery also populated with whales, dolphins and seals.
ORPC is developing three products, all based on the technology of its turbine generator, according to Susy Kist, manager of marketing and communications. One is being developed for river sites, another for estuarine and tidal waters up to 150 feet deep, and a third for tidal and ocean locations over 150 feet deep. The company expects to deploy the latter two devices in combination in the Western Passage, said Kist. They are suited for deep water and irregular ocean bottoms, like portions of the Western Passage.
“The stacking technique allows us to achieve scale in output,” Kist said in an email, and the company is developing a prototype mooring system for testing in Cobscook Bay in 2014.
ORPC also has initiated an observation program to begin collecting baseline data regarding the use of the proposed Western Passage project area by marine mammals. The observation program was developed with the assistance of the New England Aquarium.
The company is focused on removing costs from the fledgling tidal energy industry, Ferland said. The goal is to achieve price parity by the year 2020.
“What we need to do is rapidly improve what we’re doing,” said Ferland.
The Maine Public Utilities Commission approved the project earlier for production of up to 5,000 kilowatts per hour of tidal power — enough to power about 2,000 homes. The commission set a rate of 21.5 cents per kilowatt-hour the first year, about 8 cents higher than the average.
“Clearly, it’s an area that has an incredible resource,” said Patrick Woodcock, director of the Governor’s Energy Office. “It has been exciting to see a Maine-based company … look to utilize that resource and also have jobs support it.”
Woodcock added, “We obviously have to look at the bottom line as we expand these companies … to make sure it works for them and the people of Maine.”
The tidal turbine generator generally has performed as intended, said Bob Lewis, director of operations and planning and chief safety officer at the Eastport office. The company’s target is to complete maintenance on the turbine generator and deploy it again by year’s end, he said Monday.
“We need to build a better mousetrap,” Lewis said acknowledging that the company continues to innovate. “And that mousetrap is still being developed.”
Jose Zayas, director of the wind and power technology office for the U.S. Department of Energy, which provided half the funding — $10 million — to get the project up and running said they are “still very excited.” The company will be adapting, incorporating what it learns into future technology and deployment strategies, he said Tuesday.
“We always saw this as a pilot phase,” he said.
Ferland pointed to the positive impact the company’s operations have on Eastport and beyond. While ORPC has been able to draw on the “critical skills” available from the port community, its economic footprint reaches far beyond. According to ORPC, five people are employed in Eastport and 18 at its headquarters in Portland, but its operations are responsible for another 77 jobs in Maine, as the company does business with vendors and suppliers in 13 of Maine’s 16 counties. It has invested more than $21 million into the Maine economy, including over $5 million spent in the Lubec and Eastport area.
The company’s technology has demonstrated it is compatible with the marine environment, said Ferland, although monitoring will continue. University of Maine scientists and others have been participating in the environmental monitoring.
The data the company is collecting in conjunction with its monitoring efforts are “creating new knowledge” of the Cobscook Bay environment, said Ferland. “It’s an exciting time for oceanography.”
Lewis described the company’s project as “the Kitty Hawk of tidal energy,” referring to the first successful airplane flight achieved by Wilbur and Orville Wright in Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903.
“I hope … in 15 or 20 years that we do lay the foundation for this industry,” said Lewis.
ORPC will hold an informational fair about its project 4:30-6 p.m. Aug. 27. The event will be held at Morrison Landing on Deep Cove Road in Eastport. Rain date is Aug 28.
Exhibits and displays will provide information about the Cobscook Bay tidal energy project, and staff will be on hand to answer questions about operations, technology development, environmental monitoring and more.
There is no admission charge for this all ages event, and no reservations are required. Refreshments will be served.
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CopyGuided enables you to copy 2D geometry, but it’s much more than that! It’s a smarter way to copy entities accurately.
What is CopyGuided?
CopyGuided enables you to automatically align copied entities with relevant geometry using temporary guide curves. You can explicitly select entities to use as guide curves or let BricsCAD determine them based on your selection window.
To explicitly select entities
- Select the entities you want to copy.
- Launch the COPYGUIDED command. The entities to be copied are displayed in green.
- Select the entities you want to use as guide curves.
To select entities with a selection window
- Launch the COPYGUIDED command.
- Create a window (or polygonal) selection that encompasses the entities you want to copy and crosses the entities you want to use as guide curves.
All entities that fall completely within the selection window are included in the copy selection set and are displayed in green. Entities that cross the selection window are used as guide curves and are displayed in blue. Selecting entities with this method saves you an extra step!
How to Use CopyGuided
- Select entities using one of the methods described above.
- Drag the mouse to copy the selected entities to a new location.
Blue arrows indicate the anchor points and direction of the guide curves. The copied entities will only align with geometry that matches the number of guide curves and distances between them. As you drag the entities near matching geometry, the entities automatically snap into position. If you approach the geometry from the opposite side, the copied entities automatically flip.
- Click to place the copy or type a distance in the dynamic entry fields. Hit the Tab key to jump to the other field.
- Hit Enter to confirm the distance.
More Tips and Tricks for COPYGUIDED
#1 When placing copied entities with guide curves, destination curves must match the number of and distance between guide curves only. They don’t have to be the same color, on the same layer or even the same type of geometry as the original guide curves. For example, you can copy entities using four parallel lines as guide curves and automatically align with four concentric arcs or circles as long as the spacing between them matches.
#2 Use the Region option of CopyGuided to automatically remove, repair or replace geometry within a specified area!
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On Wednesday, Trump met in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, and the fact that the meeting was documented by a Russian photographer has led to rampant speculation that Russia has now bugged the White House.
The meeting was not open to the press, but Russian officials brought a photographer from state-run news outlet TASS with them. White House officials would later claim that they thought the photographer was a government worker and Lavrov’s assigned photographer, not a journalist.
After the meeting, the Russian delegation was showered with accusations that they took the opportunity to bug the White House. So, the theory goes, a photographer carries a great deal of equipment and moves around a good deal. It would be possible for him to slip a surveillance device somewhere, according to Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Vice President James Lewis.
“This is standard practice. Lots of countries do it,” said Lewis to the International Business Times (IBT). He described a “pretty small” device that sticks under a table “like a piece of gum.” Such a device could have audio and video capabilities and then transmit its data to a file server or website via the internet.
Also speaking to IBT, information security professional Jayson Street with cyber security firm Pwnie Express even suggested the photographer’s camera could be a spying device. “It could be wired to look for thermal or infrared signals as well, which would be able to help assess what is going on behind those wood panels,” said Street, adding that it’s “a very rare occurrence for a camera of possible or questionable origin to have that kind of access to the Oval Office.”
The Trump administration, however, has explained that the photographer and his equipment were screened before entry in the same way they would screen a member of the US media.
Of course, there is no proof to even suggest that a bug was planted. It’s possible, sure. But likely? Nah, said Phil Polstra, a professor of digital forensics at Bloomsburg University, to Wired. “It’s certainly possible that anybody could plant something. In theory, anything’s possible. But the reality is it would be pretty hard to do anything.”
The Oval Office, after all, is a place where highly sensitive information is openly discussed by top officials. Although the specifics of White House countersurveillance are not availed to the public, it’d be an impressive show of blithering incompetence if the Oval Office wasn’t frequently and rigorously audited for espionage devices. “I can’t imagine that our country wouldn’t shield the Oval Office. That’s like security 101,” Polstra said.
Lewis recommended White House security to “always do a sweep after a meeting in any place where you let the Russians, the Chinese or a few other friends pay a visit.” And the White House confirmed after the furor that, obviously, it is routinely swept for listening devices.
Bug or no bug, the White House was criticized for letting the photographer in without properly vetting him. “It’s a security breach for sure because they should know exactly who’s in the White House,” said Jill Johnston, president of surveillance goods wholesaler KJB Security Products, to Wired. “He could have recorded everything that went on there. He could have definitely left something behind.”
It isn’t the first time the Trump White House has come under fire for bad security. In January, Trump and other administration officials were revealed to be using their personal email accounts for authentication to Twitter, when it’s safer to use a dummy email. In February, Trump discussed a North Korean missile test with some of his subordinates. Standard stuff – except The Donald did so in full view and earshot of his civilian dinner guests at Mar-a-Lago.
During the Cold War, the Americans and Soviets bugged one another so frequently that it almost seemed rude not to plant a listening device during an official visit. The Soviet bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow was so pervasive that in the 1980s the entire building was torn down and rebuilt just to escape bugs. Maybe the most famous example of a Soviet bug was The Thing, a tiny listening device ingeniously hidden inside a wooden plaque of the Seal of the United States. It hung on the office wall of the American ambassador to the Soviet Union for seven years before it was discovered.
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Laboratory of Molecular Neuropsychiatry
Sang Ki Park (Life Sciences)
Amid the rapid spread of COVID-19, the international journal, The Lancet (October,2021), published research findings indicating an 28% worldwide increase in cases of depressive disorders. COVID-19 aside, it was estimated, that nearly 200 million of such cases may have occurred anyway. In fact, it is conservative to estimate that depression and similar psychiatric disorders affect a full quarter of the global population. What’s more is that cases of clinical depression and/or schizophrenia adversely affect the economics of an otherwise thriving society, including loss of labor.
In terms of genetic origin or molecular biological doctrines, the research on mental illness lags far behind that of other diseases. If we could discover and control genes or proteins that trigger depression and other mental illnesses, they could be treated with the simple “flip” of a switch. The Molecular Neuro-PSYchiatry Lab (MNPSY), headed by Professor Sang Ki Park at the Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH, delves into molecular psychiatry to shed light on mental disorders by employing the techniques of molecular biology and neurobiology to uncover the fundamental root within the body that causes mental illnesses.
Ever since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003 and all the genes of the human genome were mapped, the genetics behind mental illnesses has been systematically disclosed by isolating genetic defects and analyzing how they result in these disorders. Approximately 100 new genes have been recently discovered to cause schizophrenia.
The Lab is particularly interested in the Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene which was found in the genetic studies of a large Scottish family which experienced a high prevalence of this mental disorder. A defect in this gene signifies a high probability for schizophrenia. Researchers at the Lab discovered that this gene is involved in communication within nerve cells and regulates our response to various external stressors. If we can control this gene, we could discover an alternate method to prevent external stimuli from triggering schizophrenia.
The MNPSY Lab has established a research system spanning the study of genes and the analyses of nerve cells to experimenting on animal tissue and their behavior. Such a system aids in the exploration of the multi-faceted pathogenesis of mental disorders – from the molecular to the behavioral levels. Researchers plan to build on the principles of the mental disorders discovered thus far to identify factors that could control mental illnesses. “We have been primarily researching to understand the mechanism of pathogenesis itself”, Professor Park noted. He also added, “Our focus will be to search for methodologies to control the ‘switch’ while continuously expanding our current research on molecular mechanisms”.
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The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) has published a number of draft international standards (ISPMs) for country consultation. The draft documents can be downloaded from the ‘Current consultations for draft ISPMs’ section of the IPPC website at https://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/standards-setting/member-consultation-draft-ispms/.
1. First Consultation
We are not constrained in the type or number of comments we can make on these drafts. It is also important to identify any potential implementation problems.
- Revision of ISPM 26 (Establishment of pest free areas for fruit flies (Tephritidae))
- Annex to ISPM 46 (Commodity-specific standards for phytosanitary measures): International movement of mango (Mangifera indica) fruit
- Annex to ISPM 23 (Guidelines for inspection): Field inspection (including growing-season inspection)
- Draft Annex to ISPM 37 (Determination of host status of fruit to fruit flies (Tephritidae)): Criteria for evaluation of available information for determining host status of fruit to fruit flies (2018-011), Priority 3
- Draft 2022 Amendments to ISPM 5 (Glossary of phytosanitary terms) (1994-001), Priority 1
Draft Diagnostic Protocols
- Draft DP: Mononychelus tanajoa
- Draft DP: Genus Ceratitis
2. Second Consultation
These drafts have already been out for first consultation, redrafted by the IPPC Standards Committee, and prepared for final consideration. We will seek only to submit crucial comments on these drafts: those that concern issues arising in the drafts which would cause significant misunderstanding or major problems of implementation.
- Revision of ISPM 4 (Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas)
- Draft Annex to ISPM 20 (Guidelines for a phytosanitary import regulatory system): Use of Specific Import Authorizations
3. Implementation and capacity development consultation
As a lower priority, we can also submit comments on the below draft documents which can be found at https://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/capacity-development/consultation-on-ic-sub-groups-draft-terms-of-reference-and-draft-rules-of-procedure/:
- Authorization of entities to perform phytosanitary actions, Guide
- National Reporting Obligations (NROs) Guide, revision
- Implementation of risk-based inspection for imported consignments Guide
Further details on the IPPC can be found at www.ippc.int.
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“Everything is a metaphor until the body abuts it.”
– Claire Schwartz
The phrase “be in touch” reaches out from a situation about to become more distant – where touch, actually, will no longer be possible – to ask for a form of contact in the uncertain future. Contact is the literal condition of touching; figuratively, it’s the event of sending a message. If I ask you to be in touch, I am asking for a kind of contact that turns tactility into communication.
The part of the brain related to touch is called the postcentral gyrus, from which this exhibition takes its name. The postcentral gyrus holds a virtual map of sensory space, a map with glitches in its borders. The map is subject to revision and can generate false sensations. The phenomenon of phantom limb can occur when nerves associated with an amputated body part send signals to the brain as though it were still attached. Pain often takes the place of the lost digit or limb, so that it doesn’t feel like something is missing, but rather is still there, somehow distorted or contorted. This feeling, evokes the writer Megan Nolan, “can be so convincing that not only will the patient feel a severed hand, but can actually feel it reach out and attempt a handshake with the real hand of another person.” When used metaphorically, the impairing syndrome helps articulate an imbalance between presence and absence, fullness and lack.
In the 1980s, Lynn Hershman Leeson named her series of black-and-white photo-collages of women’s body parts spliced with camera lenses and other analogue-era devices “Phantom Limb” (1985–87). Contemporaneous with the publishing of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” (1985), which sung the hybrid possibilities for feminist liberation through the reclamation of technologies, the series (from which the works Camerawoman and Biological Clock are taken) foresees an imminent revolution in the merging of humans, interfaces, and machines. For its time, “Phantom Limb” cut the homogenous kinds of (white) women’s bodies favored by mass media out of their rote role of performance before the male gaze, reintegrating the camera-eye into self-image decades before the arrival of social media, smartphones, and selfie feminism. The series makes a parody of the idea that our devices should substitute a ‘lack’ (here a specifically feminine one), while offering offer an early premonition of how later automated and assistive technologies, because considered subservient, would be feminized.
Hershman Leeson’s practice, with its continual engagement with technological change and how this relates to identity, embodiment, and desire, provides a precursor to the contemporary artworks of the exhibition. Made between 2013 and 2018, this assemblage of works reveals various negotiations between a body and its intermediaries, through both technics and techne – the poetic practice of making. How this body meets other bodies, how this body receives appendages and modifications, and how this body-mind or mind-body finds supports in writing and art. These artworks are also brought forth into that space between a body and its intermediaries, insofar as art comes out of the subjective and into a physical and/or conceptual relation with others, to bridge a gap. You are rarely allowed to touch the artworks, but an artwork, like someone else’s phantom limb, may reach out and touch you.
In Our Hands (2015) by Marjolijn Dijkman displays two pairs of phantom hands on back-to-back LED screens. Lit like the blue of an X-ray scanner, the hands are those of a dancer, their gestural movements captured with motion sensors and translated into animation, where they hover, removed from their previous body. The shift of sense in the meaning of ‘contact’ from physicality to remote communication dates to the nineteenth century, when the phrase “to make contact” referred to connections in electric circuits – signal passed to signal into sign. These digits’ gestures are willful – a command, a direction, a beckoning; an effect to accentuate an affect – as well as less conscious – an excess of signal that may append or replace but ultimately escapes words. Our body can betray a truth we chose not to or could not say; some aspects of the way we communicate are not in but out of our hands.
In Addie Wagenknecht’s works, the gestures of action painting, historically attached to the singular artist’s hand, are detached from direct bodily feedback and instead entrusted to the sensor-based movements of contemporary robotics. Where gestural abstraction was canonized according to a valuation of male territorial mark-markings, Perfect Lovers and Northern Lights (both 2018) replace that given authenticity with the automated paint splatterings of a re-programmed Roomba. Defiantly here, the robot vacuum does not clean, it makes a mess, as Wagenknecht has hacked its program to spew rather than suck.
The painter’s brush was always a technological extension of their body. Yet while the artist’s use of this domestic tool seems to further remove from her the gestures of painting, the result is no less intimate. Scuttling on the ground like a pet, the Roomba’s sensors allow for navigation of the environment according to proximity rather than distance. (In another series, Alone, Together (2017), Wagenknecht lay down naked on the canvas while the robot skirted her outline, leaving an absence of paint in the place of a female nude.)
These paintings raise the question of why the physicality of one act should be fetishized when that of another is devalued: the corporeal act of painting as an integral part of the Work, as opposed to a body’s labor in acts of cleaning and maintenance. The Roomba’s inclusion in this painting process not only stands for the freeing of women from domestic chores in order to potentially have more time and energy to make art (*those women who can afford the luxury of such tech products), but also performs the trick of reinvesting symbolic value in the domiciliary via the canvas.
The pigments, liquids, and other substances in Wagenknecht’s two paintings come from make-up products and pharmaceuticals – hair dye, cologne, oxyContin, Prozac – smears of the chemical facades of modern life. Kirsten Stolle’s watercolors, Specimen Series (2013), come out of the artificial compounds that end up inside us – from a gut feeling about unseen interference with conceptions of interior and exteriority. Stolle painted the series while reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), about the detrimental effects of pesticides on eco-systems and human biology, and while herself experiencing digestive discomfort. Forms resembling organic cells and bacteria under a microscope meet a shit-hued protuberance, a barbed-wire loop, or an aqua-wash of cleansing water. The fictional forms are porous and seeping, faithful to the nature of real bodies, the paint running according to its liquid course, uncompliant to authorial boundaries.
The borders between ‘natural’ and artificial, constructed and organic, are equally dissolved in Antye Guenther’s long, pearlescent ceramic entities, “No structure, not even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy” (2018). This title is a quote from Philip K. Dick’s Galactic Pot-Healer (1969), in which the protagonist’s job restoring ceramics is becoming obsolete with the prevalence of plastics. (The entropy of plastics being a disastrous pile-up, rather than a rotting away.) With the ergonomics of a digitally designed sex toy, or the molded form of a finger, a spoon, an undersea alien worm, it is ambiguous whether the desirable protrusions have been shaped by human hands, as per our first association of clay, or by a machine. Materially, the objects also resist binary classification: silicon is both the conductive element of microchips and a component of modern ceramics. The sculptures embody the fusing of technics and techne, a coexistence that does not begin with the digital revolution, though it has been accentuated by this, but that dates back to the beginnings of the Anthropocene, when humans first started to impact Earth, crafting tools with which to both survive and to make art.
In common with the post- of posthuman, postmodern, or post-internet, the post- of “Postcentral” refers not to what comes after, but rather what goes beyond the thing that continues to exist. More than standing for a place after ‘the body’ – which never in the definitive existed anyway – the post- of “Postcentral” stands for what emerges from the corporeal to supplement, substitute, or support it. If this post- can also function as a de-, the artworks of “Postcentral” wish to decenter dominant, patriarchal modes of being/ways of seeing. They deny the idea of a single body as a coherent, categorizable container.
In this mold, Zach Blas’s Facial Weaponization Communiqué series (2011–14) sets out to resist, in its gloopy obfuscations, the white-biased machine gaze of biometric facial recognition. The amorphous pink Fag Face mask was modeled on the aggregated facial data of queer men, and covers the wearer’s features with an opaque, bulbous coating – a statement against the discriminatory use of biometrics. Through this series, in which other masks relate to biometric technologies’ in-built discriminations against dark skin color and hijab-wearing women, the machine eyes that seek to render all facets of identity visible (race, gender, class, health…) are shown to be fallible, sensing without sensitivity.
Jesse Darling’s “Support Level” sculptures make apparent the fragility of a body solely through its material supports. A body’s difficulties and complaints are implicit in the metal members of the sculptures, but it is not made to self-represent. Darling has, in the past, commented that the transition from performance to sculptural practice was a move to let the material artworks stand in their place, as analogues to, though not figurative representations of, “this body, and other bodies, their holes and ruptures inevitably carried through.” This more recent phase of the artist’s work introduced another bodily remove, when a neurological condition that resulted in temporary paralysis of their right hand and arm meant they had to outsource the sculptures’ production, unable to weld as usual themselves. Physical impossibility prompted more tentative steps “towards a non-macho sculpture practice.”
The pair of sculptures Plexus and Compartment Syndrome (hanging in there) (2017) mirror forms from the hospital and the clinic, the coldness of the institution translated to clean minimalism. Plexus, the name for an anatomical network of nerves, features a cool pack and a bright-blue back brace without the torso that will wear it or the hands that help it on. Compartment Syndrome, a condition of painful pressure build-up within muscles, is composed of grip bars and plastic tubing which trails like an IV drip, then fed into the flimsy plastic vest of an upside-down carrier bag, whose material will long outlast us. Three more carriers, this time recyclable, hang from the same bar, like armless torsos above a mobility-cane foot. The service industry Thank Yous with which these bags are printed convey how the obligation for a constant chain of grateful words can come to feel like a debt. Yet they also give thanks – even within the exhausting conditions of capitalism and its healthcare bills – for life itself.
Together, the artworks of “Postcentral” ask us to rely on the senses still at our disposal to transform privileged ways of seeing into more vulnerable ways of sensing and feeling. “The occupied space [of the body] is sensual intuition,” writes poet and philosopher Lisa Robertson, “whose rubbing against contingent things opens them and itself.” The fragile power of this “sensual intuition” is its elusiveness, its invisibility, for it is known on the outside merely through its contact with the world. “Postcentral” opens up alternate ways in which we might – in absence or in presence, in remote contact or ambient intimacy – be, keep, or stay in touch. | <urn:uuid:4eb609b0-8c78-4b7c-b1a3-7911726682ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nomegallery.com/chapter/be-in-touch/?exh=2444&order=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937305 | 2,667 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Most young couples and indeed older ones nowadays look for smaller houses or apartments when shopping around for a house. This can be understandable considering today’s price range and how it is practically impossible for a young couple to afford such prices.
Therefore many focus on smaller surface areas which need to be furnished by using smaller components that must be practical and take up the least possible space to allow for more living area.
Let us consider the composition of a house and its reduced dimensions. The standard size would be a two-roomed flat divided into two areas: a living area for the daytime and a sleeping area where the bedrooms are located as well as the bathrooms.
There may also be a balcony and full length window that will allow for extra natural light. There are in fact laws that determine specific dimensions that must be respected in the design of interior environment, which will give you a rough idea of what to expect in a residential complex of new generation constructions.
Open space solutions are great for achieving the impression that you have a large living area. The kitchen area opens on to the lounge providing a large space in which you can live and communicate more freely.
This will avoid the sense of closing in with walls and will also provide extra light for the whole apartment. The extra space will also provide better possibilities for furnishing and you can let your imagination run free.
If you do not like the idea of an open space you can divide the environment into two separate areas with a low wall as the dividing element on which you may add components such as bookshelves and other pieces of furniture that will add to the decoration of the rooms and be practical too.
You may also like to consider a kitchen with a high breakfast table as a partition; this will separate the areas without taking away extra space. However just one colorful picture will add light and personality to the apartment.
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Choosing NB-IOT or CAT-1M for IoT startups
Alexa! I can’t find my glasses! Oh well, we still have to reach there but we are not far. Thanks to the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). However, for all smart devices to have the ability to communicate, you need to be connected.
Initially, devices were able to communicate only in close range using Infrared (IR) or Bluetooth (BT). Then Wi-Fi increased the range and made it smart IoT. As more devices emerged, there was a need to connect these devices on a broader spectrum. Connectivity has moved onwards from closed rooms to buildings, across smart cities, pan countries and now towards globally accessible protocols. In other words, we moved from IR to BT, onwards to WiFi, then GSM based networks.
Applications including Intelligent agriculture, Animal husbandry or Industrial IoT deployment all require a broad-spectrum connectivity. The most common and widely spread connectivity modules include GSM based services dependent on Telcom operators. Major protocols today include – 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE and now we have NB-IoT, CAT-1M and 5G networks in the deployment stage.
Since each protocol practically has its own set of HW and FW requirements, it is not easy to switch from one to another. Development cost is also high. So it is imperative, specially for a new startup or a new product designer that he chooses the right protocol from day 1.
With a plethora of solutions available for connectivity, the designers and companies are faced with this common question. How to choose the appropriate communication module? How to identify and understand the product development costs, product manufacturing costs, and end-user network coverage for each of these protocols? Let us see the hiccups while making a comparison on the protocols.
- Traditional 2G, GPRS, 3G and other communication network: Low power use though slow speed. Most operators are phasing out this service gradually so that faster, new technologies can be adopted. This means that the original products designed on these protocols cannot be used anymore.
- 4G and 5G are bound to consume a lot of power and hence not suitable for IoT applications.
- Only options left is NB-IoT or CAT-1M which most operators are now globally moving towards. But they are also different from each other.
- There is no global norm for roll outs of these various technologies. The situation across major operators across the globe differs from country to country. Choosing one protocol means developing a different product for a different market each time and going through all the entry barriers of certifications, testing and approvals. The cost of certifications for each protocol is also very high.
So, how to choose between NB-IoT or CAT-1M?
Here, LABX7 proposes a feasible solution for the startups considering the cost and operator situations. We have developed a solution using Qualctel’s dual-mode communication module. One communication module has passed the global operator’s certification, and is compatible with LTE CATM1 and NB-IoT. The design is compatible with the two communication modules during production according to the requirement of the actual operator of the user. In case of coverage, the user can find the most relevant IoT card in his local area.
Case study – North American market:
Verizon and AT&T, T-mobile, Spring have already deployed the LTE CATM1 network nationwide.
T-Mobile has also opened the NB-IoT network.
LTE CATM1’s traffic fee is more expensive than NB-IoT’s traffic fee, the smallest unit, 30MB maximum data per year, costs around USD 11/year
The minimum unit of NB-IoT traffic fee is USD 5/year
We need to note that the price of the dual-mode communication module is about 30% higher than that of the single CATM1 or NB-IoT communication module.
However, in the early stage of advancing in the market and where the end-user demand is not clear, it is ideal and recommended to adopt a dual-mode communication solution. Once the product is accepted and has a good presence, the volumes would increase. In the case of volume reaching around 100K units, the unit cost comes down to the same level as a single protocol module.
Here is a glance at the main differences between LTE Cat M1 & NB-IoT
What’s LTE Cat M1
LTE Category M1 (Cat M1) is a power and cost optimized cellular technology created for IoT applications that features on a 1.4 MHz (reduced from 20 MHz) spectrum, has a transmit power of 20Bm, and typical upload speeds between 200kpbs and 400 kpbs. This technology can lengthen battery life, potentially by up to a decade.
Verizon, the U.S wireless operator, is going to launch the Cat M1 technology along with multiple companions such as Sequans, U-Blox, Altair, Nokia, Ericsson and Gemalto. It’ll be released over the 4G LTE (Long Term Development) network with an open up environment and is likely to reach nationwide U.S. coverage by the finish of the initial trimester of 2017.
The true benefit of Cat-M over other options out there is that Cat-M works with with the prevailing LTE network. For carriers such as for example Verizon and AT&T, that is great news because they don’t possess to spend cash to build new antennas. They should just upload new software so long as the products operate within its LTE network. The prevailing customer bases of the two companies will likely listen to that Cat-M can be by much the superior option.
Perhaps probably the most innovative things for Cat-M1 is that it is the first LTE based hardware architecture designed designed for low-power and low-cost IoT applications. Previously, the hardware was usually evolving with quicker data rates to aid broadband (telephone, tablet, etc) applications.
Why make use of LTE Cat M1?
-Long battery life
-Low data rates
-Substantial number of device connections in a cell
To reduce the device cost, it’ll:
• Decreased RF bandwidth to at least one 1.4 MHz limited to data price up to 1Mbps
• Single RAT support
• Limit to 1 antenna
• Lower modulation (QPSK just)
To prolong the electric battery life, it introduces unique power setting for UE (Rel. 12, 13):
• PSM (power conserve mode): I will idle
• eDRX (prolonged discontinuous reception): allow page-able without Tx
LTE Cat M1 provides new power-saving modes
Energy saving mode (PSM)
UE decides how frequently and for how lengthy it requires to be active to be able to transmit and receive data. Optimum PSM timer is 12.1 days
PSM mode is comparable to power-off, however the UE remains authorized with the network. Which means that when the UE becomes energetic again you don’t have to re-attach or re-set up PDN connections. This eliminates web page monitoring between your data transmissions (UL)
Prolonged DRX cycle (eDRX)
It reduces power usage by extending the sleeping routine in idle mode (up to 40 min). It allows these devices to turn component of its circuitry off through the extended DRX period to save lots of power.
• eDRX at idle condition: Sleep for longer time but stay attacheded
• eDRX at connect mode: Sleep for longer period but stay connecteded
• It is vital that you remember that the UE may ask for to enable both PSM and prolonged idle mode DRX. It really is up to the network to choose whether to permit both, or only 1, or non-e of the capabilities.
• What about NB-IoT?
• NB-IoT (also known as Cat-M2) includes a similar objective to LTE Cat-M1, nonetheless it runs on the different technology (DSSS modulation vs. LTE radios). Consequently, NB-IoT doesn’t operate in the LTE band, and therefore providers have an increased upfront price to deploy NB-IoT.
• Still, NB-IoT is certainly touted as the possibly less expensive option since it eliminates the necessity for a gateway. Additional infrastructures routinely have gateways aggregating sensor data, which in turn communicates with the primary server (here’s a deeper description of gateways). With NB-IoT, sensor data is sent right to the primary server. Because of this, Huawei, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Vodafone are actively researching and working to commercialize NB-IoT.
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The Gujarat government is offering Tesla 1,000 acres of land to set up a plant in India, News18 reports. The location of the land is both inside and outside of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zones in Mundra. It’s also the home of the largest private port in India.
NEWS: Several Indian states are competing to offer Tesla lucrative deals. The latest to join that race is Gujarat, which has offered nearly 1,000 acres of land in Mundra on the Kutch coast, The Indian Express reported.https://t.co/UcqFlGWMcx
— Sawyer Merritt 📈🚀 (@SawyerMerritt) July 6, 2021
Gujarat is the latest of many Indian states trying to woo Tesla to set up its base in India. The other two are Maharashtra and Karnataka. All three are coastal states. Each state offers Tesla easy access to West Asian and African markets, but the latest offer includes 1,000 acres of land.
A Gujarat government official told The Indian Express that they’ve told Tesla that land will not be an issue. The official wasn’t sure as to whether the new unit would be purely for exports or a mix of exports and domestic production.
The official noted that Tesla officials aren’t sure if they want to set up a base in Gujarat or stay in Bengaluru. “There is little or no social life in Gujarat, while it is not so in Bengaluru,” the official told the Express. The CEO of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, P. Anbalagan, explained that Tesla officials have been in negotiations with the state government.
The last round was 8 months ago and there’s been no further development there as far as known. He also pointed out that Tesla officials were seeking a large web of charging stations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. They were also looking at an area near the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust — which is where cars would land following imports.
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I was reading somewhere that there are gazillions of functions and subroutines that have been written in some of these languages that are flawed....and as people use these flawed subroutines (which may call on other flawed subroutines and functions), inevitable bugs are manifested. The subroutine or function may have worked as intended for its original application, but embedded gremlins are waiting to emerge when applied to new situations....I'm meditating on the word verbose. Some verbosity in a programming language isn't necessarily a deal breaker.
If I were to compare two solutions to the same problem, written in two different languages, and try to reduce "which solution is better?" to a single criteria (this a thought experiment, I realise real life is too complex for such reductions) I think I come up with:
"Which is more elegant? Cleaner/Clearer?"
A lot of that is down to the developer, not the language, but the language and its libraries support that.
You could ask which is more robust, more maintainable, more extendable, more efficient... but if the code was handed to me as my future responsibility, I vote clean and clear.
So as someone who doesn't work in this world but just reads about it and is curious.... Is it possible that a given computer language starts out very clean and clear, but that over time it becomes a bit cryptic and chaotic because of the accumulation of not-so-well developed and documented subroutines and functions? (The real scary part is thinking about how things like rockets, weapon systems, aircraft, nuclear power plant automated monitoring systems, automobiles, etc., might have gremlins lurking in their software due to this problem! The bug is ID'd only after catastrophic failure and the follow-up investigation.) | <urn:uuid:dd041202-948b-47e8-a39b-b486d230e659> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tdpri.com/threads/ot-java-or-c.1096253/page-2#post-11392840 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.969339 | 372 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner, in a Course of Lectures, [on the Authenticity, Credibility, Divine Authority, and Inspiration of the New Testament] Delivered in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington...
Crocker and Brewster, 1832
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
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الصفحة 243 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
الصفحة 325 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
الصفحة 247 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
الصفحة 150 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) " I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
الصفحة 326 - And he said unto them ; These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me. Then opened h'e their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among...
الصفحة 313 - And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
الصفحة 119 - It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
الصفحة 325 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. | <urn:uuid:62a77dc8-db7b-4a62-83f4-f517a97dd13f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=qChdAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22of+these+things,+in+which+are+some+things+hard+to+be+understood,+which+they+that+are+unlearned+and+unstable,+wrest,%22&dq=editions:STANFORD36105000714753&lr=&hl=ar&output=html&source=gbs_navlinks_s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.853472 | 1,006 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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