text
stringlengths 181
608k
| id
stringlengths 47
47
| dump
stringclasses 3
values | url
stringlengths 13
2.97k
| file_path
stringlengths 125
140
| language
stringclasses 1
value | language_score
float64 0.65
1
| token_count
int64 50
138k
| score
float64 1.5
5
| int_score
int64 2
5
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The second-largest parasitic killer in the world, after malaria, kala azar remains one of the world’s most neglected diseases
Deep in the Sudd swampland of South Sudan is the remote town of Old Fangak. It is isolated, totally cut from the rest of the region due to a lack of roads. The only way to get there is by boat along the Bahr-ez-Zeraf river, or by air.
When Rwandan Dr René Kabera arrived there in June to take up the post of Medical Team Leader at the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in town, he found the needs much greater than he expected.
“There was just one doctor at the hospital when I arrived, so instead of just doing my office work, I went to join the team at the hospital, did rounds and handled emergencies and everything – including usual team leader responsibilities,” he says.
In this almost forgotten part of South Sudan, MSF has since 2014 supported the meagre local health system with secondary level healthcare, including inpatient and outpatient care, an emergency room, ante-natal services and a boat ambulance to reach people isolated in surrounding villages.
“We can’t just be at the hospital waiting for the patients to get sick. We have to get a team in the community to go to find the patients,” René explains. “Especially to treat those with kala azar. This disease is spreading and these areas don’t have roads.”
Second-largest parasitic killer
Kala azar is a tropical, parasitic disease transmitted through bites from certain types of sandfly. It is endemic to 76 countries around the world, with 90% of cases occurring in Bangladesh, India, Brazil, Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan.
The disease, although preventable, is deadly if left untreated. It is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world, after malaria, resulting in some 200,000-400,000 deaths annually. But most people still don’t know it exists.
“Kala azar is a huge killer. But we don’t have the kind of awareness or advocacy around it as we do around malaria,” René says. “We don’t see people doing research or publications, or putting in extra funds – all these things that we see around HIV and malaria. For me this is a sign that it really is a forgotten disease.”
A family physician from Rwanda, René has worked with MSF since 2014, seeing many patients with malaria and malnutrition. Working in Fangak was his first experience with treating kala azar, when the county faced an outbreak in August.
MSF doctors saw more than 60 kala azar patients in the hospital per week. “This situation was alarming,” René says.
The worst-affected were children under-five year’s old.
“The kids were coming in with complications. I had one patient who was just 8 months old. She came in with severe acute malnutrition, but we found out she also had malaria and severe kala azar. Everyone was saying this child will die. But we put a lot of effort in with medicines and treatment. Eventually, after almost 15 days we saw an improvement, and she was discharged after a month.”
René gained a lot during his time treating kala azar patients in South Sudan. But he feels there is much more that needs to be done to combat this disease, especially in Africa where the best available treatment is still a combination of pentavalent antimonials and paromomycin, which is toxic and requires a number of painful injections.
“As a health professional, I learnt a lot from treating kala azar. It is a very demanding disease, and a huge disease to deal with. It includes long treatment, and severe cases, so you have to be passionate about the work,” he says.
“But it is a preventable disease,” he adds. “Because we know how it is disseminated and the species of flies causing the disease. So there are things that can be done. The drugs are very complicated now – we use injections. They need to research this and move forward, to find more suitable treatment, especially for remote areas.”
Find out more about MSF's work in South Sudan. | <urn:uuid:07fc08d3-9e18-4f4d-a442-b4b1950f905f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.msf.org.za/stories-news/fieldworker-stories/dr-rene-kabera-situation-was-alarming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00137-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969768 | 919 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Valuations like what Career Education (NASDAQ:CECO) currently is tagged with, as highlighted in the recent article on Seeking Alpha, are rare. Instead of rehashing why many will undoubtedly come to the conclusion that today's pricing is a gift, taking a look at how the market may be placing such a low existing valuation on these shares seems a better starting point. We can do this with some reverse engineering starting with its existing market capitalization of ~$333 million, which is a fraction of the company's LTM revenue.
The obvious factor that drives any valuation is the perceived future growth of the firm in question. In the case of CECO, the company reported that its revenue declined in conjunction with lower enrollments during the first quarter of 2014. Specifically, the company stated in its 1Q14 press release that, "Total revenue was $243.1 million for the first quarter of 2014, a 14.5 percent decrease from $284.5 million for the first quarter of 2013. The decline is largely due to approximately 4,400 fewer total student enrollments in its ongoing institutions, which excludes Transitional Schools, in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the first quarter of 2013. In addition, the Transitional Schools segment accounted for 4.1 percent of the decrease in revenue."
Breaking this down into its components we see that:
- The average revenue per student per quarter declined by 2% from 1Q13 to 1Q14 ($4457 vs. $4364 per student per quarter, respectively).
- The students that dropped out or graduated had tuitions that were roughly double the company's average revenue per student or $8,805 per quarter (change in quarterly revenue minus transitional schools' contribution divided change in Career School Enrollments).
- Student enrollments are declining by 12%, from 1Q14 release.
Interestingly, if you use both the declining revenue per student (2%) and declining enrollments (12%) as trends for modeling future revenues in five years and apply them to full-year results for 2013, then this implies the company's revenues would shrink to ~500mn by 2018. If you then discount the revenue back to current dollars using 7% as your discount rate, then this revenue for 2018 equates to $361 in today's dollars. So, the conclusion is CECO shares are trading at 0.9x 2018 sales estimates. Other education companies are trading around 1x annual revenues, just not so far out into the future with revenue estimates to reach this conclusion.
2013 Enrollments 53,700 times decline trend of 87.6% raised to fifth power implies 27,667 students in 2018.
2013 Average Revenue Per Student $19,683 times decline trend of 97.9% raised to fifth power implies 17,712 ARPS in 2018.
Multiplying these results together implies annual revenue of $490 million in 2018.
The compelling component of CECO's valuation story is found when you look at its enterprise value (i.e. the all in cost of acquiring the company or Market Cap plus Debt less Cash). Right now, CECO has an enterprise value of $68 million or roughly one-fifth of the companies book value. If CECO's new management is effective over the next few years at producing a reasonable level of Free Cash Flow, then an investor today has the potential to own a company that delivers an annual FCF yield that is the equivalent of their original investment. Opportunities like this are rare and as would be expected are mirrored by a rather large amount of risk, including regulatory, legal, and the usual competitive pressures.
Comparison of Book Value to Enterprise Value
Share Price $4.95
Outstanding Shares 67.2 million
Market Cap $332.64 million
Cash $264.19 million
Enterprise Value $68.45 million
Book Value $398.13 million
Disclosure: The author is long CECO. The author wrote this article themselves, and it expresses their own opinions. The author is not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). The author has no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. | <urn:uuid:7019ee77-979e-422f-98b1-503080ecd3e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://seekingalpha.com/article/2266053-education-companies-finally-reflecting-what-their-degrees-are-worth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00019-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949009 | 855 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Aguiar M R, Sala O E. 1997. Seed distribution constrains the dynamics of the Patagonian steppe. Ecology, 78(1): 93–100.
Anderson D C, Harper K T, Holmgren R C. 1982. Factors influencing development of cryptogamic soil crusts in Utah deserts. Journal of Range. Management, 35(2): 180–185.
Baskin C C, Baskin J M. 1998. Seeds, Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination. San Diego: Academic Press, 666.
Belnap J, Gardner J S. 1993. Soil microstructure in soils of the Colorado Plateau the role of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus. Great Basin Naturalist, 53(1): 40–47.
Belnap J. 1994. Potential role of cryptobiotic soil crusts in semiarid rangelands. In: Monsen S B, Kitchen S G. Proceedings Ecology and Management of Arid Rangelands. General Technical Report INT-GTR. Ogden, Utah: USDA Forest Service, 179–185.
Belnap J, Harper K T. 1995. Influence of cryptobiotic soil crusts on elemental content of tissue of two desert seed plants. Arid Land Research and Management, 9(2): 107–115.
Belnap J, Prasse R, Harper K T. 2001. Influence of biological soil crusts on soil environments and vascular plants. In: Belnap J, Lange O L. Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function, and Management. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 281–299.
Belnap J. 2003. Biological soil crusts in deserts: a short review of their role in soil fertility, stabilization, and water relations. Algological Studies, 109(1): 113–126.
Belnap J. 2006. The potential roles of biological soil crusts in dryland hydrologic cycles. Hydrological Processes, 20(15): 3159–3178.
Beymer R J, Klopatek J M. 1992. Effects of grazing on cryptogamic crusts in pinyon-juniper woodlands in Grand Canyon National Park. American Midland Naturalist, 127: 139–148.
Bradford K J. 1995. Water relations in seed germination. In: ai]Kiegel J, Galili G. Seed Development and Germination. New York: Marcel Dekker Incorporation, 351–396.
Bran D, Ayesa J, López C. 2000. Rio Negro ecological regions. Technical Communication N°59, Natural Resources Research Area, INTA EEA S. C. de Bariloche.
Burmeier S, Eckstein R L, Otte A, et al. 2010. Desiccation cracks act as natural seed traps in flood-meadow systems. Plant and Soil, 333(1–2): 351–364.
Callaway R M, Walker L R. 1997. Competition and facilitation: a synthetic approach to interactions in plant communities. Ecology, 78(7): 1958–1965.
Carleton T J. 1990. Variation in terricolous bryophyte and macrolichen vegetation along primary gradients in Canadian boreal forests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 1(5): 585–584.
Correa M N. 1978. Patagonian Flora. INTA Scientific Collection, Part III Volume VIII. Buenos Aires: National Institute of Agricultural Technology.
Dadlich K S, Varma A K, Venkataraman G S. 1969. The effect of Calothrix inoculation on vegetable crops. Plant and Soil, 31(2): 377–379.
DeFalco L A, Detling J K, Tracy C R, et al. 2001. Physiological variation among native and exotic winter annual plants associated with microbiotic crusts in the Mojave Desert. Plant and Soil, 234(1): 1–14.
Deines L, Rosentreter R, Eldridge D J, et al. 2007. Germination and seedling establishment of two annual grasses on lichen-dominated biological soil crusts. Plant and Soil, 295(1–2): 23–35.
During H J, Van Tooren B F. 1990. Bryophyte interactions with other plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104(1–3): 79–89.
Eldridge D J, Semple W S, Koen T B. 2000. Dynamics of cryptogamic soil crusts in a derived grassland in south-eastern Australia. Austral Ecology, 25(2): 232–240.
Evans R D, Johansen J R. 1999. Microbiotic crusts and ecosystem processes. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 18(2): 183–225.
Gallego L, Distel R A, Camina R, et al. 2004. Soil phytoliths as evidence for species replacement in grazed rangelands of central Argentina. Ecography, 27(6): 725–732.
Graetz R D, Tongway D J. 1986. Influence of grazing management on vegetation, soil structure and nutrient distribution and the infiltration of applies rainfall in a semiarid chenopod shrubland. Austral Ecology, 11(4): 347–360.
Harper K T, St. Clair L L. 1985. Cryptogamic soil crusts on arid and semiarid rangelands in Utah: effects on seedling establishment and soil stability. Final Report Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, Salt Lake City.
Harper K T, Pendleton R L. 1993. Cyanobacteria and cyanolichens can they enhance availability of essential minerals for higher plants? Great Basin Naturalist, 53(1): 59–72.
Hawkes C V. 2003. Nitrogen cycling mediated by biological soil crusts and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology, 84(6): 1553–1562.
Jafari M, Tavili A, Zargham N, et al. 2004. Comparing some properties of crusted and uncrusted soils in Alagol Region of Iran. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 3(5): 273–277.
Jeffries D L, Klopatek J M. 1987. Effects of grazing on the vegetation of the blackbrush association. Journal of Range Management, 40: 390–392.
Jeschke M, Kiehl K. 2008. Effects of a dense moss layer on germination and establishment of vascular plants in newly created calcareous grasslands. Flora, 203(7): 557–566.
Johansen J R. 1993. Cryrtogamic crusts of semiarid and arid lands of North America. Journal of Phycology, 29: 140–147.
Kaltenecker J H, Wicklow-Howard M, Pellant M. 1999. Biological soil crusts: natural barriers to Bromus tectorum L. establishment in the northern Great Basin, USA. In: Eldridge D, Freudenberger D. Proceeding VI International Rangeland Congress. Queensland, Qld. The Congress, 109–111.
Kleiner E F, Harper K T. 1972. Environment and community organization in grasslands of Canyonlands National Park. Ecology, 53: 229–309.
Kleiner E F, Harper K T. 1977. Soil properties in relation to cryptogamic groundcover in Canyonlands National Park. Journal of Range Management, 30(3): 202–205.
Ladyman J A R, Muldavin E. 1994. A study of the terricolous cryptogam and other ground cover in low disturbance pinyon-juniper woodlands in New Mexico. USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM.
Langhans T M, Storm C, Schwabe A. 2009. Biological soil crusts and their microenvironment: Impact on emergence, survival and establishment of seedlings. Flora, 204(2): 157–168.
Larsen K D. 1995. Effects of microbiotic crusts on the germination and establishment of three range grasses. Ph.D. Thesis, Boise: Boise State University.
Lesica P, Shelly J S. 1992. Effects of cryptogamic soil crust on the population dynamics of Arabis fecunda (Brassicaceae). American Midland Naturalist, 128: 53–60.
Li X R, Song W M, Gao Y P, et al. 2008. Effects of crust and shrub patches on runoff, sedimentation, and related nutrient (C, N) redistribution in the desertified steppe zone of the Tengger Desert, Northern China. Geomorphology, 96(1): 221–232.
Maestre F T, Bowker M A, Cantón Y, et al. 2011. Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain. Journal of Arid Environments, 75(12): 1282–1291.
Pendleton R L, Warren S D. 1995. Effects of cryptobiotic soil crusts and VA mycorrhizal inoculation on growth of five rangeland plant species. In: West N E. Fifth International Range Congress. Salt Lake City: Society for Range Management, 436–437.
Peter G, Funk F A, Torres Robles S S. 2013. Responses of vegetation to different land-use histories involving grazing and fire in the North-east Patagonian Monte, Argentina. The Rangeland Journal, 35(3): 273–283.
Prasse R, Bornkamm R. 2000. Effect of microbiotic soil surface crusts on emergence of vascular plants. Plant Ecology, 150(1–2): 65–75.
R Development Core Team. 2009. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
Savory A. 1988. Holistic Resource Management. Covelo: Island Press, 564.
Sedia E G, Ehrenfeld J G. 2003. Lichens and mosses promote alternate stable plant communities in the New Jersey Pinelands. Oikos, 100(3): 447–458.
Serpe M D, Orm J M, Barkes T, et al. 2006. Germination and seed water status of four grasses on moss-dominated biological soil crusts from arid lands. Plant Ecology, 185(1): 163–178.
Serpe M D, Zimmerman S J, Deines L, et al. 2008. Seed water status and root tip characteristics of two annual grasses on lichen-dominated biological soil crusts. Plant and Soil, 303(1–2): 191–205.
Verrecchia E, Yair A, Kidron G J, et al. 1995. Physical properties of the psammophile cryptogamic crust and their consequences to the water regime of sandy soils, northwestern Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Arid Environments, 29(4): 427–437.
Warren S D. 2001. Influence of biological soil crusts on arid land hydrology and soil stability. In: Belnap J, Lange O L. Biological Soil Crusts: Structure, Function, and Management. Berlin: Springer, 349–362.
West N E. 1990. Structure and function of microphytic soil crusts in wildland ecosystems of arid to semi-arid regions. Advances in Ecological Research, 20: 179–223.
Zamfir M. 2000. Effects of bryophytes and lichens on seedling emergence of alvar plants: evidence from greenhouse experiments. Oikos, 88(3): 603–611.
Zhang Y M, Wang H L, Wang X Q, et al. 2006. The microsturcture of microbiotic crust and its influence on wind erosion for a sandy soil surface in the Gurbantunggut Desert of Northwestern China. Geoderma, 132(3): 441–449. | <urn:uuid:5c8aa194-ad61-4fb3-9f01-c25b506fbaa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40333-014-0022-8?error=cookies_not_supported&code=29675644-7ef8-476f-a20f-7b9986b8a9fd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.704249 | 2,572 | 2.5 | 2 |
Doctor insights on:
Remedies For Early Closure Of Anterior Fontanel
Patience: Most kids will have what feels to be closure of the anterior fontanel by 15-18 mo but some may persist. The separation between the bones will persist to some degree until about 9 when kids reach their adult head size. In examining thousands of kids over 3 decades, i never found one that didn't eventually close. ...Read more
In an infant, the space where two skull-bone sutures join forms a membrane-covered "soft spot" called a fontanel (fontanelle). The fontanels allow for growth of the skull during an infant's first year. The fontanels should feel firm and very slightly curved inward to the touch. A tense or bulging fontanel occurs when fluid builds up in the skull cavity or when pressure increases in the brain (increased intracranial pressure). When the infant is crying, lying down, or vomiting, the fontanels may look like they are slightly bulging, but they should return to normal when the infant is in ...Read more
My 6 1/2 mo old ped. Felt his anterior fontanel but says that it might be closing early than usual. Should i be worried? Or is this normal @ his age?
Follow closely..: It is a bit early for the skull to fuse, but unless he has had a head MRI or ct to assess exactly how open or closed they are, i would not panic. If his head shape is normal and symmetric, if head size is increasing along appropriate percentiles, development is normal, then i would put my mind at ease. However, these parameters, including head size and shape, need to be monitored monthly for now. ...Read more
6 month old has extra cerebralspinal fluid. Im told will resolve on its own. Is this true? What if left untreated?He has fluctuating anterior fontanel
Extra ???: The spinal fluid is produced continuously through life at about a tablespoonful per hour by structures in the brain. It circulates through it's normal pathway & is absorbed into the circulation from the brain surface. Blockage of flow must be opened or structures distort but the body adjusts to fluctuations in fluid amount.True excess production will produce rapid head growth & need surgery. ...Read more
I was changing my baby's clothes and accidentally pushed on the anterior fontanel. She is behaving normally. Should I have her checked out?
No need: It actually has pretty tough coverings.Get a more detailed answer ›
Is the size of fingertip dent on my 4month old grandson's anterior fontanel normal. Told my son to address it with ped. He forgot! it was always smal?
Normal: I'm sure it is a normal anterior fontanelle - "soft spot". If he has been going to the pediatrician regularly, we all have this fixation about rubbing babies soft spots. For us it's almost like another vital sign like heart rate or blood pressure. If there was something abnormal with it when he was at the doctors office, i'm sure the pediatrician would have mentioned something about it to your son. ...Read more
I'm 51 years old. I felt a " sunken" area on top of my skull. I think its the anterior fontanel. is this bad? its ok to touch but continuously it hurt
i have cyst on my anterior fontanel since birth and am almost 26 now. Any prescription to diminish it aside from surgical excision, please?
Enough...: The anterior fontanelle usually closes between 7 and 21 months. Early closure (before 6 months) causes concern that perhaps other areas of the skull might be fusing too early and that leads to abnormal head growth (plagiocephaly). It it can easily evaluated with a head x-ray. I have seen many cases and even with the fontanelle closed early the others are open. Surgery can fix if a problem is there. ...Read more
Soft spots: The fontanels can be identified by an exam of the baby's head. They are soft spots that you can feel between the different bones of the skull which have not yet fused. The anterior fontanel is easiest to find be cause it is typically larger. Fontanels do not a have a true function but are fibrous sheets of tissue that connect the plates of the immature skull while protecting the brain below. ...Read more
Very premature is a condition in which a baby is delivered between 28 and 31 weeks' gestation. Depending on how premature, how sick, and how lucky or unlucky a baby is, he can get brain problems, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness, developmental problems, learning disabilities, severe lung diseases, infection and loss of some intestines, etc... Babies who are only moderately premature usually ...Read more
- Talk to a doctor live online for free
- Early closure of anterior fontanel
- Remedies for delayed closure of anterior fontanel
- Herbal treatment for early closure of anterior fontanel
- Ask a doctor a question free online
- Delayed closure of anterior fontanel
- Herbal treatment for delayed closure of anterior fontanel
- What is the best treatment for delayed closure of anterior fontanel?
- Remedies for enlarged anterior fontanel
- Talk to a pediatrician online | <urn:uuid:b5d59004-6376-41f0-8a67-74af2aaa0428> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.healthtap.com/topics/remedies-for-early-closure-of-anterior-fontanel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940221 | 1,121 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Sign Unveiled in Brookeville (Video & Photos)
There is a new sign in Brookeville that designates the small town as part of the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail.
U.S. Representative John Sarbanes, State Senator Karen Montgomery, State Delegate Craig Zucker, National Park Service officials and other community members –some in period costumes–took part in the July 22nd celebration outside the Brookeville Academy at 5 High Street.
Sarbanes said he was excited to see the signage. “This will be a critical portion of the Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail,” he said.
Abbi Wicklein-Bayne, an interpretive specialist with the National Park Service, said the sign is about making connections and establishing a legacy for years to come.
Brookeville resident Sandy Heiler, who chair’s Brookeville’s War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, said the sign means a lot to the 60-acre town, which, she said, boasts a population of just about 123 residents.
It was Heiler, who first approached the Parks Service about the sign.
The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail was established by Congress in 2008 and is one of 19 national historic trails administered by the National Park Service and one of 30 trails in the National Trails System. It emcompasses 560 miles on land and over sea and tells the dynamic story of the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake region as it connects historic sites in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
The town of Brookeville is also in high gear this summer planning its upcoming U.S. Capital for a Day celebration, which will take place on Labor Day weekend.
Access to the town of Brookeville on Georgia Avenue will be closed on both Aug. 30 and 31 for this celebration of the town’s history. There will be shuttle service from three sites: MedStar Montgomery construction site, across from 18101 Prince Philip Drive; Camp Bennett, 20501 Georgia Avenue; and the Glenmont Station on Metro’s Red Line. | <urn:uuid:f68fc7c8-d0cd-4f9a-a18e-fdf972d569e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mymcmedia.org/star-spangled-banner-national-historic-trail-sign-unveiled-in-brookeville-photos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720153.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00324-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92428 | 441 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Medelyan, O., Frank, E. & Witten, I.H. (2009). Human-competitive tagging using automatic keyphrase extraction. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 1318-1327), Singapore, 6-7 August 2009 (pp. 1318-1327).
Permanent Research Commons link: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/4886
This paper connects two research areas: automatic tagging on the web and statistical keyphrase extraction. First, we analyze the quality of tags in a collaboratively created folksonomy using traditional evaluation techniques. Next, we demonstrate how documents can be tagged automatically with a state-of-the-art keyphrase extraction algorithm, and further improve performance in this new domain using a new algorithm, “Maui”, that utilizes semantic information extracted from Wikipedia. Maui outperforms existing approaches and extracts tags that are competitive with those assigned by the best performing human taggers.
Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL materials are Copyright (C) 1963-2009 ACL; other materials are copyrighted by their respective copyright holders. All materials here are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Permission is granted to make copies for the purposes of teaching and research. | <urn:uuid:fec002bb-e1de-42d7-8e44-3162821e1e01> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/4886 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.774296 | 278 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Outsourcing of chosen small business features is only a actuality of everyday living in today’s global financial state. India’s extremely aggressive educational technique and massive English-talking inhabitants make it a pure spouse for highly demanding U.S. employers.
DELHI, India (PRWEB)
August 31, 2021
In the United States, about 300,000 work opportunities per calendar year are outsourced to a international assistance provider(1). India, which accounts for about 55% of the U.S. world services sourcing marketplace(2), is a foremost destination for these jobs. “Outsourcing of chosen company functions is simply a simple fact of existence in today’s world financial system,” says Neelesh Rangwani, founder of Delhi-dependent virtual assistant service provider Wishup. “India’s extremely aggressive academic procedure and monumental English-speaking populace make it a normal companion for extremely demanding U.S. employers.”
On the last day of June 2021, the US Bureau of Labor Stats reports, occupation openings grew by much more than 590,000 or by 6.5%. The biggest job opening enhance was in the specialist and enterprise services—more than 227,000.(3) It is precisely this area in which most staffing companies operate. About 45% of staff hired through a staffing agency will be employed in the clerical/administrative and managerial regions.(4)
The have to have for these expert services, explains Rangwani, is skyrocketing the worldwide outsourcing market place, valued at $92.5 billion in 2019, will be really worth an estimated $397.6 billion by 2025 for IT sourcing by yourself.(1) Even so, he notes, Indian outsource services providers facial area selected obstructions in generating their circumstance to U.S.-based mostly corporations.
Just one these types of impediment is the legacy of far more than 30 years of suboptimum India-dependent simply call-heart background. For some Individuals, the sound of an Indian accent raises quick assumptions of not staying recognized. The other concern (and dislike) is a discriminatory frame of mind towards “job burglars.” Some in this place, notes Rangwani, blame India and Indians for a perceived decline of work possibilities for U.S. citizens.(5)
The most efficient way for Indians to deal with these preconceptions, states Rangwani, is not to argue with them but to render them obsolete. Rangwani started out his personal staffing organization with the target to conquer these misconceptions by providing large-stage fractional personnel to help fill a expanding need. The 1st move will involve winnowing out 70% to 80% of candidates on the basis of resume/CV by yourself. It is followed by an aptitude test, followed by a published English take a look at. All those who make it previous these concentrations are then interviewed in English. This interview also serves to evaluate their capability on a lot more than 50 parameters of language abilities. Individuals who do nicely in the job interview stage—about two % of all applicants—are available work with the platform.
These outsource means, Rangwani emphasizes, are not interlopers they are a very important resource for progress- and effectiveness-oriented U.S. businesses. The annual turnover price amid American workers in some U.S. industries, together with information (44.8%), authentic estate/rental and leasing (49.4%), and qualified and business enterprise companies (69.2%)(6), force companies to be continuously selecting, and to maintain—or outsource—a fulltime education and staffing operation to deal with the problem.
Digital assistants operate the gamut of professional expert services—from government assistants to challenge professionals. Somewhere around 55% of providers and 74% of places of work in the United States use short term and contract staffing. On typical, more than 3 million individuals in the US perform as short term or deal personnel throughout a 7 days.(7)
India, notes Rangwani, has 125 million English speakers(8) and has an instructional program as competitive as any in the entire world. “India,” he states, “is a significant player. So, if The usa doesn’t give you the personnel you need, truly feel free to search elsewhere—and really don’t enable the bygone legacy of occasionally badly operate simply call facilities get in the way of your achievements.”
Wishup is a digital assistant staffing company that connects a proficient pool of men and women with organization house owners/business owners. They get the job done together in the direction of a common objective to achieve enterprise development. Wishup’s dedicated Digital Assistants get the job done with the choosing company on a just one-on-a single basis, specifically assigning jobs to them. Experienced in extra than 50 tasks in-household, Wishup’s Digital Assistants are all set from Working day 1. Only the best 1-2% of overall candidates make the reduce. For a lot more data, go to wishup.co.
1. Edgson, Jessica. “27 Eye-Opening Outsourcing Data (April 2021 Update).” CapitalCounselor, 4 Apr. 2021, capitalcounselor.com/outsourcing-data/.
2. “Brand India.” IBEF, ibef.org/field/details-technological know-how-india.aspx.
3. US Bureau of Labor Studies August Financial News Launch “Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary” posted 09 Aug 2021 Accessed 27 Aug 2021 bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
4. American Staffing Association: Staffing Field Statistics Accessed 27 Aug 2021 americanstaffing.net/exploration/reality-sheets-examination-staffing-market-tendencies/staffing-marketplace-studies/
5. Ammachchi, Narayan, et al. “Indian Get in touch with Center Brokers Routinely Encounter Racial ABUSE: Review.” Nearshore Americas, 7 Dec. 2017, nearshoreamericas.com/indian-get in touch with-heart-brokers-routinely-confront-racial-abuse-analyze/.
6. “Table 16. Once-a-year Whole Separations Premiums by Marketplace and Region, Not Seasonally Adjusted.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Figures, 11 Mar. 2021, bls.gov/information.launch/jolts.t16.htm.
7. Labor Will work United states Staffing Company and Non permanent Labor Data Accessed 27 Aug 2021 laborworksusa.com/staffing-agency-non permanent-labor-studies/#
8. Masani, Zareer. “English or Hinglish—which will India Select?” BBC, November 27, 2012, bbc.com/information/magazine-20500312
Share short article on social media or email: | <urn:uuid:043841d1-5dfd-40d2-bd05-db37e47828b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ewwlo.xyz/as-job-vacancies-boost-indian-staffing-companies-operate-to-fight-outdated-discriminatory-stigma.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.910054 | 1,512 | 1.8125 | 2 |
In the 1880s a surge in growth of the American labor movement led to the creation of two workers’ holidays, Labor Day and May Day. May Day soon spread abroad, as European unions and socialist groups adopted it as an occasion to display their strength. Eventually the holiday came to be celebrated in almost every part of the world. In the United States, however, workers more broadly celebrated Labor Day, successfully pressing to have it made a national holiday. Today, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer and a chance for a final bit of vacation as much as it commemorates the toils and achievements of workers and their organizations.
The organized labor movement in the United States dates to the earliest days of the republic. However, in the nineteenth century it remained fragile, expanding during periods of economic growth but imploding during economic downturns. A depression that began in 1873 decimated the movement, but in the early 1880s, as the nation began recovering, many workers again turned to unions to better their circumstances and contest the growing power of capitalists as the nation rapidly industrialized. As they had in the past, skilled artisans played a leading role in the labor movement, but to a greater extent than before, unskilled workers joined them in organizing. New labor organizations sprang up and old ones expanded in a wave of militancy and activism that peaked in 1886 in the “great uprising of labor,” when union membership reached a new high, huge strikes shook the nation, and independent labor political parties surfaced in community after community.
To provide for mutual support among unions and allow them to act together on broad issues, craft unionists took the lead in organizing central-city labor bodies with which local unions could affiliate. In New York City, a region of labor strength, a dozen small unions banded together in 1882 to found the Central Labor Union (CLU). Members of CLU-affiliated unions came from many ethnic backgrounds, creating an unusual arena for solidarity across national and language divides. Politically, too, the CLU bridged boundaries: Most CLU leaders were socialists or radicals, but a wide range of political opinion could be found within the group.
As one of its first projects, the CLU took up a proposal to sponsor a “monster labor festival”—the beginning of what would become Labor Day—in September 1882. The CLU hoped both to unite and inspire workers and to impress the general public and politicians with the power of organized labor. To this end, it developed a plan for a parade followed by a picnic on September 5, which coincided with the scheduled opening of a convention of the Knights of Labor, the foremost national labor organization, being held in New York. Since September 5 fell on a Tuesday, participation in the day’s events meant staying away from work.
The first Labor Day proved a huge success. Some 10,000 men and a few women marched in the parade, which began on lower Broadway, went past reviewing stands set up in Union Square, and then continued uptown to 42nd Street. Estimates of the size of the crowd watching the march were as high as a quarter million people. Continuing a tradition that went back to the artisan parades in the early days of the country, marchers grouped according to their craft and carried with them the tools of their trade. Carrying on another tradition of worker parades and pageants, patriotic themes figured prominently in the march, which included large American flags and a drum-and-fife corps. Banners carried by the marchers demanded, “Less Work and More Pay,” and proclaimed, “To the Workers Should Belong All Wealth,” and “Labor Built This Republic, Labor Shall Rule It.”
After the parade marchers met up with their families for a giant picnic at Wendel’s Elm Park at 92nd Street and Ninth Avenue. Through the afternoon and into the evening, picnickers drank, danced, sang, watched fireworks, and generally amused themselves. While individual unions and ethnic associations often sponsored similar events, the heterogeneity of the picnic crowd was unusual, manifesting the desire of the CLU to represent the interests and needs of the entire working class, rather than the particular concerns of one group of workers or another.
In 1883, the CLU repeated its Labor Day festivities. The following year, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a national union alliance, which in 1886 became the American Federation of Labor (AFL), called for all workers to celebrate Labor Day annually on the first Monday in September, which has remained its date ever since. Within a few years, Labor Day celebrations had become common across the country. The festivities generally followed the New York example of holding a picnic, a parade, or some combination of the two. Some of the celebrations were very large. For example, 35,000 people marched in the 1886 parade held in Chicago.
Labor Day quickly began to win official recognition. In 1885 and 1886, a few city governments designated the day an official holiday, and in 1887 Oregon made Labor Day a state holiday. By 1894, twenty-three other states had followed suit, generally at the instigation of labor or Populist lobbying. Labor Day received federal recognition in 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed a bill, which had moved quickly through Congress with few objections, making the day a “legal public holiday.” For Cleveland, who had just used federal troops to crush a nationwide railroad workers’ strike, the bill provided an opportunity for a gesture of conciliation toward labor.
Even with official recognition, most employers at first did not give their workers a holiday on Labor Day. The federal law only mandated a day off for employees of the federal government and the District of Columbia. State laws, too, generally did not force private employers to give workers a day off. To celebrate the holiday, workers in effect had to go on strike for a day. Only slowly did businesses begin to close for the holiday, first in centers of union strength like New York, where by the end of the 1880s many factories and shops shut down for the day, and later in areas where labor had less clout. California businesses did not generally close for Labor Day until the early twentieth century; Georgia businesses began shutting down only well after that.
The political tone of Labor Day moderated as it evolved in relation to the rival holiday of May Day. In 1884, the same year that the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began promoting Labor Day, it called for unions across the country to hold demonstrations and strikes on May 1, 1886, demanding an eight-hour work day. (At the time most workers worked considerably longer hours.) Workers in great numbers responded, but the eight-hour movement came to a crashing halt in the face of repression that followed a bomb explosion at a May 3, 1886 rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, which killed eight policemen. Eight anarchists were convicted of conspiring to commit the violence, and four of them were hanged, even though there was little evidence against them. In the years that followed, May Day became an occasion for protesting the arrests of socialists, anarchists, and unionists following the Haymarket explosion, as well as for continuing to push for shorter hours. May Day jumped abroad when in 1889 an International Socialist Convention in Paris called for demonstrations on May 1 of the following year, leading to the rapid spread of May Day celebrations across Europe.
In the United States, in the face of the post-Haymarket repression, the AFL, whose city labor councils had sponsored many of the Labor Day celebrations, moved to distance itself from radicalism and to more firmly associate itself with national traditions. Accordingly, red flags, radical speakers, and internationalist slogans, all common at early Labor Day events, became forbidden.
Especially before the Haymarket riots, May Day events in a few cities rivaled the size of Labor Day events. But as the twentieth century unfolded, May Day generally did not catch on, leaving Labor Day as the main or only workers’ holiday.
The deradicalization of Labor Day made it easier for the union movement to win its designation as an official holiday and to force businesses to shut for the day. This very success, though, lessened the focus of the day on organized labor, as more and more non-unionists were given the day off. In an era when six-day work weeks were common, holidays few, and paid vacations very exceptional, many workers viewed Labor Day as an opportunity to relax on their own or with their families. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the labor movement continued to sponsor parades and other events but on a less regular basis than in the past, with some cities going years at a time between marches, only holding them at moments of crisis. During the 1920s, attendance at Labor Day events tended to be modest, and the events themselves increasingly conservative, with union leaders inviting middle-class and business organizations, like the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club, to participate.
The revival and expansion of the union movement during the 1930s refocused Labor Day on organized labor. Celebrations grew in size and number. In Los Angeles, a city where labor traditionally had been weak, the size of the Labor Day parade had expanded to 100,000 participants by 1941, with a half-million spectators lining the way. In the immediate post–World War II years, large Labor Day events continued to be held. It became a tradition in presidential election years for the Democratic candidate to kick off his campaign with an appearance at a Labor Day rally in Detroit.
Gradually, though, attendance at Labor Day events again began declining. As unionists moved to the suburbs, many became less interested in parades on city streets. In Detroit, a mere 6,000 marchers took part in the 1966 parade. The Detroit News reported that, “Workers spent the three-day holiday enjoying backyard barbecues, boats and summer cottages: the fruits of their victories.”
As attendance at Labor Day events dwindled, unions in many cities stopped sponsoring the events. A New York City Labor Day parade in 1981 was the first to be held there for thirteen years. That year labor held parades in many cities to protest President Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers and, more broadly, to try to energize a movement suffering declining membership and a string of strike defeats. Some of the revived parades were massive: 200,000 marchers in New York in 1981, 170,000 marchers and onlookers in Detroit the next year. But by the 1990s, attendance waned once again, and official celebrations became less frequent.
In most of the country, Labor Day no longer has strong ties to organized labor. The president and other political leaders issue statements extolling workers, but these get little public attention. Instead, private leisure is the main order of the day. In the northern part of the country, Labor Day generally marks the end of the summer vacation season and the reopening of schools.
Still, Labor Day remains one of the few national holidays to mark the contributions of a particular segment of the population to society. (Some see Martin Luther King Jr. Day similarly, although it also fits the more common pattern of holidays marking the birth of a great leader.) The establishment of Labor Day reflected the growing power of organized labor in Gilded Age America, while the decline of its formal celebration marks the waning power of labor and the general privatization of American life.
Joshua B. Freeman is a professor of history at Queens College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and the author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (2000) and In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966 (1989; repr. 2001).
Make Gilder Lehrman your Home for History
Already have an account?
Please click here to login and access this page.
How to subscribe
Otherwise, click here for information on a paid subscription for those who are not K-12 educators or students.
Make Gilder Lehrman your Home for History
Become an Affiliate School to have free access to the Gilder Lehrman site and all its features.
Click here to start your Affiliate School application today! You will have free access while your application is being processed.
Individual K-12 educators and students can also get a free subscription to the site by making a site account with a school-affiliated email address. Click here to do so now!
Make Gilder Lehrman your Home for History
Why Gilder Lehrman?
Your subscription grants you access to archives of rare historical documents, lectures by top historians, and a wealth of original historical material, while also helping to support history education in schools nationwide. Click here to see the kinds of historical resources to which you'll have access and here to read more about the Institute's educational programs.
Individual subscription: $25
Click here to sign up for an individual subscription to the Gilder Lehrman site.
Make Gilder Lehrman your Home for History
Upgrade your Account
We're sorry, but it looks as though you do not have access to the full Gilder Lehrman site.
All K-12 educators receive free subscriptions to the Gilder Lehrman site, and our Affiliate School members gain even more benefits!
How to Subscribe
K-12 educator or student? Click here to edit your profile and indicate this, giving you free access, and here for more information on the Affiliate School Program.
Not a educator or student? Click here for more information on purchasing a subscription to the Gilder Lehrman site.
Related Site Content
- Video Series: Essential Questions in American History
- Teaching Resource: Essential Questions in Teaching American History
- Video Series: Lifetimes
- Video Series: Inside the Vault
- Essay: Motor City: The Story of Detroit
- Essay: The US Banking System: Origin, Development, and Regulation
- Video Series: African American History
- Multimedia: Defining the Twentieth Century
- Video Series: History in the Courts
- Video Series: Presidents | <urn:uuid:8b01d84e-ba5c-411f-82c4-ec10870c4bde> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/populism-and-agrarian-discontentgovernment-and-civics/essays/labor-day-from-protest-p | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00267-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965518 | 2,937 | 4.15625 | 4 |
The HIT school tends to say that the key is to get stronger and then learn to apply that strength explosively if that is what you sport requires. Luke Carlson in my interview with him stated it like this:
A last question – what about explosive training? This is another tactic that often comes up – “train explosively to improve speed and power”. So we see people doing Olympic lifts, bounding, doing depth jumps. Is this just a waste of energy or is there any real benefit?
I think every athlete should train explosively; but this does not mean they should perform Olympic lifts, depth jumps, etc. Improvements in "explosiveness" are stimulated by the INTENT to move explosively; the outward demonstration of fast movement is not important (or desirable). For example, if a trainee is performing the barbell bench press, he/she should perform the initial repetitions in a slow and controlled manner. This minimizes momentum and maximizes muscle tension; muscle tension is the most important element in muscle fiber recruitment. As the lifter begins to fatigue, he/she can in fact attempt to lift the weight as fast as possible - attempt to "explode" through the weight. However, the weight will not move fast because the trainee is fatigued and the weight is heavy. However, from a motor unit/muscle fiber standpoint, the "explosive" stimulus has been provided. This approach can and should be applied to all exercises/muscle groups. If the weight actually moves fast during strength training, momentum is introduced and muscle tension is reduced (as the musculature is essentially unloaded); this is the exact opposite of the goal of strength training and the requirement for muscle fiber recruitment.
Anyway, that is just introduction.
Traditional sports science has also promoted explosive moves. However I spotted this abstract yesterday and the full paper is available here.
A Comparison of Ballistic and Non-Ballistic Lower-Body Resistance Exercise and the Methods Used to Identify Their Positive Lifting Phases.
As I read it the researchers are saying that one of the issues with the traditional approach is that the way in which the metrics were measured skewed the results. The usual methods of measuring power made the ballistic exercise seem to produce more power.
No significant differences were found in mean force or mean power between ballistic and non ballistic exercises.
Their conclusion is that
These results challenge common perceptions of Ballistic superiority for power development. | <urn:uuid:80d9aacc-044c-451f-b0fa-5afad92fffd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/explosive-training-doesnt-make-you.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00123-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962707 | 499 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Trauma in the Obstetric Patient: A Bedside Tool
Trauma is the number one cause of pregnancy-associated maternal deaths in the United States.1 Concerns about the impact of tests and treatments on the unborn fetus can often cause misguided delays and alteration of management.
This article contains a tool (Figure 1: Prenatal Trauma Management) that condenses the key management guidelines allowing the user to make prompt, appropriate decisions.
The tool contains links to corresponding sections of this document for in depth information. However, it can stand alone, and users might consider posting it in ED trauma rooms as a quick guide and/or loading it onto a hand-held device.
Generally, medications, tests, treatments, and procedures required for the mother's stabilization should not be withheld because of pregnancy. A viable fetus should be promptly placed on continuous monitoring until under the care of an obstetrician.
Because it is often difficult to determine degree of force, significant trauma should be anticipated with any mechanism of injury that is more than very minor. Always evaluate for possible pregnancy-related cause of an accident, e.g., seizure secondary to eclampsia in 3rd trimester patient.
Physiologic changes in pregnancy may affect the type of injury and the mother's response to trauma. Generally the mother's physiologic response is to maintain her own survival even if there are resultant adverse effects on the fetus.
Pulse. Increases to average of 80-95 by 3rd trimester. A pulse greater than 100 is still a sensitive marker of shock. Orthostatic vital signs may be a more sensitive indicator of hypovolemia.
Blood Pressure. Decreases to average of 105/60. After 20 weeks, a significant drop in supine BP can occur, usually caused by uterine compression of inferior vena cava. These effects may be relieved by turning the patient to the left lateral recumbent position.
Cardiac Output. Increased.
Blood Volume. Plasma volume increases by 50%, allowing patient to lose 30-35% of blood volume before a significant drop in blood pressure.
Hemoglobin, hematocrit - Dilutional physiologic anemia may lead to hematocrit in low 30% range by the 30th week.
WBC. Increased. During labor and the puerperium, normal white blood cell count may reach 20,000 or higher. Evaluate for other causes of elevated WBC. Elevation may be seen secondary to the stress of trauma.
Coagulation. Pregnancy is a hypercoagulable state that leads to increased risk of clot formation or DIC with certain kinds of trauma. Abdominal trauma may cause placental abruption or intrauterine death, leading to DIC. Average fibrinogen level in pregnancy is 450 mg/dl.
Respiratory. Functional residual volume is decreased. The apneic pregnant woman develops hypoxia more rapidly. PCO2 is decreased to 30 with a compensatory drop in maternal serum CO2 to allow a gradient for diffusion of fetal CO2.
Gastro-intestinal. Abdominal wall may be less sensitive to peritoneal irritation because of stretching of abdominal muscles from uterine growth. Significant intra-abdominal injury may be present without significant symptoms or signs. General intestinal relaxation with slow gastric emptying may lead to an increased risk of aspiration.
Genitourinary. There is an increased risk of bladder injury because of the bladder rising out of pelvis.
Lab Tests. Basic trauma lab includes type and crossmatch, Rh status, and antibody test. Regardless of Rh status, a positive Kleihauer-Betke (KB) test may predict the risk of preterm labor. With a negative test, post-trauma electronic fetal monitoring may be limited to a shorter period. With a positive test, significant risk of preterm labor may require longer monitoring therefore K-B testing has important advantages to all maternal trauma victims.3 However, a positive test does not necessarily indicate pathologic fetal-maternal hemorrhage.4
If placental trauma or abruption is suspected, add coagulation profile (fibrinogen and fibrin degradation products) with INR-PTT.
Ultrasound. FAST scan is a safe, rapid method to identify intra-abdominal free fluid.5 In addition, it can assess fetal viability and condition.
Peritoneal Lavage6. Rarely done, generally based on surgeon's discretion or lack of imaging options.
Imaging - Plain & CT7. Generally, a complete trauma exam with CT scanning will not approach levels that adversely affect the fetus. If possible, fetal exposure to radiation should be minimized by shielding abdomen/pelvis with a lead apron. Consider another study (e.g. ultrasound) if it will provide comparable information.
However, diagnostic techniques to evaluate potentially serious traumatic injury to the mother should not be withheld for fetal concerns.
CT scanning appears to be the best non-invasive method for evaluating certain internal injuries. Emergency departments should consider preparing guidelines with trauma specialists for a smooth approach, especially regarding CT abdomen/pelvis. Generally consent is not needed for most ED imaging, including a trauma pan scan (head, c-spine, chest, abdomen/pelvis). However, it is prudent to have a form template prepared jointly by emergency medicine and radiology departments for higher dose CT, if the estimated dose is greater than 5,000 mrad and if contrast agents are used.
MRI7. MRI may be required for certain trauma, such as spinal cord injuries. Generally it is considered safe in pregnancy. Paramagnetic contrast agents have not been studied in pregnant women. Use of these agents in pregnancy should be based on risk-benefit analysis with consultation from appropriate specialists.
This section will not cover overall details of trauma management, but will focus on aspects that are unique to the pregnant trauma victim. Advanced Trauma Life Support principles will generally apply.8
Maternal stabilization is the priority. After the mother is stabilized, attention is given to the fetus. Maternal physiologic changes may delay signs of shock. Therefore, close attention to urinary output and fetal heart tracing pattern may give an earlier warning of impending maternal cardiovascular collapse, rather than just monitoring maternal pulse and BP alone.
If possible, place any patient over 24 weeks (or fundus 4 centimeters above the umbilicus) in left lateral decubitus position to avoid hypotension from uterine inferior vena caval compression. Turn the patient to the left side with her back angled 15-30 degrees from left lateral position. If the patient is on a backboard, tilt it leftward; alternatively, the uterus can be displaced to the left by placing a wedge under the right side. A patient with unstable BP and questionable c-spine status, not on a backboard, should be log-rolled with her neck stabilized or the uterus can be displaced to the left. Right lateral decubitus is an acceptable alternative.9
Airway, Oxygen and RSI
To avoid fetal hypoxia, use high-flow oxygen.
In compromised respiratory settings, pregnant women have an increased tendency toward rapid development of hypoxemia. Anticipate higher potential for regurgitation of gastric contents and aspiration; thus, antiemetics and NG are strong considerations. Failed intubation is more common in pregnancy because of physiologic and anatomical changes that can lead to difficult intubation including:10
- laryngeal edema from water retention
- lingual, nasal mucosa swelling from capillary engorgement
- increased facial adipose tissue affecting space for maneuvering laryngoscope handle
- increased abdominal contents elevating diaphragm with anterior shifting larynx
- morbid obesity (heavier than 300 pounds): mask ventilation may also be difficult due to increased intra-abdominal pressure and low chest compliance.11
Neuromuscular blockade (e.g., succinylcholine, vecuronium, atracurium) can be used in conventional doses. Transplacental passage is insignificant at usual dose for intubation relaxation. If a paralytic agent is used, it crosses placenta in dose- dependent fashion and will cause fetal heart rate tracing to become non-reactive.12
Induction agents such as thiopental, propofol, and etomidate appear to have a positive benefit vs. risk when used in the critical setting for pregnant women.
Hypotension, IV Fluids
Hypotension in pregnancy is sometimes difficult to identify because of physiologic lowering of blood pressure. Additionally, the mother's blood pressure may be maintained by shunting blood away from the uterus. Up to 25% of maternal intravascular blood volume may be lost without change in maternal vital signs.
To prevent or correct hypotension, place the patient in the left lateral decubitus position. Avoid large loads of IV D5 solutions, as this will cause problems with glucose regulation in the neonate should delivery be imminent. Pregnant women have increased fluid requirements; thus, liberal amounts can be given as indicated. Also, a pregnant patient with hypotension is markedly volume depleted.
Drug treatment is usually reserved for patients with BP greater than 160 systolic and greater than 110 diastolic. Avoid lowering blood pressure below 140/90 because of possible uterine hypoperfusion. Labetalol IV is one recommended choice. If magnesium sulfate has been given, observe its effect on lowering blood pressure before adding antihypertensive medication. Nitroprusside is relatively contraindicated secondary to potential fetal cyanide poisoning.
If uncrossmatched blood is indicated, group O Rh-negative blood should be used to prevent antibody development. Autologous transfusion (e.g., from chest tube) should be considered. The goal is to transfuse blood and crystalloid to maintain hematocrit at 25-30% and urine output greater than 30 cc/hr.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a concern with blood transfusion. Consider using CMV antibody-negative or leukocyte-reduced products, because CMV is transmitted only by leukocytes.
Fetal & Uterine Monitoring21
Institute monitoring for viable fetus (see "Viable Fetus" later in article) as soon as the mother's status allows, preferably in the emergency department. Fetal morbidity or mortality can occur in mothers without significant injury. Abnormal fetal heart rate pattern may not be apparent during initial evaluation and may be the first sign of impending maternal deterioration, especially shock. Continuous monitoring can be discontinued after 4 hours if there are no fetal heart rate abnormalities, uterine contractions, bleeding, or uterine tenderness.
Electronic fetal heart and uterine monitoring in pregnant trauma patients after 20 weeks gestation may detect placental abruption. Multiple studies have shown that placental abruption was not seen if less than 6 contractions per hour over a 4-hour period of observation, and no uterine tenderness.
Eclamptic Seizures (Acute or Impending). If eclampsia is a concern in the trauma patient, it is best treated with magnesium sulfate.15
Tetanus Booster. If indicated, tetanus or tetanus-diphtheria booster is safe to administer.16
Antibiotics. Usual antibiotics for open wounds are generally safe for pregnant women; e.g., ceftriaxone or, if cephalosporin allergic, clindamycin.
Anesthesia. There are no problems with local anesthesia.
Analgesia17. Acute trauma pain control with narcotics can be given in any trimester as required to provide comfort to the injured mother. Communicate doses and times to OB so the effect on the fetus can be anticipated if delivered while medications are in the system.
Rh immune globulin (RhIG). 40% of trauma victims will have fetal-maternal bleed. All Rh-negative trauma victims should be considered for 1 vial of RhIG (300 ug IM), which will provide complete protection for most of these patients. Even with negative Kleihauer-Betke (KB) test, these patients may become sensitized, as the test may not have adequate sensitivity to detect very small quantities of fetal blood. It should be given as soon as possible, and within 72 hours of the accident.
The use of additional RhIG should be discussed with an OB consultant and is based on initial and serial KB tests.18
Vaginal bleeding indicates a potentially fatal condition, although timely and proper treatment can prevent adverse outcomes. Massive, continuing vaginal bleeding may require emergency Cesarean delivery. Treat heavy vaginal bleeding as you would for hypovolemic shock. Arrange transfer if appropriate and condition allows.
When vaginal bleeding is not severe enough to require immediate C-section but occurs in the late 2nd trimester or 3rd trimester, rule out placental abruption. Diagnosis is supported by presence of abdominal pain and tenderness, uterine contractions, or fetal heart rate abnormalities. Although ultrasound exam may show retro-placental clot if an abruption occurs, normal ultrasound exam does not exclude the diagnosis. If vaginal bleeding is associated with placenta previa, as established by ultrasound, the patient needs to be hospitalized.
If the mother's condition is stable, Cesarean delivery is not required in the event of fetal death. Method and timing of delivery can be planned with the OB consultant. If a laparotomy will be performed anyway, the OB should be notified immediately. Cesarean delivery is probably still not indicated but might be if it is critical to prevent labor or vaginal delivery (e.g., pelvic fractures) or to control bleeding from uterine injury. An obstetrician should make these decisions.
Consider a laparotomy on all gunshot wounds or stab wounds to the upper abdomen. Stabs to lower abdomen can receive non-surgical management if the mother and fetus are free of significant injury.
Indications to Consider Cesarean Delivery
- control of maternal hemorrhage
- viable fetus in distress
- gunshot to abdomen with viable fetus
- a peri-mortem Cesarean may be indicated for fetus considered viable
If small uterine wound is present and delivery is not otherwise indicated, a less than 36 week pregnancy can be managed with uterine repair and delay of delivery until 36 weeks. If the fetus is dead and Cesarean section is not otherwise indicated, vaginal delivery should be considered.
Maternal Arrest or Death Consider immediate Cesarean delivery for a viable fetus in any patient who cannot be resuscitated. Immediate Cesarean should be considered in those cases of a brain dead mother with intact cardiovascular system if there is any evidence of fetal compromise. Consider maintaining life support management until the fetus is at an acceptable level of maturity for delivery. It is usually preferable to allow the fetus to remain in utero based on maturity and evidence of fetal compromise.
CPR ACLS Summary
Effective CPR is difficult in near-term pregnant woman because of a limited ability to perform chest compressions and displace the uterus.
Summary of CPR in pregnant patients over 20 weeks gestation:20
- Before starting compressions, turn the woman to lateral position.
- Defibrillation as in non-pregnancy. No significant shock is transferred to fetus. Remove fetal/uterine monitors prior to shock. Establish advanced airway early with C-spine stabilized.
- Breathing: Ventilation volumes may need to be reduced because of elevated diaphragm.
- Closed-chest compressions: 100 per minute using 30:2 ratio with ventilations.
- IV: avoid femoral or other lower extremity lines, as flow may be affected by vena caval compression.
- ACLS drugs as indicated.
- If no maternal response after 4 minutes of ACLS, immediate Cesarean delivery should be performed in the emergency department by a qualified physician, with proper support and resources, who has determined the viability of the fetus. Thoracotomy and open cardiac massage may be considered at this time if the patient or fetus is believed to be viable.
- age greater than or equal to 24 weeks: attempt to save life of both mother and fetus.
- age 20-23 weeks: primary attempt to save life of mother by improving aortocaval blood flow and cardiac output. Fetal survival is unlikely.
- age less than 24 weeks: urgent Cesarean unnecessary as aortocaval compromise unlikely.
- Assessment of fetal heart tones should be done throughout, as allowed by circumstances.
Admission and Monitoring
Viability is assumed in patients who are well into their 2nd trimester or beyond. Check with the OB consultant for recommended age of assumed viability. Remember, dates may be inaccurate. When in doubt, presume viability.
Continuous fetal monitoring should be instituted as soon as the mother's status allows, preferably in the emergency department for patients not promptly going to labor and delivery. Fetal morbidity or mortality can occur in mothers without significant injury. Fetal compromise may not be apparent during initial evaluation, but should abruptio placentae occur, it will do so generally by 24 hours. This can be effectively screened for by 4 hours of monitoring of the potentially viable fetus.21
- Vaginal bleeding
- Preterm rupture of membranes
- Placental abruption
- Maternal pelvic fractures
- Fetal death
- Fetal fractures, especially skull, clavicles, and long bones
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Indirect injury is generally due to fetal hypoxia secondary to: maternal hypotension, fetal hemorrhage, placental abruption or other injury, cord injury, uterine injury
- Other: spontaneous abortion, preterm delivery, and RBC isoimmunization
In order to translate the knowledge available for trauma in pregnancy in a rapidly usable format, this article provides an accessible tool for emergency physicians. A key goal is to avoid unnecessary delays in management caused by the uncertainty of applying accepted principles to this population.
Generally, medications, tests, treatments, and procedures required for a mother's stabilization should not be withheld because of pregnancy. The viable fetus should be promptly placed on continuous monitoring until under the care of an obstetrician.
Figure 1: Prenatal Trauma Management
||Hypotension treatment and prophylaxis > 20 wks, left lateral decubitus
||Criteria = >140 s, >90 d
||Treat >160s, >110d
|> 20 weeks, initiate ASAP
|If unable to offer OB intervention, stabilize & arrange prompt transfer
||Treat hypotension as above, OB consultation, Rh negative gets RhIG
|LAB [in addition to usual trauma studies]
||INR, PTT, fibrin degradation, fibrinogen, i-Coombs
| Ordered for the same general indications as in non-pregnancy.
Coordinate with radiologist; consider ultrasound to replace x-ray where possible
Shield abdomen-pelvis and neck when possible
|Treatments (medications listed are commonly recommended)
||Larger fluid requirements when hypotensive, avoid dextrose (D5) loads
||To avoid fetal hypoxia, high concentration O2
|Intubation & RSI
||Generally similar to non-pregnancy
||As needed - inform OB of doses, times if fetal delivery anticipated
||5-10 mg IV or IM
||4-8 mg IV
||1 g IV
|(if penicillin allergy) clindamycin
||600 mg IV
||RhIG 1 ampule (300 g) IM
|BP >160 s,>110 d
|labetalol 10-20 mg IV bolus
||magnesium sulfate 4-6 Gm IV load over 15-20 minutes
||lorazepam 1-2 mg/min IV
|CPR ACLS > 20 wks
||Left lateral decubitus; no response after 4 minutes CPR, consider cesarean of viable fetus
|Admission and Monitoring
||4 hours fetal monitoring of potentially Viable Fetus
||Prompt follow up with OB
|Source; Dr. Roemer, Dr. Katz, Dr. Becerra, Dr. Ogburn, Jr., Dr. Bowes, Jr., and Dr. B. Roemer
- Chang J, Berg C, Saltzman L, Herndon, J. Homicide. A leading Cause of Injury Deaths Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 1991-1999. Am J Public Health 2005; 95:471.
- Gordon, M.C. "Chapter 3, Maternal Physiology" Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, et al. Gabbe: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 5th ed
- Muench MV. Baschat AA. Reddy UM. Mighty HE. Weiner CP. Scalea TM. Harman CR. Kleihauer-betke testing is important in all cases of maternal trauma. J Trauma, 2004. 57(5):1094-8.
- Dhanraj D, Lambers D. The incidences of positive Kleihauer-Betke test in low-risk pregnancies and maternal trauma patients. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2004 May;190(5):1461-3.
- Goodwin H, Holmes JF, Wisner DH: Abdominal ultrasound examination in pregnant blunt trauma patients. J Trauma Apr 2001; 50(4):689-93.
- Cusick, S.S. and C.D. Tibbles. Trauma in pregnancy. Emerg Med Clin North Am, 2007. 25(3): p. 861-72, xi.
- ACOG Committee on Obstetric Practice. Guidelines for diagnostic imaging during pregnancy. ACOG Committee opinion no. 299, September 2004 Obstet Gynecol2004; 104: 647-651.
- American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. "Chapter 11, Trauma in Women" Advance Trauma Life Support (ATLS) for Doctors, 8th ed.
- Ellington C, Katz VL, Watson WJ, Spielman FJ. The effect of lateral tilt on maternal and fetal hemodynamic parameters. Obstet Gynecol 1991; 77(2):201-3.
- Rocke DA, Murray WB, Rout CC, et al. Relative Risk Analysis of Factors Associated With Difficult Intubation in Obstetric Anesthesia. Anesthesiology 1992; 77:67.
- Hood DD, Dewan DW, Ashten K: Anesthesia in the morbidly obese parturient. Anesthesiology 1993; 79:7210.
- Hull, S.B. and S. Bennett. The pregnant trauma patient: assessment and anesthetic management. Int Anesthesiol Clin, 2007. 45(3): p. 1-18.
- Roberts JM: Pregnancy-related hypertension. In Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Fourth Edition, Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co. 2004; pp 859-899.
- Preiksaitis JK: The cytomegalovirus "safe" blood product: is leukoreduction equivalent to antibody screening? Transfus Med Rev, 14:112, 2000
- Belfort MA, et al. Magnesium sulfate the drug of choice for prevention of eclampsia. N Engl J Med 2003; 348:275-276, 304-311.
- Kroger AT, Atkinson WL, Marcuse EK et al. General recommendations on immunization: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) MMWR December 1, 2006; Vol. 55/No. RR-15. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5515a1.htm
- Hawkins, J.L, Goetzl, L., Chestnut, D.H. "Chapter 16, Obstetric Anesthesia". Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, et al. Gabbe: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 5th ed.
- Chibber G, Zacher M, Cohen AW, Kline AJ. Rh isoimmunization following abdominal trauma: a case report. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1984.6; 149:692.
- Pearlman MD, Tintinalli JE, Lorenz RP: Blunt trauma during pregnancy. N Engl J Med 1990; 323:1609.
- American Heart Association: Cardiac arrest associated with pregnancy. Circulation: 112:IV-150IV-153, 2005.
- Obstetric aspects of trauma management. ACOG Educational Bulletin No. 251. September, 1998
- Muench, M.V. J.C. Canterino. Trauma in pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am, 2007. 34(3): p. 555-83, xiii
- Agran PF, Dunkle DE, Winn DG, Kent D: Fetal death in motor vehicle accidents. Ann Emerg Med 1987; 16:1355.
Dr. Roemer is an associate professor and assistant residency program director, department of emergency medicine, at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Katz is a clinical professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology, at Oregon Health Sciences University and medical director, women's services, Sacred Heart Medical Center. Dr. Becerra is a resident in the department of emergency medicine at the OU School of Community Medicine. Dr. Ogburn is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Bowes is an emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Benjamin Roemer is a practicing emergency physician at the Northwest Medical Center in Tucson. Medical Editor Dr. Robert C. Solomon is an attending emergency physician at Southwest Regional Medical Center in Waynesburg, Pa., and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. | <urn:uuid:f6e74189-2738-4061-9aa2-cfb914bb1d39> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=49033 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00003-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848751 | 5,472 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Syrian Civil War - 2012
|Daily News Updates|
On 4 February 2012, the UN Security Council again considered a resolution on Syria during a special meeting. The resolution was vetoed by both Russia and China, permanent members of the UN Security Council. The remaining 13 members of the UN Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, which was based on a plan developed by the Gulf Cooperation Council. That plan had originally outlined a planned transition to an interim leadership followed by elections. The UN resolution had called for a transition government in Syria and the text had maintained strong condemnation of the "continued widespread gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities." It also called for "an inclusive Syrian-led political process conducted in an environment free from violence, fear, intimidation, and extremism, and aimed at effectively addressing the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people."
The double veto recieved wide condemnation from western and UN officials. On 6 February 2012, the Russian and Chinese governments criticized that response and defended their decisions. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia specifically asked the Security Council to delay voting on the resolution until after his talks in Damascus and that the decision to go ahead with a vote at the UN on 4 February 2012 was disrespectful. He also maintained that the proposed resolution was still one-sided in its demand for an end to violent action by the Damascus government, without also imposing special, specific obligations on the armed groups battling the Assad regime. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin said that his government's decision was ultimately aimed at avoiding more casualties and that supporters pushed through the UN Security Council vote while different sides of the Council were still "seriously divided." Lui went on to say China was paying close attention to the situation in Syria and was calling on all sides there to stop violence. Beijing's ultimate goal, he said, was to avoid casualties of innocent civilians and restore normal order in Syria.
Following the veto violence in Syria continued. Western critics and United Nations officials suggested that the veto had been interpreted by the Syrian authorities as a blank check to continue its crackdown. Syrian authorities were also later reported to have made it difficult for refugees to flee into neighboring countries, going so far as to place mines along known refugee routes.
In February 2012, Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, was appointed by the United Nations and the Arab League as their Joint Special Envoy for the crisis in Syria. Also in February 2012, the United Nations, the United States, and other western and regional powers gathered in Tunis, Tunisia for a "Friends of Syria" conference, modeled on similar meetings conducted for the benefit of Libyan opposition groups in 2011. Few tangible results were garnered from the conference, with violence in Syria continuing.
In March 2012, opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called for international supporters to arm their uprising against Damascus. Defecting military units had already formed themselves into the Free Syrian Army in July 2011. Similar calls were echoed by members of the United States Congress. However, President Obama and other members of his administration said they were unconvinced that arming the opposition would achieve the desired results. In addition, President Obama said that acting unilaterally against Syria would be a "mistake."
Reports from Syria of continuing violence, arbitrary detention, and torture continued to appear. By the middle of March 2012, the Free Syrian Army had suffered significant setbacks, with major government offensives against most of their strongholds. Members of the opposition forces had been largely forced to pull out of the population centers by 20 March 2012, where Syrian authorities had continued to make use of infantry, artillery, and armored vehicles. There were subsequently reports of massacres of civilians who remained behind.
On 21 March 2012, the UN Security Council adopted a statement of support for a 6-point peace plan outlined by Kofi Annan, designated as the Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the Arab League with regards to the crisis in Syria. The Annan Plan called for Syria to work with the Joint Special Envoy (point 1) to stop the violence by all parties (point 2), allow humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by fighting (point 3), accelerate the release of persons arbitrarily detained and allow access to the facilities where they were being held (point 4), ensure overall freedom of movement for journalists (point 5), and respect the rights to free association and peaceful demonstration (point 6). Point 2 required that Syrian government forces immediately stop their assaults on population centers and pull their forces back. Point 3 required the establishment of a designated 2 hour humanitarian pause every day to help in the distribution of aid. The Annan Plan set a deadline of 10 April 2012 for implementation. The UNSC statement added that Syria would face undefined "further steps" if the proposal was rejected by Syrian authorities. The UN also reported that it believed at least 8,000 people to have been killed in the Assad government's violent crackdown up to that point.
The Syrian Government subsequently agreed to implement the plan on 27 March 2012, but on 28 March 2012, reports came that Syrian government troops were continuing their assault on various rebel strongholds. The Syrian government also said that it would reject any resolution passed or initiative proposed by the Arab League at their meeting, which had opened on 27 March 2012 in Iraq. The Arab League was expected to pass a resolution calling for Syria to implement the Annan Plan, but without any formal calls for Assad to leave his post.
On 1 April 2012, a second Friends of Syria meeting was convened in Istanbul, Turkey. At that meeting, Arab and Western countries, including the United States, formally recognized the Syrian National Council as a legitimate representative of all Syrians. Millions dollars and communications equipment were also pledged to Syrian opposition groups. The decision came after various participants of the conference criticized the Syrian authorities for apparently failing to make motions toward implementing the Annan Plan. Calls were also made by the Syrian National Council and other participants to arm and otherwise assist the Free Syrian Army. Russia and China did not participate in the conference, and Russia denounced the conference as being contrary to goal of peaceful resolution of the conflict as outlined in the Annan Plan.
On 2 April 2012, the UN Security Council reported that Syrian officials had stressed their commitment to complete the withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from population centers by 10 April 2012. This statement followed a briefing to the UN Security Council by Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan. By 5 April 2012, a deadline of 12 April 2012 for a complete cease-fire had been set by Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan.
Fighting between Syrian government forces and the Free Syrian Army continued throughout April 2012 and into May 2012. The UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and others also noted a rise in terrorist type attacks, blamed by some on factions linked to Al Qaeda. On 10 May 2012, at least 55 people were killed and over 370 were injured in 2 explosions that rocked a highway near the capital, Damascus. On 15 May 2012, 3 vehicles belonging to a convoy of UN observers in Syria were damaged in a bomb blast near the city of Hama, but no one was injured. The UN observers were left without transport, however, and stayed overnight in the Syrian town of Khan Cheikhoun before being picked up and returned to their basecamp on 16 May 2012.
At the same time, the opposition Syrian National Council, operating in France, experienced a leadership crisis on 17 May 2012, with the newly re-elected head of the organization, Burhan Ghalioun, offering to resign due to criticism of his leadership and infighting that has plagued groups trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad. The Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists in Syria, had accused the Syrian National Council leadership of marginalizing council members, monopolizing power, and not coordinating closely enough with activists on the ground, and threatened to pull out of the umbrella organization. The threat by the Local Coordination Committees followed the departure of other key activists from the Syrian National Council. The disputes highlighted a continued lack of unity in the Syrian National Council.
On 26 May 2012, there were reports of Syrian government shelling of the village of Houla on 25 May 2012, which led to the deaths of more than 90 people (later reports put the death toll at over 100), including many children. The attacks on Houla, near Homs, represented some of the worst violence since the uprising began. Al Jazeera reported that Free Syrian Army representatives had announced they would no longer adhere to the Annan Plan unless the UN could guarantee protection of civilians in response to the massacre. The attacks in Houla were confirmed by observers from the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) after having viewed the bodies in the village. There they also confirmed from an examination of ordnance that artillery and tank shells were fired at a residential neighborhood.
On 27 May 2012, the Syrian government denied responsibility for the killings in Houla and condemned the atrocities there, saying instead that the attacks had been carried out by al-Qaeda and "Takfiris," an Arabic word used in some cases to describe radical Salafists. On 28 May 2012, the UN Security Council condemned the killings and on 29 May 2012, the US, Australia, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany, expelled Syrian diplomats in protest. The killings also prompted strong language from Russian officials, with Foreign Minister Lavrov saying that while rebels were also responsible, blame for the 15 months of carnage in Syria was primarily the result of actions by the Syrian government. Russia, however, did say that the US led move to expel diplomats had been counterproductive. Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan had also arrived for scheduled meetings with Syrian authorities as the latest crisis unfolded and left Syria on 30 May 2012 without securing any major steps from the Syrian government to implement his faltering peace plan for the country.
On 31 May 2012, the US State Department released additional satellite imagery, which included images of Syrian Air Force attack helicopters and fixed wing aircraft deployed to an airfield near Shayrat, Syria, in the center of the country. By early June 2012, amateur video shot on the ground in Syria began to show the use Mi-8/-17 and Mi-25 helicopters against rebel controlled areas.
On 4 June 2012, the Free Syrian Army said that due to the refusal of the Assad government to implement the Annan Plan that it was ending its ceasefire and returning to conducting operations against the government.
On 6 June 2012, there were reports of another massacre, this time in the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir near the flashpoint city of Hama, where between 70 and 90 individuals, including women and children, had been killed. As in the case of the incident in Houla, both the Syrian opposition and the Syrian government blamed the other side for committing the atrocities. Russia's Foreign Ministry terms the incident a "despicable provocation" intended to scuttle the Annan plan. UN observers were subsequently prevented from reaching the site to investigate due to the roadblocks and threats of violence.
On 7 June 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that President Bashar al-Assad's regime had lost all legitimacy. Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan warned that Syria was becoming more radicalized and polarized as a result of the massacres and admitted that his plan was clearly not being implemented. Annan said the international community had to take its response to the crisis to "another level." Also on 7 June 2012, the UN said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would soon present the Security Council with a range of options for resolving the crisis in Syria. Russia and China remained categorically opposed to military intervention, having made a joint declaration against such a mission at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Beijing on 7 June 2012. The declaration was made together with other SCO members Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
On 8 June 2012, UNSMIS reported that an observer team had reached the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir, the site of a reported massacre, but was still attempting to ascertain the facts of what had occurred. Observers arrived at the village to find it empty, with buildings having suffered damage from a variety of weapons.
On 13 June 2012, it was reported that UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous had noted a massive increase in violence and declared that the conflict in Syria had become a civil war. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on 13 June 2012 also said that Syria was experiencing a civil war and that he would call on the UN to enforce the Annan Plan through the UN Charter's Chapter Seven, which would likely involve the deployment of an international force to Syria, a major point of contention in the UN Security Council. On 13 June 2012, Syrian authorities challenged the claims of a civil war in the country by reiterating their stance that government forces were engaged in fighting terrorists and armed gangs.
On 14 June 2012, UNSMIS observers reached the town of al-Haffeh. Observers had been attempting to reach the city for days, but had been prevented by ongoing violence in the area. Observers found the town deserted of its residents, but apparently experiencing ongoing fighting between rebels and government forces. The town's Baath Party headquarters had been shelled and appeared to be the site of heavy fighting.
On 16 June 2012, UNSMIS suspended operations until further notice because of increasing violence and the threat to its personnel. Also on 16 June 2012, Human Rights First and western media reported that a ship, the Professor Katsman, reportedly carrying weapons, had docked in Syria on 26 May 2012. The company that owned the ship, Universal Cargo Logistics Holding, a Russian company, denied the claim. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also reiterated that any deliveries of weapons to Syria were "completing right now the implementation of military contracts that were signed and paid for a long time ago." There had also been various reports of the Russian government sending warships and other military elements to Syria, possibly to protect the Russian military facilities at the Port of Tartus. Russian officials said that no deployment to the region was specifically targeted at Syria in any way, but were instead previously scheduled tests and exercises.
On 19 June 2012, a ship heading from Russia to Syria, the MV Alaed, had its insurance withdrawn by The Standard Club in London while off Scotland's coast. Owned by a Russian company, FEMCO, the MV Alaed was reportedly carrying attack helicopters and other weapons to Syria. The ship was subject to the EU arms embargo against Syria, being registered in Curacao in the Dutch Antilles. The ship subsequently headed back to the Russian port of Murmansk, where it was to be reregistered in Russia and given new insurance to allow it to complete its voyage. Again, Russian authorities stated that the equipment on board was part of previous contracts with the Syrian government and not related to the crisis in the country.
On 20 June 2012, the Commander of UNSMIS, Major General Robert Mood, said that the mission was prepared to stay in Syria, despite having suspended operations. UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said that it was important to stick to the original mandate because "there is no other plan."
On 21 June 2012, a Syrian fighter pilot was reported to have flown his Mig-21 jet to Jordan, where he had landed and requested asylum. The defection was reported a major blown to Syrian authorities, who immediately branded the pilot, Colonel Hassan al-Hamade, a traitor who would be punished.
On 22 June 2012, Turkey reported that it had lost contact with an F-4E Phantom II fighter jet, which had been flying over the Mediterranean Sea near Syria on a training mission. A search and rescue effort was immediately mounted, which subsequently recovered a seat and parachute. The effort involved Turkish ships and aircraft and Syrian ships. Manar TV in Lebanon reported that the aircraft had been shot down by Syrian forces, citing Syrian security sources. Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News, citing an unnamed Turkish official, alleged that Syria has apologized for downing the Turkish plane, adding that both pilots had survived. There was no immediate response from Turkish authorities confirming or denying either report. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan later said at a news conference othat he did not know if the plane had been shot down by the Syrians and added that Syria had sent no word of apology.
On 23 June 2012, Syrian authorities admitted that they had engaged "unidentified air target," which had penetrated Syrian airspace. Independant observers speculated that the aircraft might have been a Turkish RF-4E attempting to conduct a reconnaissance mission over Syria based on the units stations at the air base where the aircraft had departed from. The fate of the pilots remained unknown, though Turkish and Syrian authorities continued their search. The Turkish government promised a decisive and legitimate response once all the facts surrounding the incident were known. On 24 June 2012, it was reported that the Turkish government had called for a consultation with other NATO members under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty.
The consultation meeting was held on 25 June 2012 and on 26 June 2012 Turkey announced that Syria had become an "open threat" to the country. The plane was admitted to be an RF-4E, but the Turkish authorities maintained the aircraft had been on a training and test mission. Turkey also accused the Syrians of firing on one of their CN-235 aircraft participating in rescue efforts. The aircraft had not been damaged and their were no casualties. The rules of engagement for Turkish forces on the Turkish-Syrian border were subsequently changed to allow them to engage any Syrian forces approaching the border. NATO also condemned the shoot down and announced its support for Turkey. With Turkish authorities refusing to say how close Syrian forces would be able to get to the border before invoking the new rules of engagement, a no-fly/no-drive zone was effectively created along the shared border.
On 26 June 2012, President Assad declared that Syria was in a "state of war" and directed the newly appointed Syrian government to focus all of its efforts on subduing the uprising. On June 27, a team of United Nations investigators told the UN Human Rights Council that Syrian government forces had committed grave human rights violations "on an alarming scale" in the preceding 3 months and added that Syrians were being targeted by government troops on the basis of their religion compared to earlier crackdowns, where people had been targeted solely for their opposition to Assad's regime.
On 30 June 2012, the Turkish Air Force scrambled F-16 fighters on 3 separate occasions in response to Syrian helicopters observed heading towards the shared border. Jets scrambled from Incirlik Air Base twice in response to Syrian helicopters flying as close as 7 kilometers to the shared border near the Turkish province of Hatay. Jets were also scrambled from Batman Air Base in response to a Syrian helicopter flying close to the border near the Turkish province of Mardin.
On 30 June 2012, an entity called the Action Group held its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Action Group members included the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Ban Ki-moon and Nabil Elaraby, respectively, the Foreign Ministers of the five permanent members of the Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America), as well as the Turkish Foreign Minister, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Foreign Ministers of Iraq, as Chair of the Summit of the League of Arab States; Kuwait, as Chair of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the League of Arab States and Qatar, as Chair of the Follow-up Committee on Syria of the League of Arab States. At the meeting the Action Group proposed establishment of a transitional governing body, with full executive powers, as part of important agreed principles and guidelines for a Syrian-led political transition that would meet the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people. The Action Group also called for all parties to immediately re-commit to a sustained cessation of armed violence, to fully cooperate with observers serving with UNSMIS, and to implement the 6-point peace plan put forward earlier this year by the Joint Special Envoy for the UN and the League of Arab States on Syria, Kofi Annan.
On 1 July 2012, the Syrian National Council rejected the plan of action developed by the Action Group on 30 June 2012, saying that it was ambiguous. In addition, the opposition ruled out any power-sharing agreement with the regime of President Assad. The Local Coordination Committees also rejected the plan, calling it a step backwards.
On 2 July 2012, members of the Syrian opposition and Arab diplomats began talks in Cairo under the auspices of the Arab League to consider measures to step up pressure against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said that President Assad had flouted written agreements and resorted to military might rather than political means. He also called on the Syrian opposition to unify. This view was echoed by others, including the Russians, who also asked the Syrian opposition to develop a common agenda.
On 4 July 2012, Turkey reported that it had found the bodies of the 2 pilots onboard the RF-4E that had been shot down on 22 June 2012. The bodies, along with other wreckage from the aircraft were found in the Mediterranean Sea.
Also on 4 July 2012, head of UNSMIS Major-General Robert Mood said that he had received a clear commitment from the Syrian government to implement the Annan Plan. On 5 July 2012, Major-General Mood announced changes UNSMIS in order to better meet its operational mandate. UNSMIS would consolidate its 8 local team site locations, spread out in different parts of Syria, into the regional locations, with monitors and assets moved from locations in Hama, Idleb and Tartus to boost the mission's presence in other locations. At that time, UNSMIS' activities remained suspended and Major-General Mood also noted that violence had reached "unprecedented levels."
On 6 July 2012, it was reported that Syrian Army Brigadier General Manaf Tlass had fled to Turkey, where he had also sought asylum. Brigadier General Tlass was the son of former Syrian defense minister Mustafa Tlass, who had served in the position from 1972 to 2004 and helped the Assad family set up the repressive regime in Syria. Brigadier General Tlass was said to have been close to President Assad and US officials said that his defection should not be taken lightly. Another Friends of Syria conference also concluded on 6 July 2012, with the participants agreeing that President Assad had to step down and criticizing China and Russia for allegedly holding up international efforts to end the crisis in Syria.
On 9 July 2012, Joint Special Envoy Annan traveled to Syria for discussions with President Assad. Annan described the meeting with Assad as "very candid and constructive." Annan said that Assad had assured him of his commitment to the 6 point peace plan. Annan later traveled to Iran and on 10 July 2012, where he talked with authorities and highlighted the potential for Iran to assist in resolving the crisis peacefully. Annan also traveled to Iraq to talk with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the impact of the Syrian crisis in the region.
Also on 10 July 2012, Russia announced that it was sending the Admiral Chabanenko Udaloy II class destroyer, the Alexander Otrakovsky, Georgy Pobedonosets and Kondopoga large amphibious assault ships, as well as the Nikolai Chiker and Sergei Osipov support vessels for exercises in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Black Sea. The force was to be joined in the northern Atlantic by a group of Baltic Fleet ships, including the Yaroslav Mudry frigate and the Lena tanker. Western sources suggested that these vessels might in fact have been heading to the Russian naval base at Tartus, Syria. Two of the ships were later confirmed to be heading to Tartus. Rosoboronexport added that there were no attack helicopters being transported on the ships to Syria.
On 11 July 2012, it was reported that Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, had defected to the opposition. This was later confirmed in a statement broadcast by Al-Jazeera, in which Fares also called on his colleagues and others to join him. The Syrian government subsequently stated that Fares had been relieved of his position and duties and should face legal and disciplinary action. Fares was said to have subsequently relocated to Qatar, one of the Gulf states overtly supporting the Syrian opposition and calling for an end to Assad's regime.
On 12 July 2012, news reports suggested that Syrian authorities might be in the process of moving elements of their chemical weapons stockpile away from conflict areas to improve their security. This also raised fears that the weapons might be being deployed. On 13 July 2012, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters there were no indications that Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles have become less secure and that the US assessment, that the Syrian government continued to exercise control over the arsenal, remained unchanged.
On 13 July 2012, it was reported that Syrian authorities had massacred some 200 individuals in the village of Tremseh, near Hama, and had used artillery, tanks, and helicopters during the assault. The attack sparked widespread condemnation, but Syrian authorities denied the total deaths and said that most of those killed were terrorists. Special Envoy Annan said that the attack violated Syria's commitment to the 6 point peace plan. UNSMIS also confirmed that heavy fighting had occurred in the vicinity of Hama and later traveled to Tremseh on 14 July 2012. Observers reported that there were indications that the attack had been specifically directed at the homes of opponents of the regime. The observers could not confirm the death toll of the attack. At the time the UN estimated that more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, had been killed in Syria and tens of thousands displaced since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began in 2011.
The attack subsequently sparked new efforts to approve UN sanctions against Syria. On 16 July 2012, Russia had labeled the new efforts as "blackmail" and "unrealistic," continuing to push for a plan that would see President Assad remain in power. Also, by 16 July 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross had said that Syria was in a state of civil war, defining the situation as a "noninternational armed conflict," bringing into force the Geneva Conventions. Previously, the Red Cross had regarded only the areas around the troubled towns of Idlib, Homs, and Hama as civil-war zones. This new designation had the potential to open up more actors in the conflict to war crimes charges.
On 17 July 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to China for talks with President Hu Jintao, with Syria likely to be one of the topics. China, along with Russia, continued to staunchly oppose foreign intervention in Syria, even as fighting began to intensify in the country's capital, Damascus. Also on 17 July 2012, Special Envoy Annan traveled to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin on coming to a compromise on Syria.
On 18 July 2012, former Syrian Ambassador Nawaf Fares told the BBC that he believed that Assad regime could be pushed to use chemical weapons and that there were unconfirmed reports that such weapons had already been used in Homs. Later on 18 July 2012, it was reported that President Assad's brother-in-law General Assef Shawkat, the head of his crisis team General Hassan Turkomani, and the country's Defense Minister General Daoud Rajiha had been killed in a suicide bombing. Director of the National Security Bureau Hisham Ikhtiar and Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar were initially said to have been injured in the attack. Al-Shaar was later reported to have died as well. The Free Syrian Army and a jihadist group calling itself Lord of the Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.
On 19 July 2012, Russia and China again vetoed a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have imposed non-military sanctions on the Syrian government. The Security Council voted 11-2 in favor of the measure, with Pakistan and South Africa abstaining. It marked the third time that Russia and China had voted against the resolution. Russia again said that the resolution was biased against Syria and both Russia and China also objected to the potential for an armed intervention in Syria as a product of the resolution. The US said that with the continued failure of the Security Council to find a common position it would work outside UN process to help resolve the Syria crisis.
Also on 19 July 2012, fighting continued to rage in and around the Syrian capital Damascus. It appeared that the bombing on 18 July 2012 had been a watershed event in the crisis as well. Numerous reports suggested that President Assad, his family, and other members of his inner circle had already fled the capital for the coastal city of Latakia. State TV released a video to show that Assad was still in Damascus, but there was nothing in the footage to confirm the date it was recorded on. Reports also surfaced that tanks and troops had been deployed to defend the large Presidential Palace in Damascus.
On 20 July 2012, Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Britain would work outside the UN Security Council to support the opposition movement in Syria. Hague's comments came amid continued vetoes and threats of vetoes of security council resolutions by Russia and China. Later on 20 July 2012, the Security Council did renewed the mandate of United Nations observers tasked with monitoring the cessation of violence in Syria and announced continued support for the full implementation of the international peace plan put forward to end the ongoing crisis.
By 22 July 2012, intense fighting had begun to be reported in the capital Damascus and in the city of Aleppo, Syria's second largest and a major economic center. On 23 July 2012, Syria offered a tacit admission of their chemical weapon capability, when they said that they would not use such weapons "would never be used against civilians or against the Syrian people" during the crisis for any reason. However, the government spokesman did say that Syria reserved the right to use the weapons against foreign aggressors. Given that Syria continued to maintain that opposition fighters were "terrorist gangs" and full of foreigners, Western powers and the UN warned Syria of grave consequences if they decided to use their chemical weapons stockpile to suppress the rebellion.
On 24 July 2012, Iraq reopened its border with Syria and pledged to help fleeing refugees. This was in part due to the more than 10,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria who were trying to flee the country in the face of violence. Seen as close to the regime, Iraqis had been reportedly targeted in reprisals by opposition fighters. On 25 July 2012, Turkey made the decision to close their border with Syria due to the advances of Kurdish groups in Syria to secure portions of the country. Turkish authorities were worried that the area could become a safe haven for the PKK. On 26 July 2012, Turkey's Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey could be compelled to act against "terrorist" elements inside Syria.
Also on 25 July 2012, the United Nations peacekeeping chief announced that half of the 300 UN observers in Syria had left the country, while adding that the crisis there remains "of utmost concern" and the world body would continue to promote a political solution. On 26 July 2012, Hervé Ladsous, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said that the move would be temporary and that the observers could be recalled if the situation changed.
This announcement came as fighting in Damascus and Aleppo continued to escalate, with Free Syrian Army fighters in the latter city expecting a major government counterattack. Fighting in Aleppo raged into August 2012, with reports on 1 August 2012 of the summary execution of suspected Assad loyalists by Free Syrian Army fighters in the city. Also, NBC News issued a report on 1 August 2012 that Turkey had supplied man-portable surface-to-air missiles, such as the FIM-92 Stinger, to Syrian opposition fighters along with other equipment. This transfer of materiel was reportedly coordinated by Turkey at a base near the border with Syria, but also involved Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
On 2 August 2012, Kofi Annan resigned as the United Nations-League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for the Syrian crisis. Annan blamed his decision in part on what he called "finger-pointing and name-calling" in the UN Security Council. He added that he did not feel he had been given all the support the cause deserved. On 3 August 2012, the UN General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution that condemned the Syrian government's campaign against opposition forces and criticized the UN Security Council for failing to agree on measures to help end the violence. The measure was approved by 133 representatives of the 193-member assembly, with 12 "no" votes, and 31 abstentions. Russia and China were among those to vote against the resolution.
On 4 August 2012, as opposition forces made pushes to secure portions of Syria's capital Damascus and the major city of Aleppo, it was reported that 48 Iranians had been kidnapped from a bus in Damascus. Iran said that the group was on a religious pilgrimage, but opposition forces who detained the Iranians said that they were members of the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) assisting the Syrian government. On 7 August 2012, the Iranian government sent a message to the United States through the US foreign interests section at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran saying that the US had responsibility for the 48 Iranians and that any harm that came to them would be on their hands. Tehran later asked the UN and Turkey for assistance in freeing the hostages. On 8 August 2012, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi also added that the pilgrims included "retired" members of the IRGC and Iranian military.
On 6 August 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab said he had defected, speaking from Jordan where he had fled with his family. The Syrian government said that Hijab had been fired and replaced by his deputy, Omar Ghalawanji. On 9 August 2012, it was officially announced that Wael al-Halqi, the former health minister, had in fact taken the position of Prime Minister. Hijab, a longtime member of Ba'ath Party, but not an Alawite, had only been at the post for 2 months. The defection came as fighting in Aleppo continued to rage, with opposition forces reportedly making headway.
In addition, on 6 August 2012, Kurds in the north of Syria say they have taken control of most of the region's major towns and cities from government forces. The Turkish government, which had made public statements in support of forces fighting the Syrian government and was reported to have been supplying materiel to the opposition, was extremely concerned by these developments. Many Syrian Kurds were reported to be sympathetic to the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) movement, deemed a terrorist organization by Turkey and in the West. Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan were also said to be worried about PKK-links among Kurdish refugees.
On 8 August 2012, the Syrian government was said to be massing forces for a major assault into opposition controlled areas in the city of Aleppo. On 9 August 2012, the Iranian government hosted a meeting in Tehran looking to find a solution to the crisis. Representatives from Belarus, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Benin, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Algeria, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Oman, Venezuela, Tajikistan, India, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Sudan, Jordan, Tunisia and Palestine attended the meeting. After the meeting the participants condemned the violence on both sides in Syria and called for peaceful political solutions based on dialogue to end the conflict. No specific course of action was announced. While UN Secretary General Ban had called for action to spring from the meeting, during the State Department's daily press conference on 9 August 2012, Acting Deputy State Department Spokesman Patrick Ventrell said that the US "had a few instances to reiterate our position that we think the Iranian behavior in Syria is destructive."
Also on 9 August 2012, Susan Rice, the US ambassador at the United Nations, said it was hard to envision that the conditions set by the UN Security Council for the UNSMIS observer mission could be met in the time that remained in their mandate and that the mandate was unlikely to be renewed as a result. On 10 August 2012, the US added new unilateral sanctions against Syria, including sanctioning the Syrian state-run oil company Sytrol under the Iran Sanctions Act, as amended by the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act, for business dealings with the Iranian energy sector. The US also added the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hizballah to its list of organizations sanctioned for ties to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reports also continued of covert movement of military materiel to Syrian opposition forces. There had been public admissions from Western powers about the shipment of non-lethal materiel to Syrian opposition elements.
On 11 August 2012, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Turkey and the US both wanted to expand operational planning to assist the rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Establishing a no-fly zone was said to be one of the options considered. This came after reports on 10 August 2012, that Turkish authorities had determined that Syrian anti-aircraft artillery had not been responsible for the downing of a Turkish RF-4E aircraft on 22 June 2012. The Hurriyet newspaper said the detailed report rejected the possibility of any involvement of Syrian air defense forces, based on the chemical and physical analysis of 20 fragments of the crashed aircraft. There was no indication of whether the report posited an alternative explanation for the crash. Also on 11 August 2012, UN Secretary General Ban said that he supported a continued UN presence in Syria, that "goes beyond our important humanitarian work would allow systematic and meaningful engagement with the Syrian stakeholders."
On 12 August 2012, Syrian authorities said they had killed one of the ringleaders of al-Nusra Front terrorist group, Wael Mohammad al-Majdalawi. The Al-Nusra Front had claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in Syria, including blasts in Aleppo in January 2012 and terrorist acts against intelligence service officers in Damascus in January and March 2012. He was reportedly located with the help of local civilians.
On 14 August 2012, at a joint press conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that the IRGC was training and otherwise providing assistance to the Jaish al-Sha'abi, a pro-regime militia made up of Shia and Alawite Syrians. Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey both added that the US was in consultations with Turkey and Jordan about otherwise expanding their involvement in Syria, to potentially include a no-fly zone.
In August 2012, the regime began to employ jet aircraft in an interdiction role as battle lines in Aleppo hardened and the regime’s helicopter usage peaked. Al-Assad may have ordered the use of fixed-wing platforms because of maintenance issues associated with operating approximately 50 helicopters and a lack of the highly capable Mi-25 Hind attack helicopters.
The rebels’ growing air-defense capability, which forced the regime to operate at higher altitudes, also accounts for the transition from rotary to fixed-wing aircraft. The opposition responded to the regime’s air-power by shooting down a limited number of aircraft and attacking airbases. By late summer 2012, the rebels’ equipment probably included 15–25 ZU-23s, two to five 57 mm towed air defense artillery guns (or others), and 15–30 SA-7 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). Reports also indicated the presence of SA-16 and -24 surface-to-air missiles (SAM). The rebels primarily relied on heavy anti-aircraft machineguns like the ZU-23 and, on at least one occasion, a MANPADS. As of October 2012, the FSA had shot down an estimated five rotary-wing and six fixed-wing aircraft.
During the last two months of 2012, anti-Government armed groups reached strategic regions and were able to challenge state forces control of sensitive infrastructure such as oil fields, major highways, airports and military camps. The armed groups have increasing access to weaponry, though those in the south tend to be less wellarmed. Most anti-Government armed groups are equipped with individual light weapons and small arms, typical to any insurgency, including Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) of different calibres and types. The larger armed groups possess mortars, heavy machine guns and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns. A few obtained anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. The quality and quantity of such missiles appear to be limited but would be sufficient to affect Government forces use of air assets. While significant quantities of arms were taken from army camps, weapons and ammunition have also been smuggled in from neighboring countries.
The death toll in the ongoing conflict in Syria surpassed 60,000 by the end of 2012, accordng to the United Nations human rights office. Preliminary analysis carried out by data specialists on behalf of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) led to the compilation of a list of 59,648 individuals reported killed in Syria between 15 March 2011 and 30 November 2012. "Given there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013," said High Commissioner Navi Pillay said 02 January 2013 . "The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking," she added. The analysts noted that 60,000 is likely to be an underestimate of the actual number of deaths, given that reports containing insufficient information were excluded from the list, and that a significant number of killings may not have been documented at all by any of the seven sources.
The later part of 2012 witnessed an escalation in the conflict, which began as an uprising against President al-Assad and was now in its 22nd month by the end of the year. The crisis left four million people inside the country in need of humanitarian assistance, and it was estimated that up to a million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries will need help during the first half of 2013. As the situation continued to degenerate, increasing numbers of people were n killed by anti-government armed groups, and there was a proliferation of serious crimes including war crimes, and – most probably – crimes against humanity, by both sides. Cities, towns and villages have been, and are continuing to be, devastated by aerial attacks, shelling, tank fire, bomb attacks and street-to-street fighting.
The increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict was highlighted in a 20 December 2012 update by the UN-mandated independent international Commission of Inquiry on Syria, meaning a swift end to the conflict would be all the more difficult to accomplish. The update described the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict, with Government forces and supporting militias attacking Sunni civilians, and reports of anti-Government armed groups attacking Alawites and other pro-Government minority communities, including Catholics, Armenian Orthodox and Druze. Some minority communities, including Christians, Kurds and Turkmen, have also been caught up in the conflict, and in some cases forced to take up arms for their own defence or to take sides. The presence of foreign fighters, some with links to extremist groups, and the radicalisation of some of the Syrian anti-Government fighters is highlighted.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria released a periodic update, covering the period 28 September to 16 December 2012. The Commission, which comprises Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Chair), Ms. Karen AbuZayd, Ms. Carla del Ponte and Mr. Vitit Muntarbhorn, has been mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate and record all violations of international human rights law. The Commission has also been tasked with investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and its mandate was recently expanded to include “investigations of all massacres.”
In the southern governorates of Dara’a, al-Suweida and al-Qunayterah, Government forces remained in control of main localities. This was due to the heavy presence of army units and security services, together with the existence of relatively disorganised and poorly armed anti-Government groups in these areas. In comparison to groups based in the north-west, armed groups in the southern governorates have struggled to establish themselves and are able only to briefly attack isolated checkpoints and individuals. In these areas, the army is still able to set up checkpoints and conduct targeted raids inside restive towns.
Reports from northern and central provinces described a different reality, with anti-Government armed groups exercising control over large swathes of territory. Armed groups in governorates such as Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo have been able to coordinate effectively, both with each other and with unified local military councils. Further, they are equipped with increasingly efficient military assets allowing them to mount a serious challenge to the Government forces’ authority.
|Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list| | <urn:uuid:0d04de2c-79a3-481c-8c71-d1ae0d2fa5a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/syria-1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.981034 | 9,331 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Cocaine may increase stroke risk within 24 hours of useFebruary 12, 2014 in Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Cocaine greatly increases ischemic stroke risk in young adults within 24 hours of use, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2014.
Ischemic strokes occur when a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain becomes blocked, preventing a continuous supply of blood to the brain.
"We set out to understand what factors contribute to stroke risk in young adults," said Yu-Ching Cheng, Ph.D., research scientist at Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "These factors could be personal behaviors, medical or environmental factors, or genetic factors.
"Cocaine use is one of the risk factors we investigated and we were surprised at how strong an association there is between cocaine and stroke risk in young adults. We found the stroke risk associated with acute cocaine use is much higher than some other stroke risk factors, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking."
Researchers compared 1,101 people 15 to 49 years old in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area who had strokes in 1991-2008 to 1,154 people of similar ages in the general population. More than a quarter of the people in both groups said they had a history of cocaine use, with men being twice as likely as women to report using the drug.
- Having a history of cocaine use wasn't associated with ischemic stroke, regardless of a person's gender or ethnicity; however, reported acute use of cocaine in the 24 hours prior to stroke was strongly associated with increased risk of stroke across different ethnicities.
- Participants were six to seven times more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke within 24 hours of cocaine use.
- This elevated stroke risk seemed similar in Caucasians and African-Americans.
"Cocaine is not only addictive, it can also lead to disability or death from stroke," Cheng said. "With few exceptions, we believe every young stroke patient should be screened for drug abuse at the time of hospital admission.
"Despite the strong stroke risk associated with acute cocaine use, in our study only about one-third of young stroke patients had toxicology screenings done during hospitalization. We think the percentage of cocaine use could be higher than we've reported."
Provided by American Heart Association
"Cocaine may increase stroke risk within 24 hours of use" February 12, 2014 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-cocaine-hours.html | <urn:uuid:9af0a787-3690-47f0-90c7-df826d32dcdc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://medicalxpress.com/print311427318.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00488-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960319 | 533 | 2.59375 | 3 |
October 16, 2013
While the broader public’s attention continues to be distracted by the circus that America’s legislative and executive branches have become (an expected development at a time when the monetary branch reigns supreme), the real, non-scripted and truly devastating catastrophe continue to unfold in Japan, and specifically in Fukushima, where both TEPCO and the government have long since lost control of the worst nuclear disaster in history. However, in addition to the now usual daily spills of hundreds of tons of radioactive coolant into the environment, a potentially far more dangerous situation which may lead to an even greater loss of containment is taking place right now as both the destroyed nuclear plant and soon Tokyo are about to be buffeted by Typhoon Wipha – a “once in a decade storm.”
Typhoon Wipha is moving across the Pacific straight towards the capital, Tokyo, and is expected to make landfall during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people. The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. It was moving north-northeast at 35 kph (22 mph).
The storm had weakened as it headed north over the sea but was still packing sustained winds of about 140 kph (87 mph) with gusts as high as 194 kph (120 mph), the agency said. The agency issued warnings for Tokyo of heavy rain, flooding and gales, and advised people to be prepared to leave their homes quickly and to avoid unnecessary travel.
A spokesman for the meteorological agency said the storm was a “once in a decade event”.
The typhoon is expected to sweep through northern Japan after making landfall and to pass near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, on the coast 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo, later on Wednesday.
The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Corp, which has been struggling to contain radioactive leaks, said it would cancel all offshore work and it would decide whether to continue work onshore after assessing the weather.
The utility will also take down cranes and secure all cables, hoses and machinery, a company spokesman said.
Considering the absolutely abysmal work Tepco had down in “containing” Fukushima, one can probably best describe what is about to take place as a Radioactivetyphoonado.
Sadly, for the long-suffering Japanese people, for whom between Abenomics and this ongoing disaster there is little to smile about, things may be about to get much wrose.
Typhoon Wipha is the strongest storm to approach eastern Japan since October 2004. That cyclone triggered floods and landslides that killed almost 100 people, forced thousands from their homes and caused billions of dollars in damage.
Four Japanese oil refining companies said they suspended marine berth shipments in eastern Japan as the typhoon approached but there was no impact on refining operations.
The affected facilities are Idemitsu Kosan Co’s Chiba and Aichi refineries, JX Holdings Inc’s Negishi, Kashima and Sendai refineries, Fuji Oil Co’s Sodegaura refinery and Cosmo Oil Co’s Chiba refinery.
Japan Airlines Co cancelled 183 domestic flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly from Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Rival ANA Holdings Inc halted 210 flights in Japan with three international flights also cancelled. The combined cancellations will affect 60,850 passengers, the airlines said.
And yet, the only thing that most will want to know is what happens with Fukushima once the storm flies over it. So for them, and everyone else, we have pulled the folliwng live TEPCO webcam feed showing precisely what is going on at Fukushima (via TEPCO).
This article was posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 4:43 am | <urn:uuid:51449990-2865-45ed-90f1-b5c7f8498166> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prisonplanet.com/radioactivetyphoonado-watch-as-once-in-a-decade-storm-batters-fukushima.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959471 | 818 | 2.5625 | 3 |
From Today In Science History:
On this day in 1797, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) presented a paper on Megalonyx to the American Philosophical Society. It was published as "A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia," Transactions of American Philosophical Society 4:255-256, along with an account by Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). In 1822, this huge extinct sloth was named Megalonyx jeffersoni by a French naturalist.
The species name Megalonyx is derived from the Greek language and refers to the large claw on the third digit of each of the sloths hind feet. It was a bear-sized ground sloth, over 2 meters tall, widespread in North America during the last Ice Age. Image from HERE | <urn:uuid:2653dfb5-13c3-4d85-bb07-476ee531f932> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/thomas-jefferson-on-megaloynx.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947514 | 183 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Your gift will support our patients, our Hemophilia Treatment Center, and our hemophilia research in many valuable, important and most appreciated ways.
Aging patients with hemophilia often develop crippling and deforming joint disease. Often, they suffer from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or hepatitis infections due to transfusions with tainted clotting factor preparations prior to the early 1980s. Therefore, our patients often become unable to work and to support their families. It is our mission to assist our patients with medical care and the basic needs of daily living.
It is also our mission to conduct meaningful research for the aging population with hemophilia, and specifically address areas that require more scientific knowledge to improve patient care, patient longevity and patient outcomes. Such topics include heart disease and hypertension, progressive joint disease and osteoporosis, as well as novel ways to improve clotting and stop bleeding.
In addition, we need to educate the next generation of hemophilia nurses, physical therapists and physicians. Resources to do all those things are urgently required. Your contribution will serve any of those goals, and you may specify your area of interest.
How Your Gift Could Help
See examples of how your gift could be used in each category.
- Transportation of patients to our clinic
- Food vouchers
- Assistance with rent
- Payment of medical or dental bills for those who are uninsured
- Development and initiation of clinical and basic research protocols in heart and joint disease
- Support for a study nurse
- Support for a hemophilia research fellow
- Materials and supplies for basic laboratory research to help develop novel, more effective clotting factor preparations
- Support for hematology fellows, nursing students or young physical therapists
- Curriculum development for physicians in training, to create time to teach
- Stipends to support young health care providers, and to encourage them to enter the field of hemophilia | <urn:uuid:d073f45b-7c46-4c31-a947-6918373ab708> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/hematology/hemophilia/Pages/donations.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00528-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934356 | 395 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Learn how to support students with special needs in regular classrooms and integrated classrooms in Southern New Hampshire University's online degrees in special education. You'll develop knowledge and strategies to help students with special needs and learning challenges grow, develop and reach their true potential. Courses cover topics such as methods of teaching, learning theories, student assessments and individual education plan development.
The MEd online programs are ideal for students seeking initial certification or additional endorsement in the state of New Hampshire. The online degrees in special education or dyslexia studies do not lead to initial licensure. | <urn:uuid:b0dce431-75c2-489b-bf25-7844c9f1e6fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.snhu.edu/online-degrees/special-and-gifted-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931341 | 113 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Back home from a charming and most interesting journey through Thailand, full of a multitude of impressions and unforgettable experiences. On our tour, which led us 2700 km through the country - from Bangkok up to the Golden Triangle and back to the south-eastern coast, to Pattaya- we learned a lot about the country, its rich cultural heritage and its likeable people. We dipped into a different world, where Buddhism has had a formative influence on people's life and culture throughout history. Did not know, that in the kingdom of Thailand, which bore the name Siam until 1939, 95% of all people are Buddhists and from around 40,900 temples in the country, 33,900 are still active! We were deeply impressed by the religiosity of the people, particularly also of the young people, who worship and perform religious rituals at the numerous sacred sites, not only at temples, but also at open air altars. Buddha is omnipresent, just as elephants - alive or as sculptures. As there is no "church tax" in this country, the extremely costly preservation and maintenance of the numerous temples exclusively finances through donations. Also the monks live on donations of the faithful, who thank the monks for accepting their gifts. Temples are the most meaningful sights in Thailand. Many of them are architectonical masterpieces, elaborately decorated and of breathtaking beauty, some UNESCO World Heritage sites.
We saw some of the most important and most beautiful temple complexes from different periods. Other highlights were the Grand Palace at Bangkok, the Golden Triangle, the Floating Markets, the Night Markets, a folklore show and much more. An unforgettable and very special experience was the visit of the Maetaman Elephant Camp, a 45 min. drive away from Chiang Mai city. Located in a lush, green valley at the Maetang River it offers optimal living conditions for the pachyderms. We could watch them bathing before they showed their skills in a show, such as playing football, pulling and piling up logs and so on. But the most exciting thing was, to watch as two of them created amazing paintings at an easel, holding the brushes with their trunks - simply incredible! Of course an elephant ride through the jungle was offered, just as sailing on a float, which we however haven't done, as we knew it from India!
Loved the Asian food and the exotic scenery with palm groves, banana plantations, rice fields, blooming hedges, orchids and the traditional houses on piles with their steep roof pitches, usually built with natural materials, like wood, bamboo and dried leaves. 30 - 35° C every day were a certain challenge, especially during the round trip. However, at the end we found great relaxation at the charming Pathaya Garden Resort. | <urn:uuid:2f29381d-673e-4b51-8896-d8ad1644ff05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sights-and-culture.com/thailand/thailand.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.971911 | 564 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Many people experience tooth decay in permanent teeth. If your tooth has a deep decay, it can become inflamed, infected or unhealthy. If this is not treated, the infection could spread to the surrounding tissue and cause an abscess.
The teeth were more systematically drawn in the past, but today, dentists can help people keep their natural teeth by carrying out a root channel treatment. This procedure processes infection and inflammation. The interior of the tooth will be cleaned and filled, and the outside will be sealed and then capped. You can check out the root canal dentist via https://cedarcreekdentistry.com/root-canal/.
When are root channels needed?
Your dentist will evaluate your symptoms to determine if root therapy will be necessary or not. Tooth ills, discoloration, tenderness and sensitivity are signs indicating that there may be nervous damage.
The processing of the root canal will be adapted to the needs of each patient, according to the health of the discovery, but there are bases for each procedure. Some people have no pain with infected teeth, but an unhealthy tooth still needs treatment.
Once the diagnosis is complete, you will receive a local anesthesia. A rubber dam will be placed around the tooth. This isolates the adjacent teeth and maintains the clean work area. | <urn:uuid:762eb8ce-82c7-4935-ab5d-53df180f1c96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haibanerenmei.com/tag/emergency-dentist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.936116 | 265 | 3.046875 | 3 |
A NATIONAL COHESIVE WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY PHASE II NATIONAL REPORT
By: Wildland Fire Leadership Council
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the Northeast, the Southeast, and the West. The Cohesive Strategy is being built both from the top down and from the bottom up. At the national level, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) — an intergovernmental council of Federal, state, tribal, county, and municipal government officials—is the executive l eadership body that charts the path and direction for the Cohesive Strategy effort and ensures that the work and activities align with the spirit of the Federal Land Assistance and Enhancement Act (FLAME Act) and other key collaborative wildland fire management documents. The WFLC’s fundamental role is to provide st rategic oversight to the regions through efficiency improvements, to fully utilize existing authorities to accomplish the three national goals, and to provide the necessary resources and investments to implement identified current successful regional actions.
Download Full Article | <urn:uuid:29de588d-8eac-404d-ac8e-d29d970ee537> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.privatelandownernetwork.org/article/A-NATIONAL-COHESIVE-WILDLAND-FIRE-MANAGEMENT-STRATEGY-PHASE-II-NATIONAL-REPORT/1718 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88517 | 252 | 2.25 | 2 |
Bunions are deformities of the feet that don’t go away on their own—in fact, they usually worsen without treatment. They change the way you walk and how your feet fit inside of your shoes. Get help from a podiatrist at Advanced Foot Care Center in Ridgefield, CT, so that you can have your bunions treated and get your feet back to their proper alignment.
How Bunions Form
In its normal state, the inside of your foot is relatively straight from the top of the toe to the heel. When you have a bunion, there is a large lump at the base of the toe called hallux valgus that looks like an unnatural growth. But it’s not a growth—it's the toe joint pushing outward, causing the toe to move inward. This is usually caused by wearing shoes that squeeze the toes together, like pointed high heels or restrictive dress shoes. Bunions are common in athletes and people who work on their feet for most of the day. Some patients have a family history of bunions and joint weakness.
Dealing with Bunions
Living with bunions is a challenge because of how they look and how they make your feet feel when you’re wearing shoes. They also affect the way you walk, because you may be trying to compensate for the pain. If you continue to maintain the same habits that caused the bunions to form, they will continue to get worse. Your best bet is to consult with a Ridgefield podiatrist so that you can get X-rays and talk about solutions.
Your bunions may be treatable. Non-surgical methods include realigning the foot by taping it or creating a custom orthotic device. Placing padding between the toes can also retrain them into the right position, and also reduce pain. Depending on the severity of the bunion, you may need to wear an orthopedic shoe until it heals. To help with pain your podiatrist may administer a corticosteroid injection or prescribe anti-inflammatory medication. Surgery, also called a bunionectomy, will repair and realign the joint.
Your Podiatrist Can Help
Some people look at their unsightly, painful bunions and assume that this foot condition is irreversible. But there may be treatments that can help you. Call (203) 431-0048 today to schedule a consultation with Dr. Allan Rosenthal at Advanced Foot Care Center in Ridgefield, CT. | <urn:uuid:6b62a6cc-9bbe-4970-a7ed-356257e28c86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allanrosenthaldpm.com/blog/403763-are-you-dealing-with-bunions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.952789 | 510 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Learn about this topic in these articles:
discussed in biography
...Schelling, and made the acquaintance of many of the leading writers of the time, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He became a first-rate scholar and published a little book of poems, Ghaselen (1821; “Ghazals”), in which he imitated the style of his friend Friedrich Rückert. This was soon followed by other volumes. | <urn:uuid:4736ec18-9c16-4b34-96b2-1880341f9267> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ghaselen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977081 | 94 | 2.71875 | 3 |
In the first part of this interview, Barbara Rubin, a theater director as well as a dialect and vocal coach, offers insights and tips for introverts about finding their true voice and using it with power and presence. In this second part, she shares more about physical techniques you can use to enhance your speaking voice and manage performance jitters.
NA: Many introverts need to quietly collect their thoughts before sharing them, which can be stressful in work environments that value more talk sooner, rather than more thoughtful talk a little later. What vocal and even theatrical techniques do you recommend to help navigate that stress?
BR: As an introvert myself, I can strongly relate to that! For me, the key has always been solid methodical preparation, becoming and staying centered throughout the experience (meeting/presentation) and re-connecting with my breath and intention when I feel thrown.
Theatrically, rehearsal (répétition in French), is methodical preparation, its frequency creating a type of muscle memory that should kick in without too much conscious effort. Warm-up exercises—simple deep breathing and physical stretches before a performance—provide a space for calming and focusing the mind on the task at hand.
Make your intention the best possible outcome. Or it could be what you hope to communicate or achieve. Your purpose. A quick reflection in the heat of the moment on how you can best serve your intention while allowing your breath to deepen can be effective in remaining centered and grounded. So even if you are required to respond sooner than you'd like, you’ll have a few seconds to process beforehand.
NA: How much of your work with clients involves physical exercises to help them improve their speaking voices, versus other methods?
BR:Most of what I do is physical. Peter Brook, the great English theater director, believes “one must enter the cave of the body to find the root of the voice.” I am guided by that in all the work I do. As babies, we have no concept of sound being produced in the larynx. It’s a full-body experience, making sound. We need to return to that notion.
NA: Why is breathing effectively so important when it comes to speaking effectively?
BR: Breath powers the voice. When you speak without breath you can do some damage. There is a current trend right now, known as vocal fry, in which young women speak without breath. It’s supposedly cool. The Today Show ran a feature on the topic. The Huffington Post ran a story recently on how employers are turned off hiring these young women.
NA: What does good posture have to do with bringing out the best in your voice? Can’t you mumble in a monotone, even when balancing a book on your head?
BR: You probably could! An estimated 7.5 million people have trouble using their voices, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Improper alignment is said to be the number one cause of vocal misuse. Your posture impacts your breathing so you want to breathe as fully and freely as possible.
If you lock your knees, your breath capacity is limited. If you push your chest out too high, you close off your back ribs, again restricting the breath. Head thrusts may create unnecessary laryngeal tension and impair vocal-fold function. Think of a long spine, and your head floating up; lengthen the back of your neck and allow your jaw to release. The crown of your head should be the highest point of your dynamic neutral stance.
NA:We recently had a good laugh when we compared notes about how nervousness can affect our speech: your little girl voice and my kindergarten teacher voice—in contrast to our usual lovely contraltos! Would you comment on how adrenaline affects speech?
BR: When we are fearful, stressed or are in actual danger, adrenaline is released in the body, enabling us to quickly engage in a fight or flight response. The heart races and we tend to hold our breath, which locks us up. Our tempo may speed up as we experience a time distortion. Some people experience a quivering voice.
On the positive side, if you can breathe into the fear, you may experience vocal expansion and discover more range and power than you’re used to. It’s when I’m not breathing that the little girl voice comes out—and I am always shocked to hear it. Although, the good news for both of us is that we may also be experiencing tunnel hearing and so what we sound like in our heads may not be, in fact, what the listener is hearing!
NA: I understand that the three circles of presence that renowned vocal and acting coach Patsy Rodenburg describes in her books have had a strong influence on your work in teaching voice. Tell me about that.
BR:Yes, her work resonates with me enormously. She looks at how we often operate in one of three circles. The first circle is associated with introspection or retreat from the world around us. On the other end of the spectrum, the third circle is a type of bluff in which one appears overly confident, but it’s an aspect of the first circle—a coping mechanism, if you will, to overcome inadequacy. True second-circle presence is our natural state, Rodenburg believes: energized, curious, and interested in the world around us, receptive to it, seeking engagement.
I use the circles to understand and explain energy, both physical and vocal, when I work with actors and corporate clients. Often, people are not aware of what they put out or of how to harness their energy and power. Rodenburg’s books are essential reading for anyone interested in voice.
NA: Thank you for sharing your expertise with us again.
© Copyright 2014 Nancy Ancowitz | <urn:uuid:80f5d6d0-885d-426d-ba99-431df28b2b63> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/self-promotion-introverts/201407/vocal-prowess-introverts-part-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950057 | 1,209 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Some People say you should always marry for love; others say that in an uncertain world it is wiser to marry for money. Discuss both points of view and give your own opinion.
Sample Answer of Some Say You Should Always Marry for Love
In the 21st century, where the world is being on a wild goose chase, martial relationships have seen a side of transformation. Half of society possesses the instincts that love is mandatory for a long-lasting relationship. However, the other half opines, due to the predominant prevalence of uncertainty, the financial background has to be taken into account to get married. Given the above statements, My opinions along with supportive examples are being elucidated below.
In the pre-urban era, the legal joining of two people was based on the ideology of adjustments. For instance, the alliance making would occur on a semi-formal basis. Consequently, couples used to tie the knot. Irrespective of their misunderstanding, people used to stay intact. This concept personified that love is universal and keeps people co-joined. Hence people eventually believed that if an attachment will be based on affection and not on infatuation the marriage life would be a bed of roses.
On the contrary, in the modernized era, owing to the gradual increase of awareness, match-making remodeled into an asset hunt. To quote, people who wanted to get married firstly, pondered about future security, which can be established through sufficient funds. For example, nowadays, because of the alarmingly rising divorce rate, people started to think that money overweighs love if survival has to go uninterrupted.
In the final analysis, I would like to conclude by clarifying that, although affection is imperative in a bond, wealth also withholds a pivotal role. An amalgamation of money with care would be a platform for a perfect marriage. | <urn:uuid:ab427afb-1986-4f2c-978c-3af0c4444b5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ielts-fever.com/some-say-you-should-always-marry-for-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.955542 | 394 | 1.71875 | 2 |
China, long a bystander to the conflict in Afghanistan, is stepping up its involvement as US-led forces prepare to withdraw, attracted by the country’s vast mineral resources, but concerned that any post-2014 chaos could embolden Islamist insurgents in its own territory.
Cheered on by the US and other Western governments, which see Asia’s giant as a potentially stabilizing force, China could prove the ultimate winner in Afghanistan — having shed no blood and not much aid.
Security — or the lack of it — remains the key challenge: Chinese enterprises have already bagged three multibillion-dollar investment projects, but they will not be able to go forward unless conditions get safer. While the Chinese do not appear ready to rush into any vacuum left by the withdrawal of foreign troops, a definite shift toward a more hands-on approach to Afghanistan is under way.
Beijing signed a strategic partnership last summer with the war-torn country. This was followed in September with a trip to Kabul by its top security official, the first by a leading Chinese government figure in 46 years, and the announcement that China would train 300 Afghan police officers. China is also showing signs of willingness to help negotiate a peace agreement as NATO prepares to pull out in two years.
It is a new role for China, as its growing economic might gives it a bigger stake in global affairs. Success, though far from guaranteed, could mean a big payoff for a country hungry for resources to sustain its economic growth and eager to maintain stability in Xinjiang.
“If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary,” says Andrew Small, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund of the US research institute. “If you look across Central Asia, that is what has already happened ... China is the only actor who can foot the level of investment needed in Afghanistan to make it succeed and stick it out.”
Over the past decade, China’s trade has boomed with Afghanistan’s resource-rich neighbors in Central Asia. For Turkmenistan, China trade reached 21 percent of GDP in 2011, up from 1 percent five years earlier, according to an Associated Press analysis of IMF data. The equivalent figure for Tajikistan is 32 percent of GDP, versus 12 percent in 2006. China’s trade with Afghanistan stood at a modest 1.3 percent of GDP in 2011.
Eyeing Afghanistan’s estimated US$1 trillion worth of unexploited minerals, Chinese companies have acquired rights to extract vast quantities of copper and coal and snapped up the first oil exploration concessions granted to foreigners in decades. China is also eyeing extensive deposits of lithium, uses of which range from batteries to nuclear components.
The Chinese are also showing interest in investing in hydropower, agriculture and construction. Preliminary talks have been held about a direct road link to China across the remote 76km border between the two countries, according to Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry.
Wang Lian (王聯), a Central Asia expert at Beijing University, said that superpowers have historically been involved in Afghanistan because it is an Asian crossroads — and China would be no exception.
“It’s unquestionable that China bears the responsibility to participate in the political and economic reconstruction of Afghanistan,” he says. “A stable Afghanistan is of vital importance to [China]. China can’t afford to stand aside following the US troop withdrawal and in the process of political transition.”
A stable Afghanistan, Wang says, is vital to the security of Xinjiang, China’s far west where Islamic militants are seeking independence. Some have gained sanctuary and training in Pakistan and along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Beijing fears chaos, or victory by the Taliban, would allow these groups greater leeway.
The US is encouraging Beijing to boost its investment and aid in Afghanistan and backs its participation in various peace-seeking initiatives, including a Pakistan-Afghanistan-China forum that met last month for the second time.
Davood Moradian, who heads the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies in Kabul, says the Chinese are treading carefully, realizing they lack expertise in a complex political landscape that has tripped up other great powers.
“The Chinese are ambiguous. They don’t want the Taliban to return to power and are concerned about a vacuum after 2014 that the Taliban could fill, but they also don’t like having US troops in their neighborhood,” he says.
Though China does not want a Taliban takeover, Beijing regards the group as a “legitimate political force,” Small says. Beijing was on its way to recognizing the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that led to the invasion of Afghanistan.
The Afghan government has backed off from earlier criticism that the Chinese were not contributing their share to security and reconstruction of the country. | <urn:uuid:7c27ec0e-3342-4ad0-885e-bb06787b046e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/print/2013/01/27/2003553563 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955915 | 1,027 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The financial conglomerates directive gives national financial authorities in the EU additional responsibilities and tools to supervise financial conglomerates. While specific banking and insurance regulations are already applicable to the banking activities of financial conglomerates, this directive requires supervisors to apply supplementary supervision to financial groups in order to reduce the risks inherent in their activities.
Following the financial crisis, the directive was amended in 2011 to give national financial supervisors new powers to oversee the conglomerates' parent entities, such as holding companies. This allows banking, insurance and supplementary supervision to happen at the same time, thereby closing loopholes identified during the crisis.
As part of a larger effort to improve EU regulation, the European Commission is currently evaluating whether the directive is fit for purpose, and whether it is delivering on its objective to identify and manage group risks. | <urn:uuid:86ce2373-a371-492b-ab73-968cd3c6d527> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-finance/financial-supervision-and-risk-management/supplementary-supervision-financial-conglomerates_en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.936464 | 160 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Latent demand for stop-start engine technology?
May 5, 2008 UK-based car supermarket group Motorpoint sells cars into every postcode in the UK each year and relies heavily on surveys to watch for coming trends in order to continue to meet public motoring needs. The latest informational gem to be released by the group is that a recent survey shows that 75% of UK drivers say they would buy a car that automatically cuts and restarts the engine in traffic – this is notable because the technology is straightforward and readily available to any auto manufacturer but suffers from restricted availability.
Stop-start engine technology offers up to 8% less fuel consumption in urban driving conditions and fuel savings was the top reason for the demand voiced in the Motorpoint survey.
In practice, the technology – essentially a beefed up starter motor and enhanced engine electronics – stops the engine when the driver comes to a halt and takes the car out of gear. Pressing the clutch automatically restarts the car.
Only Citroen, BMW and Mini (aka BMW) offer stop-start on non-hybrid vehicles at present but most manufacturers are expected to introduce stop-start, on both manuals and automatics, over the next few years - either across the range or on designated ‘green’ models.
Motorpoint operations director Paul Winfield said: “In these days of increasing fuel prices and demands for lower CO2 emissions, its surprising that this tried and tested technology isn’t already more widespread. | <urn:uuid:7ae72d05-8606-4141-a000-2a9b1828dcf8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newatlas.com/latent-demand-for-stop-start-engine-technology/9269/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.9334 | 303 | 1.78125 | 2 |
An investment app has launched to allow savers to trade for free in firms that match their lifestyles, interests and beliefs.
Wombat Invest, which is available on both iOS and Android devices, allows investors to choose from up to 15 carefully curated theme-based portfolios that appeal to a wide range of interests.
● Social Media Guru: for people who spend their days worrying about Instagram filters and staying within the 280-character limit on Twitter. The brands in this fund continue to find new and fun ways to connect us to the world and the things we love.
● The Robo: aimed at those who are interested in the rise of the robot and how it continues to improve the way we live and work. The companies in this fund are pushing robotics, artificial intelligence and machine-learning to a whole new level.
● The British Bulldog: iconic raincoats, medical breakthroughs, on-demand entertainment, and cutting-edge telecoms all form part of this fund, which celebrates British firms. The brands it invests in are among the top 100 UK companies.
● The Groodies: designed with the environmentally conscious in mind, this fund backs some of the leading green companies from around the world that produce energy from solar, wind, and other renewable sources.
Wombat Invest allows budding investors to trade for free up to £1,000, making it by far the most accessible route into investing currently on offer.
Once an investor’s portfolio reaches £1,000, they are charged just £1 a month plus a highly-competitive platform fee of 0.45% a year.
Investors can choose to auto-invest a certain amount each month and can tell the app to round up their spare change and invest it regularly.
London-based fintech start-up Wombat has attracted lots of interest from backers since launching in 2017, attracting more than £260,000 from more than 500 crowdfunders.
Kane Harrison, co-founder and chief executive at Wombat, said: “If you’re new to investing, it can be nearly impossible to know where to start. The pinstriped suits in the City have spent decades trying to make investing as difficult to understand as possible. But in truth, it needn’t be that difficult, even if you’ve never done it before.
“At Wombat, we strongly believe that the best way to approach investing is to back companies that you know, love and can identify with. By putting together a wide-range of portfolios that should suit nearly every lifestyle, set of beliefs and interests, we believe we have handed power back to a new generation of investors.”
Wombat was created with the six million people in the UK who thought about investing last year – but didn’t – in mind.
Its founders believe that it’s currently way too complex to invest – traditional methods of investing can seem complicated, time consuming, expensive, and are often off putting for new investors.
With Wombat, investing is free for accounts valued under £1,000. Users can build a portfolio containing themed funds and automated or one-off deposits. Savers can round up their spare change and watch their savings grow. | <urn:uuid:ce9fb29a-f2e3-4539-9ce0-fa6b668eb490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mouthymoney.co.uk/saving/new-theme-based-app-allows-users-to-trade-for-free/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.953405 | 667 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Answer : Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3
Diabetes: Beyond the Basics
Because diabetes can cause devastating damage to virtually all body systems, people with diabetes should not underrate the seriousness of their disease. Learning to live with a chronic illness such as diabetes must be an ongoing process.
The Hospital's Center for Family Life Education is sponsoring a five-part educational series on diabetes. The series will begin on April 30 and continue through May 29. The program will be held in the second floor classroom of the Education Center from 7-9 p.m.
The diabetes series is free and open to the public and will be of specific interest to people who have diabetes and their families and friends.Back to Questions | <urn:uuid:5b69fbd7-5ecc-422a-a42c-ddc8b44dcf59> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/2/10/28/answer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938105 | 146 | 2.875 | 3 |
Provides the reader with a review of Bible history and examines the role of archaeology in understanding the biblical text. This book is illustrated with photographs, charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations of sites. It presents the societies and events of the Ancient Near East and shows how they affect our understanding of the Bible.
- Limba : Engleza
- Data Publicarii : 01 Feb 2008
- Format : Hardback
- Numar pagini : 160
- ISBN : 9780745952260 | <urn:uuid:f2b3af48-7639-499e-bea8-b7cb3104b3ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.okian.ro/archaeology-of-the-bible-9780745952260.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00215-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.737898 | 104 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Max Pedley gives his advice to a reader who is having issues getting his fish to spawn.
Q) I have a pair of Kribs in a 90x38x38cm community tank alongside some Harlequins, Platies and Cardinals. They have been in the tank for around a month and settled in very well. The female keeps displaying to the male; she colours right up and does a little wiggle dance but he just doesn’t seem to be interested. I’ve tried feeding live foods to see if that helps to get him in the mood but no success so far. Any tips at all please? The temperature is at 25-26°C and the pH is 7.2. They have a little hollowed out coconut shell.
DAVE LOWE, VIA EMAIL
A) MAX PEDLEY SAYS: The tank is a little busy for the breeding of dwarf cichlids, however Kribs are pretty resilient and will usually look past this factor. In terms of your water parameters, the temperature is ideal, but the pH is a little high. Although a pH slightly above neutral shouldn’t cause any major problems for kribs, it could result in a smaller spawn or lower ovum viability.
Continue with the live foods, although I would avoid frequent feeds of higher protein food choices such as bloodworm because Pelvicachromis spp. seem to digest low energy foods more effectively than high energy foods. With that in mind, try Daphnia and Artemia, both of which are excellent ‘go-to’ live foods.
In terms of spawning sites, it wouldn’t hurt to add a few more, just to give your fish some choices. Finally, partner selection may be the issue. Fish can be confusing and it is often the case that two fish are simply not compatible.
If these were my fish, I’d continue as you are, make sure water quality is kept to a high standard and wait it out.
Patience truly is a virtue when it comes to breeding fish and the female is obviously ready. A colourful and ripe female Kribensis. | <urn:uuid:10f26e39-fb33-47d5-be40-d09c10fa1274> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/fishkeeping-answers/why-havent-my-fish-spawned/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.972492 | 447 | 1.710938 | 2 |
One-step immunochromatographic test for the detection of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Igs in serum.
One-step immunochromatographic test for the detection of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Igs in whole blood.
Chagas disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi which is transmitted to humans mostly through the bite of the vector Triatoma sp. The disease is distributed from southern South America to northern Mexico. It is estimated that as many as 12 million people are infected, mainly in rural areas.
T. cruzi is potentially infective to most mammal cells and it is highly pleomorphic, presenting with various forms throughout its lifecycle. Humans can become infected following insect’s bite and through the feces contaminated with trypomastigotes, infective form of T. cruzi, or through contamination of mucosa, conjunctiva or wounds
Fill the form and we will get in contact with you as soon as possible. Select your area or product of interest and we will be delighted to send you a personalized reply.REQUEST MORE INFORMATION | <urn:uuid:d7ac4554-326d-4d73-ab4d-0a1e0ca818b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.operon.es/products/chagas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910725 | 245 | 2.34375 | 2 |
M.D. in Siddha Sirappu MarutthuvamThe Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Price on request
M.D. in Siddha Sirappu Marutthuvam
The college offers number of courses, one of the course is M.D. in Siddha Sirappu Marutthuvam.
The course offer by the Department of Siddha.Siddha system originated in Tamilnadu, the most ancient among the AYUSH (Ayurvedha, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) systems. Siddha system has the rich cultural heritage and health traditions. Siddhars, the forefathers of the Siddha system, transferred their rich knowledge to the suffering mankind through their disciples.Panchabooptham (Earth, Water, Fire, Air &Space) ,Mukkuttram (Vatha, Pitha kabha)and Arusuvaigal(Sweet,Bitter,Sour,Astringent,Salt&Pungent) are the basic principles of Siddha philosophy. The derangement in any of the Mukkuttram leads to diseases. The treatment is based on the correction of the vitiated Mukkuttram. Initially the system was taught through Gurukula method. They recorded their works in palm leaf manuscripts. From 1964 onwards the Siddha system evaluated as institution based medical degree. | <urn:uuid:1864f510-267e-4ef6-a4f7-fa2daec9fd46> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.emagister.in/m_d_siddha_sirappu_marutthuvam_courses-ec2697606.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00224-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912548 | 307 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Each day we are going to highlight one of the amazing research projects seeking funding in Round 4 of the #Scifund Challenge. Today we get to speak with Laura Deighan as she speaks about how fisheries can be more ecologically sustainable. She also was the first project fully funded in this round, so just sit back and enjoy a good conversation!
Tell us about yourself, where you are from, and where you see yourself going.
I have lived in Delaware, Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, and Washington – never too far from an ocean! I did my Bachelor’s at Florida Institute of Technology in marine biology. After graduating, I worked for a few years as an aquarist, taking care of fish, turtles, and invertebrates at an aquarium while I figured out what my next step was. I have always loved biology and science, but I believe that science is most meaningful when it is shared. Improving the state of our oceans requires the cooperation of people from many different roles – scientists, policy makers, the media, industries working on and in the ocean, consumers, etc. For this reason, I decided to pursue an interdisciplinary Master’s in Marine Affairs to add knowledge of social science to my biology background.
After graduating, I hope to work on the issues plaguing our oceans at a job that integrates science and policy in a way that is accessible to policy makers, industry, and/or the general public. Ideally, this would involve working on issues of sustainability within the seafood industry.
How did you get involved in your research project?
I started interning with FishWise, a non-profit working in sustainable seafood consulting, over the summer. In that role, I research and report on different fishery improvement projects (FIPs) that industry partners are involved in, which helps those companies evaluate and report on their participation in those FIPs. When I started out I didn’t even know what a FIP was! They are a pretty new tool just starting to gain traction in the realm of seafood sustainability, so little research has touched on their use. I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on while working on my Master’s and chose it as my thesis topic.
Why is your research important to you? Why should others fund it?
I am really excited about the idea of FIPs. I am a big proponent of collaborative solutions to sustainability that involve industry. The people in the industry are the ones on the water doing the work and potentially impacting the environment, plus they have a wealth of knowledge that you don’t get from research. FIPs utilize this approach because the process is meant to be stakeholder driven and collaborative. If FIPs are going to be a viable option, we really need to understand them better- if they work, how they work, and why they work. My research is taking a small step toward this understanding, focusing on how they work.
Why did you decide to participate in the SciFund Challenge?
I knew participating in SciFund would push me to communicate more about my research. I know that there are people out there that care about sustainability in the oceans, and I want to help inform that audience. However, as a graduate student, life can be pretty busy, so it is nice to have the extra push to share my research.
What was the most difficult aspect of building your SciFund Proposal? What was your favorite?
It was difficult for me to figure out how to best present and talk about my topic in an accessible way. Not because I didn’t think people would get it, but because after being in a specific field for so long you start to lose touch with reality. Being in school, you are constantly surrounded by people talking about similar topics and using the same terminology as you, and you start to think everyone talks about those things. With all the terminology that comes with FIPs, it was difficult to know how to translate that.
At the same time, that may have also been my favorite aspect. It was exciting to think about how I could share the information with people that may not already be familiar with the topic and how to do so. I learned a lot from it.
Tell us something random. Something funny. Something borrowed. Something blue.
I am a huge marine turtle and iguana fanatic. I feel the same way about them as Kristen Bell feels about sloths and how that kid in Despicable Me feels about stuffed unicorns, minus the fluffy part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt6FPKyQamk).
I don’t eat seafood. I never really liked the taste and found out I was allergic to shellfish while prepping it as food for aquarium animals, but sometimes feel a little self-conscious about this. I got into this field because I am passionate about marine life and find the fishing and seafood industries fascinating.
You can read more about Laura’s research here. | <urn:uuid:aa1abf9a-03a3-499a-bd6d-79b5af3ef93e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://scifundchallenge.org/2014/02/27/scifund-challenge-round-4-with-laura-deighan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00534-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972778 | 1,029 | 1.90625 | 2 |
nucleotides; mono-, di-, and triphosphate esters of adenosine containing adenine, the carbohydrate ribose, and one (AMP), two (ADP), or three (ATP) phosphoric acid residues. Adenosinephosphoric acids occur in all organisms (from microbes and plants to man) and play a most important part in metabolism and energy metabolism, since the addition of phosphate groups to AMP is accompanied by accumulation of energy (ADP and ATP are energy-rich compounds), while their dissociation is accompanied by release of energy, which is used for various vital processes. In the cells, there is continuous interconversion of ATP, ADP, and AMP. Adenosinemonophosphoric acid (AMP, adenylic acid) has one phosphoric acid residue. Its molecular weight is 347.23. Depending on the point of attachment of the phosphoric acid residue to the ribose, 5’-AMP (“muscle” AMP), 3’-AMP (“yeast” AMP), and 2’-AMP are distinguished. AMP is a component of the nucleic acids and enters into the composition of many enzymes. The main derivatives of AMP are cyclic AMP, which activates the enzyme phosphorylase, and ATP. Adenosinediphosphoric acid (ADP) has two phosphoric acid residues. Its molecular weight is 427.22. ADP is formed from ATP by the enzymatic cleavage of a phosphoric acid residue. It plays an important part in energy metabolism and oxidative phosphorylation. Adenosinetriphosphoric acid (ATP, adenylpyrophos-phoric acid) has three phosphoric acid residues. Its molecular weight is 507.21. It is a substrate for the biosynthesis of nucleic acids. One or two terminal phosphate groups easily split off from the ATP under the influence of adenosine-triphosphatase enzymes; ADP or AMP is formed and energy is released (30–40 kilojoules, or 7–10 kilocalories per phosphate group). The addition of phosphoric acid residues to AMP and ADP is accompanied by energy storage in the ATP formed. During the transfer of the readily split-off high energy-rich (macroergic) phosphate groups from the ATP to other substances, this energy is transmitted to the latter or expended for muscular contraction, neural excitation, glandular secretion, the biosynthesis of proteins and other substances, and so on. Resynthesis of ATP occurs during oxidative or photosynthetic phosphorylation, or phosphorylation coupled with glycolysis, or is connected with other high-energy processes.
Solutions of the disodium and monocalcium salts of adenosine triphosphoic acid are injected for therapeutic purposes in cases of muscular dystrophy and spasms of the cardiac and peripheral blood vessels. ATP preparations are contraindicated in cases of recent myocardial infarctions and inflammatory pulmonary diseases.
REFERENCESIvanov, I. I., and V. A. Iur’ev. Biokhimiia i patobiokhimiia myshts. Leningrad, 1961.
Zbarskii, B. I., I. I. Ivanov, and S. R. Mardashev. Biologich. khimiia, 4th ed. Leningrad, 1965.
Lehninger, A. Mitokhondriia. Moscow, 1966. (Translated from English.)
Racker, E. Bioenergetich. mekhanizmy. Moscow, 1967. (Translated from English.)
I. B. ZBARSKII | <urn:uuid:ca947bd7-6136-4f2e-9cb6-e7333c9ad844> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Adenosinephosphoric+Acids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889897 | 788 | 3.359375 | 3 |
As the power density of advanced engines increases, the need for new materials that are capable of higher operating temperatures, such as ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), is critical for turbine hot-section static and rotating components. Such advanced materials have demonstrated the promise to significantly increase the engine temperature capability relative to conventional super alloy metallic blades. They also show the potential to enable longer life, reduced emissions, growth margin, reduced weight and increased performance relative to super alloy blade materials. MR&D is proposing to perform a combined analytical and experimental program to develop a durability model for CMC Environmental Barrier Coatings (EBC). EBCs are required for CMCs in turbine exhaust environments because of the presence of high temperature water. The EBC protects the CMC and significantly slows recession. However, the durability of these materials is not well understood making life prediction very challenging. This program will be the first step in developing a tool to accurately evaluate the life of the EBC for a CMC turbine blade helping to facilitate their inclusion in future engine designs. This will be done by developing a custom, user defined element formulation for finite element modeling to simulate the kinetic reactions of the EBC with the turbine exhaust. It will be built on the back of earlier work developing such an element to model the oxidation of carbon fiber in reentry environments. | <urn:uuid:a8265e6e-aefa-4198-96da-c8530bf66a2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techport.nasa.gov/view/33359 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.922174 | 271 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) have been reported to associate with an increased risk for thrombosis. Distinct to the brain aneurysm, which can cause a rupture, CAA's threat is more about its potential to induce thrombosis, leading to myocardial infarction. Case reports suggest that thrombosis risk varied with the different CAA diameters and hemodynamics effects (usually wall shear stress (WSS), oscillatory shear index (OSI), and relative residence time (RRT)) may relate to the thrombosis risk. However, currently, due to the rareness of the disease, there is limited knowledge of the hemodynamics effects of CAA. The aim of the study was to estimate the relationship between hemodynamic effects and different diameters of CAAs. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides a noninvasive means of hemodynamic research. Four three-dimensional models were constructed, representing coronary arteries with a normal diameter (1x) and CAAs with diameters two (2x), three (3x), and five times (5x) that of the normal diameter. A lumped parameter model (LPM) which can capture the feature of coronary blood flow supplied the boundary conditions. WSS in the aneurysm decreased 97.7% apparently from 3.51 Pa (1x) to 0.08 Pa (5x). OSI and RRT in the aneurysm were increased apparently by two orders of magnitude from 0.01 (1x) to 0.30 (5x), and from 0.38 Pa-1 (1x) to 51.59 Pa-1 (5x), separately. Changes in the local volume of the CAA resulted in dramatic changes in local hemodynamic parameters. The findings demonstrated that thrombosis risk increased with increasing diameter and was strongly exacerbated at larger diameters of CAA. The 2x model exhibited the lowest thrombosis risk among the models, suggesting the low-damage (medication) treatment may work. High-damage (surgery) treatment may need to be considered when CAA diameter is 3 times or higher. This diameter classification method may be a good example for constructing a more complex hemodynamic-based risk stratification method and could support clinical decision-making in the assessment of CAA.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- コンピュータ サイエンス（全般） | <urn:uuid:262326ff-85f8-40b4-bbde-24676d3b67f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tohoku.pure.elsevier.com/ja/publications/hemodynamic-based-evaluation-on-thrombosis-risk-of-fusiform-coron | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.930138 | 533 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The Triumph of Plunder
- Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal
Yale, 198 pp, £8.99, September 2004, ISBN 0 300 10592 4
American conservatives are fond of jeremiads. Everywhere they look, they see flabby morals and flagging virtue. Children? We used to punish them for whispering in class, now they come to school with guns. Families? No one wants to get married any more, except the gays. Government? Never so bloated and corrupt. Our allies? Never so pusillanimous or venal. It’s quite a trick to seize power in every corner of American politics – as conservatives have in the past decade – only to announce loudly that things were never worse.
Gore Vidal aims to steal the form away from the right. Inventing a Nation borrows its essential narrative from Benjamin Franklin’s dark benediction over the newly written constitution. That, too, was a parlous moment for American liberty. Eleven years after breaking with England, the United States seemed destined for chaos. Each cantankerous state governed itself and squabbled with its neighbours. In 1787, their panicky leaders gathered in Philadelphia to try to patch the nation together. After wrangling all summer – big states v. small, slave states v. free, aristocrats v. republicans – they hammered out their document. As the delegates lined up to sign, the 81-year-old Franklin offered this ambiguous blessing:
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
And that, Vidal says, was Franklin’s last and greatest prophecy. ‘Two centuries and 16 years later, Franklin’s blunt dark prophecy has come true: popular corruption has indeed given birth to that despotic government which he foresaw as inevitable at our birth.’ Vidal surveys the familiar details: a conservative clique brazenly steals an election; the Supreme Court tosses aside the ballots and ‘throws a bright spotlight on just how undemocratic our republic has become’; corporations like Enron plunder both their investors and their employees. And, most ominously, the despotic regime tightens its grip by fostering a permanent state of war. The American republic becomes, as Franklin predicted, an American empire.
Worse, Franklin’s prophecy no longer stirs even a vague popular memory. Vidal rummages through his bookshelf, plucks out Esmond Wright’s Benjamin Franklin: His Life as He Wrote It, and finds the prophecy snipped out of the third edition. Again, he reaches for ‘the best of America’s high school history books’, The American Pageant, and finds its authors complaining that Franklin had become so ‘indiscreetly talkative’ that his colleagues hired chaperones to trail him and stop him spilling the Constitutional Convention’s secrets. ‘The wise, eerily prescient voice of the authentic Franklin’, Vidal comments, is now recast as ‘the jolly, fat ventriloquist of common lore’.
His treatment of the founders flouts one rule of the jeremiad: for Vidal there never was a golden age – quite the contrary – and he rudely exposes the clay feet hidden beneath those Federalist chairs. The glorious past is thick with knaves and fools, and that knavery and foolishness would eventually corrupt the republic: ‘What will be the old age of the government if it is thus early decrepit!’ the French ambassador Joseph Fauchet sniffed in 1792. The ‘whole nation’ is ‘a stock-jobbing, speculating, selfish people. Riches alone here fix consideration.’ Those early American foibles – cash, class and corruption – are at the heart of our present troubles.
The most sustained theme of Inventing a Nation might be tagged as tales of avarice. Even the ‘protocolossus’ George Washington shambles onto Vidal’s stage ‘seriously broke’ and grumbling about money. Most accounts point up that he was elected to almost everything (commander of the army, chair of the Constitutional Convention, president of the nation), and gave the rude young republic some dignity: Washington calculated every action by how it might touch his (and, by extension, his nation’s) reputation. As president, for example, he received visitors in afternoon levees, at which he formally greeted dignitaries, arrayed in a semi-circle around him, one at a time; during the reception, the president guided his countrymen away from the gauche temptation to shake his hand by holding his hat in one hand while resting the other on the hilt of his sword.
The full text of this book review is only available to subscribers of the London Review of Books. | <urn:uuid:13e7919b-5583-4de4-b665-6e39e396446c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n18/james-morone/the-triumph-of-plunder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950584 | 1,112 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Lindisfarne Gospels, an Anglo-Saxon manuscript of the four Gospels, will be on display in the Laing Gallery in Newcastle in 2022, on loan from the British Library in London.
The manuscript will feature in an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle and have a supporting exhibition at the Newcastle City Library. It will be twenty years since the Gospels were last in Newcastle; venues across the North East will celebrate this event with activities for school and community groups, as well as an artist commission to reimagine the Gospels for a modern audience.
As a manuscript written on Holy Island in the early eighth century, the Lindisfarne Gospels have a close connection to the North East and its rich cultural heritage. Councillor Simon Henig, the Co-Chair of the North East Culture Partnership, says this means the exhibition will have a special resonance in the North East as “the Lindisfarne Gospels is many things to many people but, first and foremost it is a book created in the North and of the North, by the community of Lindisfarne”.
The 2022 exhibition will have a focus on regional pride, and also explore more widely what the Lindisfarne Gospels mean to modern day life. Experts from the British Library, academics from the North East and exhibition curators will work together to stimulate interest in collective human history, searching for identity, creativity, learning and sense of place.
Roly Keating, the Chief Executive of the British Library, said: “The manuscript includes the earliest surviving example of the Gospels in English and is one of the great national and indeed international treasures in our care, renowned for the intricacy and beauty of its decoration.”
The manuscript was previously on display at Durham University in 2013, in an exhibition which attracted nearly 100,000 national and international visitors.
Image: Anonymous on Wikimedia Commons
*Clarification: this article was updated to state that the Lindisfarne Gospels will only be on display at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle. It previously said that the Lindinsfarne Gospels would be displayed at ‘several locations across the North East.’ | <urn:uuid:b32d01fd-ea3b-4df1-94fa-76b8210585f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.palatinate.org.uk/the-lindisfarne-gospels-to-go-on-display-in-the-north-east/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.945482 | 451 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Most every organization today, regardless of size or the industry in which they operate, understands the value of corporate training and employee development to help ensure the ongoing growth and competitiveness of the company. Unfortunately, developing and delivering the right content at the right time presents a significant challenge, especially for smaller and resource-strained organizations. Given this, “content curation” has become a significant buzzword in the corporate learning and development (L&D) arena, as these teams seek new avenues for delivering timely and informative content and courses.
What is Content Curation?
In corporate training, content curation refers to activities for with finding the relevant learning and training information for delivery to defined target audience. The strategy includes the process of organizing and contextualizing the content before delivering it as part of the corporate learning curriculum.
Done right, content curation is an effective way of identifying valuable and relevant material that can be readily available for employees. In return, the need for employees to conduct searches is eliminated, along with the need for them to read through large volumes of irrelevant content to find the information they need.
The Benefits of Content Curation in Corporate Training
For corporate L&D teams, content curation can add value to your learning strategy and increase overall learning import by:
Creating a central repository of relevant content that can be accessed by employees as needed, all from a centralized location
Encouraging employees to contribute to the learning and training effort by enabling them to share any relevant content they come across
Enhancing employee participation and motivation by awarding the efforts of those that make significant contributions to the content curation strategy
Facilitating informal learning and Just-in-Time (JIT) learning activities as well as contextual learning
Fostering a culture of continuous training and ongoing employee development
The Content Curation Process for Corporate Training
It’s important to determine your best method for curation before you start compiling links and other resources. A well-defined process will provide guidance to all participants as they collect and share information. An effective process will focus on finding and delivering high-value content to your employees.
For corporate training, the content curation process includes five basic steps:
Define Your Content Goals
Examine your organization’s job roles and determine what you want to achieve for each.
Identify Learning Strategies
An important goal is in providing the right type of learning content for each audience of employees. Some groups will benefit most from detailed, extensive courses and group collaboration, while others may be best served through contextual and microlearning activities.
The Internet provides a wide range of potential resources, including video files (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) blogs, trade associations, social media, and more. And if your company’s intranet, marketing, and customer training materials might also offer valuable content.
Share the Content
Now you’re ready to share the content with your employees. To accomplish this, a learning management system (LMS) is often the preferred approach as this is the application that allows you to build, deliver, manage, and track your corporate training programs and learning activities. A good LMS will allow you to structure your curated content into effective and engaging courses. Each course is offered to the relevant group of employees.
Finally, encourage your employees to share their thoughts and feedback regarding what you have offered. Consider this feedback as you refine and grow your program over time.
LMS Portals and Curated Corporate Training Content
At LMS Portals, we provide our clients and partners with a SaaS-based, multi-tenant learning management system that allows you to repurpose most any kind of curated content (videos, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, documents, websites, and more) into structured and engaging corporate training courses. With LMS Portals, an administrator can launch customized training environments (portals) on-demand. And each portal includes a rapid course development engine to house, structure, and deliver your curated content. | <urn:uuid:dee76c57-9145-4843-8845-c4172d0ceb64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lmsportals.com/post/content-curation-strategies-for-corporate-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.925385 | 824 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Heath bars were included in U.S. soldiers' rations during World War II because they had been found to have a very long shelf life. The Heath bar was originally marketed as a health food, claiming to use only the finest ingredients - for your Heath Bar Apple Dip! One early ad read: "Heath for better health!" Another candy often included in soldiers' rations was M&M's because they didn't melt easily.
1 tablespoon butter
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 bag Heathbar Bits (or Skor)
Apple wedges (Granny smith, or Roma)
Cream together cream cheese, sugars, and vanilla.
Stir heathbar bits (or Skor) in with spoon.
Serve with granny smith or roma apple wedges
Cut apples into pineapple juice to keep them from turning brown.
Make this into Toffee-Apple Dip but using one, 8-ounce package of toffee bits in place of the heath bits.
You may also enjoy...
Share This Page | <urn:uuid:2bd43299-a40a-421c-8c4e-2a21f663ea05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bellybytes.com/recipe/apples/heath-bar-apple-dip.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957351 | 239 | 1.679688 | 2 |
When To Call The Emergency Plumber
JMS Re-Pipe Santa Monica
Plumber, Commercial Plumbing, Residential Plumbing
Plumbing emergencies can happen in the home or business at any time. In the case of our family it is usually right before a holiday or special event. Typical emergencies can be frozen or broken pipes, sewer backups and leaking gas.
While properly maintained plumbing will greatly lessen the chances of disaster striking, it is important you have the name and number of an emergency 24/7 plumber such as JMS Express Plumbing to help you during an emergency.
Causes Of Plumbing Emergencies And What To Do When They Occur
1. Gas Leak - One of the most obvious needs for an emergency plumbing service is a gas leak. The smell of gas is often the first indication that something is badly wrong. It is very important that an emergency plumber is called out immediately to deal with it as the leak could result in an explosion, death, injury or serious damage to property. The first thing to do when faced with leaking gas in the home is to switch off the main valve, and the second will be to ring the emergency plumbing service.
2. Heating Breakdown - A breakdown in heating during the depths of winter is also a plumbing emergency. This is particularly so if there are young children in the home, someone who is elderly or ill, or has failing health. Before putting in a call for an emergency plumber, however, it is first worth checking if the problem can be easily resolved. The thermostat should be checked to see if it has been turned down or switched off. The burner switch should also be checked to see if it has been switched off.
3. Clogged Sewer Lines – The average homeowner probably knows that sewer lines help transport waste water from the home to underground sewer mains. Beyond that, most homeowners give little thought to their sewer lines until they have some type of clog.
A sewer line clog could lead to a raw sewage backup coming out of the drains, which could lead to significant damage to the home and an expensive sewer line repair or replacement.
Tree roots are the primary cause of a clogged sewer line, especially in an older home. In newer homes, common sources of clogging include feminine hygiene products, paper towels and even certain types of thicker toilet paper.
JMS Express Plumbing recommends periodic sewer line inspections to avoid having a sewage related emergency.
3. Burst Pipes
There are some emergencies where you should take steps before seeking emergency assistance. If you have a burst pipes then you should first shut off the main water valve before calling out an emergency plumbing service.
If you don’t know where any of the emergency shut off valves are contact your plumber. Have them come to your home for an inspection and have them tag the valves and explain which ones to shut off first in an emergency.
Contact JMS Express Plumbing
Plumbing emergencies are our specialty. We offer 24/7 emergency plumbing services for the greater Los Angeles & Ventura county areas. No task is too big or too small—we will tackle any plumbing installation or repair tasks with customer satisfaction in mind.
Our objective is not only to take care of you during emergencies but also to be your plumber for a lifetime, not just for one call. Here at JMS Express Plumbing, we pride ourselves in being knowledgeable, reliable, and fast. We are fully licensed, insured, and bonded and we look forward to serving you.
, Commercial Plumbing
, Commercial Plumbing Services
, Garbage Disposals
, Home Plumbing
, Kitchen Plumbing
, Licensed Plumbers
, Pipe Cleaning
, Plumbing Maintenance
, Plumbing Tips
, Residential Plumbers
, Residential Plumbing
, Residential Plumbing Solutions
, Sewer And Drain Services | <urn:uuid:d034f933-8d7b-4c77-8ce9-9a3927c3c610> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hotfrog.com/business/ca/west-hollywood/jms-re-pipe-santa-monica/when-to-call-the-emergency-plumber-1669661 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943468 | 791 | 1.65625 | 2 |
quiz -- lede
quiz -- lede
|1||What's Your Spiritual Type?|
|Are you a born-again atheist? Or maybe you are the product of an inter-faith marriage. Today, the line between religious categories is a bit blurred. Find out where you really stand and discover what your spiritual type is.
|2||What Type of Christian are YOU?|
|Are you a Jerry Falwell Christian or a Jesse Ventura Christian? Your attitude toward the Bible and the life of Jesus can reveal a great bit about how you approach your faith.
|3||What Kind of Jew Are You?|
|Uncertain about your Jewish identity (or lack thereof)? Take a Beliefnet quiz guaranteed to label you in an entirely new way.
|4||What Type Of Hindu Are You?|
|Are puja and Vedic study integral to your practice, or is your Hinduism
a way to connect with family and with Indian culture? Our quiz explores how you relate to Hindu traditions and beliefs.
|5||What Type of Catholic are YOU?|
|What's your personal take on Vatican II and married priests? Are you a recovering Catholic or a firm traditionalist? Take the Beliefnet Catholicism quiz to help sort out your Catholic identity.
|6||Is Your HEART at Risk?|
|"A good dose of cynicism is healthy." Is it really? New studies show that maybe the opposite is true. Come on don't be such a skeptic; take this quiz to find out if your health may be at risk.
|7||How FORGIVING Are You?|
|You've found a love letter in your spouse's car. Your neighbor's dog just did no-no in your prize petunias. How would you react? Vengeance or forgiveness -- which will you choose?
|8||How Competitive Are You?|
|Do you avoid competition or do you believe that winning IS everything? The competition quiz will tell you how much of a team player you really are.
|9||Are You a Gossip?|
|Can your best friends and family trust you with their deepest, darkest secrets? Or will you have the news spread far and wide in no time flat. Take this quiz to see if you're a blabbermouth...or not.
|10||Are You a Narcissist?|
|Are you a happy person satisfied with who you are? Or maybe.that lampshade on your head means you always need to be the center of attention. Find out if you lean toward the narcissistic side. Take the quiz.
|What Else Can You Do at Beliefnet?
We hope you enjoy our quizzes. And while you're here, why not check out all the other great things there are to discover at Beliefnet. There are community discussion boards, in-depth articles on all kinds of subjects, prayer circles for any faith, and there's even our Beliefnet store. We think you'll find Beliefnet a safe and exciting place to explore your own spiritual path. | <urn:uuid:35334d96-df09-4b97-8256-0dd06a7af79e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beliefnet.com/freeform/skipped/2000/08/quiz----lede.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00183-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911144 | 638 | 1.5625 | 2 |
- © 2006 Cambridge University Press
The Nabwal Hills, northeast of Lake Turkana, contain a record of magmatism associated with the initiation and early development of the East African Rift System in northernmost Kenya. The predominantly volcanic Asille Group, 1400 m thick, directly overlies metamorphic basement and comprises a sequence of basaltic lava flows with significant intervals of rhyolitic pyroclastic units, and minor intercalations of fluviatile sediments. The basement gneisses yield K–Ar cooling ages on biotite of 510 and 522 Ma, typically Pan-African. The 40Ar–39Ar ages on alkali feldspar crystals from the rhyolitic units are concordant and show that the Asille Group spans an interval from at least 34.3 to 15.8 Ma, continuing to at least as young as 13 Ma based on previous measurements. Vertebrate fossil sites, containing primate remains, at Irile and Nabwal are shown to be 17 ± 2 Ma old, Early Miocene, based upon K–Ar age measurements on immediately overlying basalts. Variably reliable whole rock K–Ar ages, determined on basalt samples from low in the sequence, indicate that volcanism commenced as early as 34.8 Ma ago. The overall geochronological results show that magmatism in the Nabwal Hills began about 35 Ma ago in Late Eocene times, interpreted as the time of initiation of crustal extension that led to the development of this segment of the East African Rift System. The Asille Group is tilted about 6° to the SSW. This tilting occurred later than 13 Ma ago, and prior to the eruption of the flat-lying Gombe Group basalts. These basalts may have begun erupting about 6 Ma ago in Late Miocene times, although much of this volcanism occurred between about 3.9 and 4.2 Ma ago in Pliocene times. It is suggested that the main rifting, which continues today, commenced in Late Miocene times, less than 13 Ma ago, and is partly reflected in the tilting of the Asille Group. | <urn:uuid:cd112261-6e2d-459a-9a6d-ce3490bf1d6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://geolmag.geoscienceworld.org/content/143/1/25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00035-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936556 | 443 | 2.546875 | 3 |
College of Education
The University of Texas at Brownsville
Our conceptual framework provides guidance for the coherent development and consistent implementation of all COE programs. The multilayered framework revolves around the COE’s mission to prepare highly skilled professionals to assume roles and positions in teaching, research, educational leadership, service and human development. The COE carries out its mission through the collaborative interaction among departments within our college, and through collaborative efforts with other academic colleges and PK-12 schools.
Intersecting the framework’s center are our four guiding principles: inquiry, interculturalism, pedagogical leadership and interrelatedness, around which the unit develops policies and practices. These principles articulate our expectations for all unit administrators, faculty, students and graduates. These principles also serve as the foundation for innovative, interdisciplinary and research-based curricula, as well as for cutting-edge research that is responsive to diverse community needs.
Forming the outer perimeter of our framework are arrows (see Figure 1) labeled professionalism, knowledge in practice, reflection, diversity and collaboration. These arrows represent the COE’s categories of standards related to knowledge, skills and dispositions that are addressed and assessed across programs, and which operate in dynamic reciprocity with our four guiding principles. As candidates matriculate through programs, they are expected to demonstrate key proficiencies and dispositions associated with these standards. These key proficiencies are expressed as COE categories of standards and were developed by COE faculty in alignment with our guiding principles, state standards and INTASC standards.
This conceptual framework represents a commitment to a coherent common vision, shared goals and consistent outcomes across programs. Our framework continues to be developed with flexibility in mind, so as to give rise to innovations that meet the particular needs of individual courses and programs as well as the needs of faculty and students as individuals. Our guiding principles allow us to pull these particularities together in innovative and educationally meaningful ways that support individual development and vitalize the unit as a whole (Rooney, 2010). | <urn:uuid:0457991e-44db-4fa9-a91b-be76185c125e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.utb.edu/vpaa/coe/accreditation/NCATE/pages/CollegeConceptualFramework.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00229-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941714 | 416 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Subject: To correct
cracking, which could result in more extensive fatigue cracking and
lead to possible loss of cabin pressure. Manufacturer: Boeing Category: Airframe Summary: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness
directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 737-700 and 737-800 series
airplanes. This AD requires performing a one-time high frequency
eddy current inspection for cracking of the backup intercostals
located above the cutout for the forward airstair door; doing
related investigative and corrective actions if any crack is found;
and doing other specified corrective actions if no crack is found.
This AD results from a report of fatigue cracks discovered during a
full-scale fatigue test conducted by the manufacturer. We are
issuing this AD to detect and correct such cracking, which could
result in more extensive fatigue cracking and lead to possible loss
of cabin pressure. | <urn:uuid:a35aaf10-c1f4-4e05-80b1-75d38468264a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://mailto:[email protected]/ANNTicker.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=c0b4e8e2-e4e0-4dbb-850f-a7bf78de7a0c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00209-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881768 | 184 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The requirement for renewable energy forms is rising to reduce the effects of global warming our environment is facing due to pollution and climate change. We are surrounded by various renewable sources of energy, especially solar energy, which can be used throughout the year. Smart solutions like solar panels play a significant role in the production of solar energy. A solar panel for home is one of those devices used to absorb the sun’s rays and convert them into electricity for power generation. They absorb solar energy and convert it to electric power through the photovoltaic effect. Most homes are designed with a roof, which can be utilized to install a solar panel and produce electricity.
Solar Panel for Home – The Future of Domestic Energy Consumption
Today, more and more homeowners have a solar panel for home installed on their terrace and backyard, which helps produce electricity. Each solar power system comes with certain features that are essential for its proper functioning. Firstly, it requires an adequate number of solar panels to absorb as much solar energy as possible.
Secondly, a solar system for home needs a battery backup system according to the package that you choose.
Listed below are the features of a home solar system:
- An ideal home solar system should be capable enough to provide electricity that can fulfill your home’s energy requirements.
- It should have a solar inverter to convert the DC power generated into AC power. This AC power is used to operate lighting systems, gadgets, and equipment such as computers, mixers, fans, refrigerators, air conditioners, and televisions.
Types of Solar Panel Systems
There are broadly three types of solar panel systems:
An on-grid solar system can be defined as a system that is tied to your local utility grid. An on-grid solar system is prevalent in commercial and residential fields and houses, and it does not require any battery backup system. The on-grid solar can be easily identified as a photoelectric system. It is suitable for generating power for those who want to minimize their bill expenses and have an alternative power generation plant. The extra power generated by the panels can be exported to the grid through a net meter. It helps you have an additional income since the Government have subsidized rebate during such cases.
An off-grid system means that you are not connected to your grid’s power system or national/local utility. It means that you are 100% self-sustaining your energy needs. It is also known as a stand-alone power system, and it works by generating electricity from a solar panel for home. The electricity is then converted with the help of an inverter to power home and electrical appliances. An additional solar battery inverter is present in such systems to store the surplus power generated and use it at night or during a power outage in your area.
Hybrid solar systems are the combination of an on-grid and off-grid solar inverter. They can easily work without a grid, store electricity to batteries as well as export the excess electricity to the grid. So, they are finding increased applications in renewable energy systems where intermittency is the biggest issue.
Following are the factors that you need to consider before setting up a solar power plant:
- A solar panel for home should ideally be placed in the south direction to receive maximum sunlight.
- Based on the total number of solar panels required, space availability to house the solar panels should be determined. It could be on the rooftop or the backyard, where the solar panels can receive an adequate amount of sunlight.
- The total number of solar panels needed to generate the required AC power should be calculated.
- The AC power requirement needs to be ascertained, and the best way to ascertain this is by using the highest monthly electricity bill in the past year. The bill records the total number of units of electricity consumed in that month.
Purchase Solar Panel for Home for a Sustainable Future Solar power is 100% clean and a renewable source of energy that is available for everyone. It not only reduces our dependency on oil, coal, and natural gas for electricity production, it doesn’t produce any pollution, and neither does it harm the landscape and the ozone layer. Purchase solar panel for home from renowned companies like Luminous, that offer the best solar solutions in India. With an easy installation process and maintenance, solar panels are the perfect choice to generate energy today. | <urn:uuid:7b35d4b7-4054-4669-b24d-3a87c1aa9172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kadvacorp.com/technology/solar-panel-for-home-the-future-of-domestic-energy-consumption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.943792 | 904 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Legislature Approves Bill to Assist "Chocolate-Chip Fab" Plants
Measure provides start-up and expansion funding for not-for-profit sponsors of small-scale food processing facilities
Albany - Assemblyman José Rivera (D-Bronx), Chair of the Assembly's Task Force on Food, Farm and Nutrition Policy is pleased to join with former Chair, Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (Queens), to announce passage of a bill (A4166) developed ten years ago to provide state economic development funding for facilities that provide kitchen space for start-up small food businesses to prepare, process and package their products to sell. The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Cook, and co-sponsored by Rivera, has passed both houses of the legislature this year, and is waiting to be sent to the Governor.
"We need to help small businesses and farmers who want to sell locally-produced foods in our communities. One of the most common ways that immigrants, especially women, enter into our economy is by developing a great recipe or family dish into a profitable product that can be sold. Many farmers also have recognized they can make more money by processing the food they grow and selling it at retail rather than wholesale. You don't need an advanced degree or an investment banker to start making a sauce or become a street vendor but it could help to have a licensed kitchen to work in, and receive help with business development and applying for loans. This bill would provide State funding for shared kitchen space or a kitchen incubator program for these businesses," according to Rivera.
The growth of small, individually-owned food businesses is often dependent on affordable, available processing space, financing, management assistance and other services that can nurture an emerging firm. A4166 would provide seed funding for communities to establish facilities that provide opportunities for all segments of our society to become food business owners. These food business incubators can be built from scratch but most often are located in buildings, such as abandoned or underused food service operations, that already have available food preparation space and equipment.
Shared kitchens or kitchen incubators are similar to other types of business incubators; they provide inexpensive space, shared services, access to financing and other support to multiple small enterprises such as specialty food producers, farmers, street vendors, restaurants, caterers, and food service training programs. New business owners create jobs for the surrounding area. The facility could also participate in workforce training and development. The proposed law gives incentives for using local farm products to benefit struggling NY farmers as well.
"NYC schools are already buying processed apples to use in their lunch programs, providing healthy snacks for our kids and higher profits for our apple farmers. We need more processing so our farmers can sell more to schools and restaurants as well as directly to consumers. New York State is providing over $1 billion to help build a computer chip fabrication factory here - known as a "chip-fab" plant. We need to also support shared kitchen food production facilities - or as Assemblywoman Cook calls them, "chocolate chip-fab" plants," said Rivera. | <urn:uuid:d2014a58-ed74-458d-b8ab-3c8764a33dbf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://assembly.state.ny.us/comm/Food/20090625/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00499-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968502 | 626 | 1.625 | 2 |
— phrasal verb with fall uk /fɔːl/ us /fɑːl/ verb fell, fallen
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
(Definition of “fall off” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of “fall off” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Get a quick, free translation!
Word of the Day
a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food | <urn:uuid:aeeb89d8-386b-4ddd-82fb-aad519819294> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fall-off?a=british | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.692727 | 116 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Learn something new every day
More Info... by email
Molecular biology is a field of biology that looks at the molecular machinery of life. The field was founded in the early 1930s, though the phrase was only used in 1938 and the field didn't take off until the late 50s and early 60s. Since then, progress in the field has been massive. The field began with the x-ray crystallography of various important biological molecules. Now, crystallography databases store the molecular structure of tens of thousands of these molecules. Understanding of these proteins both helps us understand how the body works and how to fix it when it breaks down.
Truly modern molecular biology emerged with the uncovering of the structure of DNA in the 1960s and concurrent advances in biochemistry and genetics. Molecular biology is one of three primary molecular-scale biological sciences, the others being biochemistry and genetics. There is no clear division between the three, but they do have general domains.
Broadly speaking, biochemistry looks at the function of proteins within the body, genetics looks at how genes are inherited and propagated, and molecular biology looks at the process of replication, transcription and translation of genes. Molecular biology has some surface similarities with computer science, because genes can be looked at as a discrete code, though the proteins they code for and their subsequent interactions can be highly nonlinear.
The most important idea in molecular biology is the so-called "central dogma" of molecular biology, which states that information flow in organisms follows a one-way street -- genes are transcribed into RNA and RNA is translated into proteins. Though generally correct, the "central dogma" is not as absolute or certain as its name implies. In some cases, information flow can reverse, as the protein environment can influence which genes are transcribed into RNA and which RNA is translated into proteins. The broad picture does hold, however, as if proteins had too much of an influence over the genes coding for them, the body would be in chaos.
One of the most basic areas of inquiry in molecular biology is the use of expression cloning to see which proteins are created by which genes. Expression cloning involves cloning a DNA segment coding for a protein of interest, attaching the DNA to a plasmid vector, then introducing the vector to another plant or animal. The way the transferred DNA is expressed provides valuable insights into its role in the organism. This allows us to learn what genes do. Without this knowledge, much of genetics, such as our knowledge of the human genome, would be useless.
There are many other lines of inquiry in molecular biology. The field is mind-bogglingly huge. The information presented above, however, serves as an introduction.
One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK! | <urn:uuid:d9127db2-5e60-4137-a7f3-8c6b0888920d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-molecular-biology.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00317-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963097 | 600 | 3.15625 | 3 |
<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/18172401?rel=0" width="512" height="421" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/WorldResources/clearing-the-air" title="Clearing the Air: Reducing Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Natural Gas Systems" target="_blank">Clearing the Air: Reducing Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Natural Gas Systems</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/WorldResources" target="_blank">World Resources Institute (WRI)</a></strong> </div>
To embed in your site, copy & paste the code above.
The rapid expansion of unconventional natural gas development has reshaped the U.S. energy picture through increased production and reduced prices of natural gas. The shale gas production boom has also ignited divisive debates over its near- and long-term environmental impacts. Our new study looks to clarify what is known about leakage rates of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the U.S. natural gas sector, what progress has been made to reduce those emissions, and what more can be done to further reduce leakage.
Despite lingering data uncertainties, we find that these emissions can and should be addressed with urgency, and we identify a number of cost-effective reduction options available to do so. The paper outlines tools that federal and state governments can employ to reduce these harmful emissions, helping to clear the air and slow the rate of climate change. | <urn:uuid:7a00ef81-69ce-4add-abae-2a7b5928a0f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wri.org/resources/presentations/clearing-air-reducing-upstream-greenhouse-gas-emissions-us-natural-gas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00357-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.801449 | 416 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Anal Fistula: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
September 1, 2021
Fistula is generally recognized as inter-connection of two of the body parts usually organ or blood vessel to another part of the...
Methods of Blood pressure measurements: Sphygmomanometer types, parts, function, and principle
August 11, 2022
Silent heart attack: “heart attack without chest pain”reasons
May 22, 2017
Why do you feel dizziness after you wake up suddenly? Postural...
February 8, 2018
Is mosquito coil harmful to humans? Mosquito coil side effects
September 8, 2016
Bullied about being overweight? Health benefits of overweight
10 best ergonomic tips for computer users
How much kilo calories needed to burn in a day? ...
How accurate automatic BP instrument? | <urn:uuid:1add9d74-8cd2-4833-a5f8-8fb8207c181c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicalbasic.net/tag/fistula-in-ano/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.802231 | 310 | 1.75 | 2 |
North Dakota has seen a boom in industry, commerce, and population thanks to Bakken shale oil development, but that boom has been made possible by high oil prices. As this map from Vox shows, North Dakota is one of the states that have benefitted the most from rising oil prices:
The reality of dropping oil prices is sort of a mixed bag for Americans. On one hand, lower oil prices mean lower energy prices in general. That’s good for consumers nationally. On the other hand, the nation’s domestic oil boom is one of the few bright spots in our national economy right now, as I noted yesterday. Dropping oil prices will put a damper on the influx of jobs and commerce oil development has provided.
But for North Dakota specifically, this could be really bad.
I was speaking with some lawmakers yesterday, and they’re concerned. The state budget increased a whopping 62 percent last biennium, and another round of aggressive budget increases (not to mention tax cutting) seems to be on the agenda for the coming biennium. But how certain are future tax revenues in the midst of an oil price war?
Consider this: In calendar year 2013, more than half of North Dakota’s tax revenues came from oil and gas production.
Nobody seems to know the answer.
What’s troubling for North Dakota is that not only does the state have one of the highest oil production taxes in the nation at 11.5 percent, but thanks to the state’s extreme weather conditions and lagging infrastructure (we need pipelines!), the state is also one of the most expensive oil plays in the nation.
Meaning that if oil price drop, one of the first places in the nation it’s going to become unprofitable to pump oil is North Dakota.
That makes the Keystone/Sandpiper pipeline delays loom large, as well as the Legislature’s decision to not only refuse reform for the state’s taxes on oil production but to actually raise them last year.
The oil markets being what they are, who knows what will happen, but suffice it to say that while dropping oil prices might be good for the rest of the country, they’re potentially devastating for North Dakota.
My guess is that these fears probably won’t put much of a damper on spending (naturally), but you can bet that those looking to abolish the state income tax (of which there are a growing number) will have to overcome this obstacle. | <urn:uuid:2fd071fd-2879-448a-81b3-d8d8107fca11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/north-dakota-oil-prices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.966754 | 517 | 2.046875 | 2 |
India to become second EMBC Associate Member State
EMBO, EMBC and India sign cooperation agreement
New Delhi / Heidelberg, 5 February 2016 – The Government of the Republic of India, EMBO and its intergovernmental funding body, the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), have signed a Cooperation Agreement to strengthen scientific interaction and collaborative research between India and Europe. After the signing of an agreement with Singapore in July 2015, India will now become the second country to acquire the status of EMBC Associate Member State.
The goal of the agreement is to boost Indo-European exchange and to provide a platform for interaction with top-level scientists on both sides. As an EMBC Associate Member State, researchers working in India are now eligible to participate in all EMBO programmes and activities. Indian scientists can apply to EMBO's programmes, such as long-term fellowships for postdoctoral researchers, short-term fellowships, courses and workshops, as well as the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. At the same time, Europe will benefit from networking with the top-level scientists in India's research community. Deeper cooperation between nations will stimulate vision, ideas, and provide a framework for a long-term partnership.
Professor Maria Leptin, Director of EMBO: "We have been promoting international interactions beyond Europe, and India is one of our prime partners. I am extremely pleased that India is going to be an Associate Member of EMBC and I look forward to India being able to access EMBO activities. Many European researchers have established scientific connections in India. No doubt these will be strengthened further once more tools and formal opportunities for interactions are available."
Professor K. Vijay Raghavan, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for the Government of India, who signed the agreement: "India is rapidly growing into a position where we are making extraordinary demands on ourselves. India can only succeed if we partner with the best everywhere to bring the best here." He added: "Through EMBO, we will not only have the excellent joint programmes that benefit India and Europe, but we hope to be a magnet that attracts bright young people to science from in- and outside India."
Professor Gerrit van Meer, President of the EMBC, remarked: "All member states welcome the exchange with Indian scientists that this agreement will bring. We look forward to seeing transcontinental projects spanning India and Europe grow in future."
An official launch ceremony is taking place in Delhi today, on 4 February 2016. The kick-off event includes scientific presentations by Nobel Laureates Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Ada E. Yonath. An EMBO-led delegation of ten researchers is visiting various institutes across the country and meeting with Indian scientists and government representatives. The visit started in Mumbai on 1 February and will finish in Mohali on 8 February.
The newly forged cooperation will build upon already existing links between Indian and European scientists. In 2015, 10 Indian postdoctoral researchers received an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship to work in Europe and eight India-based scientists received the EMBO Short-Term Fellowship. A satellite symposium focusing on research in India has been an integral part of the annual conference The EMBO Meeting.
T. + 49 160 9019 3839 | <urn:uuid:1d40af8c-3efb-4593-9393-edccd3219f57> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.embo.org/news/press-releases/2016/india-to-become-second-embc-associate-member-state | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00195-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93738 | 665 | 1.554688 | 2 |
A logo serves the same purpose for a company that a flag does for a nation or other jurisdiction. It's a shorthand reminder of identity. The North American Vexillological Association states that a good flag is one that a child should be able to draw from memory. Too many design elements, or too many intricate ones, make for a forgettable or indistinctive flag. The same goes for logos. One logo change that's universally regarded as an across-the-board improvement is that of FedEx.
The old one was a product of its time (1973) and not particularly easy to read. In addition, by incorporating two distinctively English words, it seemed counter to the purpose of a company the scope of which is truly worldwide. Federal Express didn't just streamline the logo; it also cropped the extraneous syllables from its name. The result was a simple name that translates to almost any language. Fortuitously, the negative space of the new logo happens to delineate a forward-moving arrow, too.
As for the new logo's immediate impact on the bottom line, it was negligible. The stock stagnated throughout 1994 but grew steadily over the next dozen years as FedEx began buying up smaller companies and extending its global reach. The company now operates multiple subsidiaries.
Sometimes, the brilliance of a name change doesn't become evident until years later. For decades, Arthur Andersen was one of the largest concerns in accounting. After a series of mergers throughout the industry in the 1980s, Arthur Andersen stood as one of accountancy's big five firms. It was a huge oligopolistic player with tens of billions in annual revenue and a reputation for fairness and honesty.
The firm's consulting business branched off under the obvious, if uninspired, name Andersen Consulting. The two entities sued each other in the late '90s, eventually reaching a settlement by which Andersen Consulting had to change its name. Futuristic-sounding words of faint Indo-European origin were in vogue at the time. On the first day of 2001, Andersen Consulting unveiled a doozy for itself: Accenture. Initially mocked and derided throughout the Anglophone world, the new name ended up saving the company.
The company's former parent was the auditor for one of the most infamous companies in American history: Enron. Arthur Andersen shredded documents on behalf of its criminal clientele. In the summer of 2002, the firm surrendered its license to practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission. The big five became the big four, and today Arthur Andersen is synonymous with crooked accounting.
Meanwhile, Accenture is riding higher than high. The stock has quadrupled in value since the new company's inception, and critics have begun to appreciate that an awkward name beats a toxic one any day.
The Bottom Line
Whether it's change for change's sake or change out of necessity, transforming a logo or a brand is never neutral. It's a shrewd company that can entice new business without alienating its existing customer base. | <urn:uuid:692cccef-ba10-43b3-bdc2-fde1193f567a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1012/the-effect-of-drastic-brand-and-logo-transformations.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959362 | 613 | 1.851563 | 2 |
How marvelous that the two books we honor with our annual Heartland Prizes emerge from the world of science. One is by a world-renowned, prolific writer, the other by a first-time author. Rebecca Skloot in "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" (nonfiction) and E.O. Wilson in "Anthill" (fiction) root their work in fact but enrich it with powerful interpretive prowess.
Wilson and Skloot will talk about their work and how they have created great literature out of science Nov. 13 at the Tribune's Literary Awards event, part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. (See information page for details.)
Despite the name, the Heartland Prizes are not regional awards. They transcend time and place and are intended to recognize what we believe to be the metaphorical heart of the human experience.
The Tribune has bestowed the Heartland Prizes since 1988. Past recipients have been local authors such as Scott Turow, Alex Kotlowitz, Aleksandar Hemon and Garry Wills. Other winners include international writers such as Jeffery Renard Allen, Louise Erdrich, Ann Patchett and Ward Just.
Sunday's Arts & Entertainment section will feature a profile of Sam Shepard who, also on Nov. 13, will receive the Tribune's Literary Prize for lifetime achievement, honoring his distinctive career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, fiction writer and essayist. | <urn:uuid:0e678efc-b420-4182-8d50-52af8d8451ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-11-05/entertainment/ct-books-1106-heartland-20101105_1_heartland-prizes-skloot-jeffery-renard-allen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941109 | 294 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Researchers are vying to be early adopters of Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s new Advanced Technology Cluster, Athena.
The Perth centre – a joint venture between CSIRO, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, the University of Western Australia and the state and federal governments – is in the process of installing its new system after a vendor was selected in March.
“Pawsey is looking to the future, to try and explore novel ways to satisfy the endless thirst of Australian researchers for high-performance compute resources. Through this new platform, we can ensure that Australian science is supported by cutting-edge technology,” said David Schibeci, head of supercomputing at Pawsey.
Early adopters will have use an Intel Xeon Phi cluster with a 100 GBps OmniPath interconnect, and an NVIDIA Pascal GPU cluster with a 100 Gbps EDR Infinband interconnect, “intended to allow Pawsey researchers to engage with cutting-edge technologies, and inform the eventual capital refresh of the current petascale system”, the centre said.
More than 20 research groups have applied to the early-adopter program will run from June until the end of the year.
“Access during this time is aimed at providing time on the system so users can experiment and aid Pawsey in validating and optimising the system in preparation for production use,” the centre said.
In October a tender for Athena was put together by a committee of research groups from Australian institutions that determined the required specifications.
The committee identified two technologies for Athena: Intel Xeon Phi many-core processors, and NVIDIA Pascal GPU accelerators.
SGI (which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for US$275 in November last year) won the AU$1.5m tender, funded by the government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.
“There are a number of reasons why SGI were chosen,” said Schibeci said at the time. “They provided the best technical solution within the budget allocated for the procurement, which ensured the best value for money. This was driven by SGI’s long-standing relationship with Pawsey, demonstrating their deep understanding on the challenges that we face in the near future. SGI has demonstrated their understanding of the HPC space around Australia and Pawsey is pleased to continue to leverage that experience and knowledge.”
Athena will consist of 80 C2112-4KNL nodes with Intel Xeon Phi 7210 processors and 11 C1102-GP8 nodes with four NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2 GPUs.
Athena is a refresh of Pawsey’s Fornax system which was decommissioned in 2015. It will help inform the requirements for the eventual replacement of Pawsey’s supercomputer Magnus, which is running at capacity and reaching end of support from manufacturer Cray.
Magnus is the most powerful public research supercomputer in Australia and ranked in the top 100 worldwide. | <urn:uuid:ca8f55a7-9035-4e09-b28a-9cb11f2fcb5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www2.computerworld.com.au/article/619554/pawsey-supercomputing-centre-give-new-gear-spin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.932657 | 627 | 1.75 | 2 |
The washing phase: If the steam is supplied while the detergent is being combined with the water, the temperature of the wash tub rises, improving the cleaning power and aiding in the activation of the detergent. The drying phase: The steam is added after the detergent has been dried. It does this by increasing the effectiveness of the detergent’s dissolution, allowing you to get the most out of it feasible.
As a result, what exactly is the steam cycle on a Samsung washer?
Choose from a variety of Hygiene Steam cycles available on certain Samsung washing machines to give your clothing a thorough, powerful clean. The Hygiene Steam cycle uses steam that is released from the bottom of the drum to fully soak all of the objects in the washing machine.
One may also wonder whether it is appropriate to utilise the steam cycle on a washing machine. During the washing process, the following things happen: When introduced while the detergent and water are being combined, the steam raises the temperature of the wash tub, improving the cleansing power of the detergent while also assisting in the activation of the detergent. It does this by increasing the effectiveness of the detergent’s dissolution, allowing you to get the most out of it feasible.
Similarly, many wonder if the steam option on a washing machine is worth it.
In addition, when compared to normal washers, steam washers are reported to be more energy efficient. Because steam is used to assist in the cleaning process, less water is used for each cycle. Less water implies less energy is used in the process of heating it. However, it is also true that certain steam washing cycles are longer than others, and as a result, they may use more energy.
Is it true that steam washing shrinks clothes?
While heat may cause cotton and other vegetable fibres to shrink in the dryer, it can also cause cotton and other vegetable fibres to shrink under direct sunshine and steam pressing. Even a hot-water wash might cause your clothing to shrink by a size or two.
What cycle do you use to wash your towels?
Towels should be washed on “high” using the hottest water possible. Add bleach (for white towels) or vinegar to the rinse cycle at least once per few washes of the towels to keep them looking bright. If your towels are turning out dingy, raise the temperature of the water and add bleach to the mix. Check to ensure that you are using a high-quality detergent.
What is the best setting for washing towels on a Samsung?
The option with a high temperature is suggested. Towels: This category includes bath towels, washcloths, and mats. If you want the finest results from your towels, just wash a half load (6 pounds) at a time because of their high absorbent capacity. Whites: Used for white materials, with or without bleach, in any combination.
What is the best way to wash towels in a Samsung washer?
Cottons, bed linen, table linen, undergarments, towels, shirts, and other items that are moderately or mildly stained Option for a quick wash: Select the Cotton cycle and the Quick Wash option to wash lightly soiled items weighing less than 2kg in a short amount of time.
Was wondering what washing setting you’d recommend.
Clothing made of durable white should be washed on hot and rinsed on cold. Durable colours are often washed on a warm setting and rinsed on a cold or warm setting. Generally, permanent press is washed and rinsed with cold water in cold water. Delicates should be washed and rinsed on a cold setting.
What exactly does the Fl symbol on my Samsung washer mean?
The FL error code indicates that the door lock assembly is not functioning properly. A total of seven attempts will be made by the door lock to shut before an error code is shown on the display. Opening the door and removing the metal spring that surrounds the door gasket are two important steps. To remove the spring, you may use a putty knife or a flat head screwdriver.
What exactly does the steam option on a washing machine do?
Partner in scum and villainy. The majority of steam washers use a mix of water and steam in a variety of cycles to accomplish nice things for your clothing and other items. To put it simply, steam raises the temperature within the washer drum, forcing the fibres to relax and absorb water more effectively, therefore removing dirt and stains from deep inside the garment.
In what situations should I turn on the steam cycle on my dryer?
Despite the fact that steam is produced as a byproduct of drying, applying steam to wet or dry textiles at the appropriate moments offers benefits. Using steam to permeate and saturate garments thoroughly has a softening impact on the fabric, which helps to minimise creases.
What exactly is the difference between a steam washer and a standard washer and dryer?
Steam washing machines utilise less energy and water than traditional ones, therefore they are more environmentally friendly. With just a little amount of water, you may generate a large amount of steam, which expands to take up more space. Many of the modern steam washers have this feature, and using conventional detergent may interfere with the machine’s operation and may result in over-sudsing.
What is the operation of the sanitise cycle on a washing machine?
In your washing machine, the sanitise cycle is supposed to eliminate, or at the very least minimise, the quantity of microorganisms — such as germs and bacteria — that are present in the garment. It is during this cycle that harmful bacteria are prevented from infecting following loads of washing,
In what ways do steam washers and dryers benefit the user?
The Advantages of Using the Steam Feature in Your Washer and Dryer Many higher-end washers and dryers now come equipped with a steam function. Hot water vapour is used in this function to remove creases, freshen garments, and sterilise them thoroughly. When washing clothes, you may use the steam cycle to thoroughly get the stains out of the clothes.
What exactly is the Allergy Cycle?
The ALLERGIENETM cycle utilises the extreme heat of steam to effectively eliminate over 95% of typical home allergens, such as dust mites and pet dander from the air. When washing goods that gather dust, such as pillow covers and bed sheets, or when washing items that need particular care, such as infant clothing and undergarments, use this cycle to wash them. | <urn:uuid:e199faa7-f127-4212-87fa-80e417052c7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ncertpoint.com/2022/02/how-does-the-steam-cycle-work-on-samsung-washer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.934181 | 1,379 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A healthy body is a happy body, and one of the best ways to stay healthy is to get plenty of exercise. Hiking is an economical way to increase your activity level, while offering a plethora of health benefits. Start slowly, especially if you are a bit out of shape. Invest in a sturdy pair of hiking boots and do your research first. Many hiking trails are rated by intensity, so get a hiking guide and start out at the level that is right for you. Get your doctor's advice before hiking if you are pregnant or have any health problems, such as heart disease or diabetes.
Improves Your Overall Health
Hiking is an excellent way to get outdoors and get some exercise. Hiking offers a wealth of overall health benefits and may help prolong your life. Moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, including hiking at your own level, is safe for most people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lowers Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Take a hike to help keep your cardiovascular system in tip-top shape. Regular exercise, such as hiking, helps elevate your high-density lipoprotein levels and lower your triglyceride levels. This reduces your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.
Helps Prevent and Control Diabetes
Regular hiking helps you to control, or even prevent, diabetes by lowering your blood sugar levels. Hiking gives your muscles a workout, which moves glucose from your bloodstream for energy. Talk to your doctor first because you may need your diabetes medications adjusted when hiking regularly.
Increases Your Energy Level
Aerobic activities such as hiking bring extra oxygen and fuel to your muscles, organs and other body tissues. This extra oxygen and fuel provides a boost that strengthens your muscles and lungs, while increasing your endurance, alertness and energy level.
Keep your weight under control with a regular hiking regimen. Hiking burns calories; Diabetic Lifestyle states at a slow pace of 2 miles per hour, a 150-pound person burns approximately 240 calories per hour. Start slowly and work up to 30 minutes to 60 minutes daily.
Increases Your Bone Density
Fight osteoporosis and arthritis by taking hikes. Regular hiking helps develop strong bones and slow bone loss. If you have arthritis, the CDC says 150 minutes of hiking per week keeps your joints flexible and helps stave off the joint stiffness associated with osteoarthritis.
Lowers Your Cancer Risk
Hiking helps decrease your chances of developing some cancers. There is a lower risk of breast cancer and colon cancer associated with regular physical exercise, and it may also decrease your risk of lung cancer and endometrial cancer.
Elevates Your Mood
A hike through a beautiful wooded area can calm your nerves and lift your spirits. Take a scenic hike to relieve stress and forget your worries for a while. Hiking with a group provides an excellent opportunity to socialize and exchange ideas with others.
If you have trouble sleeping, you may find you sleep better after taking an invigorating hike. Hike regularly to reduce insomnia, get to sleep faster and enjoy a more refreshing sleep.
Provides Your Daily Dose of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient needed to keep your muscles and bones strong. Although vitamin D is available in many fortified foods, the best source is the sun. A mere 10 minutes of direct sunshine daily are all you need to maintain your vitamin D levels, so get out there and take a hike for better health. | <urn:uuid:06da7f11-e0dc-4b44-98b6-c4b34d6815f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/556850-ten-reasons-why-hiking-is-good-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93073 | 705 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The Np oxide-Lu oxide system was investigated between 1250Ad and l550AdC under a constant partial pressure of oxygen at 1 atm. ... Nd Orceorzroz The diagram shows two two-phase regions, two single-phase solid 2 solution regions and the rhombohedral compound Lur, NpO|;. ... The results were similar for other Np oxide-rare earth (Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb) oxide systems studied by the same procedures.
|Title||:||Phase Diagrams for Ceramists| | <urn:uuid:63584331-e6b1-4b5b-b43d-c025a886b1c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.escort-project.eu/download-pdf-phase-diagrams-for-ceramists-book.pdf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895256 | 120 | 1.53125 | 2 |
After reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and watching the movie, our class decided to celebrate by holding Wizard of Oz day! A great time was had by all. Mr. Kelly’s class joined us for a full day of festivities. The goal of the day was to earn your Oz badges: Courage, Heart, Brains and There’s No Place Like Home. Wondering what the kids had to do?
To earn a Courage Badge, they had to get up in front of the class and sing a song from the Wizard of Oz.
To earn a Heart Badge, they each had to do a kind deed for a friend or family member.
To earn a Brains Badge, they had to earn 5 points in Wizard of Oz Trivia.
To earn the Home Badge, they had to learn their address and tell why they love their home.
In the afternoon, we followed the Yellow Brick Road (the front sidewalk) and completed 5 stations:
Pin the Heart on the Tinman
Tornado in a Jar
We’re Off to Roll the Wizard (math game)
Wizard of Oz Activity Station
The kids were wonderful in their costumes and thoroughly enjoyed the day. Enjoy these pictures from our adventures!
p.s. Can you answer these trivia questions from the book (not the movie)?
What color were Dorothy’s magic slippers? (hint….not the same as the movie!)
What is a Kalidah?
What U.S. state is Dorothy from?
What is the special power of the Golden Cap?
Who are the Hammer Heads and what do they do?
As part of our study of communities, the children have learned about how and why communities change over time. We have learned that communities may grow larger or smaller or that communities may make changes to improve the quality of life for their citizens. Ms. Fisher and I sent the children out into the community with their families to discover for themselves some changes that are happening in our community. The projects that rolled in were simply amazing! Thank you to our wonderful families for supporting this extension of our learning. Please enjoy a few of the projects that the children completed!
Bregon made this video of a new office building being constructed. He noted that this building will bring jobs to our community, which is a good improvement!
Henry illustrates the importance of maintaining safe roads as part of a great community:
Cole learned about renovations being made to the University of Michigan Law School:
Here is a slide show of some other presentations from our class:
We have been learning quite a bit about communities as of late. The children worked in teams to create their own community. They had to make several decisions as a team. First, they had to make improvements to the existing community, then they had to decide which types of homes and businesses needed to be located in their community. Here are some pictures of some of the groups making their presentations. They were quite excited!
In the fall, our class sent a “symbolic” paper monarch butterfly to school children in Mexico. Recently we found out which class received our special ambassador! Sixth grade students at Amado Nervo Elementary School in Ocampo, Michoacan, Mexico are taking care of our paper butterflies for the winter. What an exciting way to share our learning with students in another country! Butterflies from all over the United States and Canada were delivered to various schools in Mexico. Amado Nervo School received butterflies from Ohio, Kentucky, Idaho, Florida, Ontario and more! Check out this link to read more information about our Ambassadorship with the Journey North program.
Here are some pictures of our butterfly and the students who received them! Can you find our butterfly in the picture? (I wasn’t able to find it, but I know it’s there. If you see it, please let us know!)
We had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! Thank you for supporting the Secret Pals and the Party. Both were enjoyed greatly by our second graders (and their teachers)! I hope you enjoy this short video of our day!!!
We LOVE our families!!!!!
Today we had a very special visitor to our classroom! Former mayor of Ann Arbor, Ingrid Sheldon, stopped by to talk to the students about what it’s like to be a mayor of a community. Mrs. Sheldon is a special friend of our classroom as a Rotarian Reading volunteer. She comes once a week to read with some of the students in our class. Today, however, we were able to learn more about Mrs. Sheldon and what exactly it means to run a special community like Ann Arbor. This tied in nicely with our current social studies unit, My Community. We are learning that a community is a place where people live, work, play and solve problems. Mrs. Sheldon was able to address all of those roles as she talked about what it was like to be a mayor. Thank you for visiting, Mrs. Sheldon!
A visit from former mayor of Ann Arbor, Ingrid Sheldon!
The children asked wonderful questions. Here are some things we learned:
Mrs. Sheldon went to school in a one-room schoolhouse through seventh grade, when she started going to Tappan School.
Mrs. Sheldon started her political career in Ann Arbor as a 2nd ward council member before being elected mayor.
Mrs. Sheldon was mayor of Ann Arbor from 1993-2000. That’s four terms!
As mayor, Mrs. Sheldon worked a lot of hours. She approved contracts, presided over meetings and helped the city in many ways.
One thing that Mrs. Sheldon really enjoyed doing as mayor was helping different groups of people connect to make life better in the community. Once, she helped some landowners connect with Habitat for Humanity to build the first HFH houses in the city.
As mayor, Mrs. Sheldon worked long hours, even though the job is technically a volunteer position. She worked a second job as a bookkeeper during her terms as mayor.
Mrs. Sheldon remains very active in the community. She loves to work in the schools with children (lucky us!) as well as being a member of the Rotary Club.
Today we created some beautiful turkey artwork to share with our families. They are created with oil pastels and watercolor. Around the frame are listed things the children are thankful for. Please enjoy the slideshow and THANK YOU to all of the wonderful parents that make this community such a great place to learn!!!
The children worked hard to create these beautiful oil pastel butterfly pictures in the classroom. We wrote accompanying acrostic poems and they are beautiful! Please enjoy this selection of art and poetry.
The monarch excitement continues in our classroom as most of the butterflies have emerged from their chrysalises. The children were able to witness this amazing process many times. The joy and excitement of the children has been nothing short of thrilling for all of us! Ask your children to tell you about the process a monarch goes through upon emerging from it’s pupa form. At first the abdomen of the butterfly is very fat and full of fluid. The wings are tiny and crumpled. Within a short amount of time, however, the butterfly pumps the fluid into its wings and is ready to fly. Sadly, one of our butterflies, Cutie, emerged during the night and fell to the bottom of the cage before her wings were formed. She is unable to fly, but the children are taking very good care of her. We hope you enjoy this slideshow of our experiences! | <urn:uuid:5240ae12-00d3-42ee-bc62-3df2c5764a6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mrsdelgado.edublogs.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.982945 | 1,563 | 3.375 | 3 |
Mission and Services
The mission of the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is to facilitate research on drug addiction and HIV infection by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. NAHDAP supports secondary data analysis through technical assistance and specialized training for data depositors and data users in the drug addiction and HIV research and policy communities.
NAHDAP's staff consists of professional researchers, data archivists, and technicians working together to promote the use of data relevant to drug addiction and HIV researchers and policy makers.
NAHDAP is hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest social science data archive in the world and part of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. NAHDAP is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. NIDA's mission is to bring the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction by supporting research across a wide range of disciplines and ensuring the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to improve prevention, treatment, and policy.
Data Depositor Services
NAHDAP provides the following services to assist data depositors:
- Technical assistance with data preparation
- Consultation on data collection to enhance secondary use
- Educational activities to promote data sharing
- Proposal preparation and data sharing plans
- Confidentiality reviews of data
Data User Services
NAHDAP provides the following services to assist data users:
- Identification of appropriate drug abuse and HIV data collections on specific topics
- Customized sub-setting and online analysis of selected data through online Survey Documentation and Analysis
- Assistance with retrieval and use of data files from NAHDAP
- Bibliographic citations to publications based on research data in NAHDAP
Education and Training Services
NAHDAP offers education and training programs:
- Two- and three-day workshops in the ICPSR's summer program on quantitative methods or secondary analysis of specific datasets
- Workshops and webinars on data preparation and legal and technical issues associated with data sharing
- Conference short courses on data management plans and data sharing
- On-site technical training for depositors and research work groups to enhance data preparation
See the NAHDAP Training tab for details on NAHDAP's education and training services.
NAHDAP staff strive to provide open and equitable access to all users. If you are having any problems accessing information on the NAHDAP site, or if you have suggestions for improving our accessibility, please email us at [email protected] | <urn:uuid:95f54902-f144-4b5b-ba43-96c44f3d114e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NAHDAP/about.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889939 | 547 | 1.632813 | 2 |
It is possible the future of hunting and survival fashion has been written by a group of design students in London?
There have been other attempts at transformer-style outer gear. The Jakpak is one, but it’s really more of a wearable bivvy sack than a tent. A skirt folds down to create a sleeping bag, and a small dome proves shelter for head and shoulders, but it can’t really be called a proper tent.
Then here comes a new one designed by a group of students at London’s Royal College of Art. It’s called a jacket, but it’s really more of a poncho. Maybe the best feature is that it’s made of super light and durable Tyvek with a Mylar lining. The Mylar is reflective, so it provides a heat retainer just like an emergency space blanket.
The designers, who launched a Kickstarter campaign for the project, incorporated collapsible tent poles to move the garment away from Jakpak-style iterations, letting it become a true one-person tent once converted. The wearable garment was designed with refugees from the Syrian conflict in mind, but like all wars, a new concept born of necessity will find their way into the outdoor worl.
In fact, imagine a nice RealTree or Mossy Oak cammo pattern on it. Not only does it make you now an effective and versatile hunter, but you’ll look a lot like a rebel soldier from the Ewok sequence in Return of The Jedi.
Okay, that was a stretch, but how about this: It also converts to a sleeping bag, and the tent configuration is large enough to house an adult and a couple children. The jacket is in fact a little bit more than a poncho: it had pockets that can accommodate documentation, mobile phones, or other personal effects.
Photo credit: Royal College of Art | <urn:uuid:69cec7c6-c37d-4e6c-be69-19df2c8ea510> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.liveoutdoors.com/news/229683-wearable-tent-streamline-outdoor-adventure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00391-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948937 | 391 | 1.875 | 2 |
fischertechnik Mechanic and Static 2 is the definitive technical construction set for future engineers and technicians. This comprehensive set explores how a shaft drive and/or manual transmission work; demonstrates the function of a planetary gear; and allows you to design a stable bridge. fischertechnik encourages young builders to learn a range of basic mechanical concepts, while assembling over 30 versatile models.
Have you always wanted to know how a shaft drive, a bevel gear, or planetary gear works? Do you want to learn how to build a stable bridge or a scissors lift? Then our Retro Mechanics is the building set for you!
The ideal set for teaching about generating, storing and using electricity from natural sources. Build exciting models that move using wind, water, or solar power and learn them about applied technology in a fun way.
How does a fuel cell work, and how can you use it to produce hydrogen? And how can hydrogen be used to drive a vehicle? The fischertechnik H2 Fuel Cell Car building set brings this future technology into your home...
COMING IN JULY 2021--The E-Tronic set allows you to discover the world of electronics through play! Students can build simple circuits, series and parallel circuits, electronic switches with transistors, capacitors, resistors and LEDs.
Explore and understand the fundamentals of hydraulics through play. The fischertechnik hydraulic system is operated with water, demonstrating how force can be transmitted via liquid media.
Our Solar Power set demonstrates a key future energy source in a fun way. Electricity is generated using a solar module, helping to power the helicopter, airplane, windmill and carousel.
This building set teaches the fundamentals of pneumatics in a fun way, showing how components like compressors, pneumatic valves and cylinders, and an exhaust throttle valve work using realistic models, and demonstrating why this technology has been around for such a long time.
fischertechnik Pneumatic Power takes a learning-by-playing approach to the principles of pneumatics. This set includes realistic models to show how pneumatic valves and cylinders work. With 200 sturdy fischertechnik parts, young learners can construct an excavator and four other models - an included activity information and instruction manual shows them how! This set is a great way to inspire learning through play.
Small things become big things, with the Smart SuperZoom! This special set allows you to turn any Smartphone into a microscope. It doesn’t matter whether you’re looking at the veins on an autumn maple leaf, or the words on mom’s business card, the high-quality lens of the Smart SuperZoom can enlarge your view by 26-fold!
fischertechnik Electronics is a construction set focused on teaching the basic principles of electronics. This set encourages builders to explore simple circuits, series and parallel connections, electronic circuits with transistors, capacitors, resistors and LEDs. The foundation of the set, the electronic module, is a control with 24 fixed programs, 2 motor outputs, 3 analog inputs and potentiometers for controlling the speed of the motor. With fischertechnik Electronics you can construct many fascinating and functional models, from a simple flashlight to a controllable ventilating fan and more. This set also includes a dynamic activity booklet that will help you build up to 12 different models. | <urn:uuid:483be16a-e3db-41a3-b537-e062d4cf756e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fischertechnik.biz/profi-stem-sets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.861401 | 689 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In his twenties, he turned his life around: joining the army and embracing its discipline and stoicism.
Then Iñigo was severely wounded in battle and captured. The medical treatment he received was primitive to the point of brutality and he was confined to bed for months.
Bored and seeking distraction from his pain, Iñigo asked his caregivers for adventure books to read, but all they had to loan him were books about religious people. He decided to work with what he had and read the books as if they were adventure stories.
In those months of reading and thinking, Iñigo came to understand how a life of faith could be the greatest adventure, the greatest heroism, and the greatest glory. It proved to be an intense conversion experience, in which he learned much about himself, about God, and about the spiritual life.
It was the greatest turnaround of his life.
When he was finally able to get up and around, Iñigo spent some time alone, and then made a difficult pilgrimage to the Holy Land before devoting himself to study and to helping others reform their lives. His efforts were often met with opposition that sometimes turned violent. Eventually he left the country.
As Iñigo continued his studies, a small group of followers gathered around him. He began to see them as a company of soldiers: a company belonging to Jesus. They soon became known as the Jesuits.
Iñigo, also known as Ignatius of Loyola, came to be one of the great figures in the renewal of the Church. He also developed a book of Spiritual Exercises that remains not only a guide for life-changing spiritual retreats, but also for spiritual discernment and growth. He died in his mid sixties in Rome 453 years ago today.
(from a previous post) | <urn:uuid:7dac6942-f494-4998-8bbf-934771ba6385> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://penitens.blogspot.com/2009/07/turnaround.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00512-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993996 | 372 | 2.5 | 2 |
« 上一頁繼續 »
of the gospel, and particularly as a minister in the pulpit. He was, in many respects,” says Dr. Rogers,
one of the best models on which a young preacher could form himself. It was a singular felicity to the whole college, but especially to those who had the profession of the ministry in contemplation, to have such an example constantly in view. Religion, by the manner in which it was treated by him, always commanded the respect of those who heard him, even when it was not able to engage their hearts. An admirable textuary ; a profound theologian, perspicuous and simple in his manner; an universal scholar, acquainted with human nature; a grave, dignified, solemn speaker ;-he brought all the advantages derived from these sources, to the illustration and enforcement of i ine truth."
The social qualities of Dr. Witherspoon rendered him one of the most companionable of men. He possessed a rich fund of anecdote, both amusing and instructive. His moments of relaxation were as entertaining as his serious ones were fraught with improvement. The following anecdote presents a specimen of his pleasantry. On the surrender of the British army to General Gates, at Saratoga, that officer dispatched one of his aids to convey the news to congress. The interesting character of the intelligence would have prompted most men to have made as expeditious a journey as possible ; but the aid proceeded so leisurely, that the intelligence reached Philadelphia three days before his arrival. It was usual for congress, on such occasions, to bestow some mark of their esteem upon the person who was the bearer of intelligence so grateful; and it was proposed, in this case, to best w upon the messenger an elegant sword. During the conversation on this subject in the hall, Dr. Witherspoon rose, and begged leave to amend the motion, by substituting for an elegant sword, a pair of golden spurs.
Another interesting trait in his character, was his attention to young persons. He never suffered an opportunity to escape him of imparting the most useful advice to them, according to their circumstances, when they happened to be in his company. And this was always done with so much kindness and suavity, that they could neither be inattentive to it, or easily forget it.
In domestic life, he was an affectionate husband, a tender parent, a kind master, and a sincere friend. He was twice married. The first time in Scotland, at an early age, to a lady by the name of Montgomery. She was a woman distinguished for her piety and benevolence. At the time of his emigration to America, he had three sons and two daughters. James, his eldest son, was killed in the battle of Germantown. John was bred a physician, and David applied himself to the study of the law. Both were respectable men. Of the d ughters, one was married to the Rev. Samuel S. Smith, the successor of Dr. Witherspoon in the presidency of the college. The other became connected with Dr. Ramsay, the celebrated historian. The second marriage of Dr. Witherspoon occurred when he was seventy years old; the lady whom he married was only twenty-three.
In his person, Dr. Witherspoon was remarkably dignified. He was six feet in height, and of fine proportion. He was distinguished for a fervent piety, and for great punctuality and exactness in his devotional exercises. “ Besides his daily devotions of the closet, and the family, it was his stated practice to observe the last day of every year, with his family, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer: and it was also his practice to set apart days for secret fasting and prayer, as occasion suggested."
• Bodily infirmities began at length to come upon him. For more than two years before his death, he was afflicted with the loss of sight, which contributed to hasten the progress of his other disorders. These he bure with a patience, and even with a cheerfulness, rarely to be met with in the most eminent for wisdom and piety. Nor would his active mind, and his desire of usefulness to the end, permit him, even in this situation, to desist from the exercise of his ministry, and his duties in the college, as far as his strength and health would admit. He was frequently led into the pulpit, both at home and abroad, during his blindness; and always acquitted
himself with his usual accuracy, and frequently with more than his usual solemnity and animation.”
At length, however, he sank under the accumulated pressure of his infirmities; and on the 15th day of November, 1794, in the seventy-third year of his age he retired to his final rest. The following epitaph is inscribed on the marble which covers his remains :
Beneath this marble lie interred
the mortal remains of
on the 5th of February, 1722, 0. S. And was liberally educated in the University of Edinburgh;
invested with holy orders in the year 1743,
his pastoral charge,
Elected president of Nassau Hall, he assumed the duties of that office on the 13th of August, 1768,
with the elevated expectations of the public,
Excelling in every mental gift,
of literature and the liberal arts.
A grave and solemn preacher, his sermons abounded in the most excellent doctrines and precepts,
and in lucid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.
he was eminently distinguished
and endowed with the greatest prudence
of its literary character and taste.
He was, for a long time, conspicuous Among the most brilliant luminaries of learning and of the Church.
At length, universally venerated, beloved, and lamented, he departed this life on the fifteenth of November, MDCCXCIV.
aged LXXIII years.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1737. His father, Thomas Hopkinson, was an Englishman, who emigrated to America, but in what year is unknown to the writer. A short time previous to his emigration, he became respectably connected by marriage, with a niece of the bishop of Worcester.
On his arrival in America, he took up his residence in the city of Philadelphia, where he honou ably filled several offices of distinction, under the government of his native country. Mr. Hopkinson was distinguished for his scientific attainments. He was intimate with that distinguished philosopher, Benjamin Franklin, by whom he was held in high estination. The intimacy which subsisted between these gentlemen, seems to have arisen from a similarity of taste, particularly on philosophical subjects. To Mr. Hopkinson is attributed the first experiment of attracting the electric fluid, by means of a pointed instrument, instead of a blunt one. This experiment he had the pleasure of first exhibiting to Dr. Franklin. Its practical importance consisted in preventing the severe explosion, which always takes place in the passage of the electric fluid, upon a blunted instrument.
Upon the death of Mr. Hopkinson, which occurred while he was in the prime of life, the care of his interesting and numerous, family devolved upon his widow. Fortunately, Mrs. Hopkinson was a lady of superior mental endowments, and well qualified to superintend the education of her child
At an early period, discovering indications of genius in her son, the subject of the present memoir, she resolved to make every sacrifice, and every effort in her power, to give him the advantages of a superior education. Her income was comparatively limited, but a mother can relinquish every enjoyment for her children. This Mrs. Hopkinson did with the greatest pleasure; and to the practice of self-denial for her son, she added, for his benefit, the most admirable precepts,
and the most excellent example. Her efforts were crowned with singular success. She lived to see him graduate with reputation, from the college of Philadelphia, and become eminent in the profession of law. He possessed talents of a high order. His genius was quick and versatile. He penetrated the depths of science with ease, and with grave and important truths stored his capacious mind. But he by no means neglected the lighter accomplishments. In music and poetry he excelled, and had some knowledge of painting. Few men were more distinguished for their humour and satire.
In the year 1766, Mr. Hopkinson embarked for England, for the purpose of visiting the land of his fathers. Such was the estimation in which he was held in his native city, that he received a public expression of respect and affection, from the board of trustees of the college of Philadelphia, which the provost of that institution was desired to communicate to him, and wish him, in the behalf of his Alma Mater, a safe and prosperous voyage.
After a residence of more than two years in England, he returned to America, soon after which he became settled in life, having married a Miss Borden, of Bordentown, in the state of New Jersey. His acknowledged talents soon drew the attention of the royal government, under which he received the appointment of collector of the customs, and executive counsellor.
These offices, however, he did not long enjoy, being obliged to sacrifice them in the cause of his country. He entered with strong feelings into the public measures which preceded the revolutionary contest, and having taken up his residence in New Jersey, his abilities and patriotism pointed him out as a proper person to represent her in congress. Accordingly, in the year 1776 he received this appointment, and in this capacity he voted for the declaration of independence, and subsequently affixed his signature to the engrossed copy of that memorable instrument.
On the retirement of Mr. Ross, in 1779, the judge of the admiralty court of Pennsylvania, the president of that state nominated Mr. Hopkinson as his successor; an office to | <urn:uuid:ca16c38f-94e4-4441-89bb-e45657a2f01d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SW9wAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=editions:HARVARDHN1SF1&lr=&as_brr=0&hl=zh-TW&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.987653 | 2,115 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Let me start my first post here at Strange Weather by thanking Julien for the opportunity to join him here at his blog. I’ve been studiously preparing by listening to lots of Tom Waits albums, and although I hadn’t intended for my first post to be about hurricanes in the northeastern United States, some strange weather intervened.
I’m a recent arrival to the Massachusetts coast and now a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after spending the previous several years in New York City. While Superstorm Sandy, née Hurricane Sandy, was still several days from landfall in New Jersey, though, the region’s history of deadly hurricanes was already in the front of my mind. In August of 1991 Hurricane Bob scored a direct hit on Falmouth on Cape Cod in Massachusetts — my new home. At barbeques and gatherings this summer, my immediate neighbors were telling their stories of Bob’s “furious” landfall, the wind, the snapping trees, the storm surge, the flooding — and the long aftermath without power. So as Sandy lined up for her run at New England at the end of October, I admit I was somewhat nervously eyeing the tall but spindly locust trees near my house.
New England is not without a reason to keep one eye on the tropics in the late summer and autumn. Besides Bob, the New England Hurricane of 1938, the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, Hurricane Carol in 1954, and Hurricane Donna in 1960. Wikipedia has a list of New England hurricanes. In 1821, a hurricane passed directly over New York City, resulting in 13 feet of storm surge and causing the East River to flow across lower Manhattan south of Canal Street. Yet another reason to be wary about hurricanes in New England lies in the mud and sand of the coastal marshes up and down the New England coast, several of which are disconcertingly within walking distance of my new home. These environments preserve a long record of storm activity in coastal New England going back hundreds or thousands of years.
Jeff Donnelly is a colleague of mine at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and one of the world’s experts in paleotempestology (Andrew Alden has a nice write-up on this science, here) — the study of past major storm activity from geological or biological evidence. Jeff uses sediments in coastal environments like marshes to identify and date past storms, but others have also used stable isotopes in tree rings, corals, and cave deposits, as well as historical records.
Marsh sediments from across New England tell a story of past hurricane strikes in the region, some clearly quite large. These environments record the passage of strong storms in the overwash deposits of sand that flood over their barrier with the sea during high waves and storm surges. Shore Drive in Falmouth is just such a barrier, and Sandy demonstrated quite clearly what an overwash deposit on its way to a backbarrier marsh looks like.
In a 2001 paper in the journal Geology, Jeff Donnelly and colleagues used multiple sediment cores extracted from a backbarrier march at Whale Beach, New Jersey, located between Ocean City and Sea Isle City, just to the south of Atlantic City, and close to where Hurricane Sandy made landfall, to reconstruct a history of beach overwash. They found deposits of sand associated with a 1962 nor’easter and another strong storm which they believed was the 1821 Hurricane. They dated a third deposit, thicker than the 1821 sand layer and probably related to an intense hurricane, to between 1278 and 1438 CE. In their article they note that the Whale Beach record suggests an annual landfall probability of 0.3%.
In a 2004 paper in Marine Geology, Donnelly and his team again looked at overwash deposits in New Jersey, this time from Brigantine, just to the north of Atlantic City. Here again they identified a layer of sand in the backbarrier marsh likely corresponding to the 1821 hurricane. They also dated large sand layers to the period between 550 – 1400 CE, which might correspond with the 13th or 14th century event identified at Whale Beach.
Further to the east, in another 2001 paper Donnelly and his team used sediment cores from Succotash Marsh (near the fabulous Matunuck Oyster Bar near Point Judith in Rhode Island) to date hurricane strikes to known events in 1938 and 1954, as well as 1815 and the 1630s. Two other overwash deposits were dated to 1295-1407 and 1404-1446 CE. Donnelly and coauthors concluded that “at least seven hurricanes of intensity sufficient to produce storm surge capable of overtopping the barrier beach at Succotash Marsh have made landfall in southern New England in the past 700 yr”
One more, closer to home: In 2009, Anni Madsen and her coauthors (including Donnelly) published dates on hurricane deposits in Little Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. This particular core shows a number of overwash deposits over the last 600 years, including probably Hurricane Bob and the 1976 Groundhog Day storm, but is also indicative of some of the difficulties and uncertainties in using backbarrier marshes to reconstruct hurricane strikes: Little Sippewissett Marsh doesn’t have sand layers that obviously date to recorded storms in 1938, 1944, 1954, 1815 and 1635, which include some of the largest to hit this region. Uncertainties arise from, amongst other things: a single core may not record all the storms at a site, storms themselves alter the height of the barrier and inlet channels, dating of events comes with analytical and depositional uncertainty, and in New England strong storms could be hurricanes or nor’easters.
On Dot Earth, Andy Revkin has pointed toward his articles on Donnelly’s Caribbean research, as well as a 2002 paper by Anders Noren on millennium-scale storminess in the northeastern United States.
Bringing us back to Sandy, what does the history and geology of New England hurricanes tell us? There is evidence from all along the coast that powerful storms do occasionally make landfall in the region. The evidence from Whale Beach in New Jersey, near to where Sandy came ashore, records the very strong 1821 hurricane as well as another likely event in the 13th or 14th century. Other strong storms have hit the New England coast at other times in the past millennium. A 2002 article from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution quotes Donnelly:
“Most people have short memories,” says Donnelly. In fact, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population of the northeastern US has never experienced a hurricane. Donnelly’s research provides evidence to be heeded. “The geologic record shows that these great events do occur,” he says. “We need to make people aware that it can happen again. We’ve got to have better evacuation plans and we need to equip people to react to a big storm.”
I’m so far agnostic on the precise influence of human-caused climate changes on the track and characteristics of Sandy. The process of sorting out the influence of natural variability from the human-influence on this particular storm has just begun. As Justin Gillis notes in the New York Times Green Blog:
Some [climate scientists] are already offering preliminary speculations, true, but a detailed understanding of the anatomy and causes of the storm will take months, at least. In past major climate events, like the Russian heat wave and Pakistani floods of 2010, thorough analysis has taken years — and still failed to produce unanimity about the causes.
The influence of rising sea levels, particularly along the east coast of North America, no doubt has to be factored into understanding current and future storm surges. But what the geological and historical record indicate is that even in the absence of a human-influence on the strength, track, or magnitude of tropical storms, we would still need to be prepared for destructive coastal storms to strike areas of high population and considerable infrastructure. Paleoclimatology — in this case, paleotempestology — nearly always provides us with evidence of an even greater range and diversity of behavior of the climate system then we’ve witnessed over the relatively short period of instrumental observations, and gives an idea of some of the events — droughts, floods, and storms — that we need to keep in mind when figuring out how to build resilient communities. | <urn:uuid:12f0ef21-9556-4693-b242-8b9bf10ac3c7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://strangeweather.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/new-england-hurricanes-the-forecast-every-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944684 | 1,760 | 2.046875 | 2 |
An electronic ignition system works by using sensors, transistors and electrical switches to deliver high voltage to the engine's spark plugs. This helps the engine generate a stronger spark, which leads to improved combustion and emissions control.Continue Reading
Compared to traditional ignition systems, an electronic ignition system does not need a resistor to reduce the operating voltage of the primary circuit to prolong the life of points. This means that the ignition system is operating on full battery voltage, and thus a stronger spark is possible.
Major components of an electronic ignition system include the ignition coil, ignition wires, ignition control module, camshaft sensor, crankshaft position sensor and the spark plugs. The crankshaft position sensor informs the engine computer how fast the engine is running. Likewise, the camshaft sensor tells the computer when to activate the fuel injectors and deliver fuel. The computer both accepts information and informs the ignition control module what to do based on the information it has received.
In turn, the ignition control module collapses a magnetic field built up inside each one of its ignition coils. The coils produce a high voltage as a result of this magnetic field collapse, which travels through the ignition wires and to the spark plugs. In general, an electronic ignition system is capable of sending around 50,000 volts to the spark plugs to ignite the fuel and air mixture.
Electronic ignition systems have been the standard since the 1970s, as mechanical ignition systems were phased out around the same time. A car that has been built from late 1970s onward is likely equipped with an electronic ignition system.Learn more about Car Parts & Maintenance | <urn:uuid:a38fe843-b638-4b9f-be03-43e7cfab2894> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/vehicles/automotive-electronic-ignition-systems-work-f5bd4bddf6e6d9ef | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924886 | 325 | 3.875 | 4 |
A group of Texas soldiers is celebrating the successful heart surgery of an Iraqi boy. Members of hte 56th Brigade combat team of the Texas Army National Guard paid for the seven-year-old to travel to Houston for a life-saving operation.
Kadhem Jawad Kathem is seven years old and has never been able to attend school, play outside with other children or even walk long distances. That’s because Kadhem has lived with a congenital heart defect that reduced the flow of oxygen in his blood. When members of the 56th BCT heard about his condition they decided they wanted to get involved. It’s not known how many people contributed, but anonymous donations from the unit covered expenses for Kadhem and his father to come to Texas Children’s Hospital, where a team awaited his arrival. Dr. Mark Fraser is the chief of pediatric cardiovascular surgery. He says the surgery likely saved Kadhem’s life.
The Army was alerted to Kadhem’s condition when his mother requested medical attention from the town clinic. A medic in Iraq contacted Texas Children’s by email and began the process of getting visas for Kadhem and his father. Surgeons operated on Kadhem on Tuesday and expect his recovery to go well. Texas Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Bently shared his thoughts by conference call from Iraq.
Kadhem will spend about a week in the hospital, and then stay in Houston for about a month as doctors monitor his progress. Dr. Fraser says he told Kadhem’s father the boy should be able live a healthy normal life.
If all goes as expected, Kadhem and his father will return to Iraq and be reunited with the rest of their family some time in August. Kadhem will then enroll in school for the first time. | <urn:uuid:d45c8b0c-81ed-455b-8ff3-ee0471cbb567> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2005/07/14/502/texans-make-life-saving-operation-for-iraqi-boy-possible/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987125 | 369 | 1.75 | 2 |
Law Enforcement Abuse of Power
The term “abuse of power” encompasses all the ways police officers can abuse their positions by taking advantage of the very people they have pledged to serve and protect. While most police officers take that pledge seriously, there are some who abuse the power given them to fulfill selfish personal desires. Abuse of power by a law enforcement officer could include:
- The use of excessive force;
- Placing a citizen under false arrest;
- Warrantless searches or arrests;
- Assault upon a citizen;
- Forcing a citizen to have sex in return for not arresting them or giving them a ticket;
- Violations of the civil rights of a citizen;
- Engaging in fraud or theft, and
- An unlawful murder.
Many citizens who are victims of law enforcement abuse of power are left feeling they have no recourse against the officer who injured them and abused his or her power as a police officer. It is important for these people to know that just because a person has a badge and has been given some authority, they are not above the law. In 2009 The Cato Institute reported 449 incidents of reported police misconduct which were tracked in the national news. Among those reports, excessive force complaints against police officers were the most common, followed by sexual misconduct complaints against police officers, then fraud and theft reports against police officers. Some more disturbing facts regarding law enforcement abuse of power, also from The Cato Institute, include:
- Among the top ten worst cities by total number of police officer abuse of power reports, Murfreesboro, TN came in at number 9.
- Among the states, Montana ranked number one per capita for incidences of police officer abuse of power at 6.2 incidences per 100,000 people. Tennessee ranked 8th, at 2.9 incidences per 100,000 people.
- One out of every 135.8 police officers across the nation will be implicated (in the news media) for a criminal act or an act of misconduct.
- While one out of every 220 citizens will be accused of a violent crime, that number is one out of every 352 police officers.
- One out of every 1,063 police officers will be accused of a sexual assault, while one out of every 3,413 citizens will be accused of a sexual assault.
Unfortunately, over the past few years, a day seldom goes by without another case of police brutality or abuse of power by police officers being reported in the news. The frequency of these occurrences begs the question as to whether this is simply our new norm—and whether the public can ever truly feel safe and protected by law enforcement. We hear of police officers bursting into the wrong homes, even shooting those inside the home, then claiming someone made a “sudden move,” to justify their use of excessive force.
We also hear of citizens being shot in the back, while the officer claims the citizen was acting in a threatening manner. Turning in false reports, planting evidence, and even being the aggressor with the public are all things which are not all that uncommon any more. These incidences make us wonder why more and more police officers appear to have abusive personalities. Is it that the type of person attracted to law enforcement are bullies to begin with, therefore the promise of power and lack of oversight is appealing? Or, in our digital age, is it just that more of these situations are being recorded?
Your Rights Under Mississippi Laws and Our Constitution
Certainly, the actions of a few bad police officers make it more difficult for those officers who genuinely want to do an honest job, and be an upstanding role model in their chosen profession, however if you believe you have been the victim of police brutality, you must know your rights. You have the right to be silent, and this can certainly be the most important action you can take when you are the target of an officer’s abuse of power—or in any situation with the police.
As soon as possible following an incident of police abuse of power, it is important that you carefully document the incident, including time, place, officer(s) involved, witnesses, and any other facts you can remember. If you require medical attention, see a doctor quickly, and keep a copy of all your medical records related to your injuries. Finally, contact a Mississippi attorney who has experience in protecting the civil rights of citizens and in defending citizens against abuse of power by law enforcement.
How The Stroud Law Firm Can Help
Law enforcement abuse of power situations can often lead to a miscarriage of justice, and may also involve discrimination of one type or another. Police abuse of power can also involve corruption—abusing police authority for personal gains. Police corruption can include receiving stolen goods, extortion, bribery and the sale of drugs. The Stroud Law Firm has handled many law enforcement abuse of power cases.
Our attorneys understand that a person who has been the victim of law enforcement abuse of power may feel helpless and even frightened. We know that cases involving police abuse of power require thorough research and investigation, and we will commit the time and dedication necessary to your case, while protecting your rights at every turn. Call The Stroud Law Firm today at (662) 536-5656, or fill out the contact form on the right. | <urn:uuid:46e686da-d2e6-44f9-be87-ad06c07fed0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stroudlawyers.com/civil-rights/law-enforcement-abuse-of-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.964198 | 1,081 | 2.8125 | 3 |
In The Atlantic, Andrew Simmons argues that the Internet has actually improved student writing:
As a high-school English teacher, I read well over a thousand student essays a year. I can report that complete sentences are an increasingly endangered species. I wearily review the point of paragraphs every semester. This year I tried and failed to spark a senior class protest against “blobs”—my pejorative term for essays lacking paragraphs. When I see a winky face in the body of a personal essay—and believe me, it has happened enough to warrant a routine response—I use a red pen to draw next to it a larger face with narrow, angry eyes and gaping jaws poised to chomp the offending emoticon to pieces Pac-Man-style. My students analyze good writing and discuss the effect of word choice and elegant syntax on an audience’s reading experience. The uphill battle is worth fighting, but I’m always aware that something more foreboding than chronic senioritis lines up in opposition.
O.K. So far, so bad. Complete sentences and unified, coherent paragraphs are “increasingly endangered species;” emoticons show up enough “to warrant a routine response”? So how has the Internet “transformed” students writing “for the better”?
Well, it hasn’t—or, more precisely, Mr. Simmons doesn’t show that it has because he confuses improved writing with increased emotional honesty:
However, while Facebook and Twitter have eroded writing conventions among my students, they have not killed the most important ingredients in personal writing: self-reflection and emotional honesty. For younger high school boys particularly, social networking has actually improved writing – not the product or the process, but the sensitivity and inward focus required to even begin to produce a draft that will eventually be worth editing.
* * *
At the same time, the emotional distance fostered by Facebook and other sites can encourage a healthier candor, too. On Facebook, even popular students post statuses in which they express insecurities. I see a dozen every time I log on. A kid frets that his longtime girlfriend is straying and wishes he hadn’t upset her. Another admits to being lonely (with weepy emoticons added for effect). Another asks friends to pray for his sick little sister. Another worries the girl he gave his number to isn’t interested because she hasn’t called in the 17 minutes that have passed since the fateful transaction. Another disparages his own intellect. “I’m so stupid, dad told me to drop out,” he writes. Another wonders why his parents are always angry, and why their anger is so often directed at him. “Brother coming home today,” another posts. “Gonna see how it goes.”
Individually these may seem like small-scale admissions. But the broader trend I have witnessed in the past few years stands in sharp contrast to the vigilance with which my generation guarded our fears both trivial and deep. In this sense, social networking has dramatically altered how high-school boys deal with their emotions.
First, I wonder what the criteria are, exactly, for “emotional honesty”? How does he know his male students are being more honest? Maybe they know they have to fake it to get through the class? And has Facebook improved “emotional distance”? I’m not sure.
But second, and more to the point, what does emotional honesty have to do with good writing? I can be illiterate and still be very good at spilling my guts. Even in a personal essay, it’s arguably less about the emotions themselves and more about how a writer uses those emotions to make a larger point. Mr. Simmons has confused a skill—good writing—with a particular attitude or perspective regarding feelings.
Maybe I am a terrible teacher, but when my students are preparing to write an essay on a work of literature, I tell them I don’t care how a text makes them feel. As a human being, I care, and as a professor of literature, I care. After all, the value of literature is in how it expresses the important things of life in a particularly meaningful way. Why bother reading works of literature if they didn’t do this?
But when it comes to writing about texts, particularly at the university, where the point is to practice, among other things, effective written communication and analytical skills, what matters is not how a text makes students feel but what a text shows or does.
It’s a small but important difference. In the first case, the focus is on the students’ feelings, which I cannot evaluate or even discuss in terms of proof. The second, however, focuses on the text and objective data—word choice, syntax, structure, plot, symbols, pacing, metaphors and so forth. The second also has the advantage of forcing students to read more carefully, which, in turn, can help them become aware of the importance of little differences in the meanings of words or of syntax in their own writing.
I hated my English classes in high school in part because I had teachers that viewed writing as an extension of either psychology or mathematics. What attracted me to writing as I got older—and I am thinking mainly of non-fiction prose here, though I think some of this applies to other genres—was that I had a professor who taught it as if it were boxing. It was the jab of the short, biting phrase, the body blow of just the right word, and the uppercut of proof. Like boxing, writing is a skill that has little to do with how angry (or emotionally honest) you may or may not be.
Mr. Simmons writes:
Many of my students grow up in households in which machismo reigns supreme. They’ve never been allowed to cry. Their mothers and sisters cook and wash the dishes and clean. They’ve been encouraged to see themselves as dominant, powerful, swaggering, sullen men, not sensitive and reflective men, powerfully kind, confidently open. Fostering those traits is a woman’s responsibility, like housework. In this sense, Facebook is a genuine outlet for the young men I teach. Just as social networking frees users from public decorum and encourages the birthing of troll alter egos, it allows my students to safely, if temporarily, construct kinder, gentler versions of themselves as well.
Fair enough. I am against a definition of masculinity that views manhood principally it terms of its capacity for violence. But I am also against a view of manhood (and writing) that confuses power with violence and skill with emotion.
I don’t know how Mr. Simmons’s male students are actually doing in terms of their writing (whatever progress they have made emotionally), but I wonder if he might see even more progress if he allows them to use writing to spar and not just to gush. | <urn:uuid:159d91d5-1948-481e-aca1-ca213cba17ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/writing-as-boxing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962069 | 1,460 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The Holy Month of Ramadan enjoys a special importance in the Islamic calendar. Ramadan is called most Significant month in the Islamic calendar (The ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar) and it's obligatory for the Muslim Ummah to fast in Ramazan. Significance of this islamic month lies in the fact that it's one of the five basic and foremost pillars of Islam.
It is essential to understand the value of Ramadan while fasting in order to take the maximum benefit. Here are some informative islamic stuff that shows the importance of Ramadan in Islam.
|The blessings & benefits of Ramadan Fasting|
|Reasons Why Muslims Should Fast in Ramadan|
|Fast during Ramadan|
|Month of Ramadan Importance|
|Meaning of fasting in Islam|
|Ramadan for Muslims|
|Ramadan Mentioned in Quran|
Importance of Holy Month of Ramadan in Islam and Significance of Ramazan for Muslims is an Inspirational Beautiful Islamic Stuff 4U. You can download Beautiful Islamic Pictures by clicking on the Images. Thanks for visiting Islamic Stuff Corner | <urn:uuid:fa9cdd2c-f834-44a6-8fd5-876cf1928a90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://islamic-stuff-corner.blogspot.com/2016/06/importance-of-holy-month-of-ramadan-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00315-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883784 | 226 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Assume that all the methylene groups in the alkane are equally reactive as sites of free-radical chlorination.
a) Photochemical chlorination of heptane gave a mixture of monochlorides containing 15% 1-chloroheptane. What other monochlorides are present? Estimate the percentage of each of these additioanl C7H15Cl isomers in a monochloride fraction.
b) Photochemical chlorination of dodecane gave a monochloride fraction containing 19% 2-chlorododecane. Estimate the percentage of 1- chlorododecane present in that fraction.
a) The assumption in the problem means that each carbon atom on the chain will accept a Cl atom with the same likelihood or percentage. The possible monochloride isomers for heptane (C7H16) are as follows: 1-chloroheptane, 2-chloroheptane, 3-chloroheptane and 4-chloroheptane (5-chloroheptane doesn't exist, as that would be equal to 3-chloroheptane, because in naming the compounds (nomenclature of alkane derivatives), we ...
This solution provides an answer as to what other mono chlorides are present in the mixture of 15% 1-chloroheptane. Also, the estimated percentages of additional C7H15CI isomers and 1-chlorododecane are given. | <urn:uuid:e985453a-29ca-4f9f-94de-3a8918d8327b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://brainmass.com/chemistry/organic-reactions/photochemical-chlorination-13323 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859117 | 315 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Oglesby saw the conflict in regional terms with the new wealth of the Oil Aristocracywho he called the Cowboys based in the Southern tier, battling the old wealth of Wall Street, powercrats he called The "Yankees.
Herb Calhoun describes his argument, set against the background of the assassinations of the 60's as growing out of these elite conflicts:
"What all of these events had in common was that they were links in a chain designed to replace one set of power elite (members of the old moneyed "peace promoting" Eastern Yankee Establishment) with another (the Nuevo Riche and newly arrived, "progress through war" Western Cowboys). Thus it is argued here that the events connecting Dallas, Memphis, Watergate and the demise of the Hughes empire, are but threads in a common fabric, growing and evolving directly out of the systematic corruption of American politics and out of contemporary political realities.
"Altogether it is thus a seductive and believable theory that says as much about American political realities as it does about the events of Dallas, LA, Memphis and NY themselves. What Oglesby tries to do, and succeeds at it brilliantly, is expose the almost organic level of corruption in the structure of the political process""
Well that corruption has not gone away as we watch the health insurance industry buy Democrats and Republicans alike, as we watch the news machine turn into the fear machine while the bankers turn the bailout billions into bonuses to enrich their already rich coffers. A study by NY State Attorney General Cuomo found that big banks took more out in compensation than they took in. If you call this looting, you won't be wrong.
Calhoun calls it this way:
"" there is no free lunch even in a democracy. As in any other political system, in a democracy too the choice is between terror and tyranny, between Democracy and Fascism. These two poles of political existence cannot be finessed through laziness, exhaustion, or choosing to live in denial. Like all other political systems, democracy also exists on that tenuous sliver of ground that lies between these two poles; there are no angles left to be played. Those who somehow believe that benign tyranny "by their own favorite corrupt power elite" is the answer to terror, have failed to notice Oglesbys crowning point about the JFK assassination: that terror and tyranny are but opposite sides of the same corrupt coin: that tyranny is terror, just by another name, and by other more elaborate means."
So where does this leave us?
Unfortunately, it's back to where I came in, as a young activist who went "part of the way with LBJ" onto to agonize as he escalated the Vietnam war, as a prisoner of the cold war anti-commie consensus.
Today, war on terror thinking is the new conventional wisdom even though we know that Iraq and Afghanistan are disasters. So why doesn't he see it? The White House is just like Wall Street in that respect: when you are inside the bubble, you don't know it;s there. You believe your own hype.
Military commanders are always promising victory if only they get more troops and bigger budgets. That's the game they play again and again And even Stephen Colbert buys into the surge turned it all around myth.
Politicians also have to watch out for the long knives---from the bankers who want to scuttle financial reforms; the Arms manufacturers who don't like to see profitable weapons systems like the F22 scuttled; the Health insurers orchestrating the hysteria against all reform; the General Electrics of the world who just paid $50 million to settle an accounting fraud case.
The media remains tethered to more heat than light even as the crazed commandos of the revanchist right won't let any facts get in the way of their suicide mission. (I would like to see Beck's birth certificate; was he born or cloned?)
Like millions, I was impressed with Obama and hoped against hope and history that he was THE ONE, that he would be different. While it's too early to totally dismiss him out of hand after just six months in office, there is an all too familiar stench to what we are seeing. COA, not just COG! The sad truth is, given what he has to deal with, and hard as it is to swallow, perhaps he can't be all that different. His only 'army" seems to be on Facebook and MSNBC.
The sad truth is, given what he has to deal with, and hard as it is to swallow, perhaps he can't be all that different. His only 'army" seems to be on Facebook and MSNBC. | <urn:uuid:8547a2af-95a9-4919-9c17-b0d4425753be> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/COG-OR-COA-WHY-IS-OBAMA-M-by-Danny-Schechter-090805-142.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978302 | 959 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Date of Award
Master of Arts
Dr. Dean W. Cooke
Dr. Joseph Kanamueller
Dr. Ralph Steinhaus
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Aminocarboxylic acid cobalt(III) complexes have been of interest to inorganic chemists since 1909 when Ley and Winkler isolated violet and rose colored geometric isomers of tris amino acid complexes of glycine and alanine.1 More recently, considerable interest has been shown in the study of the stereochemistry and optical activity arising from configurational and vicinal interactions of these complexes. Nuclear magnetic resonance of the methylene protons on the carboxylate portion of the coordinated ligand has also been studied.
Of immediate interest to this study is the stereo-chemistry of complexes containing flexible tetradentate ligands. A tetradentate ligand may be constructed such that the four coordination sites are arranged in a linear manner or in a branched or non-linear manner. In recent years, because of the variety of linear tetradentate Ligands which are easily obtainable or readily synthesized, stereochemical studies of complexes containing these ligands have been considerably investigated while the non-linear ligands have not been extensively studied. Various donor atoms such as nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, and phosphorous have been utilized. In addition, the lengths of the connecting alkyl chains have been varied and methyl substituants have been placed at various sites along the tetradentate chain. The effect of these changes on the stereochemistry of the resulting complexes has been observed. An octahedral complex with a linear tetradentate ligand may assume three distinct geometrical arrangements as shown in Figure 1. (For simplicity, only the coordinated atoms are shown).
Magnell, Paul John, "Cobalt(III) Complexes With 1,2-Propanediaminediacetic Acid" (1970). Masters Theses. 4372. | <urn:uuid:69769aed-bd49-444e-9306-f9fdcc1f925f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4372/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.904598 | 457 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Investing in Technology – What is It?
The term “tech” refers to a collection of methods, processes, and techniques that are used to perform certain tasks. These methods are utilized in the production of goods and services, scientific investigation, and research. The field of technology is vast and encompasses a number of areas. It is used in almost all industries and in every day life. This is why it is critical for people to understand the role that technology plays in modern life. This article will explore some of the most common examples of tech.
Many have argued that tech companies have invaded privacy and destroyed jobs. Others have argued that globalization, economic deregulation, and a lack of understanding of technology have resulted in a tech oligopoly. While some politicians and consumers have raised concerns about tech, it is important to note that these companies are increasingly popular and are not a threat to the economy. Moreover, the term “tech” is used as a prefix for words that relate to computers and technology.
In the tech industry, we’ve come to recognize some of the biggest players. These companies are called the Big Five. These companies are known as the giants of the industry. They are often the dominant players. They have changed the way we learn and communicate, created revolutionary products, and pioneered a variety of industries. However, there are hundreds of thousands of other start-ups competing directly with these five. This makes it crucial to understand the differences between the Big Five and the rest of the tech industry.
In contrast to these two industries, tech products are both finite and based on software platforms. These companies often have an evolving product line, but are still primarily defined by their software platforms. These companies are characterized by their diverse culture and a high level of commitment to learning and development. In addition to embracing tech and leveraging new technology, they also disrupt existing industries and provide a service that consumers cannot live without. This diversity of thought is crucial for determining the direction of a company’s future.
A tech business must have an agile mindset in order to survive in this industry. They need to be flexible and adaptable to change and are able to come up with new ideas. Investing in technology is a smart way to make money. By investing in companies whose products are vital to other businesses, you can build a diversified portfolio. These companies are not merely profitable, but also innovative. A company should be based on a variety of factors, and it should never be a risky endeavor.
The definition of a tech company is somewhat flexible. For example, a retailer that sells cars could be considered a tech firm. Similarly, a chimpanzee that lives in a cave uses a branch as a walking stick. The term “tech” can be applied to other industries and jobs. For example, an engineer who creates software would be a tech worker. A software developer may have a background in engineering, while a computer programmer’s focus on the science of technology could make it a more complex business. | <urn:uuid:fd7b77c4-d04c-418e-b891-8441b8d1dd11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gtpcurrency.com/investing-in-technology-what-is-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970957 | 613 | 2.796875 | 3 |
- Размер: 2.1 Mегабайта
- Количество слайдов: 19
Описание презентации Презентация grammatika so smesharikami по слайдам
Грамматика со Смешарика ми
Вопросительны е слова Wh-questions
Let’s us introduce ourselves! We are Smeshariky. We’ll help you study English. Would you mind learning grammar rules? O. K.
I am Losyash. I am very clever. I want to know: • What did you like reading? • What do you like reading? • What will you read?
It is Barash. He likes to dream. • Where did we travel last time? • Where do we drink afternoon tea today? • Where will we arrange funny party?
It is Krosh. He likes to run & jump. • When did we travel last time? • When do we drink tea? • When will they arrange funny party?
I am Pin. I like to repair different things. And you? • Who was there? • Who repairs this red car? • Who will repair the TV set?
Sovunya does sport. She likes to give advices. • How long do you walk? • How old are you? • How much juice did you drink yesterday? • How many sweets will you eat?
This Hedgehog is kind & curious. • Why didn’t he swim last week? • Why does the Sun live in the sky? • Why will she play the piano?
Глагол to be
To be – Present Simple I am We are You are He You are She is It They are
To be – Past Simple I was We were You were He You were She was It They were
To be – Future Simple I will be We will be You will be He You will be She will be It They will be
To be • Are you sad? Yes, I am. • They are helpful. • They are close friends.
To be • We are funny together! • I am very brave! • She is afraid of speed! • We were calm before.
• She is happy! • He is very busy! To be
We are funny together! We are afraid of speed! I am very brave! | <urn:uuid:357f4437-995c-4939-b9a3-bd198af79524> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://present5.com/prezentaciya-grammatika-so-smesharikami/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959002 | 588 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Village of Gorham had a population of 232 as of July 1, 2016. Gorham ranks in the lower quartile for Population Density and Diversity Index when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in Illinois. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for Gorham is located at latitude 37.718 and longitude -89.478 in Jackson County. The formal boundaries for the Village of Gorham (see map below) encompass a land area of 1.22 sq. miles and a water area of 0.01 sq. miles. Jackson County is in the Central time zone (GMT -6). The elevation is 364 feet.
The Village of Gorham (GNIS ID: 2398182) has a C1 Census Class Code which indicates an active incorporated place that does not serve as a county subdivision equivalent. It also has a Functional Status Code of "A" which identifies an active government providing primary general-purpose functions.
Beneath the boundary map are tables with Gorham population, income and housing data, five-year growth projections and peer comparisons for key demographic data. The estimates are for July 1, 2016.
|Population in Households||232|
|Population in Familes||196|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||0|
|Average Household Size||2.61|
|Average Family Size||3|
|Total Housing Units||104 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||73 (70.2%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||16 (15.4%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||15 (14.4%)|
|Median Home Value||$70,238|
|Average Home Value||$82,534|
|Median Household Income||$46,330|
|Average Household Income||$54,533|
|Per Capita Income||$21,506|
|(Compound Annual Growth Rates)|
|Median Household Income||1.73%|
|Per Capita Income||1.32%|
The table below compares Gorham to the other 1,368 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in Illinois by rank and percentile using July 1, 2016 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 1167||15th|
|Population Density1||# 1288||6th|
|Diversity Index2||# 1087||20th|
|Median Household Income||# 919||33rd|
|Per Capita Income||# 1098||20th|
Additional comparisons and rankings can be made with a VERY EASY TO USE Illinois Census Data Comparison Tool. | <urn:uuid:3736ec15-62e4-463a-a65c-ab4b9ffe442d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://illinois.hometownlocator.com/il/jackson/gorham.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00033-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.816629 | 595 | 1.976563 | 2 |
21 Profitable Small Business Ideas in Bangalore in 2022 | Best Startup Ideas with Low Investment
Starting a business or startup in Bangalore and sustaining it would require a lot of passion, dedication, and an idea to begin with.
Now, let’s discuss some of the most profitable business ideas in Bangalore.
List of Best Business Startup Ideas in Bangalore (2022 Updated):
1. Food Restaurant in Bangalore
- Most people in Bangalore love good healthy food. There is also a growing demand for organic food and good healthy food as many couples work. You can seriously think of starting a food shop and delivering food items doorstep to offices and households.
- Furthermore, if you have land for farming, you can try organic farming and sell the product to customers.
- You can start a food business with a minimal or low investment of INR 50,000. There are various food businesses, like catering businesses, snacks shops, restaurant businesses, food trucks, small food businesses, etc. You can select the type of food business as per your preferences.
2. Open an Organic Food Products Shop
- A considerable part of the citizens of the city is health-conscious. As a result, the demand for organic products is more compared to most cities in India. If you have the necessary investment and good retail space, consider opening an organic food retail shop.
- You are taking a very wise step if you are choosing to start your Organic food store. The demand for organic food is increasing. Everyone wants to live a healthy life. People are ready to spend more on healthy and natural food and green vegetables.
- An increasing number of organic farming and grocery chains selling organic store food products are coming up almost everywhere. Indian organic food market has a good future and is expected to grow around 25% in 3 years. Hence there is a good scope for organic farming business.
3. Food Delivery Business in Bangalore
- There are thousands of small and big offices in the city of Bangalore. Moreover, most citizens love to order food online. Therefore, quite naturally the business of food delivery is lucrative here. If you have a network of some energetic young people, think of starting a food delivery business here.
- Downloading the app from play or App store, register into the app. Selecting the menu to place food delivered to your doorstep. Most of the young IT professional and other office goers found this method too easy to place a food order online which save them huge time.
- Online food delivery websites and mobile applications much popular in Indian cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai.
4. Start a Small Manufacturing Business
- The city of Bengaluru provides an immediate market for manufactured goods. Therefore, starting a small-scale manufacturing business is a good choice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Though the startup cost of a manufacturing unit is a little high, however, the profit returns are big enough to ensure a fast payback of the investment.
- Apparently, the manufacturing sector gives employment to around 12% of the Indian workforce. As per a study done in 2014, the sector contributes about 16% to 17% of its GDP. The target is to raise the manufacturing sector contribution to 25% in the Indian economy.
- Many government initiatives are being practised across India to promote manufacturing business ideas in various sectors such as food, fashion, basic amenities, leisure, and more. Due to that, the scope of the manufacturing business in India is widening day by day.
5. Coaching Center in Bangalore
- Coaching is a flourishing business in Bangalore. Almost all guardians look for coaching centers to provide quality education to their children. Individuals having past teaching experience will have added advantages in running this business.
- The Indian education system has a symbiotic relationship with coaching centres. Every academic phase in a student’s life is accompanied by assistance from coaching centres.
- With over 70 million students enrolled in various coaching institutes across the country, it is no surprise that the coaching business is ever-growing and immensely profitable. The need for coaching centres arises out of the need to fill the void that general schooling cannot fill.
6. Open a Gym/ Yoga Studio in Bangalore
- Another very popular business in Bangalore is starting a gym or a yoga studio. There is a growing need of keeping fit in most people at present. If you have the experience, running a Gym can be highly profitable here.
- The fitness industry is a highly rewarding business for those who can pursue it.
- Gyms have always been popular in the country. Although it is possible to work out at home, gyms offer numerous benefits that come with it. Gyms can offer equipment that is either too expensive to buy or occupy too much space for most people. They can also offer a wide range of exercises. More than all of that, gyms and the people who work out are sources of motivation for those who are starting or those who feel tired to continue.
7. Electronic Products Retail Store
- Opening an electronics product retail store requires higher investment. However, the demand and profit margin for items like TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, electronic gadgets are also high. If you have the financial backup, starting this business will bring you big profits for sure.
- The electronics business is becoming one of the most demanded business ideas in today's digital world. As the electronic store is increased years by year everything becomes digital. Also, various brands create a need for start an electronic store business to access all the brands from one roof.
- So starting an electronic store in this digital world will create rapid growth in the market. Also, many electronic stores in the market’s why there will be a lot of competition you have to stand out from it.
8. Create a Niche eCommerce Shop
- Another upcoming lucrative online business for newbies is launching a niche e-commerce shop. There are various ways one can start an online shop. It can be your own products or selling products from other manufacturers.
- The first step is to research business ideas, learn the business models and decide what niche to attach. You DON’T need a specific product to start an ecommerce business. But you do need to validate your business plan and monetization strategy. You can always dial in specific products later down the road.
- You can make money selling products with drop shipping, affiliate marketing, or private label. With a million products to sell on Amazon, there are too many small ecommerce business ideas out there. We conducted our own analysis, analyzed many niches to narrow down to the hundreds of ideas on this site.
9. Launch a Software Company in Bangalore
- The city of Bangalore is often called the Silicon Vally of India. Though Bangalore is flooded with new software startups, it is also true the best place to start a software company in India is Bangalore. If you have the knowledge of creating software and have a team of expert personnel, opening a software company is an obvious choice.
- In India, there's a crisp growth of Software Companies in this decade, it is almost like there is a software business revolution.
- The fact is India is the third-largest Software Startup Ecosystem around the world. Starting a software company in this country can prove profitable as every business is associated with technology and its services.
10. Grocery Store with Delivery Service
- A busy city means busy people and something that saves their time has great business potential. Start a small grocery store with a delivery option, or even you can have special pricing from the local grocery store if you don’t have enough budget to set up one.
- Before we proceed to discuss the next ideas, you might as well want to earn passively through survey apps like PrizeRebel, SurveyJunkie, and the like.
- Inviting your friends to join you in doing this fun will also give you some bucks for your business.
11. Healthy Fast Food
- Busy life in Bangalore compels people to eat fast food, but they also want to stay healthy. Think of a healthy fast food shop in a busy location or else available on the doorstep.
- As is advised by health experts, avoid street food as much as possible. Having said that, not all junk foods are bad. There are some that are healthy, provided they are cooked under hygienic conditions, by cooking them at home.
- Have a look at these listed fast foods that are super delicious and healthy and you can eat them without any guilt:
- Pav bhaji
- Fruit smoothies
- Whole wheat veg pizza
- Club sandwich
- Baked samosa
- Potato chips and fries
- Whole wheat veg burger
- Grilled or roasted chicken
- Dahi Bhalla
12. Hostel for Students/Working Individuals
- Bangalore hosts a large population from other parts of India. Thus, providing a hostel for students or working individuals sounds a nice business idea.
- This is one of the most profitable business in India, every year more than 20% of the total population of India join the college after intermediate. So, this calls for a new opportunity every year. But to persuade the students to accomodate in your PG is the challenge.
- Setting up your own hostel takes a lot of planning and thought. First, find the ideal location and check all local zoning laws. Then, find the perfect building and equip it with beds and other accommodations for guests. To attract business, network and advertise your hostel to make it a new tourist destination.
13. Dry Cleaning Service in Bangalore
- Like cooking and cleaning, laundry is yet another tedious and time consuming task for working class and you will see large population always finding ways to avoid it as much as they can. Here a dry cleaning business creates opportunity.
- Most of these businesses require the customer to drop off their laundry, although some companies will pick up laundry from the customers’ homes.
- A full-service laundry and dry cleaning service charges a fee per item for dry cleaning and a fee per pound for standard laundering. This type of business takes some of the responsibility off of the customers who may have busy schedules.
14. Online Shop
- Online shops are great business ideas for Bangalore. Technology is enhancing the lives of just everyone and in Bangalore, people are making the most out of it by shopping online. You can setup an online shop, however what you sell will require you to do some research, i.e. grocery, clothing, accessories, digital goods, luxury items etc. You can always consider dropshipping business model to save setup costs.
- There had never been a better time to start an online business than today.
- Anyone with a computer can get started within a matter of minutes and without acquiring any special skills.
The three things you need to start an online store are:
- A domain name idea (this will be the business name of your online store i.e startup.ind.in)
- A web hosting account (this is where your website lives on the internet)
- Your undivided attention for 30 minutes.
Yep, it is really that simple.
15. Storage Services for Bangalore People
- Since many small businesses in Bangalore operate from very small workspaces they do not have much space to store their records and other stuff that is not needed on daily basis. Offering them a storage space on a budget price is a win-win for both parties. You can start such a business from home even if you own a big house with many unused rooms.
- This is a not so challenging area if you have money power. For purchasing land and getting a warehouse constructed, everything can be handled by an expert team of professionals who can provide you with market survey reports, feasibility reports, and can arrange for all the concerned agencies who can build your warehouse. They charge certain amount of professional fees but it’s worth it as this will reduce your lot of efforts in arranging all the agencies.
- Once the land is purchased and warehouse constructed the same team can arrange for leasing out the space with good returns and you can start earning on monthly basis.
16. Training Based Startups
- With the evolving world, even training needs are evolving continuously. Significantly after getting a degree, individuals are not ready to find a decent line of work.
- So you can begin a training based company that makes individuals work prepared. You can offer to improve their delicate aptitudes, clear their ideas in important fields with the goal that they become employable. Nowadays most people want to start their own business in Bangalore. This business is one of the best ideas out there in Bangalore.
- These companies are much sought after and understudy is prepared to pay a large number of rupees for this work.
17. Accessories and Apparel
- Websites benefit from the sharing economy by offering second-hand clothing and accessories sales services by seizing a small portion of the purchase price. Some websites offer clothing rental services. In this way, such initiatives are highly profitable since the same piece of inventory will generate revenue more than once.
- Think you have a fashion eye or a sense of style that no one else has? Then you are ready to be the next “big event”!
- Don’t panic, even if you feel ready to start a fashion startup worth millions of dollars, you can earn money from your local fashion sharing. For example, how about putting together your favourite accessories or outfit choices and hosting a dress rental party for high school students before the end of the year prom. If you live in a city with a university, contacting student clubs is another great opportunity to take advantage of the sharing economy fashion. And since you take shipping costs out of the equation, you’ll also have the potential for a much higher profit margin than your much larger venture company!
18. Academic Courses
- Whenever we think about education, our minds immediately drift to traditional university courses. While academic courses are not the only subject suitable for online courses, this is a highly viable option.
- As long as schools strive to prepare students for both standardized tests and life outside the classroom, teachers and specific subject matter experts will have ample opportunities to earn income with online courses.
- At the grade level, try to supplement your course to prepare for math, science or history, or even standardized tests. You can even offer an intensive course for parents to help their kids with math homework! If you are creative, your possibilities are truly endless.
19. Foreign language education
- As communication opportunities increased and borders blurred, almost everyone around the world became interested in languages. Whether you are an expert in English, Turkish or Urdu, you will surely find someone who wants to study language from you. And these people will certainly be willing to pay you.
- If you can speak one of the most popular languages, especially for 2019 and beyond, such as Arabic, Spanish and Mandarin, you are holding a business opportunity that will grow day by day.
- If you are proficient in an uncommon language or are particularly interested in teaching a more widely known language, creating an online language-based training platform would be a profitable undertaking.
20. Personal Health Services in Bangalore
- Are you a therapist or counsellor, or a yoga instructor or a life coach? Are you someone who has been meditating for a long time? If you have a deep passion for personal health, you can help others find their “zen”.
- On the other hand, you earn a considerable income. All you have to do is share what you know.
- Every person desires to improve themselves, which is the main purpose of online courses.
21. Animal care services in Bangalore
- This type of small capital business with big profits is no less lucrative. You can put your knowledge of animals to good use by opening an animal farm. Usually, pet care will be crowded during school holidays and during long holidays on major holidays.
- Earlier the animal care was limited to veterinary hospitals, now it has become a fashion to only domesticate animals but to tame them as pets, some even include animals as part of their family.
- There lies a huge difference in domesticating an animal for household usage and keeping a pet, which is why on World Animal day we will look into the business opportunities and how to start one, especially for the pet lovers.
Starting a Profitable Small Business in Bangalore in 2022 requires a lot of passion, dedication and great idea to start with. And, this great small business ideas are perfect for anyone who wants to start their own startup or build a business.
If you think we are missing something, Do comment it below!
Good Luck For Your Startup | <urn:uuid:27ad400c-6ec9-4b57-ad26-bc7af1925922> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.startup.ind.in/2022/01/21-profitable-small-business-ideas-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.951674 | 3,443 | 1.5 | 2 |
Roger Fenn Duncan, co-author of "The Cruising Guide to the New England Coast" editions five through 11, died last Saturday after an extended illness in his hometown of Boothbay, Maine. He was 93.
Duncan was an avid sailor, cruising Eastward, his 32-foot Friendship sloop for 40 summers as part of the Friendship Sloop Society in Friendship, Maine.
When Duncan was not sailing, he was a teacher, coach and administrator at The Fenn School in Concord, Mass., and Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass.
In addition to co-authoring the cruising guides, he is also the author of "Coastal Maine: A Maritime History," "The Story of Belmont Hill School 1923-83," "Eastward," "Friendship Sloops," "Sailing in the Fog," and "Practical Sailor."
Duncan is survived by his wife, Mary; his brother, Donald, of Southport, Maine; his sons Robert of Concord, Mass., William of Burke, Va., and John of Charlotte, N.C.; and eight grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:a0fea9eb-1b65-4d2f-9ec3-65b91099805c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.soundingsonline.com/news/new-england-sailor-author-and-coach-is-mourned | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.984725 | 228 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Web Annotation: The Web's Conversation Layer
Web Annotation—now a W3C standard—aims to establish a conversation layer on top of the web. By theoretically allowing anyone to annotate any web page content, it's an ennobling premise and thoroughly web-like: democratic, open and standardized. But with this freedom comes challenges. Content publishers are faced with an anxiety-inducing lack of control over what people say about their content. And nothing in the standard itself protects against conversations devolving into troll-hijacked chaos. The evolution of Web Annotation mirrors that of the Web itself, in miniature, facing off with some of the same big themes of identity, security, authority and freedom.
When impostor syndrome got to be too much for Gavin Elliott, he had to confront his own deep, sophisticated mental health challenges. In a personal talk, Gavin shares how he learned to handle anxiety and imposter syndrome in a society that’s uncomfortable discussing it. As he says: “Being honest about how we feel doesn’t make us weak — we can overcome our impostor.” This talk will discuss mental health support, recognising impostor syndrome, the effect it has on our personal and professional lives, how to deal with it and ultimately overcome your impostor.
Yes, your site can (and should) be accessible: Lessons learned building FT.com
Laura explains how her team introduced accessibility to the Financial Times website, FT.com—and their journey from being generally oblivious about accessibility to making it a core part of their process across multiple divisions. Laura shares the the roadblocks encountered and lessons learned along the way as well as practical solutions you can implement in your project today, regardless of available time, resources, or support.
Make your animations perform well
Animations have been around the web for some time already; badly implemented can be deadly to the website’s performance and the user’s delight. Let’s learn together what are the best techniques to get our animations smooth and how the browser renders our page to know where to look for optimizations.
Amazing things your browser can do
Did you know that a simple website can make your device vibrate, take pictures with the camera, get your location, recognise and synthesise speech, record and process audio with effects, make payments or even connect to wireless devices and play virtual reality experiences? Nowadays the web can do incredible things that we didn't even dream of just a few years ago. In this talk we'll get a sense of the current possibilities of the web platform by taking a look at some of the most interesting present and future Web APIs. Unleash your imagination!
Sessions from our Speaker Bursary
What if, instead going for practicality, we used IoT to create fleeting moments of interaction and beauty? What would happen if others could interact with my clothing via a web app? I was curious to answer these questions when I tackled my latest hardware project. I’ll share my story of building interactive fashion, the obstacles I’ve faced as an IoT newbie, and the solutions I've found to overcome them. | <urn:uuid:349a0132-bcdb-46db-b35f-e388131da740> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://2018.upfrontconf.com/schedule/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.935556 | 767 | 2.1875 | 2 |
We already knew nature makes healthy. Here’s a group helping nature help troubled youth make nature healthy.
From the website of Youth and Ecological Restoration Program:
Planting native trees and shrubs in local watersheds provides habitat and protection for fish, birds and many other species.
Stephen Hume wrote for the Vancouver Sun yesterday, Healing power of troubled waters: An ecological program that links at-risk teens with damaged watersheds has breathed new life into both,
After Carnation Creek, Wendy applied and was accepted at university as a mature student, successfully studying ecology and land reclamation, presenting her own scientific papers. Then, eight years ago, she began putting her wisdom to work teaching the next generation to pay attention to the consequences of heedlessness, greed and ignorance about our dependence on the natural world.
Her innovative Youth and Ecological Restoration Program helps teenagers at risk. Some struggle with
Her program helps kids find inner strength, recognize their personal value and then to reconnect, first with each other and then with their com-munities, by undertaking the hard and often thankless work of restoring damaged and degraded local water-sheds to ecological health—to heal by healing. | <urn:uuid:0d807224-a0fd-4392-93e9-94b024a35db7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2012/07/troubled-youth-heal-by-healing-troubled-watersheds.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.941068 | 245 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Carrying out a vehicle history examination is actually quite essential when you are shopping for a made use of or brand-new vehicle. You possess the choice of acquiring the cars and truck history report cost-free of cost, however you are going to possess to pay a low cost to access the details. this
Just how To Check Out A Car Dealers Auto Info: When you are checking a cars and truck dealers lorry record, you will certainly require the motor vehicle identification number (VIN). To do this, search in the engine block under the vehicle style. There ought to be a black box that is published on the motor block. This carton will certainly possess the VIN imprinted on it. Seek the letter “C” inside the black box.
Searching For Online Automobile Past Document Expert: The moment you have located the right VIN, you will need to go to some of the vehicle record service providers to obtain your file. Most of these firms possess an internet site that you can easily visit online. Some of the internet sites additionally possess a mobile variation for easier and much faster retrieval. There are some providers that deliver the service absolutely free, however the info is confined.
Receiving A Thorough Auto Past History Record: After finding the appropriate VIN, you are going to require to supply the provider along with the title of the proprietor of the automobile. The firm is going to provide you a detailed vehicle past history examination by entering into the auto identification number you were actually offered. Go into the VIN into the vin decoder. The decoder will give you support the vehicle identification number of the vehicle.
Acquiring Auto Insurance Info: The final measure is actually obtaining every one of the insurance policy details for the car. The insurer perform not constantly detail the vin lots of their automobiles. So as to secure the relevant information for each and every cars and truck in your line, you are going to require to obtain an insurance for every lorry. Once you obtain the insurance coverage for each vehicle in your squadron, you will definitely have the ability to manage a vehicle history check whenever you need to.
Cars And Truck Fraud Past History: It is actually important to recognize what kind of problems the vehicle has actually experienced. If a car has been actually in a collision, there will certainly be actually a harm history.
An automobile that has actually never been actually in a collision ought to possess a less than total company record. Look at the odometer to create certain the car has been steered on a regular basis.
Car Identification Number: You can easily acquire the car identification number (VIN) through many sources. The most effective source is actually the supplier. They will possess the entire record on each car sold. You can additionally call an auction dealer as well as tell them the VIN number of the car you are interested in. The supplier will definitely support you in acquiring the required info. Along with these actions, you can easily run an automobile record examination from the convenience of your house. | <urn:uuid:bd8af821-49f7-4b99-882a-ccfdf1a3e0e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jerseydevilcon.com/2021/11/21/ten-unpredicted-ways-automobile-background-inspect-can-easily-produce-your-lifestyle-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.953427 | 619 | 1.695313 | 2 |
1900s Birth of the Modern Age
A long time from now, American sports historians will look back at the 20th Century as the baseball century. From start to finish, through thick and thin, baseball persevered for these 100 years with resilient popularity and remarkably little meddling of its rules.
And no decade in the baseball century bore more witness to change and evolution within the game than the 1900s.
The turn of the century saw the National League acting as a monopolistic sloth whose misbehavior impaired the game’s integrity. To the rescue came Ban Johnson, who in 1901 upgraded his American League to big-time status as a kinder, gentler alternative to the rowdy but more established NL. The AL’s instant success hit the senior circuit like a cold shower and served as a wake-up call to straighten up—but not before two years of all-out warfare in which the rival leagues wrestled over star players, territorial disputes and other politically motivated shenanigans.
From war came peace, and from peace came major progress. Interest and attendance soared. The World Series was initiated. Unruliness left over from the lawless 1890s slowly but surely was extinguished from owners who finally were showing the discipline to stop it.
On the field, the pitchers ruled. They had the advantage of using a ball that could be used, misused, scuffed, discolored and spat upon. The hitters had the disadvantage of not being able to call for a new ball. The resulting advent of the deadball era made kings of men on the mound with imperial feats likely never to be approached again: Jack Chesbro’s 41 wins in 1904, Ed Walsh’s 464 innings thrown in 1908, and numerous instances of Joe McGinnity pitching—and winning—both ends of a doubleheader.
Almost every name from the top ten list of career ERA leaders played in the 1900s, and two of those were the decade’s best and most consistent: Cy Young, who in 1900 was considered ready to pack it in at age 33—only to spend the next ten years winning 230 games; and Christy Mathewson, good boy in public with his polite college upbringing, bad boy to opposing hitters with 236 wins through 1909.
Only one hitter seemed constantly immune to the dominance of the deadball. Year after year through the 1900s, Pittsburgh’s Honus Wagner put serious dents into otherwise glistening pitching stats, winning seven NL batting titles with muscle to match. Wagner wasn’t through when he got on base, stealing more bags (487) than anyone else during the decade. It wasn’t until late in the 1900s that Wagner finally found an offensive contemporary in Ty Cobb, the fiery Detroit headliner who wore a chip on his shoulder the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.
As the two leagues grew to happily co-exist, as baseball’s rulebook was gradually left untouched after years of major adjustments, as an unprecedented round of superior ballparks was being built or planned, baseball prospered and stabilized into a game that people a century later could relate to. The modern age was on.
Forward to the 1910s: The Feds, the Fight and the Fix The majors suffer growing pains as they deal with a fledgling third league, increased scandal and gambling problems, and a brief interruption from the Great War.
Share this page with a friend.
Have a comment, question or request? Contact us at This Great Game.
© 2017 This Great Game. | <urn:uuid:72830001-5847-4c5f-884a-98630d22154a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thisgreatgame.com/1900s-baseball-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963505 | 727 | 2.703125 | 3 |
If you’re looking for a way to pad your retirement, make some extra cash on the side, or even start a lucrative business, real estate investing Denver-based can be a good choice. And depending on your goals, there are several different ways to go about making money through real estate investing, including those listed below.
Buy and Flip
This is the type of investment that fills TVs across the country. You see someone take a team in and fix up an old or run-down home. Then, they flip it for a nice profit.
If you’re the hands-on type, this can be a great choice for you. However, it’s important to know that things are never as easy as they seem on TV. The people on those shows have a team to help them make their goals a reality.
If you do, too, that’s great. If you don’t, know that it’s going to take a great deal of time and energy. You can do it, of course, but you should be prepared for what’s ahead of you.
There are many people who purchase a home for rental income. If you have the cash up front to buy the home, you can get to the profits more quickly. However, if you have to get a loan for the home, you’ll have to make sure that you charge enough rent to make the payment.
Also, you’ll need some money put to the side for months when tenants are running late on their payments or times that your property sits empty. Otherwise, your credit will suffer.
If you like the idea of making cash off of real estate but don’t want to be hands-on with any of it, there are plenty of passive avenues. You have REIGs or real estate investment groups that act like mutual funds. You invest in a group, and then a company buys or builds properties – usually condos or apartments. Later, you can purchase the individual units.
REITs or real estate investment trusts are great for those who don’t have a large amount to invest. You can typically start with just a few hundred dollars. A corporation uses the investors’ money to buy and manage income properties while you collect dividends.
As you can see, there are several ways that you can make money from investing in real estate. The avenue you choose will depend on your goals and how hands-on you choose to be. | <urn:uuid:5e067191-0b1f-45fd-b0fa-983552573926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vallartaantros-nightclubs.com/3-ways-to-invest-in-real-estate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.963623 | 519 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The seeds of the cassia plant (Cassia Tora Seed) have great importance in Ayurvedic medicines used in treatment of snakebites, as well as an eyesight booster. Treatment of skin diseases such as ringworms and antibacterial activity. The cassia tora seeds are also great laxatives, and effective anthelmintics as well as blocked chest relievers. The presence of anthroquinones in the leaves of the plant made it useful in management of teething in children, fever and reducing constipation. Get high quality Cassia Tora Seeds from Agro Gums. | <urn:uuid:119484c0-147e-4741-89a9-ed5038991eb2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sell.foodmate.com/201410/products-20662.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00033-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962407 | 123 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Did you wake up this morning and wish that you could welcome the weekend by getting an extremely interesting insight into the history of Sony’s PlayStation? In all honesty it’s probably not something that is permanently at the forefront of everyone’s mind, but nonetheless is a topic that is not only extremely interesting, but also very relevant considering the PlayStation 4 is currently dominating the console gaming world.
If the history of console gaming is of interest to you, then the official ComputerHistory YouTube channel has uploaded a video that features two extremely well-placed individuals within Sony who have helped to craft and develop PlayStation into what it is today.
The video has been uploaded under the Game Changers heading and features some extremely interesting and insightful conversations with Mark Cerny and Shuhei Yoshida. Yoshida is currently operating as the President of Worldwide Studios of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and as such has been an integral part of the design and development teams that have progressed the PlayStation from its original form into the fourth-generation powerhouse that we have today. Yoshida also played the role of the mysterious shadowy figure in the official PlayStation 4 unboxing video that went viral prior to the product launch.
Mark Cerny is a name that will be familiar to any individual who has a passion for video gaming. He has been a prominent figurehead in the gaming industry since the 1980’s, working on titles like Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for the SEGA Genesis and Killzone 3 for the PlayStation 3. More recently, Cerny has been responsible for directing the PlayStation 4 title Knack alongside his role of lead architect for the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita projects. It’s fair to say that both men have proven pedigree when it comes to the world of gaming.
The 83 minute long video definitely provides enough content and discussion topics to cater for viewers of all interests. Yoshida and Cerny take the opportunity to go into great detail about the PS Move Controller and how its creation meant that design team collaboration within the company had to be taken to another level. There’s a section of the video dedicated to Ken Kutaragi – Sony’s former Chief Executive Officer – with both employees giving their own personal opinion of what it was like to work under the “Father of the PlayStation”.
You can follow us on Twitter, add us to your circle on Google+ or like our Facebook page to keep yourself updated on all the latest from Microsoft, Google, Apple and the web. | <urn:uuid:29d76203-cad8-430d-af86-aefdf42b3fed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.redmondpie.com/watch-how-the-playstation-4-was-created-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.959717 | 507 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Keep up to date with the latest news regarding auto insurance. It is important to know as much as possible so you will always make the right insurance decisions, ensuring you get the coverage that you need. We have included some tips about auto insurance to help you choose the best plan for you.
Consider all your options prior to purchasing insurance. Every company has its own algorithm for determining the specific rate for each individual customer. If you compare the rates of competing insurance companies, you will find the best offer and save considerable money.
You should always check the possible insurance rates if you are purchasing a new vehicle. Talk to your insurance agent about which cars offer the best rates. Knowing the amount of insurance you will need to pay ahead of time can help in your choice of a new or used car. The higher its safety rating, the lower your premium.
Figure out what kind of insurance coverage you should have for your car. Although there may be tons of options at your disposal, not all make sense. You might want to pay for collision coverage if you're accident prone, though.
Try to not add any after-market parts unless you really need them. Luxury items are nice, but they really aren't that necessary. It is unlikely that your insurance company will cover the loss of these add-ons.
Your insurance coverage should never be permitted to run out, even when you are switching between plans. This will keep your insurance costs lower. If you continuously switch insurance providers, it will make gaps in coverage. Once the insurance company finds out about the gaps, they will raise your rates.
We hope to help guide you through the "auto insurance maze" so that you arrive at the best decisions. Being an educated consumer is a good way to combat your confusion when shopping for auto insurance. If you really like to have much more valuable data about fairfaxinsuranceinc.com/, visit our website. | <urn:uuid:712d8128-19e4-458c-95dc-ae7a2dbca9f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://phone4german.wallinside.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953389 | 387 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Kit Out Your Garden Shed as a DIY Workshop
If you haven't got any space in the home to set up a DIY workshop but have a shed in the garden, here's how you can kit it out to serve as a DIY workshop.
A garden shed might look pretty when tucked away under the shade of an overhanging tree, or surrounded by flower beds, but did you ever think about how you can turn that shed into the perfect DIY workshop? Even a tiny garden shed will provide enough space to set up a small workshop if you kit it out properly, and don't forget to invest in the best digital caliper for accurate measurments. When used for storage, garden sheds can soon become cluttered and filled with too much stuff, but if you spend a little time organising, you may find that there is more space than you imagined and that can be put to good use. Even buying a small tool shed for garden tools to free up that space in the garden shed will be money well spent.
Cleaning out and organising any room in a home is the best way to sort out what you have and what you no longer need, and it gives you the opportunity to assess spaces to their best advantage. A 3 x 3m metre shed might be small, but it is also possible to set up a workbench and shelves and install power outlets to have your workshop up and running in no time.
In many other countries, woodworkers and DIY enthusiasts alike have kitted out their garden sheds to set up a fully functional workshop at home.
Clean out and organise the garden shed to make space for a DIY workshop.
We offer 6 helpful tips to keep in mind when you want to turn a garden shed into a DIY workshop.
1. Clean and Assess the Space
Depending on the current location of the shed, you may need to look at insulating the space for the hot and cold months of the year. This is easily done by purchasing a roll or two of Think Pink insulation that you can purchase at most Builders stores, applying this to the inside perimeter of the shed and covering this up with a layer of 6mm or 9mm plywood or OSB board, also available at Builders. Both are reasonably affordable, and this method will help to insulate the shed better if you want to use it all year round. While you are assessing the shed, you might also want to consider installing additional windows to provide plenty of natural light.
2. Provide Power to the Shed
Unless you will only be using cordless power tools, you are going to need electrical supply for your new workshop to operate tools and provide lighting. You have a couple of options here to either have a reliable electrician wire up the electrical supply or purchase heavy-duty extension leads that you can use to power your tools. Of course, this only applies to smaller power tools that draw far less electricity than larger tools.
You can install some floating shelves if you want your shed to look neat and clean or get some free-standing ones with wheels so you can pull them around the space to suit your needs.
3. Invest in a Festool Dust Extractor
I have a Festool Mini Dust Extractor in my own workshop, and I can honestly state that it was the best investment ever. I can use power tools indoors or outdoors and never have to worry about dust. Having recently sanded down a laminated wall unit for painting, the sander was attached to my dust extractor and ensured that the house wasn't covered in dust. Will be sharing this project with you all shortly.
Working in a small space such as a garden shed means you really do have to have a system to remove dust, as this is extremely harmful to your health. You can opt for a fitted system with a shop vac or extraction system that could cost quite a bit or settle for a Festool Dust Extractor that does the same for less.
A sheet of pegboard is an affordable and practical way to store all your tools. Mount on the back wall of the shed so that it is immediately visible when you enter and you can easily find what you are looking for.
4. Ensure There is Plenty of Storage
Most pre-assembled garden sheds don't come with much in the way of storage, but that's OK. It gives you the opportunity to customise the space and add as much storage as you need. Shelves are the best way to go since they won't take up valuable floor space and you can make them narrow enough to move around them easily and add more up the sides of the shed if you need additional storage. With limited space on the floor, shelves let you store all the accessories you need for your DIY workshop.
Don't forget to make use of the shed doors as well, as there is plenty of under-utilised space that you should be making the most of! By adding some storage hooks, you can hang up lots of different items there.
australian handyman magazine
5. Recycle What you Have
Setting up a new workshop is the perfect opportunity to recycle jars and containers to store small items such as nails, screws and other fasteners and hardware and will make it easy to find what you need without having to dig around. Make sure to sort and label all the items so that you don't mix up or confuse your supplies.
6. Add in a Workbench
If you are turning a shed into a workshop, you are going to need a workbench. It doesn't need to be a large one and you could also make do with one that folds up when not in use. The more space you have to work on - the more projects you can do. Find instructions here to use a hollow-core door to make a fold-down workbench.
Making use of an under-utilised garden shed is the perfect solution for a DIY or woodworking workshop. Taking the time to clean out and organise a shed is a great weekend project for you to take on, and it's a great feeling to see the end result and have your own workshop for all your projects and tasks. | <urn:uuid:0af274cd-4571-4d52-b5e0-f0da60dfc73a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.home-dzine.co.za/garden/turn-a-garden-shed-into-a-functional-workshop.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.958742 | 1,279 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Regeneration and histological analysis of snake melon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus (L.) Naudin) by direct organogenesis
Mendi, Yeşim Yalçın and Eldoğan, Selay and Gutakev, Rafael and İpek, Muzaffer and Çürük, Pembe and Çetiner, Selim (2010) Regeneration and histological analysis of snake melon (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus (L.) Naudin) by direct organogenesis. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 34 (4). pp. 309-317. ISSN 1300-011X
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/tar-0905-8
In vitro morphogenesis of Cucumis melo var. flexuosus (L.) Naudin was studied by direct organogenesis. Induction of adventitious buds was obtained from distal and proximal parts of the cotyledon incubated on Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium containing different concentrations of 6-benzyladenine (BA) (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg L-1) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) (0.0, 0.1, and 0.5 mg L-1). The best organogenesis was obtained from the proximal part of the cotyledon on medium containing 0.5 mg L-1 BA and 0.5 mg IAA (88%). This concentration was used for histological analysis. Less regeneration was obtained on media containing 1.0 mg BA (75%) or 1.0 mg L-1 and 0.1 mg L-1 IAA (60%). Plant recovery was much greater from proximal rather than distal explants. A callus formed on almost every explant on media supplemented with BA. Histological analyses showed that the formation of early shoot apical meristems was observed in 14-day-old tissues and meristematic structures were seen in 17-day-old tissues. The first shoot was formed after 21 days. By this time, the surface was covered with leaf primordia and leaves, mostly without accompanying buds.
Repository Staff Only: item control page | <urn:uuid:eac409a9-397b-4e86-85b8-14222b8cc7a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/14324/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896419 | 507 | 1.625 | 2 |
#5D0000 (Rosewood) - RGB 93, 0, 0 Color Informations
Color name Rosewood, hex code #5d0000, contains symbol # and 6 letters or numbers. In a RGB color space, HEX #5D0000 is composed of 36.5% red, 0% green and 0% blue. In the CMYK color model (used in the printing process), the composition is 0% Cyan, 100% Magenta, 100% Yellow, and 64% key (black). In the HSL color space #5d0000 has a hue of 0° (degrees), 100% saturation and 18% lightness. Its decimal value is 6094848 and the closest web-safe color code to it is #660000. A 20% lighter version of the original color is #440000 and #080000 is the 20% darker color. This colour page lists more detailed information about the hex color code #5d0000 and RGB 93, 0, 0. | <urn:uuid:1f38e51c-a878-4bbf-94ea-25c1ea3d544a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hexcolor.co/hex/5d0000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.84128 | 206 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Citizens Have Power To End Washington Crisis
To The Reader’s Forum:
In a CNN poll, completed after the end of the recent shutdown, just over half of the American public believe that it’s bad for our country to have GOP control in the House of Representatives. The survey also indicated only 12 percent of the people approve of the job that Congress is doing. Both Republicans and Democrats as well as the Administration should pause and take seriously the reactions of Americans concerning the shutdown and the debt crisis.
As citizens, we must give serious thought as to how we can help to end the crisis of confidence and dysfunction with our elected officials.
Is there a way out to end this dark period in our government’s history? Yes! We the American public must speak out forcibly and repeatedly to make our opinions known. We must counteract the strong influences of political organizations who work behind the scenes in order to pressure our elected officials while spending on the effort obscene amounts of money and attempting to avoid transparency.
The plan of action? Demand that Congress and the Administration : 1) lower the fiery rhetoric; 2) work together in good faith with people on both sides of the aisle and the Administration; 3) legislate responsibly and seek solutions to difficult and complex problems; 4) find common ground; 5) make compromises; and 6) get the job done! Congress should take as an example the small group of women in Congress (supported by a few men) who requested that Congress work together and develop a plan of action to work on those problems facing all of us.
We should recognize and applaud those in Congress and the Administration who do follow the above plan of action. Notify them of your approval.
At the same time, we should loudly condemn and use the power of the ballot box to remove from office those in the Congress and the Administration who refuse to work together to solve problems. The American people do not want our government to lurch from crisis to crisis in the future. | <urn:uuid:556b5fb4-273a-4c76-aa56-5173843ffd66> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://content.post-journal.com/?p=630724/Citizens-Have-Power-To-End-Washington-Crisis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00307-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945334 | 404 | 1.882813 | 2 |
However, to get that surface space, Apple had to trim the size of the bezel down a bit, which means users' hands will rest on the screen when holding the device in portrait.
Not to worry though, as Apple revealed it improved iOS 6 to be better at recognizing accidental touches on the outer edge.
Smaller and smarter
In making the iPad mini, Apple had to consider the size of the bezel along the side of the device.
Leaving it as large as those found on the iPad wouldn't give users as much screen space, and thus the iPad mini won't be able to replicate the iPad experience nearly as well.
Since the bezels are smaller, that means the odds of a user's hand resting on the screen increase when holding the device upright.
To alleviate the response of a thumb resting on the screen, Apple refined iOS to allow it to better detect the difference between resting and intentional touches.
Apple's design page for the iPad mini describes the new feature, saying, "iPad mini intelligently recognizes whether your thumb is simply resting on the display or whether you're intentionally interacting with it. It's the kind of detail you'll notice - by not noticing it."
It's the kind of feature that doesn't necessarily make the device more or less attractive, but does make it better for everyday use. | <urn:uuid:df48d5eb-19c2-49e6-8b69-0b8c71888120> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/apple-tweaked-ios-6-to-be-better-at-detecting-intentional-touches-1106975 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946892 | 275 | 1.992188 | 2 |
IntroductionWhen we are having conversation with others we will get difficulties in accepting the feauturesof word. If it is in question form we will question and answer necessarily. We will not payattention of the words formation. It is because there will be the obstacle in relating with thesound, environment and the sound formation.Learning about language is like learning about science. It is because many linguists supposedthat language as living organism. It can be breaking down into small pieces. We can take anexample for the study of morphology. It is proven by the process of morphology which has beenstudied for a long time before saussure period. They take seriously attention to the formation ofwords. Here there is the story inside: "The term morphology has been taken over from biologywhere it is used to denote the study of the forms of plants and animals. . . . It was first used forlinguistic purposes in 1859 by the German linguist August Schleicher (Salmon 2000), to refer tothe study of the form of words. In present-day linguistics, the term morphology refers to thestudy of the internal structure of words, and of the systematic form-meaning correspondencesbetween words."The notion systematic in the definition of morphology given above is important. For instance,we might observe a form difference and a corresponding meaning difference between theEnglish noun ear and the verb hear. However, this pattern is not systematic: there are no similarword pairs, and we cannot form new English verbs by adding h- to a noun."So based on the explanation above we can infer thatmorphology is one of the branch oflinguistics (and one of the major components of grammar) that studies word structures,especially in terms of morphemes.Word ClassesWords are fundamental units in every sentence, so we will begin by looking at these. Considerthe words in the following sentence: my father rides a fast bycicleWe can tell almost instinctively that father and bycicle are the same type of word, and also thatfather and rides are different types of words. By this we mean that father and bycicle belong to
the same word class. Similarly, when we recognise that father and rides are different types, wemean that they belong to different word classes. We recognise seven MAJOR word classes: Verb be, drive, grow, sing, think Noun brother, car, David, house, London Determiner a, an, my, some, the Adjective big, foolish, happy, talented, tidy Adverb happily, recently, soon, then, there Preposition at, in, of, over, with Conjunction and, because, but, if, orYou may find that other grammars recognise different word classes from the ones listed here.They may also define the boundaries between the classes in different ways. In some grammars,for instance, pronouns are treated as a separate word class, whereas we treat them as a subclassof nouns. A difference like this should not cause confusion. Instead, it highlights an importantprinciple in grammar, known as gradience. This refers to the fact that the boundaries between theword classes are not absolutely fixed. Many word classes share characteristics with others, andthere is considerable overlap between some of the classes. In other words, the boundaries are"fuzzy", so different grammars draw them in different places.We will discuss each of the major word classes in turn. Then we will look briefly at some minorword classes. But first, let us consider how we distinguish between word classes in general.Criteria for Word ClassesWe began by grouping words more or less on the basis of our instincts about English. Wesomehow "feel" that brother and car belong to the same class, and that brother and drives belongto different classes. However, in order to conduct an informed study of grammar, we need amuch more reliable and more systematic method than this for distinguishing between wordclasses.
We use a combination of three criteria for determining the word class of a word: 1. The meaning of the word 2. The form or `shape of the word 3. The position or `environment of the word in a sentence1. MeaningUsing this criterion, we generalize about the kind of meanings that words convey. For example,we could group together the words brother and car, as well as David, house, and London, on thebasis that they all refer to people, places, or things. In fact, this has traditionally been a popularapproach to determining members of the class of nouns. It has also been applied to verbs, bysaying that they denote some kind of "action", like cook, drive, eat, run, shout, walk.This approach has certain merits, since it allows us to determine word classes by replacing wordsin a sentence with words of "similar" meaning. For instance, in the sentence My son cooks dinnerevery Sunday, we can replace the verb cooks with other "action" words: My son cooks dinner every Sunday My son prepares dinner every Sunday My son eats dinner every Sunday My son misses dinner every SundayOn the basis of this replacement test, we can conclude that all of these words belong to the sameclass, that of "action" words, or verbs.However, this approach also has some serious limitations. The definition of a noun as a worddenoting a person, place, or thing, is wholly inadequate, since it excludes abstract nouns such astime, imagination, repetition, wisdom, and chance. Similarly, to say that verbs are "action" wordsexcludes a verb like be, as in I want to be happy. What "action" does be refer to here? Soalthough this criterion has a certain validity when applied to some words, we need other, morestringent criteria as well.
2. The form or `shape of a wordSome words can be assigned to a word class on the basis of their form or `shape. For example,many nouns have a characteristic -tion ending: action, condition, contemplation, demonstration, organization, repetitionSimilarly, many adjectives end in -able or -ible: acceptable, credible, miserable, responsible, suitable, terribleMany words also take what are called inflections, that is, regular changes in their form undercertain conditions. For example, nouns can take a plural inflection, usually by adding an -s at theend: car -- cars dinner -- dinners book -- booksVerbs also take inflections: walk -- walks -- walked -- walking3. The position or `environment of a word in a sentenceThis criterion refers to where words typically occur in a sentence, and the kinds of words whichtypically occur near to them. We can illustrate the use of this criterion using a simple example.Compare the following: I cook dinner every Sunday The cook is on holidayIn , cook is a verb, but in , it is a noun. We can see that it is a verb in because it takesthe inflections which are typical of verbs: And we can see that cook is a noun in because ittakes the plural -s inflection.
Notice that we can replace verbs with verbs, and nouns with nouns, but we cannot replace verbswith nouns or nouns with verbs: *I chef dinner every Sunday *The eat is on holidayIt should be clear from this discussion that there is no one-to-one relation between words andtheir classes. Cook can be a verb or a noun -- it all depends on how the word is used. In fact,many words can belong to more than one word class.Lexical wordThe branch of linguistics that studies the stock of words (the lexicon) in a given language.Some word classes are open, that is, new words can be added to the class as the need arises. Theclass of nouns, for instance, is potentially infinite, since it is continually being expanded as newscientific discoveries are made, new products are developed, and new ideas are exploredLexicology and Syntax. Here are the examples of lexical words; are nouns, lexical verbs,adjectives, and adverbs.Having a look at the explanation below; - Noun is The part of speech (or word class) that is used to name or identify a person, place, thing, quality, or action. Most nouns have both a singular and plural form, can be preceded by an article and/or one or more adjectives, and can serve as the head of a noun phrase. - Verb is the part of speech (or word class) that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of being. There are two main classes of verbs: (1) the large open class of lexical verbs (also known as main verbs or full verbs--that is, verbs that arent dependent on other verbs); and (2) the small closed class of auxiliary verbs (also called helping verbs). The two subtypes of auxiliaries are the primary auxiliaries (be, have, and do), which can also act as lexical verbs, and the modal auxiliaries (can, could, may, might, must, ought, shall, should, will, and would). Verbs and verb phrases usually function as
predicates. They can display differences in tense, mood, aspect, number, person, and voice - Adjective is The part of speech (or word class) that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Adjective: adjectival. In addition to their basic (or positive) forms, most descriptive adjectives have two other forms: comparative and superlative. - Adverbs is The part of speech (or word class) that is primarily used to modify a verb, adjective, or other adverb. Adverbs can also modify prepositional phrases, subordinate clauses, and complete sentences. Adjective: adverbial. Adverbs typically add information about time (rarely, frequently, tomorrow), manner (slowly, quickly, willingly), or place (here, there, everywhere). Many adverbs--especially adverbs of manner--are formed from adjectives by the addition of the ending -ly (easily, dependably). But many common adverbs (just, still, almost, not) do not end in -ly, and not all words that end in -ly (friendly, neighborly) are adverbsFunction wordA word that expresses a grammatical relationship. Also known as a grammatical word. Functionwords include determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions. Contrast with content word. Function words are like thumbtacks. We dont notice thumbtacks; we look at the calendar or the poster they are holding up. If we were to take the tacks away, the calendar and the poster would fall down. Likewise, if we took the function words out of speech, it would be hard to figure out what was going on The the function words include pronouns (you, them), modal verbs (could, must), determiners (a, the), prepositions (of, in), and conjunctions (and, but). New members of these classes are not added to the language very often. Instead they tend to gradually evolve from lexical words in a process called grammaticalization. For example, the lexical verb go means to move (toward a goal). But its progressive form be going (to) has evolved into a grammaticalized prospective (future) marker, as in Shes going to love her gift. The movement meaning of go has been bleached out of the grammaticalized version and so the going in be going to can be considered to be a function word, rather than a content word.
The closed classes represent a more restricted range of meanings, and the meanings of closed class words tend to be less detailed and less referential than open-class words. Prepositions have gradually expanded their membership somewhat by admitting participles such as including, concerning, but the remaining classes are very resistant to the introduction of new items. This has been noticeable in recent years when attempts have been made to find gender-neutral pronouns.Morphological ProcessesMorphology is the study of the rules governing the formation of words.Morphological processes can be by affixation or other words formation. Affixation can beinflection or derivation while other words formation can be compound, reduplication, suppletion,internal chage, clipping, conversion. A. AFFIXATIONAffixation is the process in which free morphome (root) is added with bound morphemes(affixes). There are two kinds of affixation, they are inflection and derivation. I. INFLECTIONInflection is word formation process that changes the morphological form of a word to fit asyntactic context.Example: - walk vs. walked - cat vs. cats There are some characteristics of inflection: inflection does not change the grammatical category of the base; inflection does not affect the meaning of the word; inflectional processes take place after derivational ones; Example neighborhoods vs. *neighborshood inflectional affixes have few exceptions (they are almost fully productive), while derivational affixes usually attach to a limited class of words; English inflectional affixes are all suffixes.
Example - plural -s: cat - cats - possessive/genitive ’s: John’s - 3rd person sg. non-past -s: sing-sings - progressive -ing: sing-singing - past tense -ed: talk-talked - past participle -en/-ed: eat-eaten/study-studied - comparative -er: happy-happier - superlative -est: happy-happiest There are two types of inflection. They are: regular inflection = rule-based; walk-walked irregular inflection = stored in the lexicon; come-came;goose-geese Evidence for distinction - for irregular verbs, response time is linked to the frequency of the verb - for regular verb, no such difference is found since the past tense is formed by a regular rule II. DERIVATIONDerivational affixes are affixes (suffixes) which change the meaning of the base in someimportant ways, or change it into a different word class. They turn nouns into adjectives,adjectives into verbs, nouns of one type into nouns to the other type, and so on. They add newmeanings to the base. They are readily followed by inflectional suffixes, and in many cases morethan one derivational suffix can be found in the some word.For instance, let us start with the verb Establish in its rather specialized meaning of ‘grant specialstate privileges to a church’. We can derive the verb disestablish, meaning ‘take away specialprivileges’. Then we can form the noun disestablishment meaning ‘the act of taking awayprivileges’, then the noun disestablishmentarian meaning ‘one who advocates disestablishment’,then the noun disestablishmentarianism meaning ‘the doctrine of disestablishment’, and finally
antidisestablishmentarianism, meaning ‘opposite to the disestablishing the church. The latterword is often cited as ‘the longest word in English Language’ Brockman (1971: 8)Some derivational affixes of English Nature of Class(es) of word to which affix AFFIX change in Examples applies meaning Noun: non- Negation/opposi starter Prefix non- Noun, adjective te Adj.: non- partisan electric/electr icity o Suffix -ity Adjective Changes to noun bese/ob esity tie/untie, Reverses action fasten/unfast Verb Prefix un- opposite en Adjective quality clear/unclear, safe/unsafe fame/famous, Changes to Suffix -ous Noun glamor/glam adjective orous tie/retie, Prefix re- Verb Repeat action write/rewrite Changes to print/printabl Suffix -able Verb adjective; e, means can drink/drinka
undergo ble action of verbDerivational Suffixes Abstract noun Concrete noun makers Nouns from Nouns from adjectives makers verbs -age = frontage - eer = engineer -age = -ity = falsity wastage -dom = kingdom - er = teenager - al = -ness = kindness refusal -ery = slavery - ess = waitress - ant = Adjective-noun makers inform ant -ful = spoonful - let = booklet -ation = -ese = Chinese education -hood = - ling = duckling -ee = -an = republican brotherhood commitee - ing = - ster = gangster -er = writer -ist= socialist farming - ism = -ing = -ite = Luddite idealism clothing - ocracy = -ment = aristocrac equipment y
EMPLOY - Ment EMPLOY-MENT AGREE AGREE- MENT DISCUSS - ion, tion, sion DISCUSS-ION PRODUCE PRODUC-TION PERMIT PERMI-S-SION INVITE - ation, - ition INVIT – ATION OPPOSE OPPOS – ITION PREFER -ence, - ance PREFER- ENCE DISTANT DISTAN- CE CERTAIN - ty, - ity CERTAIN-TY SECURE SECUR- ITY SAD - Ness SAD-NESS ILL ILL-NESS BUILD - Ing BUILD-ING UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND-INGNouns for People SUFFIX ROOT WORD- er, -or, - ress Drive DRIV-ER Edit EDIT-OR Wait WAIT-RESS - ist Tour TOUR-IST Science SCIENT-IST- ant , - ent Assist ASSIST-ANT Study STUD-ENT
-an, - ian Republic REPUBLIC-AN Electric ELECTRIC-IAN- ee Employ EMPLOY-EE Examine EXAMIN-EE Address ADDRESS-EEForming Adjectives - y added to the names of Rock = ROCKY common substances, objects (full of rocks, like rocks) and things that are Noise = NOISY experienced ( producing noise) - ly Added to time words and to Day = DAILY certain family/personal Week= WEEKLY words Man = MANLY - ful Added when it indicates in a Use = USEFUL positive way the presence of Skill = SKILFUL a quality or ability - less Negatively suggests the Use = USELESS absence of a quality or Meaning = MEANINGLESS ability - al Added to certain nouns of Addition = ADDITIONAL Latin origin ending in – ion, Music = MUSICAL -ic(s) and -ure Ethics = ETHICAL Nature = NATURALWords can often be divided into morphemes. Words can have prefixes, infixes, suffixes, showinflectional or derivational morphology, and much more...
Morphology is the study of the rules governing the formation of words. B. OTHER WORD FORMATION1-CompoundingA compound word contains at least two bases which are both words ,or at any rate , rootmorphemes.examples :-n+n))(Tea) +( pot ) => teapotHair) + (dress) + er => hairdresser(n+v)Blue) + (bird) => bluebird (a+n)Over) + (lord) => overlord (pre+n)2-ConversionConversion is a process that assigns an already existing word to a new syntactic category.Examples :-=>V derived from ne.g button (the shirt)=>N derived from v(a long) walk =>V derived from AOpen (a door)3-Clipping
Clipping is a process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables. It isespecially popular among students.Examples:-Prof => for professorPoli – sci => for political scienceZoo for => zoological garden4-BlendsBlends are words that created from non-morhpemic parts of two already existing items.A blend is usually formed from the first part of one word and the the final part of the second one.Examples:-brunch =>from breakfast and lunchSmog => from smoke and fog.Spam => from spiced and ham.5-Internal changeInternal change is a process that substitutes one non-morphemic segment for another .Examples:-sing(present) =>sang(past)Sink(present) =>sank(past)Foot (singular) => feet(plural)Goose(singular) => geese(plural)
6-SuppletionSuppletion is a morphological process whereby a root morpheme is replaced by a phonologicallyunrelated form in order to indicate a grammatical contrast.Examples:-have => hadGo => wentgood=> better7. AcronymThey are formed from the initial letters of a set of other words.They are usually pronounced as single words (e.g. NATO, PIN, etc.) Or as a set of letters (e.g.CD, VIP, etc.)8. Back FormationA word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to a word of a different type (usually a verb)through widespread use. • to donate from donation • to opt from option • Other examples: pronunciate (< pronunciation), resurrect (< resurrection), enthuse (< enthusiasm), 9. Borrowing Taking over words from other languages. • Examples from Italian • pasta
• piano 10. Coinage Coinage is the invention of totally new terms. Often a brand name becomes the name for the item or process associated with the brand name • Examples: – hoover – Kleenex – Xerox – KodakReferencesKusumawardhani, Ratna., Prabowo., Fani, Entika. 2008. A Handbook of Lexical Studies 1.Semarang: IKIP PGRI SMG press | <urn:uuid:62670b0e-61be-4a8f-90d7-195bec5b9b44> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slideshare.net/luqmankeren/morphological-processes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92306 | 4,627 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Local politicians are supposed to spend money from their campaign funds on campaigning – or so the thinking goes. But a recent investigation by the Better Government Association and Chicago magazine shows that isn’t always the case.
BGA and Chicago magazine analyzed campaign disclosure records from Jan. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2012, for thousands of political campaign committees in Illinois, including state senators and representatives, suburban mayors, Cook County commissioners, and other major city, county and state elected officials, among others.
Under state and federal law, elected officeholders and political candidates can spend campaign money only on things with a campaign- or government-related purpose. But some politicians get around the rule by stretching the definition of "campaign-related" to include, well, just about anything – including spa services, cigars and a People magazine subscription.
The BGA and Chicago magazine also found numerous examples of politicians paying for luxury cars, overseas trips and meals at top-flight restaurants across the city.
See what they found HERE | <urn:uuid:12e380db-46b1-4cfe-beac-5f3f6cf53c81> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2012/12/illinois-politicians-breaking-the-piggy-bank.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954988 | 206 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Heartland Center recently submitted our annual report to NIOSH. These program highlights represent some of the most high-impact accomplishments of Center faculty, staff, and trainees.
Agricultural Safety and Health
Development of a needs assessment of Iowa’s rural health clinics
Trainee Lauren LaDuca (MS 2018) worked with Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health to conduct a needs assessment of Iowa’s rural health clinics for the State Office of Rural Health. She conducted phone interviews with 15% of Iowa’s certified rural health clinics to determine any current educational needs; disparities clinic staff observe in their patient population; the strengths of their clinic; the most common medical issue they observe; if they serve agricultural populations; and, if they are part of an accountable care organization. Her work will help the State Office of Rural Health better communicate with and provide information and services to Iowa’s rural health clinics.
Researching safety among young farmers
After obtaining her Ph.D. in Spring 2017, trainee Josie Rudolphi accepted an Associate Research Scientist position at the National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC). An Iowa native and a farmer, Dr. Rudolphi worked as high school agricultural teacher and FFA leader. She received four pilot grants as a trainee. Two of these funded her dissertation work, addressing safety among young farmers, and the other two funded international research projects examining the health and safety of agricultural workers in India and Romania. While she was a student, Dr. Rudolphi received the Craig Zwerling and Nancy L. Sprince Scholarship in Occupational and Environmental Health. In her role with the NFMC, she will also collaborate with researchers at the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, continuing her focus on protecting the safety and health of young farmworkers.
Recognizing the impact of local policies and culture on safety and health, ASH faculty Dr. Brandi Janssen brings together these issues in her new book, Making Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities of Today’s Small Farmers (2017 University of Iowa Press). She explores labor in local food production and the interactions between local food and commodity producers to understand how local food production affects the well-being of rural communities. Combining data and statistics with first-hand accounts gathered while working on farms, Dr. Janssen describes the current state of local food production to examine the needs of this growing segment of agricultural workers.
Trainees obtained professional ergonomist certification
Past Ergonomics Training Program trainee Dr. Mark C. Schall, Jr. (PhD in Industrial Engineering, 2014) has obtained the Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) credential from the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE). Dr. Schall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University. He joins past Ergonomics trainees Dr. Nathan Fethke (PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health, 2006, now at the University of Iowa), Dr. Alysha Meyers (PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health, 2010, now at NIOSH), and Dr. Lauren Gant (PhD in Biomedical Engineering, 2012, now at HNI Corporation in Muscatine, IA) in achieving this important career milestone. In addition, Emily Westfall (nee Determan) (MS in Occupational and Environmental Health, 2013) has obtained both the Associate Ergonomics Professional (AEP) credential from the BCPE and the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) credential from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. She is currently employed as a Senior Risk Control Consultant for Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Trainees provided real-world ergonomic assessment experience
The Ergonomics Training Program continues to strengthen ties with local and regional stakeholders to provide unique professional development opportunities for trainees. For example, two current trainees, Nathan Huizinga (MS in Occupational and Environmental Health, ongoing) and Natalie Jones (MS in Biomedical Engineering, ongoing), have gained real-world occupational safety and health work experience through a Co-Op program at Whirlpool’s appliance manufacturing facility in Amana, IA.
Trainees receive awards and scholarships at national conference
IH trainees from the University of Iowa continue to shine at annual meeting of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Of the 14 trainees attending the 2017 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition (AIHce), ten presented posters, six received awards for their poster, and five received scholarships from the American Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Of particular note, the poster of current trainees (Samantha Knowlton and Corey Boles) with ERC faculty member Matt Nonnenman, entitled “Measuring Particle and Bioaerosol Concentrations Generated from Toilet Flushes During Hospital-Based Patient Care” won three ribbons, one each from the Hazard Prevention and Engineering Control Committee, the Healthcare Working Group, and the Biosafety and Environment Microbiology Committee.
Trainee and faculty awarded a patent
Past trainee Lorenzo Cena (PhD 2013) and ERC faculty member Thomas Peters were awarded a patent for the nanoparticle respiratory deposition (NRD) sampler. This sampler, developed with funding from NIOSH, collects nanoparticles mimicking their deposition in the human respiratory system. The sampler is now commercially available through Zefon International.
Wireless exposure assessment network developed
ERC faculty and program director Thomas Peters, with trainees (Laura Hallett, MS 2017; Alyson Gray, current trainee) developed a wireless network (i.e., sensor array) of stationary, low-cost monitors to obtain a time-series of hazard maps for ozone, noise, and particles. Funded through a NIOSH R01 research grant (“An inexpensive monitoring network to assess workplace exposures”), we integrate the hazard maps with worker location to estimate personal exposures in time intervals as short as 15 min. A network with 40 monitors is now running in a large vehicle manufacturing facility. Quarterly the team validates sensor output and compares personal exposures measured traditionally to those estimated from the network. We envision that the highly resolved personal exposure information will facilitate surveillance and enable proactive hazard control strategies.
Risks of neoncotinoid insecticide exposure to agricultural workers explored
ERC Occupational Epidemiology Trainee Program Director Bill Field received funding from the Iowa Institute of Public Health Research and Policy (IIPHRP) at the University of Iowa to develop the infrastructure and preliminary data for a research collaborative to investigate the emerging potential risks posed by neonicotinoid exposure to agricultural workers and their families. The collaborative effort is one of the first in the U.S. to examine the potential human exposure of neonicotinoid insecticides as well as to validate biomarkers necessary for future neonicotinoid-human health investigations. A substantial portion of the investigative work will be conducted by Occupational Epidemiology Program trainee Darrin Thompson.
Trainee investigates cancer among children of pesticide applicators
Mr. Jonathan Davis, Occupational Epidemiology trainee, recently defended his doctoral dissertation that examined the risk of cancer in children of pesticide applicators from the Agricultural Health Study. The study included 36,537 children of Iowa participants who were evaluated for cancer incidence during 1975 through 2013 from birth through the age of seventeen. The study provided the first epidemiological evidence of an increased risk of childhood cancer for exposure to trifluralin and EPTC.
Occupational Injury Prevention
Trainee develops the first desktop tractor driving simulator
Kayla Faust, PhD student in Occupational and Environmental Health and Occupational Injury Prevention Program trainee for the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety, is building the first ever desktop tractor driving simulator to quantify driving performance measures among farmers. Specifically, she is developing a new MiniSim which incorporates the vehicle dynamics of a John Deere tractor with respect to vehicle size, weight, driver position and center of gravity. In addition, she is including hardware to simulate the feel and perspective of driving a tractor from the driver’s seat. Vehicle dynamics such as braking distance, center of gravity, and field of view are very different in personal vehicles, for example, than in heavy equipment due to their size and engines. Therefore, creating a simulator that better mimics the appearance and “feel” of the vehicle type being studied is crucial when conducting driving simulation research. This new tractor simulator is being developed as part of Ms. Faust’s dissertation research.
Report on policies and programs to address the opioid epidemic authored by program faculty
Carri Casteel, Director of the Occupational Injury Prevention Program, was the lead author of a report that provides priority policies and programs that Iowa legislators and other stakeholders can consider as the state moves forward with addressing the opioid problem. The priorities were identified by 38 stakeholders who Dr. Casteel and a team at the Injury Prevention Research Center convened in Des Moines, representing law enforcement, substance abuse treatment, medicine, psychiatry, nursing, public health, nonprofit/advocacy, poison control, insurance, state and local drug control policy, and pharmacy, as well as elected officials or their representatives. The report will be presented on October 16, 2017 to a legislative interim study committee tasked with evaluating Iowa’s response to the opioid epidemic. This committee wants input from various relevant agencies and entities and plans to submit a report with its findings and recommendations to Governor Kim Reynolds and the general assembly by November 15, in time for possible action during the next legislative session.
Occupational Medicine Residency
Trainee obtains assistant director position
2016 graduate of the University of Iowa Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program Steven Rippentrop, MD, MPH, MHA is the Medical Director of the University of Iowa Health Ventures Clive Clinic in Clive, Iowa. He is also the Assistant Medical Director of University of Iowa Occupational Health and University of Iowa Health Ventures, Corporate Health Partners. Dr. Rippentrop is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. In January 2017, he was appointed Associate Program Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.
Trainee investigates respiratory and ocular symptoms among workers at water parks
2015 graduate of the University of Iowa Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program Sophia Chiu, MD, MPH, MA, MSc is the first author of a NIOSH-sponsored investigation of symptoms among employees of an indoor waterpark resort (Chiu SK, Burton NC, Dunn KH, de Perio MA. Respiratory and Ocular Symptoms Among Employees of an Indoor Waterpark Resort — Ohio, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66:986–989). Dr. Chiu is an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
Trainee obtains high-level position at Mayo Clinic
2013 graduate of the University of Iowa Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program Laura Breeher, MD, MPH, MS is Senior Associate Consultant and Associate Medical Director in the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She is also the Section Chief of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Breeher is an instructor in Preventive Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Trainee to help lead the residency training program
2011 graduate of the University of Iowa Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program Brenda Buikema, MD, MPH was appointed Associate Program Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of Iowa College of Public Health in January 2017.
Third year of successful safety conference
The Continuing Education Program partnered with several labor organizations and employers to host the third annual Hawkeye on Safety Conference, held September 8th, 2016. In its third year, the conference grew again in participation, from 494 participants to 503. The course content included electrical safety, workplace stress, trenching and excavation safety, safety communication, confined spaces, an update on OSHA regulations, and Violent Incident Shooter Training, among other topics. Partnering organizations for Hawkeye on Safety 2016 included Carpenters Local 1260; Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters; Iowa’s Building Trades Unions; Laborers Health and Safety Fund; Built by Pros; Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Building Trades; Gilbane Building Company; Local Union 125 Plumbers & Pipefitters; McComas-Lacina Construction LC; Miron Construction Co., Inc.; Iron Workers Local 89; Millwright Local Union 2158; Mortenson Construction; TrueNorth Construction Specialty Group; Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield; Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest; and the University of Iowa Facilities Management. | <urn:uuid:44e308a5-da16-4a34-96d2-683db6ad56d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heartland.public-health.uiowa.edu/2017/10/11/program-highlights-from-the-heartland-centers-2016-2017-summary-annual-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.928445 | 2,672 | 2.046875 | 2 |
OPF:PEMNABEN Business Environment - Course Information
PEMNABEN Business EnvironmentSchool of Business Administration in Karvina
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- doc. Ing. Jarmila Duháček Šebestová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Šárka Zapletalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Ing. Šárka Zapletalová, Ph.D.
Department of Business Economics and Management - School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Ing. Šárka Zapletalová, Ph.D.
- Mon 8:55–10:30 A412
- FAKULTA ( OPF ) && TYP_STUDIA ( N ) && FORMA ( P )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 3/40, only registered: 0/40
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Business Economics and Management (programme OPF, N_EKOMAN, specialization Accounting and Taxes)
- Business Economics and Management (programme OPF, N_EKOMAN, specialization Business)
- Business Economics and Management (programme OPF, N_EKOMAN, specialization Corporate Finance)
- Business Economics and Management (programme OPF, N_EKOMAN, specialization Marketing and Trade)
- Course objectives
- The business environment is an important determinant for long-term development of entrepreneurial activities. The course objective is to provide students comprehensive and necessary knowledge about business environment and its parts. Students will be introduced to the issue of business environment in the whole its complexity and the specificity.
- Business Environment
Business environment refers to those aspects of the surroundings of enterprises which have influence on the functioning of entrepreneurial activities. The surroundings of enterprise are constantly changing. The success of enterprise depends on its alertness and adaptability to changes in the environment.
External and Internal Business Environment
Enterprises are affected by internal and external environmental factors. Internal environment includes internal factors of the enterprise which can be controlled by enterprise. Internal environment refers to environment within the organization. Whereas external factors are beyond the control of enterprise. External environment includes factors outside the enterprise which can provide opportunities or pose threats to the enterprise.
Global Business Environment
Global business environment is broader environment than the business environment of a particular country. Significant part of the global business environment is the world economy. The objective of the topic is to understand (and identify) forces that shape the global business environment.
Analysis of the Business Environment
Analysis of the business environment is the study of various components of environment affecting the enterprise. It is the process by which enterprises monitor their relevant environment to identify opportunities and threats affecting their business. The analysis becomes an important step towards corporate planning and business policy decisions.
Business Environment of Transnational Enterprises
Enterprises that are involved in international business will deal with a variety of regulatory regimes. Contemporary business environment is governed by both national regulations and multilateral rules. It is important for transnational enterprises to understand both how the international institutions operate and they array of trade regulations which one is likely to be faced with when undertaking commercial relations across international boundaries.
Business Environment of Family Businesses
Family businesses are crucially important for global business environment. Business environment in family business has some specific features. These specifics are given by blending of ownership factor, management factor and family factor.
- Business Environment
- required literature
- HAMILTON, H. and P. WEBSTER. The International Business Environment, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-870419-5. info
- NORDQVIST, M., MELIN, L., WALDKIRCH, M. and G. KUMETO. Theoretical Perspectives on Family Business. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-7834-79658. info
- NYILAS, J. World Economy and Its Main Development Tendencies. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 978-9-4017-3502-5. info
- JAIN, T. R., TREHAN, M. AND R. TREHAN. Business Environment. FK Publications, 2010. ISBN 978-8-1885-9757-4. info
- WORTHINGTOVN, I. AND CH. BRITTON. The Business Environment. Pearson Education, 2009. ISBN 978-0-2737-1675-4. info
- WERHERLY, P. a D. OTTER. The Business Envronment: themes and issues. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-920305-5. info
- BROOKS, I., WEATHERSTON, J. AND G. WILKINSON. The International Business Environment. Pearson Education, 2004. ISBN 978-0-2736-8247-9. info
- recommended literature
- WARD, J. Perpetuating the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned From Long Lasting, Successful Families in Business. Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-0-2305-0599-5. info
- WARNOCK, D. The International Business Environment: A Handbook for Managers and Executives. CRC Presss, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4987-3115-7. info
- GRUNIG, R. AND R. KUHN. The Strategy Planning Process: Analyses, Options, Projects. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-6624-5649-1. info
- PAUL, D., EVA, M., CADLE, J., HINDLE, K., YEATES, D., ROLLASON,. Business Analysis, 3rd ed. Swindon: BCS Learning & Development Limited, 2014. ISBN 978-1-780172-77-4. info
- HARRISON, A. Business Environment in a Global Context. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-1996-7258-5. info
- POZA, E. Family Business. Cengage Learning, 2013. ISBN 978-1-2850-5682-1. info
- KASLOW, F. W. Handbook of Family Business and Family Business Consultations: A Global Perspective. Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. ISBN 978-1-1367-8141-4. info
- CAMBELL, D. and T. CRAIG. Organizations and Business Environment, 2nd ed. Routledge. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012. ISBN 978-1-1363-7518-7. info
- IETTO-GILLIES, G. Transnational Corporations and International Production: Concepts, Theories and Effects. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8579-3226-6. info
- Teaching methods
- One-to-One tutorial
- Assessment methods
- Language of instruction
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- attendance in seminars 60 %, seminar paper, defense of seminar paper, course credit test | <urn:uuid:1d7af6e1-63dc-4d6b-b425-089f0ba5ff0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://is.slu.cz/course/opf/summer2020/PEMNABEN | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.756858 | 1,642 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Indoor plants are beautiful to look at and they can have a significant, positive impact on our health. Houseplants plants improve indoor air quality through by adding oxygen and humidity to the air in our homes and offices. NASA scientists have found that many also remove harmful gases such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from indoor air.
But which ones do it best?
NASA came up with a list of indoor plants that cleaned the air most efficiently. Here are the 18 standouts (in no particular order):
- English ivy (Hedera helix)
- aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis)
- spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
- golden pothos (Epipiremnum aureum)
- peace lily (Spathiphyllum `Mauna Loa')
- Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema modestum)
- bamboo or reed palm (Chamaedorea sefritzii)
- snake plant or mother-in-law's tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata)
- heartleaf philodendron (Philodendron scandens `oxycardium')
- lacy tree philodendron (Philodendron selloum)
- elephant ear philodendron (Philodendron domesticum)
- red-edged dracaena (Dracaena marginata)
- corn plant (Dracaena fragrans `Massangeana')
- Janet Craig & Warneckii dracaena (Dracaena deremensis `Janet Craig' & `Warneckii')
- weeping fig (Ficus benjamina)
- gerbera daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)
- pot mum (Crysanthemum morifolium)
So, what are you waiting for?
Swansons' pottery and indoor plant sale is going on now (Oct. 14 - Oct. 31). Buy yourself some houseplants and enjoy their many benefits!
Coming soon... The Proper Care and Feeding of Indoor Plants. | <urn:uuid:01ce14fa-2497-4b5c-9303-a809b1ea1335> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.swansonsnursery.com/blog/2014/10/20/houseplants-that-clean-the-air-nasa-list | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.805735 | 452 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The original religious practices of the Seminole Indians include the Green Corn Festival, dream interpretations, animal spirit guides and shaman healers. The Seminole Indians considered the environment to be the sacred source of life and humans to be the guardians of the land.Continue Reading
Originally, the Seminole Indians attributed death and disease to a person's failure to pay proper respect to nature and supernatural spirits. Nonetheless, the dead were mourned. When somebody died, the body was buried in a coffin with cooking utensils and additional clothes. The family would then abandon the home it was living in and move on to settle in a new area. The previous home would remain empty until another family moved into it.
The Seminoles were also great believers in animal spirits. Many of their legends include personified animals, notably the Panther, the Rabbit and the Corn Lady.
Each person was believed to have an animal spirit helper who watched over him and guided him through times of strife. A person's particular helper would reveal itself through dreams. It could take many years and many dreams before a Seminole Indian recognized his spirit guide.
Unfortunately, little is known about the ancient traditions of the Seminole Indians. The shamans, who were healers and keepers of a clan's history and wisdom, did not leave any apprentices who were sufficiently trained to carry on the practices. Thousands died in the wars and forced marches of the 19th century, and the old ways of living were lost. Once resettled in Florida, the cultures of the many Native American tribes forced by President Andrew Jackson to relocate blended together and became convoluted.Learn more about Religion | <urn:uuid:e699a945-0b3a-41b4-9b82-3d5c39f4ff34> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.reference.com/world-view/were-original-religious-practices-seminole-tribe-c38c4d25760ecac7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00085-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979153 | 329 | 3.5625 | 4 |
The long-awaited report into the British Army Bloody Sunday massacre will not be released by the current British government, it has emerged.
British Direct Ruler Shaun Woodward confirmed that British government officials are this week beginning checks of the 5,000-page document for potential “security issues”. British military intelligence chiefs, who are closely involved in the scrutiny of the document, are said to have requested the delay.
The families of those killed and injured want an early publication of the report of the public inquiry, the second to be held into the British Army shootings which left fourteen dead at a civil rights demonstration in Derry in 1972.
A group of relatives met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as recently as last week to discuss their concerns over the handling of the matter.
In a statement to the Westminster parliament today [Monday], , Woodward claimed that he was legally obliged to have the ‘checks’ carried out. He added: “Once the checking process is complete, a publication date can be set and the report can be printed.”
The announcement confirmed fears among relatives of those killed that British military intelligence is seeking to censor, delay and ‘spin’ the report.
“We ask, is it fair that the British government get advance access to the report, advance possibility of preparing a response, with the possibility of changing Lord Saville’s report itself?” they said in a statement.
“We ask, is it justice that the British government, who were responsible for Bloody Sunday, will control the release and maybe even the content of the report?”
It was reported that four copies of the report will be produced -- two for the British vetters and two for the inquiry. However, the announcement by Saville that government officials can scrutinise the report only while it is still in his formal possession was welcomed by the familiies.
“While we disagree fundamentally with the need for a security review, we nevertheless welcome Lord Saville’s decision to retain possession of the report until it is ready to be made public. We feel now that this report can and should be released before the dissolution of parliament, and we urge Lord Saville to take every precaution to ensure that his report is not undermined in any way.”
Woodward claimed relatives of the bereaved and injured, plus soldiers involved in the inquiry, would be given access to the report on the day of its eventual release.
“Publication of the report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been long-awaited and it promises to be a hugely significant event in Northern Ireland’s history,” he said.
“But this is also an occasion that will have an enormous impact on the private lives of ordinary people.
“I am determined to ensure that arrangements for publication are fair and reasonable, and at all times I intend to act reasonably in recognition of the interests of the families, soldiers and others involved in the inquiry, and of my obligations to Parliament.”
Woodward said he wanted to publish the report in full, but said he would remove extracts where advised necessary “to ensure the safety of individuals”.
The Saville inquiry was set up in 1998 to re-examine the events of January 1972, when soldiers from the Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside area of Derry.
It was established after the original Widgery Inquiry in the wake of the killings was widely dismissed as a whitewash.
Derry MP Mark Durkan criticised the today’s announcement, which he said would bring new questions over the future of the report and fresh uncertainty.
“In Derry recently, [Woodward] told the media that such consideration [of ‘security issues’] could take ‘a few days’. If, he envisages in today’s statement, his delegated officials will have access to Lord Saville’s report this week, then a timetable of ‘a few days’ could still lie within the indicative period remaining for this Parliament prior to dissolution.” | <urn:uuid:0107c3ad-78e5-4e23-aa4b-52a10b2bb1e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://republican-news.org/current/news/2010/03/mi5_blocks_bloody_sunday_repor.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.968455 | 844 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The genealogist P. William Filby is best known for his work on the PILI, Passenger and Immigrant List Index. Beginning in 1980 he edited volumes of the PILI that contained millions of names of from passenger lists and immigration records. One of his other notable publications was Philadelphia Naturalization records 1789-1880.
Pennsylvania is the state where the most amount of people with the Buggy name lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The records for three men who applied for US citizenship through courts in Philadelphia are shown. Their names are listed below.
Name Former Country Court Date of Declaration**
Buggy, J.P. (mnr)* G.Britain & Ireland Court of Common Pleas 6 October 1865
Buggy, James G.Britain & Ireland Court of Common Pleas 13 October 1851 Buggy, Robert G.Britain & Ireland Quarter Sessions Court 13 August 1836
*denotes a minor – underage applicant
** Full heading is: Date of Declaration of Intention and/or Oath of Allegiance
Filby, P.H. 1982. Philadelphia Naturalization Records. Detroit: Gale Research Company. p.66. | <urn:uuid:36a078d6-e393-4e43-a482-36db5866ff3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://buggynamehistory.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/philadelphia-naturalization-records-1789-1880/?like=1&_wpnonce=3a725eea8d | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00137-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923659 | 243 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No saved queries yet
Save your SQL queries to embed, download, and access them later. Queries will appear here once saved.