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a multimedia A/V abstraction layer API -- development files
libplayer provides a generic A/V API that relies on various multimedia
player for Linux systems. It currently supports MPlayer and xine. Its
main goal is to provide an unique API that player frontends can use to
control any kind of multimedia player underneath.
This package contains headers and libraries for developing software
that makes use of libplayer.
libplayer (2.0.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* FTBFS: wrapper_gstreamer.c:33:21: fatal error: gst/gst.h:
No such file or directory (Closes: #625196)
thanks to Matthias Klose <[email protected]>.
-- HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:37:57 +0900
libplayer (2.0.1-2) unstable; u
2.0.1: 3 Oct, 2010
* The libplayer version was not passed correctly to Doxygen.
* Fix a segmentation fault when the default screen used by the X server can
not be found.
2.0.0: 3 Oct, 2010
* The code related to X11 has been rewritten in order to use XCB instead of
Xlib. It fixes many potential problems related to the multi-threading.
This work was packaged for Debian by:
Davide Cavalca <[email protected]> on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:48:04 +0100
It was downloaded from http://libplayer.geexbox.org
Benjamin Zores <[email protected]>
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Economic and regulatory factors make metal recovery and wastewater reuse attractive for the electroplating, semiconductor and printed circuit board industries. Cadmium, zinc, copper, chromium, mercury, lead, gold, silver and cyanide complexes of these metals are the common metals requiring control. Ion exchange processes, evaporators, chemical precipitation, reverse osmosis and combinations of various processes are extremely effective tools for treating industrial wastewater streams and meeting current metal discharge requirements.
Ion exchange resins were originally developed to remove naturally-occurring ions found in most city water supplies such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfates, chlorides, bicarbonates, carbonates and silica.
Common ions found in most city water include:
- Calcium (Ca2+)
- Magnesium (Mg2+)
- Sodium (Na+)
- Alkalinity (HCO3-)
- Sulfate (SO42-)
- Chloride (Cl-)
- Silica (SiO2)
A cation resin (CR) in the hydrogen form exchanges or removes cations, and an anion resin (AR) in the hydroxide form exchanges or removes anions according to the following chemical reactions:
Ion exchange is a viable method for ion removal or metal removal when treating high volumes of relatively dilute solutions. In other words, the resins are used as concentrators of the contaminants, minimizing the volume of waste.
Just as common ions found in most city water supplies can be removed by ion exchange, so too can metal ions be removed from waste streams; however, developing an effective ion exchange system for waste treatment is usually more difficult because of the complexity of the stream. For example, metals in waste streams can exist as cations or complexed anions, be monovalent or polyvalent or may not exist as ions. Additionally, waste streams often have oxidizing agents, oils, greases and detergents that harm ion exchange resins, and should be removed prior to any ion exchange system. Therefore a complete understanding of the wastewater stream chemistry is needed to properly design the ion exchange system.
The following is important information about wastewater stream chemistry:
- TDS (or conductivity) with min. and max. if variable
- pH and temperature with min. and max. if variable
- Basic inorganic analysis of ions (Ca, Mg, Na, Cl and SO4)
- Presence or absence of oxidants; in order to determine if a chelating resin is appropriate to use, it is necessary to know the basic details of the water to be treated
- Presence or absence of complexing agents
- Level and type of organic molecules
- Level of suspended solids
Electroplating can cause environmental contamination because of rinse water discharge and disposal of spent plating bath solutions. Because the plating baths contain such high levels of metals, reclamation by precipitation followed by filtration is already being practiced. The problem is that the majority of metals being discharged to the environment come from the plating operation’s rinse waters. The rinse waters have been a challenge for the industry because the level of metals is too low for effective precipitation methods and meeting discharge requirements. An application perfectly suited for an ion exchange process, the best available technology is treating high volumes of solution with low concentrations of contamination. Although ion exchange processes can be implemented to treat most rinse waters, it must be noted that the greatest obstacle to applying this technology appropriately is when components other than the metals of interest are not considered. To design the most effective ion exchange process for removing metals from plating operation rinse water, a full analysis must be available.
As an example, let’s evaluate a copper plating rinse water using city water as the make-up for the rinse tanks.
The question is, which resin to use? A standard strongly acidic cation exchanger in the sodium form (softener resin) such as ResinTech’s CG-8 (Na) can be used to remove the copper but will also remove the calcium and magnesium. If you use an exchange capacity of 30 kilograins of CaCO3/cu ft, you can treat 1,350 gal/cu ft.
An alternative would be to use an iminodiacetic chelating resin such as ResinTech’s SIR-300, which is selective for the copper and other heavy metals. If you use an exchange capacity of 15 kilograins CaCO3/cu ft, you can expect to treat up to 42,000 gal/cu ft because you are only removing the copper.
Iminodiacetate Functional Group
Although the iminodiacetic chelating resin performs better as a concentrator, there are other considerations. The cost of an iminodiacetic chelating resin is higher than a standard strongly acidic cation resin. The regeneration of an iminodiacetic chelating resin is more complicated using a two-stage regeneration of acid followed by caustic, whereas the standard strongly acidic cation resin is typically with just brine.
Another option worth investigating is to redesign the system to remove competing ions from the city water feeding the rinse tanks by installing a softener, demineralizer or reverse osmosis. With no competing ions present, a less expensive, standard cation resin can be used for removal of the copper with high throughputs similar to the iminodiacetic chelating resin.
In addition to iminodiacetic chelating resins, there are other types of chelating resins available whose chelating functional groups can be aminophosphonic, thiouronium and picolyamine. Although the removal mechanisms of these resins are similar, their unique functional groups make them selective for different metals and able to perform under different conditions.
Chelating resins are more selective than standard resins because the removal is not only based on an ion exchange mechanism, but by also forming a chelate.
Aminophosphonic Functional Group
Aminophosphonic chelating resins are able to form chelate divalent metal ions in the absence of calcium. They are generally used for removing hardness from brine but have occasionally been used instead of iminodiacetic resins when the TDS is greater than 1,000 ppm or conditions are slightly basic.
Thiouronium Functional Group
Thiouronium resins are not true chelating resins but are highly selective for mercury, gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Their primary use is for removing mercury to low levels in the presence of high levels of heavy metals.
Picolyamine Functional Group
Picolyamine chelating resins are highly specialized resins used to remove heavy metals. What makes them unique is their ability to operate at extremely low pH levels. They are typically used to remove transition metals from plating baths, not rinse water.
Often overlooked, weakly acidic cation resins in sodium, such as ResinTech’s WACMP, should be considered as an economic alternative to iminodiacetic chelating resins for heavy metal removal. In most cases, determining the use of either a weakly acidic or iminodiacetic type is entirely based on pH and its effect on the operating capacities of these resins. A weakly acidic cation resin will outperform an iminodiacetic cation resin on soft water with a neutral or slightly basic pH.
As mentioned already, most of the hazardous waste produced in metal
finishing comes from the wastewater generated during the rinsing operations that follow cleaning and plating operation. Efforts to increase rinse efficiency are vital. Ion exchange processes for treating make-up water to rinse tanks and for reuse should be used. Another process change that can optimize wastewater management is waste segregation. Older operations typically have a common trench to which all rinses drain. The wastewater chemistry for these combined rinses make metal recovery and water reuse more difficult.
When evaluating an ion exchange process in your facility, it is vital that you have complete knowledge of the wastewater chemistry (this requires more than simply identifying the metals of concern and their concentrations); effluent requirements (the goal to meet discharge, recover or reuse); flow rate requirements; and regenerable (onsite or offsite) or sacrifical requirements. | <urn:uuid:4e2a4cc1-3a54-4f40-8281-8d664cc96f0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wqpmag.com/print/13693 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909332 | 1,720 | 3.046875 | 3 |
*This is my follow up post to “What age should a child start to use a PC?”
I’m as old as Microsoft Windows (C) 1985 but I was only able to use the computer when I was in the 5th Grade in Elementary school, I was 11 years old and Windows 95 was the latest version of Windows back then. I enrolled along with my best friend in computer tutorial classes during weekends. We were taught the basics of using the computer, Windows and Microsoft Office. It was fun and it did started my love affair with the computer and eventually the Internet but in the back of my mind I always asked myself each and every time I completed a task, like closing a window, opening Word, or renaming a folder, the question, “What now? Or “Okay, what’s next?” The computer was just there on the table in front of me. Even today with my top-of-the-line (3 years ago) computer I still ask the same question after I hit the publish button on my blog, saved a document, fired up WinAmp etc. The computer would do nothing else unless I command it so.
Before that first encounter with the computer, I grew up playing with LEGO, and other building blocks of different brand names. I even played with blocks of wood left over whenever my father had a home construction project. I never enjoyed the toy soldiers, cars, plastic swords and toy robots with guns complete with sound effects and lights even the recorded voices of soldiers dying, exploding to bits or calling my playmate “motherf*cker” or a “Commie[communist] bast*rd” (yes, my cousin was once given a toy robot from the US, for his birthday that played war sounds with those dirty words in the recorded dialogue) it was cool but shocking really.
Going back to my LEGO, I had the habit of loosing the instruction booklet for putting together the LEGO set given to me every Christmas (until now I still buy a set or two) when I was younger, I had to improvise and really flex my brain to figure out how to put the many blocks and pieces together so that they would look like the finished set that is pictured in the box. The toughest challenge that I remember was putting together that set that was modeled on the space shuttle and its launch pad + control tower. It took me and my father a whole day just to get it right, and since I lost the instruction booklet again. Actually, by lunch time, my father gave up and left me all alone. Determined to finish with the assembly and with only the picture on the box as my guide and reference I slaved over the rest of the day assembling the LEGO set using the trial-and-error method. Eventually I succeeded in putting it together the way it should be. It was a major achievement for I was only 8 years old back then.
I believe that playing with LEGO is what started me in the habit of talking to my self. I would always play alone with my LEGO sets when I was young and do small scenes of battles, parades or construction projects with blocks and pieces. I’d improvise and come up with my own designs, put together a bunch of pieces until it resembled a ship, a city, a space station or a submarine at least to my eyes, and I’m a happy child for the rest of the day.
I was so immersed in my own ‘little world’ that my aunt once thought that I had lost my sanity since I was frequently talking to my self while her son, my cousin a year older than me, was all quite playing with his GameBoy (the original model). Years later we would grow up and go to school together, to our family, and my aunt’s amazement, I, who spent my childhood days playing with plastic and wooden blocks and talking to my self in a corner did better and excelled over my cousin who spent his growing up years honing his cut-throat skill of button mashing and a mastery of the GameBoy and other electronic devices like the VHS player and the SEGA console. Don’t forget though that I was the weird one. 😉
From this experience, I dare say that electronic gadgets will do little to help a child nourish his creative, analytical and imaginative mind. It molded my cousin to rely on a few buttons to get things done. The sort of “instant noodles” mentality, just add hot water or in this case just click this and push that and viola! You now have a meal or some desired effect, no more hard labor and no more need to flex your mind. It may be old fashioned, nontechnological, and even primitive, I’d still recommend that a child play with traditional toys that would require and encourage them not to just push a single button, but to utilize and stimulate their full mental and physical capacities. Experience after all, is still the best teacher.
From the comments on the previous post, I agree that in our age, it is a big plus that children learn how to use the computer and gadgets for it will indeed give them an advantage someday, but not at the expense of creative, analytical and imaginative development. Just imagine if they will grow up on pressing keys and mouse-clicks and once the electricity is out or the machine breaks down, what now? | <urn:uuid:e7358f6c-d75e-40e3-96d4-0e0631d6ded1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jrocas.com.ph/archives/lego-and-the-start-of-my-weirdness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976521 | 1,121 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to apologize for changing the Field's hallowed green bags. And with good reason-the store and those who ran it shaped the city's streets, subsidized its culture and heralded its progress. The resulting commercial empire dictated wholesale trade terms in Calcutta and sponsored towns in North Carolina, but its essence was always Chicago. So when the Marshall Field name was retired in 2006 after the stores were purchased by Macy's, protest slogans like "Field's is Chicago" and "Field's: as Chicago as it gets" weren't just emotional hype. Many still hope that name will be resurrected like the city it helped support during the Great Fire and the Great Depression. Until then, fans of Marshall Field's can celebrate its history with this warm look back at the beloved institution. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Why Marshall Field's Matters
From the Farm to the City: Making of a Merchant
Growth and Rebirth: Field, Leiter & Company
Fire and Survival: Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire
Change and Philanthropy: The Merchant's Final Years
Continuing the Vision: The John Shedd Years
Progress and Despair: The Great Depression and the World's Fair
From the City to the Suburbs: The Changing Face of Retail
A Child's Dream: Christmas at Field's
Winds of Change: BATUS and Target
An Icon Vanishes: The Coming of Macy's
Epilogue: State Street Today
Appendix: Marshall Field's Recipes
About the Author
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Her child came home one day with a permission slip from school and she was shocked to what it was for. It was asking that she give her consent for the student to be excluded from reciting the pledge of allegiance if she wanted.
After posting to social media it quickly went viral with the controversy surrounding it. It prompted backlash from many commenters who felt it was wrong for the school to make it optional for anyone to be excluded from the pledge.
The slip was titled “Pledge of Allegiance Request” and included fields for the child’s name, grade and school.
“I understand my rights as a parent and request that my child, noted above, be excused from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. This request includes standing and placing his/her hand over his/her heart,” the slip read.
In the parent/guardian signature field, the shocked mother wrote a note expressing her disbelief:
“This is the dumbest thing I have ever read and I am so ashamed of this.”
The note quickly went viral, garnering response from viewers across social media some are included below:
Not only is this anti-patriotism, but it’s especially silly due to the fact that anyone has the right in America to not stand or place their hand over their heart for the Pledge of Allegiance anyway, as it is our right to freedom of speech … since when did we need a permission slip for this? I feel like the permission slip is more of an attempt to push the anti-patriotism agenda than anything. it’s pretty pathetic.
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You will learn elementary skills such as paddling, standing up on the surf board, important safety techniques and being comfortable in the water.
You will develop intermediate ocean skills. You will learn proper etiquette, how to ride glassy waves and turning techniques. You will learn to read surf conditions, winds & weather patterns.
You will gain information on advanced techniques, such as paddling, catching the wave smoothly. You will work on your turning and speed on a smaller surf board. We will show you how to take off right and left and how to duck dive. Towards the end of the course you will begin to ride unbroken waves and be guided on how to bottom turn and do cut backs. | <urn:uuid:49d41cbf-0c8d-4e3f-a356-23d3e7fb1f2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hookedsurf.com/surf-lessons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.896563 | 274 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The ballot initiative process, which provides an injection of direct democracy in twenty-four states, often ends up helping the right wing. For years, deep-pocketed funders have backed ballot measures to ban same-sex marriage, restrict reproductive rights, or make it nearly impossible for elected state legislatures to raise taxes—hurting families and helping to tank state budgets.
Often, the process plays out like a game of tug-of-war. Two years ago, the rightward shift in control of state legislatures presaged a wave of legislative attacks on workers, women, immigrants, voters, and the middle class. But then a funny thing happened: Voters pushed back at the polls.
After the attack on collective bargaining in Wisconsin, voters engaged in a recall effort that flipped control of the state senate. Ohio voters last November repealed SB 5 by a wide margin, a law that would have limited collective bargaining rights for public employees. And the people of Mississippi soundly rejected an amendment claiming that life begins at conception, which would have rendered many forms of contraception illegal.
This fall, voters in some states and cities will have the chance to do more than just push back. Initiatives are on the ballot that would directly confront the destruction that austerity economics has wrought on communities, while building national momentum behind policies to revitalize our economy and protect our democracy. All kinds of issues are at stake, from workers’ rights to corporate influence in politics, to whether corporations and the luckiest few will pay their fair share in taxes. While voters will be electing a president, governors, Congress, and thousands of state legislators this November 6, here are a few places where a progressive vision will also be on the ballot:
Michigan: Guaranteeing Collective Bargaining Rights
Following attempts to roll back collective bargaining rights in states including Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, voters in Michigan will have a chance to enshrine those rights in their state constitution by approving the “Protect Our Jobs” amendment. Conservative groups took to the courts in an attempt to keep the amendment off the ballot, but the state Supreme Court ultimately agreed with a lower court decision and ensured the measure will go before voters on Election Day.
A coalition of unions, small businesses, and other organizations is supporting the proposal, which would amend the state constitution by establishing “the people’s rights to organize to form, join or assist unions and to bargain collectively with public or private employers.” It would also prohibit employers or governments from interfering with those rights.
Unsurprisingly, the same corporate interests who have bankrolled legislative efforts to undermine labor in state after state also continue to fight this amendment. As of late August, according to the coalition leading the campaign, corporate spending on TV and radio ads against the proposal had reached $6.45 million (including time reserved for future ads), while only $1.73 million had been spent on ads backing the proposal. Yet despite this onslaught, an August Detroit News poll showed a 19-point margin of support for this effort to advance a positive vision of workers’ rights.
California: A Compromise Includes Millionaire’s Tax
California is one of 16 states that impose some sort of supermajority vote requirement on their state legislature if they seek to raise taxes. This has long been an obstacle to progressives seeking to avoid austerity budgets and destructive cuts. In California, ballot initiatives are one way around that obstacle. A set of competing initiatives was originally proposed for this fall’s ballot in the Golden State, including a millionaire’s tax backed by the California Federation of Teachers, the Courage Campaign, and other progressive organizations.
The measure as originally written would have permanently raised tax rates on earned income over $1 million. However, Governor Jerry Brown introduced a rival initiative (with the support of unions like the SEIU and the California Teachers Association) that he said would offer a “shared sacrifice.” That bill would have temporarily increased income tax rates on earnings over $250,000, while also increasing sales taxes.
Earlier this year, the two camps reached a compromise on a single initiative to raise both sales and income taxes. Proposition 30 would raise the sales tax from 7.25 to 7.5 percent, while creating three new high-income brackets that will see increased tax rates for the next seven years. While two other less popular tax initiatives will also be on the ballot, a July field poll showed voters favoring Proposition 30 by a margin of 54 to 38 percent.
Other measures to support new or existing state revenue increases will be on the ballot this fall in both Washington and Oregon. As the expiration of the Bush tax cuts approaches, West Coast voters have a chance to show Congress and the nation as a whole that Americans support a responsible approach to revenue—and asking the luckiest few to pay their fair share.
Oregon: Putting Money into K-12 Classrooms Instead of Lining the Pockets of Corporations
In Oregon, the fight against austerity economics is being thrown into sharp relief by a ballot initiative that would reform a 33-year-old state corporate tax refund to the benefit of the state’s kids. Measure 85, or the “Corporate Kicker for K-12 Schools” initiative, would amend the state constitution so that so-called “kicker” state tax refunds—which are currently returned to corporations when tax revenues exceed predicted values by more than 2 percent for a given budget cycle—are instead invested into Oregon classrooms.
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According to Our Oregon, one of the main backers of Measure 85, the corporate “kicker” has only been triggered five times since 1989. In 2007, the legislature voted to temporarily suspend the corporate “kicker,” diverting $344 million to a surplus “rainy day fund” account instead. Since then, legislative attempts to reform or eliminate the corporate “kicker” have met stiff resistance, so proponents of reform turned in over 200,000 signatures in July to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Our Oregon claims the measure would primarily affect large out-of-state corporations, which receive the bulk of “kicker” refunds.
Oregon has proven receptive to this type of effort before. The state bucked the national austerity trend at the height of national Tea Party mania in January 2010 by approving tax increases on corporations and high-income earners at the ballot box. This year, at least some initial signs are promising. A few weeks ago, a state commission of 24 randomly selected citizens voted 19-5 in favor of a report that will be summarized in a state-issued voters’ guide recommending that voters approve the initiative (despite the fact that the initiative’s own supporters did not support the Citizens’ Initiative Review Commission process).
Florida (Orange County): Ensuring Access to Earned Sick Days
Orange County, which includes the city of Orlando, is a swing region in the middle of a swing state, where voters will have the chance to decide on a key protection for workers that is gaining momentum across the nation. The county’s Earned Sick Time measure would ensure that workers in businesses with 15 or more employees get one hour of paid sick time for every 37 hours worked, up to about seven days of sick time a year for an average full-time worker.
Corporate interests have responded by attempting to introduce a competing and intentionally confusing ballot measure intended to appear side-by-side with the earned sick days proposal—a move described by Citizens for a Greater Orange County, the main group backing the Earned Sick Time measure, as a “sneak attack… to undermine the will of Orange County voters.”
With nearly 40 percent of private sector workers and more than 80 percent of those in the lowest-wage jobs lacking access to paid sick time nationwide, cities and states have been taking the lead in ensuring that no worker needs to worry about losing a job just because they or a family member get sick. In 2011, Connecticut became the first state to pass a statewide paid sick-leave bill, and Hawaii and Massachusetts both saw progress on efforts this year. If successful, Orange County would join localities including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle, the last of which just enacted their paid sick-days policy earlier this month.
Update: The fate of the Orange County Earned Sick Days initiative became even more unclear on September 11 as county commissioners voted to hire an outside attorney to review the proposal's text and report back in a month, which would prevent the measure from appearing on the November ballot. State Rep. Scott Randolph called the move "a clear setup" and "a flagrant violation of the [county] charter."
Montana: Taking On Citizens United
Somewhat lost among the momentous Supreme Court decisions this summer was the Court’s summary reversal of a 100-year-old Montana law that conflicted with Citizens United, the case that opened the floodgates to corporate money in the 2010 elections. The Court’s ruling in June of this year overturned that law, which had banned corporate contributions to political campaigns. Montana was not alone in defending their campaign finance law; their argument was joined by 22 state attorneys general.
Even as the Court was considering this case, an effort was already underway in the state to qualify a ballot measure that would confront the overriding issue of corporate influence in politics. That measure, the Corporate Contributions Initiative, would “establish” it to be state policy that “corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings.” How an initiative could require officials to take a specific position on policy either logistically or legally is unclear, but even as an advisory measure, the effort could have a big impact in the growing debate over corporate personhood nationwide.
As Governor Brian Schweitzer told one reporter, “the initiative has very good prospects in Montana, but what we’re trying to do is start a prairie fire.” Indeed, other organizations and coalitions, including Common Cause and Move to Amend, are simultaneously working to pass resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United. That effort was recently endorsed by President Obama himself, who noted in response to a questioner on Reddit that, “even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight [on] the super-PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change.” The President’s comment was a reminder of the role that ballot measures can play in building popular support for change on a wide range of issues—and of the need for continued grassroots pressure on these issues in every state, no matter who wins the big electoral contest this fall.
Who’s the latest supporter for a constitutional amendment to overturn the controversial Supreme Court decision? Just the President of the United States. No big deal.
The oil-dependent economy Romney supports is a step toward a less stable, more costly future. Renewables and energy efficiency offer real hope.
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The Republican-led House is expected to pass legislation introduced by Rep. Sandy Adams (R-Fla.) that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act for five years.
House Republicans are touting the legislation as less controversial than the version passed by the Senate, which includes provisions on same-sex couples and illegal immigrants.
The partisan jockeying comes as both parties struggle for women’s votes this fall.
House Republican leaders tapped Adams to take the lead on the legislation. She pointed out last month that she was a victim of domestic abuse, having married a “violent alcoholic” at the age of 18.
“Back then, you didn’t talk about what happened behind closed doors. You just accepted it,” she added.
Adams has made the case that this legislation should not become a political issue. But as she knows, everything is political during an election year.
The freshman lawmaker, a Tea Party favorite, is facing Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) in a primary showdown on Aug. 14.
Mica has a significant cash advantage, but Adams believes she can rally GOP grassroots activists to defeat him, his 10-term incumbency notwithstanding.
In March, freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) beat Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) in a high-profile primary. After Kinzinger’s triumph, members of the historic 2010 Republican class claimed validation.
It is clear that many freshmen will be pulling for Adams, whose campaign strategy is to pin blame for the nation’s deficit problem on Mica.
For his part, Mica has pointed to the clout he has on Capitol Hill, explaining that his seniority will enable him to help his Florida constituents more than Adams would.
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The California Supreme Court's decision May 6, upholding the right of cities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, was described by one news article as a “massive blow to the medical marijuana industry,” but it really was just a minor setback in the long battle over the proper way to provide marijuana to patients allowed to use it.
The court ruled unanimously that the state's 1996 initiative allowing medical-marijuana use, along with a more recent medical-marijuana law, assure that people will not be arrested for buying, using or selling medical marijuana under the specified conditions. But the court declared that nothing in the laws limits the ability of cities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries or to zone them out of business.
The dispute centered on the city of Riverside, which, along with scores of other cities, has passed zoning laws to ban the facilities – typically small, innocuous storefronts that sell marijuana to patients with an approved card.
There's no evidence that these facilities are in any way magnets for crime or any other activity that disturbs the public peace. But that's an argument for another day. The overarching problem is that cities simply zone away activity they do not like or understand, even if it is perfectly legal under California law.
The high court declined to answer this question: What good is it to make something legal if the government uses backdoor mechanisms (i.e., zoning) to ban it?
The court at least offered some clarity that might reduce the endless litigation surrounding these facilities. And it did, admirably, point to a proper solution: Adoption of sensible laws by the state Legislature. Here's a good place for a bipartisan coalition to craft reasonable regulations that will govern dispensaries across the state. At least advocates for medical marijuana know where to place their focus. | <urn:uuid:876765c9-6cfb-4c5e-8881-58a0766bbf6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ocregister.com/articles/marijuana-226260-ocprint-medical-court.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00501-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954778 | 359 | 1.859375 | 2 |
At last, Marianne and I reached Boston. Driving over the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge (also known as the Harvard Bridge), we had the opportunity to view the smoot marks originally created as a pointless student prank -- and probably the most famous such hack ever -- by (of course) frat boys from (where else?) the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In October 1958, members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity had pledge Oliver R. Smoot lie down at one end of the bridge, marked his length with a line of paint, then had him lie down again at the line over and over again, to ultimately determine that the bridge was exactly 364.4 smoots long. There have surely been wittier pranks in the 66 years since, but this one caught the public imagination much as The Blob is celebrated long after better movies were forgotten. Exactly why will always be a matter of conjecture. But the smoot-marks are repainted every year and will doubtless continue to be repainted far into the foreseeable future.
Not far from the bridge we found the MIT Museum, where we met up with fantasist Greer Gilman, author of several core works of fantasy including the seminal novel Moonwise and, most recently, the Small Beer Press chapbook Cry Murder in a Small Voice in which playwright Ben Jonson turns detective (and which, rather offhandedly, refutes the Oxfordians centuries before they appear). Together we three spent rather a lot of time before the collection of rare and historic slide rules, sharing reminiscences, before examining the other technology-related displays, including an informative series of student-made videos explaining how the Internet operates and why it's unlikely to ever do so satisfactorily (spoiler alert: no adult supervision). It's a small museum, but an engaging one.
On the second floor were some very choice robotics exhibits, and some very fine technology-based artworks. My favorites were Arthur Ganson's kinetic sculptures which, while limited to classical mechanics, were both witty and engaging. You can find three representative film clips here.
Less successful, alas, was the gallery of holographic art. A few years ago at the Chicago Worldcon, a writer friend told me he had just removed a 3-D picture from a new story because he'd realized that it was "fossil science fiction." Back in the 1960s, when holograms were invented, he explained, everybody assumed that the photographs and art of the future would be holographic. Now, it looks like they were a fad of the times and one that's rapidly fading into the past. "I was only including it because that's the sort of thing that used to be in science fiction and it's never really been purged. Hovercraft are another example of something that makes your story look instantly dated. And if you have a holograph of a hovercraft in your story, you've really go a problem."
The gallery was a fascinating glimpse back at a time when holography was going to be important someday. But that's all it was.
Down the block, we had a late lunch at Miracle of Science, a foodery so hip that it doesn't have a menu -- just a chalkboard in the shape of the periodic table, with the burgers and fajitas organized according to spurious principles of foodishness. There discussed Greer's upcoming publications and other matters of personal interest.
The afternoon was spent, at Greer's suggestion, at the Harvard Museum of Science & Culture, mostly
Here's part of the museum description:
This gear-driven model of the solar system is made of mahogany and brass and is operated by hand-crank. The planets--Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn--are included with their known satellites. The planets revolve on their axes, the moons revolve around the planets, and each planetary system revolves around the sun at relative speeds. The Earth's system also shows the rotation of the lunar node, represented by a small ivory ball on a stick... Half-way through the project, Uranus was discovered (in 1781). Pope did not include this new planet.The rest of the collection is chockablock full of stuff that would drive your science-illiterate aunt mad with boredom, but which we three found endlessly fascinating -- including the control console from Harvard's cyclotron, which was ripped out on its final day of use (appropriately enough in 2001) and put on display, taped-up cartoons and all.
There was a special display of historically significant autopsy-related tools and illustrations in a separate room. Ordinarily, the most amusing part of going to see such a display is my company, since I start out chipper and upbeat and by slow degrees turn a fetching shade of green. But this time, it was the plaster death-cast of the head of notorious "resurrection man" William Burke, carefully shaved bald as a billiard ball, because of Greer's crying out as she saw it, "But Burke has no hair!"
[If you don't get the joke, two minutes on Google will resolve your confusion.]
Finally, we left, weary from our travels, but happy, enlightened, and filled with a sense of the geekish wonder of the modern world. On the way out we passed the Mark I computer. Which was the use-name for the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, a general purpose electro-mechanical computer employed for military purposes in the waning days of World War II.
As it was in the beginning, so it shall be at the end. I began this journey in Philadelphia with a visit to the first large-scale electronic computer, at the University of Pennsylvania. Now I ended it with a visit to one of the last large-scale electro-mechanical computers. The one was the beginning of an industry and an utterly changed world. The other was the culmination of mechanical computing, a dinosaur unaware that the rug was about to be pulled out from under its raison d'etre.
And so off to the home of friends for conversation and food and then sleep and then, ultimately, the long journey home.
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My first struggle as a very young paddler was to keep my canoe moving in a straight line, and I know plenty of others who still wrestle with the same predicament. Two elements combine to keep a canoe moving in a single direction. First, you must physically control a canoe with well-executed paddle strokes and understand how each stroke moves the canoe. Every bit as important as good strokes is the ability to anticipate what a moving canoe is about to do, and make adjustments before the direction is out of alignment.
Many years ago, I heard a canoeing sage advise simply lining up the bow partner’s head with a tree, building, radio tower–anything on a far shore. Line up your partner’s head with your destination, simply maintain the alignment, and the canoe will go straight. That sounds simple; let’s look at how to make it happen.
Let’s say you’re in the stern, paddling on the right side. You look ahead to see a tree on the far shore in the direction you want to go. Initially, your canoe is heading toward the right side of the tree. As you paddle forward, you notice that your partner’s head moves left toward the tree but eventually “passes” it and begins to move away from the tree to the left. Your canoe has passed the direction you want and is moving farther and farther off course. This is where watching your alignment can help you keep a straight line.
You know that a J-stroke or a rudder stroke (with apologies to my Canadian purist friends) will keep your canoe tracking in a straight line. Once your partner’s head is lined up with the tree, you stroke forward and apply the correction stroke to keep it lined up. You will still see your partner’s head “moving” from side to side of the tree. Actually, the boat is “wobbling” its way across the lake, and the movement you see simply indicates how much you are on (or off) course. The less side-to-side movement you see, the more accurately you are holding course.
The point is to stay focused on the movement of your partner’s head relative to your destination. That tells you how much correction stroke to apply. If you are mostly staying on course, then you need only a very minor corrective stroke. If your partner’s head is wobbling from side to side a lot, then you have to apply a stronger corrective stroke, or hold it longer. Not only does the alignment tell you how much correction to apply; but it also tells you which direction to correct.
By comparison, when you drive a car, you look at the roadway ahead, and when the front (bow?) of your car moves out of alignment with the roadway, you adjust the steering. You don’t look at the steering wheel in a car, because if you do, you will lose control.
A new paddler likes to watch the paddle, perhaps because he is concerned about his stroke. As a result, the canoe wanders out of control, usually in a very convoluted path! You shouldn’t look at your paddle; watch where you are going, and you will get there. As you learn to focus on your alignment, you will begin to anticipate your canoe’s movement and take corrective action before it goes out of alignment. With time and practice, you will no longer think about correction; it will become as instinctive as driving a car.
As an extra benefit while aligning your bow partner with your goal, pay attention to your bow partner’s paddling stroke. A tandem canoe works best if paddlers are in sync. Until you develop a feel for your partner’s paddling cadence (which will come with time), the person who can see the other is really in the better position to match the stroke rate. If you are a solo paddler with no bow partner’s head to use for alignment, use the point of the bow. That’s even better than your bow partner’s pointy head; it doesn’t move in the canoe, and it sure doesn’t talk back!
Canoeists who use bent-shaft paddles with a “sit-and-switch” paddling style quickly learn to align their partner’s head with the destination. With experience, the stern will call for a switch just before losing alignment. Given the tendency of a canoe to yaw from side to side, the anticipated movement off course can be corrected before it becomes unacceptable. That’s why these canoeists switch so often, and why their boats keep a straight course.
Your canoe goes in the direction in which you’re looking. I’m not suggesting that you miss the wildlife, beautiful scenery, and everything else there is to see out there. Rather, your overall focus will help you handle your boat better, and to travel more efficiently with better control. Good paddling!
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After endless scrolling on Zillow and binging home hunting reality TV, you are probably thinking a lot about homeownership. The journey from prospective buyer to getting those house keys can feel exciting, but where do you begin? Whether you’re casually researching or actively looking to purchase a home, Rockland Trust has eight tips to simplify an important milestone—saving for a mortgage down payment.
What is a Down Payment and How Do You Save For One?
Before you can purchase a home, you need to save for a substantial down payment, typically 5 to 20 percent of the home’s total value. This amount is your investment or ownership stake in the house and a contribution toward the purchase of your new address!
While this is most likely one of the biggest purchases you’ll make in your life, saving a down payment is an attainable goal if you start with a plan and do your best to stay on track. It’s also encouraging that the financial sacrifices to save for a down payment are temporary as you invest in your future.
You might be thinking, that all sounds good, but where do I start?
First, crunch some numbers to determine how much you can realistically save for a down payment every month. Calculate your total monthly income from all sources, then subtract your monthly expenses. The difference is what you can tuck away for a down payment, but make sure to give yourself some wiggle room for unexpected costs, like a surprise trip to the vet or replacing your car’s transmission. Resist the temptation to pad your income or make your expenses seem lower than they are; the more realistic your budget is, the more successful you will be in sticking to it.
Now that you’ve done the math and arrived at your monthly budget, how do you determine the price range of what you can afford? DIY tools like this Mortgage Qualifier Calculator can help you estimate how high of a mortgage you qualify for and let you experiment with different loan terms and adjustments. For a more personalized picture of your mortgage options, consider scheduling an appointment to talk with a mortgage loan officer.
A mortgage loan officer can also assess your unique situation to determine if you qualify for state or local homebuyer programs. These loan programs help first-time and low-income buyers get into homes by offering down payment assistance or other benefits. While down payment assistance may sound ideal, there are benefits to putting the full 20% down. You will avoid purchasing mortgage insurance (PMI) and build equity in your new home immediately! Your monthly mortgage payments will be lower as well, which is always a bonus.
3. Determine your down payment goal
You know how much house you can afford, so it’s time to do some math to get the down payment figure you need to save. Imagine that you qualify for a mortgage of $360,000. Typically, down payments are 20% of the home’s total value. If $360,000 is 80% of the total home cost, then $90,000 is 20% of the total home cost. This means that you would need to save $90,000 for a down payment on a home that costs $450,000.
Now that you know your monthly budget and down payment figure, you can piece together a homeownership timeline. Divide the down payment cost by your monthly savings budget to arrive at the number of months it will take you to save. Don’t be afraid if the number of months seems like a long time — plenty can change, like your income, so this timeline can adjust as your budget does. Let the countdown begin!
Creating a separate, high-yield savings account for your down payment, such as a money market or certificate of deposit, allows your money to grow more quickly than a traditional savings account. Make monthly contributions to this account automatically through direct deposit. This helps you regularly contribute to this account, and it’s harder to miss money that you never set eyes on!
The most straightforward way to save more money is to make more money! If the circumstances and timing are appropriate, consider requesting a raise or promotion at work. If this isn’t an option, think about taking on a second job or turning your hobby into a side hustle. Get creative and contemplate whether your skills and passions could translate into a business, online shop or service.
There may also be valuable odds and ends around your home that you can sell for an extra boost. If you’re lucky enough to have generous family and friends who offer you money to meet your goals, tuck it away in your down payment account! The same goes for other unexpected (but welcome) income such as stimulus checks, inheritance, salary bonuses, etc.
On the flip side, reducing your spending can be an equally effective way to increase your savings. Prioritize paying down high-interest debt to free up some savings and track your discretionary spending using online banking. Reducing your debt-to-income ratio can also impact portions of your buying process — be sure to keep your mortgage loan officer in the loop about any changes to your financial situation throughout the process.
Keeping an eye on where your money goes allows you to identify patterns and potential areas to decrease spending. It’s also a good idea to pause non-essential subscriptions, such as streaming services or meal deliveries, and check the rates of your car insurance, renter’s insurance, health insurance, cable, internet and phone plan to look for possible deals or discounts.
Pro Tip: Use cash for small everyday purchases like your morning coffee. If you’re out of cash, opt out! Using cash also helps you squirrel away the change.
It takes discipline and small sacrifices to cut back on non-essential purchases, but it helps to keep your long-term goals front and center in your mind.
Saving enough for a down payment is a significant undertaking, so it’s important to pace yourself and be patient. Remember that steady, incremental progress adds up. Break up your total savings goal into smaller chunks and treat yourself to whatever makes you most happy when you reach each one.
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Demand for electric vehicles is set to explode over the next few decades – and UBS has identified a theme for investors to take advantage of this electrification. UBS said increasing amounts of electronic content in vehicles will lead to new supply chains as automakers increasingly work directly with semiconductor companies and new technology players. In particular, this increasing electrification will have a profound impact on the powertrain – a critical assembly of components that creates power from the engine and transmits it to the wheels, wrote the UBS analysts, led by David Lesne, in a July 20 report. The traditional powertrain supply chain generates annual revenues of about 250 billion euros ($255 billion) from 2021, according to UBS estimates, but is expected to grow by 150 billion euros from by 2030 as production of battery electric powertrains increases. Top stock ideas With electrification of the powertrain attracting “substantial” investor attention, UBS named its “most favored” stocks to gain exposure to the theme. One of the bank’s top picks is electric vehicle giant Tesla. The bank believes the company is likely to remain “the world’s most successful maker of electric vehicles,” given its technology leadership and the industry’s best battery supply chain management. Tesla is also on track to increase its gross margin in the coming quarters and years, while meeting its volume growth forecast of 50% this year, according to UBS. The bank also likes Mercedes. He expects the automaker to “master the electric transition in a very cost-effective way.” UBS says the company’s profit margin target of 12% to 14% is prudent and expects its share price to rise further once the company demonstrates its competitiveness in the electric vehicle segment top of the line. Read more Wall Street is confident these stocks will do well this quarter — and Citi gives a 50% hike BofA thinks we’re already in a recession — and says these stocks have what it takes to beat it Goldman Sachs says that the bear market is not over yet and explains why German automotive supplier Vitesco is also on UBS’s list. The bank sees the company as “one of the few winners” in powertrain electrification, given its lead over its peers and its ability to provide all EV powertrain content. The bank added that much of Vitesco’s transition from supplying traditional automakers to makers of electric vehicles has been completed and the company now enjoys one of the largest portfolios of electrification products. Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is another UBS favorite. The bank believes that the company has “the capacity and the ambition” to strengthen its technological lead and maintain its “exceptional competitiveness” compared to its peers. “We expect CATL to maintain its leadership position in the battery industry over the next 5-10 years, supported by strong R&D,” Lesne said. UBS also likes Taiwanese electronics maker Delta Electronics, which it says is ahead of its peers in EV exposure, given its strong product and customer portfolio. The bank estimates that electric vehicle sales will account for more than 10% of company sales in 2025, up from the current 5% to 6%. In a research note published last month, UBS said it expects 2026 to be an “inflection point” for electric vehicles, when the global electric vehicle market will exceed the combined market size of electric vehicles. personal computers, smartphones and servers. “We forecast that growth in the production of internal combustion engine vehicles will be broadly stable until its peak in 2024, before declining by an average of 15% per year until 2030. At the same time, the number of [battery electric vehicles] product is expected to grow sixfold between 2021 and 2030,” UBS added in its July 20 report. | <urn:uuid:bf89879c-8759-4ed8-bf6e-01d0240fbe26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biznisnova.com/index.php/2022/07/25/ubs-on-how-to-invest-in-electric-vehicles-the-growing-adoption-of-electric-vehicles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.956704 | 793 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Portland, OR September 14, 2011 – This winter, Nau will be getting its warmth from the tropics, but not by traveling there. The sustainably-minded urban + outdoor apparel company has integrated Cocona® – activated carbon sourced from the industrial waste of coconut husks – into its insulated apparel. With fiberfill that is 30 percent Cocona and 70 percent recycled polyester, Nau’s insulation is sustainable.
All-natural Cocona fiberfill is derived from coconut husks discarded by the food service industry. The husks are reduced to charcoal and combined with polyester, then spun. The resulting fill has an increased surface area of fiber, which offers the main benefit of increased warmth for the weight and additionally spreads out moisture over a greater surface area. This helps move moisture away from the body, making it warm, quick drying and comfortable. Cocona also manages odor retention better than traditional polyester fill.
“As a brand, we continue to source fibers that are sustainable without compromising the performance features of the finished product,” said Peter Kallen, Nau design director. “Cocona takes waste and turns it into a high-performing fabric, making it a perfect match and material for Nau.”
Nau debuts Cocona synthetic fill in their Fall/Winter 2011 collection with the (MSRP $355), available for men and women. Made for the mountain, this has a recycled polyester shell, is two-layer, fully waterproof, seam-sealed slope jacket featuring a helmet compatible hood, drawcord skirt hem and DWR-treated front zipper with wind flap to keep the weather out. Cleanly designed and technically detailed, the Insular Jacket offers a sustainable alternative to traditional insulated jackets.
Nau (pronounced “now”) is a clothing company based in Portland, Oregon. They design, make, and sell sustainable urban+outdoor apparel – integrated designs for the modern mobile life. Nau is committed to the power of business as a force for positive change, seeking to balance the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. To learn more about Nau, visit www.nau.com. | <urn:uuid:1066a903-0f92-4fb3-aad2-8f3790ad6a0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.actionhub.com/news/2011/09/14/sustainable-apparel-leader-nau-turns-to-coconuts-for-insulation-this-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.936599 | 446 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The third category is a-signifying semiotics. There is a circular connection, skirting around signifying semiologies, between form and matter, but without leaving – unlike a-semiotic encodings – the expression and content planes. It is this circularity which allows asignifying semiotics to remain independent of, and in a non-hierarchical relation with, signifying semiologies and language. Guattari specified that a-signifying semiotics retain a partial use for signifying semiologies. The polysemiotic connections established between the abstract machines (form) and material intensities escape the overcoding functions of signifying semiological systems (they are not arbitrarily related, as I pointed out above). But neither are they completely deterritorialized nor reterritorialized. Consider an example from linguistics such as idioms. Idioms jump over denotation and form assemblages by grouping existing words together, giving them new connotations. Idioms even focus on what are called `prone words’ (such as, in English, ‘take’ and ‘get’ – ‘take off, eh’; ‘get real’) and hijack them. The a-signifying semiotic potential of idiom formation is constantly threatened by paranoiac recodings of signifying semiologies (respectable academic grammar – grammar is imperative: ‘The formation of grammatically correct phrases constitutes, for a “normal” individual, the preliminary step in a complete submission to the laws’ (IM 29) which want to reduce them to a single proper, formal, substance. A-signifying semiotics leave behind significative redundancies for the production of non-redundant, even improbable, and original conjunctions of signs and material fluxes. Such conjunctions between semiotic and real material machines, which create a-signifying collective assemblages, do not imply that the semiotic machines are less real than the material machines, nor that the material machines are less semiotic. // On the contrary, they share these attributes. The question of the conjunction between signs and fluxes, between abstract machines and material intensities, between form and matter, are all unmediated by representation; they are, in other words, in constant and direct contact (Bosteel’s ‘flush’ also indicates Guattari’s rejection of Saussure’s sense of language as a link or a bridge between two masses). There is no recourse to representative structures. Guattari described the shift from signifying semiologies to a-signifying semiotics in terms of the deÂlocalization, de-privatization, anoedipalization of the individuated subject of enunciation to a collective assemblage of enunciation. He correlated the individual with signification and the collective with machinic assemblages, adding that the signifier plus the signified and form plus substance equalled signification (individuation of phantasms belonging to subjugated groups) and that collective assemblages of enunciation consisting of conjunctions of abstract machines and material fluxes belonged to the phantasms of subject groups. Guattari then enumerated dialectically negative and positive attributes of the individual—collective relation: signification involves self-reference and thus the rupture of machinic conjunctions, whereas collective assemblages may give up comprehension, being in some instance without signification for anyone, for the sake of creating meaning directly from the fluxes (MRr 260). Signification thus has no machinic meaning because of the absence of conjunctions with the real fluxes. The collective assemblages composed by creative machinic connections of semiotic and material fluxes cannot be individuated, having left the field of representation. A-signifying semiotic machines free desiring production, the singulariÂties of desire, from the signifiers of national, familial, personal, racial, humanist, and transcendent values (including the semiotic myth of a return to nature, to the pre-signifying world of a-semiotic encodings); in short, desiring production is freed from all ‘territorializing alienaÂtions’ and set coordinates (MRr 263); elsewhere, Guattari described how ‘signifying formations of power, in order to maintain their positions, seem forced to submit to a sort of permanent escalation of adaptation and recuperation of a-signifying machinisms’ (IM 103- 4).This freedom must not be exaggerated. Signifying semiologies are only tools to be employed in the semiotics of schizoanalytic practice in and outside of radicalized (transversalized) institutions. Mixed semiotics // has the task of ‘furthering the formation of relatively autonomous and untranslatable semiotic substances, by accommodating the sense and non-sense of desire as they are, by not attempting to adapt the modes of subjectification to signification and to dominant social laws. Its objective is not at all to recuperate facts and acts that are outside the norm; on the contrary, it is to make a place for the singularity traits of subjects who, for one reason or another, escape the common law’ (MRr 284). For Guattari, this was the task of a genuine analytic practice that involved respect for singularities. One of the important elements of this practice was the recognition that the subject in contact with desiring machines in a-signifying semiotics oscillates between reterritorializations on signification and deterritorializations into new machinic conjunctions. This oscillation helps to explain why signifying semiologies still have a role to play. Guattari’s semiotics was always, it needs to be emphasized, mixed. — Gary Genosko, “Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction” pp – 169-171, orig. ital. [// = page break]
I have been getting into this book since it arrived a couple of days ago. I have another draft post relating to some comments in the introduction regarding football(!), but I thought I had better read the rest first. However, this little extract was too good not to post (in conjunction with my previous Deleuze — singularities quote/post). | <urn:uuid:48dece7b-ae98-463b-9b98-ad508805f6ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eventmechanics.net.au/2006/05/a-signifying-semiotics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.89422 | 1,347 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The weather station is essential equipment when one is interested in meteorology (in the same way as the hygrometer ) or wants to predict the weather.
So, whether it is to plan your hobbies, such as gardening, or for your profession, the weather station is an efficient device to have at home. However, nowadays, many models of weather stations are on the market. Among these, it can sometimes be complicated to make the right choice.
To help you buy your weather station correctly and learn everything about this device with the help of your guide below. You will know which weather station to buy, what criteria to use to choose your weather station, and how to install it.
How to choose the right weather station?
There are different criteria to consider to choosing the right weather station. To begin with, you should take an interest in the different features offered by your device.
So, if you want to get a weather station to predict the weather or your hobbies, a basic model should suffice. Check this article to learn more about how to choose a home weather station detailed.
Classic models will provide you with data and insights on:
- Ambient temperature
- Humidity level
- The weather forecast
On the contrary, if you need a weather station for professional reasons or want more precise data, you will have to go for a slightly more developed device.
The most sophisticated weather stations will provide precise and detailed information on climate forecasts, such as wind strength or atmospheric pressure.
To choose the right weather station, you must also pay attention to the accuracy of your device. Indeed, some models will be much more accurate than others. To be sure of receiving correct information, pay attention to this criterion when purchasing your device.
You can click here to know the difference between a hygrometer and a weather station.
What are the different types of weather stations?
Models of weather stations vary from the easiest to use to those requiring some technical knowledge to operate. Therefore, the models are aimed at different types of profiles: professionals, amateurs, individuals, etc.
Connected weather stations
A connected weather station allows the monitoring of the various measurements in real-time. Equipped with a WiFi sensor, it can be linked to a smartphone or tablet to facilitate access to the data it displays anywhere and at any time.
Although expensive, these weather stations have the advantage of probing and measuring the house’s interior and exterior. They are, therefore, a complete product.
WiFi weather stations
This type of station allows the retransmission via the Internet. They can be configured to display data for a specific geographical area.
Weather stations with sensors
Inexpensive devices, this type of weather station has indoor and outdoor sensors. These tools ensure the display of measurements collected within a console using various technologies: intranet network, Bluetooth, ultrasound, etc.
How much does a reliable weather station cost?
Now that you know how to choose the right weather station, you should certainly ask yourself about the budget you will need to afford this device.
As we have just seen, there are many different models of weather stations on the market. This, therefore, means that the price of a weather station will vary significantly depending on the model to which you choose to go.
A classic weather station, which will provide you with basic weather indications, will be much cheaper to purchase than a sophisticated weather station, which will provide you with more detailed information on weather forecasts.
So, if you want to opt for a classic weather station, which connects via WiFi, you won’t need too much of a budget. But if you want to go for a weather station model that works with sensors, you will need to budget more substance.
How to correctly install your weather station?
If you have finally purchased your weather station, you still have to install it correctly. Do not panic, and even if you have never used this type of device before, it is very easy to install. How you set up your equipment will depend on the type of weather station you have selected. Thus, a connected weather station will not be set up the same way as a weather station that works with sensors.
The connected weather station is the easiest to set up. You have to plug it in and connect it to your WiFi network.
The weather station with sensors requires a little more installation. Indeed, for the latter, you will have several sensors, usually three, to be placed outside.
You will need to install the sensor dedicated to temperature measurement to start. This should be placed about two meters above the ground, in a shaded area. Next, you will need to install the rain gauge for precipitation.
The latter must be positioned away from trees and buildings. Finally, you will need to set up the sensor dedicated to the wind, the anemometer. This must be placed at least two meters above the ground, far from any obstacle.
To conclude, weather station type devices can concentrate different functionalities in a single device: measurement of relative humidity, temperature, pressure, and indoor pollution, among others.
The real-time and continuous update of the various displayed values provides reliable information throughout the day about the weather outside and the state of the home inside.
Finally, the monitoring of the values indicated by the weather station (about the ambient temperature), relative humidity levels, or even indoor pollution make it possible to carry out specific actions to improve the comfort of the inhabitants of the home: ventilation of the rooms, turning on the heating, setting up a dehumidifier, etc.
Measurements relating to the exterior, for their part, provide valuable information on the weather and the equipment to be provided in the event of outings, for example. | <urn:uuid:6ea1de7a-4e33-4f75-85df-3d3c81f29c1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pennycollege.com/different-types-of-weather-station/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.944482 | 1,180 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Community of Sant’Egidio and the elderly in Malawi
The Community of Sant’Egidio in Malawi is made up by about 3,000 volunteers, spread from the North to the South of the Country. The volunteers are engaged in the friendship, the prayer and the service to the poor, the elderly, the children, the prisoners.
The young people of the community are currently taking care of about 950 elders throughout the country, in the city as well as in the villages.
The volunteers are engaged in a close friendship with them who depend from the help of the others even for getting food, or clothes. Some times they need to reach the hospital because they are sick or just to see a doctor for routine clinical control. One of the main issue is often the maintenance of the house that is too difficult and tiring for many of them.
Moreover many elders are use to take care of their younger relatives, most of them are their nephews, who remained orphans. In all this needs the friendship of the people of the community of Sant’Egidio became a practical help as well as a crucial support to face the life difficulties when the body became weaker.
Christmas time is a wonderful occasion to show the face of a new family made up around the Gospel. The community of Sant’Egidio is use to organize a lunch on the Christmas Day where all the poor are invited, especially the old people.
|The Guardian, September 2007
A House for Felister, an elderly woman of Malawi. Built by her "relatives": youths from the Community of Sant'Egidio of Mtsilitza.
"Sant’Egidio Youths build house for old woman"
You don’t have to be a millionaire to give alms to somebody in need.
Actually, the Community of Sant’Egidio believes that there is nobody so destitute that they cannot help another person just as poor. And this was the spirit that led youths of the Catholic Community of Mtsiliza (the zone) to mould bricks and construct a house for Felister Mayoni in the village of Mtanmdile in Lilongwe.
According to Konduani Hema of Mtsiliza’s Community of Sant’Egidio, Felister had been in a desperately needy condition ever since she had been left alone, with no relatives who could go and help build her a home.
“We saw the “granny” sleeping in this shack that was gradually falling to pieces during the rainy season. And so, as a Community, we took the decision to make the bricks ourselves and pay a bricklayer who could build an edifice to shelter our granny from the rain and whatever the weather may bring” he explained. The beneficiary, Felister Mayoni, expressed her deep gratitude to the Community of Sant’Egidio for the house. Mayoni admitted that since she’d been alone and without any help, she had never dared dream of having a house like this one. “I never thought I had relatives and friends in the Community of Sant’Egidio until this other day when they just came to inform me they would mould bricks and build me a home.
I don’t know how to thank them. Before building my house, they used to help me with the upkeep of my shack, which was nearly uninhabitable. But I had no choice; I was living there because I didn’t have anywhere else to go. If it hadn’t been for these youths, last season’s rains would have been the death of me,” said Mayoni, who finds it difficult to move her legs, due to the infirmity of old age. | <urn:uuid:e1498f12-91cf-4357-9354-e12addaf5795> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.santegidio.org/pageID/1690/langID/en/The-Community-of-SantEgidio-and-the-elderly-in-Malawi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00374-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977373 | 797 | 1.859375 | 2 |
ENDANGERED SPECIES -- A coalition of 29 pro-wolf organizations says it submitted 101,416 comments today to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service favoring continued protection for wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
Members of the Pacific Wolf Coalition say they have organized in response to the Obama administration’s plan to strip Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves. They say the comments on behalf of the coalition’s members and supporters in the Pacific West are among a million comments collected nationwide expressing Americans’ disapproval of the Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to remove federal protections from gray wolves across most of the continental United States.
“The gray wolf is one of the most iconic creatures of the American landscape and wolves play a vital role in America’s wilderness and natural heritage,” said Pamela Flick, California representative of Defenders of Wildlife. “Californians, Oregonians and Washingtonians want to see healthy wolf populations in the Pacific West. In fact, recent polling clearly demonstrates overwhelming support for efforts to restore wolves to suitable habitat in our region. Removing protections would be ignoring the voices of the majority.”
Read on for a list of the groups in the coalition.
The Pacific Wolf Coalition represents 29 wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and Washington committed to wolf recovery:
California Wilderness Coalition - California Wolf Center - Cascadia Wildlands - Center for Biological Diversity - Conservation Northwest - Defenders of Wildlife - Endangered Species Coalition - Environmental Protection Information Center - Gifford Pinchot Task Force - Greenfire Productions - Hells Canyon Preservation Council - Humane Society of the U.S. - Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center - Living with Wolves - National Parks Conservation Association - Natural Resources Defense Council - Northeast Oregon Ecosystems - Oregon Sierra Club - Oregon Wild - Predator Defense - Project Coyote - Sierra Club - Sierra Club California - Sierra Club Washington State Chapter - The Larch Company - Western Environmental Law Center - Western Watersheds Project - Wildlands Network - Wolf Haven International | <urn:uuid:54584246-8035-410a-8fc9-4996daba06a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2013/dec/17/wolf-proponents-organize-against-delisting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00435-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829779 | 419 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Date of discovery: unknown
Location of discovery: Asteroid Itokawa 25143
This Spanish report shows a white UFO with arms on it...remember who I said most structures and alien UFOs are either white ceramic, flat black, or metallic? Well this is a white ceramic looking one and its really big. It's 100meters across! It was found in some Japanese photos and its there in only one photo. In other photos of the asteroid, it is gone, meaning either it was photoshoped out or it flew away. If you know the URL to this actual photo, please tell us in comments. I searched for it, but could not find it. Thanks, SCW.
In 2003, the Japanese Hayabusa probe was launched with the intention of photographing and analyzing the asteroid 25143 Itokawa during shooting of the probe, a photograph shows a strange spherical object of apparent large photographs shown later said free asteroid of the spherical array.
The AJAX (Japanese Space Agency) seems to give the public more pictures that could unravel the mystery, despite shooting in 1500, only a small part of them are made public. What is this strange object ...? Perhaps a non-land-based? Using asteroids as platforms or stations for some unknown purpose?, Why Japan selected the asteroid? Perhaps they had previously observed an anomaly? | <urn:uuid:b0852ed5-8c88-4c97-b997-cd6269cc8900> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2014/03/100-meter-white-ufo-caught-in-japanese.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00415-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964822 | 272 | 2.625 | 3 |
New Delhi, June 6: A simple blood test may predict the risk of death from unexpected heart attacks after non-cardiac surgery and allow doctors to initiate appropriate precautions for patients at risk, a new study has suggested.
A team of doctors from Canada, India and other countries has found that post-surgery blood levels of a protein called troponin-T appear to predict the risk that patients will die from heart attacks within 30 days after surgery.
The findings, if confirmed through larger trials, could change clinical practice and reduce the risk of post-surgical death for tens of millions of patients who undergo non-cardiac surgery for anything — from fractures to tumours, from cosmetic procedures to transplants. The results of the study were published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“We’re hoping a troponin-T value in patients who’ve undergone surgery becomes an alarm bell for doctors,” said Alben Sigamani, associate professor of pharmacology at the St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, a co-author of the study.
The study has shown that the higher the troponin-T value in the bloodstream of a patient measured within three days of a surgery, the greater is the risk that the patient will suffer a heart attack within four weeks.
“Troponin-T is a bio-marker released specifically by heart muscles when they’re injured. Any surgery leads to enormous stress on the heart and we believe troponin-T values reflect that damage,” Sigamani told The Telegraph.
Under standard medical practice, every patient who undergoes a planned surgical procedure is investigated for a history of diabetes, heart disease, and smoking. But such risk-prediction techniques don’t always work.
Research studies suggest that about 200 million patients worldwide have major non-cardiac surgery each year, and that up to 5 per cent, or one million, of these patients die from heart attacks within 30 days of their surgery.
The new study led by epidemiologist Philip J. Devereaux at McMaster University in Canada enrolled more than 15,000 patients from across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. All patients were above 45 years of age, had no history of heart disease and had undergone a non-cardiac surgery with a stay in hospital of at least 24 hours.
Sigamani and his colleagues from St John’s were co-authors of the research, having participated in the design and research analysis. But Indian doctors have adopted the same study protocol to launch an exclusively Indian study of post-surgical patients now under way at St John’s and the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana.
“We’ll need to further confirm these findings through rigorous studies that also take into account pre-surgical troponin-T,” Sigamani said. “We need objective and quantitative criteria to predict risk of unexpected death after successful surgery, and we’re hoping troponin-T may be such a tool.
Doctors believe surgery activates pathways of inflammation, stress and clotting that exposes the heart to injury. The study suggests that one in 25 patients with a troponin-T value of 0.02 ng/mL, and one in six patients with a troponin-T value of 0.30 ng/mL will die within 30 days of surgery.
“Given these results, worldwide more than 10 million adults may suffer a prognostically relevant heart injury after surgery every year,” Devereaux said through a press release issued by McMaster University.
Devereaux said that while there is “encouraging observational data” that aspirin and other drugs can save the lives of patients who suffer heart injury after surgery, clinical trials are needed to establish whether such interventions can reduce the risk of patients dying after surgery. | <urn:uuid:0e5e582a-9d11-4041-b509-60269a2ab21d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.telegraphindia.com/1120607/jsp/nation/story_15580243.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00011-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932778 | 809 | 2.8125 | 3 |
How does the technology work exactly?
Patients using Argus II carry a small video camera housed in the patient’s glasses, that constantly captures images. These are then converted into a series of small electrical pulses that are transmitted wirelessly to electrodes on the surface of the retina. These pulses stimulate the retina’s remaining cells so that the brain receives the corresponding perception of patterns of light. The patient then learns to interpret these visual patterns to regain some visual function.
Mr Flynn is the first AMD patient to be implanted with Argus II. The bionic eye is already used to treat the rare disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. Since 2011, the retinal prothese has been approved in Europe. In 2013, it gained FDA approval. In 89 percent of the patients the improved visual function maintained out to three years.
Stimulation of the retina. Source: www.secondsight.com
“Of course, this is only the beginning”, states President and CEO of Second Sight. The 1998 founded company is currently developing another visual prothesis, Orion I, that is designed to offer sight for people living with blindness from nearly all causes.
On the long run, Mr Flynn’s vision is expected to continue to improve. For the moment, Argus II offers a step out of darkness in a world of shapes and outlines. But the groundbreaking technology has a big potential to open doors to give patients a more complexe vision back. | <urn:uuid:d7ef7abd-567b-47dd-9d17-0d5a086e3a14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.labiotech.eu/trends-news/man-can-see-again-thanks-to-its-bionic-eye/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.905502 | 299 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The majority of NHS organisations believe that half of their staff are suffering from work place stress, according to a new report.
According to NHS Employers, 66 per cent of NHS organisations believe that up to 50 per cent of their staff suffer from workplace stress.
The worrying statistics mark the start of the employers' body's attempts to help both management and staff recognise and deal with stress effectively.
Julian Topping, NHS Employers head of workplace health and employment, said that it is hoped the awareness campaign will encourage staff and employers to take stress seriously.
Mr Topping said: "Our lives are becoming increasingly more hectic and stress levels are soaring.
"Stress has become one of the biggest causes of staff sickness and costs the NHS millions of pounds every year."
He added: "Employers have a legal duty to manage stress among staff, and staff have a legal duty towards making sure they are safe and well. The main problem is that many people dont recognise when they, or their employees, are stressed until it is too late, and if they do, they very often dont know what to do about it."
NHS Employers states that work pressure stress is responsible for 30 per cent of staff sickness in the NHS and costs the service £300-£400 million every year.
As part of its campaign against stress, the group is launching a new website which will contain all the latest information and advice. | <urn:uuid:47886571-4446-43e8-b1f1-a324083d0168> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/news/a12951/new-nhs-stress-concerns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00275-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976446 | 291 | 1.867188 | 2 |
One barrier to implementing product serialisation has been the variation and uncertainty of what would be required in the various regions around the world. Susan Birks talked to key players about how ready the industry is to meet the deadlines
The lack of a global agreement on one technology or unifying piece of legislation has made implementation of serialisation particularly hard for manufacturers. Many regions plan to set down requirements for serialisation, or have already done so, but so far the only consensus is that a unique identification code (UIC) is to be placed on unit level pharmaceutical products to enable customers to authenticate the code and, it is hoped, to rid a large part of the market of counterfeit products. But every market is moving to different timelines and has variations in practice.
For example, Turkey, China and Argentina have been among the quickest to call for drugs to be serialised; China, however, stipulates a linear code rather than the 2D-style code being adopted by the EU and US. Another country that will see the implementation of new guidelines in 2015 is Saudi Arabia, where drug packaging must be equipped with a data matrix code step by step, followed by serial numbers, in 2016. In Brazil, individual batches have to be serialised as of 2015 and South Korea’s phased schedule also started on 1 January this year.
Meanwhile in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking to implement a standardised identification for all prescription drugs using a 2D data matrix code in a step-by-step approach until the end of 2023, and in the European Union, the Falsified Medicines Directive (EU FMD) requires packaging to carry a 2D data matrix code and a unique serial number for nearly all prescription drugs, starting from the first quarter of 2018.
In the US the eventual requirement will be to provide a complete chain of custody record or pedigree for each and every product in the healthcare supply chain
Discussing some basic variations, Glen Hodgson, Head of Healthcare at the standards body GS1, says: ‘In the US the eventual requirement will be to provide a complete chain of custody record or pedigree for each and every product in the healthcare supply chain. In Europe, we are currently adopting a point-of-entry/point-of-exit system that does not trace individual items through each stage of distribution through the supply chain – only at the point of packaging/production (entry) and the point of dispensing (exit). However, Europe is insisting that all the pieces are in place if it decides to move towards a US-style pedigree system at some point in the future.’
Many major multinationals with large resources and markets to protect already have systems in place. The biopharma division of Merck, EMD Serono, for example, has serialised at the unit level all of its major brands in the US in advance of requirements for serialising prescription drug products at the unit level there by 2017. It has also launched Check My Meds, a smartphone app that will put the power to verify medicines in the hands of patients.
But not all companies are so well placed. ‘The biggest challenge is for CMOs and small manufacturers,’ says Hodgson, adding: ‘Large multinationals are working on compliance to similar standards in other parts of the world, such as Turkey, both through pilots or full implementation. They will have learned lessons, built teams of managers and specialists, worked with and tested hardware and software solutions on offer, and will have developed specialist supplier relationships to ensure implementation and compliance to required standards.
The biggest challenge is for CMOs and small manufacturers; now they are playing catch-up with ‘big boys’ who will already have put together teams, tested solutions and made sure that the right software solutions are in place
‘Smaller manufacturers and CMOs in general, will not have undertaken this kind of work and will usually have been waiting until the regulations come into force. This can be seen as a sensible approach – apart from the fact that now they are playing catch-up with ‘big boys’ who will already have put together teams, tested solutions and made sure that the right software solutions are in place,’ Hodgson says.
Some contract service providers have implemented systems, but according to the CDMO, Vetter, because the requirements are country specific companies operating internationally need flexible solutions to meet these differing regulations. Vetter MD Thomas Otto says: ‘Our serialisation service allows for unique identification of the unit level and transportation packaging. Therefore we are providing a flexible response to the stricter demands of official agencies, while at the same time actively contributing to greater drug safety.
‘Our customers benefit from the fact that they can use the new service as a basis for their own track-and-trace programme. Transparency in distribution prevents counterfeits, but it also promotes greater efficiency for processes along the supply chain.’
Many mid-sized and smaller firms, however, are dragging their feet and have not yet put implementation programmes in place; but industry observers agree that these companies are in the minority. Ian Haynes, former AstraZeneca serialisation expert and partner in the specialist consulting firm, 3C Integrity, says: ‘There are many companies, particularly in some parts of Europe, which are still not moving forward fast enough, and others not at all, despite having all the means at their disposal to take action, get ready and prepare.’
Craig Stobie, Head of Global Life Sciences Team, Domino, believes compatibility and print quality and speed are the main concerns: ‘To comply, many manufacturers are looking to incorporate new equipment into their current systems. As a minimum, this new equipment must be compatible to ensure that downtime is minimised during installation and print quality and speed is optimised – potentially leading to benefits in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) management.
Bosch says its serialisation concept offers customers more than just a machine
‘For generics and research-based manufacturers alike, when it comes to data handling, working with experienced suppliers who are already supporting hundreds of manufacturers with their compliance programmes across Europe will be of immense benefit,’ says Stobie. ‘Suppliers who run partner programmes and offer joint counsel to manufacturers give the advantage of ensuring machinery is integrated at all areas of the line and beyond, ensuring customers are ready to handle the vast data pool that is looming and that lines are working as flawlessly as can be.’
Equipment manufacturer Omron is seeing a clear trend of manufacturers moving from an investigation or early adoption stage to an implementation programme for conformance to the EU FMD. Dan Rossek, Omron’s Product Marketing Manager, views the top three barriers to companies implementing serialisation as time, investment and state of existing infrastructure. But the lack of unifying requirements is also an obstacle, he admits: ‘The common requirement is that pharmaceutical goods are identifiable down to product level, but the requirements from the various countries while not unique, certainly offer only limited parity. Variances in coding format are the common difference, but there are more extreme differences including using alternative technology for reading the serialised identifier, like RFID technology as opposed to human readable print or barcodes.’
With regard to the FMD, data handling probably represents the most significant challenge
The data handling issues arising from serialisations are also an unknown for many small companies, says Rossek: ‘With regard to the FMD, data handling probably represents the most significant challenge. The integrity and synchronisation of the data is the pillar of the FMD solution operating, as it is a fixed requirement to link, down to product level, from point of manufacture, through distribution and to point of dispensing. Any lapse in the integrity of the data will result in significant implications.’
Rossek adds: ‘The sense of urgency is now taking precedence; while some uncertainty still remains, most manufacturers are in a position to have partial availability of a ‘serialisation ready’ system at line level. The next stage, in many cases, is resolving the solution of creating and maintaining a data repository, synchronisation and integrity of the data to line level equipment.’
Many other equipment suppliers have been looking to integrate their equipment with IT solutions. Supplier of process and packaging equipment Bosch Packaging Technology has recently expanded its portfolio for the serialisation of pharmaceutical packaging. ‘With our serialisation concept, we offer customers more than just a machine,’ says Daniel Sanwald, Product Manager. ‘Bosch offers the complete package, which also includes the corresponding IT.’
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and barcodes are expected to make track and trace easy and ubiquitous, but they are only as robust as the underlying software, claims one industry commentator. As long as track and trace is built upon a relational database it is limited in its ability to scale, and susceptible to hacking, believes Lawrence Fisher at Kezzler.
In a recent whitepaper, Fisher explored the issue of data management. ‘Look at the new law in Europe which requires that all pharmaceutical products have a unique code. That will come to about 17 billion codes per year, and when you extend that out three or four years, you’re looking at about 50–60 billion unique codes. Even the big SAP and Oracle systems aren’t capable of running those kinds of numbers,’ he says.
He believes Kezzler’s approach to track and trace is more secure and scalable as the code can be encrypted within RFID, barcodes or 2D barcodes, but because it never store codes in a database, it offers linear scalability, consistently reliable performance, and a response time that is independent of the amount or age of the data.
Kezzler’s proprietary algorithm can generate one billion codes in 46 seconds. The codes are delivered to the vendor in a ‘closed’ system, meaning that they remain encrypted and invisible until they are actually printed on a product. There is nothing to duplicate, copy or steal. The consumer can scan the code with a smartphone – or in countries where smartphones are still rare, key in the code through a text message – and verify the product’s authenticity.
India’s regulations for exported medicines will require manufacturers to maintain a database of the serialised products for a minimum of six months after the expiry of the product
Another consideration is how long the data needs to be held. India’s regulations for exported medicines will require manufacturers to maintain a database of the serialised products for a minimum of six months after the expiry of the product, for example.
Many companies see the data management answer in the Cloud. TraceLink, of Wakefield, MA, US, for example, has launched its Life Sciences Cloud platform and Product Track application for end-to-end DSCSA compliance. Described as a Transaction History Management System it is said to provide all the necessary network connectivity, operational use case and compliance data management tools to ensure end-to-end DSCSA compliance for large or small pharmaceutical companies.
Companies also need to look beyond item level serialisation into extending traceability schemes to secondary and tertiary packaging, says GS1’s Hodgson: ‘If it is not specifically required today it is very likely that it will be in the future DSCSA, and the EU FMD will require this too. But, if you trade with other European markets or the US from UK, you certainly will need to serialise at item, case and pallet level.’ | <urn:uuid:fa5953c7-5773-4c67-9936-fc30e6978933> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manufacturingchemist.com/news/article_page/Serialisation_No_more_time_to_waste/105697 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.94177 | 2,396 | 1.953125 | 2 |
This basic system provides vital battery information including voltage, current, state of charge, and battery temperature.
The following table shows the products included within this example system plus a list of the information or data available for display.
|Product||Description||Available Data List|
|DSM410||Helm Pod Display||Displays data in this list, monitors the data and sounds an internal buzzer if there is a problem|
|DCM100||Battery Monitor||Monitors voltage, current, state of charge and battery temperature|
The following screenshots (click to enlarge) are examples of how the battery status will be displayed on the DSM410.
Battery Current Gauge
Battery State Of Charge Gauge
Battery Temperature Gauge
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Today, the Guardian publishes a pamphlet in association with the Citizen Ethics Network, designed to start a debate on ethics. Recently, MPs and bankers have been accused of lacking basic ethical judgment. Others say the problem is even more widespread and that the "greed is good" line of Gordon Gekko was more than just a joke; it has seeped into how individuals make decisions.
Do you agree? Do you have a strong sense of the ethics you live by? What are they? Philip Pullman, for example, argues that we understand ethics when we hear about them in stories or see them in practice; we learn ethics by imitation, perhaps. Can you think of a story or incident which inspired you?
And what ethical standards do you look for in politicians? And in governments? What kind of ethical principles should society hold sacred? What ethical principles have you tried to pass on – to others, to children?
Can capitalism be ethical? Or do you think we live in such a diverse world that we'll never agree on the common good or what the good life might be? And is religion a help, a hindrance or an irrelevance when it comes to shaping values?
Share your thoughts in the thread below as well as on the selection of pamphlet articles we are publishing individually on Comment is free this week, ahead of a panel debate on these issues at the British Museum. Recommend your favourite reader responses, too, because next Saturday we'll publish a selection of your comments in the newspaper, alongside reaction from the leaders of the three main political parties. | <urn:uuid:52bb12e2-cfb8-434a-a4f0-a02616d069b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/20/ethics-society-debate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962431 | 318 | 2.09375 | 2 |
1. The wildness of Coffee Bay
The effortless sandy coves, steep green hillsides, cliffs, wild aloes, thatch-roofed mud huts and the notable hole-in-the-wall are an unbeatable combination on the Wild Coast, between East London and Port Edward. Land of hippies, surfers, hikers and the Xhosa people, incredible beachside landscape does not come better than this.
2. Red sandstone of the Cederberg
The Cederberg may have earned its name from the Cedar tree, but it is the red sandstone rock formations that are its most distinguishing feature. Weathered over time into a series of surreal shapes and memorable natural features, they dominate over 250 km of hiking trails.
3. Misty mountains of the Magoebaskloof
At the north eastern tip of the Drakensberg experience the misty mornings, green hills, forests draped in tree ferns, moss, fungi, liana’s and tangled tree matter of the indigenous forests, and accompanying plantations, of the ‘land of the Silver Mist’.
4. Bourke’s Luck potholes of the Blyde River Canyon
These bizarre natural water features, hewn by centuries of water, mark the start of the Blyde River Canyon. Take the 700 metre walk to view these unusual water features.
5. The wetlands of the Elephant Coast
A series of wetlands characterised by wild and untouched beaches, an unmatched bird life and accompanying scuba diving, sea turtle tracking, hiking, walking and other outdoor activities lies in the northern reaches ofKwaZulu-Natal.\
6. The Sabie waterfalls route of Mpumalanga
Take the R532 from Sabie to visit Horseshoe, Lone Creek, Bridal Veil, Mac Mac, Lisbon and Berlin falls. There are more waterfalls here than anywhere else in the country, adding further beauty to the river canyons, mountains and bush for which the province is famous.
7. Valley of Desolation, Camdeboo National Park
A series of vertical cliffs and dolerite columns stand like huge, isolated hobgoblins of nature 120 metres above the valley floor. These breathtaking cliffs that took 100 million years to form stand sentry over theValley of Desolation in the Karoo, a force of beauty and nature.
8. Prince Edward Islands
Marion and Prince Edward Islands are marine protected areas in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean 1 900 km south east of Cape Town. The combined size of the Free State, Lesotho and Swaziland they form the world’s largest biodiversity hotspot, alive with albatrosses, penguins, killer whales and Patagonian toothfish stocks; a breeding ground for seals, penguins and albatrosses.
9. The Richtersveld
On the border with Namibia is an extraordinary desert landscape of the highest diversity of succulents in the world. The rugged mountains of volcanic rock, flat, sandy plains and half-human trees the Nama people include in their legends are characteristic of a harsh world where water is scarce and only the toughest life survives.
10. Scenes along the Breede River
The Breë (wide) River wends its way north from Cape Town along the band of mountains European settlers experienced as a continental divide. It flows through the Skurweberge, Mitchells Pass and arrives at the Indian Ocean at Witsand. Its lower reaches are a conservancy. Along its banks experience wine tasting, river rafting, paddling, swimming, picnics and nature reserves. | <urn:uuid:217e63f2-6040-42cf-b8c7-ff7991abba1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://howsouthafrica.com/best-places-in-south-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00115-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904683 | 759 | 1.976563 | 2 |
January is when most countries kick off the tax season, which makes it a favorite cybercriminal target to make money. Thanks to social engineering, a popular tactic wherein an attack is tailored to coincide with widely celebrated occasions, observed holidays, and popular news, cybercriminals earn a lot from their victims. This tax season is no different, as we received spam samples that attempted to pass themselves off as a message from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The spam bears the subject "IRS Notification—Fiscal Activity ID #7 numbers" and comes with a .ZIP file attachment. It entices the recipient to open the attachment and to print the .DOC file that it contains. In reality, the file contains a malware detected as TSPY_ZBOT.SMHA that is capable of stealing the user's banking credentials.
Like other ZBOT variants, TSPY_ZBOT.SMHA detects whenever an affected user accesses target online banking sites for which it steals information like personal identification numbers (PINs), account numbers, and the like.
This is not the first attack that took advantage of the tax season. In fact, on April 22, 2009, we posted a blog entry on IRS scams that coincided with the deadline for filing tax returns in the United States. This run featured the FORM W-8BEN, an edited copy of the certificate that the recipient should complete and submit. Unlike the original form, this asked the recipient to give out additional information like bank account numbers and PINs.
A similar attack ensued on June 19 of the same year. In this run, Australians received spam that supposedly came from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). It asks recipients to print, fill in, and send the attached file via email to the office so they can become eligible for tax returns. This was, of course, a phishing scam. Printing the file triggered the sending of users’ personal information to a remote user.
Apart from ZeuS, there is yet another malware family that users should take notice of: SpyEye, a family of malware that has similar functions to that of ZeuS, but has some extra features that make it just as formidable and alarming. Once dubbed as the 'ZeuS Killer', the first variants actually uninstalled or deleted ZeuS variants from an affected system should it detect them before executing its malicious routines. It uses and hooks APIs in the affected system in order to hide itself from detection, as well as offered cybercriminals an easy-to-use user interface which made information and financial theft more accessible to even nontechnical users.
This rivalry between ZeuS and SpyEye turned into something more malicious for users as the creators of both malware decided to merge into one cybercriminal entity, thus creating a hybrid that was specifically tailored to steal banking information quickly, efficiently and silently. TSPY_SPYEYE.CE is an example of the merger, sporting features from both ZeuS and SpyEye, able to connect and download its latest upgraded version as well as various components to make it more efficient and invisible in a system. Taxpayers should exercise more caution due to this merger's existence.
Tax season is still a hit among cybercriminals as it continues to be used in social engineering email seen in 2013 and 2014. Apart from the US and Australia, UK is also targeted by tax-related spam. These spammed messages carry malware attachments that mostly belong to UPATRE.
How do these threats infect users' systems?
TSPY_ZBOT.SMHA may be downloaded unknowingly from malicious websites or dropped by other malware onto the systems of unsuspecting users. It may also arrive as a .ZIP file spam attachment. Like TSPY_ZBOT.SMHA, TSPY_SPYEYE.CE may be downloaded unknowingly from malicious websites or downloaded by other malware/spyware/grayware from remote sites onto the systems of unsuspecting users. Both malware have been designed to steal users’ online banking information from the systems they infect.
What happens when the threats infect a system?
TSPY_ZBOT.SMHA injects itself into processes running in memory to hide its malicious routines. It opens a random port to allow a remote user to access and execute commands on the infected system. Its core function is to steal sensitive banking information by retrieving data like personal certificates, FTP credentials, Internet session cookies, and Adobe Flash Player data from infected systems.
TSPY_SPYEYE.CE, meanwhile, injects a remote thread to running processes as soon as it is executed. It steals information and sends it to a remote user by hooking application programming interfaces (APIs). It also performs a host of other routines like updating its configuration file, downloading its latest version, logging keystrokes, and filling in form data—all to better perform its functions. It is also capable of modifying an infected system’s browser settings.
UPATRE malware, being a downloader, downloads a ZBOT/ZEUS variant. The downloaded ZBOT/ZEUS variant, in turn, downloads a Cryptolocker variant.
How do these threats affect users with their malicious routines?
Both malware steal users' online banking information and sends this to remote users for future use. The fact that these ride on the tax season increases their chances of managing to steal pertinent information due to the predictable rise in the number of online banking transactions. Users may find their bank accounts drained of money or their credit cards charged with unknown and exorbitant bills.
For computers affected by the UPATRE malware, apart from stolen information, users may have to deal with encrypted files.
How can these threats be removed from an infected system?
Affected users can remove these malware from their systems by disabling System Restore, closing all open browser windows, and scanning their systems with their registered Trend Micro product.
Are Trend Micro product users safe from these threats?
Yes, the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ protects users from these malware by preventing spam from even reaching their inboxes with email reputation technology. It also blocks user access to malicious sites via the Web reputation technology. Finally, it prevents the download and execution of malicious files onto users' systems with the aid of file reputation technology.
What can users do to prevent these threats from affecting their computers?
Users must remain vigilant against all kinds of social engineering tactics. Besides installing an effective security solution, they should also exercise caution when opening email messages or when downloading attachments from unknown senders. Since ZBOT, SPYEYE, and UPATRE malware perpetrators constantly find new ways to trick victims into giving out personal information, users are advised to always observe safe computing practices. | <urn:uuid:1a76b924-a3ca-4f63-8fb2-8c3b9eea7125> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/threat-encyclopedia/web-attack/82/social-engineering-facilitates-tax-season-malware-attacks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00281-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943809 | 1,392 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Polykey takes concepts and patterns for multiple inspirations.
Many software applications are structured in a layered-tiers. One of the most common is the Model View Controller architecture which has many variants.
Aggregates models together ┌─────────────┐
┌──────────────┐ │ Model 1 │
│ │ │ ┌─────────┐ │
│ Controller 1 ├───────┬──────► │ Model 2 │ ├──────────────────────┐
│ │ │ │ └─────────┘ │ │
└──────────────┘ │ │ │ │
│ └───────┬─────┘ │
│ │ │
│ │ ┌─────────┐ │
│ └─────► │ ┌──▼───┐
│ │ │ │ │
└────────────────────► Model 3 ├─────────► DB │ Shared DB state
│ │ │ │
Manages mutual exclusion ┌─────► │ └──▲───┘
and cross cutting concerns │ └─────────┘ │
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────┴─────┐ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ Controller 2 ├───────────────► Model 4 ├──────────────────────┘
│ │ │ │
A ─► B means B is dependency injected into A
Models are generally composable
Controllers are generally not
In many web services, controllers are the entry-point to the application. These represent the external API of a web service.
Controllers handle all the boilerplate work of managing network requests such as:
- Authentication & Authorisation
- Transactions and Isolation
- Presentation & Formatting
Controllers will compose together models to perform business logic. Controllers will generally be "thin" compared to "fat" models. This is because the models do all the business logic. The business logic should be the bulk of the program, and may involve working with state, either in-memory or persisted state.
Stateful applications all end up using 1 or more databases (which may be in-memory or persisted). The more databases that are used, the more coordination or separation logic needs to be used in order to maintain consistency and availability.
You can see in the above diagram that controllers don't call each other. This is because controllers are not "composable". They can neither be functionally composed (i.e. 2 controllers cannot be composed into 1 controller), nor can they be object-composed (i.e. you cannot call a another controller from within an existing controller and no dependency injection of a controller into another controller).
One example of this non-composability is transaction contexts. Because transaction contexts often cannot be composed, this forces transaction contexts to be pushed up to the last outside layer where no-more composition is needed, and that's why controllers will create a transaction context that model operations will execute within.
These are not insurmountable (see Hierarchical Model View Controller), it is just because due to the amount of cross-cutting concerns and context that controllers deal with, they tend to not work together with other controllers. Instead controllers are just aggregated together to represent an API.
In PK's network API, instead of controllers we have GRPC handlers, and instead of models we have domains. Our handlers are thinner than controllers, and our domains are much fatter than models. For example, our domains handle transactions and authorisation, while our handlers often just proxy calls directly into the domains. Our domains also can have in-memory state, and can often coordinate with each other using locks. They are much richer objects.
Our domains are highly "programmable". We wanted PK to work like a library/package and not just as an end-user web service. Therefore our handlers only do the bare minimum work to map GRPC semantics to function/method APIs of our domain objects.
3 Layer Cake or Functional Core & Imperative Shell
Import Dependency Order
All of our domains follow a common structure of:
To avoid mutual dependencies, it's important to ensure that our imports follow this order.
Errors────►Types ──┐ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ │ │
▼ │ │ │
Utils ◄─────┘ │ │
│ ▼ │
└─────────► Classes ◄─┘
- types can import errors
- utils can import errors and types
- classes can import types, errors and utils
All files can import from standard library or NPM packages.
This applies within a domain, and across domains, so errors can import other domain's errors, and types can import other domain's types.
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Business energy demand has dropped 38 per cent on average since the start of coronavirus lockdowns, according to Eon.
Leisure, hospitality and real estate sectors have taken bigger hits.
Even essential sectors, such as water, agriculture and IT, are using around 20 per cent less, according to the supplier’s consumption figures.
Electricity is the largest part of Eon’s B2B business and director of business energy sales, Iain Walker, stated in a blog that the firm “expects electricity demand to remain this way for some time to come”.
As much of the population is largely confined to their homes, National Grid ESO’s figures over the last week show weekday electricity demand is down around 20 per cent. That compares to around 14 per cent declines in the first four weeks of lockdown.
To mitigate low demand, the system operator has now launched a new service that will pay businesses to use more power, or stop exporting onsite generation to the grid. | <urn:uuid:e8f91b6b-84a0-4efb-951a-8e8ce86b0904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theenergyst.com/eon-lockdown-sees-business-energy-demand-fall-38-per-cent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.936455 | 213 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Iron Man, bow your head: the humble blow-fly can outdo you without even blinking. Not that it can blink. Now scientists know how.
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A team from Oxford, the Imperial College London and the Paul Scherrer Institute attached an unhappy insect to a plinth. The plinth was then rotated while the fly beat its wings, presumably hoping to do something more useful to itself, like flee or find food.
Meanwhile, its movements were scanned by X-rays, courtesy of powerful new X-Ray technology at PSI.
The scientists thus saw, for the first time, the muscle mechanics of the blow-fly in action, thereby opening doors to the future development of micro-aircraft modelled on the insect's flight mechanics.
The blow-fly (Calliphora vicina) can beat its wings about 100 times a second. That is incredibly fast. (By the way, it isn't the fastest: the fruit fly, another favorite subject of scientists, can achieve 250 beats a minute.)
The team filmed the insect's muscles in action, providing a glimpse into the inner workings of one of nature's most complex mechanisms, the blowfly's flight motor.
The scientists say the movies could inspire new designs of micro air vehicle and other micromechanisms. In theory.
"The thoracic tissues block visible light, but can be penetrated by X-rays," Dr Rajmund Mokso from the PSI explained their visual coup. "By spinning the flies around in the dedicated fast-imaging experimental setup at the Swiss Light Source, we recorded radiographs at such a high speed that the flight muscles could be viewed from multiple angles at all phases of the wingbeat. We combined these images into 3D visualizations of the flight muscles as they oscillated back and forth 150 times per second."
The flies responded to being rotated by trying to turn in the opposite direction, allowing the scientists to record the asymmetric muscle movements associated with turning flight.
Professor Graham Taylor of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, who led the research in Oxford, says the insect uses its flight muscles in much the same way as a car is designed to use its differential.
"Whilst the power delivered to the fly's wings on each side remains the same, the fly effectively 'brakes' on one side by diverting excess power into a steering muscle specialized to absorb mechanical energy," he said.
The X-rays demonstrate how the power and steering muscles in the fly's thorax work, "to enable stunningly aerobatic flight manoeuvres unmatched by any manmade device," said Professor Holger Krapp from Imperial College London's Department of Bioengineering. "Our study opens up the opportunity to uncover how the fly controls its sophisticated flight engine using the signals from different sensors and a brain no larger than the size of a pin head."
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FRBSF Economic Letter
1999-32 | October 22, 1999
Rising Bank Risk?
Western Banking is a review of banking developments in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, and includes FRBSF’s Regional Banking Tables. It is published in the Economic Letter on the fourth Friday of January, April, July, and October.
The banking industry is in its eighth year of strong earnings. As a result, banks have rebuilt their capital positions, and conditions in the industry appear to be quite good by historical standards. Against the backdrop of strong profits, it is useful to remember that banks, as financial intermediaries, are in the business of taking risk. Hence, it is important to monitor banks for indications of adverse effects from risk-taking.
This Letter examines several measures that may provide early signs of increases in bank risk. We look at bank financial statements, indicators of bank lending practices, and market-based information related to subordinated debt. Reflecting the strong economic expansion, the accounting data and lending practices show only weak signs of a general rise in risk at banks, though risk in commercial lending apparently has turned up some. The more forward-looking market data do show widening yield spreads on banks’ subordinated debt securities. While the spreads probably are signaling some concerns about greater bank risk, they also reflect higher liquidity premiums and perhaps a shift in investors’ risk preferences.
A common place to look for evidence of changes in risk is bank financial statements; however, they tend to provide a picture of realized rather than potential problems. One measure of current portfolio quality is non-performing loans, defined as loans with interest past due 90 or more days or loans not accruing interest. In the aggregate, changes in the share of non-performing loans are heavily influenced by underlying economic conditions. As Figure 1 shows, the ratio of non-performing loans to total loans for large bank holding companies declined steadily following the early 1990s recession and hit a low in the third quarter of last year. Since then, the ratio has risen a bit, with non-performing commercial loans and farm loans in particular contributing to the rise. Upticks in non-performing loans during economic expansion are noteworthy, and the non-performing loan ratio is more likely to move up more should the economy finally slow.
Furthermore, rather than building up loan loss reserves for a rainy day, the ratio of loss reserves to total loans remains relatively low (see Figure 1). Thus, as non-performing loans started to creep up in recent quarters, banks increased their provisions for loan losses by charging against current earnings. This suggests more downside than upside risk in bank earnings, as any future increase in problem loans would require additional provisioning, which would drag down earnings.
Banks’ own standards for extending new loans and terms on new loans may provide more of a forward-looking view on risk. The Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices asks more than 50 of the largest U.S. banks whether they had tightened or eased loan terms and credit standards for loan approval for a variety of loan types over the preceding three months, and the results suggest that they see some added credit risk.
Though recent surveys found little change, on net, in bank lending practices relating to households, they do suggest that banks are more cautious in commercial lending (see Figure 2). While it is not uncommon to see banks tightening credit standards and loan terms during economic contractions, such as the 1990-91 recession, it is noteworthy that banks, on net, tightened both standards and terms for their business lending during the past four quarters in a row, even while the economy has expanded at a rather rapid pace. Banks most commonly cited a worsening of industry-specific problems, a less favorable or more uncertain economic outlook, and a reduced tolerance for risk as reasons for tightening. A number of respondents also indicated that over the past year the performance of their business loan portfolios had become more sensitive to a period of economic weakness, primarily because of weaker financial conditions of borrowers, but also because of earlier eased lending standards and terms.
The market’s assessment of risk in banks should be the most forward-looking. One source of information on this assessment is the subordinated debt market. A number of bank holding companies and banks issue subordinated notes and debentures as a source of funds. Empirical research suggests that the yield spread between bank subordinated debt and a default-free Treasury bond of similar maturity reflects the market’s view about default risk in banking.
Figure 3 shows that these yield spreads have risen substantially in recent periods. The heavy solid line shows some rise in risk spreads on bank debt in late 1997 and into 1998, when the Asian financial crisis was unfolding. The large jump in spreads in the later part of 1998 corresponds with Russia’s default on its sovereign debt in August 1998, which ultimately led to the seizing up of the credit markets in October. The average yield spread on bank subordinated debt settled at around 110 basis points in the spring of this year before moving back up again.
Although the credit market has been demanding a higher premium for holding bank subordinated debt securities, it is not clear how much of the higher premium reflects the market’s perception of higher default risk. For example, the rise in yield spreads has not been limited to bank debt. As shown in the figure, the rise in the risk spread on bank debt tracks the movement in spreads for corporate bonds. Indeed, spreads on almost all private debt instruments have increased since the latter part of 1998. Among the explanations for this general rise in spreads is an increased demand for liquidity in financial markets, with the increased spreads on longer-term private debt representing higher liquidity, rather than default, premiums. Another explanation is a general shift in investors’ risk preferences; that is, investors now demand higher premiums for the same degree of default risk, so the rise in the spread may or may not reflect higher default risk. Only a third explanation, that economic developments have raised some concerns about the pace of economic activity posing risks for banks as well as other firms, points to higher default risk.
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According to firstladies.org: "Courted for four years by her first husband, once she married Norman Galt and moved to Washington, D.C. it is not clear whether she ever worked with him in his family's legendary silver and jewelry store that he managed. After his death, she inherited Galt's. Although she oversaw its daily operations she hired a manager to run the store and direct the staff. She bought a car and learned to drive it, and took numerous trips to Europe where she indulged her lifelong love of fine clothing.
"With a curiosity about the widowed President Woodrow Wilson, she met him in February 1914 while taking tea with his cousin Helen Bones and their mutual friend Altrude Gordon. Gordon was dating and would marry the naval physician Cary Grayson, who worked for the Wilsons. Within months, she and Wilson were exchanging letters that mixed politics and their passionate love for each other. Wilson proposed marriage to Edith Galt just three months after meeting her.
Woodrow Wilson died in 1924. Edith Wilson survived until 1961. Firstladies.org again: "Edith Wilson carefully screened the visitors to and activities of her disabled husband until his death in 1924. She devoted the rest of her life to managing his legacy. Edith Wilson held the literary rights to all of her husband's papers in a time before presidential papers were seen as public documents, and she denied access to those whose motives she did not trust and granted access to those who proved their loyalty to her. She maintained full script control of the 1944 Zanuck film biography Wilson, including the depiction of herself as played by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.
"Before World War II, she made several trips to Europe for events honoring Wilson's vision of a League of Nations. Although she resisted any substantive involvement in Democratic Party policy, she was considered a potential vice presidential candidate in 1928, and that year attended the national presidential convention and spoke at the podium. She also eagerly attended public events where she was honored as a symbol of her husband. She sat next to Eleanor Roosevelt, for example, as President Franklin Roosevelt [delivered his speech asking for a declaration of war against Japan].
"Edith Wilson maintained close contact with her successors, especially Grace Coolidge, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mamie Eisenhower, but she became overtly partisan in the 1960 election, denying her previous acquaintance with the Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon and pledging herself to John F. Kennedy's candidacy. Her last public appearance was at his January 20, 1961 inaugural. Her 1938 autobiography, My Memoir, was later found to be factually faulty by historians." | <urn:uuid:5654e0c4-bbe9-4b22-abfc-4d34c269aab3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://deadpresidentsdaily.blogspot.com/2007/12/december-18-1915-woodrow-wilson-marries.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00066-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986595 | 532 | 2.0625 | 2 |
A new survey comes out and it is dutifully reported in the SMH.
Nearly one in 10 people usually use alcohol while they are at work, the first study of drug and alcohol use in Australian workplaces has found.
While his study of more than 9800 workers found nearly 9 per cent of people said they ''usually'' used alcohol at work, only 5.6 per cent said they had been ''under the influence''.
Nearly 9 per cent, is not nearly one in 10. It is more like nearly one in 11. Was this inaccuracy due to drinking, or perhaps laziness?
Is News Ltd any better? It would seem not.
- Nine per cent of workers "usually" drink on the job
A SURVEY has found that nearly one in 10 people regularly drink at work, and believe it's not affecting their performance.Looks like it was simply copied without anyone checking the numbers.
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rheumatism. For pains in the arms a piece of black wool should be tied around the arm.
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Barley-water is a cure for a sore throat.
Puff-balls which are found growing in the fields are said to be a cure for cuts.
New milk and buttermilk and sugar boiled together are said to be a cure for a cold.
For a sore throat drink milk in which a dandelion has been boiled. Another cure for boils is to fill a bottle with boiling water and place it on the boil.
Chilblains are cured by washing them in forge water. Another cure for chilblains is to wash them with parafin oil. A cure for the toothache: get a frog and put him to your jaw. | <urn:uuid:8575f980-1bca-49e6-9d8d-da9b3b2cc728> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.duchas.ie/ga/cbes/4498542/4384934/4510839?ChapterID=4498542 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.949402 | 190 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Motivated by Compassion
Sometimes I think Christians regard nonbelievers as the enemy. Preachers will rant and rave about certain sins people are committing. But let’s remember something: behind that sin is an empty, searching, lost person whom God loves.
We are not called to condemn. We are called to appeal to nonbelievers with the message of the gospel. We need compassion. Jesus had it overflowing from His life. He was moved by the needs of others.
When He saw Mary and Martha weeping over the death of their brother, Lazarus, He “groaned in the spirit and was troubled” (John 11:33). That phrase carries the idea of physical, emotional, and spiritual anguish. Jesus is the only one who can accurately say, “I feel your pain.” As He watched Mary and Martha weeping, His heart went out to them. He was in anguish, too. He hurt for them. He hurt with them. And He wept. That’s our Savior.
Jesus knew the same crowds in Jerusalem who cried out, “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!” (Matthew 21:9) would soon shout, “Crucify Him!”
Yet He felt compassion, saying, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Matthew 23: 37).
Paul wrote to the Philippians, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (2:5). We should seek to imitate the Lord and have compassion.
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If you are watching your weight, or if you are trying to follow a low-sugar diet or dietary restrictions, you may be turning to artificial sweeteners or other sugar substitutes. These substitutes, also known as high-intensity sweeteners, make your food sweet and flavorful. Although these foods may be appealing to the eye and the palate, they may actually provide your body with unnecessary and often harmful ingredients.
We are exposed to these sweeteners all the time, in the food we eat, the toothpaste we use, or sitting on the table at our favorite restaurant or coffee shop. Some of us may use them without a second thought, but others question how good these artificial sweeteners are for our health. Understanding how these artificial sweeteners play into your overall health can prompt you and your family to switch to healthier, more natural sweets.#Sugar fills your body with empty calories and can lead to serious health conditions. Click To Tweet
How Do We Know If They Are Safe?
The FDA is required by law to review all new food additives for safety before they can go on the market.
For example, decades ago, studies began linking the artificial sweetener cyclamate to cancer. Due to requirements of the FDA to ban any food additive shown to cause cancer in humans or animals, the government ordered cyclamate to be removed from all food products in 1969.
There are currently no studies that have presented a strong link between FDA-approved high-intensity sweeteners and any diseases or illnesses. Not only does the FDA review these food additives, but they also encourage consumers to report any negative effects so that they can continue to monitor the product.
There are currently six high-intensity sweeteners that are approved by the FDA:
- Neotame: Some of the brand names of this sweetener that are on the market are Newtame®, Sunett®, and Sweet One®. There is no label required for this additive; therefore, you may not realize that it is in your food or beverage.
- Saccharin: This sweetener is also known as Sweet’N Low®, which is found in small pink packets. It is found in beverages and other low-calorie products.
- Aspartame: Known as NutraSweet®, Equal®, Spoonful®, and Equal-Measure®, it is found in more than 6,000 products including diet beverages, dairy products, desserts, and tabletop sweeteners.
- Acesulfame potassium: You can find this listed on food labels as acesulfame K, acesulfame potassium, Ace-K, or Sunett®. This sweetener can be found in almost any type of sweetened product, even in gum, mouthwash, and toothpaste.
- Sucralose: Primarily marketed as Splenda®, this is used in many food and beverage products, most commonly candy, soda, and cereal.
- Advantame: In May 2014, the FDA approved this new high-intensity sweetener. It does not yet have a brand name, but has been approved as a new food additive. Some products containing advantame include baked goods, non-alcoholic beverages, and chewing gum.
While these high-intensity sweeteners are considered safe for their intended uses, some individuals may be sensitive to these sweeteners and have negative reactions. Consumers should consult their doctor if they have concerns.
If you don’t like artificial sweeteners, or wish to not use them, there are many naturally sweet low-calorie alternatives that you can turn to, such as:
- Agave: Distilled from the blue agave cactus, this sweetener is a healthier choice for diabetics than sugar or honey because of its relatively low glycemic index value. One teaspoon has 21 calories.
- Stevia: This non-caloric sweetener comes from the plant Stevia rebaudiana. It is up to 300 times as sweet as sugar, but contains almost no calories.
- Xylitol: A sugar alcohol that is naturally found in the fibers of many fruits and vegetables. One teaspoon has 10 calories.
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|A network-based approach for analyzing industrial green transformation: A case study of Beijing, China|
|Shi, Xiaoqing; Wang, Xue; Chen, Pan
|Source Publication||JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
|Abstract||To manage eutrophication of reservoirs, it is important to consider the potential for unexpected releases of organic phosphorus (OP) from areas around the reservoir where the water level fluctuates. In this study, we investigated the absorption and release of OP from a riparian soil/sediment from the Miyun Reservoir under fluctuating water levels using laboratory simulations. The total organic phosphorus (TOP) content in the soils/sediments ranged from 250.76 to 298.62 mg/kg, which accounted for between 5.6 and 38.5% of the total phosphorus (TP) content. We measured three OP fractions and found that the concentration of moderately labile OP (MLOP) was the highest, followed by labile OP (LOP), and the concentration of non-labile OP (NLOP) was the lowest. As the soils and sediments dried, they adsorbed phosphorus (P). The inorganic phosphorus (IP) contents were significantly and negatively correlated with the LOP and MLOP contents, indicating exchange between IP with these two fractions when the concentrations of bioavailable phosphorus in the soil are low. During flooding, the physicochemical properties varied at the sediment-water interface, inducing the release of Fe/Al-P. Some of the LOP and MLOP in the sediments were mineralized to IP. Our results suggest that when there are external P inputs, P may be released when sediments around a reservoir are subjected to wetting and drying as water levels fluctuate, which may cause P enrichment in reservoirs, especially in areas with poor water exchange.|
|Affiliation||Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China|
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Top attack aircraft – T-50 to J20
Jet fighter attack aircraft are essential components of modern warfare, and recent unveilings back this up. Anthony Beachey examines the top attack aircraft available today, including Russia's T-50, China's secretive J20, the US F22 Raptor and Europe's EADS Eurofighter.
Tens of billions of dollars-worth of contracts are at stake in the coming years as the world's top manufacturers seek to win orders for the next generation of fighter aircraft. India, for example, is in the final stages of selecting the plane for a $10.4bn contract.
The four-year-long selection process that began in August 2007 will reach its conclusion when Indian officials open the tender from the manufacturers - the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) and Dassault of France. India had previously considered bids from Lockheed Martin's F-16, Boeing's F/A-18, Russian United Aircraft Corporation's MiG-35 and Swedish SAAB's Gripen.
India's jet fighter plans - T-50 or F 35?
India has already signed a deal with Russia for the joint development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft or FGFA, based on the Sukhoi T-50 plane design.
According to a report from the Russian RIA Novosti news agency, published in late October, the T-50 fifth generation fighter will be ready to take to the skies in the near future. The T-50 made its maiden voyage in January and two prototypes have since been undergoing flight tests.
The plane, developed under the PAK FA (future aviation system for tactical air force) programme at the Sukhoi OKB, is the first new major Russian-designed warplane since the fall of the USSR. It is expected to enter service in 2016.
Unsurprisingly however, the US continues to pursue the Indian market, given that New Delhi plans to spend more than $35bn on at least 166 single-seat and 48 twin-seat 5th-Gen fighters from 2020 onwards.
Washington is pushing Lockheed Martin's F-35 fifth generation fighter. However, delays and cost overruns have plagued the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - which at $238bn is the Pentagon's biggest weapons procurement programme - and one variant of the plane suffered cracks in the bulkhead after it had flown just 1,500 hours out of a planned 16,000.
The F-22 of the US Air Force
The US Air Force has also had to ground dozens of F-22 fighter jets for the second time this year, after a pilot had experienced oxygen deficiency in the cockpit, officers reported in early October. The announcement follows the air force's highly unusual step of grounding the entire Raptor fleet between May and mid-September, to allow engineers to investigate possible problems with the plane's oxygen supply.
Elaborate tests and safety measures have nevertheless failed to locate the precise source of the fault. The latest case follows around a dozen previous incidents affecting F-22 pilots over a three-year period, the circumstances of which the US Air Force is reluctant to discuss in detail.
At a cost of nearly $150 million a plane, the F-22 Raptor is designed mainly for dogfights against rival fighter jets, and the radar-evading aircraft were not deployed in the Nato-led campaign over Libya. The US Air Force has more than 160 F-22 Raptors and plans to construct a total of 187.
US legislators and defence contractors lobbied for years to fund a larger F-22 fleet. However, former defence secretary Robert Gates managed to defeat this initiative, arguing against an urgent need to raise numbers of the sophisticated aircraft.
China steps-up J-20 stealth fighter development
China, the rival Asian superpower to India, has meanwhile been busy upgrading its military, developing the J-20 stealth fighter that reportedly will be equipped with the radar-evading capability of fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 and F-35. China began testing the plane in January 2011. However, some analysts argue the threat posed by the J-20 is greatly exaggerated and that it incorporates obsolete technology.
As a guide, Richard Aboulafia, Vice President of Analysis at Teal Group, told Aerospace Technology that he gauges the capabilities of the modern, combat aircraft according to the following criteria:
• Access to off-board space, ground and air-based sensors, particularly a capable AEW/AWACS system with a well-trained crew and robust data links.
• Effective sensor fusion to allow the pilot to utilise this information, as well as data from onboard sensors.
• An integrated EW system.
• An AESA radar with a high level of reliability.
• High-quality theoretical and practical training to ensure effective use of resultant data and equipment.
• Pilot training to include plenty of flight hours.
• Powerful engines, ideally capable of supercruise, with a high mean time between overhaul and failures.
• An airframe with low-observable characteristics.
• A robust air-to-air refuelling capability encompassing equipment, readiness and training.
• Sophisticated and reliable, precision-guided weaponry.
• A robust hardware and software upgrade programme, to maintain the plane's effectiveness over the next five, 10 and 30 years.
• Maintenance procedures to keep the plane operating with a high, mission-capable rate.
• Equipment designed to facilitate maintenance and allow easy access to electronic diagnostic tools, and ideally a sophisticated health-usage monitoring system (HUMS).
According to Aboulafia, the J-20 incorporates just one item from this list (number seven). He is "not convinced that the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) features any other items from the list, although China seems to be making some progress in terms of item no 9".
Reduced budgets mean reduced demands for the EADS Eurofighter
Different problems, notably the Eurozone's economic crisis, are besetting the EADS Eurofighter. As part of an austerity drive, Germany plans to slash the number of military aircraft it will buy from EADS, the European aerospace company, in a bid to reduce its armed forces by one-fifth. Berlin now wishes to purchase 40 instead of 177 Eurofighters.
The UK in turn began reducing orders for Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets three years ago. In the spring of 2009, London secured a deal that allowed it to sell on part of its Typhoon contingent to Saudi Arabia.
A similar plan is being considered for the aircraft Germany had contracted to buy but now considers surplus to requirements. The availability of buyers is far from certain, according to industry experts.
The Eurozone's economic difficulties, as well as the problems besetting the US's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F22 Raptor, could accelerate the emergence of China and Russia as potential rivals in the jet fighter attack aircraft stakes. However, doubts remain as to whether either or indeed both countries have the advanced technology capable of competing with the Western world. | <urn:uuid:97f198f1-8930-4688-b99e-6a4c61384b42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.airforce-technology.com/features/featuretop-attack-aircraft-t-50-to-j20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951238 | 1,450 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Obama uncertain on attending summit
When President Barack Obama arrives in Oslo on Dec. 10 to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, he’ll be just an hour’s flight from Copenhagen, where approximately 40 world leaders will be gathered for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Don’t count on him to join them.
Trapped between international pressure to curb greenhouse gas emissions and a Senate unready to act, the White House is playing coy about the president’s plans. And while environmentalists and operatives would love to see him in Copenhagen, they also see the political peril in his making the trip.
“I’m not sure there’s anything you get out of it,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide. “With nothing to report, inaction and gridlock in the Senate, it seems like a wiser move to stay home.”
Expectations for the Copenhagen conference have dropped dramatically over the past few weeks, with nearly universal acknowledgment that the talks are very likely to result in a limited political agreement, rather than in a legally binding treaty on global warming.
Some world leaders have been eager to blame the United States, but an international wave of finger-pointing would only decrease the likelihood that Obama will attend, said climate experts.
“It’s very hard to send the president to an event where there’s going to be intense focus on the lack of a U.S. policy and intense blame leveled on the United States for not having a policy to offer,” said David Victor, an energy policy expert at Stanford Law School.
And the diminished expectations could also set up Obama for the appearance of failure back home.
Republicans are eager to paint a do-nothing climate conference as another loss for the president in Copenhagen. Obama has come home empty-handed from Copenhagen before, when he flew to the Danish capital to help his hometown of Chicago lobby for the 2016 Olympic Games.
“He weighs the leadership on the issue versus the lack of any concrete result,” said Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. “We know there’s going to be no real result.”
But even if U.S. climate negotiators were to push for a deal in Copenhagen, that could backfire in the Senate, where moderates of both parties have vocally opposed any cap-and-trade legislation. The House passed its climate change bill in late June, and Republicans have tried to use that vote to bludgeon Democrats from conservative districts.
“As a country, I know we’re not there yet, so I would hope the president wouldn’t be out in front of where the country has been,” said Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
And even if the politics of climate change were better, Obama might be preoccupied with a bigger priority in Washington in mid-December: a final Senate debate on the health care bill, which might keep many senators away from Copenhagen.
“His decision to go there will be very much tied to the progress we are making on the health care bill,” said Rep. Ed Markey, the author of the House climate bill. “His highest goal is to finish that bill.”
World leaders planning to attend the conference include French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The White House insists it remains undecided about whether the president will make the trip to Copenhagen. Obama may go just to keep up the pressure on world leaders to make a political commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, even if a real deal is punted to the future.
“If I am confident that all of the countries involved are bargaining in good faith and we are on the brink of a meaningful agreement and my presence in Copenhagen will make a difference in tipping us over the edge, then certainly that’s something that I will do,” Obama told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.
Administration aides working on climate issues also say that they want to see whether China and India are ready to make any serious concessions on climate change. So far, those nations have been resistant to mandating their own firm commitments in advance of the talks, and U.S. negotiators don’t want to be out in front of those countries. Democrats also point out that presidents and prime ministers rarely attend the climate negotiations. Vice President Al Gore went to Japan in 1997 for the talks that ended in the Kyoto Protocol. But only Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attended the talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, and both Obama and McCain declined to speak at talks last year in Poznan, Poland.
Environmental activists still hold out hope, believing Obama’s presence is needed to show a serious commitment by the United States to taking action on climate change.
“I think he should go simply because the stakes are so high,” Gore told POLITICO. “The U.S. has so much at risk because all around the world, the topic of conversation with regard to climate is: When is the U.S. going to act?”
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On April 10, 2018, the FTC announced that its staff sent warning letters to six major companies that market and sell automobiles, cellular devices, and video gaming systems in the United States. The FTC expressed concerns with the companies’ promotional and warranty materials that require consumers to use specified parts or service providers to keep their warranties intact. Examples of the potentially problematic provisions include the following statements:
- The use of [company name] parts is required to keep your . . . manufacturer’s warranties and any extended warranties intact.
- This warranty shall not apply if this product . . . is used with products not sold or licensed by [company name].
- This warranty does not apply if this product . . . has had the warranty seal on the [product] altered, defaced, or removed.
As a matter of general policy, the FTC views such provisions as harmful to consumers and small businesses. Further, as a legal matter, the FTC’s position is that such statements conditioning coverage in this manner are prohibited under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and may be deceptive under the terms of the FTC Act.
The FTC requested the target companies review their promotional and warranty materials to ensure that such materials do not state or imply that warranty coverage is conditioned on the use of specific parts or services. The FTC also requested that the companies revise their practices to comply with the law. The FTC will follow-up on its letters by reviewing the companies’ websites after 30 days, and any failure to correct any potential violations may result in future law enforcement action.
While the FTC’s recent warnings focus on the consumer electronics industry, all companies providing consumer products should review and audit their own promotional and warranty materials to confirm that there are no improper warranty-voiding provisions.
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Quality Statement - Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator (UAI1P)
There are many aspects which can affect the quality of Census data; the following information should be considered when viewing data on Usual Address One Year Ago Indicator (UAI1P).
This data was captured automatically from check box responses on the form so the risk of processing error is minimal. Sample checks of the data are undertaken to ensure an acceptable level of quality for data captured or derived.
The non-response rate for 2006 was 5.9% compared with 4.1% for 2001. Part of this non-response is attributable to the 4.1% of persons in dwellings which were occupied on Census Night but did not return a Census form. Persons are imputed into these dwellings together with some demographic characteristics. However the values for UAI1P remain not stated. In 2001, 2.1% of persons were imputed into dwellings for which no form was received.
Where the check box responses for "Same as in question 8" or "Other country" have been marked, then UAI1P is captured automatically. Where the "Elsewhere ..." box is marked or no mark has been captured, clerical checks are conducted to ascertain that any address information provided is in fact "Elsewhere", and in those few cases where the address is the same as in question 8 then UAI1P is corrected to "Same as in 2006".
The ABS aims to produce high quality data from the Census. To achieve this, extensive effort is put into Census form design, collection procedures, and processing procedures.
There are four principal sources of error in Census data: respondent error, processing error, partial response and undercount. Quality management of the Census program aims to reduce error as much as possible, and to provide a measure of the remaining error to data users, to allow them to use the data in an informed way.
When completing their Census form, some people do not answer all the questions which apply to them. In these instances, a 'not stated' code is allocated during processing, with the exception of non-response to age, sex, marital status and place of usual residence. These variables are needed for population estimates, so they are imputed using other information on the Census form, as well as information from the previous Census.
The processing of information from Census forms is now mostly automated, using scanning, Intelligent Character Recognition and other automatic processes. Quality assurance procedures are used during Census processing to ensure processing errors are kept at an acceptable level. Sample checking is undertaken during coding operations, and corrections are made where necessary.
The Census form may be completed by one household member on behalf of others. Incorrect answers can be introduced to the Census form if the respondent does not understand the question or does not know the correct information about other household members. Many of these errors remain in the final data.
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
This organization offers information about the illness, public policy, clinical trials and local chapters.
Milk Matters (for kids)
This site, created by the National Institutes of Health, aims to increase awareness about the importance of calcium in the diets of tweens and teens. Eating and drinking calcium-rich foods is especially important to 11- to 15-year-olds because bones grow fast during those years.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Every organization that employs people is, in some ways, responsible for their safety, and is compelled to do everything in their power to ensure employees are safe—especially in dangerous situations.
There are some industries and companies where worker safety is front of mind—lone workers, heavy machinery operators, etc. The obvious danger, though, is not always the clearest and present.
Here are 6 ways organizations can improve employee safety:
Do a Safety Assessment
Do you know what your organization’s employee safety plan is? Does your organization have a worker safety plan? Do you know the gaps in your plan that could lead to a dangerous situation for employees?
If you don’t know the answers to these questions, a safety assessment will tell you what you need to know. Before you can implement a smart plan that works, you must learn your needs. Larger organizations may want to consider working with a company that specializes in safety standards and assessments.
Identify Risks with an Environmental Review
While a safety assessment gives an in-depth look at your safety plan (or lack thereof), an environmental review give you an in-depth look at the physical risks present in your workplace. Look for everything from secure walkways to open sightlines to good lighting. Mitigating employee safety risk is like playing chess—you have a think a few steps ahead. Take a close look at your environment and determine what could potentially go wrong. If you find a safety gap, fill it. And use the information you gather to develop your employee safety plan.
Create Working Alone Procedures
Organizations that have lone workers—those who work alone, sometimes in remote locations, sometimes during off hour shifts—are required by law to have some protections for lone workers in place. Regulations vary from country to country and in Canada, from province to province, so your first step is determining what you need to do to meet compliance. Your lone worker plan should include various approaches, including check-in/check-out procedures, communication backups, and technologies like the SolusGuard panic button. Each organization’s lone workers will have different needs depending on their environment and situation.
Employee Personal Safety Training
While most organizations bear some responsibility for keeping employees safe, each employee is ultimately responsible for their own personal safety. There are relatively simple steps and precautions every employee can take to keep safe. Sometimes it’s as simple as being hyper-aware of your surroundings or walking with a co-worker when possible. Implementing employee safety training can help organizations ensure that each employee is armed with the information and practices to reduce personal risk.
Ensure Your Communications Are in Working Order
Technology is amazing. Everything we need is seemingly a tap, swipe or text away. We do, however, take it for granted, and expect it to work all of the time—but that’s not the case. If your communication systems fail, lone workers can be caught without help in dangerous situations.
Do regular checks to ensure that your communication systems—be they mobile phones, cameras, panic buttons, etc.—are fully charged and powered, and that any software updates are made.
Implement Safety Technology
Communication technologies like mobile phones are great, but when it comes to lone worker safety, they are often not enough to get the job done. Safety technologies like the SolusGuard panic button, however, offer a more comprehensive solution to protecting lone workers. The SolusGuard panic button system is discreet, comfortable and set up to alert multiple people when there is an emergency. It will automatically call 911 as well as co-workers and security teams, so that the alert is not reliant on a single endpoint to answer. The SolusGuard system can also help organizations manage compliance, as it features in-depth incident reporting.
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The bioethics certificate program, developed by the Concordia Center for Bioethics under the auspices of the Department of Theology and Philosophy, offers a course of study designed for persons involved in rehabilitative sciences, nursing, health care practice, research, administration, or litigation. Earning the Certificate will be especially useful to those who often face ethical questions that inevitably arise in the health care setting. This certificate will testify that its holder has completed an intensive program of graduate study in moral theory, decision-making procedures in ethics, and the current literature of bioethics. It will also indicate that its holder has gained experience in the practical application of moral principles, ethical theory, and the law to issues involving biology and health care. This certificate can be earned in conjunction with a master’s or doctoral degree at CUW or as a standalone graduate certificate. The Certificate Program incorporates into its design as much flexibility as possible so that students from anywhere in the country may enroll. Most of the required courses will be offered online.
Apply a biblical understanding of the world that includes truth, vocation, ethical principles, and servant leadership (University-Wide LO, Prolog).
Demonstrate the ability to analyze and apply the theoretical, methodological, ethical, and practical foundations of bioethics (University-Wide LO, Disciplinary Thinking).
Grow in their relationship with Christ and will put his teachings into practice in their vocations (Departmental LO 4).
Observe, assess, and interpret today’s cultures and worldviews. Students will be familiar with various methods of delivering and defending biblical truth in a relevant and practical way to diverse groups (Departmental LO 5).
Demonstrate an understanding of research skills in bioethics (Departmental LO 6).
Learn a variety of ethical theories and use them in practical problem solving (Departmental LO 8).
Graduate Certificate Goals
- Discern the differences between competing approaches to ethics and bioethics.
- Demonstrate integrative thinking that sees beyond individual bioethical issues to deeper theological and philosophical questions.
- Analyze bioethical challenges in clinical practice and biotechnology and relate them to theological and philosophical principles.
- Evaluate the law as it applies to bioethical issues and cases.
- Devise organizational and governmental policies that address bioethical challenges.
Artifacts from each of the five required courses will be assessed in a systematic manner to ensure that University, Departmental, and Certificate Program learning outcomes are being achieved. Artifacts may include examinations, major course essays, projects, or discussion post scores. Minimum outcome standards will be established by the Program Director, with approval from the Department Chair. An annual program assessment report will be made to the Department. | <urn:uuid:480c5732-b91f-46ef-a5a4-d83b578f4ef3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cuw.edu/programs/bioethics/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926976 | 553 | 1.875 | 2 |
Outrageous and inaccurate
Historical fact and good taste elude columnist in his challenge to Hawaiian sovereignty
Washington Post columnist George F. Will's distasteful column on the Akaka Bill, published in the Star-Bulletin Friday, demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of Hawaiian history and insensitivity to the rights of native people in Hawaii and across the nation. It is disappointing and outrageous to compare the systematic atrocities of the Nazis against Jews to the efforts of our host culture to exercise control over their culture and their destiny.
Hawaiians, like our nation's other indigenous people, share a history as political entities, exercising governance on lands which later became the United States.
As indigenous people they also share a similar experience with foreign settlers in which a clash of cultures occurred. Hawaiians suffered enormously from introduced diseases, the imposition of Western laws and culture that forever altered their way of life, and loss of their lands. As a result of this exchange Hawaiians fell to the lowest levels of the socioeconomic ladder in their own homeland.
The U.S. government played a key role in this sad saga in 1893, when U.S. Minister to the Kingdom John Stevens formally supported Westerners seeking to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani by ordering armed U.S. troops to land in Honolulu and take up military positions at key government buildings to intimidate the queen. To avoid bloodshed, she agreed to step down temporarily, believing that the United States would restore her to the throne when it learned what had happened. And, in fact, after incoming President Grover Cleveland received a full accounting of the facts, he characterized the action of Minister Stevens and the U.S. troops as an "act of war" and called for restoration of the kingdom.
The queen did everything possible to re-establish the kingdom, and a vast majority of Hawaiians signed petitions opposing annexation. After William McKinley became president in 1897, the U.S. Senate refused to approve the renewed annexation treaty by the required two-thirds vote, so a joint resolution was passed by a simple majority of both houses, a procedure that remains controversial. A total of 1.8 million acres of the kingdom's Crown and Government Lands were thereby "ceded" to the United States, without the consent of or compensation to Hawaiians.
Once Hawaii became a territory, it was illegal to use the Hawaiian language in public schools, and teachers even went to Hawaiian homes to scold parents for speaking Hawaiian to their children at home.
All aspects of the Hawaiian culture were suppressed, and Hawaiians were taught that their culture was inferior and irrelevant.
Nonetheless, the spirit, vision and talent of the Hawaiian people has never disappeared, and we have seen a true Hawaiian renaissance in the past generation. The Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act of 2007 (frequently called the Akaka Bill) would provide a framework within which the Hawaiian people can design a governing entity and negotiate for a return of cultural resources. It would enable the Hawaiians to be autonomous in ways similar to American Indians and Alaska Natives, with control over their local affairs, while still operating within the American political community.
This type of relationship is firmly established in the U.S. Constitution, and there is certainly nothing un-American or unpatriotic about it. Our country has recognized and the courts have upheld the special political and legal relationship the United States has with its indigenous people. It is the status that the Constitution recognizes in Indian tribes that was later extended to Alaska Natives, as indigenous people, and it is on this same basis native Hawaiians seek parity.
More than 500 native groups now have this type of relationship within the United States, but to date Hawaiians have not been federally recognized. The time is long overdue to rectify that situation.
The Akaka Bill would lead to negotiations addressing issues related to land and resources in Hawaii. No privately owned land could be taken or would be at risk during this process. As the people of Hawaii know, the federal and state governments continue to control most of the acres that were "ceded" at the time of annexation. While negotiations between the native Hawaiian governing entity, state of Hawaii and United States may address transfer of land or governmental authority, any agreements reached will require implementing legislation. Thus any land transfers would require approval by the state Legislature and federal government, so all interests will be represented.
Virtually every elected official in our state supports the Akaka Bill. Our state Legislature has repeatedly passed resolutions supporting Hawaiian self-determination. We are taken aback that a nationally syndicated columnist did not make a greater attempt to understand the true history of Hawaii. We, the people of Hawaii, can speak to our history and our values on our own.
Sen. Daniel Akaka and Rep. Neil Abercrombie are, respectively, the Senate and House sponsors of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act.
George F. Will's column appeared on A13 of Friday's Star-Bulletin. It can be viewed online at washingtonpost.com, the site requires registration. | <urn:uuid:b7f5b349-b9a9-4446-a702-cdc32734faa8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/12/02/editorial/commentary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964839 | 1,029 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Azaleas are known for their beautiful spring blossoms, and they have become an extremely popular element in landscape design. These lovely shrubs are available in both deciduous and evergreen varieties. However, they are susceptible to several fungal diseases.
Symptoms of Root and Crown Rot
The Phytophthora fungus causes root and crown rot in azalea plants. According to Clemson University, it is a water mold, which thrives during wet conditions and in soil that has poor drainage. Symptoms of root rot include plant wilting and blackened mushy roots. If your plant has crown rot, there will be discoloration or browning of the lower part of the stems of the plant. Crown rot can also occur when plants are planted in the soil too deeply.
Preventing Root and Crown Rot
Once the symptoms of root or crown rot are apparent, it is too late for any chemical treatment. The best defense against the disease is to work towards preventing it by buying healthy plants. Look for an azalea that is green in color and one that does not exhibit morning wilt. Make sure that the roots of the plant are not dark in color, as this too is a sign of fungal root rot. If possible, purchase plants that have some resistance to this fungal disease, such as Indian azalea, Corrine, Glacier or Hampton Beauty, to name a few. Also, be sure that the planting site has soil that is organically rich and well-drained.
Petal Blight Symptoms and Treatment
The fungus Ovulinia azaleae causes petal blight, which affects the flowers of the azalea plant. Symptoms are small spots or freckling on the petals of the azalea blossoms. If the blossoms are white the spots will be brown, and if the blossoms are colored then the spots will be white. As the disease progresses, the spots grow together, and they soon become soft and watery, causing the blossoms to rot. The rotting blossoms then stick to the leaves. When watering the plant be sure to water at its base and not overhead. Remove blossoms that exhibit signs of the disease as soon as possible and discard them. Remove mulch, as it may contain fungal spores, and replace it with new mulch. Severe cases can be treated with a fungicide containing captan, chlorothalonil, maneb, PCNB, triforine, vinclozolin or triadimefon.
Leaf Gall Symptoms and Treatment
Leaf gall attacks the plant during the spring season, April and May. Symptoms of the disease include the development of a distorted growth on the leaves and buds; leaves and stems may begin to curl and turn light green to white in color. As the disease progresses, the galls are covered with a powdery white matter. Later the galls become hard and brown in color. Most cases are not severe, and treatment is the removal of the galls from the plant. Galls should then be destroyed. In severe cases, a fungicide such as mancozeb, copper salts of fatty acids or triamiefon, per Clemson University, should be applied.
Dieback is difficult to control. It is caused by the Phomopsis fungus. A symptom of the disease is that healthy plants begin to exhibit dying branches. Generally, dieback will be on a single branch of the plant. To determine if your azalea has dieback, examine the wood underneath the bark of the dead branch. The wood underneath the bark will be chocolate brown in color. The best defense against this disease is to maintain a healthy plant--follow a regular program of watering and fertilization. Also, when choosing an azalea plant, select varieties that are less susceptible to dieback such as: Delaware Valley White, Hershey Red, Pink Gumpo and Snow. If your plant has dieback, prune out the infected branch or branches. Destroy the infected material--do not put it in your compost bin, and be sure to disinfect your pruning tools. A fungicide containing thiophanate-methyl or mancozeb can be applied. | <urn:uuid:ce54bcd5-f801-4d23-ac6a-f5416bb3adc4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gardenguides.com/124703-azalea-fungus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943267 | 859 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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It depends on what advertising we are talking about here. Adsense for instance is good for Google because Google likes websites that have Adsense ads in them. However advertising is not cool in the ayes on users so any type of advertising will make you loose some users without mentioning that ads increase website load time.
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It doesn’t matter how much experience you have, or how certain you are of your ability to land the job – preparing for an interview can leave your nerves frazzled. How you project yourself, and the confidence you exude during the interview will likely play a significant part in the employer’s hiring decision. You want to put your best foot forward, and that means being prepared for every question that might be asked.
There is plenty of advice floating around about preparing to answer the standard interview questions, but little advice on preparing specifically for a tech interview. Today’s tech employers are looking for a combination of practical hands on experience, and evidence of critical thinking, self-motivation, and a desire and ability to grow along with the industry. Here are 4 must ask question on the list of tech hiring managers.
How Do You Keep Your Skillset Up To Date?
The tech world is constantly changing, and employers want to know that your current skillset is relevant, and that you have an interest in keeping up with the changes in the industry. If you haven’t taken steps to stay up to date with your skills, look at options for doing so. What classes can you take? Are there any certifications that can enhance your value in the tech field?
Can You Explain Tech Processes in Non-Tech Terms?
Not everyone you deal with on a daily basis is going to be knowledgeable on tech related topics. How you communicate with customers, clients, and non tech personnel you encounter influences your professional success. Polish up your skills for communicating technical aspects in non-technical terms before your interview.
What Types of Tech Projects Do You Work on In Your Spare Time?
Is tech something that’s just a job, or do you have an avid interested in tech related topics – even when you’re not on the clock? While employers don’t expect you to live and breath all things tech related, they are looking for evidence that this isn’t a passing interest, and that you have staying power as an employee. Learning more about your outside interests in tech is a way for them to discover more about you as a valuable team member.
What Qualities Are Most Important In the Tech Field?
Employers want a better idea of your perspective on tech related positions. Do you think that it’s all about having the most up to date skills and certifications or is there more to being successful in the industry. Employers are looking for candidates that recognize that communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to work as part of a team are all equally important to the job.
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If you’re looking for a tech position in the Wichita area, let Top Notch Personnel connect you with the opportunity you’re looking for. Contact Top Notch Personnel via our website or call us at 316-425-4501 today. | <urn:uuid:279f434f-fbad-41cf-8865-9661f05c49f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tntpersonnel.com/2019/11/21/4-interview-questions-managers-are-asking-tech-candidates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.944586 | 604 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Carpooling and carsharing allows you to enjoy the benefits of a car without having to own one.
Carsharing allows you the freedom of using a car as and when you want it, without the worries of car ownership. You can book the car and collect it at selected locations.
Check out these carsharing schemes:
Carpooling is the shared use of a car between someone who has a car and those who wants to share the ride. You can also share a taxi ride. Read more | <urn:uuid:2c3b1013-bb63-4c72-a219-010c5b57a272> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greenstore.sg/tag/kahshare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96999 | 107 | 1.71875 | 2 |
I once met an Imam who had the challenging duty of providing spiritual guidance for dozens of Muslim men after they were finally released from years of detention (courtesy of the evil Howard Government). Being a down to earth and realistic chap he knew that after years of male-only confinement many of his charges would be off to the local knocking-shop as soon as possible. He also knew that afterwards, many of them would regret their actions and feel great guilt, shame and other misery not really required after years of torture, flight and being locked up. The poor fellows had enough to deal with, he reckoned. So, he gave them all pre-composed marriage licences. The men would enter their name, the prostitute would enter hers and after the sex the man would repeat the classic “I divorce you” three times. Hey presto! No guilt, no shame as all the sex was within wedlock. Practical. Earthy. And it helped people. Can we knock it?
I had dinner once with a lovely Catholic priest who years back ministered to indigenous folk in South America. Try as he may over several years, he was not able to gain the respect or ears of the local people. Until he pretended to get married and lived with a woman. Then they slowly accepted him, as they didn’t want to listen to someone whose life was so far removed from their own. Once respected he was able to set up some aid and health programs. Neat solution. Practical, and again people were helped. Can we criticise this one?
I know a nun who once smuggled condoms into Ireland. And others who lie blatantly to their Bishop and fib to their parishioners about Catholic theology so they can supply condoms in areas of Africa hit hard by HIV-AIDS. A bit naughty, stretching the Catholic truth, but down-to-earth, practical and undoubtedly lives are saved and misery averted.
Gautama Buddha clearly taught different truths or versions of Dharma to students at different levels of capacity. Christ also taught in parables to some and directly to a few, each according to their need. Tibetan Buddhism makes it clear this is an act of compassion, citing the example of the teaching of Sunyata, or emptiness. To teach this profound insight, that none of us actually exist, to those unprepared for it can really freak people out and distress them a great deal. Don’t try this at home!
So I guess, there is a place for the new-age Priestesses who work on the emotional levels alone while convinced they are reincarnations of Sumerian powerhouses. And for magicians who think the Golden Dawn is nothing more than a badly produced paperback from a cheap and nasty publisher. And for Wicca/Paganism which serves the religious needs of many people who can’t seem to think. Or read. Really, the Wiccan theologies and magic are practical, and they get the job done – Witches in the circle and off the streets, happily convinced they are practicing a mystery tradition and the Summer Lands await them before a super-duper rebirth with their current hand-fasted mate.
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A loudspeaker system with a large area (one square meter) and ultra thin enclosure (6 cm depth) has been developed. The system is composed of 4-way speakers including a pair of woofers, whose diaphragm dimensions are 78x28 cm each. To avoid a reduction in the sound pressure level of the low frequency range in wall mounting, a new type of enclosure (called twin-cabinet) which has an open and closed area for one diaphragm is employed. The four voice coils are applied to drive the woofer diaphragm as a result of the vibration analysis and acoustic field using FEM based on the acoustic load difference between the open and closed areas. The flat diaphragm consists of a five-layer structure, having a high mechanical loss owing to the Chitin reinforced pulp sheet used as a surface material.
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid was the FLICKS Book and Movie Club book of the month for May. I admit that I was already a fan of Sue Monk Kidd and her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. I was able to attend a talk by her that the Milwaukee County Library hosted back in 2005 or so with a member of a book club I belonged to while I lived in Milwaukee. It was interesting to listen to her talk and I did get her autograph. I am terrible at chit chat with “famous” people and didn’t ask her any questions myself. Picture me silent and smiling.
Even though I loved The Secret Life of Bees, I thought The Invention of Wings was even better. Even more fascinating was discovering at the end of the novel that the characters and the major events of their lives were all true. I could hardly believe it and wondered why I had not heard of them before. I applaud Sue Monk Kidd for taking some little known important women in our history and telling their story.
Sarah Grimke is the daughter of an important judge in Charleston South Carolina. On her eleventh birthday she is given a slave, Handful, as a present from her mother. Sarah does not want a human being as a present and finds the entire process distasteful. She tries to free Handful, but discovers that her beloved father that had always encouraged her abolitionist debates on the owning of slaves does not share her views and takes away what she values most to make her learn her place as a woman in the South. When her sister, Angelina, is born, Sarah becomes her Godmother and also helps to shape her views towards slavery and being a woman in the South. Together the two will shape their own fates.
Handful has big dreams of a life outside of slavery, but her mother Charlotte does more than dream. As accomplished seamstresses, they are among the most valuable slaves owned by the Grimkes. Charlotte starts to venture out from the family home with a fake pass to take on extra work to make money to save towards their freedom. Along the way she meets an exciting and dangerous man. When fate takes away her mother, Handful continues to work for her dreams.
Handful and Sarah are linked together as Handful is Sarah’s slave through childhood until Sarah returns her ownership to her mother. Sarah thinks of Handful as at times, as her only friend, but as Handful reminds her, she is not emptying her chamber pot because of friendship. Sarah promise Charlotte that someday she will free Handful, and it is a promise that plagues her throughout her life. How can she make it happen?
I was riveted by this book and had a hard time putting it down, which wasn’t good as I was reading it during my busiest time of the semester. I loved it. I love historical fiction and was fascinated by the entire story and especially inspired when I discovered it was true. I loved Sarah and Handful, they were both strong female characters living in a world where it was hard to be a woman, and even harder to be an African American woman. I loved how each chapter switched back and forth between their viewpoints throughout their lives. I loved Sarah’s journey from the South to the North, and I loved Handful’s journey through life in one Charleston home. It is strange to think that you couldn’t even walk down the street without fearing for your life back then.
The book was a great book club pick as it brought about great discussion when we met. It is overall hard to imagine a world where owning other people is considered to be okay. It’s terrifying to realize that people still think this is okay in this day and age. It’s also hard to imagine a world where as a woman you had no rights and no way to handle your affairs without a man. It is also disturbing that although there really was a Handful, her story cannot be fully discovered because she was a black female living during the first half of the nineteenth century. It was a great book for thought.
Overall, The Invention of Wings is an excellent book and a must read. It is one of the best historical fiction books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of historical fiction. I’m still thinking about this book even though I finished it two weeks ago!
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As you probably know, humans love consuming every part of the pig, and there are probably hundreds of recipes out there that will guide you on how to cook different parts of the pig. And having tried many, I think we can agree that they are quite delicious.
Pigs have a great influence on our dietary life. To give you some perspective, you can think of any fast-food brand or restaurant, and I guarantee you they have some type of pork on their menu.
But despite the amount of pork we consume, it’s not common to see people consuming pig milk.
For this reason, in this article, we talk about pig milk and whether or not you should be drinking it.
Different factors influence why people don’t consume pig milk, but if you’re in a hurry, let me give you the short answer.
Why don’t we drink pig milk? There are several reasons for this; for example, there is no demand for pig milk, pig milk tastes even stronger than goat milk, but also milking a sow can be more challenging when compared to a cow.
To expand on my answer, let’s talk about demand. If you think about how everything starts, it’s with demand for a product; if people are not used to drinking pig milk, and if people are not looking for this type of milk, it will be quite difficult for farmers to innovate in this area.
Everything is difficult to make until someone is willing to pay. I can almost guarantee that if there was enough demand, people would find a way to milk the pigs, which is hard, and if they don’t, then it would be sold as a luxury product just like everything else that is quite difficult to find.
But again, there is no demand for it.
Regarding the taste, it can be quite strong, but just like cheese and other dairy products, you will just have to acquire a taste for it. Some will like it; others will not.
Now it is true that if there was more availability, this could cause a snowball effect, and demand could rise.
But the challenge is that sow can be quite aggressive if you try to milk them. And after the sow considers you their enemy, there is no way you can change that. So it would be quite difficult to get close to them again.
Let’s think of some technical issues for a moment; pigs have 14 teats when compared to the 4 of the cow. Only in that, there is a challenge because they will have to build some type of system to milk the pig that can take on 14 teats.
But also, sows don’t like to be milk, meaning they don’t like anyone getting close to them. And finally, they produce less milk than cows.
Also, the pig farm community is focused on pig production as it can be more profitable; a sow could give birth to two dozens of pig in a year which is not the case with a cow.
And let’s not forget that producing cheese from pig milk it’s quite difficult and expensive, not to say impossible.
Is Pig Milk Poisonous to Humans?
No, pig milk is not poisonous; it’s quite edible; the problem is finding it or producing it.
Pig milk is high in fat, about 8.5 % more when compared to cows, 3.9 %, but it’s an excellent source of nutrients. That can be eaten with whatever food you prefer consuming your milk.
Pigs milk is just like cow milk but with a stronger flavor.
Obviously, pig milk, just like cows, can go bad, so it’s important to make sure you proceed and drink fresh pig milk to keep yourself healthy.
Why Don’t We Make Cheese from Pigs Milk?
Trying to find pig milk is quite difficult but finding cheese made from pig milk is even harder.
The reason being is that first, you will have to spend hours milking the pigs just to get a few pounds of cheese; second, the cheese is creamy, salty, and quite expensive, meaning 2300 per kilogram. Yeah. I’m sure that will kill your desire to eat pigs cheese.
Is it possible? Yes, do some people do it? Yes, but we need more demand in order to make it more affordable and available.
Do People Drink Pig Milk?
Yes, like I’ve been saying, people do drink the pigs milk, the problem is that it’s no not available and most people haven’t tasted the pigs milk. In fact, I’m sure many don’t know that it’s even possible to do so.
This is the reason why we don’t see more of it. But it is safer for humans to drink pigs milk; as long as the pig is healthy, it’s fine to drink.
Where Can I Buy Pig Milk?
You can typically find this in your local whole foods market or farm market.
You can also ask for some of it in your local pig farms.
What Does Pig Milk Taste Like?
Pigs milk it’s quite gamy. Some compare the taste to goat milk, but even stronger.
So not all people will like it; some say you will need some time to acquire a taste for it.
But you can definitely eat it, and I guess you will have to give it a try to see if you really like it. I suggest trying it a few times and let’s see how it goes.
Conclusion: Why Don’t We Drink Pig Milk?
Pigs milk is quite hard to produce, sow are more aggressive when compared to a cow; in fact, a cow it’s a docile animal. Sows will try to hurt you if you want to milk them, and after you’ve lost their trust, there is no way of getting it back.
But there are other seasons like demand which I think is one the most obstacles for why we don’t see this type of milk in grocery stores.
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Air Plains Services is showcasing its newly branded unleaded fuel solution for flight, Inpulse, from July 23-29 at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.
Oshkosh attendees are invited to stop by booth #339 to talk with Air Plains founder Mike Kelley about Inpulse. Additionally, Kelley will participate on a panel discussion, “Autogas at 30 Years,” featuring leading figures involved in the certification of autogas as an aviation fuel. The panel is scheduled for Thursday, July 26 at 11:30 a.m. (EST) in Pavilion 03 Sennheiser Aviation.
Inpulse is an anti-detonant injection system (ADI) that enables high-compression engines to safely run on low octane fuel. ADI, also known as water injection, is not a new technology, but Air Plains Services of Wellington, Kan., and Petersen Aviation Inc. of Minden, Neb., are adapting the idea for use in today’s aircraft.
An FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) enables the installation of the system components on the aircraft, allowing the operator to run the engine with more flexibility, fuel availability and cost savings, company officials said. Air Plains installs the Inpulse system on the aircraft, including a fluid tank for the system’s mixture of 60% methanol, 39% demineralized water and 1% soluble oil.
“Inpulse is currently available for the Cessna 188, Cessna 210 and Beech Baron IO-470 and IO-520 engines,” said Kelley, who started the company in 1977 at Wellington Airport, 25 miles south of Wichita, Kan. “We plan to pursue additional models as the market demands a proven, effective solution for the high cost of and eventual phasing out of leaded fuel.”
Inpulse is controlled by sensors monitoring manifold pressure and cylinder head temperatures. The methanol injection nozzles, located in the intake manifold, are controlled by a computer that automatically activates the system when the manifold pressure is above 25 inches of mercury or the cylinder head temperature is above 400°F. During cruise flight the system is turned off and the aircraft burns 91 octane fuel only.
The Inpulse system will be featured at EAA booth #339, which is dedicated to companies that play roles in the expanding use of autogas in aviation. In addition to Air Plains Services, the exhibiting companies include American Legend Aircraft, whose entire fleet of popular light planes are certified to operate on autogas; Aviation Fuel Club; autogas advocates FlyUnleaded.com; STC owner Petersen Aviation; and U-Fuel. The booth is also headquarters for the first Unleaded to Oshkosh event, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the FAA’s first approval of lead-free autogas as an aviation fuel.
For more information: AirPlains.com
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May 1, 2020
An article in Fortune Magazine is titled “The City That Sees All.” Shenzen, North China, is such a place.
Based on a booming economy thanks to several tech giants, innovation has gone rampant. Thanks to a population that has grown to 12.5 million since 1990, ways and means to move people into and out of the heart of the city still rely on subways.
Automated screens keep real-time data in view to help direct passengers to the nearest waiting car where they swipe their smart phone to board. Those who drive are directed into a “smart” parking garage where they are assigned and directe... | <urn:uuid:93bc9a17-d969-4bed-b49a-719ba0f81720> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alvareviewcourier.com/story/2020/05/01/local/smart-cities/62641.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.972062 | 141 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Friday, November 1, 2013
Marie Boyd (South Carolina) has posted Zoning for Apartments: A Study of the Role of Law in the Control of Apartment Houses in New Haven, Connecticut 1912-1932, 33 Pace L. Rev. 600 (2013). In it, she reviews building records and Sanborn maps to give her reader a complete picture of the restrictions placed on apartment development before and after New Haven's first zoning ordinance in 1926. Here's the abstract:
This article seeks to contribute to the legal and policy debates over zoning by providing a more detailed examination of the impact of apartments on both pre-zoning land use patterns and the zoning process during the formative initial stages of zoning in the United States than has been provided in the literature to date. Specifically, this Article analyzes the impact of apartments on both pre-zoning land use patterns and the zoning process in New Haven, Connecticut. It focuses on the period beginning with the selection of New Haven’s first Zoning Commission in 1922, and concluding with the passage of New Haven’s first zoning ordinance in 1926. Through this detailed historical account of the realities of zoning, this Article demonstrates how — due to delays in the enactment of zoning — New Haven’s first zoning ordinance, rather than shaping the future growth of the regulated area, was instead shaped by existing land use patterns and political considerations. | <urn:uuid:80a646d8-efc3-44dc-ad0a-7636ccdc0b00> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2013/11/boyd-on-zoning-for-apartments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906532 | 282 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Fecal transplant curbs recurrent C. diff diarrhea
Fecal Transplant Feasible for Recurrent C. difficile Infection
HealthDay News -- The vast majority of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recovered after receiving fecal transplantation via colonoscopy, study findings indicate.
Among patients who underwent the procedure, 89% of those infected with hypervirulent C. difficile type 027, and 100% of patients without the superbug, recovered during the first 12-weeks post transplantation, Eero Mattila, MD, of the Helsinki University Central Hospital and colleagues reported in Gastroenterology.
"Even though fecal transplantation is not simple to perform and has potential risks, fecal transplantation is an effective option for the treatment of recurrent CDI," the researchers wrote.
A total of 70 patients were included in the retrospective analysis. Thirty-six patients had recurrent CDI caused by C. difficile type 027, and 34 patients did not. All patients underwent a fecal transplantation procedure in which fresh donor feces were infused into the cecum via colonoscopy after whole-bowel lavage with polyethylene glycol.
Among the four non-responders in the C. difficile type 027 group, all had a preexisting serious condition and subsequently died of colitis, the researchers found. One year after transplantation, four patients relapsed after taking antibiotics for unrelated causes; two of these relapses were treated with a second fecal transplantation procedure and two with antibiotics for CDI. No immediate complications were associated fecal transplantation in this cohort. | <urn:uuid:9ef11923-77e4-44dd-a68c-bf6e8e531474> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/web-exclusives/fecal-transplant-curbs-recurrent-c-diff-diarrhea/article/230553/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00460-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944275 | 347 | 2.078125 | 2 |
In a word chain, the words are arranged so that they are linked by a common thread.
Chain: grass rabid aisle islet scent chuck horse outer under never event
Link: the second letter of a word is the first letter of the following word
Task: complete the chain by inserting the words from the pool
Chain: tongue ______ ______ ______ ______ corner ______ ______ ______ ______ punish
Pool: atomic dances emblem gallop matron nebula retard strong
AnswerChain: tongue emblem matron nebula atomic corner retard dances strong gallop punish
Link: the last letter of a word is the first letter of the following word
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Apidae sensu lato
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
You can click on the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to individual species.close box
Alexander, B. 1990. A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of sphecoid wasps and bees. Sphecos 20: 7-16.
Alexander, B. A. and Michener, C. D. 1995. Phylogenetic studies of the families of short-tongued bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55: 377-424.
Brothers, D. J. 1999. Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea). Zoologica Scripta 28 (1-2): 233-249.
Engel, M. S. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic Amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259: 1-192.
Melo, G. A. R. 1997. Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of the Major Lineages of Apoidea (Hymenoptera), with Emphasis on the Crabronid Wasps. Unpublished doctoral Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Plant, J. D. and Paulus, H. F. 1987. Comparative morphology of the postmentum of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) with special remarks on the evolution of the lorum. Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 25: 81-103.
Roig-Alsina, A. and Michener, C. D. 1993. Studies of the phylogeny and classification of long-tongued bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55: 124-162.
- Bee Phylogeny at Cornell University. Discussion of higher-level bee relationships.
- Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Logan, Utah.
- Honey Bee Lab. Penn State University.
- Carl Hayden Bee Research Center.
- The Bee Works. A website about the importance of pollinators.
- International Bee Research Association.
- B-EYE: The world through the eyes of a bee.
- List of World Bumblebees
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More than 2,000 years of history, going right back to the Romans, have left their mark on Augsburg. The city’s “golden age” was during the Renaissance and in the 15th century the Fugger merchant family launched their worldwide enterprise from here. Walk around the city and discover the highlights, for example the Mozart House, the birthplace of Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang Amadeus. To celebrate the parity between Protestantism and Catholicism established by the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, the city’s Protestants inaugurated the Augsburg High Peace Festival. Even today Augsburg enjoys one more public holiday then elsewhere in Germany (8 August) and this is marked by intercultural events.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Posted by Eugene Volokh
The argument in the First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Search Results white paper (which was written by me but commissioned by Google) is simple: Once, the leading sources to which people turned for useful information were newspapers, guidebooks, and encyclopedias. Today, these sources also include search engine results, which people use along with other sources to learn about news, local institutions, products, services, and more. Then and now, the First Amendment has protected all these forms of speech from government attempts to regulate what they present or how they present it.
Google, Microsoft’s Bing, Yahoo! Search, and other search engines are speakers. First, they sometimes convey information that the search engine company has itself prepared or compiled. Second, they direct users to material created by others (and such references are themselves constitutionally protected speech).
Third, and most valuably, search engines select and sort the results, aiming to give users what the search engine companies see as the most helpful and useful information. (That’s how each search engine company tries to keep users coming back to it rather than to its competitors.) This selection and sorting is a mix of science and art: It uses computerized algorithms, but those algorithms themselves inherently incorporate the search engine company engineers’ judgments about what material users are most likely to find responsive to their queries.
In this respect, each search engine’s editorial judgment is much like many other familiar editorial judgments’ -- newspapers’ judgments about which topics to cover, which wire service stories to run (and where), and which columnists to include; guidebooks’ judgments about which local attractions to mention; the judgment of sites such as DrudgeReport.com about what sites to link to; and more.
Thus, for instance, when many newspapers chose to publish TV listings, they were free to choose to do so without regard to whether this choice undermined the market for TV Guide. Likewise, search engines are free to include and highlight their own listings of (for example) local review pages even though Yelp might prefer that the search engines instead rank Yelp’s information higher. And this First Amendment protection is even more clearly present when a speaker, such as a search engine, makes not just the one include-or-not editorial judgment, but rather many judgments about how to design the algorithms that produce and rank search results that -- in the search engine engineers’ opinion -- are likely to be most useful to users.
Indeed, two federal court decisions (Search King, Inc. v. Google Technology, Inc. and Langdon v. Google, Inc.) have already held that search results, including the choices of what to include in those results, are “entitled to full constitutional protection.” And this conclusion is compelled by Supreme Court precedents. Internet speech, and interactive speech, is fully constitutionally protected. Facts and opinions on nonpolitical questions are likewise fully protected, as are choices about how to select and arrange the material in one’s speech product.
This full protection remains when the choices are implemented with the help of computerized algorithms. Those algorithms represent the choices of their human authors. The algorithms produce results that are read by human readers; the First Amendment value of speech stems from the value of the speech to listeners or readers as well as from the value of the speech to speakers. And the objections to Google’s placement of its thematic search results arise precisely because Google employees are said to have made a conscious choice to include those results in a particular place.
Moreover, antitrust law can no more trump this constitutional protection than can other laws that are aimed at protecting the supposed “fairness” or “neutrality” of speech. In the era before the Internet, many towns had only one newspaper that had a practical monopoly on text news coverage. But even then the Court stressed that the government may not “comp[ell] . . . a newspaper to print that which it would not otherwise print” and that the newspaper maintained its rights to select what to include and what to exclude “no matter how secure [its] local monopoly.”
The same logic applies to search engines -- but more so. There are no “one-search-engine towns”: All Internet users can quickly switch search engines if they find that their current search engine provides coverage that they sees as unfair or incomplete.
Most of us started out by using search engines other than Google; we switched to Google because we had heard that it provided superior results. We can easily switch away if we conclude the results are no longer satisfactory. This user power -- and not governmental coercion -- is the proper remedy for any perceived unfair selection by search engines, and the proper deterrent to such supposed unfairness. (For more on this, and on the other points I mention, see the white paper itself, which has more detailed arguments, citations, and in particular a discussion of Lorain Journal Co. v. United States and other First Amendment and antitrust cases in Part IV.)
This conclusion is consistent with 47 U.S.C. § 230’s protection of search engines (among others) from civil liability. The premise of § 230 is that online content providers are entitled both to immunity from liability for other people’s speech (§ 230(c)(1)) and to the right to select what speech to include (§ 230(c)(2)).
Indeed, § 230 was enacted in response to a court decision (Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy) that concluded that online organizations had to choose whether to be (1) common carriers, immune from liability but barred from making editorial judgments, or (2) publishers, entitled to make editorial judgment but subject to liability for others’ speech. Congress specifically intended to overrule that decision, and to make it easier for content providers -- such as search engines -- to both make editing judgments of their own, and avoid civil liability for the speech of others. | <urn:uuid:a9cd993c-1f0a-48f0-9021-0c7f6af73c0b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2012/05/is-search-protected-by-the-first-amendment-comments-by-eugene-volokh.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955314 | 1,233 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Montelukast is used to treat asthma and allergy symptoms including sneezing, runny nose, and itchy, watery eyes. May not be suitable for people with liver disease or phenylketonuria.
Montelukast is a prescription medication used to treat the symptoms of asthma and itchy, stuffy, or runny nose caused by allergies. It is also used to prevent bronchospasm (difficulty breathing) during exercise. Montelukast belongs to a group of drugs called leukotriene inhibitors which work by blocking leukotrienes, natural substances responsible for swelling in the airways, and tightening of muscles of airways, as well as nasal symptoms caused by allergies.
This medication comes in tablet, granule, and chewable tablet forms to be taken by mouth. It is usually taken once daily, with or without food. It should be taken in the evening if treating asthma, or 2 hours before exercise if treating difficulty breathing caused by exercise.
Common side effects of montelukast include cough, fever, headache, and sore throat.
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Uses of Montelukast
Montelukast is a prescription medication used to treat symptoms of asthma and itchy, stuffy, or runny nose caused by allergies. t is also used to prevent bronchospasm (difficulty breathing) during exercise.
This medication may be prescribed for other uses. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Montelukast Brand Names
Montelukast may be found in some form under the following brand names:
Montelukast Drug Class
Montelukast is part of the drug class:
Side Effects of Montelukast
The most common side effects of montelukast include:
- upper respiratory infection
- sore throat
- stomach pain
- earache or ear infection
- runny nose
- sinus infection
Other side effects of montelukast include:
- increased bleeding tendency, low blood platelet count
- allergic reactions [including swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and/or throat (which may cause trouble breathing or swallowing), hives and itching]
- dizziness, drowsiness, pins and needles/numbness, seizures (convulsions or fits)
- nose bleed, stuffy nose
- diarrhea, heartburn, indigestion, inflammation of the pancreas, nausea, stomach or intestinal upset, vomiting
- bruising, rash, severe skin reactions (erythema multiforme) that may occur without warning
- joint pain, muscle aches and muscle cramps
- tiredness, swelling
Montelukast may cause serious side effects. See "Drug Precautions".
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of montelukast. For more information ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your doctor if you take:
- Seizure medicines (carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin)
- Rifamycin antibiotics (rifabutin, rifampin, rifapentine)
This is not a complete list of montelukast drug interactions. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Do not take montelukast if you are allergic to any of its ingredients.
Montelukast may cause serious side effects.
- Behavior and mood-related changes. Tell your doctor right away if you have mood-related changes.
- Increase in certain white blood cells (eosinophils) and possible inflamed blood vessels throughout the body (systemic vasculitis). Rarely, this can happen in people with asthma who take montelukast. This usually, but not always, happens in people who also take a steroid medicine by mouth that is being stopped or the dose is being lowered.
If you have asthma and aspirin makes your asthma symptoms worse, continue to avoid taking aspirin or other medicines called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) while taking montelukast.
Montelukast Food Interactions
Medicines can interact with certain foods. In some cases, this may be harmful and your doctor may advise you to avoid certain foods. In the case of montelukast, there are no specific foods that you must exclude from your diet when receiving montelukast.
Before receiving montelukast, tell your healthcare provider if you:
- are allergic to aspirin
- have phenylketonuria. Montelukast chewable tablets contain aspartame, a source of phenylalanine
Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
Montelukast and Pregnancy
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
The FDA categorizes medications based on safety for use during pregnancy. Five categories - A, B, C, D, and X, are used to classify the possible risks to an unborn baby when a medication is taken during pregnancy.
Montelukast falls into category B. There are no well-done studies that have been done in humans with montelukast. But in animal studies, pregnant animals were given this medication, and the babies did not show any medical issues related to this medication.
Montelukast and Lactation
Tell your doctor if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
It is not known if monelukast crosses into human breast milk. Because of the potential for serious harm in nursing infants from monelukast, a decision should be made whether to discontinue nursing or to discontinue montelukast, taking into account the importance of the medication to the mother.
For anyone who takes montelukast:
- Take montelukast exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider will tell you how much montelukast to take, and when to take it.
- Do not stop taking montelukast or change when you take it without talking with your healthcare provider.
- You can take montelukast with food or without food.
- If you or your child misses a dose of montelukast, just take the next dose at your regular time. Do not take 2 doses at the same time.
- If you take too much montelukast, call your healthcare provider or a Poison Control Center right away.
For adults and children 12 months of age and older with asthma:
- Take montelukast one time each day, in the evening. Continue to take montelukast every day for as long as your healthcare provider prescribes it, even if you have no asthma symptoms.
- Tell your healthcare provider right away if your asthma symptoms get worse, or if you need to use your rescue inhaler medicine more often for asthma attacks.
- Do not take montelukast if you need relief right away from a sudden asthma attack. If you get an asthma attack, you should follow the instructions your healthcare provider gave you for treating asthma attacks.
- Always have your rescue inhaler medicine with you for asthma attacks.
- Do not stop taking or lower the dose of your other asthma medicines unless your healthcare provider tells you to.
For people 6 years of age and older for the prevention of exercise-induced asthma:
- Take montelukast at least 2 hours before exercise.
- Always have your rescue inhaler medicine with you for asthma attacks.
- If you take montelukast every day for chronic asthma or allergic rhinitis, do not take another dose to prevent exercise-induced asthma. Talk to your healthcare provider about your treatment for exercise-induced asthma.
- Do not take 2 doses of montelukast within 24 hours (1 day).
For adults and children 2 years of age and older with seasonal allergic rhinitis, or for adults and children 6 months of age and older with perennial allergic rhinitis:
- Give montelukast oral granules to your child exactly as instructed by your healthcare provider.
- Do not open the packet until ready to use.
- Take montelukast 1 time each day, at about the same time each day.
Montelukast 4-mg oral granules can be given:
- right in the mouth; or
- dissolved in 1 teaspoonful (5 mL) of cold or room temperature baby formula or breast milk; or
- mixed with 1 spoonful of one of the following soft foods at cold or room temperature: applesauce, mashed carrots, rice, or ice cream.
Give the child all of the mixture right away, within 15 minutes.
Do not store any leftover montelukast mixture (oral granules mixed with food, baby formula, or breast milk) for use at a later time. Throw away any unused portion.
Do not mix montelukast oral granules with any liquid drink other than baby formula or breast milk. Your child may drink other liquids after swallowing the mixture.
Take montelukast exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully.
The dose of montelukast prescribed for you or your child's condition is based on age:
- 6 to 23 months: one packet of 4-mg oral granules.
- 2 to 5 years: one 4-mg chewable tablet or one packet of 4-mg oral granules.
- 6 to 14 years: one 5-mg chewable tablet.
- 15 years and older: one 10-mg tablet.
If you take too much montelukast, call your local Poison Control Center or seek emergency medical attention right away.
- Store montelukast at 59°F to 86°F (15°C to 30°C).
- Keep montelukast in the container it comes in.
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One of the biggest mistakes riders make when we're trying to overcome horseback riding fears is that we direct our efforts toward the conscious mind. You know--willpower, iron-jawed determination. The problem with that strategy is that you can only make short-term, temporary changes when you direct your efforts to your conscious mind. To make permanent changes, direct your efforts to the part of your brain that truly determines your actions--your subconscious mind.
You see, your subconscious mind believes everything you say and imagine, sees it as the goal and tries to make it come true. It’s just waiting for your instructions. So, like a guided missile, it'll keep you on the course you've set for it. And you alone are responsible for charting that course by what you see in your mind's eye and by what you say you want.
When I think about changing mental software, I'm reminded of Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. He says, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". If you’re a fearful or timid rider, you've probably been beating yourself up about it for a very long time. The software in your mental computer says you’re a chicken so you're going to feel like a chicken. So, if you want to demolish fear, the only way you can change the way you feel is to reprogram your mind by installing new software in your mental computer.
The bonus of changing your mental software rather than using will power or iron-jawed determination is that it's a lot easier to do and the results are permanent. All you have to do are two simple things. Reprogram your mind through visualization and self-talk.
Here's all you need to know about visualization:
1. Relax. (Take 3 deep breaths.)
2. Fill in details. (What are you wearing? What does your horse look like? What do your surroundings look like?)
3. Use your five senses. (Feel the contact with your horse's mouth. Smell the clean, fresh air. Hear the rhythm of your horse's gaits. See the ring where you're riding. Taste the salt from the sweat dripping down from your protective headgear!)
4. Use emotion. (Fully experience being brave, confident, and relaxed. To help you do this, just remember another time in your life when you actually felt that way.)
5. Repeat daily. (It takes about 21 days to develop a habit.)
Here's all you need to know about self-talk. Always speak to yourself in the following way:
1. Use the present tense as if you already possess the quality you want. (I am confident, courageous, or calm.)
2. Use a positive phrase. ("I am relaxed" as opposed to "I am not tense." There is no picture in the mind for the word "not". So when you say, "I am not tense, your mind only hears, 'I am tense.")
That's right, folks! It's that simple. Use visualization and self-talk to become the bold, fearless rider you've always dreamed of becoming.
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Pregnancy nutrition: Foods to avoid during pregnancy
More foods can affect your health or your baby's than you might realize. Find out what foods to avoid during pregnancy.By Mayo Clinic Staff
You want what's best for your baby. That's why you add sliced fruit to your fortified breakfast cereal, top your salads with chickpeas and snack on almonds. But do you know what foods to avoid during pregnancy?
Start with the basics in pregnancy nutrition. Understanding what foods to avoid during pregnancy can help you make the healthiest choices for you and your baby.
Avoid seafood high in mercury
Seafood can be a great source of protein, and the omega-3 fatty acids in many fish can promote your baby's brain and eye development. However, some fish and shellfish contain potentially dangerous levels of mercury. Too much mercury could harm your baby's developing nervous system.
The bigger and older the fish, the more mercury it's likely to contain. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourage pregnant women to avoid:
- King mackerel
So what's safe? Some types of seafood contain little mercury. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend 8 to 12 ounces — two average meals — of seafood a week for pregnant women. Consider:
However, limit albacore tuna and tuna steak to no more than 6 ounces (170 grams) a week. Also, be aware that while canned light tuna on average appears safe, some testing has shown that mercury levels can vary from can to can.
In addition, keep in mind that not all researchers agree with these limits, citing a study that noted no negative effects for women who ate more seafood than the FDA-approved guidelines.
Avoid raw, undercooked or contaminated seafood
To avoid harmful bacteria or viruses in seafood:
- Avoid raw fish and shellfish. Examples include sushi, sashimi, and raw oysters, scallops or clams.
- Avoid refrigerated, uncooked seafood. Examples include seafood labeled nova style, lox, kippered, smoked or jerky. It's OK to eat smoked seafood if it's an ingredient in a casserole or other cooked dish. Canned and shelf-stable versions also are safe.
- Understand local fish advisories. If you eat fish from local waters, pay attention to local fish advisories — especially if water pollution is a concern. If advice isn't available, limit the amount of fish from local waters you eat to 6 ounces (170 grams) a week and don't eat other fish that week.
- Cook seafood properly. Cook fish to an internal temperature of 145 F (63 C). Fish is done when it separates into flakes and appears opaque throughout. Cook shrimp, lobster and scallops until they're milky white. Cook clams, mussels and oysters until their shells open. Discard any that don't open.
Avoid undercooked meat, poultry and eggs
During pregnancy, you're at increased risk of bacterial food poisoning. Your reaction might be more severe than if you weren't pregnant. Rarely, food poisoning affects the baby, too.
To prevent foodborne illness:
- Fully cook all meats and poultry before eating. Use a meat thermometer to make sure.
- Cook hot dogs and luncheon meats until they're steaming hot — or avoid them completely. They can be sources of a rare but potentially serious foodborne illness known as listeriosis.
- Avoid refrigerated pates and meat spreads. Canned and shelf-stable versions, however, are OK.
- Cook eggs until the egg yolks and whites are firm. Raw eggs can be contaminated with harmful bacteria. Avoid foods made with raw or partially cooked eggs, such as eggnog, raw batter, and freshly made or homemade hollandaise sauce and Caesar salad dressing.
Avoid unpasteurized foods
Many low-fat dairy products — such as skim milk, mozzarella cheese and cottage cheese — can be a healthy part of your diet. Anything containing unpasteurized milk, however, is a no-no. These products could lead to foodborne illness. Avoid soft cheeses, such as Brie, feta and blue cheese, unless they are clearly labeled as being pasteurized or made with pasteurized milk. Also, avoid drinking unpasteurized juice.
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See more In-depth
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- What you need to know about mercury in fish and shellfish. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish/advice/. Accessed Oct. 28, 2013.
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- Listeria (listeriosis): Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/listeria/prevention.html. Accessed Oct. 28, 2013.
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- Routine prenatal care. Bloomington, Minn.: Institute of Clinical Systems Improvement. https://www.icsi.org/guidelines__more/catalog_guidelines_and_more/catalog_guidelines/catalog_womens_health_guidelines/prenatal/. Accessed Oct. 24, 2013.
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Victoria is Australia’s largest agricultural producer, but despite our reputation as the nation’s food bowl, our AgTech sector remains small and underdeveloped.
Research commissioned by LaunchVic estimates less than 40 AgTech startups in Victoria, with 80% of these based in Melbourne.
To help more Ag entrepreneurs to start up, we’re partnering with Agriculture Victoria on a $2.2 million initiative designed to boost the number of Victorian AgTech startups and build entrepreneurial culture and capability in this crucial sector.
We funded three world-class programs Farmers2Founders, Rocket Seeder and SproutX to run pre-accelerator programs, set to equip close to 500 aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills to turn an idea into a business.
Rocket Seeder is delivering a 12-week AgTech Seeds Pre-Accelerator Program. The program supports startup creation by bringing together “hybrid” teams of aspiring AgTech entrepreneurs and researchers creating AgTech-applicable IP and know-how at Victorian universities and Publicly Funded Research Organisations.
What is AgTech?
AgTech uses digital technology to provide the agricultural industry with the tools, data and knowledge to make more informed and timely on-farm decisions and improve productivity and sustainability. Areas of application may include plant or animal science, crop protection & Input management, precision agriculture, indoor agriculture, sensors & smart farm equipment, imagery, animal technologies, processing & packaging, supply chain and hardware.
<40 startups active in Victoria
80% of startups based in Melbourne
Home to more than 15 agricultural innovation and research centres
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Year of the Rooster
Happy Chinese New Year 2005! Jungle fowl are believed to be the living ancestor of the modern chicken, but really, they're nothing but really flashy-looking roasters. But how could something so unintelligent and tasty ever be called a "jungle fowl"? Doesn't that conjure up sick images of a bird that could actually defend itself, all the while piercing its comb and donning war-paint to look intimidating? This one came early in an attempt to catch the fabled worm, and judging from its Really Big Fork (TM) and the hungry look in its eye, that worm better book it! (Prismacolor pencils, Prismacolor marker, and watercolors on watercolor paper.)
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What an awesome day we had yesterday with Suzanne Lacy and her Silver Action art performance piece at the Tate Modern Tank space, where 400 women of 60 plus came together to have a huge conversation about their lives as feminists and activists.
Jane and I sat in and recorded inspiring conversations that covered everything from leaving abusive relationships in the 60s when there was little support to the frustration felt over today’s young girls who feel they have nothing they need to fight for!
It was a privilege to listen and our role was to tweet out the conversation to a bigger audience in (we think) the first artwork that has integrated real time social media comment into its content, Suzanne will be curating everything the 20 bloggers and tweeters said in a future piece that will embrace everything that happened on the day, a little like the Crystal Quilt project (as we understand it). So TWR is officially a work of art…just call us multi-taskers….
Anyway, thanks for all your replies to our tweets, for those that weren’t able to follow the event, here’s a snapshot of some of the conversations we listened to….
On being activists
”Of course I’m still an activist in my 60s! I keep promising my family I’ll spend more time with them but I never seem to’
‘It’s so frustrating to talk to young women who think they are living in a equal world’
‘How do we make activism part of our everyday lives, when structural inequalities still exist in so many institutions?”
‘I’m still in the Communist party, really to make sure it understands that feminism is important, it used to be seen as a deviation from the main story but it is slowly being appreciated as an important factor’
‘Housing issues for older women are worth fighting for today as women are living longer and no one want to go into a home.’
‘How many women out there need help but are too proud to ask?’
‘Women want community based housing that lets them remain independent. My elderly mother was outraged that a doctor had to sign her off as ‘fit and capeable’ to live on her own in sheltered housing as she resented the intrusion in her otherwise active life.’
‘The austerity regime is stripping older women out of the work force’.
‘Affirmation for good work is important, it’s not about fame, but doing things in a quiet way, that’s the way to change things’.
On getting older
‘I like not being public property any more, not having blokes comment on my bum or boobs, it’s a big relief ‘.
‘When I returned to The States in my 50s, no one wanted to hire me even though I had 30 years experience.’
‘I live inTottenham and we have rubbish street lighting, when we’re older we can’t walk so fast and we feel intimidated in the dark.’
‘The secret of surviving when older is to have younger friends.’…. Also walk absolutely everywhere and get a dog (or a cat as @thevintageyear and @sarah_males reminded us via tweets)
‘I was made redundant at 50, I decided everything I had done previously was a rehearsal for what I was going to do for the rest of my life.’
‘People think of older people as a close age group, but covers many ages, from 60 to 100’.
‘Freedom Bus Pass a much loved lifesaver for elderly, if you can’t afford anything else you can always go for a bus ride’.
‘The great thing about getting older is deciding you may as well go for it’.
‘At what point do you say, I’m here, I’m ok, I might as well live my life’.
‘The world’s your oyster in your 20’s, but you’re too full of insecurities to appreciate it’.
On outright sexism
My father wouldn’t let me go to university, he said my mother didn’t go so I didn’t need to. I eventually got to go when I was 60′.
‘On my first day in my job leading team of academics in the 70s, I was the head of dept, leading a meeting but I was asked to pour the tea and ‘be mother’ because I was a woman’.
‘Sport is an important arena for feminism still, female tennis star (Gussie Moran) recently had an obituary in leading broadsheet written almost entirely about her knickers’.
‘I was turned into activist working for the BBC in 70s, at my interview to be a makeup girl i was asked if I had boyfriend because it was preferred that my boyfriend should come from within the BBC to encourage a family style commitment to the organisation but also that I should pamper and look after the stars and to be ‘available’. Also we were referred to as ‘powderpuff girls’ – we were only called make up ‘artists’ when we were very senior. We were treated very badly, we weren’t allowed taxis home whereas male dressers were. Eventually l led my girls out on strike for equal rights but I was never hired again.’
On clothing improvements
“Girdles were worn by good girls, if you didn’t wear one you were considered ‘open’ and something of a hussy.”
“When I started teaching women had to wear skirts, trousers were just not allowed. And I taught in the deep south (USA) where it got hot but we still had to wear thick stockings’.
Do read more on Tate Modern’s website for the event, and let us know your thoughts on what we heard.
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Cash to cover emergencies or short-term spending goals should be held in safely in bank accounts or certificates of deposit. But when you are setting aside money for the long run, things get a bit more complicated. You’ll need to protect yourself against inflation. You also can likely afford to take some risk in exchange for a chance at higher returns.
In recent years, inflation has run at a modest to 2% to 3% per year. But even at that rate, it can reduce the buying power of $1 saved today to the equivalent of about 60 cents after 20 years. “The first thing we have to do is beat the inflation rate with whatever investment we make,” says Rick Ferri, founder of advisory Portfolio Solutions. “If we don’t beat the inflation rate we’re actually losing money, not making money.”
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Israel said on Friday it would cut $6 million in funding to the United Nations in 2017 in protest against a UN Security Council resolution that demanded an end to Israeli settlement building on land in the West Bank.
The United States abstained from the December 23 vote, allowing the 15-member Security Council to adopt the resolution with 14 votes in favour. Israel and US President-elect Donald Trump had called for Washington to wield its veto.
Israel's mission to the United Nations said funding would be cut to UN bodies it described as "anti-Israel," including the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights.
"It is unreasonable for Israel to fund bodies that operate against us at the UN," Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement. "The UN must end the absurd reality in which it supports bodies whose sole intent is to spread incitement and anti-Israel propaganda."
Israel disputes that settlements are illegal and says their final status should be determined in any future talks on Palestinian statehood. The last round of US-led peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians collapsed in 2014.
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Oh god dd with asd and keeping secrets. Have I handled this properly?(21 Posts)
Dd is 10 and hf asd. She is very sweet and trusting and kind, I constantly worry about her being taken advantage of by classmates.
Today out of the blue after dinner she started talking about a girl, who had said her mother was dead and her father had left and she was living alone with her little brother! After questioning it turned out that dd was told this by a girl in her year group last term while on a school trip. Dd was told that this girl's mum had died the previous day, she was all alone with her little brother but she didn't want anyone to know so she swore Dd to secrecy. Dd was obviously worried about her but promised she wouldn't tell anyone and suggested that her friend should phone child line.
Since then dd has kept the secret and it clearly worried her to tell us. She was scared of being in trouble with her friend! After I established exactly what her friend had told her and how her friend was still coming to school clean and we'll fed it seemed pretty clear it wasn't as she said. She is being looked after by someone and it seems unlikely she is alone and the sole carer of her brother. I asked dd whether she thought it could really be true and if it was right to keep it a secret if it was true? She was still worried about her friend being angry.
I have explained that Dr should never keep secrets that don't feel right. That a child alone needs help, and if she wanted it to be kept secret maybe that was because it was untrue. Dd now feels stupid but I have made it clear that I think she is very kind and trusting h but that she needs to talk to me if someone asks her to keep a secret like that. That she needs guidance sometimes and secrets are not always safe, sometimes she needs to think about if something might be wrong with a secret.
It is a useful conversation, but I am very concerned about Dd and this girl. Should I speak to the school? Or do anything else??
I have a VERY simple rule. My children are not allowed to keep secrets. If someone tells them a secret or offers a secret they HAVE to say they are not allowed secrets.
That is interesting zzzz I am sure dd would prefer clarity but I was worried about taking her autonomy away. She can be secretive but in a really obvious and showy way that just makes me wonder what she is trying to conceal. And immediately I will question her and find out what it is - or so I thought - this secret she kept for months. I suppose she really is too vulnerable for any ambiguity. I think she understands but then she will say something that reminds me how young she is emotionally. Blimey it is hard.
It's a blanket rule in our house along with emails/texts are not private. I told them up front they can have the facility but that they need to think of it like talking in the sitting room NOT privately.
Harsh but safer and they feel fair.
Once they gain maturity they can drift off into autonomy.
zzzzz could I just ask you what sort of age you allow emails and texts to be private? (Although of course I realise age does not equate neatly to maturity.) I'm find this a tricky one...
Dd is 16 and nt. I wouldn't dream of reading her texts/emails now. My original stance was that they could be private at 16 plus when they paid for their own. In practice probably about 15 (nt). I don't imagine ds will reach privacy.
The knowledge that you are "in public" really deals with the whole thing anyway.
Thanks zzzzz. DS is only 12 and is starting to want to have more privacy. He is VERY argumentative about it!
Offer to remove the facility altogether. Cheeky chop! Honestly sometimes I think it would do no end of good to transport our children back to red phone box days.
I am feeling that today zzzzz. Have been rethinking all dds access to internet based games etc. Today I saw she had unblocked a person I had blocked from her roblox acc she was immediately tearful and apologetic but clearly i cant trust her judgement, and has a complete internet ban today and I will need to keep a very close eye on dd. This is why we have pc in living room. I cant trust her to protect herself online. Ds is the opposite, trusts no one and has no interest in talking to people online other than to strategize when playing.
Would she understand a talk about good secrets (like christmas presents) and bad secrets?
I am thinking that the issue is a combination of poor impulse control and wanting to please people, jason. She does I think understand appropriate and inappropriate online behaviour and secrets intellectually, but when faced with a situation she is not sure of she doesn't always consider all the implications. But she is 10 and emotionally immature so I think I need to take that responsibility for a while longer while her emotional control catches up.
She has been so good about the internet ban, so understanding, that I want to give in and reinstate it all ... I wont though. Not today and it will be heavily monitored.
God YES zzzzz to red phone box days!!! (says she, communicating online on her iPhone......)
Much like Jasons suggestion, but we use the idea of secrets and surprises.
Like ZZZZZ we tell them not to keep secrets at all. However sometimes we will keep information to ourselves for a short time, to surprise someone, such as not telling them what they are getting for their birthday present.
I'm also interested in what age, or more likely what signs we should look for when thinking about more privacy online.
At the moment both kids have emails, which are automatically copied to me and DH. DD does have her phone, but again so far we've made clear that we have access to it at all times, since we pay the bills. Only once when we were concerned about a situation have we needed ask to see her texts.
Ds is 12 and has a phone and email account - it's attached to my contract therefore my rule is he's borrowed my phone and I can read it!
With regards secrets I do as zzzzz said. Tell DS secrets are dangerous and lies get you in more trouble than admitting you've done something wrong.
With gifts etc we use surprises.
It helps though when you have a very black and white child who cannot break rules!
Thank you everyone for responding, it has been really helpful reading other peoples approaches to this issue.
I am proud of dd today as she reported something that worried her that she was told to keep secret!
Last night she told me a boy in y7 (year above her) who also has ASD wanted her to do an initiation for a secret club. This involved lying on her front while blindfolded and allowing him to lie on top and thrust! This made her uncomfortable she refused and left the situation. All correct and she told me about it the same day, so I am proud but also v worried. The boy clearly needs support and intervention. DD needs to feel safe and this all happened in the area where vulnerable children go for their breaks and lunch and I thought it was more closely supervised than this suggests.
I have emailed the school of course but poor dd is v confused about this boy she thought was her friend.
So good that your dd told you. You must be so proud of her.
Ds similar age will not tell me about anything, let alone talk about the school day...
Could you tell her that what he did was completely inappropriate, but he may not understand it was inappropriate and wrong.
She can still be 'friends' but she needs to be super careful of being alone with him and to keep talking to you or teachers. Keeping a polite distance would be good idea. But I understand it's really hard to explain why and how to do this.
God, what a situation. Have the school responded yet? I hope they're on to it pronto.
Hi Wow - yes I emailed the school and got a call back from the SENco this morning. She has taken my report seriously and they have taken safeguarding measures and will ensure dd and the boy are not alone together. It is clear they are taking it seriously - and I have made it clear that I don't want to get the boy into trouble but he needs some help and dd needs protection. She has done the right thing here and I am very proud of her. We will talk about it again tonight to make sure she knows she did the right thing.
I know that dd will have to deal with inappropriate behaviour from boys regardless of any SEN, as she grows up. She needs to have the confidence and a range of appropriate responses to deal with "unwanted advances" but I think the school does need to take on responsibility as well. Hopefully useful lessons will be learned from this incident.
Ah my alternate name has been revealed clumsily I had a logging in problem on my phone then ended registered under a diff name on phone and pc. Just haven't got round to dropping flem yet as I have active threads under both names. I need to sort it though!
Hadn't even noticed the name thing, but now I have I do like both names!
Yes, I agree about school and their role. I know how hard it is when there are 30 in each class with differing needs also. It's frustrating, but our kids will be OK and they need to learn their own way and can only learn with experience and guidance. That's what I keep telling myself.
Glad your school are taking it seriously. Supervision in school is something that worries me greatly as they move up the years.
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October 11, 2011
New Evidence That Chocolate Lowers Stroke Risk
Chocolate lovers may have a new reason to celebrate: A Swedish study suggests that women who have a couple of small chocolate bars every week are 20 percent less likely to suffer debilitating strokes than those who abstain from eating chocolate.
The study, published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looked at more than 33,000 women and found that the more chocolate they ate, the lower their risk of stroke. This finding adds to the strong evidence that links cocoa consumption to heart health, but it doesn´t mean people have a free pass to gorge on chocolate.“Given the observational design of the study, findings of this study cannot prove that it's chocolate that lowers the risk of stroke,” Susanna Larsson, from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, told Reuters Health by email.
While she believes that chocolate does have health benefits, she has also warned that eating too much chocolate could be counterproductive. “Chocolate should be consumed in moderation as it is high in calories, fat and sugar. As dark chocolate contains more cocoa and less sugar than milk chocolate, consumption of dark chocolate would be more beneficial,” she said.
Larsson and colleagues analyzed data from a mammography study that included self-reports of how much chocolate women ate in 1997. The ages of the women ranged from 49 to 83 years. None of the women had any history of stroke, heart disease, cancer or diabetes when the study began.
The women were asked to complete a questionnaire that included questions on more than 350 diet and lifestyle factors.
Researchers reviewed the questionnaires and then grouped the women by frequency of their chocolate consumption, ranging from never to more than three times a day and looked for associations between strokes and the amount of chocolate the women regularly consumed.
During the 10-year study, 1,549 of the more than 33,000 women suffered a stroke. Most -- around 1,200 -- had an ischemic stroke. That means a blood vessel in the brain is blocked, starving an area of the brain of blood and oxygen. Another 224 had hemorrhagic strokes, which means an area of the brain is bleeding into the rest of the brain. The remaining 125 were unspecified.
Among those with the highest weekly chocolate intake, more than 45 grams, there were 2.5 strokes per 1,000 women per year. That figure was 7.8 per 1,000 among women who at the least, less than 8.9 grams a week.
“We observed that women with the highest consumption of chocolate [an average of about 2.3 ounces per week] had a significant 20 percent lower risk [of stroke] than those who never or rarely consumed chocolate,” said Larsson.
Larsson believes the results seen in women would be similar in men. And although US chocolate generally contains less cocoa than chocolate in Europe, there should be a benefit from consumption in that country as well. But suggested that “chocolate should preferably be consumed as dark chocolate, as it contains more of the beneficial flavonoids, as well as less sugar.”
About 90 percent of the chocolate consumed in Sweden in the 1990s was milk chocolate that contained about 30 percent cocoa solids. This is a much higher concentration of cocoa than what is found in most dark chocolate products sold in the United States.
“Cocoa contains flavonoids, which have antioxidant properties and can suppress oxidation of low-density lipoprotein [℠bad´ cholesterol] which can cause cardiovascular disease [including stroke],” explained Larsson.
“There's an upside and a downside to everything. I don't think people should eat all the chocolate they can, but some chocolate in moderation can have some benefit,” Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a cardiologist and medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, told HealthDay reporter Serena Gordon.
Dark chocolate has been found to reduce blood pressure, lower insulin resistance and help keep your blood from forming dangerous clots, Larsson added.
However, it´s important to remember that chocolate has a lot of sugar and fat, and also contains caffeine, Goldberg noted. So, if you are prone to irregular heartbeat or high blood pressure, eating chocolate may affect those conditions as well.
“It's important to keep findings like these in context. These findings don't mean that people need to exchange chocolate for broccoli in their diet,” said Goldberg. “Chocolate does have antioxidants, and antioxidants are beneficial for your health. They can help make your arteries more flexible and they can help you resist the oxidation of cholesterol. But, what if they had tried this study with apple skins or grapes?” she said.
Larsson suggested that Americans stick with dark chocolate, but noted that US chocolate bars need only contain 15 percent cocoa to be called sweet dark chocolate. Dark chocolate typically is lower in sugar than milk chocolate and contains more of the important antioxidants that give cocoa its heart-healthy properties.
One drawback of the study was that it was based on people´s self-reports of what they ate, and self-reports are typically unreliable. Larsson said, like all other research into the health benefits of chocolate, there needs to be further research to confirm the findings seen in her study.
In late August, researchers announced at the European Society of Cardiology 2011 that a meta-analysis of previous studies found people who ate the most chocolate had a 37 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 29 percent lower risk of stroke than those who ate the least chocolate.
Nearly 800,000 people suffer a stroke each year in the US, with about 17 percent of them dying of it and many more left disabled. For those at high risk, doctors recommend blood pressure medicine, quitting smoking, exercising more and eating a healthier diet.
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First antenatal visit : meeting now for the future : a grounded theory study of the meeting between the independent midwife and the pregnant woman : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Midwifery
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New Delhi: Unveiling Operation Safe Homecoming, India on Sunday announced additional arrangements for bringing back thousands of Indians from violence-torn Libya even as 530 have already been flown in from the north African country.
Over 530 Indians were brought to the capital on two Air India flights after they were caught in the turmoil in Libya, where massive anti-government protests have broken out against Muammar Gaddafi.
The first flight, a Boeing 747, carrying 291 Indians, arrived here around Saturday midnight. The second batch of 237 evacuated passengers, who were picked from Libyan capital Tripoli, arrived in an Airbus A330 at 4.10 a.m. Sunday. Libya is home to around 18,000 Indian nationals.
As Indians poured into the airport from flights from Libya, they were greeted by help desks set up by 10 state governments at Terminal 2 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport to assist with food, accommodation, medical check up, transport and further travel arrangements of passengers to their final destinations. All these facilities are being made available free of charge.
Two more Air India flights are to leave for Tripoli on Sunday to evacuate 500 more Indians from Libya where the revolt against Gaddafi has turned violent. Gaddafi has hit back, with government forces reportedly killing over 1,000 people.
Besides the over 500 Indians flown to Delhi from Libya, a Gulf Air flight carrying 67 Indian who entered Egypt by land will touch down in Mumbai on Monday morning. The 67, including 11 children and two infants, crossed over from Tabrouk in Libya to Salloum in Egypt on Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday evening, 88 people had crossed over by road from Libya to Ras Jedir in the neighbouring Tunisia. They were received by officials of Indian embassy, Tunis, who have set up a camp there.
Another 170 people are likely to reach Ras Jedir on Sunday, the ministry said.
The Indian government has also chartered a second passenger ship, La Superba, with a capacity of 1,600. It is berthed in Sicily (Italy) and ready to sail to Libya as soon as port preparations are completed, the ministry said.
The 1,200-seater MV Scotia Prince set sail from Port Said (Egypt) at 10 p.m. on Saturday and is reaching Benghazi on Monday.
Meanwhile, three Indian Navy ships have also sailed to Libya to help in the evacuation of most of 18,000 Indians in the country.
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Our opinion: Three cheers for being the worst
A recently-announced grant from the state confirms what most of us already knew: Western Avenue is one of the worst roads in Vermont.
The persistent pothole problem along that stretch of Route 9 has been the bane of many a driver over the past several months. The town patches up the holes, and then literally the next day they're back again with a vengeance. And they have quite the appetite for tires and rims.
Everybody has been aware of the problem and what needs to be done, but as usual it was a question of where to get the money.
Western Avenue has a shared jurisdiction, between the town and the Vermont Agency of Transportation, from Main Street to Edward Heights. While the road is town-owned, and while the town is responsible for routine maintenance, there is "some special statutory language that requires the AOT to do the resurfacing," said Richard Tetreault, VTrans chief engineer.
The state last resurfaced Western Avenue - designated as a Class 1 highway - in 2004. Such roads are on a 15-year paving cycle, so the earliest such a project would be scheduled for Western Avenue is 2019. We were told back in February that Vermont is short on cash for roads and bridges, and there is no shortage of roads that need attention.
"Competition for funds is heavy every year," said Ken Robie, a VTrans program manager.
That's why it was a pleasant surprise to hear that Brattleboro is going to receive a special grant to help re-pave a portion of Western Avenue. The money was included in the state's annual pavement treatment program and will allow the town to re-pave Western Avenue with an inch-and-a-half overlay from the Interstate 91 exit to Edward Heights, where Western Avenue becomes a state highway.
The town will re-pave the road and get reimbursed from the state for the work, which is estimated to cost between $100,000 and $150,000.
Brattleboro is one of only two municipalities in Vermont that will be able to use the state money on a town-owned roadway. St. Albans received a similar grant. All of the other grants are going to be used on state-owned highways. Other roads in Windham County that will receive the emergency paving include portions of Route 100 in Whitingham, Wilmington, Jamaica, Readsboro and Londonderry, Route 5 in Rockingham and Route 11 in Londonderry.
VTrans Assistant Director of Program Development Kevin Marshia said state officials and regional commissions looked at the roughest roads in the state and distributed the funding to the hardest hit communities.
"It was a long, hard winter and it took a toll on our roads. We heard a lot about that section and got a lot of calls about how bad it was down there," Marshia said of Western Avenue.
Rep. Mollie Burke, P/D - Brattleboro, is a member of the House Transportation Committee and she said it was extremely rare for a municipality to get state help for one of its crumbling roads. It helped that Route 9 and Western Avenue is an important east-west throughway. And the fact that Route 9 was not going to receive a major resurfacing for a few years added to the urgency of the situation.
"Basically Route 9 is one of the worst roads in the state right now. The Transportation Committee saw that and VTrans saw that," Burke said. "VTrans really listened and they came up with a solution. They realized how bad it was."
Brattleboro Interim Town Manager Patrick Moreland said the winter was tough on the road budget and the state money comes at a time when the town can use some good financial news.
"A grant like this is critically important for us," Moreland said. "Anyone who has spent time this winter traveling over Western Avenue knows the condition of that road. We are very appreciative of our local legislators for shedding light on this problem and we appreciate the financial support from the state."
Gov. Peter Shumlin announced the road funding last week as part of a statewide re-paving effort following the harsh winter. He said this year's pavement program is the largest in the state's history and will repair a record 145 miles of Vermont State Highways.
The state was able to extend the program this year with the help of an additional $9 million in federal funding that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was able to secure as part of a rebuilding grant for Tropical Storm Irene damage.
It's kind of nice when all of the different levels of government work together toward a common goal.
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The purpose of this article is to pursue briefly the growing knowledge of Syriac and Syriac speaking Christians during the second half of the Sixteenth Century and also in that context to give a sketch of the Oriental types used in Rome in the later part of that century, the production of which was stimulated by increased contact with the Eastern churches. To do this it will be necessary to examine both the nature and extent of Roman contacts with Syriac speaking churches and the specifically Roman impulses which led to an interest in Syriac. It is, moreover, in this period that the approach to Syriac studies that characterised the work of the great seventeenth-century scholars and those who have subsequently followed them was essentially established. In addition this article seeks to draw a clear contrast with Syriac and Oriental studies in Rome during the first half of the Sixteenth Century and to show that the world-view of the later Syriac scholars there (who were increasingly native Syriac speakers) bore little or no relationship to the world of kabbalistic fantasy. A fantasy that had characterised the earlier Catholic scholars who, away from Rome, produced the first editions of the Syriac New Testaments and who also had achieved the typographic splendours of their bibles well before Rome’s own golden age of Oriental typography.
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The average American monitors their health. From tracking vitals through fitness tools and apps to self-examinations and annual check-ups with your health care provider, you take steps to keep your body and mind healthy.
Checking up on your alcohol use habits is no different. Everyone can benefit from taking a few minutes to evaluate their alcohol use.
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Starting a diary
On January 1, 1660, Samuel Pepys awoke in the garret of his family home in Axe Yard in Whitehall and began the first entry of his now famous diary. It was a resolution he kept for nearly 10 years.
This month, Phil Gyford, a web designer in Hackney, got up and began publishing Pepys diaries on the internet. Gyford says he wanted to read the diaries but the sight of the nine volumes always put him off. Until, that is, he thought of producing a weblog. Gyford is also responsible for one of the UK's earliest weblogs - Haddock.org -which has run, largely on sarcasm, for the past eight years. Every day, for the next 10 years, Gyford will upload a single entry from Pepys's diary at Pepysdiary.com.
The entire Pepys diary is already available online, but no one has published it in this form before. And it is more than just the text. The diary is riddled with hyperlinks to people and places mentioned in the diaries. Each London street name is even hyper-linked to Streetmap.co.uk, and the public is invited to annotate each entry. The response has been positive. Pepysdiary is a mature website, one that exists on a meagre budget and with no desire of commercial gain. Sharing knowledge for its own sake should always be applauded.
Fashion magazines, particularly British ones, are known for their cutting edge graphics, innovative photography and occasionally for their writing. But fashion on the net is not known for such innovation. Describing itself as a "fashion broadcasting initiative", SHOWstudio.com has been trying to break the mould. In the past two years, the likes of Bjork, Alexander McQueen, Kate Moss and Jake and Dinos Chapman have contributed material to the site, which is the work of the photographer Nick Knight.
Among the styled fashion shoots and live webcasts is the opportunity to get T-shirt designs by a dozen leading designers. What you do is download the images, the most recent by Julie Verhoeven, as PDF files, which you can then print on to iron-on transfer paper to make your T-shirt. Choose from 12 designs.
Although most multimedia has now migrated to the net, it does have a prehistory in old-fashioned print media. Between 1965 and 1971, Aspen magazine arrived in a box filled with articles that had been printed separately, rather than stapled together. One came in an Andy Warhol soapbox, another contained a reel of 8mm film. Aspen included conceptual scores by Philip Glass and Steve Reich, and made one of the first uses of the flexidisc. Regular contributors included Roland Barthes and Marshall McLuhan.
In 1968, there was a British issue featuring a facsimile diary by John Lennon and images by Bridget Riley. Others came with jazz records and small pieces of conceptual art. Although the odd edition turned up on eBay, this early example of multimedia seemed lost to museums, until Andrew Stafford, a San Francisco bookseller, digitally reproduced all 10 volumes and recently uploaded them to the web. All 10 issues are there, the music has been encoded into MP3 format and a number of the art pieces have been made interactive.
What will the world be like in 2020? The question is posed by BBC Online's dedicated new microsite. You are invited to express your predictions, and the best will be chosen for a "democratically edited" book - The Book of the Future - which will be published next June. All proceeds will be donated to Comic Relief.
De Geuzen is made up of Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renee Turner - three women from Maastricht who make art for the internet. Their latest work is an online documentary dealing with experiences of European women in the wartime internment camps of south-east Asia. Told through four images of conceptual dresses, true stories of camp experiences unravel in a multi-layered and complex web of narratives. The site also deals with the European colonisation of the region and admirably attaches itself to many official sites elsewhere.
* Rent as many DVDs as you like for a flat fee of £15 a month, with no late charges:
* See Robert Mapplethorpe's photography:
* Work out when you'll be two million days old.
* Or how old is your body?
* Remove your website from Google.
* Two weeks on Mars is a weblog from the Mars Society's desert HQ.
Six of the best Human cloning
The five year freeze
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Palo Alto The man who had one of the most important ideas for operating computers is dead: Larry Tesler is considered the inventor of the “copy and paste” clipboard. Tesler wrote the corresponding software code in the 1970s at the innovation laboratory Xerox Parc in Palo Alto, California. The function first came into the hands of consumers several years later in Apple computers. During a visit to Xerox Parc, Apple’s founder Steve Jobs recognized the importance of many of the ideas developed there, such as operating the computer using a mouse and graphic interface.
From 1980 to 1997, Tesler worked at Apple, among other things, on the “Newton” – an assistant device with handwriting recognition that was visionary, but flopped because of its weaknesses. He then went to Amazon and Yahoo, among others, before becoming a freelance consultant a good ten years ago. Tesler died on Monday at the age of 74, as Xerox confirmed on Thursday night. | <urn:uuid:edeefcdf-c0c2-40ea-8578-cb7cfebbc79b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.roie.org/inventor-of-the-copy-and-paste-command-died/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.967772 | 201 | 2.75 | 3 |
- Case counts as of March 14, 2020:
- China: 80,824 cases; 3,189 deaths
- Asia & Oceania: 10,893 cases; 123 deaths (South Korea – 72)
- Europe: 44,840 cases; 1,796 deaths (Italy – 1,441)
- Middle East: 13,874 cases; 623 deaths (Iran – 611)
- Africa: 154 cases; 4 deaths
- Latin America and Caribbean: 273 cases; 2 deaths
- North America: 2,875 cases
- United States – 2,657 cases; 50 deaths
- Canada – 218 cases; 1 death
- 22 new cases were reported today in Ontario, bringing the cumulative total to 101 (this includes 5 resolved cases).
- In Ontario, there are 939 persons under investigation with lab results pending.
- The Government of Canada announced that a third person from the Grand Princess cruise ship who is currently in quarantine at CFB Trenton has tested positive for COVID-19.
- An initial COVID-19 Self Assessment Tool has been posted to the Ontario Government site. Individuals who suspect they have COVID-19 can consult this tool to determine whether and how to seek further care. An automated click-through version of the tool is under development.
- The ministry received a number of questions regarding the updated case definition as well as the recent announcements regarding travel:
- The latest case definition shared yesterday clarifies that testing should continue to be conducted for individuals who are symptomatic and have travelled or have had close contact with someone who has travelled or a confirmed case. Asymptomatic individuals should not be tested. The ministry will continue to monitor and consider modifications to the testing criteria.
- A number of travel-related announcements have been made over the past 48 hours. As this continues to be a rapidly-evolving area, the ministry will have further discussions with other jurisdictions and attempt to clarify recommendations as well as other questions (e.g. health care workers).
- The current guidance from the Chief Medical Officer of Health generally requests returning travellers to self-monitor for 14 days. There are exceptions for children as well as for travellers to specific areas of concern (e.g. Hubei) who are being requested to self-isolate.
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Prayer is a conversation, plain and simple.
No fancy words needed. Come as you are, bruised and beaten, and lock eyes with Jesus. All your worries, stresses, fears, and shortcomings don’t hold you back here, in the moment. They only fuel the fire that consumes all that weighs you down.
See, this prayer thing isn’t complicated- we talk & we listen. God talks & He listens. Give and take; back and forth. The more we do this process, over and over, the more we feel the closeness He intended for us. We stop knocking on the door and just walk right in. We kick our feet up on the coffee table and grab a Coke from the fridge without a second thought. We feel homey and close and…like family. THIS is prayer: an intimate, personal, humble conversation with your Creator.
For day one of #theFives, let’s pray to hear God’s voice when He speaks.
“The gatekeeper opens the gate for him [the Shepherd], and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
God is the Shepherd. Christ-followers are the sheep. The Bible says He speaks to his sheep and they hear his voice. That means if you are a believer, you have the ability to hear His voice! Every one of you, without exception. So cool.
When was the last time you confidently heard God’s voice? How did you know it was His voice? What distracts you when listening for His voice? Take a moment to journal your thoughts.
1.) Ask for ears to hear the voice of God. (Isaiah 30:21)
2.) Take time to ask God ONE question you have been wanting answered. Sit in the silence and ask Him to speak to you. Write down whatever you hear, whether you know it is Him or not. (Don’t worry- by the end of these 5 weeks you will know it without question!)
3.) Ask God to reveal the areas of your life you have not listened to Him and have instead listened to the enemy. Repent (confess and turn away from of those areas) and ask how you can correct your course moving forward.
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Broad beans (also known as fava beans) are the only hardy beans. That means that unlike other kinds of beans, they can be sown early. They can even be sown in November and left in the ground to overwinter, more or less successfully. I have found that the overwintered sowings produce a harvest only marginally earlier than beans sown in early spring and about 40% are lost to hungry mice and low temperatures. And so I don’t bother anymore. This year I sowed two kinds of broad beans : the early “Aquadulce” and the pretty crimson “Red Epicure”. I have presown some on the window shield on 10th March and then sowed some more directly on 18th March. The earlier sown beans started cropping a couple of days earlier but the direct sown beans seem healthier. It also seems that the Red Epicure will be far more productive which I did not expect because in many varieties prettiness is at the cost of productiveness.
And so after almost 4 months the beans made it to the kitchen and after a couple of mixed salads I once again turned to Yotam Ottolenghi for a recipe. His way with beans is the opposite of the traditional Dutch approach (boil the hell out of it, no spices). Here the beans are gently simmered in a tomato sauce flavored with 6 different spices and then the dish is finished with the assertive flavor of fresh lovage. The original recipe calls for a mixture of sugar snaps, flat beans and broad beans, but since I only harvested the last, this is what I used. As long as the total weight is about 500 g, you’re fine. And don’t get fixated on the lovage either, if you don’t grow it (it is very easy to grow!), just use cilantro.
Broad beans in tomato sauce with many spices
Adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi: Plenty
3 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tsp tomato purée
½ tsp each ground cumin, turmeric, cardamom and coriander
1 tsp ground ginger
pinch of ground cloves
400 g canned chopped tomatoes (with their juices)
1 tsp caster sugar
500 g shelled broad beans (about 1,75 kg unshelled)
2 tbsp chopped lovage
salt and black pepper
Heat up the oil in a large pan and add the onion. Sauté on a medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring frequently; add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Now add the tomato purée, spices and some salt and pepper and keep on cooking and stirring for another minute.
Next, add the tomatoes, sugar and the beans. Stir to mix. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer gently for 15 – 20 minutes. Taste and add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in the lovage just before serving warm or cooled.
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Compostable Containers Gain Popularity with Restaurants
January 12, 2021
The hospitality industry is a huge contributor of waste, from food waste to the disposable containers used to transport takeout and leftover meals. Eyes have been on restaurant owners to step up to the challenge of social responsibility and find sustainable alternatives. Now, with so many compostable options available, we’re seeing business owners in the industry finally make that shift toward sustainability by opting for compostable takeout containers instead of the traditional styrofoam.
Because there are a lot of biodegradable alternatives available, including biodegradable plastics, there is some misconception about the difference between a compostable container and a biodegradable container. In essence, there is some confusion as to what a compostable product really is.
All compostable items are biodegradable, but not all biodegradable items are compostable. In short, compostable simply means that the product will break down readily in a composting system and that it does not contain any harmful compounds that will reduce the integrity of the compost. Bio-plastics are biodegradable but not compostable because they take a much shorter time to break down in landfills, but they still contain chemicals that are unsafe if they seep back into the ground. Compostable containers can safely be used in soil and, in fact, this is the ideal way to recycle these containers.
A styrofoam container, on the other hand, will take hundreds of years to break down and it contains chemicals that are harmful to the earth and to the ecosystems in which it is left to decompose. Because of this, we believe the use of these containers should be avoided entirely. Each compostable container produced is one less styrofoam container that will poison the environment in a landfill or ocean.
Compostable containers are also made from organic waste products, like biomass, that would otherwise be burned or discarded in landfills and on farmlands, so it’s a win-win. Most compostable products are actually produced from agricultural waste by-products like wheat straw, so by opting for compostable containers, you are not only saving a styrofoam container from being produced and discarded, you are putting discarded organic materials to good use as well.
There are an abundance of options available for compostable containers. If you opt to make the switch to compostable, you aren’t simple limited to clamshell containers. We also have compostable alternatives for bowls and plates, hot and cold food containers, takeout sleeves, boats, and pails, and paper bags. We can even provide you with custom made compostable containers if you have a design that is unique to your establishment. Just let us know how we can help you make the switch.
If you are a restaurant owner, we highly recommend hopping on the trend and exploring the potential for compostable containers in your establishment. We are happy to source containers that meet your price point, quantity, and delivery needs, so please talk to our team about making the switch today. You can get it touch with us by calling 844-7-DELUXE or emailing your logo and packaging requirements to [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:9775ff0e-2716-49ce-9e26-e15ffaea09c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.deluxepromos.com/compostable-containers-gain-popularity-with-restaurants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.935055 | 672 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Data does not have to be stored in the same location as it is used. In an organisation with many different offices, each office will need access to data. Where many locations require access to the same database then a distributed database is used.
This is where each location that requires data has an entire copy of the database in its own location
Central database with local indexes
An index is data structure that works like the index in a book. It contains references to the data that allow it to be looked up and accessed quickly
The database is held in a central location and the indexes, either those specific to a particular office/shop or all of them, are held locally. This allows each individual lovsation to perform processing locally and to use the central database for retrieval of a specific record.
This is where parts of the data are stored at different locations. No single locstiong stores all the data
There are two types of partitioning: vertical and horizontal
This is where the data is partitioned based on the individual fields. You end up with a new table that contains only those fields that are not required.
An office for example, may only be given access to certain fields within the date. For example, pay fields may not be accessible. Normalisation is a type of vertical partitioning
This is where the date is partitioned based pn records. The data is split into different tables and each table contains exactly the same structure. However, each table will contain different rows. This can be used where only certain people/offices need data that is relevant to them.
Use of distributed databases
Speed - How quick is it go run queries and obtain the date that is required
Security - Keeping the data secure, backed up and maintaining the integrity and consistency of the data.
Flexibility - changing the date structure and queries to meet the needs of an organisation
Storage space required and communication links
Speed is high because of local access
Security is down to the individual locations - multiple copies of tgevdats govr access points. Backing up is the responsibility of individuals but there are multiple copies if something goes wrong
Data integrity and consistency are major problem as a change in one database needs to be reflected throughout all of them. There are also more potential points of access for viruses
Every location needs a complete copy of the database - this increases the amount of storage and backup space required. Communication links are required to perform updates to each site. If the link is down, the integrity and consistency of the data suffers
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When a driver is arrested, his or her car is often towed and stored by police under the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment. As part of the impound procedure, police are permitted to conduct an inventory search of the vehicle. The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizure by the government. The “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment allows police to impound an arrestee’s vehicle if it jeopardizes public safety and the efficient movement of vehicular traffic, or if the vehicle would be vulnerable to vandalism or theft. The “community caretaking” exception gives law enforcement wide latitude to impound vehicles. However, in this case, the 9th District Court of Appeals demonstrated that they are willing to put a limit on police discretion and interpretation.
On March 25, 2009, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department were conducting surveillance on a house in Pacoima, California as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation. In the early afternoon, the detectives watched as an unidentified man left the target house carrying a large white box. He got into his truck and drove away, with detectives covertly following him. They watched as the man pulled over, got out of his truck, and handed the white box to another man in a GMC Envoy. The man in the Envoy was later identified as Jesus Cervantes.
The detectives followed Cervantes throughout the afternoon and into the evening. They watched as he visited another house and as he went to a liquor store to make a purchase. Eventually, the detectives asked uniformed police officers to find a reason to pull over Cervantes’ car. Cervantes failed to stop completely behind the limit line at an intersection, and officers pulled him over. When asked for his driver license, Cervantes told the officers he had been arrested previously for driving under the influence and that his license had been taken away. The officers conducted a records check and found no driver license information under Cervantes’ name. Under the belief Cervantes was driving on a suspended driver license, the officers decided to impound his car. In keeping with their standard procedures, they conducted an inventory search of the car. During that search, they found a large white box that contained two kilograms of cocaine. Cervantes was arrested for the cocaine and booked. Once booked, a check of DMV records revealed that Cervantes actually had a valid license.
The defense filed a motion to exclude the cocaine from evidence, alleging the police had improperly searched the vehicle. The prosecution argued the police did have the right to search the car, and they provided two separate justifications for the search. First, they contended the police had sufficient probable cause to search the car under the “automobile exception” to the Fourth Amendment. The “automobile exception” essentially allows police to search a car without a warrant if they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is in the car. Alternatively, the prosecution contended the police properly conducted an inventory search after impounding the vehicle under the “community caretaking” exception. The trial court accepted both of the prosecution’s arguments and denied the defense motion. The defense appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Court of Appeals first held that police did not have sufficient probable cause to justify the search of Cervantes’ vehicle under the “automobile exception”, leaving only the “community caretaking” exception to justify the search. In considering whether the “community caretaking” exception applied to this case, the Court noted that neither of the officers involved in the impound and search of the vehicle offered any testimony that Cervantes’ vehicle was illegally parked, posed a safety hazard, or was vulnerable to vandalism or theft. In fact, when signaled to pull over by the police, Cervantes pulled his car to the curb and parked it legally in a residential neighborhood. The Court found no evidence supporting the application of the “community caretaking” exception in this case. They quoted the United States Supreme Court in Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1 (1990) who held “an inventory search must not be a ruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence.”
Based on their analysis, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the trial court to deny the defense motion. Because the box containing the cocaine was found during a search which they found to be in violation of the Fourth Amendment, it was “fruit of the poisonous tree” and therefore inadmissible as evidence against Cervantes. While the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment still allows for broad interpretation, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has demonstrated that they are willing to put limits on how it is used by police. | <urn:uuid:fde8096c-7ef5-4ac1-bed8-8b7e57c5097a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.attorneylombardo.com/court-excludes-evidence-when-police-misuse-community-caretaking-exception-to-search-a-car/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968967 | 1,002 | 1.804688 | 2 |
During Dvapara Yuga, Adisesha resided on earth as Seshachalam Hills after losing a contest with Vayu. According to Puranas, Tirumala is regarded as Adivaraha Kshetra. After killing Hiranyaksha, Adivaraha resided on this hill. Sri Venkatachala Mahatyam is the widely accepted legend over Tirumala Temple.
During Kali Yuga, Narada advised Rishis who were performing Yajna to decide who could be given the fruits of yagna among Trimurtis. Bhrigu was sent to test Trimurtis. The sage who had an extra eye in the sole of his foot visited Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva and went unnoticed in both these locations. At last he visited Vishnu and the lord acts as if he had not noticed Bhrigu. Getting angered by this act, sage Bhrigu kicked Lord Vishnu in the chest, to which Vishnu did not react and instead apologized to the Sage by massaging his feet. During this act, he squashed the extra eye that was present in the sole of Bhrigu’s foot. However Lakshmi finds it as an insult and had left Vaikuntam onto Earth to Kolhapur and started meditating.
Lord Vishnu bore human form as Srinivasa, left Vaikuntam, in search of Lakshmi, reached Tirumala Hills and started meditating. Lakshmi came to know about the condition of Srinivasa and prayed to Siva and Brahma. Siva and Brahma then converted themselves into Cow and Calf and Goddess Lakshmi had handed over the cow and calf to Chola king ruling over Tirumala Hills at that time. The Cow would provide milk to Srinivasa daily while it was taken for grazing. One day Cowherd saw this and tried to beat the Cow with staff but Lord Srinivasa had borne the injury. Getting angered by this Srinivasa had cursed the Chola king to become a Demon as dharma says Servants sin should be borne by Kings. The king prayed for mercy after which Srinivasa said to him, that the King should take next birth as Akasaraja and should perform marriage of his daughter Padmavati with Srinivasa.
Lord Srinivasa went to his mother Vakula Devi on Tirumala hills and stayed there for a while. After curse Chola king took rebirth as Akasaraja and he had a daughter named Padmavati who was born in the Padmapushkarini situated at present day Tiruchanur in Andhra Pradesh. Lord Srinivasa married Padmavati at present day Narayanavanam in Andhra Pradesh and will return to Tirumala Hills. After few months Goddess Lakshmi had come to know about the marriage of Srinivasa with Padamavati and went to Tirumala hills to question Srinivasa. It is said that the Lord srinivasa turns into Stone right when he was encountered by Lakshmi and Padmavathi. Lord Brahma and Shiva appear before the confused queens and explain the main purpose behind all this – The Lord’s desire to be on the 7 hills for the emancipation of mankind from the perpetual troubles of Kali Yuga. Goddesses Lakshmi and Padmavathi also turn into stone deities expressing their wish to be with their Lord always. Lakshmi stays with Him on His Chest on the left side while Padmavathi rests on His Chest’s right side. | <urn:uuid:fcd95fec-363d-48e5-9089-87867c38e5f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jjmoderndesigns.in/product/glory-of-tirupathi-7-hills-set-p-m/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.981001 | 749 | 2.671875 | 3 |
(Mike Miner/Tribune Illustration)
When the warm weather comes, most people think of walks in the park and the pleasures of spring. I think of multiple shootings in the parks and the dangers my students will face navigating their neighborhoods.
This year has been a particularly brutal one for the small children in my after-school program. Those few weeks of unseasonably warm weather in March brought shootings in the park across the street from one of my schools. Sadly, the return of cool weather and some police presence didn't end the gunfire. Last week we were on "lockdown" yet again in response to shots being fired near the school.
The first couple of times it was just a few shots. Then one day it was a series. One of my kindergartners was near a window and called out that he saw someone with a gun. He and his classmates dissolved in fear as the teachers pulled them away from the windows. The adults closed the classroom door in response to the school's public address warnings and gathered the children around them. They spent a lot of time calming the children down and listening to their fears.
That day we were teaching "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Cooney, a lovely book about families and travel and a woman who follows her grandfather's directive to "do something to make the world more beautiful." We ask our students to draw pictures and write about the ways they would make the world a better, more beautiful place. It was the ideal lesson for the day and we had a robust discussion about how they could change their worlds for the better.
But for these kids, dangerous challenges lurk just outside the school entrance.
It is not easy for them. At one school, Emmett Louis Till Math & Science Academy at 67th Street and Champlain Avenue, we have to hire a bus to take our students 51/2 blocks to visit the local library. It isn't safe to walk there.
On March 22, I escorted a group of children from Till's Cool Classics! program to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago to enjoy the Egyptian galleries.
Blocks away, Cool Classics! students at the William C. Reavis Math & Science Specialty Elementary School, on 50th and Drexel, heard gunfire right outside their window. At the end of the day, despite our best efforts, we couldn't stop the children from picking up the shells from the shots that were fired in the street in front of their school.
Nor could we object the day a principal decided to cancel after-school programs following a shooting in which a woman was injured. We spent the rest of the day calling parents to collect their terrified children, and that week reaching out to Chicago police and politicians for protection for our students and to University of Chicago officials for protection for our student-teachers who come from neighboring communities.
We feel pity for small children in war-ravaged countries. But we need not travel that far. The truth is that my students are living in an urban battlefield and the tragedy is that these children become targets even though they're not the enemy.
We've heard the theories, seen the finger-pointing and found the stereotypes wanting. Most of the parents of our students are caring, able and engaged, and the administrators and teachers with whom we work are the same. So what is lacking?
Many of my colleagues, family members and friends have made suggestions ranging from filling our parks with enough people to crowd out the criminals to more community policing. It seems to me that any real change must come from a collective effort to knit together everyone in all our communities and to employ an arsenal of social services to attack and resolve these problems.
Spring used to be my favorite season, full of the promise of new life and summer pleasures. Not anymore. Now it is the season of fear and death.
I beg you to join me, my students and their parents, teachers and principals to make our world a more beautiful and better place.
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To add cosmetic treatments and exercise training four times a week - If cellulite causes complaints (pain on palpation and / or edema, for example), this means that go beyond mere cosmetic issue and should be treated more actively so look a dermatologist - The legs should be higher than the trunk when applying anti cellulite
Text: Nazareth Torch collaboration with the Clinic White team, consisting of Catharina de Castro Lopes (psychologist), Tiara Rodriguez (nutritionist), Eleanor Giraud (dermatologist) and Pedro Baptist (personal trainer)
Learn what steps to achieve better results
Cellulite is much more than a simple problem of accumulation of fat.
«View microscopic form, cellulite involves specific changes in the architecture of the subcutaneous adipose tissue, such as changes of microcirculation, lymphatic alterations and fibrosis," explains Neil Ruder man, a professor of medicine and consultant Lancôme.
When adiposities (cells that store energy as fat) swell
Compressing the fibrous membranes that surround them, causing an inflammatory response that degrades the surrounding system and leads to shrinkage of the skin, giving it an aspect type orange peel on the surface
It is not therefore surprising that it is so difficult to eliminate. Difficult but not impossible
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January 13th, 2002, 11:36 PM
DSL failover on a Cisco 2621
In my humble opinion, this is security related since it involves a router. The config on said Cisco 2621 has two routes, for two different ISP's which are accessed by two different xDSL routers.
Take this scenario... the core router at ISP#1 fails, which is three hops away from the xDSL router, as defined in the Cisco 2621 config. It doesn't know to 'failover' to ISP#2 unless one and physically goes and pulls the serial connection out of the router which connects it to the xDSL modem for ISP#1.
There has to be a way to create redundancy without using dodgy methods. Any ideas?
January 14th, 2002, 12:04 AM
What routing protocol are you using? I'm fairly certain that you can do what you are asking, but it requires the use of certain routing protocols (I believe EIGRP and OSPF)...
\"It\'s only arrogrance if you can\'t back it up, otherwise it is confidence.\" - Me
January 14th, 2002, 02:19 PM
I'm going to hazard a guess and ask "What about failover based on timeout?". We do that method as well to physical heartbeat failing between oracle database servers on HP running ServiceGuard. We add in a timeout so that even if the network card with the heartbeat is active, if it times out for whatever reason (not sure on the time), it'll failover to the second machine and pass the package.
We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do just about anything with almost nothing.
January 17th, 2002, 02:06 PM
If you create a floating static route which has a higher cost than
the routing protocol, it will kick in when the eigrp/igrp/etc cost
January 17th, 2002, 11:54 PM
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It turned out that both the space and the floor challenges were intertwined… and that the solution would create additional challenges.
Using stands, rear projection and a complex CAD-modeling.
To ensure a vibration-free projection the technical equipment would need to be placed on stands resting on the concrete floor beneath the raised floor; a 60cm space full of wires, cables and pipes.
To create a 3.6m wide projection area through rear projection and mirror reflection, a 3.6m wide glass screen would have to be mounted in the room’s wall and a 4K projector and a 2m * 1,2m large mirror would have to be installed behind the glass screen. As such an installation demands extra precision to avoid problematic second projections, the mirror’s and the projector’s exact positions have to be meticulously calculated.
NANCO was now facing the challenge of placing a 4K projector and a large mirror at only one and precise position on stands through a raised floor compact with cables and cooling elements. In order to succeed with this task, NANCO created an advanced CAD-model based on the premises and the planned setup.
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Switzerland, France and Austria, home to some of the most coveted ski slopes in Europe, have experienced unseasonably warm temperatures that have prevented the skiing season from getting into full swing.
Verbier, one of the world's top ski resorts located in the Swiss canton of Valais, has only opened about half of its pistes and is still relying heavily on snow cannon.
Many ski resorts in Switzerland are offering discounts on slope prices as a result.
However the situation was better at high-altitude resorts like Davos, Zermatt or Saint Moritz.
"Of course it is worrying, if temperatures could drop by five degrees (Celsius) that would be great," said Michel Giraudy, the president of French Mountains.
The association which promotes mountain tourism counts only 40 of some 200 skiing resorts open across France.
"Snow cover remains feeble, autumn has been mild. Overall the start to the season has been rather late," said meteorologist Cecile Coleou.
The southern Alps have been slightly luckier than the north, and Italy has reported relatively good levels of snow at the start of the season.
But for the rest of the countries spanning the mountain range, ski resorts fear they may be left out in the cold over the festive period.
Many resorts in Austria have been unable to open due to too little or not enough snow, and temperatures are too mild to use snow-making machines, which still require an adequate level of natural snowfall.
Stefan Strolz, mayor of the of the Alpine village of Warth in Vorarlberg, said that one more week's delay in the start to the season was "bearable" but that any longer would cause "serious economic pain".
Cold economy, warm temperatures
While snow is not a problem for Italy, which has escaped the mild winter temperatures seen in other skiing hotspots, it is the recession which is more likely to keep families away over Christmas and the crucial New Year holiday period.
Meantime, in the western state of Tyrol, Austria's biggest skiing region, only around 30 out of 80 ski resorts were open, and those that were had only a few ski lifts in operation.
Florian Neuner, spokesman for the Tyrol tourist board, remained positive about the season as forecasters predict colder weather next week.
"In some cases the number of reservations for the Christmas and New Year period is actually better than last year," he said. "Hoteliers are mostly still relatively relaxed and are not worried."
Despite the dearth of snow in France hopes remained high for a white Christmas.
Stations in the French Pyrenees "should all be able to open this week, at least at 50 percent capacity" said an upbeat Laurent Reynaud, director of France's professional ski operators association.
"Sure we are running a bit late but we hope it will snow for Christmas," he told AFP.
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The study conducted in the laboratory of Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, shows that therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of ALS in rats. The study will be published July 27 in advance of publication in the August issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation.
With colleagues Timothy Miller, M.D., Ph.D., UCSD Department of Neurosciences, and Richard A. Smith, M.D., of the Center for Neurologic Study, Cleveland found that when effective doses of the antisense therapy were delivered, far less of a protein that causes a hereditable form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was produced.
ALS is a progressive disease that attacks motor neurons that reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. Estimated to affect some 30,000 Americans, most people are diagnosed with ALS between the ages of 40 and 70. Typically, ALS patients live only three to five years after initial diagnosis.
Neurotoxicity from an accumulation of mutant proteins is believed to be at the root of many neurodegenerative diseases. ALS can be caused by a mutation in a protein called SOD1, and the antisense drug effectively silences the gene that codes for this mutant protein – found in the cells of patients with inherited forms of ALS.
In this disease, selective killing of spinal cord "motor neurons" occurs. Motor neurons are long and complex nerve cells that control voluntary movement. Degeneration of motor neurons in ALS leads to progressive loss of muscle control, paralysis and untimely death.
Healthy "neighbor" or supporting non-neuronal cells also have a protective effect on damaged mutant motor neurons, slowing the progression of ALS even when the nerve cells carry the mutant gene. The researchers speculate that the non-neuronal cells play a vital role in nourishing the motor neurons and in scavenging toxins from the cellular environment.
The onset and progression of disease in inherited ALS is determined by the motor neurons and microglia, small immune cells in the spinal cord, which migrate through nerve tissue and remove damaged cells and debris. Damage to motor neurons determines timing of disease onset. Microglia – the neighborhood, or "helper" cells – are then activated to help nourish the motor neurons and clean out debris like a vacuum cleaner. But because these neighboring cells are also damaged, they hurt instead of help, thus speeding disease progression.
When the UCSD researchers isolated and shut off mutant SOD1genes in the motor neuron cells only, the disease onset slowed, but the course of the disease eventually caught up to the control rodents. When mutant genes in only the microglia were silenced, the scientists found almost no effect on disease onset, however the disease progression was significantly slowed.
This discovery – authored by UCSD investigators Severine Boillee, Koji Yamanaka, Cleveland and others and published in the June 2 issue of the journal Science – confirms the importance of the new therapeutic approach, which delivers an antisense drug directly to the whole nervous system, including non-neuronal cells.
"Limiting mutant damage to microglia robustly slowed the disease's course, even when all motor neurons were expressing high levels of a SOD1 mutant," said Cleveland. "Our research suggests that what starts ALS and what keeps it going are two separate phases; it also suggests that with the right therapy, ALS could become a manageable, chronic disease."
Within a year, Cleveland hopes the first clinical trial will be initiated in humans. In order to deliver the antisense drug directly to the nervous system, surgeons will insert a small pump into a patient using a fairly routine surgery that has already been approved for management of pain. A small catheter is then implanted into the area surrounding the spinal cord, in order to pump antisense oligonucleotide drugs directly into the nervous system.
The investigators noted that if the antisense approach works for ALS – by delivering therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the highly impermeable blood-brain barrier – it would likely also work in other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
"We know we're on target with the pathogenic mechanism," said Cleveland. The remaining question is whether the genetic-based therapy will be tolerated. "If tolerated, this sets the stage for broader treatment of neurodegenerative disease, especially Huntington's disease, where there is currently no treatment, but key genes involved in promoting disease are known."
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Researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, have synthesized a new superconducting material by growing a few layers of an antiferromagnetic transition-metal chalcogenide on a bismuth-based topological insulator, both being non-superconducting materials.
While superconductivity and magnetism are generally believed to be mutually exclusive, surprisingly, in this new material, superconducting correlations...
Laser-driving of semimetals allows creating novel quasiparticle states within condensed matter systems and switching between different states on ultrafast time scales
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Among the general public, solar thermal energy is currently associated with dark blue, rectangular collectors on building roofs. Technologies are needed for aesthetically high quality architecture which offer the architect more room for manoeuvre when it comes to low- and plus-energy buildings. With the “ArKol” project, researchers at Fraunhofer ISE together with partners are currently developing two façade collectors for solar thermal energy generation, which permit a high degree of design flexibility: a strip collector for opaque façade sections and a solar thermal blind for transparent sections. The current state of the two developments will be presented at the BAU 2017 trade fair.
As part of the “ArKol – development of architecturally highly integrated façade collectors with heat pipes” project, Fraunhofer ISE together with its partners...
At TU Wien, an alternative for resource intensive formwork for the construction of concrete domes was developed. It is now used in a test dome for the Austrian Federal Railways Infrastructure (ÖBB Infrastruktur).
Concrete shells are efficient structures, but not very resource efficient. The formwork for the construction of concrete domes alone requires a high amount of...
Many pathogens use certain sugar compounds from their host to help conceal themselves against the immune system. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now, in cooperation with researchers at the University of York in the United Kingdom, analyzed the dynamics of a bacterial molecule that is involved in this process. They demonstrate that the protein grabs onto the sugar molecule with a Pac Man-like chewing motion and holds it until it can be used. Their results could help design therapeutics that could make the protein poorer at grabbing and holding and hence compromise the pathogen in the host. The study has now been published in “Biophysical Journal”.
The cells of the mouth, nose and intestinal mucosa produce large quantities of a chemical called sialic acid. Many bacteria possess a special transport system...
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Batf3 deficiency reveals a crucial part for CD8alpha+ dendritic cells in cytotoxic T cell immunity. without having to be contaminated is considered to enable the sponsor to induce killer T cells even though infections evade or get rid of contaminated DC. However, immediate experimental proof because of this idea has continued to be elusive. The task described with this research characterizes the part that different DC perform in the induction of virus-specific killer T cell reactions and, critically, presents a book mouse model which allows for the selective eradication of contaminated Val-cit-PAB-OH DC priming of HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cell immunity was intact. With tight requirements for the current presence of cross-presenting XCR1+ DC Collectively, this research argues that immediate disease of DC is not needed for induction of effective virus-specific Compact disc8+ T cell immunity during epidermal HSV-1 disease. Outcomes priming of HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cells can be impaired in the lack of Irf8. Pores and skin disease of mice with HSV-1 leads to the stimulation of the Compact disc8+ T cell response that’s directed mainly against an MHC course I H2-Kb-restricted, immunodominant epitope from HSV Val-cit-PAB-OH glycoprotein B (gB498C505). These virus-specific effector Compact disc8+ T cells donate to the clearance of HSV from your skin and the anxious program (11, 12). Furthermore, when present as tissue-resident memory space cells at sites of pathogen inoculation (13) or pathogen reemergence (14), HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cells can prevent HSV-1 infection also. We began dealing with whether cross-presentation drives the priming of the protective HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cell reactions by examining if the DC subsets recognized to possess excellent cross-presenting capacities, specifically, Compact disc8+ DC and Compact disc103+ DC, had been necessary for the priming of HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cells. Because of this, we used = 5 per test) and so are indicated as mean + regular error from the mean (SEM). (E) Consultant plots of splenic pDC in BDCA2-DTR mice treated with or without DTX and absolute amount of gB498C505-particular Compact disc8+ T cells in the spleens of BDCA2-DTR mice treated with or without DTX which were contaminated with HSV-1 on flank pores and skin 7 days previously. Asterisks reveal statistically significant variations versus settings as assessed from the College student VPS15 check (***, < 0.0001). Within the next stage, we contaminated requirements for Compact disc8+ DC and Compact disc103+ DC in virus-specific Compact disc8+ Val-cit-PAB-OH T cell priming after HSV pores and skin disease (8). However, in keeping with a recent record (22), we noticed that skin-draining LN of from yolk sac-derived precursors and for that reason replenish with completely different kinetics after DTX treatment (24). This turns into obvious on day time 21 after DTX treatment, when Compact disc8+ DC and Compact disc103+ DC had been reconstituted but LC continued to be absent (Fig. 2A and ?andB).B). This differential repletion kinetics allowed us to examine the comparative contribution of LC to HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cell reactions. The observation that Langerin-DTR mice treated 21 times previously with DTX got amounts of HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cells just like those of Langerin-DTR mice provided phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (Fig. 2D) additional supports the final outcome that priming of HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cells subsequent HSV skin disease depended on the current presence of Compact disc8+ DC and Compact disc103+ DC but didn't require LC or pDC. Open up in another home window FIG 2 Langerin-positive DC, however, not LC, are necessary for HSV-specific Compact disc8+ T cell priming. (A) Schematic depicting the DTX treatment routine for the evaluation of DC depletion. Mice had been treated with DTX on times ?4 and ?2. DC in the brachial LN and the skin were examined 2 times or 21 times following the last DTX treatment. (B) Consultant plots of MHC-IIhi Compact disc11chi cells enriched through the brachial LN on day time 2 or day time. | <urn:uuid:1492813e-d646-4146-8e84-aacddf9aa1ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cytochrome-p450.info/%EF%BB%BFbatf3-deficiency-reveals-a-crucial-part-for-cd8alpha-dendritic-cells-in-cytotoxic-t-cell-immunity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.919539 | 991 | 1.992188 | 2 |
An examination of the new benefit sanctions which came into force in the UK yesterday, 21 October, and the effect they will have on the most vulnerable in society. Reproducing this article is not an endorsement of all of the views of the author.
From yesterday new sanctions on benefits are being rolled out by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), whereby people who don’t comply with the terms of their receipt of benefits can have their benefits docked for up to three years. The reasons for such sanctions being handed out include not applying for the jobs suggested by JobCentre staff, turning down offers of work - even if work is entirely inappropriate, refusing to do unpaid work - regardless of the conditions of that work, and missing appointments. It’s worth remembering that the JobCentre have targets to move people off benefits, and in the current situation in which there really aren’t enough jobs, that people are being moved off benefits by sanction and not by getting employed. It is also worth remembering that more people applying for jobs does not make more jobs appear.
Anyhow, I was mainly interested in trying to discover how benefits sanctions actually affect people - given that benefits are set at pretty much the minimum level to keep you alive, the prospect of living for three years without that, I imagine, would likely result in a) destitution, and b) death. I’m really interested in whether the government has impact-assessed or risk-assessed this change of policy. Unsurprisingly there is little in the way of research on people undergoing benefits sanctions, but having gone through the docs on the DWP site, I found a couple of useful reports. I’m just going to paste a couple of block quotes here in order that you can get a flavour of what these sanctions actually mean. The first is from a report on the effects of benefit sanctions on offenders from 2003 (http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2003-2004/rrep198.pdf)
“One group appeared to have experienced little financial hardship. For these offenders, the sanction meant they had not had the money for things like buying clothes for themselves or toys for their children, renting videos, and going out. They reported having to buy cheaper food and cutting back on discretionary spending during the sanction period. ‘I just went without cigarettes, went without like going out for drinks and just cut back really.’ (Male, 23, CPRO, Sanctioned, IS 40%)
Others experienced more severe financial impacts, with problems paying for food, heating and electricity. These impacts were described by people experiencing an Income Support reduction as well as the 100% Jobseeker’s Allowance sanction. They described buying less or cheaper food or missing meals, and occasionally reported going without food for periods of time. Offenders reported that they had also cut back on or gone without heating or lighting for periods. ‘Without that money they were taking off me, I couldn’t run my fire, I was going without gas and electric.’ (Female, 19, CRO, Sanctioned, IS 40%)
There were also reports of living circumstances becoming more unstable because of the sanction. Offenders who lived with their parents said they had been threatened with being thrown out, or told to leave, because they were unable to contribute to their board during the sanction. Offenders living in rented accommodation also described being unable to pay rent due, above Housing Benefit. There were reports of being threatened with eviction (none had actually been evicted), and falling into arrears.
Offenders had also been unable to pay outstanding fines from previous offences, or fines imposed for the breach for which they had been sanctioned, and some received a summons to court or were threatened with repossession. There were other outstanding loans on which people had not been able to make repayments, such as Crisis Loans, informal loans from family or friends, and a debt owed to drug dealers.
A consequence for many offenders was an accumulation of debt which added to financial difficulties after the end of the sanction period”
A second report, from 2008, on the effects of benefit sanctions on the behaviour of lone parents, http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2007-2008/rrep511.pdf, (a study that sounds like it was cooked up by Dr Milgram) offers the following in its summary:
“The findings in this study, based on the data gathered from both the lone parents and the Jobcentre Plus staff, suggest that imposing a sanction had only a negligible effect on customers’ labour market decisions. The questions posed in pursuit of the research aims drew very little data that could illustrate that sanctions promote job-seeking behaviour, although a very small number of customers said that the risk of, or the implementation of, a sanction ‘may’ have made a difference”
“The financial coping strategies of the lone parents who found their benefit payments reduced usually involved reducing spending. The spending that was reported to be affected often related to the purchase of basic provisions, such as food, phone, electricity, gas, nappies, taking their child to playgroup, paying other bills, Christmas club payment.”
Further, this study showed that “These lone parents, in comparison to the wider sample in this study, demonstrated higher levels of ill health, both of themselves and of their children.”
The increase in benefits sanctions has been designed by the government to save an extra £10bn. What is clear from these reports is that this money will be saved at the expense of the lives of those who are poorest and most in need. These sanctions will not create jobs, nor will they help people get jobs, but they will prevent both adults and children from having access to the very basic necessities: food, warmth, and shelter. | <urn:uuid:147b1f5c-f4b0-483f-b3d1-5d95f682001b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://libcom.org/news/effect-benefit-sanctions-22102012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00314-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982749 | 1,222 | 1.992188 | 2 |
I think Trinoc is seeing nose hairs. They certainly look similar.
No, I've heard this stated at least as far back as my biology teacher at school. You know what it feels like to have a single hair, or even a bit of dust, stuck between the eyeball and the socket ... imagine what it would be like if every eyelash you'd ever lost in that way was still in there.
Hair is one of the most durable parts of the body. After teeth and bones it is the part most likely to be preserved when bodies are dug up after hundreds of years. If you eat anything with hair on it, the hair is not digested in the acid and enzymes of the stomach ... look at the way cats vomit up furballs rather than digesting them. You can just about get hair to dissolve if you boil it in caustic soda. The much more benign tear fluid around the eye would have no effect on hair material (keratin) at all.
Eyelashes are eliminated from the body, and unless they find their way out from the eye itself this is via the tear duct at the nose end of the eyelids and into the cavity behind the nose. From there it can either exit out of the nose, into the mouth or down to the stomach and excreted with other indigestible fibre. | <urn:uuid:7c397ff2-c023-44cc-bc51-369400418985> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://sguforums.com/index.php/topic,25352.0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00159-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977553 | 275 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The mission of Green Street Church is reconciliation, transformation, and discipleship.
Seeking restoration to self, neighbor, and God.
Participating in the Holy Spirit's work of calling us to true holiness.
Pursuing an authentic and community oriented faith.
Green Street has been working with the homeless community for nearly fifteen years. If you are interested in a more detailed history of our church, visit our Sanctuary page.
Green Street Church of Christ has been gathering since the late 19th century. Some of the early leaders of the church included David Lipscomb and James Harding.
The history of Green Street Church of Christ starts in the latter part of the 19th century. The history of the congregation does not begin at 146 Green Street (its present location), but from an early effort out of the College Street Church of Christ which started services November 13, 1887 and now known as Lindsley Avenue church. David Lipscomb who was one of the elders of College Street church was to write of this church that growth of new churches had begun at Green Street, Carroll Street, Flat Rock and Waverly Place.
By May 29, 1889 The Gospel Advocate noted that a group of people from College Street church had purchased land on Green Street for the purpose of establishing a new church. This was with the encouragement of elders and members of the College Street assembly. By 1892 a frame building was completed on Green Street at the location of the present masonry building which was completed in 1930 after a fire destroyed the original frame meeting house.
It is impressive to note that James A. Harding, one of the co-founders of the Nashville Bible School (now David Lipscomb University) also founder of the Potter School and Home in Bowling Green Kentucky and the one honored in the name of Harding University, Searcy , Arkansas; was one of the original elders of this church. J. H. Mead who started Mead’s Chapel was also an elder at Green Street church.
Over the years many tent meetings and revivals for South Nashville have been held at its current location. The original neighborhood was “working class” and even now this characterizes the nature of the people who attend and are members of the church. Color barriers of the 19th and 20th century have long since come down and the present congregation represents a wonderful composite of races and backgrounds in South Nashville and beyond.
Green Street church has been involved in the creation of the Youth Hobby Shop now known as Y. E. S. which reaches out to young people in South Nashville offering tutoring and a gathering place for activities appropriate for young people who wish to advance their training in life skills.
Since 1930 there have only been about 23 men serving as minister and pastor, which has given the congregation a strong sense of stability and mission to maintain stability and the Word of God in this neighborhood.
In 2000, Green Street began partnering with a group of Lipscomb students known as Fools for Christ. Fools for Christ began in the late 90’s as an endeavour to engage the homeless community of Nashville, and quickly grew. Every Wednesday hundreds of college students and homeless would gather for a meal, worship, and fellowship. In its early stages, Fools for Christ met together downtown at Riverfront Park, and later moved to the area next to the old General Hospital (now Rolling Mill Hill). Green Street began hosting this ministry at its building in the winters to allow everyone in from the cold. Eventually, Green Street took over all hosting duties as many of the members of Fools for Christ became members at Green Street.
It soon became apparent because of the increase in need that Green Street could not cover it’s many ministries on Wednesday nights alone. Several other churches came forward to assist in the meal service. One of which, Midway Church of Christ from Cheatham County, has been serving for at least 15 years. Several other churches have come forward over the years and now our visitors can find clothing in addition to the food service.
Approximately 10 years ago one of the homeless that Green Street works with approached the elders and requested permission to place a tent on the west side of the building. Green Street does not have “waivers” with the police, and it did not seem proper to bar admission to the property simply to allow a safer place to sleep. Since this approach by one individual the camp has grown from one to over a dozen.
We have seen some success with individuals getting work and finding a place to live off of the street. We have learned a great deal about how groups can work together or not work together. For the most part the camp has been quiet but there have also been incidents where police or ambulance service was requested. We feel that with proper screening and assistance from other volunteer groups we can begin to see even more productivity.
Green Street Church does not see the camp as an end but a beginning for some to find a way off of the street environment which is very counterproductive to getting a foothold in life. We would suggest that the camp represents a process by which persons with initiative and desire to improve their life can find what they need from this point. We encourage community, respect, and safety for all campers but they in the end will be the ones to decide how the camp will work.
In early 2015, Green Street Church was approached by Jeff Carr of Infinity Fellowship with the idea of constructing "micro-houses" to serve as a better choice for those in the sanctuary than a tent. Four were delivered on August 21, 2015 with two more to come soon thereafter. Green Street hopes that in the future the Sanctuary could be populated solely be Micro-Homes. | <urn:uuid:8feeaa47-9918-481c-b6ec-f41a4cdc530a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greenstchurch.org/about-us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.978284 | 1,185 | 1.875 | 2 |
Solar thermal system installation walkthrough.
How are solar thermal panels installed?
Before deciding to go ahead with a solar thermal installation, it is a good idea to speak to a range of installers who will give you a quote for the system. It is also necessary to have an MCS-accredited surveyor (and not a salesman) inspect your property, who will do the following:
- measure your roof’s orientation, inclination and shade coverage
- give you an estimate of the solar thermal system output based on your property's geographical factors
- ascertain your current hot water consumption/needs (based in part on your property’s EPC rating, if you have one)
As noted in other sections, only those systems installed by MCS-accredited installers are eligible for the DECC Renewable Heat Premium Payment and Renewable Heat Incentive payments.
A typical solar thermal installation will involve the following steps:
A solar thermal system is predominantly a plumbing exercise with a small amount of electrical wiring, roof installation and system assembly.
The below run-through can vary form system to system, depending upon the exact components your solar thermal system comprises of, for example, a vented or unvented cylinder, evacuated tube collector or flat plate collector etc.
The solar thermal collector installation
scaffolding may be required at this stage
- Fit collectors frames on roof, attaching them using stainless steel brackets to which the collector frames are attached. There are a variety of different mounting methods all specially designed not to compromise the integrity of the roof and ensure it remains water tight. These brackets are fixed directly to the building’s rafters. Roof tiles/slates will need to be removed in order to screw the hooks for the frame into roof rafters. The tiles/slates will be replaced once this is complete, and waterproof flashing will be applied to the roof in order to avoid any leakages. If you have a flat roof, the frame will be set at the appropriate angle.
- For the evacuated tube system, the heat transfer unit will be bolted to the top of this frame, however the evacuated tubes will not be connected / installed until the last moment. This is because once the evacuated tubes are installed, they will immediately start to provide heat (even in low light conditions) to the exchanger which can damage the unit if the system has not got transfer fluid in and is not up to pressure.
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Heat storage / hot water cylinder installation
- If you do not need to replace the boiler this will involve installing the new dual coil water cylinder, as well as the pump and system control panel. This can be done in the loft or an upper floor of the property. Some installations may require additional plumbing work at this stage.
- The installation of a new thermal store / hot water tank will be needed to store the heat provided by the solar thermal collector. This tank is much larger than a standard immersion heater tank but it is possible to fit it in place of the old one (if present). This tank will be connected to:
- The mains cold water (or header tank)
- Auxiliary heating (gas boiler, biomass boiler, wood stove etc.)
- Electric immersion heater (element inside the tank)
- The solar collector
- Temperature sensors for managing the whole system.
- An expansion vessel (unvented models only)
Plumbing in the solar thermal system
- The pumping station will need to be installed (normally near the water tank); this is where the system pump for the closed loop solar thermal system is installed and the control equipment.
- The expansion tank will be installed on the solar thermal loop (normally near the water tank and pumping station); this prevents pressure changes in the system damaging components.
- Special insulated pipes will be installed between the pumping station and the solar thermal collector. This is the ‘flow and return piping’ which contains the heat transfer fluid. The pipe insulation is also fitted at this point. The distance between the thermal store tank, pumping station and the collector must be kept to a minimum to ensure a high system efficiency. These are predominantly installed with special tiles or fitments that allow the pipes to pass through the roof so the system has as little aesthetic impact as possible whilst ensuring the roof’s integrity.
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Electrics and control system
- Fit the heat generation meter - this must be MCS-certified, and will measure the heat generated by your solar system, based on the flow of heat liquid. The meter is required for the purposes of calculating Renewable Heat Incentive payments.
- The electrics will have to be installed by a trained electrician and will provide power to the control equipment and the immersion heater element.
- Control equipment installation can vary dramatically based upon the exact system you purchase but the majority of these systems are automatic, pumping the maximum heat possible from the collectors to the thermal store at the required times.
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Bringing the system to pressure.
- The special heat transfer fluid will be pumped into the closed loop system; this fluid is formulated for solar heating systems operating up to 200°C and contains special reversibly vaporisable inhibitors to protect all metals found in solar heating systems. It also acts as an anti-freeze down to temperatures as low as -25°C and is normally non-toxic and biodegradable. The fluid is then pressurised to approximately 2 bar or as per the manufacturer’s exact specifications.
Heat transfer fluid / anti-freeze
MCS registration (if you are applying for RHI payments)
- At the end of the installation process your installer will also register your solar thermal system with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme, which will provide you with the documentation you need in order to apply for RHI payments.
For small systems, the installation will only take 1-2 days. During some of this time you will be without hot water. Larger installations may take longer than this. | <urn:uuid:6217cecf-fdba-4229-a1af-f3d7fd8901e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.renewableenergyhub.co.uk/solar-thermal-information/solar-thermal-installation-walkthrough.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00188-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910979 | 1,260 | 2.25 | 2 |
What is ISO Certification?
ISO Certification is a seal of approval from a 3rd party body (in this case UKAS) that a company runs to one of the internationally recognised ISO management systems. The certification can be used to tender for business as a proof of a company’s credibility but also to install confidence in the potential client that you will keep your promises.
Why would I want ISO Certification?
Each standard supports its own benefits within every industry, however the common benefits across the certifications include: widened market potential, compliance to procurement tenders, improved efficiency and cost savings, higher level of customer service, and therefore satisfaction, and heightened staff moral and motivation. By having a recognised management standard it tells your customers that you are serious about their needs.
What does ISO certification cost?
ISO Certification costs vary dependent on the size of an organisation and the level to which the company is already run with regards to processes and procedures. If you decide to implement more than one standard at the same time, there are some preferential fees available. We are a fixed fee organisation, therefor our pricing transparency ensures that there are no hidden extra costs. Our quotes give perspective clients a clear breakdown of what they paying for.
How long does it take to achieve ISO certification?
We aim for a 6-8 week delivery period, but again this can vary from organisation to organisation. We will accommodate this where possible; however for those who are looking to achieve the certifications as soon as possible, we will endeavour to ensure you obtain your certification within our standard timescales. After the quotation has been accepted one of our auditors will contact you to arrange a suitable date.
What is an audit?
An audit is the process by which a company shows evidence of working to the required system and this is a compulsory element of the ISO systems. A qualified auditor will attend your premises in order to assess your management system against the ISO Standard that you are certified to, and will request to see evidence resulting from the companies processes and procedures to ensure the system is being used and maintained on a regular basis. The auditor will typically compose a report, analysing your Management System. We will also provide you with recommendations for improvement that will have been agreed with you to assist you to drive the system forward to enable continuous improvement, thus getting the most out of the standard.
Why do I need to have an audit?
Auditing is a required element of the ISO Standards. It is the evidence that the system you have implemented is fit for purpose and continually improving. It is the regular check that you are managing the system/s consistently. The guidance that you will receive at the internal review stage will help you to effectively manage your management systems and remain compliant to the relevant standard/s. The auditor will help you to identify which aspects of the management system require improvement; this will provide you with the ability to develop and enhance the management system through a set of focused action points in a step by step approach.
What ISO standards do I need?
The best place to start is ISO 9001 Quality Management, as this is the fundamental standard that most of the other standards are based on. It’s focused on customer service and ensuring your customer receives the service they want, at a time that’s relevant for a cost that’s fair. Based on your company’s activities there may be additional standards that might complement the business i.e. as waste and recycling company may benefit from the ISO 14001 Environmental Management as this is a core element for their industry, or a manufacturing business might benefit from the OHSAS18001 Health and Safety as they use lots of heavy machinery which could have risks associated. If you are unsure please contact us at our Head Office on 01933 381859 where one of staff will be able to assist you. | <urn:uuid:ac0445a7-24dc-4bc5-a9d7-c6c50297c228> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://snregistrars.com/faqs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.955287 | 782 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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