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This document provides a brief overview of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) and its impact on IT Departments. Aiming to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, the Dodd-Frank Act is a federal law signed by President Barack Obama on July 21, 2010.
Requiring management of all companies to systematically evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes, Dodd-Frank affects nearly every aspect of financial services, from hedge fund and investment advising to proprietary trading, consumer protection and capital reserve limits.
The Dodd-Frank Act also expands upon Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and covers both publicly traded companies and private subsidiaries or affiliates of publicly traded companies whose financial information is included in consolidated financial statements. Because SOX compliance rules are similar to the Dodd-Frank Act, rather than duplicating efforts, companies can consolidate those compliance requirements and reduce their operating costs.
The following is a table containing sections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for and explanations describing how Varonis solutions can help with them.
|TITLE I – FINANCIAL STABILITY: OFFICE OF FINANCIAL RECORDS Sec 154 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; RESPONSIBILITIES OF PRIMARY PROGRAMMATIC UNITS||There are established within the Office, to carry out the programmatic responsibilities of the Office— (1) the Data Center:The Data Center, on behalf of the Council, shall collect, validate, and maintain all data necessary to carry out the duties of the Data Center General Duties:• Authority: Require the submission of reports that poses a threat to the financial stability of the United States• Collection of Financial Transaction and Position Data Responsibilities:• Confidentiality – The Data Center shall not publish any confidential data Information Security – The Director shall ensure that data collected and maintained by the Data Center are kept secure and protected against unauthorized disclosure||Collecting and Validating Data For the Data Center carry out its general duties, it must have a clear understanding of where data is stored, who owns it, who is responsible for it and who is authorized to use it.Varonis DatAdvantage monitors and stores in a searchable format, all aspects of data use for information stored on file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Varonis provides a detailed record of files server contents and how they are used including: filenames, folders, access privileges to files and folders (i.e. a user’s or groups NTFS permissions), data use by username of group name (i.e. create, open, delete, rename), a list of the likely business owners of data – all of which are easily reportable. DatAlert can be configured to send real-time alerts on a number of actions including the granting of administrative rights to a user or group. This allows the organization to detect, in real-time, when privileged access has been granted erroneously and act before abuse occurs. Confidentiality Part of the Data Center’s general duties is to ensure that sensitive data remains confidential and unpublished. Appointed to uphold this responsibility is the Information Security Director. The Varonis IDU Classification Framework helps identify sensitive content within the unstructured data of the Data Center, determine who has access to it, who is using it, and who should be responsible (data owners) – all of which are also reportable.|
|TITLE IV – REGULATION OF ADVISERS TO HEDGE FUNDS AND OTHERS SEC. 404. COLLECTION OF SYSTEMIC RISK DATA; REPORTS; EXAMINATIONS; DISCLOSURES.||‘‘(6) EXAMINATION OF RECORDS.—‘‘(A) PERIODIC AND SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS.—The Commission—‘‘(i) shall conduct periodic inspections of the records of private funds maintained by an investment adviser registered under this title in accordance with a schedule established by the Commission; and‘‘(ii) may conduct at any time and from time to time such additional, special, and other examinations as the Commission may prescribe as necessary and appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors, or for the assessment of systemic risk.‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS.—An investment adviser registered under this title shall make available to the Commission any copies or extracts from such records as may be prepared without undue effort, expense, or delay, as the Commission or its representatives may reasonably request.(7) INFORMATION SHARING.—(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall make available to the Council copies of all reports, documents, records, and information filed with or provided to the Commission by an investment adviser under this subsection as the Council may consider necessary for the purpose of assessing the systemic risk posed by a private fund.CONFIDENTIALITY – The Council shall maintain the confidentiality of information received under this paragraph in all such reports, documents, records, and information, in a manner consistent with the level of confidentiality established for the Commission pursuant to paragraph (8).‘‘(B) PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.—For purposes of this paragraph, proprietary information includes sensitive, nonpublic information regarding—‘‘(i) the investment or trading strategies of the investment adviser;‘‘(ii) analytical or research methodologies;‘‘(iii) trading data;‘‘(iv) computer hardware or software containing intellectual property; and‘‘(v) any additional information that the Commission determines to be proprietary.‘‘(11) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Commission shall report annually to Congress on how the Commission has used the data collected pursuant to this subsection to monitor the markets for the protection of investors and the integrity of the markets.’’.||Inspection and Availability of the Record sLocating and retrieving all relevant data without undue effort, expense, or delay for periodic inspections and special examinations can be daunting. With an efficient, incremental data classification and indexing engine like Varonis’ IDU Classification Framework and Varonis DatAnswers, you’ll be able to pass inspections and examinations smoothly.DatAnswers maintains an index so that electronic information containing specific terms can be found at any time.The IDU Classification Framework can automatically locate financial records and other sensitive data based on a multitude of criteria: keywords, patterns, date created, date last accessed, date modified, user access, owner, and many more making it possible for IT to prepare for inspections and examinations.Information Sharing DatAnywhere instantly enables mobile access, file synchronization, and secure 3rd party sharing for your existing file shares. Files, particularly confidential files can stay exactly where they are—on existing SMB file servers or NAS.Third party access is monitored and can be revoked at any time. Third party links can contain expiration dates and pin codes for extra security and can be revoked at any time. Third parties do not require an entry in the organizations Active Directory or LDAP system.Private cloud benefits:• Definitive copies of files are always stored on corporate storage• No one gets permissions to shared data unless they already have it• Users authenticate to Active Directory or LDAP and there is no need to reconfigure or replicate permissions• IT controls speed, availability, and security|
|TITLE VII – WALL STREET TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: REGULATION OF SWAP MARKETS SEC. 728. SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES||DATA IDENTIFICATION.—‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with subparagraph (B), the Commission shall prescribe standards that specify the data elements for each swap that shall be collected and maintained by each registered swap data repository.‘‘(B) REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out subparagraph (A), the Commission shall prescribe consistent data element standards applicable to registered entities and reporting counterparties.‘‘DATA COLLECTION AND MAINTENANCE.—The Commission shall prescribe data collection and data maintenance standards for swap data repositories.‘‘(c) DUTIES.—A swap data repository shall—‘‘(1) accept data prescribed by the Commission for each swap under subsection (b);‘‘(2) confirm with both counterparties to the swap the accuracy of the data that was submitted;‘‘(3) maintain the data described in paragraph (1) in such form, in such manner, and for such period as may be required by the Commission;‘‘(4)(A) provide direct electronic access to the Commission (or any designee of the Commission, including another registered entity); and‘‘(B) provide the information described in paragraph (1) in such form and at such frequency as the Commission may require to comply with the public reporting requirements contained in section 2(a)(13);‘‘(5) at the direction of the Commission, establish automated systems for monitoring, screening, and analyzing swap data, including compliance and frequency of end user clearing exemption claims by individual and affiliated entities;‘‘(6) maintain the privacy of any and all swap transaction information that the swap data repository receives from a swap ‘‘(7) on a confidential basis pursuant to section 8, upon request, and after notifying the Commission of the request, make available all data obtained by the swap data repository, including individual counterparty trade and position data, to—‘‘(A) each appropriate prudential regulator;‘‘(B) the Financial Stability Oversight Council;‘‘(C) the Securities and Exchange Commission;‘‘(D) the Department of Justice; and‘‘(E) any other person that the Commission determines to be appropriate, including—‘‘(i) foreign financial supervisors (including foreign futures authorities);‘‘(ii) foreign central banks; and‘‘(iii) foreign ministries; and‘‘(8) establish and maintain emergency procedures, backup facilities, and a plan for disaster recovery that allows for the timely recovery and resumption of operations and the fulfillment of the responsibilities and obligations of the organization.‘‘(d) CONFIDENTIALITY AND INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT.— Before the swap data repository may share information with any entity described in subsection (c)(7)—‘‘(1) the swap data repository shall receive a written agreement from each entity stating that the entity shall abide by the confidentiality requirements described in section 8 relating to the information on swap transactions that is provided; and‘‘(2) each entity shall agree to indemnify the swap data repository and the Commission for any expenses arising from litigation relating to the information provided under sectionDESIGNATION OF CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER.—‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each swap data repository shall designate an individual to serve as a chief compliance officer.‘‘(2) DUTIES.—The chief compliance officer shall—‘‘(A) report directly to the board or to the senior officer of the swap data repository;‘‘(B) review the compliance of the swap data repository with respect to the requirements and core principles described in this section;‘‘(C) in consultation with the board of the swap data repository, a body performing a function similar to the board of the swap data repository, or the senior officer of the swap data repository, resolve any conflicts of interest that may arise;‘‘(D) be responsible for administering each policy and procedure that is required to be established pursuant to this section;‘‘(E) ensure compliance with this Act (including regulations) relating to agreements, contracts, or transactions, including each rule prescribed by the Commission under this section;‘‘(F) establish procedures for the remediation of noncompliance issues identified by the chief compliance officer through any—‘‘(i) compliance office review;‘‘(ii) look-back;‘‘(iii) internal or external audit finding;‘‘(iv) self-reported error; or‘‘(v) validated complaint; and‘‘(G) establish and follow appropriate procedures forthe handling, management response, remediation, retesting, and closing of noncompliance issues.||Swap data repositories (“SDRs”) are new entities created by the Dodd-Frank Act in order to provide a central facility for swap data reporting and recordkeeping.1 Swap data repositories are required to comply with data standards set by the CFTC, including real-time public reporting of swap transaction data to a “disseminator” such as a derivatives clearing organization or a swap execution facility.2 Varonis provides an innovative software platform that allows data centers to map, analyze, manage and migrate their unstructured data. Data MaintenanceDatAdvantage monitors and stores all aspects of data use – in a searchable format – for information stored on file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, providing assurance that basic preventive controls (permissions) are in place and correctly configured, and detective controls through auditing and analysis of data use. DatAdvantage provides a detailed record of files server contents and how they are used including: filenames, folders, access privileges to files and folders (i.e. a user’s or groups NTFS permissions), data use by username of group name (i.e. create, open, delete, rename), a list of the likely business owners of data.Sensitive and Confidential DataThe Data Classification Framework incorporates content classification information produced by looking within files to find key words, phrases and patterns (i.e., regular expressions) that are of interest to the organization. The IDU Classification Framework also identifies the highest concentrations of sensitive data that are most at risk and provides a clear methodology to safely remediate that risk without manual effort.Reporting and Access Controls Use DatAdvantage to run reports to identify, prioritize, and remediate excessive access to sensitive, high-risk data.DataPrivilege helps define the policies and processes that govern who can access, and who can grant access to unstructured data, but it also enforces the workflow and the desired action to be taken (i.e. allow, deny, allow for a certain time period). This has a two-fold effect on the consistent and broad communication of the access policy: • it unites all of the parties responsible including data owners, auditors, data users AND IT around the same set of information and • it allows organizations to continually monitor the access framework in order to make changes and optimize both for Dodd Frank and for continuous enforcement of warranted access. With DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege, compliance officers and auditors can receive regular reports of data use and access activity of privileged and protected information to ensure compliant use and safekeeping. Data TransferVaronis Data Transport Engine provides the flexibility to configure complete end-to-end migration rules: define source criteria based on path, and/or content, classification rule, Varonis ownership and follow-up (flag/ tag) criteria, define destination path, folder, and permissions translation, and when the migration will take place. The ability to configure these rules allow for the rapid and safe execution of complex data migrations, and to easily implement and enforce policies for data retention and location based on content, accessibility, and activity. Data Sharing DatAnywhere instantly enables mobile access, file synchronization, and secure 3rd party sharing for your existing file shares. Files can stay exactly where they are—on existing SMB file servers or NAS. Third party access is monitored and can be revoked at any time. Third party links can contain expiration dates and pin codes for extra security and can be revoked at any time. Third parties do not require an entry in the organizations Active Directory or LDAP system. Private cloud benefits: • Definitive copies of files are always stored on corporate storage • No one gets permissions to shared data unless they already have it • Users authenticate to Active Directory or LDAP and there is no need to reconfigure or replicate permissions • IT controls speed, availability, and security|
|TITLE IX – INVESTOR PROTECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGULATION OF SECURITIES: INCREASING REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES SEC. 929I. PROTECTING CONFIDENTIALITY OF MATERIALS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMISSION.||RECORDS OBTAINED FROM REGISTERED PERSONS.—‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (f), the Commission shall not be compelled to disclose records or information obtained pursuant to section 17(b), or records or information based upon or derived from such records or information, if such records or information have been obtained by the Commission for use in furtherance of the purposes of this title, including surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.‘‘(d) LIMITATIONS ON DISCLOSURE BY THE COMMISSION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commission shall not be compelled to disclose any records or information provided to the Commission under section 204, or records or information based upon or derived from such records or information, if such records or information have been obtained by the Commission for use in furtherance of the purposes of this title, including surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities. Nothing in this subsection authorizes the Commission to withhold information from the Congress or prevent the Commission from complying with a request for information from any other Federal department or agency requesting the information for purposes within the scope of jurisdiction of that department or agency, or complying with an order of a court of the United States in an action brought by the United States or the Commission. For purposes of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, this subsection shall be considered a statute described in subsection (b)(3)(B) of such section 552. Collection of information pursuant to section 204 shall be an administrative action involving an agency against specific individuals or agencies pursuant to section 3518(c)(1) of title 44, United States Code.’’.||Varonis help organizations protect confidential materials and reduce risk by telling them where their data is and who should/shouldn’t have access to it. Our flagship product, DatAdvantage identifies, prioritizes, reports, and remediates areas of risk by highlighting where sensitive information is overexposed and at risk, where employees have oversubscribed access, and alerts on abnormal behavior and potential abuse. DatAdvantage also provides data owners with detailed reports, including: data use (i.e. every user’s every file-touch), user activity on sensitive data, permission changes that affect the access of a given file or folder, a detailed record of permission revocations including the users and the data for which permissions were revoked. With DataPrivilege, we can help you implement a cohesive data entitlement environment, thereby raising accountability and reducing risk.|
|TITLE IX – INVESTOR PROTECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGULATION OF SECURITIES: IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGULATION OF CREDIT RATING AGENCIES SEC. 932. ENHANCED REGULATION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY OF NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STATISTICAL RATING ORGANIZATIONS.||‘‘(3) INTERNAL CONTROLS OVER PROCESSES FOR DETERMINING CREDIT RATINGS.—‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each nationally recognized statistical rating organization shall establish, maintain, enforce, and document an effective internal control structure governing the implementation of and adherence to policies, procedures, and methodologies for determining credit ratings, taking into consideration such factors as the Commission may prescribe, by rule.‘‘(B) ATTESTATION REQUIREMENT.—The Commission shall prescribe rules requiring each nationally recognized statistical rating organization to submit to the Commission an annual internal controls report, which shall contain—‘‘(i) a description of the responsibility of the management of the nationally recognized statistical rating organization in establishing and maintaining an effective internal control structure under subparagraph(A);‘‘(ii) an assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control structure of the nationally recognized statistical rating organization; and‘‘(iii) the attestation of the chief executive officer,or equivalent individual, of the nationally recognized statistical rating organization.’’;||Varonis provides a comprehensive system for meeting internal control objectives.Risk Assessment Varonis DatAdvantage identifies and prioritizes areas of risk by highlighting where sensitive information is overexposed and at risk, where employees have oversubscribed access, and alerts on abnormal behavior and potential abuse.Control Environment Varonis DatAdvantage also recommends the revocation of permissions to data for users who do not have a business need to the data – this ensures that user access to data is always warranted and driven by least privilege.Information & Communication Varonis DatAdvantage provides data stewards with detailed reports, including: data use (i.e. every user’s every file-touch), user activity on sensitive data, permission changes that affect the access of a given file or folder, a detailed record of permission revocations including the users and the data for which permissions were revoked.Control Activities Varonis DataPrivilege is a web-based application that controls, monitors and administers a user’s requests to unstructured data (files, emails, SharePoint, etc.)MonitoringVaronis DatAdvantage monitors every user’s file touch and stores in a searchable format, all aspects of data use for information stored on file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.AttestationsDatAdvantage and DataPrivilege gives the means to conduct a full in depth data entitlement review by which all user privileges to data is reported. It also provides reports of historical access rights to data sets showing any trends toward overly permissive access.|
|TITLE IX – INVESTOR PROTECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGULATION OF SECURITIES: IMPROVEMENTS TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION SEC. 963. ANNUAL FINANCIAL CONTROLS AUDIT.||(a) REPORTS OF COMMISSION.—(1) ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 6 months after the end of each fiscal year, the Commission shall publish and submit to Congress a report that—(A) describes the responsibility of the management of the Commission for establishing and maintaining an adequate internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting; and(B) contains an assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting of the Commission during that fiscal year.(2) ATTESTATION.—The reports required under paragraph (1) shall be attested to by the Chairman and chief financial officer of the Commission.(b) REPORT BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 6 months after the end of the first fiscal year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to Congress that assesses— (A) the effectiveness of the internal control structure and procedures of the Commission for financial reporting; and (B) the assessment of the Commission under subsection (a)(1)(B).(2) ATTESTATION.—The Comptroller General shall attest to, and report on, the assessment made by the Commission under subsection (a).||With Varonis, organizations can conduct data security reviews (attestations) at will and generate access reports with a mouse click. This information can focus narrowly on data of a particular type or access by a particular group or it can focus broadly on access activity trends for the organization (i.e. active users, inactive users, active data, stale data, data business ownership reports etc.). It gives auditors the power to determine whether the appropriate security policies are in place and being enforced.|
|TITLE X BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION SEC. 1017. FUNDING; PENALTIES AND FINES.||SEC. 1017. FUNDING; PENALTIES AND FINES.(D) ASSERTION OF INTERNAL CONTROLS.—The Director shall provide to the Comptroller General of the United States an assertion as to the effectiveness of the internal controls that apply to financial reporting by the Bureau, using the standards established in section 3512(c) of title 31, United States Code.||DatAdvantage helps organizations examine and audit the use of privileged access accounts to detect and prevent abuse. With a continual audit record of all file, email, SharePoint, and Directory Services activity, DatAdvantage provides visibility into administrative users’ actions. The log can be viewed interactively or via email reports.DatAdvantage can also identify when users have administrative rights they do not use or need and provides a way to safely remove excess privileges without impacting the business. Through DataPrivilege, membership in administrative groups can be tightly controlled, audited and reviewed.DatAlert can be configured to send real-time alerts on a number of actions including the granting of administrative rights to a user or group. This allows the organization to detect, in real-time, when privileged access has been granted erroneously and act before abuse occurs.|
|TITLE XI – FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM PROVISIONS SEC. 1102. AUDITS OF SPECIAL FEDERAL RESERVE CREDIT FACILITIES.||AUTHORITY FOR AUDITS AND EXAMINATIONS.—Subject to paragraph (3), and notwithstanding any limitation in subsection (b) on the auditing and oversight of certain functions of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any Federal reserve bank, the Comptroller General of the United States may conduct audits, including onsite examinations, of the Board of Governors, a Federal reserve bank, or a credit facility, if the Comptroller General determines that such audits are appropriate, solely for the purposes of assessing, with respect to a credit facility or a covered transaction— ‘‘(A) the operational integrity, accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls governing the credit facility or covered transaction ‘‘(B) the effectiveness of the security and collateral policies established for the facility or covered transaction in mitigating risk to the relevant Federal reserve bank and taxpayers;‘‘(C) whether the credit facility or the conduct of a covered transaction inappropriately favors one or more specific participants over other institutions eligible to utilize the facility;||Varonis ensures the success of audits and examinations and can demonstrate effectiveness of security, operational integrity in a number of ways: • Varonis recommends the revocation of permissions to data for those users who do not have a business need to the data – this ensures that user access to data is always warranted and driven by least privilege• Varonis generates reports showing the history of permission revocations and the percentages by which overly permissive access was reduced•Varonis DataPrivilege provides a mechanism via a web-based application by which to monitor, administer (allow/deny) all access requests to unstructured data. Requestors, data owners, technical controllers, financial controllers are all united in communication and action through this system. With regard to requests to access unstructured data on file shares, all actions taken and rationale for them are recorded. Further, a workflow is enforced (i.e. requests to financial folders go straight to the business owner). Via these capabilities, entities can demonstrate a historical and sustained enforcement of least privilege access and its effects.| | <urn:uuid:97a0af40-963c-4afb-b463-d5e6a18349f8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.varonis.com/learn/dodd-frank-it-requirements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88141 | 5,799 | 2 | 2 |
One of out mail recipients has started receiving winmail.dat attachments instead of pdf documents. I have tried changing the mail format from html to plain text as per TechNet etc but this has not resolved the issue .
The recipient is using a mac and nothing has changed on either system.
You have not told us what email program is being used.
In the meantime these references may help
More than 75% of all records are compromised because of the loss or theft of a privileged credential. Experts have been exploring Active Directory infrastructure to identify key threats and establish best practices for keeping data safe. Attend this month’s webinar to learn more.
As with any other System Center product, the installation for the Authoring Tool can be quite a pain sometimes. This article serves to help you avoid making these mistakes and hopefully save you a ton of time on troubleshooting :)
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Review: The Beautiful Land
Tak does not lead a normal life. As a sort of Asian-American version of Man vs Wild he’s spent his life adventuring all over the world. At the opening of THE BEAUTIFUL LAND (Amazon) we discover that life isn’t going the way he planned. In the middle of a suicide attempt, Tak gets a fateful call that will give him a new purpose in life.
Samira suffers from PTSD due to her tours in Iraq. But she can remember a time when she was happy. Like before her mother died. Or her high school friendship with Tak. Then out of the blue she gets a frantic call from Tak who is convinced that if she doesn’t get on a plane and meet him within fifteen hours that she will die.
And thus begins the strange journey Tak and Samira must take in order to stop a mad scientist, a greedy corporation, and the Machine that will rewrite the current reality with one that will give the scientist/corporation the power they crave. The Machine isn’t a time machine, it’s a portal to the alternate realities, and there are thousands of them. One of them is called “the beautiful land,” a reality where the perfect land is the one you imagine, and the scientist who invented the Machine will do anything to live there, even if it means wiping out every living thing to do it.
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND, by Alan Averill, is weird and compelling at the same time. Averill tells the story with creativity and energy from Tak and Samira’s PoVs (sometimes jumping between their heads within paragraphs, but it works out ok despite the confusion) with a few side trips from secondary characters. However, Averill’s portrayal of these two messed-up people who regret the choices they’ve made is often over-the-top. When authors try this hard it makes a reader step back because it feels like manipulation. It’s not that I hated the characters, but I had a hard time liking them, even if their interaction with each other was believable.
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND, by Alan Averill, is weird and compelling at the same time. Averill tells the story with creativity and energy.
Even though the characterization was a little rough, at least Averill knows how to move a story along. The pace moved fast from the get-go, and carries you clear to the end. It’s set in the present-day, in a world where people like Tak and Samira get lost in the shuffle, but discover that even “normal” people can be the agents of change. The mad scientist angle is cliché, but that doesn’t make Averill’s take any less creepy and scary when Tak discovers the evil plan, and when we see the fallout from his decisions. I might have liked more trips to these alternate realities Tak got to visit–if only for the sake of seeing them–but in the end that’s not what the story was about so it would have been a distraction.
My favorite part was Averill’s engaging prose. He writes each scene with well-written imagery and a morbid sense of humor that sets the tone for the book. Tak’s hilarious observations about his situation and the realities he visits are fun (and sometimes disturbing) to read. Some of you will love Tak’s irreverent humor.
Steve has sent me enough dumb thrillers lately, i.e. VIRUS THIRTEEN (EBR Review) and PANDEMONIUM (EBR Review) that I was wary about THE BEAUTIFUL LAND–I’m not one for reading thrillers on my own time, anyway. Fortunately Averill provided more than just a thriller or horror story, but also a wild ride.
- Recommended Age: 16+
- Language: Something almost every page
- Violence: Plenty
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The rights of the owner of a copyrighted work are typically formulated differently in different countries, but basically he has the right to make copies of the work and to offer the work to the public. When he distributes a copy, that specific copy may be redistributed by others without needing further permission. This is called the "first sale doctrine" in the USA, and "exhaustion" in most European countries. So, it is legal to resell a book, but not to make your own copy of the book and sell that.
The owner can grant other people some or all of the rights he holds on the work. This is called "licensing". A license can be very specific ("Newspaper X may publish photo Y in tomorrow's edition.") or very broad. By putting your work on the World-Wide Web, you implicitly give everyone in the world a license to download and view your work on their computer. However, this license does not cover things like putting the work on their own Website or printing it in a book. If you want to do this, you will need to ask the owner of the Website for permission first.
It is important to decide what other people may do with the content you put up on your Website. Can your icons and images be used on other sites as well? May others incorporate your video or audio streams on their pages? And what about those scripts and Java applets you created?
If you are a hobbyist, it may not matter much what other people do. You may even feel flattered because your work is apparently appreciated so much that others want to use it. But if you've invested a lot of time and effort in creating images or programs, it may seem as if others are stealing that effort without recompensating you. In that case, it is worthwhile to make your license more explicit. Simply create a Webpage where you explain what may and what may not be done with your work. This does not have to be three pages of legalese, a simple statement such as "All images on this site may be copied and used without restrictions, as long as appropriate credit is given." already suffices as a license.
For programs, there are many standard licenses available. The advantage of using such a license is that everyone knows what it means, and which rights they have for using the program. The most famous one is probably the GNU General Public License. The GNU also has a comparison of the most popular standard licenses, which may be useful in choosing which one you want to use.
The WDG offers all its material under the Open Publication License, which allows almost any kind of re-use and copying of our material. However, if someone makes a modification, they must indicate so, and no one may remove our names from our material.
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The experience of breast pain (mastalgia) in female runners of the 2012 London Marathon and its effect on exercise behaviour
- 1School of Sport, Health & Applied Science, St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London, UK
- 2Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
- Correspondence to Dr Nicola Brown, School of Sport, Health & Applied Science, St Mary's University College, Waldegrave Rd, Twickenham, London TW1 4SX, UK;
- Accepted 5 March 2013
- Published Online First 19 April 2013
Background For female marathon runners, breast pain (mastalgia) may be an important issue which has yet to be considered. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of mastalgia in female marathon runners, identify factors that increase mastalgia and methods used to overcome mastalgia, and explore the impact that mastalgia may have on marathon training.
Methods 1397 female marathon runners were surveyed at the 2012 London Marathon Registration. All participants who completed the four-part, 30-question survey in its entirety have been included in the analysis (n=1285).
Results 32% of participants experienced mastalgia. This was significantly related to cup size and was greater during vigorous compared with moderate physical activity. Exercise-related factors were the primary factors reported to increase mastalgia participation. Seventeen per cent of symptomatic participants reported that mastalgia affected their exercise behaviour. Methods reportedly used to overcome mastalgia included pain medication and firm breast support; however, 44% of participants took no measures to relieve symptoms despite over half describing their mastalgia as discomforting.
Conclusions Mastalgia was experienced by a third of marathon runners and was found to be related to breast size which has previously been unreported. The link between exercise and mastalgia has yet to be established; however, this study identified that exercise was the most prevalent factor in mastalgia occurrence which may have implications for its management. The number of participants who took no measures to relieve their mastalgia, or resorted to pain medication, highlights the importance and significance of research into exercise-related mastalgia. | <urn:uuid:8abb3010-1502-4fad-b4d4-3c3edeffe658> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/14/bjsports-2013-092175.abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960511 | 434 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Helen Conlon, 56, has been a McGrath Metastatic Breast Care Nurse for three years and is based at the Royal Hospital for Women and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney. Helen is one of those …Read more
‘Rosie’ the robot giving McGrath Breast Care Nurses access to vital training from anywhere in Australia
Patients with metastatic, or incurable, breast cancer will benefit from an innovative new training program being piloted by the McGrath Foundation, Monash Health, Monash University and Southern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Services (SMICS).
In an Australian first, a course designed to upskill and empower McGrath Breast Care Nurses who care for people with metastatic breast cancer will be delivered via telepresence robot.
Nicknamed ‘Rosie’, the telepresence robot will allow nurses to take part in the training program at the Monash Health Campus at Moorabbin Hospital in Melbourne’s south-east from anywhere in Australia.
The training program had been under development for several years and was originally designed with participants attending Moorabbin Hospital for the three-day practical component of the course, before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its rollout.
“Professional development opportunities for our McGrath Breast Care Nurses are core to our nurse program to ensure evidence based, best practice care continues to be delivered to patients." - Holly Masters
“This important project complements our broader professional development program. We’ve all had to think differently about how we do things, so we are excited to try something new and embrace the growing field of telepresence robots to allow us to safely offer this training program for some nurses during the pandemic,” McGrath Foundation CEO, Holly Masters said.
“The telepresence robot allows the nurses participating in the course remote access to the clinical areas of the hospital to gain practical experience no matter where they are in Australia during the uncertainty of recurrent border closures and social isolation restrictions.
“Breast cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia with one in seven women diagnosed before the age of 85[i] and while survival rates have improved significantly, with an increased diagnosis rate comes a larger number of people whose cancer will progress. This means there is an increasing need for our specialist McGrath Breast Care Nurses to support people impacted by metastatic disease,” Masters continued.
McGrath Foundation Chief Nursing Program Officer, Jane Mahony said, “The needs of those diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer differ to those with early-stage breast cancer, with the focus of treatment on prolonging life and ensuring the quality of life is maximised. These patients and their families have more complex supportive care needs, so it is vital our nurses have the skills and knowledge to support them.”
The McGrath Foundation funds McGrath Breast Care Nurses who support people experiencing breast cancer across Australia. Of the 170 current nurses, 22 are dedicated Metastatic McGrath Breast Care Nurses, who care for people with incurable breast cancer.
The Metastatic Breast Cancer Nurse Training Program pilot project includes pre-reading and online modules tailored to the individual learning needs of each nurse participating before the three-day practical component to be delivered via the robot. Across the three days, the nurse will shadow the metastatic breast cancer nurse practitioner at the hospital, including attending multidisciplinary team meetings, outpatient clinics and supportive care consultations with patients. This is then followed by 12 months of clinical supervision support. The pilot project will see eight nurses participating in the first year.
The project will be evaluated by Monash University, Nursing and Midwifery utilising a longitudinal interventional study design. The aim is to evaluate the impact of an individualised training project for metastatic breast cancer nurses at an individual, organisational and national level. If well evaluated, it will be supported as an ongoing program for nurses supporting metastatic patients across the country.
McGrath Breast Care Nurses provide essential physical and emotional support free of charge to anyone experiencing breast cancer and their families from diagnosis and throughout their treatment. No matter if the patient is being treated
To find your nearest McGrath Breast Care Nurse, visit mcgrathfoundation.com.au/get-support/find-a-nurse
The McGrath Foundation would like to thank the following for their contribution to this important project:
- Monash Health: Director of Clinical Operations of Breast Services Janelle Finn, Monash Health metastatic breast cancer nurse practitioner Gillian Kruss
- Monash University, Nursing and Midwifery: Prof Deborah Griffiths, Assoc Prof Gabrielle Brand, Adjunct Research Fellow Dr Olivia Cook
- Southern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Services: Program Manager SMICS Seleena Sherwell, Senior Project Manager SMICS Jessica Delaney
Thank you to Astra Zeneca for a generous grant to help fund the development and implementation of this pilot training program.
[i] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021. Cancer data in Australia. Cat. no. CAN 122. Canberra: AIHW. Accessed June 2021; https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cancer/cancer-data-in-australia
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Causes & risk factors
Risk factors based on diabetes type1–4
Factors that may increase risk of nocturnal hypoglycaemia5,6
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Physical exercise, especially during the evening
- Excess insulin during the day
- Previous episodes of nocturnal hypoglycaemia
- High dose of basal insulin
- Failure to check blood glucose at bedtime
- Excess rapid-acting insulin to correct high glucose, particularly at bedtime, or to cover bedtime snacks
- Premix or short-acting insulin before dinner
- NPH insulin (isophane) in the evening
Key needs to mitigate risks
- Yale JF et al. Hypoglycaemia. In: Diabetes Canada Full Guidelines. 2018. Available at: https://guidelines.diabetes.ca/cpg/chapter14.
- International Hypoglycaemia Study Group. Minimizing hypoglycemia in diabetes. Diabetes Care 2015;38:1583.
- Inzucchi SE et al. Management of hyperglycemia in Type 2 diabetes, 2015: A patient-centered approach. Diabetes Care 2015;38:
- Weinstock RS et al. Risk factors associated with severe hypoglycemia in older adults with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2016 Apr;39:603.
- Vu L et al. Predicting Nocturnal Hypoglycemia from Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data with Extended Prediction Horizon. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2019;874-882
- Brunton SA. Nocturnal hypoglycemia: Answering the challenge with long-acting insulin analogs. MedGenMed 2007;9:38. | <urn:uuid:31c5e06f-f6b5-4b5e-a4c1-183eac3c14f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ihsgonline.com/causes-and-risk-factors-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.750201 | 361 | 2.625 | 3 |
Saint Anne Line
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Despite the recent gains in poverty reduction in Armenia, one third of the country’s population remains in poverty. USAID’s social protection activities work closely with the Armenian Government and civil society to deliver vital social services to vulnerable populations, build sustainable models of social services delivery, and strengthen the capacity of the government to implement its broad social reform agenda.
Ninety-seven percent of the 4,500 children residing in Armenia’s 42 institutions have at least one living parent. Yet, the number of children living in orphanages remains relatively stable despite a decline in Armenia’s child population over the last few years. USAID places a special emphasis on promoting national child welfare reforms to ensure social inclusion and equal access to services and opportunities for especially vulnerable children. The goal of USAID’s activities are to get children back to families and to get the resources into communities necessary to keep children safe, healthy, and with a family.
USAID also maximizes the use of government-to-government agreements and supports local civil society organizations to implement activities in this sector and build local sustainability. USAID believes that through greater civic engagement and oversight of the social sector reforms, combined with greater capacity and motivation on the part of government, governance in Armenia will become more participatory, effective, and transparent.
The Pension Reform Implementation Program (PRIP) provides technical assistance to support Armenia in pension reform implementation and provision of integrated social services to help individuals, households, and communities better manage social risks and needs.
Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Children in Armenia – The program supports the Government of Armenia’s national child welfare reform to stop the flow of children into residential educational and care institutions, as well as reintegrate de-institutionalized children into a family environment by developing alternative family- based care and community-based services. In parallel, the program will also help strengthen the network of community social workers and incorporate child protection into the integrated social services package.
Support to Social Sector Reforms in Armenia – The project seeks to promote an improved social protection system in Armenia that is responsive to the needs and concerns of citizens. The project will encourage citizens to participate in monitoring of social sector reforms; strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to advocate for and monitor these reforms; and develop recommendations for further improvement of social policies and better protection of social rights.
Support to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to Implement Social Sector Reforms – USAID works directly with the Government of Armenia on national child welfare reforms to stop the flow of children into institutions and reduce the number of children in institutional care. The project will also help strengthen the integrated social services system in Armenia.
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FDA Finally Bans Antibiotic (Baytril) From Use In Poultry Citing Concerns Over Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in HumansJul 29, 2005 | www.newsinferno.com
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a final decision to no longer allow distribution or use of the antimicrobial drug enrofloxacin (Baytril) for the purpose of treating bacterial infections in poultry. This ruling, however, does not affect other approved uses of the drug.
This animal drug belongs to a class of drugs known as fluoroquinolones and is marketed under the name Baytril by Bayer Corporation. The drug is in the same “family” as Cipro, the widely used human antibiotic.
The FDA finally made a decision which many infectious disease experts had been calling for and directed its Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to began proceedings to withdraw use of this animal drug in poultry.
The FDA now acknowledges scientific data shows that the use of enrofloxacin in poultry caused resistance to emerge in Campylobacter, a bacterium that causes foodborne illness. Chickens and turkeys normally harbor Campylobacter in their digestive tracts without causing poultry to become ill.
Enrofloxacin does not completely eliminate Campylobacter from the birds' intestinal tracts, and those Campylobacter bacteria that survive are resistant to fluoroquinolone drugs. These resistant bacteria multiply in the digestive tracts of poultry and persist and spread through transportation and slaughter, and are found on chicken carcasses in slaughter plants and retail poultry meats.
Campylobacter bacteria are a significant cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. Antimicrobial treatment is recommended for people with severe illness as well as the very young, the elderly, and people with certain medical conditions.
Complications of such infections can include reactive arthritis and, more rarely, blood stream infections. Early treatment can mitigate symptoms and may decrease the risk of complications.
Fluoroquinolones used in humans are ineffective if used to treat Campylobacter infections that are resistant to them. This failure can significantly prolong the duration of the infections and may increase the risk of complications. The proportion of Campylobacter infections that are resistant to fluoroquinolones has increased significantly since the use of enrofloxacin in poultry was approved in the U.S.
Bayer Corporation has been given 60 days to appeal the withdrawal. The final order withdrawing approval of the antimicrobial drug enrofloxacin for the purpose of treating bacterial infections in poultry will become effective on September 12, 2005.
The Final Decision can be found at www.fda.gov/oc/antimicrobial/baytril.pdf.
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DDT Still Found in Teens despite 30-Year Ban, Dallas Morning News, 3/2:
Despite the 30-year-old US ban on DDT, the insecticide's chemical fingerprint still shows up in the bodies of American adolescents, according to the most comprehensive look yet at chemicals by the US Centers for Disease Control. Children showed higher levels than adults of numerous toxic substances, including nicotine byproducts, pesticides and a chemical
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Introduction to and History of Mantra Meditation
Mantras are words or phrases that are chanted out loud or internally as objects of meditation. Often these mantras are associated with particular Buddhist figures, whose qualities can be cultivated by the repetition of the relevant mantra.
Mantra meditation predates Buddhism, probably by hundreds of years. The origins of mantras go back at least to the Vedic tradition that preceded the Buddha, where mantras were used as incantations to influence, or even to control, the gods.
In this section of our site, you can explore how we define mantra meditation, learn how mantra meditation works, and read about the various figures that mantras are associated with and what their mantras mean.
Throughout history, cultures have believed in the sacred power of words. They have believed that uttering certain words or names could control the external world, or control the unseen forces, like gods or spirits, that they believed acted upon the world. We can see that in the English word “spell”, which can mean simply to put letters together to make words, or to use words in order to control the world through magic.
Throughout history, cultures have believed in the sacred power of words…
The words grammar and glamour have the same original meanings. Gramma-techne was the Greek term for the science or art of letters. This came into English as the word grammar, but also came in Scots (as “glammer”) to mean “to cast a spell upon” — to employ the science and art of letter magically in order to enchant. The word glammer was anglicized as glamour, and came to have its more contemporary romantic and aesthetic associations, where someone is able to influence us, not by the power of their words, but by the beauty of their appearance. So the English language contains fossilized notions that words can have magical powers.
The word “enchant” is another word that suggests a connection between words — chanting — and influencing others.
This belief is the power of language was particularly strong when it came to the words that we call names. In ancient India it was believed that if you knew the true names of the gods, then you could call upon them and compel them to do your bidding.
Most of us still, it seems, have a lingering belief in the special nature of names. Imagine how you would feel if you discovered that someone had written your name of a piece of paper, put it in the toilet bowl before using the bathroom, and then flushed your name away. Or think about how hurtful it can be if someone makes fun of your name.
Although early Buddhism used chanting as a means of practice, and used the recitation of verses as a way of cultivating an awareness of the qualities of the Buddha (Buddhanusati), the use of mantras doesn’t seem to have come into Buddhism until the rise of the Mahayana traditions, which incorporated elements of the non-Buddhist approach to spirituality known as “Tantra.”
Tantra made extensive use of mantras as ways of communing with and influencing the gods, and Buddhism co-opted this methodology as a way of getting in touch with the qualities of enlightenment. The Mahayana had already developed a “pantheon” of symbolical figures in human form to represent the diversity of the enlightened state. Given the close contact with the Tantric traditions, it was natural that these archetypal Buddhas and Bodhisattvas came to be associated with particular syllables and mantras.
It was believed that if you knew the true names of the gods, then you could call upon them and compel them to do your bidding.
Mantras are found in the Japanese Buddhist Nichiren tradition, where the recitation of Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō (Hommage to the White Lotus Sutra) is the main practice, and in the Japanese Shingon tradition. In the Japanese Pure Land tradition, the mantra Namu Amida Butsu (Homage to Amitabha Buddha) is a key practice. Variations of this mantra are found in Vietnam, Korea, and China.
Strictly speaking, there are no mantras in the Buddhist Theravadin tradition, although there is much chanting. Chants of lovingkindness, such as Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu (may all beings be happy), and chants of protection and blessing are very common, and these function as mindfulness practices in exactly the same way as actual mantras. | <urn:uuid:4c85f82a-44ea-45a9-91de-5b73a1786e59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wildmind.org/mantras/comment-page-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.957806 | 944 | 2.875 | 3 |
Ministry and art go hand in hand
It is a labor of love.
The two came to the camp as volunteers to continue the work that had been started, but they also wanted to do something for their church.
J.P. and Audrey Huver arrived at the Four Corners Christian Service Camp about a year ago to be the directors and, hopefully, to get more people interested in coming to the camp.
“Until we came here, the camp was run by different volunteers each year,” said Audrey. “They would come in May and stay through the summer. That was all.”
The Huvers live there year-round, though, and have made the camp their life’s work.
It is owned by five different churches in the area — the Durango Christian Church, the Cortez Christian Church, the Gallup Christian Church, the Sunrise Christian Church (Farmington) and the Bayfield Christian Church.
The camp is on the same property that housed the Mesa Verde Silver Fox Farm in the 1930s and early 1940s, owned by Byron and Martha Brown. It was well-known throughout the U.S. to have had one of the best silver fox herds in the country.
It now consists of 33 acres, has two sleeping cabins for the girls and two for the boys, along with seven recreational vehicle spots, a dining hall and lots of areas for outdoor activities.
“There’s room to sleep 67 people in all,” said J.P.
But the camp itself is big enough to easily handle 100 people. It’s not just for camping either, said Audrey. The outdoor environment and the seclusion is conducive to businesses that need a place for a team-building meeting or a retreat, to family reunions, or any kind of gathering.
“By the end of this summer we will have had nine groups come here,” said Audrey.
There is plenty of room for activities as well.
The Huvers ran a ranch for a church in Wyoming prior to coming to the area.
As part of their ministry, the Huvers also do a lot of woodworking. Much of the wood they use, J.P. said, is wood that is rejected by other people, making the things they create unique and funky. Some of it has come from corrals and barns that J.P. has torn down. Audrey will use a variety of media to carve or burn a scene into the wood, along with some scripture verses, and then paint them. These personal touches make their woodworking one-of-a-kind and unusual.
“Our focus is on providing a ministry and service for kids,” said Audrey. “But the woodworking is an extension of what we do.”
J.P. has made sofa tables (a table that is higher than a regular table), candelabras, hangers for coats, footstools — just about anything that they can think of. It is usually made of the pine that is found around here and some of the wood came from Wyoming as well. The sanding and staining occupies much of J.P.’s time, and the end results are beautiful.
The views from the camp, located near Summit Lake on Road 37, are spectacular and, at the same time, very relaxing. Audrey does most of the cooking for the camp, as director, and J.P. does all the maintenance and labor. They both pitch in where necessary all over the camp.
“It’s an awesome place for anyone to come and have a meeting, or bring their youth group for camp,” said Audrey.
The Huvers’ artistic woodworking efforts can be seen at the Artisan’s Co-op in Mancos. This Friday, Aug. 31, is an opening reception for them and their art.
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Developing an Emergency Plan
Making a personal emergency plan is the first step. The most important things for you to consider are your surroundings, your physical abilities and the types of emergencies that may occur where you live.
It does not make sense to plan for something that will not happen in your town. For instance, a person who lives in Upstate New York does not need to worry about a tsunami, or tidal wave. But, you may need to prepare for a flood if you live near a river or creek. In addition to learning about the types of emergencies that may affect you, learn what emergency plans are in place in your community. Emergencies can occur when you and your family are away from home, so learn about plans at school and work, too. It is important to find out how you will be notified of an emergency at school and work. Learn about your community's warning signals and what you should do when you hear or see them.
Ask about registries that may be in place to help people with disabilities in an emergency. Some communities and counties have a voluntary registry for people with disabilities so help can be provided quickly. Information about registries can often be found on your county or community website home page. Contact your local emergency management office. It should be listed in the government pages of your local phone book. Many offices maintain a registry for people with disabilities. Most electric and utility companies have a voluntary registry for people who depend on oxygen or ventilators so in a power outage, they can alert officials as to who will need help. If you are uneasy participating in a registry, remember the purpose of registries is to get you help as quickly as possible.
Next, make a list of what type of help you will need during an emergency. This means you need to be aware of your physical and mental strengths and weaknesses. You do not need a mobility impairment to qualify for assistance during an emergency. For example, if you wear hearing aids or rely on lip-reading to communicate, you most likely do not have trouble understanding your co-workers in your normal office workspace. But, you might have trouble understanding them if you are standing in a smoky, dark stairwell after the power and lights have gone out. Likewise, you may have a visual impairment and a guide dog to assist you in walking around your office building. If your guide dog has participated in all emergency drills, you may not require assistance to evacuate your office in an emergency.
Some people find it easier to list all of their needs by thinking of their daily routines and activities. This includes routines for personal care, daily medications, adaptive devices and any equipment that requires electricity. Include your service animal in your list. Many agencies, such as the American Red Cross and the New York State Emergency Management Office, have created medical information sheets to help you organize this list. An example of such a sheet can be found on here.
When you have made a list of what your needs will be in an emergency, you can then focus on your personal emergency plan. Your emergency plan should be a step-by-step guideline that will help you prepare for and deal with emergency situations. A good plan can help you feel in control. Once you have your plan, share it with family members, friends, neighbors, personal care attendants and co-workers. Post your plan in your house where you can easily reference it.
It is best to start your plan by creating your personal support network. This is your "self-help team," the people who know about your needs and are willing to help in an emergency. Members of your support network could be roommates, relatives, neighbors, personal care attendants, friends and co-workers. They should be people that you trust and who care about your safety. Do not depend on just one person. The American Red Cross recommends you include at least three people in your network for each location where you normally spend a lot of time.
Once you have your support network in place, share with them your list of what your needs will be in an emergency and your emergency plan. If you use a mobility device, show your support network members how to operate and safely move it. Have them practice using it so that during an emergency, they will feel confident helping you. Practice giving short, specific directions to people. That way, you will feel confident in your abilities to communicate important information in an emergency situation. Even though you have practiced with your network, in a real emergency you may have to rely on strangers or people who have never helped you before.
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Who’s overgrazing BLM lands? Subsidized livestock. BLM data shows it.
The below spreadsheet converts grazing receipts reported by the BLM for private livestock grazed under the public lands grazing program, allowing a direct head-to-head comparison between the number of wild horses (WH) estimated by the BLM and permitted cattle grazing from 2002-2018 (see column 9). What does the data show? Cattle historically outnumbering WH by a factor of 71:1 (in 2002), 92:1 (2007) and 28:1 (2018).
This isn’t the story the BLM tells the public. In fact, the BLM doesn’t publicly report subsidized livestock numbers.
It hides them, instead spinning a story of overpopulation and overgrazing by wild horses to justify costly WH roundups, removals, sterilization and sale/euthanasia proposals.
The column 9 ratios prove that justification to be false. And the ratios low-ball how many cattle actually compete with WH for water, forage and land, since grazing fees are calculated according to self-reported rancher AUMs and do not reflect underreporting and trespass grazing (like the more than $1 million that Cliven Bundy owed in back grazing fees in 2014). So the actual number of subsidized, privately owned livestock on public lands is likely much much higher.
Other key findings:
- Beef produced on public lands constitutes just 1.9% of the nation’s beef supply according to Erik Molvar, the director of the environmental group, Western Watersheds Project.
- Public lands ranching subsidizes large livestock operations owned by millionaires and billionaires; less so mom-and-pop ranchers. As reported by New York Times science writer Stephen Nash in his 2017 book, Grand Canyon for Sale, “Some grazing allotments are shared among several permittees; some permittees control several allotments; sometimes it’s just one allotment, one permittee.
That fuzzes up the picture available to us from BLM data, but it tells a hard-edged story, nonetheless. The distribution of this wealth of public land is skewed, to a staggering degree” (p. 137). As Nash spells out:
- About 15,000 individuals and corporate entities hold public-lands grazing permits.
- The top 1% of them — only some 152 permittees — hold interests in an astonishing expanse, about a third of the total BLM grazing land area: some seventy-seven thousand square MILES.
- The next 5 percent of them hold about the next third of the total land area.
- The bottom 94 percent — about 14,000 permittees — account for only the final third of the BLM’s public grazing lands.
The identities of the permittees are sometimes obscured by corporate names, but data provided by the BLM shows that the folks leasing great swaths of public land to graze their cattle and enjoy enormous government subsidies include both people and corporations on Forbes “Billionaires” and “Richest Americans” lists (see p. 138 or click here).
When advocates claim that livestock outnumbers and out-grazes wild horses on public lands, this is not an emotional argument or an opinion. It is an argument based on the above data from the BLM and other government sources — data that the BLM doesn’t make available to the public and media, because it doesn’t want them to know…about the cattle, their owners, the damage they cause, and the massive subsidies they are taking from average Americans.
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There are so many career choices in the UK but it’s about what best suits your lifestyle, experiences, and education. This article will take you through some great ideas for a new career, whether you want to work from home due to other priorities or use your life experiences to find your passion.
With so many people having the need to travel at different ages, it’s something most people could end up loving! passing on your experiences of different counties onto people who want to see new places for the first time. Being able to recommend places in different countries would be amazing whilst enticing someone to stay somewhere you have in mind. A great thing about this career choice is that it can be done from home or if you prefer to work in an agency they’ll be glad to have you. If you were traveling or just visited a lot of countries in your time you’ll be able to do this job with a great level of confidence.
A lot of people find themselves leaving education unsure of what to do with their knowledge. Teaching is one of the most satisfying careers, helping young minds develop and grow. Teaching also offers convenient working hours and holidays and you can manage your own workload during your time off. Teaching is a career you can do with a great attitude because you’ve already experienced it and can offer you knowledge in the best way possible. Another thing to consider is that teaching/ tutoring can be offering your own home if Required, it’s defiantly worth considering if you have the knowledge to share.
We all get taught a second language in high school, but how can we use it? Being a translator is one of the fastest growing occupations and is likely to increase by around 29 percent by 2024. It’s a well-paying career path and if you are fluent in another language (or willing to learn) you can be working all around the world or simply interpreting audio files and document from your own home.
Another great way to work from home and feel good about it is becoming a foster carer. A lot of people think to become a foster carer is difficult but most people can do it. It’s a rewarding career that offers happiness to children of all different ages. Foster carers don’t have to be a status either agencies will not discriminate against you due to marital status, sexual orientation or gender. So, if you feel like this could suit your lifestyle the best thing to do is enquire.
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BOB DYLAN AND FRANK SINATRA (Part 2)
When I think of Sinatra, I think of Vegas and jet-setting, glamour and riches. Sinatra was the king of kings in the entertainment culture in the mid to late 20th century. Johnny Carson, himself a star maker and big Hollywood light, drew a line between Sinatra and everyone else who appeared on his show. Carson was in awe of Sinatra and did not care who knew it. Frank was the man, the ultimate in cool, the ultimate in style and taste. Where Frank was, that was the place to be.
And his songs perpetuated the myth. At least some of them. Here’s a line from “Come Fly With Me: ” Come fly with me, come fly, let’s fly away. If you could use some exotic booze, there’s a bar in far Bombay. . . “
And there it is – pleasure, money, sophistication. Devil may care. He is in with the in crowd.
But Dylan’s tribute to Sinatra teaches us that not all of Frank’s work was that way. Take, for example, the song “Stay With Me,” recorded by Frank in the early sixties and that Dylan includes in this 2015 collection. That song, the theme from the movie “The Cardinal” is a soul searching ballad of humility and repentance. “That Lucky Old Sun” is a plaintive and heart-rending cry of a manual laborer, lost in the rush and grind of life. And Sinatra interpreted both songs beautifully and convincingly – as does Dylan.
Vocal quality is not the only great difference between Dylan and Sinatra. The image of Sinatra was of a man right at home amid the luxuries and complexities of high society. One of his nicknames was “The Chairman of The Board.” Dylan, on the other hand, was a twentieth century version of John the Baptist. A voice crying in the wilderness. A man who lived outside the city walls and ate honey and locusts and spoke of judgement to come.
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In the summer of 2015 politicians and environmental representatives worldwide prepared themselves for the climate conference in Paris (COP21). The target was to dismiss a binding international climate protection agreement. However, the thematic complexity and conference language are often only understood by experts in detail. The Ecologic Institute organized a 9-day training course for journalists from 16 different countries, that dealt with the different dimensions of global climate change, focusing in particular on the subject of the Paris conference.
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Founded by activist and transwoman, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the Transgender Day of Remembrance marks the death of transgender African American woman Rita Hester, who was murdered in a hate crime on 28 November 1998.
Such a day reminds us of human beings' capacity for the most abhorrent behaviour and acts.
But in the face of 21st century exclusion and discrimination, we can look to our ancestors and traditions for answers. When it comes to acceptance of gender diversity, the native Hawai'ian culture offers powerful lessons.
The meaning of 'Aloha' is 'love, honour and respect for all'
The meaning of 'Aloha' is 'love, honour and respect for all', which might be symptomatic of a wider culture that promotes equality and dignity. But beyond that, expressions of gender and sexuality which are creative or fall outside of mainstream norms have traditionally been celebrated in Hawai'ian culture.
As the documentaries 'Kumu Hina' and 'A Place in the Middle' reveal, living between both genders is the powerful 'māhū' way. Hawai'ian heritage respects the māhū people, which it says embody both the male and female spirit. Māhū have traditionally taken on roles as caretakers, healers and keepers of ancient traditions.
'When I was in high school I was teased and tormented for being too girlish. But I found refuge in being Hawai'ian.'
Māhū Hina Wong-Kalu says in the documentary 'Kumu Hina' that she found sanctuary in her culture and heritage: 'When I was in high school I was teased and tormented for being too girlish. But I found refuge in being Hawai’ian.'
Now a teacher and cultural director at a charter school, Hina teaches her students about their culture's time-honoured traditions and values.
'Kumu Hina' follows Hina's story as she helps a student, Ho'onani, who is also 'in the middle'. It is a truly inspiring story about love, identity and compassion that takes us to the exhilarating final performance of a hula troupe.
'A Place in the Middle' is a version of 'Kumu Hina' for children.
WATCH 'A Place in the Middle’ on NITV (ch 34 / 144) on Friday 20 November at 6:00PM or catch it after broadcast here, On Demand.
WATCH ‘Kumu Hina' on NITV (ch 34 / 144) on Friday 20 November at 9:00PM or catch it after broadcast here, On Demand.
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I believe that every person should be able to practise their cultural traditions, and to know and perpetuate the wisdom of their ancestors for future generations.
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By Beth Musgrave
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was re-elected as Senate minority leader on Wednesday.
McConnell, whose caucus lost seats to the Democratic majority on Nov. 6, will have a fourth term as leader of Senate Republicans.
McConnell was nominated for the top spot by Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
In a statement released by McConnell’s office, the Louisville native said an “energized” Republican leadership is committed to finding solutions to the country’s problems.
“I am honored that my colleagues once again supported me and invested their trust in me to lead the team as Republican Leader for another two years,” McConnell said.
McConnell is the second Kentuckian to be chosen as the leader of his party in the Senate. The first was Democratic Sen. Alben Barkley, who served as Senate Majority Leader and was later vice president under President Harry Truman.
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Narelle intensifyingJanuary 9, 2013 in Earth / Earth Sciences
Infrared and near-infrared NASA satellite imagery provided signs to forecasters that Tropical Cyclone Narelle is intensifying as it moves southwest paralleling Western Australia coastline. Warnings have been posted as Narelle nears.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) issued the following watch and warnings for Narelle on Jan. 9: A cyclone watch is in effect for coastal areas from Whim Creek to Coral Bay. A Blue alert is in effect for coastal and island communities from Whim Creek to Mardie, including Wickham, Roebourne, Point Sampson, Karratha and Dampier.
The ABM noted on its tropical cyclone warning website today, Jan. 9, that Tropical Cyclone Narelle is expected to strengthen as it moves toward the Northwest Cape. ABM said that gales with gusts to 100 kph are expected to develop in coastal areas between Whim Creek and Onslow including the Karratha area Friday morning (Jan. 11), then extend west to Exmouth and Coral Bay later Friday or early Saturday (Jan. 12). Thunderstorm activity is forecast to increase along the Pilbara coastline on Jan. 11, where some areas may experience heavy rainfall. On Saturday, winds are expected to increase along the western Pilbara coast.
NASA's Aqua satellite has been providing data to forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard Aqua has been capturing infrared and near infrared data that have shown colder cloud top temperatures and a more organized center of circulation in Narelle over the two days of Jan. 8 and 9.
The two AIRS infrared images of Tropical Cyclone Narelle were captured on Jan. 8 at 1723 UTC and Jan. 9 at 0541 UTC (12:41 a.m. EST/U.S.) and showed cold cloud top temperatures of -63F (-52C) indicating high, powerful thunderstorms with heavy rainfall over a large area. Infrared satellite imagery also showed tightly-curved, deep convective banding of thunderstorms wrapping into a well-defined low-level circulation center that was evident on AIRS near infrared imagery on Jan. 9 at 0541 UTC (12:41 a.m. EST/U.S.).
Near-infrared imagery looks like a visible image. That near-infrared image showed a tight circulation center with a large band of thunderstorms wrapping around from the south. Western Australia is seen southeast of Narelle. All of the AIRS imagery was created at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
On Jan. 9 at 1500 UTC (10 a.m. EST/U.S.), Tropical Cyclone Narelle was located near 13.5 south latitude and 115.9 east longitude, about 525 nautical miles (604.2 miles/972.3 km) north-northeast of Learmonth, Australia. Narelle was moving to the southwest at 6 knots (7 mph/11.1 kph) and generating waves up to 26 feet high (7.9 meters).
Narelle's maximum sustained winds were near 70 knots (80.5 mph/129.6 kph). Cyclone-force winds extend up to 25 nautical miles (28.7 miles/ 46.3 km) from the center, while tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 85 nautical miles (97.8 miles/157.4 km) from the center.
Tropical Cyclone Narelle is expected to continue moving slowly southwest along the northwestern edge of a strong subtropical ridge (elongated area) of high pressure. That ridge is currently located over Western Australia.
Narelle is expected to continue intensifying over the next two days as it moves closer to the coastline. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that after passing Cape Leveque Narelle will start to weaken. In the meantime, residents in the warning and watch areas should expect deteriorating conditions.
Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Do parents have no rights at all? As the mother of (almost) preteens, I find this extremely upsetting.
Parents, how do you feel about this? Do schools have the right or the responsiblity to give your 11-13 year old child birth control pills or the patch without your consent???
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School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle School
Thursday, October 18, 2007
PORTLAND, Maine — Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.
The plan, offered by city health officials, makes King Middle School the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
There are no national figures on how many middle schools, where most students range in age from 11 to 13, provide such services.
“It’s very rare that middle schools do this,” said Divya Mohan, a spokeswoman for the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.
The Portland School Committee voted 5-2 for the measure.
Chairman John Coynie voted against it, saying he felt providing the birth control was a parental responsibility. The other no vote came from Ben Meiklejohn, who said the consent form does not clearly define the services being offered.
Opponents cited religious and health objections.
Diane Miller, who said she has worked as a school nurse in another district for eight years, called the proposal “tragic” and asked “What would God have us do?”
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Conventional wisdom says that place matters more for people who live in distressed neighborhoods—places with low median incomes and not a lot of opportunity. That’s why policymakers have traditionally focused on one of two place-based solutions. Community development grants and tax breaks, for example, are aimed at improving conditions by luring investment into disadvantaged areas. Housing voucher programs, meanwhile, are supposed to help low-income families escape distressed neighborhoods and move to ones with higher median incomes and better educational outcomes.
But what if our approach to geographical inequality is lopsided? What if we’re overlooking the contribution of so-called advantaged neighborhoods in maintaining status quo?
In a 2019 paper published in Sociological Quarterly, Junia Howell, a sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh, argues just that. “As important as investigations into disadvantaged neighborhoods are,” she writes, “the nearly exclusive analytical focus on them has the unintentional consequence of downplaying the role that advantaged neighborhoods play in stratifying educational outcomes.”
In this paper, Howell tested what types of neighborhoods had the most influence on their residents by analyzing a trove of data going back a half-century from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Administered since 1968 to a representative sample of 5,000 households across the U.S., this is the world’s longest-running longitudinal household survey, and it allowed her to track children in the survey throughout their childhood and into adulthood. She had information on what they did for a living, how much they made, and what block they lived on for each year of the survey. Connecting that with census data allowed her to paint a picture of the neighborhoods they lived in.
As researchers have done in the past, she gave these neighborhoods scores based on proportion of residents below poverty line, proportion of black residents, and proportion of female-headed single-family households. The higher these proportions, the more “disadvantaged” the neighborhood.
That definition is “in itself problematic,” Howell said, because the lack of opportunity in these places is a symptom of historical treatment and structural problems. But she wanted to use it to be consistent with previous research. (She also looked at other measures of neighborhood disadvantage, like median income and educational attainment, and found similar results.)
She then conducted a series of analyses to predict the effect disadvantaged and advantaged neighborhoods have on children’s educational attainment by the time they turned 26. She found that advantaged neighborhoods mattered much more for their residents—the boost they provided was much stronger than the negative effect distressed neighborhoods had on their residents.
Put another way, living in an advantaged neighborhood would make a substantial difference to educational attainment of a person, compared to another with comparable family and individual profile. But for people living in moderate or very disadvantaged neighborhoods, educational outcome is similar if everything else is similar. So parental education level and income may matter more.
Howell concludes in the paper:
Findings suggest neighborhood structural effects are asymmetrical. These results suggest that educational inequality is driven by the compounding privileges of the most advantaged residents.
That relationship between neighborhood advantage and its influence on educational attainment is visualized in the graph below. Note how steeply the line representing educational attainment rises on the left-hand-side of the graph, which shows the influence of the most advantaged neighborhoods. On the right side, it’s much flatter:
Another striking finding of the study is how these results differ by race: She finds that whites are concentrated in the most advantaged areas, and experience a strong positive effect of living in these areas that drives the overall strong influence of these neighborhoods.
Black residents are more widely distributed across wider variety of neighborhoods, although still overrepresented in disadvantaged ones. But educational attainment is not as affected by this geography. That means, even if African Americans live in advantaged neighborhoods, they may not experience benefits compared to what their white counterparts experience.
“This patterns speak to the fact that the mechanisms that are enabling advantaged residents in advantaged neighborhoods are ones that excludes black residents and enhancing white residents,” Howell said. “There are ways of drawing lines that are not just the neighborhoods… [the neighborhood effect] is not the only piece.”
Here’s what that looks like on a graph. Again, the predicted educational attainment line for whites is way steeper, whereas for blacks, it’s much more level.
The study doesn’t say anything about how exactly privilege compounds in advantaged areas, or why it manifests more for white residents than their black neighbors. But Howell has some theories: Generational advantages (legacy admissions, family wealth), social networks that give white kids preference in private school and college admissions, and institutional practices (like inequality in high school “tracking”) may all play a role.
Research has shown that where children grow up affects how they fare academically, economically, and physically; it also predicts how they interact with the criminal justice system. This study confirms that neighborhoods do matter, but gives a new, surprising answer to questions like “for whom?” and “how much?”
That has implications not just for the way policy interventions tackling inequality are designed, but how cities themselves are planned, Howell said; it challenges a central assumption that poor areas, and the people who live in them, are the problems. To solve disparities, therefore, a single-minded focus on pouring resources into disadvantaged neighborhood may not just be ineffective, but also counterproductive. The core problems lie in places and in institutions outside those communities.
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May 9, 2014
Earlier this week, venture capitalist Brad Feld put up a good post concerning the risk of the FCC’s “open internet” rules actually turning into the ability for big broadband providers to set up a “fast lane” for large companies to pay for faster access to users. He suggested was that the best way to make clear how bad an idea this would be, would be to have internet companies demo the slow lane:
What if we did the same by Demoing the Slow Lane for a day. Algorithmically, all sites could slow themselves down dramatically, demonstrating what performance might look like over a 1/1 pipe. Or even a 0.5/0.5 pipe….
Let the world see “Waiting for”, “Connecting”, and “Buffering” show up in their browser continuously throughout the day. Explain what is going on. Then click a button to bypass the Slow Lane and get normal connectivity.
Instead of everyone getting tangled up in the legal question of what “net neutrality” means, consumers can see what could happen if / when ISPs can decide which companies get to use their fast lanes by paying extra and who is relegated to the slow lane.
It appears that (as many, many of you sent in), one web hosting company has adopted a somewhat modified plan based on a similar concept. Neocities has taken the FCC’s IP block and rate limited any traffic from the FCC to Neocities’ site down to the equivalent of a nostalgic 28.8Kbps modem (old man in me: I remember when those were considered “fast”).
Since the FCC seems to have no problem with this idea, I’ve (through correspondence) gotten access to the FCC’s internal IP block, and throttled all connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities.org front site, and I’m not removing it until the FCC pays us for the bandwidth they’ve been wasting instead of doing their jobs protecting us from the “keep America’s internet slow and expensive forever” lobby.
Neocities will let the FCC use a fast lane for just $1,000 per year. Neocities has also released the code it used, in case anyone else would like to do the same thing. | <urn:uuid:41e36380-4072-449e-bcc9-82ce8a7407aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infowars.com/webhost-protests-fccs-net-neutrality-proposal-by-limiting-fcc-access-to-28-8kbps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957259 | 495 | 2.375 | 2 |
Oxfam Workers Accused Of Sexually Exploiting Haiti Quake Survivors
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Oxfam was one of many international aid groups that swept into Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. In recent days, though, reports have revealed that several Oxfam workers sexually exploited earthquake survivors and that the group's leaders have known about this for years and did not share the information with the Haitian government or with the public. Now Haiti's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Bocchit Edmond, wants to pursue criminal charges against those involved. Ambassador Edmond is with us now from London.
Thanks so much for being with us, Ambassador.
BOCCHIT EDMOND: It's a pleasure to be with you.
MARTIN: And just a warning to our listeners - this conversation might not be suitable for younger listeners because of the nature of it. To be clear, we are talking about Oxfam employees hiring vulnerable Haitian women as prostitutes. You have also said that underage girls may have been involved. What more can you tell us about the scope of what Oxfam workers did?
EDMOND: Yes, absolutely. I need to make a precision (ph) for you - not only Oxfam employees but the - it was, possibly, the country director - I mean, the No. 1 Oxfam representative in Haiti.
MARTIN: The - so the top official from London.
EDMOND: The top official of...
MARTIN: Of the organization.
EDMOND: I mean, of course it is - he's a citizen from Belgium, but he was working for Oxfam in Haiti as a director of the - as the country director. That means the No. 1 Oxfam in Haiti.
MARTIN: So this was happening from the top.
MARTIN: You have been quoted as saying Haiti could seek additional legal action against Oxfam. What would that look like?
EDMOND: I don't - I probably - I didn't - someone misunderstood me. I did not say that we will be seeking legal actions against Oxfam. But what I can confirm to you - my government is willing and is about to take legal actions against those who perpetuated those acts. That means possibly Mr. van Hauwermeiren and all the accomplices. So therefore, it's very important. And this is a case we are not going to take it lightly, like this. And we are very serious about it. We believe an example has to be set because...
MARTIN: So you...
EDMOND: ...This has been a culture of cover up in our view. And that's one of the reasons we are so determined to take action.
MARTIN: So you're going to pursue legal action against the individuals who perpetrated...
MARTIN: ...These potential crimes.
MARTIN: But does the organization itself, Oxfam, not bear any responsibility?
EDMOND: Absolutely. They do bear some more responsibility because an investigation was done, and the result showed exactly those people committed a crime. And the report was made to the headquarters in London, and they know what happened. And they even said one of the reasons they did not report them to the Haitian authorities - because they believe nothing would have been done, which we consider as an insult to our country and to the victims because even though the situation was not so easy after the earthquake, but - the state of Haiti does not stop to exist.
Law enforcement was there. So the fact that they failed to report the findings of the investigation to the local authorities and even they failed to (inaudible) report it to the British authorities and we believe it was a cover up, and so they have to be denounced.
MARTIN: OK. Bocchit Edmond is Haiti's ambassador to the United Kingdom. He joined us from London over Skype.
Mr. Ambassador, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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On Saturday, a week later, it is moving day. Ruth shows Beneatha the curtains she has bought for the new house and tells her that the first thing she is going to do in their new house is take a long bath in their very own bathroom. Ruth comments on the changed mood around the household, noting that she and Walter even went out to the movies and held hands the previous evening. Walter comes in and dances with Ruth. Beneatha teases them about acting in a stereotypical fashion but does not really mean any harm. Ruth and Walter understand and join in the lighthearted teasing, and Walter claims that Beneatha talks about nothing but race.
A middle-aged white man named Karl Lindner appears at the door. He is a representative from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, and he tells the Youngers that problems arise when different kinds of people do not sit down and talk to each other. The Youngers agree, until he reveals that he and the neighborhood coalition believe that the Youngers’ presence in Clybourne Park would destroy the community there. The current residents are all white, working-class people who do not want anything to threaten the dream that they have for their community. Mr. Lindner tells the Youngers that the association is prepared to offer them more money than they are to pay for the house in exchange for not moving to Clybourne Park. Ruth, Beneatha, and Walter all become very upset, but they manage to control their anger. Walter firmly tells Mr. Lindner that they will not accept the offer and urges Mr. Lindner to leave immediately.
When Mama comes home, Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha tell her about Mr. Lindner’s visit. It shocks and worries her, but she supports their decision to refuse the buyout offer. Then, as she is making sure that her plant is well packed for the trip, the rest of the family surprises her with gifts of gardening tools and a huge gardening hat. Mama has never received presents other than at Christmas, and she is touched by her family’s generosity. Just as the whole family begins to celebrate, Bobo, one of Walter’s friends, arrives. After some stumbling, he announces that Willy Harris has run off with all of the money that Walter invested in the liquor store deal. It turns out that Walter had invested not only his $3,500 but also the $3,000 intended for Beneatha’s education. Mama is livid and begins to beat Walter in the face. Beneatha breaks them up. Weakness overcomes Mama, and she thinks about the hard labor her husband endured in order to earn the money for them. She prays ardently for strength.
This scene presents two conflicts and worries for the Youngers and their future. First, the incident with Mr. Lindner of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association reveals the power of both dreams and racial prejudice. Mr. Lindner’s comments do not intimidate the members of the Younger family. Rather, they seem to expect the conflict. The Youngers know that they are about to achieve some of their dreams and are not going to let racism get in their way. Mama’s careful packing of her plant when she hears of the incident shows she is proud of her fortitude in holding onto her dream. She knows that she needs a token of the dream’s power in order to face hardship in the all-white neighborhood. The plant symbolizes her dream of escaping from their poverty-stricken life. It also represents a dream for African-American equality and acceptance in the general culture. In addition, this episode shows that the fact that Mama holds onto her dream is as important as the realization of this dream.
The second conflict, Walter’s duplicitous investment of the insurance money and its disastrous result, evokes much greater strife and discord. When Bobo arrives and announces that the money is gone, Walter yells, “THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER’S FLESH,” reflecting his belief that money is the lifeblood of human existence. None of the Youngers feels pity for Walter, and it seems now that none of their dreams will come true. Ruth and Beneatha reach a new low of depression and pessimism. While Mama protests at first, she seems to agree with their attitude when she talks about watching her husband wither from hard work. In the face of the loss of the money, Mama’s idealism about family falters. Mama’s sudden sad realization that her husband’s life boils down to a stack of paper bills compels her to turn on Walter as if he had killed his father himself. This anger is uncommon for Mama, and it is significant because it demonstrates that her compassion is not born of passivity. She cares too much for the memory of her husband, for their mutual dream of buying a home, and for her family to let Walter off the hook. Her beating him is the only way for her to force Walter to realize his mistakes and to look for a way to correct them.
Though the other characters talk about Willy Harris, the man who runs away with Walter’s and Bobo’s money, he never makes an appearance onstage. Willy remains a faceless symbol for Walter’s negligence and risky handling of the money. Moreover, Hansberry’s focus is not on the act of theft but rather on the Younger family and the reactions of its members to adversity.
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One of my favorite words is hope. The dictionary defines it this way: “grounds for believing something good may happen.” I remember as a child watching Oral Roberts on television. He would end each program by saying, “Something good is going to happen to you today!"
My wife Alison and I liked the word so much we named our firstborn, our daughter, Wriley Hope.
Before every season, sports fans get excited, thinking this may be the year their team wins big. We say “Hope springs eternal,” an expression possibly first coined by 18th-century British poet Alexander Pope.
I enjoy golfing, but if I have a bad hole, I’ve learned not to let it bother me more than a couple of minutes. Why? Because as soon I put my club back in the bag, it’s about 60 seconds before my cart arrives at the next tee box – the next opportunity for something good to happen. There is renewed hope that I may make a par.
To go a little deeper, hope is also very much a biblical word. One of the most well-known Bible chapters is 1 Corinthians 13, where verse 13 reads: “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
The fact that the Lord would put hope in with faith and love tells me that hope (in a spiritual sense) is much more than what we call “wishful thinking.” Like faith and love, hope is a powerful force God puts in the hearts of followers of Jesus Christ to help us maintain a biblical perspective on life and the world around us.
Our work here at AFA is to advance the kingdom of God. To promote good and oppose evil. We do that by giving leadership to the Christian community in several areas including politics and government. AFA fights spiritual wickedness every day. In fact, we are often targeted by others for this very reason.
If we look around at what is happening in our country and in the world, it would be easy to despair. There is so much sin and immorality right out in the open today. Fewer Americans are going to church, and sadly, many of our churches are falling into the hands of leaders who compromise with the world. In the broader culture, a growing attitude toward Christians is that we should shut up and stay in our churches.
But Christians can’t do that. Why? Because we have hope in a great God! We have hope that He can change lives and save the country we love from destruction. Like many of you reading this, I have children and grandchildren, and I want to see them have the opportunity to live free. I want them to be able to live in a country that values human life. I want them to grow up in a country that respects law and order.
Without a return of reverence for God, tyranny will one day take our country. That’s how history works. But we still have hope; we know what God has done for our nation in the past. Revivals have swept the land. In fact, the divine impact of the First and Second Great Awakenings is evident even today.
Sometimes we are accused by fellow Christians of putting our faith in tools of man to bring about change in our government and in our culture. But we understand that while we must do our part as the Bible commands (to live righteously and stand for the Lord), we have hope that no matter where the road leads, God will take care of those who have given their lives to Him. And so we trust in the Lord – we have a hope – that no matter what, God reigns now and forever.
That sentiment is captured in the lines from one of my favorite hymns, “The Solid Rock,” by Edward Mote:
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ the solid rock I stand.
All other ground is sinking sand.
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Effect of local field on atomic systems I : Derivation of interaction hamiltonian in electric dipole systems
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 1~5
We define the basic minimal coupling Hamiltonian of the atomic systems in the Coulomb guage and show that this Hamiltonian yields the correct equations of motion for the operators of interest. Using the unitary transformation and making the dipole approximation, we calculate the effect of polarization of the dipoles on the interaction Hamiltonian of the system. ystem.
An optical design of a high resolution earth observation camera for small satellites
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 6~12
A space-borne earth observation camera is an electro-optical instrument to measure the characteristics of the earth's surface, and to transmit the measured data to a ground station(s). The specifications of a space-borne camera, such as resolution, swath width and observation bands, are determined by its mission objectives. This paper lists some specifications of a camera suitable for small satellite and then presents an optical design, with the results of tolerancing analysis, which satisfies the given specifications. tions.
The preparation of
thin films by reactive RF sputtering method
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 13~18
The SiOxNy thin films were prepared on Si(lOO) by reactive RF sputtering method. The reactive gas ratio and the power were used as parameters for depositing SiOxNy thin fims. The properties of
thin tilms were investigated by XRD, XPS, refractive index and extinction coefficient analyzer (n'||'&'||'k analyzer), and FfIR. It was found by the results of the x-ray diffraction measurement that SiOxNy thin films were grown to an amorphous structure. From the results of the XPS, and the n'||'&'||'k analyzer, it was found that refractive index was intended to increase with the increasement of the relative nitrogen contents of the
The improvement of viewing angle characteristics of BTN LCD by using a optical retardation film
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 19~24
Optical transmission characteristics of retardation film for obliquely incident light is calculated by using extended Jones calculus and it is geometrically interpreted on Poincare sphere representation as rotational transformation. The characteristics of a retardation film is that while the rotation axis is fixed at a point on the Equator of the Poincar sphere, the rotation angle varies with the direction of incidence. This property can be compensated by using a tandem arrangement of the two optical films whose optic axes do not coincident, and this method can be used for the improvement of the viewing angle characteristics of BTN cells. cells.
Enhanced nonlinearity of nonlinear optical side-chain polymers
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 25~32
Comparisons are made between the first hyperpolarizability
of pure N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol (NPP) and poly (methyl metacrylate) (PMMA) or poly-p-(phenylene terephthalates) (PPT) with NPP side group determined with two different methods, electric-field-induced second-harmonic generation (EFISHG) and hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) methods. Both techniques yield the same values within the experimental errors for pure NPP and NPP-PMMA in 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane solution. But the measured results of NPP-PPT polymer in 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane solution are showing that the first hyperpolarizability was enhanced with an enhencement of a factor 9.7 in EFISHG and a factor 2.4 in HRS relative to pure NPP. These results indicate that nonlinear optical chromophores organized as side groups of polymers with a rigid backbone contribute coherently to the secondorder nonlinear response of the polymer in the dc electric field as polar polymer chains. hains.
PLC-Type WDM directional coupler and the effect of wavelength shift by UV irradiation
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 33~36
KrF excimer laser, which is useful for fabrication of fiber gratings, was irradiated on the PLC-type WDM directional coupler and the transmission wavelength shift was observed as a function of UV exposure time. The effective refractive index change of rectangular silica waveguide was calculated from the wavelength shift measurement and the coupled mode theory. heory.
Nonlinearity of semiconductor optical amplifier and gain-clamping effects of Iaser-injected semiconductor optical amplifier in wavelength division mulitiplexing
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 37~42
We have numerically solved rate-equations of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) to understand the characteristics of SOA. The rate-equations we have used can describe injection carrier density, amplified spontaneous emission and signal photon density in spatial and time domain by dividing the cavity into multi-section. We have investigated injection carrier density, amplified spontaneous emission and signal photon density as a function of position and time in the case of single channel input in the form of square pulse. Also we have analyzed the non-linear phenomena of SOA in the case of injecting multi-channel wavelengths as in WDM. Intermodulation distortion (IMD) caused by beat among channels has significant effects on the signal distortion as the channel spacing becomes narrower, and channel crosstalk becomes larger as the power of signals increases. In the case of the injection of another CW laser whose wavelength is far enough from the signal wavelengths, the crosstalk and the output signal distortion can be significantly reduced. duced.
Generation of sub-10-fs Pulses from a kerr-Iens mode-locked Ri:sapphire Iaser
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 43~46
We generated 9-fs pulses from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser only using commercial optical components. Two sets of prisms pair made of fused silica were used to compensate group delay dispersion inside and outside the laser oscillator respectively, and broadband mirrors were used to obtain a broad spectrum. By comparison between reflectance curves of the broadband mirrors and those of previous ones, broadband mirrors which have high reflectance bandwidth of over 180 nm were found to be essential to produce sub-IO-fs pulses. ulses.
Design of phase-only diffractive pattern elements using a two-stage iterative Fourier transform algorithm
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 47~57
A two-stage iterative Fourier transform algorithm, based on hybrid input-output algorithm and new Pnoise algorithm, is used to design continuous and quantized phase-only diffractive pattern elements which produce arbitrary given intensity patterns via Fraunhofer diffraction. Numerical results for two
binary patterns and two grayscale patterns are compared with those of other algorithms. It is found that the algorithm yields better signal-to-noise ratio and even better uniformity with slightly lower diffraction efficiency than other algorithms. We investigated the dependence of performance on parameters used in the algorithm, size of noise region, and the number of phase levels for quantized elements. In the case of quantized phase elements, the size of noise region plays a greater role in determining the performance of the algorithm than given intensity pattern itself. tself.
Area storage density of ideal 3-D holographic disk memories
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics, volume 11, issue 1, 2000, Pages 58~64
Assuming that the performance of holographic storage media is ideal, we estimate the area storage density of disk-type holographic memories, when the method of either angle multiplexing, or rotational multiplexing, or both are used. The area storage density is strongly dependent on the f numbers (ratio of focal length to diameter) of both the Fourier transform lens in the signal arm, denoted by
, and the angle range over which the reference beam is incident (or, the equivalent f number corresponding to the angle range denoted by
). The area storage density is largely independent of the pixel pitch of the spatial light modulator when the Fourier plane holograms are recorded, while it is sensitive to the pixel pitch when the image plane holograms are recorded. In general, to obtain high area storage density, the Fourier or at least near Fourier plane holograms rather than the image plane holograms should be recorded. In addition, when the thickness of the recording materials are less than approximately
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Humans have skeletons to protect their internal organs, support the body and make coordinated movements. Some skeletal components also produce blood cells and store minerals.Continue Reading
Bones protect vital organs from damage. The brain and eyes are encased in the skull, while the heart and lungs are behind the ribs. The skeleton also provides a framework for the human body. Without bones, the body would not be able to maintain its shape. Instead, skin, organs and blood vessels would all be in a pile on the ground. Because tendons attach the muscles to the bones, humans are also able to walk, jump, talk and perform hundreds of other movements.
The bone marrow found inside bones is responsible for producing blood cells. In adults, blood cell production is limited to the marrow of certain bones, such as the pelvis and the spine. Bone marrow produces red blood cells, platelets and most of the white blood cells.
The skeleton also stores phosphorus and calcium. In fact, 99 percent of the body's calcium is found in the bones. Bones also store 85 percent of the body's phosphorus supply. The endocrine system regulates the storage of these minerals with vitamin D, calcitonin and parathyroid hormone.Learn more about Bones | <urn:uuid:71dfaf66-d88e-4764-9263-4cc0a2def9e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/science/humans-skeleton-72a639ba6752e97 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00446-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919886 | 250 | 4.34375 | 4 |
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How are women represented in figurative art? Can you tell the difference between figurative art created by a woman and a man? What is it about women painting women that stands out? Figurative artist, Amber Lia-Kloppel was kind enough to sit down with me and discuss these questions and so much more. In our conversation, we also touch on her time at the New York Academy of Art, why she chooses women as her subjects, voyeurism, confrontation, navigating motherhood as an artist, and so much more. I know artists like you are going to enjoy Amber’s unique and fascinating perspective.
The Female Figure
Throughout the ages, the woman’s figure has been explored by artists the world over. But with each artist, the inspiration is a little bit different. I wanted to know why my guest, Amber Lia-Kloppel was so drawn to painting the female figure. Amber opened up and shared with me that the reason she is so drawn to the female figure, in part, is because they are self-portraits. She means this both literally and figuratively as she occasionally uses herself as a model but she also sees a reflection of herself in the models and the work she creates that are represented by the female body. It was a joy to hear Amber’s take on figurative art and the portrayal of the female figure. Make sure to check out images of Amber’s work at the end of this post!
Navigating an art career as a parent
How do parents and mothers, in particular, manage their time in the studio? What does it look like to navigate an art career as a parent? How does parenting influence the artwork of an artist? Amber Lia-Kloppel was gracious and candid in our conversation as she shared her experience navigating her role as an artist and a mother. She told me about projects she created that reflected moments she shared with her daughter. Amber also went on to describe how parenting has brought her to cherish and make the most out of her time working in her studio. I got the sense from my conversation with Amber that parenting enhanced her imagination and scope in some fascinating ways. I’m curious to hear what you take away from my conversation with Amber.
Evolving as an artist
How have you evolved as an artist over time? Have you made subtle changes here and there or have there been dramatic shifts in your approach and style? What caused the changes you’ve made over the years? My guest, Amber Lia-Kloppel described for me a pivotal moment in her career as an artist when she started to attend the New York Academy of Art. It was in this environment that Amber developed and refined her approach. Amber told me about how she learned new techniques and enjoyed the freedom and permission to expand her abilities in this environment that challenged and empowered her. Have you had an experience like Amber’s?
Learning how to let go of a painting
As artists, when we create, we pour part of ourselves into the process and ultimately into our creations. What are the ramifications of this creative process when we are unable to complete a project? What happens to that energy and passion that were poured out? My guest, Amber Lia-Kloppel discussed this artist’s dilemma with me in our conversation. I appreciated Amber’s honesty as she admitted that she still struggles with letting go of her paintings that she just can’t seem to finish. She hates to let go because, as she has gotten older, her starts are better, so there is so much there to salvage. Amber also holds herself to a high standard, she wants every painting to be her best painting. Can you relate to Amber’s struggle?
Outline of This Episode
- [1:50] I introduce my guest, Amber Lia-Kloppel.
- [3:00] Amber talks about how she got started as an artist.
- [10:00] What attracts Amber to painting the female figure?
- [15:00] Amber’s process and using herself as a model.
- [19:30] How Amber incorporates being a mother in her painting process.
- [23:00] Amber talks about approaching the canvas.
- [29:30] Pivotal moments in Amber’s career.
- [35:00] How art school helped Amber evolve as an artist.
- [37:00] Amber talks about her current project.
- [39:00] Learning how to let a painting go.
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I saw with some trepidation an article by an atheist that rebukes the man: the title is “Christopher Hitchens’ lies do atheism no favors“. I felt that trepidation because there really are very good reasons to criticize Hitchens: his politics were vile, he was a cheerleader for war, his ‘solutions’ for problems in the Middle East were little more than excuses for genocide. He had the capacity to be thoughtful and interesting and deep, but when it came to world politics, he was a madman waving a gun. Someone could write a strong, well-researched criticism of Hitchens that would actually have a lot of weight, and it could overshadow the fellow’s virtues (and, by the way, I think we should recognize that he was not a saint, and that like every one of us, he had his flaws).
But I shouldn’t have worried. The author, Curtis White, basically writes an apologia for religion, and goes after Hitchens for…not respecting faith enough. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. This guy is an atheist who thinks the great theological circle-jerk is a beautiful ballet.
As critics have observed since its publication, one enormous problem with Hitchens’s book is that it reduces religion to a series of criminal anecdotes. In the process, however, virtually all of the real history of religious thought, as well as historical and textual scholarship, is simply ignored as if it never existed. Not for Hitchens the rich cross-cultural fertilization of the Levant by Helenistic, Jewish, and Manichaean thought. Not for Hitchens the transformation of a Jewish heretic into a religion that Nietzsche called “Platonism for the masses.” Not for Hitchens the fascinating theological fissures in the New Testament between Jewish, Gnostic, and Pauline doctrines. Not for Hitchens the remarkable journey of the first Christian heresy, Arianism, spiritual origin of our own thoroughly liberal Unitarianism. (Newton was an Arian and anti-Trinitarian, which made his presence at Trinity College permanently awkward.) Not for Hitchens the sublime transformation of Christian thought into the cathartic spirituality of German Idealism/ Romanticism and American Transcendentalism. And, strangely, not for Hitchens the existential Christianity of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Karl Jaspers, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, and, most recently, the religious turn of poststructural thought in Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek. (All of these philosophers sought what Žižek calls Christianity’s “perverse core.”) And it’s certainly not that he didn’t have the opportunity to acknowledge these intellectual and spiritual traditions. At one point he calls the story of Abraham and Isaac “mad and gloomy,” a “frightful” and “vile” “delusion,” but sees no reason to mention Kierkegaard’s complex, poetic, and deeply felt philosophical retelling of the story in “Fear and Trembling”. In this way, Hitchens is often as much a textual literalist as the fundamentalists he criticizes.
I think I wrote about this before. It’s a red herring: when we ask for evidence of a god, the apologists point to a whole bunch of people wrangling at daunting length about the interpretation of holy writ and say, “See? There. They couldn’t possibly be arguing about nothing at all, now could they?” I wish this would sink in, that someone making an intricate paean to the ineffability of nothing is not evidence of anything other than the human brain’s immense capacity for masturbatory self-reference.
And then the screed continues this trend with the credulous claim that the Bible actually is a solid historical document, contra Hitchens.
This case has been well made by others, if mostly in places far more obscure than Hitchens’s privileged position on the New York Times best-seller list. For example, William J. Hamblin wrote a thorough and admirably restrained review (“The Most Misunderstood Book: Christopher Hitchens on the Bible”) in which he held Hitchens to account for historical howlers of this kind:
In discussing the exodus, Hitchens dogmatically asserts: “There was no flight from Egypt, no wandering in the desert . . . , and no dramatic conquest of the Promised Land. It was all, quite simply and very ineptly, made up at a much later date. No Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode either, even in passing. . . . All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded.” These narratives can be “easily discarded” by Hitchens only because he has failed to do even a superficial survey of the evidence in favor of the historicity of the biblical traditions. Might we suggest that Hitchens begin with Hoffmeier’s Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai? It should be noted that Hoffmeier’s books were not published by some small evangelical theological press but by Oxford University—hardly a bastion of regressive fundamentalist apologetics. Hitchens’s claim that “no Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode [of Moses and the Israelites] either, even in passing” is simply polemical balderdash.
Hamblin is thorough, patient, relentless, but also, it seems to me, a little perplexed and saddened by Hitchens’s naked dishonesty and, in all probability, by his own feeling of impotence. You can hardly blame him. Criticism of this character would have, and surely should have, revealed Hitchens’s book for what it is … if it hadn’t been published in The FARMS Review of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Hitchens need never have feared the dulling of his reputation for intellectual dash and brio from that source.
No, Hitchens was quite right. There is no archaeological evidence for the dramatic events of the Exodus. The stories of a vast and powerful rising Hebrew kingdom are all mythologizing and self-aggrandizement. I’m sure Hamblin was quite saddened by the criticism of the self-serving Biblical archaeological community. He probably wept when he read Avalos’ The End of Biblical Studies.
I see no “historical howler” in Hitchen’s comment. The people who argue for the historicity of the Bible are religious apologists who read their interpretation of the faith into the historical record, who ignore evidence of the minor significance of the Jewish tribes of that era, and who constantly inflate trivial anecdotes into evidence of empires. It’s a discipline tainted by people who go into it solely to make excuses for their faith.
This is not to say that the Jewish people didn’t exist, or that they were never enslaved in Egypt, or that they never invaded Palestine — merely that the stories in the Bible are grossly exaggerated and untrustworthy.
White does make one justifiable argument, that Hitchens tended to sweep all Eastern religions into the same rubbish bin, and was rather too casual in lumping them all together. I think it’s valid to say Hitchens was not an expert on Eastern philosophy…but then the responsibility falls on his critics to explain exactly why we should grant an Eastern religion greater credence than something a two-year old babbles? And why then, isn’t the atheist author of this piece now adopting the superior ethical philosophy of ancient Tibetans?
And finally, White goes galloping off to attack secular reasons for moral behavior.
Hitchens’s second metaphysical claim has to do with conscience. He counters the claim that without religion we would have no ethics by saying that conscience is innate. He writes, “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
Well, as Hitchens likes to say, this is “piffle.” After all, what is a conscience? Does it light up on a brain scan when we think virtuous thoughts? And if it is innate (and just what exactly does it mean to be innate?) why was Crassus’s crucifixion of six thousand Spartacans lined up along the Appian Way from Rome to Capua in 71 BCE thought by the people of Rome to be an expression of Roman vertù and a very good reason to honor Crassus with a full triumphal procession back into the city? Are we to imagine that the citizens of Rome threw garlands in the path of the conquering hero against their better judgment? Are we to imagine that after the celebration the citizens were stung by conscience and were unable to sleep at night? Or did Crassus merely confirm for Rome that it was what it thought it was, a race of masters?
White does not understand at all. Humans are plastic, with some innate biases. If you raise a child with love and encourage them to love others, they will (well, usually — we’re also too complex to be programmed simplistically). If you raise them with hate, they grow up hating. If you bring them up believing that slaves are a less worthy other, they will feel no guilt if you murder them en masse. Romans were recipients of life-long propaganda about the virtue of Rome…just as Americans now are raised with a lifelong faith in the superiority of their way of life. And there are all kinds of indoctrination systems out there.
Religion is one. It’s not the only one, obviously. Religion is just something that raises people to unquestioningly accept the superiority of a system of beliefs — not just about ethics, but about the nature of the universe. And it’s a system that is demonstrably false. It’s also a useful tool for obedience that is often coopted by other beliefs — American exceptionalism, for instance, is also all tangled up in Christianity.
I have no religion, and after meeting many people who were sincere in their beliefs, I realized that I never did — as a child, I was going through the motions, but never believed in any deity, nor even felt fear or concern or love for one. I acquired that basic human decency not from religion, but from family and friends, being brought up in an almost totally religion-free home that regarded fairness and justice towards others as an important value.
And that’s what Hitchens meant: ethical behavior is independent of religion, which merely claims against all evidence to be the wellspring of human decency. He does not imply in any way that freedom from religion automatically gives you good values, but that the causes of those values precede the nonsense your church layers upon you. And further, when you look at what religion effectively teaches — deference to authority, gullibility, guilt and fear — it’s true, religion really does poison everything. | <urn:uuid:be0f5e23-04b3-4989-bde7-b0e5018ec2dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/23/taking-a-hatchet-to-hitchens/?wpmp_switcher=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960826 | 2,308 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Dow today announces the development of a new resin made with 70 percent recycled plastic. This innovative new solution, called Dow Agility CE, is the first post-consumer recycled (PCR) product offering of Dow’s plastics circularity portfolio to incorporate a high percentage of post-consumer plastic waste.
This new resin consists of a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) into which recycled plastic shrink film is incorporated without sacrificing material quality and functionality in the final application.
“What is exciting about Dow Agility CE is that previously mechanically recycled content has often diminished or degraded in quality,” stated Carsten Larsen, Commercial Recycling Director for Dow’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics business. “Here we have a consistent and high-quality product – taking back used shrink film directly from a retailer and using our material science to recreate a resin which can be used directly back into the same quality shrink film.”
This is the first grade of Dow Agility CE and is intended for use in collation shrink films as secondary packaging for transportation of cans or bottles. It enables converters to incorporate more than 50 percent recycled content in the formulation of the final film, without altering its functionality. The availability of this high quality recyclate will help retailers and brand owners meet their sustainability goals while helping reduce the amount of waste going into landfills.
Dow continues to work towards a circular system, which would guarantee that secondary or transportation packaging films are recycled back into the same type of application. This innovation is another example of Dow’s strategy to enable a shift to a circular economy for plastics, by focusing on resource efficiency and integrating recycled content and renewable feedstocks into its production processes.
Dow also recently announced a partnership with the Fuenix Ecogy Group, based in Weert, The Netherlands, for the supply of pyrolysis oil feedstock, which is made from recycled plastic waste; and a partnership with UPM, to integrate a wood-based renewable naphtha into its slate of raw materials, creating an alternative feedstock source for plastics production.
Dow will be showcasing Dow Agility CE, as well as many other technologies, to customers at K 2019 from 16-23 October in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Don’t trust your AI system: model its validity instead
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Machine behaviour is becoming cognitively very complex but rarely human-like. The efforts to fully understand machine learning and other AI systems are falling short, despite the progress of explainable AI (XAI) techniques. In many cases, especially when using post-hoc explanations, we get a false sense of understanding, and the initial sceptical (and prudent) stance towards an AI system turns into overconfidence, a dangerous delusion of trust.
In this AI for Good Discovery, Prof. Hernández-Orallo argues that for many AI systems of today and tomorrow we should not vainly try to understand what they do, but to explain and predict when and why they fail. We should model their user-aligned validity rather than their full behaviour. This is precisely what a robust, cognitively-inspired AI evaluation can do. Instead of maximising contingent dataset performance and extrapolating the volatile good metric equally to every instance, we can anticipate the validity of the AI system, specifically for each instance and user.
Prof. Hernández-Orallo illustrates how this can be done in practice, identifying relevant dimensions of the task at hand, deriving capabilities from the system’s characteristic grid and building well-calibrated assessor models at the instance level. His normative vision is that every deployed AI system in the future should only be allowed to operate if it comes with a capability profile or an assessor model, anticipating the user-aligned system validity before running each instance. Only by fine-tuning trust to each operating condition will we truly calibrate our expectations on AI.
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Mr. BARBER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001. As we honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost that day, my thoughts remain with the loved ones of those who did not return to their families.
We also remember with pride the national unity that our country showed that horrible day and in the days that followed. In tragedy, we laid our differences aside and found common purpose. The legacy of 9/11 is our ability to say with certainty that no enemy or threat can change the values of our country and that which it stands for. I remain awed by the bravery and valor shown each day by our first responders and their brothers and sisters in uniform and by ordinary Americans.
In Tucson, we have a special connection to 9/11. Christina Taylor Green was a 9/11 baby. Today would have been her 11th birthday. She died in the tragic shooting on January 8, 2011, when she came to speak with her Congresswoman.
Just as on 9/11, we saw the spirit of the American people who came together in prayer, compassion, and unity on January 8, 2011, and in the days and weeks that followed. This is who we are as a people and who we always will be.
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I don’t like to do this very often. However, as a Springboard for Your Spiritual Life, I would like to share with you the sermon I presented to the Franklin Church in Franklin, Tennessee yesterday. The topic was submitted to me as a question.
You can find the sermon in its original formatting and also hear the audio at this link on the congregation’s website.
***WARNING: I will warn you that in this lesson, I felt it necessary by way of illustration to state some of the words and phrases that are considered profanity. If that makes you uncomfortable, you may wish to listen to someone else’s lesson on this subject instead.
What Does the Bible Say about Foul Language?
With the change of our assembly schedule, we have been missing our 2nd Sunday Questions and Answers sermon. The elders have decided for now to make our 5th Sunday assemblies our new schedule for the Q & A lessons. Today’s question is “What does the Bible say about foul language?” I am going to make a confession as we begin. I have some fear about this lesson. First, because it is hard to speak on this subject clearly without crossing the very bounds of propriety I’m trying to preserve. Second, since what I will say is not going to coincide with the traditional lessons on this topic, I fear some of you will be upset with me. However, I am 100% convinced what I am going to tell you is the truth. As I have always said, I don’t believe I have all the answers but I do believe the Bible does. If, when I am done, you think I have missed the boat on something, I would be happy to learn from you what you believe the Bible teaches.
I. What the Bible doesn’t say.
A. In the 1980s, George Carlin became famous for his very vulgar skit about the 8 words not allowed on television. I wish this lesson were that simple. I wish I could turn you to a passage that gave us the list of bad words. But I can’t. There just isn’t one.
B. We have often heard preachers go to Matthew 26:74 where it says Peter began to curse and swear to speak against bad words today. However, in the first place, this text is not talking about cussing in the sense of bad words as we usually mean it. Rather, it means he either cursed the people he was talking to or himself. That is, not that he used “curse words,” but that he uttered curses against them. And then he swore, that is, he called on the name of God to take an oath that he was not one of the apostles. But even if this was a passage that referred to bad words, it doesn’t tell us what they would be.
C. The fact is, there is not one single verse that provides us any teaching that declares that any particular word is inherently bad. In fact strictly speaking, there is no biblical concept of bad words. Don’t misunderstand, the Bible does speak of corrupt speech, what we might call using words badly. However, there is no decree from God that lists even one single word as bad simply because the word is bad. We need to be honest, when we tell someone a certain word is bad, we are not doing so because God has defined that word as bad. We are doing so either because we have decided that word in our culture violates some principles of God’s word or because our society and culture has determined the word is bad.
II. What the Bible does say.
A. While the Bible does not give us a list of words to avoid, it does provide some principles to guide our speech. I will share those principles with you and let you be the judge of what words you should and should not say.
B. Principle #1: No corrupting talk (Ephesians 4:29)—Instead of words that tear down, we are supposed to use words that build up. The building up here does not refer solely to spiritual edification. This doesn’t provide a list of words to remove from our speech. But it does point out that belittling speech, shaming speech, berating speech, name-calling and other forms of speech that tear people down rather than build them up is foul in the Christian’s mouth.
C. Principle #2: No careless words (Matthew 12:36-37)—This statement is somewhat difficult to nail down. But the word here means idle or lazy. I think the ESV gets the heart of its meaning when it says “careless.” That is, no matter what we say if we are speaking lazily, that is without careful consideration and thought, we will be judged for it. We could say “thoughtless speech.” Have you ever been in an argument and had to back up and say, “I didn’t mean that, it just came out.” That is speaking without thinking, without care. Jesus tells us not to do it.
D. Principle #3: No irreverent or profane words (I Timothy 4:7; 6:20; II Timothy 2:16)—Where the ESV says “irreverent,” other translations say “profane.” In our day “profanity” has come to encompass all “bad words.” But profanity in the Biblical sense actually means to treat the holy in a low, base, light and irreverent manner. This includes taking the Lord’s name in vain. But it goes beyond that. Should we speak of the holy heaven in such a light manner as those do when they say, “For heaven’s sake” or “My heavens”? We should not treat lightly the holy teachings of Christ as some do when they joke about the Lord’s words.
E. Principle #4: No cursing (Romans 12:14; James 3:9-10)—This is not about “cussing,” but rather calling curses down upon men. No doubt, we are allowed to warn of God’s curses on men, but it is not our job to curse men. When we say things like “damn you” or “go to hell” we are cursing men. That shouldn’t come from our mouths. However, this is not merely limited to those magic words that have been deemed curse words by our society. If we cursed a man saying “a pox upon you” as was popular in past centuries, we would be violating this principle.
F. Principle #5: No filthy, foolish or crude speaking (Ephesians 5:4)—For the longest time, I tried to figure out the difference in the three terms used here. However, in the context of Ephesians 5:3, 5, 11-12, I am convinced Paul is not telling us about three different bad forms of speech but rather emphasizing one point by using parallelism. He is talking about the light and crude discussion of sinful activities, especially of sexual immorality. This is not simply talking about some words for sex our society deems base and vulgar. It also cautions us against speaking of immorality as if it is a joke or joking about it. It forbids what we would call dirty jokes as well.
G. Principle #6: No malicious words (Ephesians 4:31)—We must not speak words that intend to harm either to someone’s face or behind their back. Let me make a point here. In our society, we are told the word for female dog is bad. And when using it as a derogatory attack on someone, it most definitely is. But for some reason, the word for female horse or female cow is okay. But is calling someone a nag or heifer any less malicious than the word we have declared bad?
H. Principle #7: Speak honorably in the sight of men (II Corinthians 8:20-21)—This point is somewhat different than the others, but no less important. The passage we are reading is not talking about speech. It is talking about the use of money. However, please note the important principle that we want to do what is honorable not merely before God, but also before men. We do not want to leave ourselves open to accusations from men. We are not allowed to merely say that what others think is unimportant. If our society has declared that a word or phrase is bad, we should not use it because we leave ourselves open to an accusation from men. Rather, we need to speak in a way that will be deemed honorable among men.
III. A few comments about euphemisms.
A. According to Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, a euphemism is “the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensively harsh or blunt.” Since I became a Christian, I have heard numerous things about euphemisms ranging from “Christians should never, ever use euphemisms because that is just as bad as really cussing” to “what’s the big deal about euphemisms, Christians don’t have to worry about those at all.” I think both extremes are mistaken. I will make three comments about euphemisms and, as before, allow you to make the applications you deem fit.
B. We cannot make blanket statements against euphemisms. Sadly, the statements that sweep with too broad a brush, discarding “euphemisms” as wholly sinful simply demonstrate ignorance about what a euphemism is. The fact is the Bible uses euphemisms. For instance, in I Samuel 24:3 when the ESV says Saul went in to relieve himself and the KJV says “cover his feet,” the Bible used a euphemistic phrase to avoid saying that Saul was defecating. Further, even those who have made such blanket rebukes of “euphemisms” use them and would laud their use at times. Have you ever heard someone say, “he used a four-letter-word”? “Four-letter-word” is a euphemism so the person relating the story can avoid actually saying the word and we with sensitive ears appreciate that euphemism. Finally, if we are going to make a blanket statement against any and all words described as euphemisms, we are going to be in some real trouble. According to The Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com) the words “assemble” and “fellowship” were viewed for several centuries as euphemisms for sexual intercourse.
C. However, you need to consider your intent. While we cannot make the blanket statement that anything considered a euphemism is wrong, we shouldn’t take the opposite approach of saying God never said euphemisms were wrong so we don’t have to worry about them. Because of our magic “bad word” mentality, we sometimes think if we chose a word society doesn’t think is bad we are okay. But, we need to remember God is not as concerned with the actual words as what is intended by those words. For instance, I think each and every one of us would say I was violating the principle of “no cursing” found in Romans 12:14 and James 3:9-10 if I said “God damn you” to someone. But, brothers and sisters, if instead I looked at that person and said, “Gosh darn you,” was my intent any less to curse them just because I didn’t use the words our society has defined as bad? Yes, we do need to take care. Using a euphemistic phrase does not change the intent of our heart and the motivation of our speech. If our motivation violates one of the principles, the words may not be considered bad, but the speech is corrupt.
D. You need to consider the insinuation. Euphemisms are a kind of insinuation. That is, instead of directly saying something, we are indirectly saying something. For instance, when we say someone “passed away” we are using a euphemism that means they died. We are insinuating their death. When we use euphemisms that indirectly mean or sound like “bad words” we are often insinuating those words and if nothing else leading others to think those words. If you say, “Oh my gosh” what do you think you insinuated in the minds of those who heard you? The same could be asked about words like “dang,” “heck,” “geez,” and others. As Christians, we do need to give careful consideration to the words we use because of the insinuations we make in the minds of those who hear. I know that doesn’t give us a list of bad euphemisms, but it gives us a principle I believe we need to consider as we choose our words carefully.
Again, I wish this could have been as simple as here are the eight magic words you just aren’t allowed to use. But God didn’t give that to us. Rather, He gave us principles and we had better take care to consider them as we choose our words, phrases, jokes and other speech. We will be judged for every thoughtless, careless idle word we speak (Matthew 12:36-37), so we had better think before we speak. I hope this was helpful. As I said, I know it does not coincide with everything you have probably ever heard in the traditional lesson on these topics. If you believe I missed something or did not represent accurately how the Bible answers this question, I hope you will share that with me. May God bless us as we strive to surrender our speech to Him. | <urn:uuid:b7aeacd0-a93c-447a-99a6-01318a067ce0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://edwincrozier.com/2008/12/01/what-does-the-bible-say-about-foul-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00497-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97076 | 2,912 | 1.75 | 2 |
Today's video story in The New York Times , "Perfect Strangers, Genetic Kin," has a somewhat deceptive title in that this "kinship" is constituted by rare genetic mutations from their parents. As computer technology makes it possible to identify extremely rare variations in a person's chromosomal blueprint, distributed computer networks on the Internet also bring geographically remote parents together so they can benefit from some social economies of scale. Sites like the 22q13 Deletion Foundation potential connect families to support groups and nonprofit medical research advocacy organizations, although their "resources" page is currently "under construction." Unlike many websites that are illustrated with images from stock photo banks, these sites are intended to show specific symptoms and humanize real patients with the disorder. More on the Times continuing coverage of this issue is here. | <urn:uuid:a6c8c28d-6adf-4c30-94b3-32be49eb2017> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://virtualpolitik.blogspot.com/2007/12/family-reunion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00097-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950314 | 159 | 2.328125 | 2 |
As American Heart Month 2016 winds down, I’d like to shift my focus to an area that we don’t always associate with heart issues – toxins. Toxins are everywhere; there is no doubt about it. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, in our homes, in most products we use—even in the most pristine places on earth—toxins are there. Truth is, toxin accumulation can directly impact our cardiovascular system, and many times will manifest as high blood pressure, increased atherosclerosis, and ultimately heart issues.
Toxins are chemicals that interfere with normal functions in the body, and most have been associated with adverse health effects. At this point, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) regularly measure over 200 toxic compounds, tracking the levels in different aspects of our population. However there are 80,000 chemicals currently in use! Although the CDC adds new chemicals to track annually, it’s simple to see that we will never be able to really understand the full impact of the substances we’re all exposed to. The sad fact is many chemicals contribute to cardiovascular disease – either directly, or indirectly – through an increase in oxidative stress and general systemic inflammation.
So what is oxidative stress, also known as oxidation anyhow? It is one of the main drivers of inflammation in the body. Inflammation is at the root cause of heart disease, and for that matter, all other chronic disease as well.
Consider this analogy illustrating the destructive properties of oxidation: Oxidation is like a punch thrown from a bully (the oxidant), and it can easily lead to a full-blown fight if enough molecules get involved. Destruction results. Oxidation occurs when there are not enough antioxidants (the peacekeepers) around.
Oxidative stress triggers inflammation and regarding cardiovascular issues, it initiates the destruction of the lining of the blood vessels, called endothelial dysfunction.
Atherosclerosis involves endothelial dysfunction and chronic inflammation in the artery walls, progressing to the buildup of plaque and eventual cardiac complications such as heart attack and stroke. So I’m sure you can clearly see how toxins that increase oxidative stress are definitely the enemy. And antioxidants are our friends.
It is a myth that nothing can be done about toxin exposure. The fact of the matter is that supporting the body’s seven channels of elimination – colon, liver, lungs, lymph, kidneys, skin, and blood – through diet and cleansing will help improve the body’s natural detoxification abilities. A healthy eating plan and cleansing routine will fortify your heart right along with every other part of your body.
In addition to the antioxidants your body naturally produces, you also obtain antioxidants from your diet. A diet high in antioxidants includes plenty of deeply colored fruits and vegetables. This important step helps decrease oxidative stress and general systemic inflammation.
Regular exercise stimulates sweating and the release of toxins from your skin. Different herbal formulas help support the organs of elimination. Next month I plan to discuss cleansing in more detail.
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Students participate in 6 weeks of virtual (Zoom-based) classroom instruction and guided lab work, online study, testing, and career transition workshops.
The curriculum prepares students for the MD-100 and MD-101 exams focused on Windows Client and Managing Modern Desktops. These exams, together, lead to the Microsoft 365: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate. The MD-100 tests one’s ability to deploy Windows, manage devices and data, configure connectivity, and maintain Windows 10 on devices. The MD-101 tests one’s ability to deploy, configure, secure, manage, and monitor devices and client applications in a modern, cloud-based enterprise environment. The curriculum for both units of this course is based on the Exam Preparation guide from Pearson Education and Microsoft Press. The material is supplemented with online, on-demand study materials and virtual labs. Students will utilize the Windows-10 enabled desktops during class and have access to e-learning materials for study beyond class.
During their training, students continue to enhance skills in career transition workshops. These sessions prepare students to compete in theIT labor market by providing them with guidance in resume construction, helping them to sharpen their interviewing skills and providing information regarding networking through social media.
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- 10:00 am Divine Liturgy (Hours begin at 9:40 am)
- Trapeza (Meal) after Divine Liturgy
- Children’s lesson for all ages from the Law of God for a maximum of 15 minutes by Fr. Aidan with Mat. Elizabeth (after Trapeza — about 1:00 pm)
- Afternoon instructional talk on Orthodox faith topics by Fr. Job (after children’s lesson — usually begins around 1:30)
6:30 pm Daily Vespers
Saturdays (every other)
5:30 pm Vigil — Please see calendar for next Vigil
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Make sure to also read my post from last year on how well PRP works. There are quite a few studies from around the world that suggest that PRP is more than just a scam as many commentators seem to think.
The past several weeks have witnessed a huge number of news items, forum posts, videos and more related to platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and hair growth.
- First, in November Dr. Joseph Greco published a new chapter on PRP and stem cells in a textbook. There are some great photos and statistics in there.
- A new Italian study on PRP and hair growth was published in November in Stem Cells Translational Medicine. Results were favorable, with mean hair count increasing by 33.6 hairs, and mean hair density increasing by 45. 9 hairs per square centimeter. Point of interest: “We also observed an increase of Ki67(+) keratinocytes in the epidermis and of hair follicular bulge cells, and a slight increase of small blood vessels around hair follicles in the treated skin.”
- At the 9th Congress for Hair Research from November 18-21, Dr. Ratchathorn Panchaprateep from Thailand presented favorable findings regarding combination therapy treatment of hair loss using PRP and Non-Ablative 1,550 nm Erbium Glass Fractional Laser. Total benefits in nine patients averaged around 17 percent increases in both hair density and hair mass. Treatment entailed two injection each month for six months in total.
- On November 24th, Dr. Sam Lam published a video of his presentation on PRP/ACell/ATP at the 7th Annual Hair Transplant 360 Workshop that took place in Saint Louis, Missouri from November 19-22. ATP stands for Adenosine triphosphate, and it is usually administered in liposomal form via a spray during a hair transplant procedure.
- Also on November 24th, Dr. Alvi Armani’s clinic representative posted a forum thread where they state that PRP in combination with hair restoration procedures is leading to superior results. They have been administering PRP in their patients for a few years.
- On December 8th, the UK’s sensationalist/gossip rag Daily Mail (my favorite newspaper when it comes to hair related news) published an article on PRP injected in gel form for hair growth purposes. The Daily Mail’s articles are often quite inaccurate, but I am still glad that they give so much emphasis to hair loss news.
- On December 9, Dr. Carlos Wesley’s clinic representative posted a forum thread with a before and after photo of a PRP/ACell patient.
- On December 11, Dr. Amiya Prasad published a video on PRP after a hair transplant.
Overall, it seems like PRP is here to stay in the hair loss industry, especially when used in combination with extracellular matrix products such as ACell. However, as Dr. Jeffrey Rapaport told me recently, PRP will not regrow hair in totally bald areas. At best, it will make existing hair stronger, and in those who are lucky, reverse recent miniaturization. It is important to go to an experienced physician if getting PRP treatments. I would only go to a doctor who has been treating hair loss patients with PRP for at least two years. You should also carefully check the pricing and number of treatments needed per year, as both vary significantly depending on physician. Some are total ripoffs in my opinion. | <urn:uuid:7ef762c0-139c-4c26-a8bd-7979e95c408b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hairlosscure2020.com/a-smorgasbord-of-platelet-rich-plasma-prp-and-hair-growth-related-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00352-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964232 | 735 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Thirteen years after Nemo got lost Pixar returns to the oceans for another undersea adventure with FINDING DORY. What better time to look at the vast, cinema-changing history and legacy of Pixar Animation Studios?
An entire generation has come of age with the Pixar universe, and the latest issue of BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH. magazine brings a smart, appreciative eye to these family films that speak to everyone, from the youngest child to the oldest grandparent.
The issue traces the history of Pixar from a bunch of nerds who believed that computer animation was the future to becoming a bunch of accomplished storytellers who proved it; examines the mature themes of loss in UP; turns attention to the somber warnings of WALL-E; a look at what it's like to grow up with the TOY STORY movies, and it's all wrapped around an extensive, exclusive interview with DORY director Andrew Stanton talking about the history of Pixar and how hard it is to keep that culture alive.
And as an added bonus, we also have a companion sketch book. This blank book includes gorgeous cover art and an inscription from Jay Shaw, MONDO Creative Director. It is the perfect place for aspiring creators of all ages to jot down ideas, sketch out images, and bring their ideas to life.
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The scenario of one spouse recognizing that therapy might be useful to look at a troubled relationship while the other is resistant has several possible explanations.
It may be that your partner may be too anxious as a product of interpreting your request for counseling as a sign that the relationship is in serious danger, and may only have the strength to defend against the anxiety by denial and non-participation. Your partner may also feel too threatened by the notion that he or she is to blame for your relationship difficulties, and visualizes a therapy session as one in which you persuade the therapist of this unilateral conception. The fear here is of you being the complaining, “righteous” partner who co-opts the therapist in a biased alliance against him or her. In addition, your resistant partner may not feel as competent to present his or her case to the therapist as you might, since after all, you are fueled by pain and indignation of one kind or another. Again, for this mate, refusing to go to therapy is a way to reduce anxiety, at least short-term.
If you find yourself in this situation, it is useful to examine your emotional stance in the relationship with respect to judging and blaming. Dominating your partner with blame only serves to maintain a power imbalance and your sense of being victimized and deprived. If your partner is the source of blame and judgment and paradoxically still won’t attend sessions, it may be that this person feels hopeless about the possibility of change or too vulnerable to relinquish the role of blamer in order to learn more about the contributions that he or she makes to the problems that are straining the relationship.
Solutions to this problem may be emerge through the use of compassion, an emotional attitude sometimes not easy to find in the midst of the acute pain and anger that are ordinary products of disappointment in love. Recognizing the dynamics presented here may serve as a framework for re-shaping your attitudes about your resistant partner from helplessness, disrespect, and judgment to interest and care about what is very likely to be underlying fearfulness and vulnerability. If you can do that, then you may be able to have conversations with your partner that are characterized by a softer tone, and more demonstrations of true empathy – the ability to de-center and put yourself in your partner’s shoes. This act will have healing potential and effect some change even before you both arrive at the therapist’s office.
If your partner still refuses to attend therapy sessions with you, it is advisable for you to go by yourself. There is much helpful work that you and your therapist can accomplish regarding how you live in the relationship, and as you become stronger, so, like ripples formed by a stone being dropped in water, the positive energies that you bring home may be helpful to both of you, whether or not your partner ever attends.
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In 2009, the Oakland City Council sparked outrage when it voted to extend parking meter hours until 8 p.m. At the time, the council was attempting to close an $83 million budget gap, and the parking meter extension was expected to generate nearly $1 million in annual revenue. But the policy angered businesses owners who contended that it was driving away their evening customers. The city then rescinded its plan, making parking free after 6 p.m. Yet despite this debacle, the Berkeley City Council is expected to vote on a similar pilot project this spring that would extend parking meter hours to 8 p.m. However, the difference is that Berkeley's proposal is part of a new philosophy toward parking — one that has gained considerable buy-in from merchants because it's based on data and research, and because other aspects of the program have proven successful so far. The proposal also should boost business for area merchants.
Berkeley's plan to extend meter hours isn't part of an effort to close a budget gap. Rather, it's intended to help Berkeley restaurant and bar patrons find parking in the city's commercial district in the evening. Currently, it's extremely difficult to score a parking spot after 6 p.m. because people park their cars in metered spots for most of the evening.
"After 6 p.m., there is no parking available on streets," said Willa Ng, project manager of the city's new goBerkeley parking program. As a result, motorists "end up circling the block for twenty minutes" or more, which makes them late for their dinner reservations or for theater shows, Ng added. Frustrated patrons then sometimes leave and don't come back.
Over the past several months, city officials have studied evening parking conditions in Berkeley and have discovered that metered two-hour parking spots in downtown and other commercial districts typically start to fill up after 4 p.m. Motorists feed the meter until 6 p.m., knowing that they can then keep their cars parked in those spots after 6 because it's free. City parking officials believe that this is a common practice among employees of restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues. It's also common for local residents, who keep their cars parked in those spots until the next morning. "That does happen a lot," Ng said of people who park from 4 p.m. until 8 a.m.
Under one of the options to be considered by the city council, parking hours would extend until 8 p.m. in all metered spots, including two-hour and four-hour parking areas, during a four-month pilot program that would launch this summer. Two-hour parking is currently limited to streets within the downtown core and other commercial districts. Four-hour spots are on less-crowded side streets in those areas. The city is also proposing to increase four-hour spots to eight-hour parking.
The idea is to get workers and residents to park on less-busy side streets in four- or eight-hour spots. That way, they can feed the meter until 8 p.m. and keep their vehicles parked there throughout the evening (much like they do now in two-hour spots in which the meter ends at 6). That, in turn, should free up parking close to restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues for customers of those establishments.
Berkeley's proposal is based on research conducted by UCLA professor Donald Shoup, who is nationally known as the guru of market-based parking pricing. Shoup's research has found that parking programs work best if they're designed to prevent people from parking for long periods of time — so that customers of local businesses can always find parking.
Yet even though Berkeley's proposal makes logical sense and is research-based, it likely will still be a tough sell for many merchants. Ng said the feedback the city has received so far from business owners is that they're afraid their customers are going to avoid Berkeley because they're not used to paying for parking after 6 p.m. Ng said, however, that once she and other city officials show merchants their research about the lack of evening parking spots and how that hurts businesses, merchants become more open to trying out the program. The city plans to conduct extensive outreach as well — something Oakland did not do.
Berkeley also has earned the trust of city merchants because the first parking overhaul, which launched last fall and was also based on Shoup's work, has been mostly successful. That program varied parking prices and parking-hour limits in downtown, the Telegraph area, and the Elmwood, based on the availability of parking. The city raised prices and shortened the amount of time that people can park on crowded streets to discourage people from hogging parking spots, and extended parking-hour limits to three or four hours on less-busy streets to encourage more people to park there.
City parking officials, however, are going to ask the council to tweak parts of the program in the coming weeks. They're proposing to raise prices in congested areas in downtown from $2.25 to $2.75 per hour to free up more parking spots. And they want to extend parking limits from four hours to eight hours on less-busy streets, while raising the hourly price there from $1.25 to $1.50 an hour. The idea is to encourage motorists who plan to be in an area for long periods of time to park on streets where there's plenty of parking.
Clarification: Extending parking meter hours to 8 p.m. in both two-hour spots and four-hour parking is just one of the city staff proposals that the Berkeley City Council is slated to review. Also, the month in which the pilot program would start this summer has not yet been finalized.
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Tehran wields considerable influence over Iraq's two largest Shiite blocs, which formed an alliance this month after coming in second and third in the March 7 parliamentary election. That alliance has virtually ensured they will form another Shiite-dominated government — even though a Sunni-backed party won the most seats.
The U.S. is concerned about Iranian attempts to influence Iraq's political process, a State Department spokesman said Friday. He reiterated Washington's call not to exclude minority Sunnis from government — something many in Iraq fear could inflame sectarian tensions anew.
Shiite coalitions have ruled Iraq since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime but were pressured by the U.S. into accommodating the Sunnis. Sunni anger over being largely excluded from government fueled sectarian violence that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war several years ago. The U.S. will no longer have such leverage as its military role fades.
After a seven-year war and nearly 4,400 American military deaths, a government based on the Shiite alliance could give neighboring Iran the upper hand in Iraq just as the U.S. prepares to pull its remaining combat troops out by the end of August.
Although al-Maliki had close ties with former President George W. Bush and is believed to dislike the Iranians, he may become beholden to Tehran if he wants to hold on to power in a second term.
It is widely believed that Iran, a Shiite country, played a role in pushing through the deal linking al-Maliki's State of Law with the more conservative and religious Iraqi National Alliance (INA), dominated by supporters of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who lives in Iran.
The Sadrists dislike al-Maliki intensely because he crushed their Mahdi Army militia in 2008 and jailed thousands of them. They initially rejected him as head of the new government.
Politicians involved in negotiations say Iran is now urging the Sadrists to back al-Maliki and that the Sadrists are softening.
"Iran has been trying to persuade the Sadrists to let al-Maliki be the prime minister," said one alliance politician knowledgeable about the negotiations. An INA official confirmed this. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
They said Iran's primary goal is to prevent former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, whose Iraqiya coalition won the most seats, from becoming prime minister.
Iraqiya's surprisingly strong showing — 91 of 325 seats to 89 for al-Maliki's bloc — was initially seen as an opening for neighboring Sunni Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, to curtail Iranian influence in Iraq. Allawi still insists he should get the first crack at forming the government.
But Iran saw Allawi as the "American" candidate and an ally of Saudi Arabia, its regional rival. Allawi is a Shiite, but Iraqiya was backed by both Shiites and Sunnis and had a secular, nationalist character. Allawi wants to move Iraq away from Iran and rebuild relations with other Arab states.
With the Americans departing and the Iraqis struggling to form a stable government, this country is increasingly becoming another front in the power struggle between Iran and the Sunni Arab powers — a competition which reverberates throughout the Middle East, from Lebanon to the Palestinian territories to Yemen.
Mahmoud Othman, a prominent Kurdish member of Iraqi parliament, said Saudi Arabia and Iran compete for influence in Iran along sectarian lines.
"We hope that the selection of the new prime minister will be the result of agreement and accordance of Iraqi parties, not the result of agreement among foreign countries," he said.
Kazim al-Muqdadi, a political analyst at Baghdad University, said the weakness of Iraq's government made it vulnerable to interference from foreign countries, most importantly Iran.
"On the other hand, Saudi Arabia is interfering to counter the Iranian influence by supporting Iraqiya list," he said. "Iran's top concern is to preserve its interests and to increase its influence everywhere, and it is ready to support any group that meets these goals," he added.
"Iran's interference in Iraq is not covert and Iranian officials prefer al-Maliki to Allawi. They think that al-Maliki is closer to their agenda than Allawi, who has a program that is mostly contrary to Iran's aspirations."
Iran's clout was perhaps most apparent in the days immediately after the election, when politicians from all major blocs rushed to Tehran for consultations. Allawi sent emissaries but did not go himself. Instead, he went to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey.
When al-Maliki sealed the deal with INA, it put the alliance just four seats short of a majority coalition and gave Iran new leverage.
That is something the United States and its Arab allies in the Middle East have worried about since 2003, even though they knew it was virtually inevitable. The U.S. has warned repeatedly about Iranian meddling in Iraq.
"We are concerned about attempts by Iran to influence events in Iraq, but we are completely confident that a future Iraqi government is going to pursue its interests and not the interests of Iran," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington on Friday.
Though 2½ months have passed since the election, progress toward a new government has been slow. The process could still drag on for months and hold more surprises.
Al-Maliki has issued a series of challenges to the results, most notably a demand for a re-count, which didn't change the outcome.
All this has delayed certification of the final tally, a major obstacle to formation of a government. But the delays bought al-Maliki time to form the Shiite alliance and undercut Allawi.
A member of the Saudi royal family and the country's former intelligence chief, Turki al-Faisal, accused al-Maliki of trying to "hijack" the election and deny the Iraqi people their legitimately elected government.
Clearly there are limits to Iran's power in Iraq — it pushed for the Shiite alliance before the elections and didn't get it.
INA could still try to put forward one of its own or lobby for a different candidate from al-Maliki's bloc for prime minister. But many of the possible alternatives face opposition from minority Sunnis and the Kurds.
All agree Sadrist support for al-Maliki would come with the highest price they can exact.
They will likely demand the release of about 2,000 Sadrist prisoners from the disbanded militia, the influential post of deputy parliament speaker, and a minister to head one of the four most important offices: Foreign, Interior, Oil or Finance.
Al-Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi said negotiations on the prime minister are continuing.
"We have no objection to the nomination of al-Maliki, but we still have some reservations about him."
In a sign of the Sadrists' newfound political clout, militiamen that al-Maliki's government drove from the streets two years ago have begun reappearing in Baghdad's Sadr City district over the past month. As before, they are wearing black.
Associated Press reporters Rebecca Santana and Sameer Yacoub in Baghdad and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:e61653a5-2bc5-4fb1-a511-30571d60c4d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/21/iran-seen-using-influence-help-iraqs-al-maliki-stay-prime-minister.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97246 | 1,483 | 1.789063 | 2 |
“Google Chrome 79 update brings better password protection along with a couple of other improvements”
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, Chrome 79, which brings better password protection and phishing alerts for the user. According to a blog post by the search giant, the new Chrome 79 update will inform the user if their password gets stolen. When a user logs in to a website using a password that’s been compromised, Chrome will show a warning. It will then ask the user to change the password. Of course, this will only work if the user has stored their username and password on the browser. It will also work for passwords that are synced across devices. This feature is rolling out to both the web and mobile version of Chrome 79.
The new feature was originally launched as an extension back in February this year. It was called the Password Checkup extension and users could install it to know if their password has been hacked. In October, Google decided to bake-in Password Checkup to a users Google account. And now, the feature is a part of the Chrome browser itself. The option is available in the Sync and Google Services Settings on Chrome. As mentioned above, the feature is being rolled out gradually to all Chrome users that have signed in to the browser.
When a user signs in to Chrome using a Google account, their username and passwords are stored on the browser. Google cross checks the stored passwords with a list of usernames and passwords that’s been compromised. The company uses private set intersectional binding to perform this search. Apart from adding better password protection, Google has also improved phishing protection.
Now, when a user browses a website that’s known for phishing, Chrome will warn the user. Google has a long list of unsafe sites and refreshes this list every 30 minutes. However, some of these sites tend to use domain switching and other means to bypass Google’s crawlers. Still, the phishing warnings now work 30 percent better than before, according to Google. The update will also improve how the browser shows a profile. | <urn:uuid:46bcc961-408b-4052-899e-5145d53f6213> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-chrome-79-update-features-password-phishing-protection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.944374 | 431 | 2.125 | 2 |
Oil industry executives are facing a big problem and are scrambling to find a solution. Their ability to perform seismic surveys (their only viable means of finding and monitoring the production of offshore oil and gas) is being seriously threatened.
In a February 2014 Environmental Impact Study Final Report, the U.S. Department of Interior concluded that the legacy airguns in use today are the cause of massive injuries, disruptions and disturbances to marine life and environment. In March 2015, 75 leading ocean scientists from the US and around the world sent a letter to President Obama urging him to reconsider his approval of oil and gas exploration using seismic airguns off the US Atlantic coast, exploring for potential offshore oil & gas from Delaware to Florida. They claim that the harm from seismic blasting will be significant and long-lasting for large populations of marine life. Similarly, in June 2013 a landmark legal settlement to protect Gulf of Mexico whales and dolphins from industry’s high-intensity airgun surveys was reached between a coalition of conservation groups, the federal government and oil industry representatives. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, a multi-year research and development project is to be undertaken, to develop and field test an alternative to airguns.
During these surveys, seismic sources—airguns—generate sound waves into the ocean that are powerful enough to penetrate the ocean’s subsurface. The reflected energy is detected and used to develop images of the subsurface. (This is essentially a much larger scale version of the sonogram commonly used to image babies in the womb.) Without these surveys, oil companies may as well rely upon dowsers using twigs as divining rods to locate oil and gas deposits. In fact, prior to the advent of 3D seismic imaging, 7-10 dry holes were drilled for every successful producing well. With 3D seismic imaging, dry holes are now rare. With the typical $25M cost of an offshore well, dry holes can be expensive.
Realizing their dilemma, the oil industry has shelled out millions of dollars to many companies to develop an alternative to the air gun–a marine vibrator–yet despite the millions spent, none of these alternatives have been able to meet their requirements.
Compared to other offshore oil and gas activities, seismic exploration using airguns produces some of the loudest underwater sounds.
Since airguns replaced dynamite (which was outlawed in the 1960s) as the primary marine seismic source, there has been little progress made on improved alternative seismic sources—that is, until now. GreenPowerUSA (GPUSA) has developed a new line of marine and downhole seismic sources for the oil industry’s$650 billion exploration and production industry. GPUSA’s marine vibrator is designed to replace the traditional seismic source (air guns). GPUSA’s marine vibrator creates vibrations instead of explosions and will enable better imaging, generate less harm to the environment/marine life, and do so at a substantially lower cost than the legacy technology. GPUSA believes its new marine vibrator seismic source is the only marine vibrator that can meet the oil industry’s published requirements.
The time is now for a marine vibrator that is smaller, more powerful, more reliable, less expensive, that will require less maintenance. GPUSA’s patent-pending marine vibrator does exactly that. Using state-of-the-art factory automation and programmable logic technology, our new marine vibrator seismic source is capable of producing vibrations and sound far beyond the capabilities of traditional acoustic devices, while minimizing unnecessary out of band signals that can potentially harm marine life.
GPUSA has already designed, built and conducted successful tests of its new seismic sources at its own in-house test lab and at US Department of Energy test sites. This was done in the first half of 2015. Additionally, field tests with two of the world’s largest oilfield service companies are scheduled for the early 2016.
Recognizing the need for protecting our newly developed technology, and to maximize the company’s value, GPUSA has filed multiple provisional patent applications and a utility patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We have also filed for and have been granted a trademark for the term “Distributed Seismic Source’ with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
In October 2015, GPUSA formally introduced our first two products at the SEG Annual Exposition in New Orleans, which is the largest oil and gas seismic exploration and production trade show. Representatives from the world’s major oil companies including Shell, BP, Exxon-Mobil, Total, Saudi Aramco, and Statoil in addition to many others sought GPUSA out and indicated much interest in our products. All acknowledged the need for a simpler, more reliable solution and GPUSA is currently in discussions with most of them.
Jim Andersen began his career as Engineering Officer on U.S. Navy nuclear submarines. Upon leaving the Navy he went on to hold a variety of technical and senior management positions in high technology companies including Westinghouse, Litton Industries, and Northrop Grumman.
Jim has over 26 years of hands-on experience developing high technology systems for the DOD and private industry. At Litton, he led the company’s fastest growing business unit, and was directly responsible for landing a contract valued at over $450M to put advanced fiber optic sonar systems on all of the US Navy’s newest fast attack nuclear submarines. In his most recent experience, Jim founded US Seismic Systems in 2007, which was eventually acquired by Acorn Energy in 2010, publicly trading on NASDAQ. He served as the CEO of US Seismic Systems until July 2014. A recognized expert in underwater sound, sonar, and seismic sensing, Jim has authored articles in all of the leading Oil & Gas magazines, and in 2013 was called on to provide expert testimony before the US Congress on the potential benefits of using seismic monitoring of the controversial hydrofracking process.
Jim founded GPUSA Inc. in August of 2014, recognizing the oil industry’s need for seismic sources that were less damaging to the environment and believing that the technical approaches pursued by the industry leaders were not practical.
Luis has over 25 years of experience in the testing and development of high technology products for both the oilfield and the aerospace industries. As a Test and Field Engineer he works not only in the laboratory testing and checking out equipment but also has been responsible for taking products into the field to verify that they work under actual real world conditions.
A Six Sigma Green Belt with a degrees in Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics & Lasers, Luis has been involved in the design and testing of precision navigation instrument technology including high vacuum systems, fiber optic gyroscopes and accelerometers, electronic board test/troubleshooting, and silicon wafer processing. As a Field Engineer he has travelled the world supervising field support personnel in the planning, setup, installation and deployment of fiber optic seismic sensors and arrays in the oilfield as well as high technology security systems at government facilities in the US, Mexico and Canada. He has worked at Litton Industries, Northrop Grumman, and US Seismic Systems. | <urn:uuid:f60cdbf5-e5d6-4bed-b2bd-a6ee99c64882> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://icrowdnewswire.com/2016/03/04/greenpowerusa-inc-new-oil-exploration-technology-that-will-minimize-harm-to-marine-life-and-the-environment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957739 | 1,478 | 2.734375 | 3 |
P2P File Sharing (Torrent, KaZaa, Limewire, etc.)
The Internet, "Free" Music, "Free" Movies, Big Fines and Jail Time
What do these things have in common?
SUU has recently received several notices that people on this campus have been involved with downloading and sharing copyrighted music, movies, software, etc. Students as well as employees on campus will be held legally responsible for the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services. Some have pointed out that people copy pages out of copyrighted books all the time. Copy machines are available all over campus, including in the library, for people to use. No one seems to care about what people are copying. So why does anyone care about what people do on their computers? The following two reasons are very important. One, peer-to-peer file sharing uses so much of the available bandwidth that important work suffers. Two, file swapping can be tracked on the Internet to identify who is swapping files. Copyright holders are prosecuting file swappers and the owners of suspect IP addresses. At SUU, the IP addresses being used belong to the campus, which makes the campus legally liable. The campus cannot afford a law suit. Therefore, in order to protect the campus, the Information Technology department must take the side of any prosecuting party and help them as much as is legally possible. According to the Campus Computing, Internet Use, and Network Security Policy, www.suu.edu/pub/policies/ Section 5.2 subsection V, "all users of university computing resources must comply with all federal, Utah, and other applicable law; all applicable university policies; and all applicable contracts and licenses." This includes copyright laws.
The Bandwidth Issue
About a year ago the bandwidth problem first became evident. It was first noticeable by the number of complaints about the slow Internet access. This slow down was due to all of the bandwidth being used up by the peer-to-peer file sharing. During the investigation of how to stop the file sharing, the campus received the first formal notice informing us that someone on our campus was sharing enabling keys for copyrighted software. These notices come with enough information to track down the individual machine and the person responsible. To avoid the legal hassle, the computer was removed, the hard drive erased, and only the necessary software was replaced before returning the machine. This incident only accelerated the effort to block the file sharing.
The campus is protected by a firewall that keeps people on the outside from hacking the computers on campus. It can also be used to stop on campus computers from gaining access to select services off campus. As one P2P service was blocked, people would just move to another, and the traffic bottleneck would return. It took several months, but by the middle of spring 2002 we felt we had a pretty good handle on the traffic problem. A few services may not have been stopped, but they weren't very common and people wouldn't use them for very long. These services automatically loaded a lot of other unwanted software and advertisements that would degrade a machine's performance to the point it was nearly unusable within a couple of months. Many computers on campus had to have Windows reinstalled from scratch. That usually was a painful enough experience to keep people from trying again.
Then during the summer of 2002 Kazaa released Kazaa2, which totally changed the whole picture. They, as well as several other P2P services, adopted a new sharing protocol which could no longer be stopped by a firewall. Equipment that can stop it is very expensive at this time. This school year, Internet utilization at SUU has continued to grow. On November 11, 2002, the student newspaper of Utah State University published an article that helps explain the bandwidth problem.
THE UTAH STATESMAN: Speeding Up the Campus Internet by Josh Dustin
The Internet connection at Utah State University is fed from two DS-3s that we share with most of the other higher and lower educational institutions in Northern Utah.
The signal level of a DS-3 is equivalent to 28 T1 channels, or about 44.736 Mbps each direction. Since we have two DS-3s, we have the equivalent of 56 T1 channels. That's 89.472 Mbps download, and 89.472 Mbps upload. The cost of one DS-3 is about $40,000 per month, and again, we have two.
Miles Johnson , of USU Network and Computing Services, said if we didn't limit file-sharing programs like Morpheus and Limewire, the bandwidth needed to support the University would go up approximately five fold. Five times our current usage would be 10 DS-3s, costing roughly $400,000 a month.
Internet access at this university is a privilege. It is provided by the Utah Education Network and must be used for educational purposes only.
If you live in housing and can't get a different provider, remember that you attend an educational institution and you connect to its network. The full article can be found at www.utahstatesman.com (registration is required for login). The Internet connection at SUU is a singe DS-3 that is shared with the public ed institutions from Milford to Lake Powell, as well as Dixie State College, Snow College and all the public ed institutions around them as well. That alone demands prudent use by everyone involved. In an effort to protect the speed of the Internet to this campus, efforts will continue to be made to stop the file sharing.
The Legal Issue
Over twenty P2P services are available. Kazaa appears to be the most popular but legally they are all the same. When a person downloads the Kazaa software, they must agree to the license terms before they are able to download it. That agreement includes the following; (Please notice 6.3):
2 What you can't do under this Licence You agree not to use the Software to: 2.1 Transmit or communicate any data that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; 2.6 Transmit, access or communicate any data that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; 6 Copyright Infringement 6.1 Sharman respects copyright and other laws. Sharman requires all Kazaa Media Desktop users to comply with copyright and other laws. Sharman does not by the supply of the Software authorize you to infringe the copyright or other rights of third parties. 6.2 As a condition to use the Software, you agree that you must not use the Software to infringe the intellectual property or other rights of others, in any way. The unauthorized reproduction, distribution, modification, public display, communication to the public or public performance of copyrighted works is an infringement of copyright. 6.3 Users are entirely responsible for their conduct and for ensuring that it complies with all applicable copyright and data-protection laws. In the event a user fails to comply with laws regarding copyrights or other intellectual property rights and data-protection and privacy, such a user may be exposed to civil and criminal liability, including possible fines and jail time.
The movie and music recording industries are cracking down on piracy. Colleges and universities are definitely on their target list. On November 26, 2002 the New York Times www.nytimes.com published an article that demonstrates this.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE by Amy Harmon
In the most severe crackdown yet on online piracy at a college campus, the U.S. Naval Academy has seized 100 computers from students who are suspected of having downloaded unauthorized copies of music files over the Internet.
School officials confiscated the computers when students were in class on Thursday, an academy spokesman said yesterday. Students found to have downloaded copyrighted material could face penalties ranging from loss of leave time to court-martial and expulsion.
The academy was one of 2,300 colleges to receive a letter from entertainment industry organizations last month requesting help in cracking down on unauthorized file swapping.
The record industry largely attributes the decline in CD sales over the last 18 months to digital piracy, and has brought increasing pressure on institutions in a position to identify and discipline the downloaders.
" 'Theft' is a harsh word," the letter to colleges stated, "but that it is, pure and simple. Students must know that if they pirate copyrighted works they are subject to legal liability." With the recent notices of violation, very little has been done. So far, the person has been contacted and asked to stop. After discussions with campus police and campus legal counsel, it has been determined that any future notices will be handled differently. The individual will be identified and as much information as is legally possible (name, phone number, address, etc.) will be given to the prosecuting party. The offending person may only receive a campus E-mail informing them that such has occurred. By that time, even if the person does delete every trace of the software, enough information will have been gathered to stand up in court. Your best protection against any of these increasingly harsh consequences is to obey the law and respect the legal rights of the copyright holders. The University will continue to cooperate with the copyright holders in every way possible. It is quite clear that anyone prosecuted and convicted will be made an example to others. What you thought you were getting for free may ultimately cost a much higher price than you would ever want to pay. | <urn:uuid:f447a1c2-bd40-49c0-aa33-9ea58968bdeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://my.suu.edu/help/article/1113/p2p-file-sharing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963 | 1,953 | 2.3125 | 2 |
In this paper, the Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method for Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics is extended to non-linear cohesive cracks propagating through homogeneous linear elastic isotropic media. The cohesive model adopted is based on the concept of free energy density per unit undeformed area. The corresponding constitutive cohesive equations present a softening branch which induces a potential instability. Thus, a suitable solution algorithm capable of following the growth of the cohesive zone is needed, and in the present work the numerical simulation is controlled by an arc-length method combined with a Newton-Raphson algorithm for the iterative solution of nonlinear equations. The Boundary ElementMethod is very attractive for modeling cohesive crack problems as all nonlinearities are located on the boundaries of linear elastic domains. Moreover a Galerkin approximation scheme, applied to a suitable symmetric boundary integral equation formulation, ensures an easy and efficient treatment of cracks in homogeneous media and an excellent convergence behavior of the numerical solution. The cohesive zone model is applied to simulate a pure mode I crack propagation in concrete. Numerical results for three-point bending test are used to check the numerical results for mode I and are compared with some numerical results obtained by FEM analysis found in the literature. | <urn:uuid:d7b7ef2b-59b1-4c79-a63a-1e34cddd0cc8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scientific.net/KEM.454.1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00178-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915187 | 253 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Just before a male ejaculates, there are premonitory sensations marking a point of no return—when ejaculation becomes inevitable. Some therapists call this the “moment of inevitability.” Once that threshold has passed, it is too late to delay ejaculation; it then occurs beyond the man’s control.
Masturbation helps men learn to recognize the "moment of inevitability" just before orgasm and helps teach them how to avoid premature ejaculation.
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Decile tables for the monthly average price for Global Dairy Trade results, along with futures values from NZX, EEX & CME.
The tables display nominal prices relevant to each decile range, which can be used to get an understanding of how high/low the current price is in relation to all historic prices. A decile table measures how often, historically, prices have fallen below (or below) a particular pricing point. It gives a brief snapshot of whether a market has more upside or downside and how large this may be.
For example, if a price is at its 40% decile, this means that 40% of the time prices have been below that value and 60% of prices higher. Similarly, a 90% decile means that 90% of the time, prices have been lower and higher just 10% of the time.
At the bottom of each table is the current months average price and the percentage decile ranking for that price. | <urn:uuid:2f0a9a9c-76ad-46d9-b4c0-fa89a6b1e490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thomaseldermarkets.com.au/market-insights/decile-drop-dairy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.91964 | 200 | 1.945313 | 2 |
WAS it conscience or politics that shaped the votes of members of Congress Saturday on the resolution that authorized the president to use force in the Persian Gulf? My feeling, as I watched hour after hour of the proceedings on TV, was that I was hearing conscience being expressed - more so than I had ever before witnessed in a congressional debate. Yet these politicians are quite aware that they must answer to the voters for their actions. So these senators and congressmen had to be mindful of how their vote might affect their future.
Almost all the possible Democratic presidential candidates - Gephardt, Bradley, Nunn, and Kerrey - voted to deny the president this authority. Their position was not really anti-Bush. They just weren't ready to support an attack. They counseled patience, at least for a while, after which they would be ready to back the US going to war.
How would this play should any of these men become presidential candidates? Are they doves? Not really. At most the candidates might later claim - depending on events - that this was the beginning of their seriously challenging the president on the war issue. The political risk? Voters might fault them for not having backed the president - for being soft on the war issue.
Sen. Al Gore, already reaching for another try at the presidency, came down on the side of those who were convinced that a ``no'' vote would only give comfort to Saddam Hussein. He thus may be less favorably positioned than other potential Democratic candidates from Congress to challenge the president on the war issue later on - should it be politically profitable to do so.
Or Gore might profit from ``being with the president all the way'' on the Gulf issue - perhaps gaining a decisive edge over the other Democrats in the race for the nomination.
Republican Sen. Mark Hatfield, an authentic dove, said the reason the US was in the Mideast was oil - and that wasn't a good enough reason to commit our troops to battle. Bring the men and women home, immediately, he said. I suspect that this will please the moderate-liberal voters in Oregon who keep Hatfield in office.
Minority leader Bob Dole expressed strong support for avoiding war and giving the sanctions time to work. But after talking ``patience,'' he gave his vote to Bush - an expression of loyalty more than all-out backing. Would the people back in Kansas understand this ambivalence? My guess is that Dole would be seen expressing how he felt, providing useful guidance to the president, but remaining, as he should, supportive of Mr. Bush.
The pro-Israel lobby was particularly active in pushing for a ``yes'' vote. Some observers say this lobby's action may have been decisive in Bush's victory. They point to Congressman Solarz, who was one of the leaders of those pushing the support Bush was seeking, as a prime example of members of Congress who let their pro-Israel feelings enter into their votes.
Yet several Jewish members of Congress didn't vote ``yes.'' Thus, it would be oversimplification to give too much weight to the work of the pro-Israel lobby in this vote.
Again, I must emphasize that I felt that this Great Debate was one where conscience, not politics, was the prevailing motivation. Indeed, I heard senator after senator and representative after representative talking with such conviction and with such passion that I was convinced that these were politicians who were saying and meaning: ``Here I stand - and let the political chips fall wherever they may.''
The most moving of the speeches? Gephardt, in my opinion, was tops in the House as he rose to new oratorical heights. And in so doing, whether calculated or not, this young House leader improved his presidential prospects.
Senator Nunn's tight logic, as he argued to give the sanctions more time, was most impressive. I could just see him on the platform in a presidential debate, giving President Bush a very hard time. It's an overly used assertion, but it applies to Nunn: The Georgian looks presidential.
Among Republicans, Senator Warner gave a sparkling performance. I was a bit surprised. I had not known Warner could marshal his facts so well and make such a compelling argument. | <urn:uuid:5077b6d9-9618-4391-a716-9ecee901c075> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0122/ebud22.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983804 | 861 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. (ARG), franchisor of the quick-service chain with nearly 3,400 Arby’s restaurants worldwide, announced energy reduction savings as part of a company-wide effort to lessen environmental impact. The sustainability efforts are a key component in Arby’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy.
ARG achieved a 7.6 percent reduction in Energy Use Intensity, a unit of measurement for analyzing a building’s energy use, as a result of a variety of energy initiatives implemented in 2013 as part of the Efficiency Matters program. Efficiency Matters is a cost-saving energy management platform developed to help improve efficiencies in restaurants and reduce energy consumption and associated environmental and community impacts.
“ARG is committed to the reduction of energy usage within our restaurants,” says George Condos, ARG president and chief operating officer. “As a brand, we strive to continuously improve our performance and work towards energy-efficient best practices where cost-effective. Managing energy as a controllable expense gives Arby’s a competitive advantage, improves the bottom line and helps us to be responsible corporate citizens. In short, efficiency matters.”
In 2013–2014, ARG focused on eight key energy initiatives, including:
1. Implemented a new on/off schedule
2. Adjusted hot water heater controls
3. Installed aerators on hand sinks
4. Installed low-flow spray valves in sanitizing sinks
5. Converted evaporators of walk-in boxes (WIBs) to electronically commutated motors
6. Installed strip curtains in the same WIBs
7. Converted outdoor HID lights to LED lights
8. Introduced a new asset management system; Powerhouse Dynamic’s SiteSage (formally eMonitor).
ARG continues to minimize the impact on the environment through the efficient use of energy. Between 2011 and 2013, the company made the following energy and resource savings:
- 90,247,788 kilowatt hours (kWh) in electricity, which equates to: 62,230 MTCO2e: (metric tons of carbon dioxide)
- 303,106 Therms (natural gas), which equates to CO2 emissions from consuming over 80,000 gallons of gasoline
- 75,761 k-gals of water, which equates to enough water to fill 115 Olympic-sized pools
To achieve these savings, ARG implemented a number of energy efficiency upgrades including the following lighting enhancements in restaurants with plans for more:
- Neon to LED banding in 70 restaurants with savings of 549,500 kWh
- T12 to T8 interior lighting in 200 restaurants with savings of 5,400, 000 kWh
- HID (High Intensity Discharge) to LED exterior lighting in 102 restaurants with
- savings of 1,161,576 kWh
Overall, the sum of the savings between 2011 and 2013 has provided significant environmental benefits equivalent to:
- Removing over 13,000 passenger cars from the road for one year
- Avoiding the emissions from almost 6,000 homes’ energy use for one year
- Growing over 1.6 million tree seedlings for 10 years.
ARG ‘s energy efficiency partners, including Ecova and Powerhouse Dynamics, have been instrumental in helping the Arby’s brand realize these cost and energy savings. ARG has set a goal of achieving 15 percent Energy Use Intensity reduction by 2015 in company-owned restaurants versus a 2011 baseline and plans to achieve the energy reduction goals with guidelines and initiatives to donsider energy efficiency in all operations and decision-making processes; create a culture that drives continual improvement in energy performance; improves productivity and reduces environmental impacts through regular review of current activities; procure equipment in the most energy-efficient and cost-effective manner; and ensure all levels of the organization share responsibility in the implementation of this goal. | <urn:uuid:ea223f69-f53c-4761-abda-ef06e8b4cd82> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/arby-s-increases-energy-efficiency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906785 | 827 | 2.15625 | 2 |
[Letter from President Donald Trump to Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Regarding U.S. Suspension of WHO Contributions, May 18, 2020] [open pdf - 240KB]
From the Letter: "On April 14, 2020, I suspended United States contributions to the World Health Organization pending an investigation by my Administration of the organization's failed response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] outbreak. This review has confirmed many of the serious concerns I raised last month and identified others that the World Health Organization should have addressed, especially the World Health Organization's alarming lack of independence from the People's Republic of China. [...] The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China. My Administration has already started discussions with you on how to reform the organization. But action is needed quickly. We do not have time to waste. That is why it is my duty, as President of the United States, to inform you that, if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization. I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America's interests."
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There are a millions of people who want to lose weight that’s for sure. However, many tried and a lot failed to do so, why? Because they lack one very important ingredient of a successful weight loss and that is motivation. Motivation is the most significant factor if you ever decide to lose weight because without it, you’ll just end up frustrated and depressed. And remember, depression leads to overeating; and overeating leads to weight gain. That means, if you are not motivated to lose weight, then don’t start because you might just end up gaining more weight than what you currently have. Don’t lose hope though, there are many ways to motivate yourself so you’ll be on the right track and increase your success in achieving the desired weight you always dreamed off.
Do it for yourself
65% of the total adult population in the United States is considered overweight. You do not want to be one of them because this will increase your tendency to acquire or aggravate weight-related health problems like Diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular diseases.
Do it for your family
Obesity has been the 2nd preventable cause of death in the US, next to smoking. If you do not want to do it for yourself, well at least do it for the people you love and the people who care about you. Don’t be selfish. You’ll be a great loss to people who depend on you, love you, and care for you. Think of your spouse, your friends, your kids and maybe your future grandkids who want to play with.
Do it for your community
You want to set a good example? This is the best example you can give to your community. Since obesity has affected both kids and adults, you can be a motivation to others. Show them that anyone can fight obesity. This way, you’ll be able to help prolong not only your life but their lives as well. That would be a legacy and a great life achievement that will give you courage to succeed in other areas of your life.
Do it to increase your self-esteem
People who are overweight tend to have lower self-esteem compared to people who are on their ideal weight. This is because above average weight people are often perceived as lazy couch potatoes. People stare at you or make fun of you (sometimes) if you are fat. This is especially true to girls who are in school; they are often laughed at and are often called losers by sexy cheerleaders. If you are one of those undesirable girls in school, start a daily workout routine, eat a balanced diet and display those gorgeous curves on your next high school reunion.
Do it for the reward you have in stored
Rewards like a vacation getaway or any expensive ‘thing’ are great motivators. Remember those days when you will do just about anything for a candy? We may be adults but we will always be a child at heart. Reward yourself with something expensive and unusual. You’ll be working hard to lose weight, thus you deserve a special reward. How about a vacation at Bora-Bora to show off that hot body or probably a sparkly necklace to match your little black dress?
Do it for someone who broke your heart
So he broke your heart and left you for that sexy ugly Betty. Cry, pick up the broken pieces, and get back in shape. The next time you see them together; just smile and look at him drool on how gorgeous you look. As they always say ‘Success is the sweetest revenge’.
Do it for the other things that are important to you
Ask yourself this question, ‘What are the things that are important to me?’ Aside from self and family, some other reasons that are important to an individual are career, dreams, and even properties. Whatever other reasons you have, make it the reason why you want to live a longer life. Think about the time and energy you can devote to other things in your life if you did not have to worry about losing weight. Consider it as a challenge that you have to complete or as a race you have to win and put all your efforts into it until you get the results you want.
Losing weight is definitely easier said than done. It requires you to find the right reasons to be successful. One or two reasons in this article have motivated a lot of people, including me, to lose weight and achieve a healthier body. So, start looking deeper in yourself for that motivation to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
Alex Chris writes about healthy weight loss topics. He tries to approach weight loss from a different perspective giving more importance to other parameters besides exercise and diet.
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Can the Celtic Tiger Cross the Irish Border?
Besorgung - Lieferbarkeit unbestimmt
BeschreibungOne of the Republic's outstanding economists, John Bradley, and the prominent Unionist politician and economist, Esmond Birnie, debate to what extent Northern Ireland can learn from the phenomenon of the "Celtic Tiger." Professor Bradley asks what lessons the North can take from the success of the Republic's economic planning, and whether it makes sense for the island to trade and seek investment as one unit in a globalized economy. Dr Birnie wonders whether the low level of trade and economic interchange between the two Irish economies is really abnormal in European terms, and whether a successfully co-ordinated island economy is possible in two separate political jurisdictions.
Untertitel: 'Cross Currents'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: CORK UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: Juli 2001
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Why Normal Isn’t Good Enough
Regular readers of this blog know by now that my 21-month-old daughter is delayed. She is still learning to walk, and her speech is way behind that of other kids.
This past weekend, we attended the birthday party of a child from her class who was just turning two. I have to admit, both my husband and I got a twinge watching the other kids paint their pumpkins, and the birthday boy blowing out the candles. When will our daughter be able to do those things as effortlessly as their kids?
It’s hard not ask yourself these questions, not to fall into comparison, when your kid isn’t developing at the same rate as others. But what I learned from the other parents at the party surprised me.I found myself voicing an awareness that my daughter wasn’t doing what the others were. I wanted them to know that she has speech therapy and physical therapy; I wanted them to know that I know. Essentially, I was trying to advertise that I’m not a lax or negligent parent just because she’s delayed.
The need to advertise comes up on me suddenly. I’m normally a reasonably secure person. Yet, motherhood still feels relatively new to me, and the feelings of inadequacy it can engender continue to startle.
But what I found was that after I made my disclaimer, the other parents chimed in with stories of their own comparisons. “I see him next to his cousin, and he seems way behind,” or, “Sometimes she’s out in front with her development, and then she’ll start to lag,” or “The kids at the Montessori school are trilingual.”
In a sense, they were being kind, letting me know that I’m not alone in my fears. They all seemed to like my daughter, who has a very sweet and loving personality, and were confident that she would catch up.
That’s what’s funny: how confident we can be about other people’s kids. We’re sure they’ll be just fine.
The other parents weren’t necessarily worried, though, about their own kids being fine. They were worried that fine wouldn’t be enough.
All I’ve been wanting, of late, is for my daughter to catch up, to be reassured that she will in fact be normal. But it occurs to me that once that happens, I might fall into the trap of thinking normal isn’t enough.
The thing we all need to remember is that normal people are exceptional in some way. There are so many different forms of intelligence, and we need to tap into what our children’s intelligence is. Maybe it won’t be something championed in traditional academia (for example, maybe it’ll be art or music or carpentry). But it’s there, waiting to be discovered and encouraged.
We have to remember that someone is always more exceptional in some area. Comparisons just leave us all wanting. We have to learn to hone our vision to see what’s amazing in our own child, instead of trying to figure out where they fall on the spectrum relative to others. We (and they) will be happier for it.
Toddlers playing image available from Shutterstock.
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Date of this Version
Published in Pan-Pacific Entomologist (2002) 78(2): 101-109.
The biology and ecological importance of Hawaiian endemic Cydia spp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) are poorly known. Cydia larvae arc an important food to palila, an endangered Hawaiian bird that inhabits Sophora woodlands on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. We quantified Cydia larval abundance in seeds of Sophora chrysophylla Salisbury (Fabaceae) and larval mortality caused by parasitism. Four new host plant associations are reported: C. crassicornis [Walsingham], C. fulsifalcella [Walsingham], C. obliqlla [Walsingham], and C. storeella [Walsingham]. Four parasitoid wasp species were consistently reared from larval Cydia: Calliephialtes grapholithae [Cresson], Diadegma blackburni [Cameron], Pristomerus hawaiiensis Perkins (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), and Euderus metallicus [Ashmead] (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). The three Ichneumonidae appear to be accidental introductions, while E. metallicus is likely to be native to Hawaii. Parasitism rates by all four wasps combined decreased with elevation from 94% at 1800 m to 20% at 2700 m. | <urn:uuid:4935791e-40be-48b3-99fc-6f50192be60d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/645/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.81579 | 303 | 3.125 | 3 |
When cold temperatures move in, heating units are a hot commodity. But some thieves are more interested in what's inside those units...copper.
Barker's Heating and Cooling owner Tommy Barker said the rise in price of the metal has made residential and commercial units attractive targets for thieves.
"The copper value has gone up so much in the past (that) people tend to want to pickup and sell it, (but) now they are (going) further, trying to dismantle units," Barker said.
Once a crook pulls out the copper, they are able to sell it to scrap yards or metal recycling facilities.
"They could scavenge a unit and probably get anywhere from $40 to $50 dollars a unit," Barker said.
He said about 80 percent of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) units are manufactured with copper so there is an abundant supply of it. In addition, Barker said the place where most units are set up makes them easy pickings.
"They are usually in dark areas or unpopulated areas and they can do their work behind there and nobody bothers them," Barker said.
Barker also adds that some thieves are able to demolish an A/C unit in about five minutes. And some can steal the copper regardless if the unit is attached or not.
"These things are hooked (up) to 220 volts, so they have to be pretty daring," Barker said.
Bryan Assistant Police Chief Peter Sheets said the increase in copper thefts is a national trend has made its way here.
"We had 13 thefts in December, 14 in January," Sheets said.
College Station has also seen occurrences of this crime. The police department has recorded 13 reports of copper thefts since October. Sheets said the rise in incidents directly correlated to the rise of the price of copper.
"We noticed that area copper theft peaked in December and that was about the time that the price of copper was also peaking," Sheets said.
He said in December the price of copper was $3.20 a pound. Police suspect the individuals committing this crime have a drug dependency and they are looking for fast money. However, in the first week in February the Bryan Police Department arrested an individual for theft of copper coils from an A/C unit. And surprisingly, Sheets said the number of copper thefts fell dramatically.
He said this development suggests that perhaps only a few people are committing the majority of the copper thefts. Police are still investigating. Sheets said most A/C units are probably safe because criminals appear to be targeting units that are on vacant or abandoned properties.
He suggests members of the neighborhood watch be on the look out and report anything. For construction sites with A/C units and copper tubing on the property, Sheets recommends companies put a security system in place and make sure to secure the site before personnel leaves.
Tommy Barker said homeowners may want to shine a light on their unit to deter thieves, because once the A/C unit is ripped open, it is gone.
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There are few other joys comparable to welcoming a newborn baby into the world. Time often flies by and within no time, you’ll need to feed the baby with solid food. Non-organic food for babies often contains fruits and vegetables that have traces of chemical pesticides. Meats have growth hormones and antibiotics. These non-organic food pouches also include artificial colours or flavours, thickening agents, starchy fillers, and preservatives.
Organic baby food, on the other hand, provides a better alternative free from dangerous chemicals that may adversely affect your child. In order for food to display organic labels, the manufacturers must ensure that it meets the strict regulations and standards set by the government. This means that the manufacturer must use at least 95% natural ingredients for the food to be classified as organic. This will include all the processes of food production from growing to packaging to shipping.
Organic food should not contain synthetic pesticides, preservatives, genetically modified hormones, ionizing radiation, synthetic growth hormones, or petroleum-based fertilizers. Also, no hormones or antibiotics are allowed in meats, dairy products, and poultry. The animals should only eat organic food and live in apt housing conditions so that their well-being, safety, and health are not jeopardised.
Does organic food contain preservatives or additives?
A lingering question in the minds of many parents is—what ingredients are used in the remaining 5%? The regulations state that organic ingredients used should be at least 95% so this means that preservatives still have to be used. The most common additives used in fruits and vegetables in the organic baby food pouches include lemon juice concentrate, Citric acid, or Ascorbic acid (synthetic Vitamin C). Citric acid is also used to give food the citric flavour.
Health effects of the preservatives
Health experts discovered that the acidic nature of the preservatives used in the foods can cause stomach upset in babies. This is particularly true if the baby’s food already has another acidic fruit such as grapes or pineapples. Acidic food is not bad for the baby, but it should not be part of a regular diet. Acidic food, however, is not recommended for babies under one year old because their stomachs are still sensitive.
Store bought or homemade baby food
Food is often cooked at high temperatures to kill bacteria, prevent contamination, and lengthen shelf life. However, this process kills almost all the nutrients in the food. Store bought food also contains artificial preservatives and other synthetic additives. On the other hand, homemade food does not contain such additives and this is why it is more nutritious for babies. In addition, almost all the ingredients used in preparing homemade food are organic and fresh.
Store bought food offers more convenience, especially for busy parents with professional careers. Furthermore, the ready pouches contain several ingredients in one container so the babies will be able to consume even the foods they dislike such as green vegetables. When buying organic food at the store, ensure the labels clearly indicate that actual and not synthetic ingredients have been used. | <urn:uuid:54e8ca30-9e23-4452-af60-6ab92ff5c936> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://institutemag.com/2019/03/07/organic-baby-food-pouches-what-you-should-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.945283 | 632 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The Never Ending RNA
How did life begin? It is a question that has been bothering the best minds of humanity since we first became self aware.
A pair of Scripps Research Institute scientists has taken a significant step toward answering that question. The scientists have synthesized for the first time RNA enzymes that can replicate themselves without the help of any proteins or other cellular components, and the process proceeds indefinitely.
While this does not sound like anything great to the average person, it is worth noting because RNA likely the predecessor of our current DNA, and figuring out how it replicated without the help of DNA has been a serious puzzle for many people in search of the origins of life.
In the modern world, DNA carries the genetic sequence for advanced organisms, while RNA is dependent on DNA for performing its roles such as building proteins. It has been suspected that RNA once did the whole job by itself. A theory about lifes orginis, called the RNA World model, puts forth the idea that because RNA can function as both a gene and an enzyme and that RNA might have come before DNA. This would make it the origin of modern life.
For years, researchers have wondered whether there might be a simpler way to copy RNA, then the current DNA dependant method. One that was dependant only on the RNA itself, but until now no one could take the theory to reality.
Immortalizing Molecular Information
The replicating system actually involves two enzymes, each composed of two subunits and each functioning as a catalyst that assembles the other. The replication process is cyclic, in that the first enzyme binds the two subunits that comprise the second enzyme and joins them to make a new copy of the second enzyme; while the second enzyme similarly binds and joins the two subunits that comprise the first enzyme. In this way the two enzymes assemble each other — what is termed cross-replication. To make the process proceed indefinitely requires only a small starting amount of the two enzymes and a steady supply of the subunits. "This is the only case outside biology where molecular information has been immortalized," sums up Joyce in a poetic manner.
The researchers then used this mode to generate a variety of enzyme pairs with similar capabilities. With 12 pairs in all, and in true relaity TV generation fashion they pitted against each other them to compete in a molecular test of survival of the fittest. Most times you ended up with the same replications, but every once and a while you woud get a mutation. It is these types of mutations that may have created the life we see around us now.
The research shows that the system can sustain molecular information, a form of heritability, and give rise to variations of itself in a way akin to Darwinian evolution. So, says Lincoln, "What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting." | <urn:uuid:7ef21ba7-197e-4140-b3e7-aa172fa78d9d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://inventorspot.com/articles/never_ending_rna_22104 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00114-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963094 | 597 | 3.953125 | 4 |
A unique hotel offering guests the chance to sleep inside a giant intestine is proving easy to stomach. Curious visitors are flocking to stay at the huge realistic model of a human gut. The quirky adapted sculpture can be found at an art centre near Antwerp, Belgium. Art collectors Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens, founders of The Verbeke Foundation, got their unusual hotel from artist Joep Van Lieshout.
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How green is your ride?: 'Environmentally friendly' means different things to different people
Some car folk have asserted, with a hint of sincerity, that the greenest car ever sold is the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. Of 38,000 Silver Shadow variants built between 1965 and 1980, some 90 percent are still registered and roadworthy.
By this measure of greenness, Aston Martins and Ferraris probably run a close second, though it's a safe bet that more of those have been wrecked. As counterpoint to these enduring automobiles, the National Automobile Dealers Association reports that 12 million cars and trucks were scrapped in the United States in 2006. "Scrapped" in this context covers a range of possibilities, from systematically recycled to submerged in country ponds.
In a thoughtful debate on environmental impact, few will hold fast to the notion that a Silver Shadow is the greenest car. But the point is taken. With attention focused on sexy propulsion sources, considerations such as manufacturing, duty cycle and disposal get lost in the roar. Does anyone really know what the most ecologically friendly car is?
Science can only guide us, and often the science gets buried under hype from all corners with something to sell.
"There's been a sincere effort to give consumers a rationale for comparing the eco-performance of vehicles," says Shruti Vaidyanathan, principal vehicle analyst at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). "There's also a lot of hard sell that isn't based on good policy or science, and there are gray areas in measuring eco-perfo...
Author: J.P. VETTRAINO
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The UN Security Council’s relaxing of the international arms embargo on Somalia last year appears to have contributed to a rise in insecurity and human rights abuses that has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths each month, Amnesty International said as it called for a robust embargo to be restored.
In March 2013, the 21-year-old arms embargo on Somalia was partially lifted by the UN Security Council for one year, allowing the Somali government to import small arms and light weapons but not larger weapons and munitions. The Security Council is due to review this embargo by 6 March 2014 and the government has requested the embargo to be lifted.
“The facts speak for themselves – security for Somalia’s people remains extremely volatile, and the ongoing flow of arms into the country is fanning the flames of armed violence and grave human rights abuses against civilians,” said Michelle Kagari, Africa Deputy Director at Amnesty International.
“Allowing more light arms to be sent into Somalia under the government’s current weak controls is a recipe for disaster. The Security Council must restore the full arms embargo and set up strict monitoring procedures for any exceptions in order to bolster security in the country.”
Since the UN embargo was relaxed last March, arms meant for the Somali Government have reportedly been diverted for end use by parallel armed groups who are not part of Somalia’s armed forces, including al-Shabab.
2012 and early 2013 saw a rise in Somalia’s civilian death toll. More civilian casualties were reported than in 2011, with an estimated 600 fatalities monthly at its highest. Hand grenade attacks doubled in May and June compared to the beginning of 2013, and targeted killings take place almost daily.
When Somalia’s former Deputy Prime Minister Fawsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan asked in February 2013 for the UN arms embargo to be lifted, she committed her government to putting in place “the necessary mechanisms to ensure armaments do not fall into the wrong hands”, and to strengthening the military.
However, recent media reports on a leaked UN report pointed to “systematic abuses” by government forces that resulted in mass diversion of weapons to armed groups since the UN Security Council partially lifted its embargo last year. The same reports pointed to “gaps in information” from light arms supplying states such as Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda, as well as the Somali authorities about the quantities and whereabouts of shipments from abroad.
Weapons diverted from the army are said to be widely available on private arms markets in Somalia and have allegedly made their way into the hands of parallel security forces, even being earmarked for an al-Shabab leader.
In early 2010 Amnesty International called for the suspension of arms transfers to the Somali government until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war crimes and human rights abuses. The organization also called on the UN Security Council last year not to lift the arms embargo for this reason.
“The Somali government has been unable to live up to its commitments. Their security forces have not been strengthened, and reports suggest that they have actively allowed arms to fall into the hands of groups that commit atrocities,” said Michelle Kagari.
“It would be short-sighted and dangerous for the Security Council not to restore a much stronger arms embargo as a key step to ending the proliferation and abuse of arms by armed groups responsible for human rights abuses in Somalia.”
Amnesty International is calling on the Security Council to restore the full embargo and ensure stronger monitoring mechanisms are put in place. This should include stricter prior notifications by exporting states to the UN Sanctions Committee for any intended arms transfer to the government, the right of the Committee to refuse transfers should it pose a significant risk of abuse and the installation of an independent UN team to rigorously inspect stockpiles and track arms deliveries.
There was a surge of attacks in the capital Mogadishu in 2013, despite it being under the nominal control of the Somali government.
Al-Shabab retains the ability to stage lethal attacks even in the most heavily guarded parts of the city. Villa Somalia, the seat of the Somali government, suffered a deadly grenade attack as recently as 21 February 2014 – in addition to four such attacks in 2013.
Lack of discipline and command control within Somalia’s armed forces and allied armed groups means that they not only fail to provide civilian protection, but are actually contributing to the overall insecurity. State security forces continue to be infiltrated by criminal, radical or insurgent elements. | <urn:uuid:1e56d54d-98d0-49bd-9515-f8cf33239ac7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/un-security-council-urged-to-tighten-arms-embargo-on-somalia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00236-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952773 | 924 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Individual Oral Commentary Workshop
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Each student will receive a passage of upto 40 lines
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Talk about the passage for a minimum of 10 minutes
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To what extent does the commentary show knowledge and understanding of the text?
Are the comments supported by well-chosen references to the text?
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effects of literary features
To what extent does the commentary show an awareness of how the literary features in the text ( for example, structure, technique and style ) are used to construct meaning?
To what extent does the commentary show understanding of the effects of literary features?
How well organized is the
How coherent is the structure?
How clear, varied and
accurate is the
How appropriate is the choice of register and style? ("Register refers, in this context, to the student's use of elements such as vocabulary, tone, sentence structure and terminology appropriate to the commentary.)
Organising The Commentary
Poetry: a body of
Drama: where in terms of the plot
What has taken place before?
What happens next?
Novel: which chapter?
Where in terms of the plot
Convey a message
Advance the plot
Highlight a theme
Develop a character
Introduce a character
Reveal a character's thoughts and
What takes place?
Is there an outstanding theme of the extract?
Ambition vs Revulsion
The American Dream
Man vs Nature
Is there an example of a particular device that stands out or one that the author has made particular use of within the extract?
Poetry: Regular, irregular, free
Extract from a novel: narrative, dialogue
Extract from a play: dialogue, soliloquy
Dialogue: dominant character
Further Stylistic Features
stylistic features and effects
Novel: descriptive narrative
movement: time and/or
Explain why authors have employed
certain stylistic features
Create a focal point
PIE: The point/illustrate/explain
A quick review of the texts used for
An actual extract: layout, content
and guiding questions
Groups of 4: each person to perform an individual oral commentary which
will be recorded and assessed by
Individual mock exam
The Great Gatsby
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Some early signs of breast cancer include changes in the feel or appearance of the breast or nipple, or nipple discharge, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. It is recommended that women perform monthly self-exams of their breasts to look for changes that might occur that are indicative of breast cancer.Continue Reading
Changes in how the nipple or breast feel can be warning signs for breast cancer, notes the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Thickening in or around the breast or underarm, lumps or nipple tenderness should be evaluated by a doctor. In addition, a change in the texture of the skin or an enlargement in the pores of the skin on the breast should be cause for alarm. This is often described as skin on the breast that feels tough and rigid, like the skin on citrus fruit. A lump in the breast should also be looked at by a doctor, although the presence of a lump does not necessary indicate breast cancer.
Changes in the shape or size of the breast, dimpling of the breast, swelling of the breast or recent changes that make one breast appear larger than the other may also indicate a problem. Finally, discharge from the breast, especially when it is bloody or clear, should be evaluated as a potential sign of breast cancer, recommends the National Breast Cancer Foundation.Learn more about Cancer | <urn:uuid:379a43c5-09e8-4ca6-900d-0aa352f13520> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/health/common-early-symptoms-breast-cancer-cd8f2b5d134b92c3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939352 | 264 | 3.125 | 3 |
Olympic Lifts and Foundatations
By Wil Fleming
Coaches everywhere, and a great percentage of coaches at that, choose to use some type of Olympic lifts in their training of athletes. Typically this Olympic lift is a power clean, starting from the floor. While this is appropriate for plenty of athletes, there are multiple variations in the starting position, that it can be hard to determine which is the right place to start.
In Part 1 I discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the floor start position and the block start position. In Part 2 you will learn about 2 of the more popular hang start positions.
So lets take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of some of the Olympic lifts variations in start position.
Hang Start Position (High Thigh)
The hang position with the bar on the high thigh is a very popular way to start for both athletes and in training for competition weightlifters. This position is actually the one that is taught in many certification courses as a great way to train beginners on the lifts.
The start position is usually ½ way or more up to the top of the thigh but below the hip crease. The start position is nearly at the finish of the 2nd pull and will lead to a very quick and explosive lift.
Pros: This start position is excellent for training athletes to become more proficient at the Olympic lifts. The start position is relatively easy to attain because the counter movement is short which makes it hard to miss. Due to the high nature of the start position the speed of the lift is very quick making coaching cues simple, (“explode”, “Drive” etc,). As a technique tool it reinforces the 2nd pull and even assists in making the athlete more efficient at the 3rd pull, more so than any other start position for the Olympic lifts.
Cons: This is a great place to start. In my experience though many athletes have a difficult time generating much power from this start position early on. Technical difficulties for novice athletes from this position are usually things like, jerking their head back from the start, or over scooping the knees forward to initiate the movement. The correct start position is fairly quad dominant and doesn’t rely as much on the athlete’s ability to extend the hips as other hang start positions. As with other hang start positions multiple reps are difficult on the grip (not that big of a con, but still needs to be mentioned).
Hang Start Position (Above Knee)
This is a common position to see athletes do cleans and snatches. In fact, this is the primary position from which I teach my athletes how to clean or snatch. The start position is directly above the knee cap (or 3-4 inches above in the snatch).
Pros: This start position is easy to attain for most athletes, it mimics the pattern that they will go through when you ask them to jump as high as possible. The easy to attain start position and similarity to other athletic movement means that athletes will have early success with the lift. In terms of training this usually means that the athlete will be able to lift more weight, correctly, and sooner than with other positions. One big positive with this lift is that athletes are made to assume a more hip dominant position to start, training the posterior chain more effectively than hang start positions higher on the thigh.
Cons: Because the position is lower on the thigh, athletes that are extremely quad dominant in their movements have difficulty getting to the start position. Often times they will try to squat, or knee bend their way to the start. Athletes that lack lumbar and core stability will try to achieve the start position through a back bend. The longer counter movement actually makes grip even more of an issue than some shorter hang start positions.
Many pros and cons lists end up with a verdict, but with the Olympic lifts I cannot form one. All of the lifts have benefits and drawbacks, and some more so than others. Take the considerations in the last two articles to mind when training with the lifts and test each of them out for yourself and those athletes that are ready.
The IYCA Olympic Lift Instructor Course gives you everything you need to better understand, teach, progress and implement Olympic Lift training with your young athletes. You will gain complete technical instruction and learn necessary skill sets & essential coaching cues.
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The UN’s Rio+20 Conference aims to put the world on a more sustainable course. In the hope of creating agreements prior to Rio+20, the UN Global Compact will host the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainable Forum: Innovation & Collaboration for the Future We Want, which takes place from 15-18 of June in Rio.
As stated by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the support of business community leaders is of key importance in the path towards sustainability. Companies and industries around the world are putting sustainability on their agendas, recognizing the urgency of global environmental, social and economic challenges to be tackled. Unleashing the potential of the private sector is crucial for sustainable development on a broader scale, in line with the Rio+20 objectives. In fact, the Corporate Sustainability Leadership: A Framework for Action at Rio+20 and Beyond quotes: “business must be part of the solution” to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
That is why this Forum is important. The aim of the Forum is to create sustainable innovative ideas and better collaboration between companies, governments, civil society and the UN.
The Forum offers a unique opportunity for businessmen and investors to discuss six main themes focusing on:
Energy & Climate: Investments in technologies and efficient solutions to deliver off-grid energy to be affordable for new generations of consumers.
Water & Ecosystems: Building responsible strategies to water risk, advancing the understanding of water resources and developing tools for a sustainable management.
Agriculture & Food: A platform for all stakeholders to identify and implement innovative solutions to food security and sustainable agriculture.
Social Development: Limiting disparities to contribute to the development of more peaceful, just and sustainable societies.
Urbanization & Cities: Cities represent an extraordinary array of human, material and financial resources that can be harnessed for positive and sustainable urban outcomes.
Economics & Finance of Sustainable Development: Sustainable finance and responsible investments to have a more efficient allocation of capital and better achieve longer-term investment goals.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has attacked the Centre over the soaring fuel prices.
Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi: “Gas, Diesel, Petrol have been heavily taxed, while PSU, PSB are sold to friends to snatch jobs and facilities of common man. The rule of PM is to sell the country and give benefits to friends (sic).”
The fuel scene is on the boil in the country with the pump price of petrol and diesel rising 26 times in 2021, by Rs 7.46 and Rs 7.60 per litre, respectively, so far this year. Petrol price has also breached the Rs 100 a litre-mark in several cities.
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The U.S. government is likely to impose limits on exports of liquefied natural gas in order to keep its domestic natural gas prices low, said executives from two major oil companies with operations in the country Thursday.
Natural gas prices in the U.S. have fallen to 10-year lows because of a boom in production of gas trapped in shale rock. The U.S. government, "wants to keep this surplus to keep the price down," in the long term, said Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive of France's Total SA (TOT) at the Petrostrategies conference in Paris.
Several companies are planning to build plants that would convert some of this domestic surplus of gas into LNG that could be shipped internationally.
"In the short term there are likely to be limited exports," said Mark Williams, Downstream Director of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN). "It's in the hands of the government."
"They will limit exports to keep pressure downwards [on natural gas prices] in the U.S.," said de Margerie.
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A Modest Proposal for Families Helping Other Families in Need
Depending upon your circumstances, two glaring problems are associated with the Economic Impact Payments, also known as the Stimulus Checks. People gripe all the time about sending money “to” the government, so why should we be carping now about this reversal of fortune? Money “from” the IRS? What’s not to like?
First, for many millions of families, in what we can call Group A, $600 falls woefully short of meeting the basic needs of food, shelter, and medical care, all endangered by the catastrophic downturn brought on by the pandemic. $600 does not even qualify as a “down payment on more to come,” the blithe expression of many a smiling lawmaker. Let’s be clear: $600 is a flat out insult and people in dire economic straights have said as much.
From another point of view, the Stimulus Checks, believe it or not, provide too much money. For sure, any money getting “out there” and spent, does in fact help fuel our consumption economy and bring about a measure of prosperity. But, for another many millions of families, which we can call Group B, $600 is a relative trifling amount that could be used for an enhanced vacation or some other non-essential luxury.
The Economic Impact Payments were doled out equally to all qualified Americans regardless of need—a supreme injustice that so many of us have in our power to mitigate until another more substantial round of stimulus is implemented.
One simple solution, therefore, is readily apparent. Whether they are inclined to do so, the many millions in Group B could give away this “pittance” of found money to those in Group A either directly to someone they know in their community, or indirectly to an organization that will get the job done.
As someone in Group B, I daydreamed throughout December about how I could put that $600 to best use knowing full well that in good conscience I could not keep the money when so many in my community were suffering. What if—I thought—scores, or hundreds, of people like me, would pool their efforts and send huge amounts to organizations that are doing outstanding work for our neighbors who happen to be down on their luck?
I personally chose to give my $600 to A Single Bite, whose expanded mission now includes “Neighbors Feeding Neighbors” in Sullivan County. In the words of Kirsten Harlow Foster, a Homestead Mom and co-head of A Single Bite along with her husband, Sims,
“We are at an important juncture at A Single Bite and hope that others understand that the urgency surrounding food insecurity remains strong. Sadly, the demand for meals has not let up and in fact we continue to see more people reaching out in need.”
As I told Kirsten, I do not view my contribution as an extraordinarily generous gesture, but rather one that I feel duty-bound to make. I hope others, many others, will feel the same way and will consider a contribution to A Single Bite (asinglebite.org) or other caring organizations.
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Dr. Alex Rosen, MD via TEPCO: 2,500,000 MBq [2.5 trillion Bq] estimated Plutonium-238/239/240/241 emissions from March 12-15, 2011
The Real Lessons of Fukushima, March 11, 2012: Also almost all the Np-239 and Pu-239 have been carried over the ocean.
Press Conference, March 27, 2011: REPORTER: According to NISA, the stagnant water in the nuclear power plant, whether the water contains plutonium has not been investigated by the Cabinet I believe, and I think extensive investigation is necessary don’t you think? CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY EDANO: [...] the soil within the nuclear power plant premise is now being investigated. I have been reported that the measurement is not easy [...]
Ken Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) and Michio Aoyama (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan), Aug. 4, 2012: Surface ocean in June 2011, see slightly elevated Pu -from direct discharge? -Pu removed on sinking particles, so Cs/Pu ratio increases over time (Kenna, Masque, Buesseler et al. unpublished) [...] Seafloor sedimentation is small, but important sink for Cs (Pu?)
Ken Buesseler Interview on WCAI, April 13, 2011 (at 6:45 in): As we basically cool these reactors down with seawater and that seawater leaks back directly into the ocean, through discharge canals or through groundwater, that also is most likely carrying with it things like plutonium.
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The Ultimate Genki Textbook Review: Is It Any Good?
I felt coddled by staff when I first arrived in Japan, and since this is Japan, I figured the time would come for me to speak for myself, in Japanese.
Genki I is one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand presentations of elementary Japanese I’ve ever seen; it was the first textbook I ever used, and it literally took me from knowing almost nothing to being functional; there are few textbooks as clear and intuitive as Genki I.
Genki is incredibly effective at helping you learn polite, u4e01u5bfe, “u307eu3059”-style Japanese, which is important because that’s how native speakers on TV and the natives all around you (if you live in Japan) will speak.
Genki is a fantastic value for a one-time payment, though you will need to add a little extra for the workbook (which is absolutely necessary). It is slightly more expensive than most texbooks, but you only pay once and reap the benefits many times over.
Easy to read, easy to follow, and a book with a sense of humor, Genki One is arguably the best textbook in its class. Reviewer picks seven reasons why this Japanese Textbook is the best in the class.
1. Genki Is A Non-Intimidating Intro To Japanese
Genki was like a gift from God when I first began studying Japanese; it was the first book that gave me the training I needed to begin producing basic language from my brain.
2. Predictable Lesson Structure
I like that Genki lessons don’t throw any crazy curveballs at you; as a beginner, you know exactly what to expect in each lesson, and this predictable structure improves and builds your Japanese skills lesson by lesson.
3. The Yomikakihen Section
You get to start learning hiragana, katakana, and kanji basics in a practical way, and you also get 12 supplementary yomikakihen (reading and writing) lessons to go along with each unit.
4. The Genki Workbook
Any text book that mentions hangovers, breakups, and even cutting class is my kind of book! It’s serious Japanese that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Genki’s workbook lessons give you the opportunity to write down your thoughts and ideas through simple Japanese exercises.
5. The Genki MP3 Audio
Many of Genki’s interesting characters have voices in the beginning audio files, and the Japanese is spoken at a pace that beginners can understand. It’s also pretty cool that Genki uses an mp3 CD (would you believe that some Japanese textbooks still use compact discs?!?).
6. A Book With a Sense Of Humor
Genki is a textbook that keeps lessons and exercises light-hearted and fun, with some pictures that will make you laugh out loud. But it’s the funny stuff that sticks with the Japanese, and it’s what sets Genki apart from other textbooks.
7. Genki Is Loaded With Pictures
Save the big blocks of text and super serious reading passages for the upper intermediate and advanced levels; the pictures, as well as the language’s emphasis on visuals, make Japanese much less intimidating.
IS GENKI STARTING TO SOUND PRETTY GOOD TO YOU?
The purpose of the Genki One Textbook Review is to assist you in improving your reading comprehension and vocabulary.
1. NEEDS MORE “REAL-WORLD” JAPANESE
While you will learn a lot of useful Japanese from Genki, there are a lot of natural expression gaps between Genki and Nihongo Matome.
2. NOT ENOUGH EMPHASIS ON KANA
Because kana are such an important part of being able to propel your Japanese, the textbook focuses on other important aspects of the language, and you’ll be better than you think by the time you finish the workbook.
3. EXPECTED MORE FROM THE KANJI SECTION
This book’s kanji section is lacking, but I believe that is for a reason: if it covered everything, it would be overkill for a beginner, and Genki also publishes a book to assist beginners with their kanji.
EVERY GOOD JAPANESE TEXTBOOK HAS NEGATIVES…
This 12-lesson textbook has dialogues that build as you go, as well as a list of useful, theme-based vocabulary words. If you can’t speak a lick of Japanese, Genki is the book for you. Lazy Bums – just having the book won’t make you any better at it. True Blue Tourists – If you are sincere about learning Japanese, Genki is the book for you.
Are Genki books good?
Genki is a fantastic value for a one-time purchase; you will need to add a little extra for the workbook (which I believe is absolutely necessary if you are studying with this series), and it is slightly more expensive than most texbooks, but you will reap the benefits many times over.
What is Genki used for?
GENKI is a popular series of integrated resources for learning elementary Japanese that takes a balanced approach to all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Is Genki 1 good for self study?
You can use Genki for self-study, but it will never be as quick, effective, or excellent as learning with a tutor. To put it another way, you can use this study material to learn and practice Japanese on your own.
Is Genki free?
The practice slides for GENKI [2nd ed.] are now available for free download! To get the slides, click the links below.
Is Genki 2 enough for N4?
Genki II should cover all or nearly all of the kanji and vocabulary you’ll need for the N4, as well as the majority of the grammar.
Is Genki 1 enough for N5?
In simple terms, Genki 1 is sufficient for the JLPT N5. It includes an audio CD that will assist you in learning the correct pronunciation of Japanese words, as well as exercises that will help you prepare for the test.
Does Genki mean happy?
One of the first words you’ll encounter when learning Japanese is genki (), but the meaning of this ubiquitous Japanese word is murky. While most dictionaries translate it as “good health,” “spirit,” “pep,” or “vigor,” there’s more to it.
Why is the Genki Sushi logo angry?
There are a few theories to explain this puzzle, but the most plausible is that the logo is meant to depict a sushi chef in action, with the angry arched brows and frown symbolizing the chef’s game face when he’s in the “zone.”
What is Genki desu in English?
When someone asks if you are genki, simply respond with u201cgenki desu.u201d u2013 In English, the equivalent would be u201cHow are you?u201d u2013 u201cI’m fine.u201d If you want to respond in the negative, use the following sentences: Genki de wa arimasen.
How good is Genki for self study?
If you’re self-studying (like I am), Genki has a self-study material section on their website with all sorts of resources to study stuff on your own. It’s a little strange to understand the flow of the book at first, but once you do, it’s really good for practice.
Is Genki the best textbook?
Shortly after its release, the Genki textbook became a popular choice for Japanese university classes throughout North America, and it continues to be a popular choice even among self-learners. Countless students and teachers swear by it.
Is Minna no Nihongo good for self study?
If you already know hiragana and katakana, however, Minna no Nihongo is a good book for self-study because it is comprehensive, well-structured, and engaging, and it can provide you with everything you need to improve your Japanese language skills.
How can I teach myself Japanese?
The Beginner’s Guide to Teaching Yourself Japanese in 8 Steps
- Learn Hiragana. Become acquainted with Katakana. Become acquainted with Kanji.
- Build a Core Vocabulary.
- Learn Basic Japanese Pronunciation.
- Become acquainted with Basic Particles.
- Learn Japanese Sentence Structure.
- Learn Basic Greetings and Expressions.
How many books does Genki have?
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I had a hard time choosing a photo for the topic of 'peaceful' as an awful lot of my photos seemed to fit the bill.
I decided to post these photos of a huge bug I saw peacefully warming itself in Juan Les Pins on Friday. The local temperature in the sun [according to the handy temperature guages on many pharmacies] was 20 to 22 degrees C - so it was a pretty warm day.
I had seen two Red Admiral butterflies fluttering around earlier in the day though they were flying too high for me to attempt to photograph.
I'm not sure whether the insect life thinks that spring has sprung early or that winter hasn't actually arrived yet.
I think this is most likely to be a female Egyptian Tree Locust Anacridium aegyptium- the yellowish crest running down the upper back is quite characteristic.
The female Egyptian locust is bigger than the male and can grow to up to 9 cm [3.5 inches] while the male only grows to about 6.5 cm [2.5 inches].
The eyes were quite fascinating with a stripy tiger's eye look to them.
This particular insect was probably about 9 cm. I think she had probably been roused out of her overwinter shelter to lay eggs due to the spring-like heat. They usually roost in trees but this old garage must have been quiet and dark enough to act as a useful shelter. The rusty door was a very close colour match for the locust - a lot of passersby couldn't work out what i was photographing and thought i was taking macro shots of rust [and blocking the very narrow pavement].
Egyptian Tree Locusts are considered a minor pest of grapevines , fruit trees and vegetables unless they are found in high numbers , in which case they are able to cause a lot of damage.
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Given the importance of the movement of the arm carrying the fencing sword weapon and its basic role in performing the offensive and defensive skills, so it requires a muscular ability of the fencer to implement it during the fighting period, and it is known that the test of this ability based on its measurement on the muscle groups of the armed and unarmed arms (both arms) and if we know that the non-arm An armed arm whose primary duty is limited to the balance of the body during the fight, which is Negatively reflected on the results of the muscular ability test, and the armed arm is also not available a test to guarantee it, and from this point of view crystallized and emerged the research problem, which the researchers wanted to seek to find appropriate solutions for it through the design and legalization of the test To measure the muscular ability to perform the armed arm and to provide the most accurate information that can be used to achieve the optimum achievement in the sport o fencing. The study aimed to design and standardize a test to measure the muscular ability to extend and bend the arm carrying the fencing sword, as well as to find standard degrees and levels for the test among the research sample members. Where the descriptive approach was used, and the research community consisted of (118) advanced players, and after the results of the exploratory experiments confirmed the validity of the test, the main experiment was started to apply it. The researchers concluded that the designed and standardized test proved its validity in measuring the muscular ability to extend and flex the arm carrying the fencing weapon, and the standard scores and levels obtained from the test represent the actual level of the sample.
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British researchers have confirmed that a skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine found beneath a car park in central UK, was that of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, solving a 500-year-old mystery about his final resting place.
Archaeologists announced the results of DNA tests on the skeleton's identity on Monday, which they hope might lead to a better understanding of how Richard died.
"There is a match between the maternal DNA from the descendants of the family of Richard the third and the skeletal remains that we found," researchers said.
Richard was killed fighting his eventual successor Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field in central England in 1485.
A team of archaeologists and historians from the University of Leicester said evidence showed that a skeleton found last year during excavations of a medieval friary under a parking lot in the city was indeed that of Richard.
Describing how the researchers discovered that the skeleton was indeed Richard's, Al Jazeera's Tim Friend said: "It has been an amazing piece of historical detective work".
"The local historians believed there was a possibility that his skeleton could still be there, so they started to excavate a year ago. They used all the modern techniques, including forensics, DNA, carbon dating, and other ways to establish the skeleton's identity.
"There were all sorts of speculation on whether his body had been slung into a river by his enemies, or whether it had indeed been buried.
"They found the injured skull and spine, which helped to determine what kind of weapons may have inflicted those injuries and when they were inflicted.
"These DNA tests went back 17 generations from Richard's sister to a Canadian living in London and they found a match beyond reasonable doubt.
"So now Richard will be buried in a cathedral in Leicester."
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University of Northern Colorado Professor of Special Education Kay Ferrell, Ph.D., has been selected to serve as a principal member of the Institute of Education Sciences' Special Education Research Scientific Review Panel.
The panel meets twice a year in Washington, D.C., to review grant applications made to the National Center for Special Education Research. IES selects principal members in recognition of their professional contributions to education sciences and related fields, as well as their outstanding prior service on IES research grant peer review panels, according to IES director John Q. Easton.
During her career, Ferrell has collaborated on 69 external funding proposals resulting in grant funding of nearly $15 million since 1982. Her research focuses on development of young children with visual impairments; cross-modal abilities of infants with disabilities; outcomes for students with visual impairments; distance education; personnel preparation; and policy analysis.
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Washington, June 5 (ANI): A novel component of the influenza virus has been discovered by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine which may be the key to disabling the virus''s ability to replicate itself and to developing a universal anti-viral treatment.
The finding has been published June 1 online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The influenza A virus is encoded by eight individual single-stranded segments of RNA. Each segment must serve as the material for both making protein and new segments, processes called transcription and replication. As each strand must perform both functions, it is imperative that the virus prioritize these processes, starting with transcription and then switching to replication.
Mount Sinai researchers have, for the first time, identified a small-viral RNA (svRNA), derived from the virus, that is integral to the switch from transcription to replication.
Inhibiting svRNA from making this switch would stymie replication and thus slow or halt the spread of the virus. Because segment ends and replication strategies used for influenza B and C are similar to those of influenza A, this discovery can lead to a universal treatment for people suffering from the disease. It would also be effective against the H1N1 swine flu virus.
"The implications of this study are very exciting," said Benjamin tenOever, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and corresponding author of the study. "While each segment encodes different viral products, the svRNAs remain consistent, both between segments and across viral strains. If we can block the availability of svRNA we can inhibit the switch to replication, thereby stopping viral spread. As an added bonus, if the virus remains stuck in transcription, it will continue to produce proteins, ultimately strengthening the antibody response."
The small RNA component was originally identified through a process called deep sequencing. This revolutionary new technique allows scientists to obtain millions of small
RNAs from cells in a completely unbiased fashion. The technique was applied to lung cells infected with influenza A virus and ultimately led to the discovery of the first small RNA component ever identified from this family of viruses.
"Questions remain about exactly how the svRNAs function," said Dr. tenOever. "We''re also hoping to engineer a means of delivering RNA-based antagonists into the body''s system as a means of inhibiting svRNA function. We''re still a few years off from solving the entire puzzle. However, by finding this one piece, a universal treatment for all strains of influenza is within reach of becoming a reality." (ANI) | <urn:uuid:a1dec6fc-c867-4f7f-a565-23620307a3ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mensxp.com/buzz-on-web/health/1014-boffins-approaching-universal-treatment-for-all-influenza-strains.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00184-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958515 | 522 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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- A nearly complete bibliography of papers published on genetic programming. Part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection.
- Developing advanced applications using the art of genetic programming. This technology is primarily being used in research labs, but will certainly find more practical uses.
Events on Artificial Intelligence
- A comprehensive listing of events related to neural networks, vision, speech, and related topics.
- Genetic Programming 1996 Conference, July 28-31: Stanford University.
Genetic Programming Bibliography
- A large single file containing an extensive genetic programming bibliography. Lacks a search function.
Genetic Programming at University College London
- FAQs, people, software, links, conferences, publications, interactive genetic art and music.
Genetic Programming, Inc.
- Clusters used for genetics research. Pictures, news articles, and design and configuration details for very large clusters.
- A definitive source of information about the field of genetic programming with links and conferences.
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- Inventor of genetic programming and author of numerous published papers on genetic programming available in Post Script form.
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Tax Lien Lawyers in Keene
A "lien" in Keene, New Hampshire is a property right that a person or entity has in property owned by someone else, created by law, for the purpose of enforcing a debt. A lien gives its holder many rights in the property of another person, including the right to seize the proceeds of a sale of the property, and, if the debtor files for bankruptcy, the right to go to the front of the line among other creditors, making it more likely that the lien holder will collect something.
As you might have gathered, a "tax lien" is simply a lien placed on property by the IRS or Keene, New Hampshire tax authorities, to compile taxes that the property-owner has failed to pay.
However, like any other debt-collection method, a tax lien is worthless if the debtor has no considerable property on which a lien can be imposed. To get around this limitation, most tax liens in Keene, New Hampshire apply to after-acquired property (property obtained after the lien was created). Most other liens only apply to certain pieces of property, or property that the debtor owned at the time the lien went into effect.
Tax Lien Procedure in Keene, New Hampshire
The process of imposing a tax lien on property in Keene, New Hampshire is normally fairly simple. The first step is for the IRS or local tax agency to determine that a person really owes back taxes, and that it is worth the effort to impose a lien.
Then, the taxpayer is sent a letter with a "notice and demand," which informs the taxpayer that the IRS has determined that they owe back taxes, and that they have a short period of time (normally 10 days) to pay them without incurring a penalty.
If this deadline expires, and the debtor does not pay the taxes they owe, the lien will take effect automatically. When this happens, the IRS or New Hampshire tax agency will have considerable rights against the taxpayer's property.
However, in Keene, New Hampshire, and anywhere else in America, a tax lien only lasts for 10 years, and then it automatically expires. If the IRS fails to exercise the substantial rights that it has under a tax lien within that period of time, it is assumed that they never intend to do so, and the lien will cease to exist. This ensures that valuable property is only kept out of the economy for a certain period of time.
How Can a Keene, New Hampshire Tax Lien Lawyer Help?
If you receive notice from the federal government, or the government of New Hampshire that a tax lien has been imposed on your property, some pretty complex legal issues are necessarily involved.
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Xino Nero naturally sparkling mineral water, rich in calcium, magnesium and carbonic acid comes from springs in the village of Xino Nero near Florina in the north of Greece. The first bottling plant was built here by the French, for soldiers that camped in the area during the 1st World War and the water has been bottled at source ever since. Gently sparkling and refreshing, with a great retro label.
Sour Water is very popular and known for its beneficial properties. From the homonymous spring located at an altitude of 650 meters near Amynteo, Florina, a natural mineral water with unique properties. Florina Sour Water is a naturally carbonated water. This means that the carbon dioxide content in the bottle is the same as that which comes from the source, without additional addition. It is characterized by lively, constantly evolving bubbles (quality indication), spirited taste with hints of lemon and full body.
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- Employers are expanding efforts to keep employees healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Willis Towers Watson survey results released April 10.
- Most (86%) of the surveyed employers said they are promoting the use of telemedicine, nurse lines or virtual healthcare visits. Fifty-eight percent are increasing access to telebehavioral health, with an additional 14% planning to do so. More than two-fifths (41%) of those surveyed said they will waive out-of-pocket treatment costs for employees who contract the virus.
- Given the nature of novel coronavirus transmission, some employers also are keeping employees out of the workplace entirely. Thirty-nine percent of respondents reported that more than 75% of their workforce can now work remotely, up from just 14% pre-pandemic. Nearly all (97%) of the respondents with employees working on site said they promote social distancing and have increased cleaning and disinfection.
In addition to keeping workers home and boosting virtual wellness options, many employers are relaxing supply limitations for certain drugs, providing increased flexibility to care for sick family members and planning anti-stigma campaigns to combat virus-related discrimination, according to the Willis Towers Watson research.
The results also show that employers view mental health as an important aspect of employee wellness during this time. Many are striving for increased transparency and heightened communications to help keep employees feeling informed about work. Practical information about how to work remotely (including IT-related instruction) is also essential to help reduce feelings of disruption, experts previously told HR Dive.
But when it comes to therapy, that responsibility can't fall to HR, William Kassler, chief medical officer of government health and human services at IBM Watson Health, said in a previous interview. "HR is good at what HR does, but most HR folks don't have a therapeutic background; they're not counselors," he said. "But what HR can do is help companies develop the policies and practices in place, get the resources and broker the interaction between people who deliver therapy." | <urn:uuid:2e53b531-cf56-4b48-bfc0-f3573df32d2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hrdive.com/news/survey-employers-encourage-telebehavioral-health-waive-covid-19-treatment/576285/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.971479 | 426 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Parenting tips, behavior modification, art as therapy rather than ADHD drug treatment
Art is a wonderful preventive and creative activity for young children. It can help children to learn to focus and works better than medicine for many children.
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The boy, six years old, had dark rings under his eyes. He was slightly withdrawn socially and his primary classroom interest was computer video games on the internet. Preschool and kindergarten children diagnosed with ADHD are frequently prescribed stimulant medications as a form of behavior control. Sometimes it seems to help their behavior. However, side effects are evident, and many parents and teachers are concerned about the overuse of medications for young children.
One preschool teacher and special education student said that she always knew who the children on medication were by the dark rings under their eyes, as in the real example of the boy mentioned here from an inner city school.
CHADD's Attention magazine directs attention to intervention with preschoolers who demonstrate symptoms of ADHD
. Surprisingly, rather than recommending medication as a first choice, the author of the article recommends a number of other of possible interventions, with these young children include parental training.
According to the Mark Wolraich, M.D. in an article entitled, "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Can It be Recognized and Treated in
Children Younger Than 5 Years?", doctors should be conservative with treatments, opting for "behavior interventions" as "the first
intervention employed with preschool children". Parental training
is preferred to giving children medication for ADHD when considering ADHD in preschool children. Potential negative effects of stimulant medications are a concern to most parents, and these drugs might negatively affect the developing bodies of young children.
Some of the Possible Problems Involving Medication for Preschoolers
and young children
Difficulty falling asleep
Repetitive behaviors or thoughts
Programs that have been found effective tend to focus on improving parental consistency and using consequences for desired and undesired behaviors.
ADHD Diet for Children
Before exploring pharmacological treatment, dietary changes or manipulation, such as restricting the intake of certain foods or adding certain foods in, might make more sense than medication for a preschooler.
Cutting back on sugar and high processed foods is one positive step that parents, and school classrooms, can implement. (School classrooms offer breakfasts and snacks that are more often than not high in sugar, and highly processed). If parents are concerned with food additives and processed foods affecting their child, they might consider feeding a child with exclusively organic foods.
Sleep Disorders and Difficulties with Children
Taking TV, Internet, Video Games Out of the Bedroom
Ensuring proper sleep habits and substituting physical activities for sedentary ones are two more options for parents. Dr. Wolraich notes that while neither is proven as a treatment for ADHD, both can only benefit any child. Sleep disorders often are misinterpreted as child ADHD.
Nearly 50% of children have a television
in their bedroom, and taking television, video games and Internet access
out of a child's bedroom is both a course of wisdom and protection, but also can be of much help in a child going to bed in a calm state, so that he or she is able to sleep well. This translates to better attentiveness in the preschool or kindergarten classroom.
Parental Internet Control - Parental Controls on Television
Parents might consider parental controls
on both Internet and on the television. PG14 programs on the television typically have sex and sexuality, and parental controls allows both ratings and time blocks on the TV.
Limit Television Time for Children
Studies have indicated that every hour of television for young children equates to a higher percentage of ADHD symptoms in the future. Fast paced cartoons and cartoon violence are two things that parents should consider replacing with more productive and gentle activities for children such as going to the park or art projects
Parents need to set limits on the television
, the American Pediatrics Association recommends no more than two hours a day for children, some professionals recommend no more than one hour a day, especially during the school week and this is for combined media time, that is TV, movies
, video games, non-educational internet.
The American Pediatrics Association recommends no television before the age of 2 for all children. This can be considered to be a positive preventive measure for ADHD, and for childhood depression
and bipolar disorder
The TV can weaken the mind and emotionally makeup of a child or infant
, and this can cause a child to be more susceptible to mental health disorders as he or she gets older.
Ideas for Non-Drug Interventions for ADHD in Preschoolers and Positive Parenting
less TV, movie computer, video game time
cutting out violent programming, action, violent or intense cartoons
speech therapy - CHADD's Attention magazine
ensuring proper sleep habits
physical activities and exercise during the day
CHADD's Attention magazine states that speech therapy should be considered if there is a speech delay with the preschooler. This would help the child better express him or herself verbally and cut down on the need for using motor skills for communication.
ADHD and Preschool, Kindergarten References
AD/HD in Preschoolers: Tips for Diagnosing and Treating the Disorder. (Retrieved June 25, 2009). National Resource Center for ADHD.
Wolraich, M. (2006). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder: Can It be Recognized and Treated in
Children Younger Than 5 Years? Infants & Young Children. Vol. 19, No. 2
, pp. 86–93.
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Food is a passion and an important part of daily life for college students, from following the latest food trends to socialising over a meal with friends. In our first-hand student shopping research into the US student market, we delved into the hot topic of college food trends.
College students eating out is a regular activity as they often need to get food on the go due to their busy schedules. “In between school, work, and sports it’s easiest to eat out,” 4th-year student Khallisa told us. Our survey found that 83% eat out at least once a month, and 60% at least once a week.
Eating out isn’t just a convenience, however. It’s a popular social activity, and a chance to check out the latest trending food spots. They discover restaurants through social media, especially Instagram, Facebook videos, and blogs. They like to share photos of their food, so it’s always a bonus when the meal and the restaurant itself look Insta-ready.
The key factors that would convince students to go back to a restaurant, according to our survey, are good food and an affordable price, followed by friendly service. As for what would encourage them to eat out more often than they do currently, 64% wished for a wider variety of restaurants in the area, while 43% want more healthy dining options. This was led by the female students (among this group, the percentage rose to 48%), who recognise yet are still affected by the body image pressures driving the health food trend, but the male students we spoke to also had nutrition on their mind.
It’s also important to note one of the fastest-growing college food trends: the rise in vegetarian and veganism. This generation of students will expect this, and any other common dietary requirement, to be well catered for wherever they dine. Their love for vegan brands doesn’t stop with food, discover the hottest vegan brands proving that cruelty-free can be cool.
When it comes to what college kids eat, our focus group were keen to suggest they like trying new cuisines and supporting independent restaurants. However, one question in our survey told a very different story: 70% of students would rather eat at a familiar place than try somewhere new. This shows that when it comes to food, brand loyalty is strong. It might be fun to check out the latest hot spot on a special occasion, but day-to-day they look to their trusted favorites to serve the dishes they know and love.
Student staples today include all the leading Italian, American and Mexican food brands, from Domino’s to Chick-Fil-A and Chipotle. There is a clear preference for fast casual or ordering in over traditional fast-food restaurants. When choosing a coffee shop, they aspire to the hipster ideal of studying in a cool independent café, but in reality, convenience often wins, and they’re just as likely to be found at the campus Starbucks.
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Bill Scher blogs for Campaign for America’s Future. This blog originally appeared in The Huffington Post.
Yesterday was a great day for the American worker and the American economy, as the House passed a long overdue raise in the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
The bill is particularly strong because it’s “clean.” It rejects the notion that a wage hike automatically leads to job losses, and needs to be “offset” by tacking on special interest tax giveaways for business.
But while Democrats are united on principle for a pay raise, they are tactically divided whether the bill should stay clean. Since several in the leadership are OK with dirtying it up, it will take a big grassroots push to keep it pristine.
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein recently shredded the business lobby’s hysterical claims:
…Both economic theory and history suggest that small business will, in time, pass on its increased costs to its consumers … [It] will have a minimal impact on adult employment … But largely offsetting those effects will be the increased demand for goods and services by tens of millions of Americans who will finally be getting a raise. A higher minimum wage doesn’t lower economic activity so much as rearrange it slightly.
Further, blogger Angry Bear crunched the numbers and found that under Bill Clinton and LBJ, wages went up, and so did employment.
Yet it’s likely the Senate version of the bill will include the widening of tax loopholes for business.
Congressional Quarterly reports that not only has Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus proposed such a bill, but that the strategy is backed by Senate Dem leaders Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer, as well as Sens. Maria Cantwell, Kent Conrad, John Kerry, Blanche Lincoln and Ken Salazar. (Although, Sen. Ted Kennedy plans to fight for a clean bill.)
How the House responds after that is less clear. According to CongressDaily AM , House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wants to capitulate right away and junk the clean House bill in favor of a sullied Senate version. While House Ways and Means Chair Charlie Rangel is threatening to prevent that, saying “Last I heard, they couldn’t initiate taxes in the Senate.”
The political argument for capitulating is that the Senate needs to get 60 votes to avoid a filibuster, and Dems need some Republican support to avoid a veto from President Bush.
But what happened when Republicans tried to dirty up the House bill on the floor yesterday? Lead Democratic sponsor Rep. George Miller stood up to them and shamed them, thundering: “What is it you don’t understand about being poor? What is it you don’t understand?” (See the video here.)
And 82 Republicans, reading the writing on the political wall, crossed party lines and supported a clean minimum wage bill.
The public will is clear. Eighty percent of the voters—and 65 percent of Republican voters —believe America’s workers deserve a raise.
If Senate Dems put a clean bill on the floor, Republicans oppose it at their political peril.
Or, if Dems didn’t want to scrub out the CEO favors, there’s another way they could clean up the bill: up the ante. Tie the minimum wage to inflation and the cost of living, solving the fundamental problem of the degrading minimum wage once and for all.
Yet some Democrats can’t get out of their defensive crouch and get comfortable in the driver’s seat. And they won’t, unless they realize the public wants them to follow through on the First 100 Hours pledge, not water it down. | <urn:uuid:0c328b62-d453-4cdc-95fc-ae694fdf553f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://ourfuture.org/20070112/maximizing-the-minimum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00194-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937315 | 767 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Fuel injector size determines how much fuel is able to be injected into the intake system by the injector. Normally, fuel injectors are sized by cubic centimeters per minute of fuel able to flow through them. Another sizing protocol is pounds of fuel per hour per horsepower produced. There is a set of calculations and formulas that can be used to determine the proper sized injectors for your car and the amount of horsepower that you want your engine to produce. One of the easiest sets of formulas to use can be found here. Another good calculator can be found here.
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August 25, 2010
FORT ATKINSON –Beginning Tuesday, August 24 some adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit and the medical/surgical/pediatric unit at Fort Memorial Hospital will receive medical care from physicians with specific training in the care of hospitalized persons. The physicians responsible for admitting these patients are called hospitalists and they work closely with the patient’s primary care physician throughout the inpatient stay. Because of the intensive training these physicians have received in caring for very medically ill patients, the effectiveness and efficiency of care provided is expected to be enhanced. This new program is the result of medical leadership at Fort HealthCare continuously surveying the healthcare landscape, looking for opportunities to improve care. Typically, these physicians are trained in general internal medicine or family medicine. Because hospitalists only treat hospitalized patients and do not have a regular clinic practice, they are more experienced in caring for persons with illnesses serious enough to require hospital care.
The field of Hospital Medicine is revolutionizing the care of hospitalized patients and is the fastest growing medical specialty in the U.S. An estimated 28,000 hospitalists practice today; eighty two percent are trained in general internal medicine. Many studies have shown that hospitalists help reduce lengths of stay, reduce treatment costs and improve the efficiency of care for hospitalized patients. Hospitalists have also been shown to reduce mortality rates, improve clinical outcomes and positively impact the quality of medical care and patient satisfaction.
Physician participation in the hospitalist program is voluntary. Some Fort HealthCare primary care physicians will continue admitting patients to the hospital as they have always done. Fort HealthCare patients are encouraged to speak with their physicians concerning participation in the hospitalist program.
Regardless, hospitalists may be consulted and offer treatment recommendations to support those primary care physicians who follow their patients until discharge. Also, hospitalists may be asked to consult on surgical patients when patients have other medical conditions that may require monitoring.
When a patient requires hospitalization, the hospitalist will advise the primary care doctor that their patient has been admitted and he or she will receive regular reports on the patient’s treatment and progress. When the patient is ready for discharge, the hospitalist will prescribe medications, make any arrangements for follow-up care and communicate with the primary care doctor regarding further treatments. Your entire medical team, made up of physicians, nurses, therapists and others will provide input into your discharge plan.
“Fort HealthCare patients will continue to see their primary care physician at the doctor’s office. This relationship will not be affected,” says Alan Detwiler, MD, an internal medicine specialist at Fort HealthCare. “It is only when a patient is admitted to Fort Memorial Hospital for non-surgical care that a hospitalist may become the attending physician and supervises all aspects of medical care.” Patients referred to hospitalists by their primary care physicians for treatment during hospitalization are returned to the care of their regular physicians after discharge and the long-standing relationship that existed between doctor and patient will continue as usual. In fact, it may be easier to make appointments with one’s doctor as they will be spending more time in the clinic and less time at the hospital.
The changing nature of the primary care doctor’s practice has contributed to the growth of the hospitalist movement. Because of the demands of managed care and increases in medical technology, more care is accomplished today in the physician’s office. The average physician has one or two hospitalized patients per week today versus 10-12 per week 20 years ago. Today’s average U.S. physician spends only 12 percent of his or her time with hospitalized patients. Hospitalists allow primary care doctors to focus time and attention on office patients.
“Much has changed in the practice of medicine,” says Detwiler. “It is now much more difficult to balance a busy office practice with the time necessary to care for hospitalized patients. Both areas of practice have become increasingly demanding as the medical needs of clinic patients and hospitalized patients have become more complex.” Detwiler noted that both areas of clinical care demand a doctor’s full attention. Patients, regardless of where they are cared for, expect excellent care. Detwiler believes that a service that has benefitted patients at many of this country’s best known hospitals will be good for Fort Memorial Hospital patients. “Patients will enjoy better access to their doctors in the clinics where the majority of acute and preventive medical care should be delivered. When hospital care is necessary, patients will find the care provided by a hospitalist is an efficient and effective complement to care from their primary physician.”
Research has shown that hospitalist care has resulted in shorter hospital stays, lower treatment costs and fewer medical errors. Most important, patients recover faster as the physicians are practiced in the care of common acute illnesses, can recognize and diagnose unusual disorders, and will rapidly respond to crises. Hospitalists are always available to patients and families as they provide medical coverage around the clock, every day of the week. This helps them to monitor treatment throughout the patient’s stay, order and follow-up on tests as needed and respond quickly in case of an emergency. As a result, patients may be able to go home faster.
While the Hospitalist Program at Fort Memorial Hospital may be a significant departure from the traditional physician-inpatient relationship that has existed for many years, the medical staff is confident that the benefits of this program will become evident very quickly. Hospitalists help reduce lengths of stay and treatment costs as well as improve the efficiency of care for hospitalized patients. Hospitalists have also been shown to reduce rates of serious illness, improve clinical outcomes and positively impact the quality of medical care and patient satisfaction. Last, Fort HealthCare patients will enjoy better access to their doctor in the clinics where the majority of acute and preventive care should be delivered. And when necessary, patients will find that the 24-hour per day care provided by a hospitalist is an efficient and effective complement to the care offered by one’s primary care physician.
Learn more about these doctors and the hospitalist program at www.FortHealthCare.com/Hospitalist.
Fort HealthCare is an integrated hospital and health system that attracts patients throughout southeastern Wisconsin. Fort Memorial Hospital is a modern, fully accredited, acute and sub-acute care facility with 110 licensed beds. More than 100 physicians are on staff. Fort Medical Group, a subsidiary of Fort HealthCare, currently employs more than 50 physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers. Fort Medical Group clinics offering primary and specialty surgical care are located in Fort Atkinson, Cambridge, Edgerton, Elkhorn, Johnson Creek, Jefferson, Lake Mills, Stoughton and Whitewater. Other services offered by Fort HealthCare include occupational medicine, rehabilitation and sports medicine, wound care, urgent care, home health, a preferred provider network for employers known as FortCare, and more. Fort HealthCare is a partner in the UW Cancer Center Johnson Creek. Most major health insurance products are accepted. For more information, please go to www.FortHealthCare.com. | <urn:uuid:93993171-9aeb-458d-be00-9b9fb70030ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.forthealthcare.com/news/hospitalist-program-at-fort-healthcare/ | 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 | 0.96023 | 1,456 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Basins of attraction and equilibrium selection under different learning rules
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After I listened this radio when I was a child and didn’t understand too much, today I was a bit sad to find out that, after BBC’s decision to close BBC Romania service, also Radio Free Europe will cease its transmissions, starting August 1st, after 60 years of broadcasting programs to the Romanian public.
Although it stops the broadcasting in Romania, the radio station will continue to broadcast in Moldavia and Transnistria.
According to Jeff Gedmin, stopping Radio Free Europe’s broadcasting in Romania is “a needed step”, while the competition on Romanian media market increased after the country joined EU.
The Radio Free Europe’s Romanian service started broadcasting, experimentally, on July 14th 1950 and become full operational on May 1st 1951.
During the communist regime, Radio Free Europe’s programs were “a pain in the ass” for the regime. According to a report published by Romanian Govern in 2006, the Romanian communist regime was responsible for the deaths of three Radio Free Europe’s directors. | <urn:uuid:958b9dae-a1f1-417c-8dfe-4c0149c4899f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adhugger.net/2008/07/02/this-is-radio-free-europe-leaves-romania/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971187 | 221 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Anyone who has a house to heat in the cooler months of fall and winter knows the inevitable shock of paying the electric or gas bills every month. Heating costs can put quite a dent in your wallet but there are some tips that may ease the pain somewhat.
· The most obvious advice is to make sure you have good windows and doors. Make sure that they are sealed properly so that cold are cannot get in and your expensive heated air does not leak out. If you can afford energy efficient windows and plan on staying in your home for a while, they are a good investment. Also, make sure your house is sufficiently insulated. Uninsulated or under insulated walls and attic spaces make for expensive energy bills.
· Get a programmable thermostat. You can program the temperature to rise and fall according to your schedule every day of the week. According to Energy.gov, "By turning your thermostat back 10° to 15° for 8 hours, you can save 5% to 15% a year on your heating bill - a savings of as much as 1% for each degree if the setback period is eight hours long. The percentage of savings from setback is greater for buildings in milder climates than for those in more severe climates." Here's another interesting fact from Energy.gov, "A commonmisconception associated with thermostats is that a furnace works harder than normal to warm the space back to a comfortable temperature after the thermostat has been set back, resulting in little or no savings. In fact, as soon as your house drops below its normal temperature, it will lose energy to the surrounding environment more slowly. The lower the interior temperature, the slower the heat loss. So the longer your house remains at the lower temperature, the more energy you save, because your house has lost less energy than it would have at the higher temperature. The same concept applies to raising your thermostat setting in the summer -- a higher interior temperature will slow the flow of heat into your house, saving energy on air conditioning."
· If you spend most of your time at home in one room, use a space heater. Keep the temperature on the thermostat at a lower level for the house but use a space heater for whichever room you spend the most time in. According to GoodHousekeeping.com, "Keeping the thermostat at 62 degrees and putting a space heater in one room can save about $200 a year."
· Open your blinds and curtains during the day to let the sun in and close them at dusk. Curtains are great for helping to block drafts from windows. If your windows are that drafty though, you better look into sealing them or better yet, replacing them with more energy efficient ones.
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Supplementary Materialsoncotarget-07-54549-s001. qRT-PCR demonstrated that the launch of asRNA reduced the purchase Bardoxolone methyl relative appearance level of Muc1 focus on gene considerably. Next, we examined cell proliferation using assays CCK-8 and EdU staining, and cell migration using wound nothing and Transwell invasion assays then. We discovered that cell proliferation and cell migration had been both suppressed extremely after asRNA was portrayed in Hela and MDA-MB-231 cells. Cell apoptosis was also discovered through Hoechst staining and ELISA assays and the info indicated that he amounts of apoptotic cell in experimental groupings significantly increased weighed against negative controls. To be able to prove which the gene silencing results had been due to Dicer, we co-transfected shRNA asRNA silencing Dicer and. The relative appearance degrees of Dicer and MALAT-1 had been both detected as well as the outcomes indicated that whenever the cleavage function of Dicer was silenced, the comparative appearance degree of MALAT-1 had not been affected following the intro of asRNA. All of the above outcomes demonstrated these products aimed by Dicer efficiently excised focus on RNA and purchase Bardoxolone methyl repressed the prospective genes, causing phenotypic changes thus. Our works provides a new sizing to gene regulating purchase Bardoxolone methyl systems and may possess wide applications in building of gene circuits. solid course=”kwd-title” Keywords: artificial RNA, dicer, gene rules Intro As adaptive immune system defenses of archaea and bacterias, clustered frequently interspaced brief palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems have grown to be an over-all and powerful device for genome editing, the sort II bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system [1C4] especially. CRISPR loci are comprised of some repeats, that are separated by spacer sequences. The spacer sequences match the genomes of bacteriophages and additional mobile genetics components [5C7]. The purchase Bardoxolone methyl repeat spacer array is processed and transcribed to create a little crRNA to identify the prospective sequences [8C12]. The component flanking the do it again spacer array may be the CRISPR-associated (cas) gene encoding the Cas9, a double-stranded DNA endonuclease that utilizes the crRNA to steer the cleavage of focus on site . A series theme in the downstream of the prospective site, referred to as protospacer-adjacent theme (PAM), is vital towards the cleavage [14C15]. As well as the loading from the crRNA onto Cas9 also takes a little tracrRNA which can be antisense towards the crRNA precursor and RNase III . Now scientists have successfully fused the crRNA and tracrRNA to generate a small guide RNA to simplify the system . RNA disturbance (RNAi) offers challenged our look at of systems regulating the manifestation of genetic info [17C18]. This implies that not merely protein but RNA substances could control gene manifestation in Eukaryotes . First of all, in the nucleus, a 50C70nt stem-loop precursor (pre-miRNA) can be excised from an initial transcript (pri-miRNA) by Drosha [20C21]. As well as the nuclear transportation receptor after that, exportin-5, transports the pre-miRNA towards the cytoplasm. Subsequently, the pre-miRNA can be cleaved by Dicer , producing a brief 19C23nt duplex with 2nt overhangs in the 3-ends and phosphorylated 5-termini. Following the brief duplex can be loaded onto a multicomponent nuclease RISC, one strand is released and degraded, and the other remains severing as a guide sequence to instruct RISC to destroy the complementary messenger RNA (mRNA) [23C25]. Inspired by the role model of CRISPR/Cas9 systems, we asked whether we could introduce an artificial small RNA (asRNA), composed of a DicerCbinding RNA element and an antisense RNA, to induce Dicer to process and degrade a specific RNA, just like using the guide RNA to induce Cas9 to cleave the target sequences in the CRISPR/Cas9 systems. We named our new method as DICERi in this study, and we verified our hypothesis from different aspects. RESULTS Design and construction of the asRNA expression plasmid vectors We used an oligomer RNA (Supplementary Table S1) which had a great affinity for Dicer (but not cleaved by Dicer) and added purchase Bardoxolone methyl it to an antisense RNA targeting MALAT-1 RNA. | <urn:uuid:ffff6c48-b379-4f17-ad88-40179532f14b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pik-293.com/supplementary-materialsoncotarget-07-54549-s001-qrt-pcr-demonstrated-that-the-launch-of-asrna-reduced-the/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.930748 | 1,018 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Obtaining Your Georgia Learner’s Permit
You must be 15 years old to get a learner’s permit in GA.
Proof of Indentity
An original birth certificate, certified copy of the birth certificate (with embossed state seal), certificate of birth registration, certified copy of court records (adoption, name changes), certified naturalization records, immigration card or a Valid Passport needs to be presented.
Social Security Number
You must know and present your social security number to apply for your learner’s permit.
Parent Or Guardian Requirements
A parent or guardian must sign your application for your driver’s license. If signed by a guardian, they must bring a certified copy of the order granting them guardianship.
Georgia DDS Certificate of Attendance
A Georgia DDS Certificate of Attendance must be signed and notarized by your school and is only valid for 30 days.
You will be required to pass a vision and written test to get your learner’s permit. Get the $CSLINK to make the written test a breeze to pass. You will need to take a road signs test and get 15 of the 20 questions correct. After this, you need to take a road rules test and get another 15 out of 20 correct to pass.
The license fee for a provisional learner’s permit is $10.00. You can pay with cash, money order, check or credit/debit cards. This license is good for 2 years.
There must always be a 21-year old licensed driver with you in the front seat when driving.
If you are 16 years old, you are required to take a state approved driver’s education course to obtain your Class D license. You must also complete 40 hours of driving, 6 of which occurs at light. 17 year olds and older are NOT required to take the course but must complete 40 hours of supervised driving with 6 hours at night.
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Are Chameleons Good Citizens? A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Self-Monitoring and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
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- Blakely, G.L., Andrews, M.C. & Fuller, J. Journal of Business and Psychology (2003) 18: 131. doi:10.1023/A:1027388729390
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In this study the relationship between self-monitoring and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) was examined longitudinally among professional and managerial employees of a federal government research laboratory. Supervisory ratings of subordinates' OCBs were collected and matched with 172 subordinates' self-ratings of self-monitoring, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, perceived organizational support, and perceptions of job characteristics. One year later, supervisory ratings of subordinates' OCBs were again collected. Support was found for the hypothesis that individuals high in self-monitoring are more likely to perform OCBs which are other-directed. Implications for management and future research are discussed. | <urn:uuid:f0f740c3-830b-4cc2-861b-e86ce99ba81b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1027388729390 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00116-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92465 | 218 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Cooking using an induction cooker is more like using a gas or a stove, the main difference is that, unlike an ordinary gas or stove, heat is not generated by the familiar blue flames of burning gas.
This is an amazing heat-free cooking technology that relies on magnets of both the stove-top as well as the pan to do the cooking.
When using induction technology, the base of the cooking pan becomes the ‘cooker’ which subsequently cooks the food.
The hob of the induction cooktop does not generate heat by itself.
The hob is a strong and powerful magnet and when it comes into contact with an iron pot, this combination creates a magnetic field that generates heat inside the pot.
Heat cannot be generated when the pan is removed from the induction cooktop, as the magnetic field between the pot and the induction cooktop would have been broken.
Using an induction cooker would be the best bet for your kitchen as it has certain advantages that distinguish it from other ordinary cookers.
For instance, an induction cooker is highly efficient and uses significantly less energy compared to other cooking types.
This is because energy is generated from the pan rather than the gas burner. This ensures that the energy goes directly into the cooking pot.
Some estimates point that more than 90% of the energy generated goes straight into the pan.
Induction knobs are highly responsive which means the electromagnetic currents can be easily controlled, subsequently meaning precise control over temperature settings.
Furthermore, heat from the pan is instant, which translates into faster heating of the pot and the food inside it.
Check Out These Induction Cooker Tips.
How to Clean an Induction Cooker.
It is clearly evident that induction cooktops have revolutionized the cooking experience.
This is why proper cleaning and maintenance of the cooktop is important so as to continue enjoying its many benefits.
Many people consider cleaning induction cooktops much simpler and easier as compared to ordinary cookers, mainly because of less spillage of food and liquids.
As seen above, only the cooking pot is heated any food spillover from the pot is not heated. The spillover would have otherwise made it more difficult to clean.
Due to the glass-ceramic top of the cooktops, it is important to clean induction cooktops more regularly for the best results.
It is important to note that different parts of induction cooktops have different cleaning methods, and regular normal cleaning vs. heavy cleaning of induction cooktops differs.
You should also be able to identify the best cleaning materials and detergents depending on the surface and area you intend to clean.
If you are cleaning the glass-ceramic surface, you should consider using a soft cloth together with glass-ceramic cooktops creams to clean the surface.
Most of these creams are locally available in many retail and online stores. As you clean the glass-ceramic surface, please note that glass surfaces are prone to scratches and abrasions and therefore the material used for cleaning should be soft.
If possible, avoid using cleaning materials having ammonia or bleach. Steer away from those in powder form as well as any cleaning agent which is not designed for glass surfaces.
After wiping using the cooktop cream, then use a soft dry towel to wipe the cream off the induction cooktop for a sparkling, shiny and clean surface top.
If the cooktop has some stainless steel components, you should consider using a stainless steel cleaner with a non-abrasive cloth, then using these to wipe these parts dry.
Using stainless steel material for these parts is important as it prevents scratching and abrasion.
Non-abrasive cleaning is necessary with induction cookers. One can use warm soapy water which comes in handy when cleaning the stainless steel surfaces.
Watermarks also stain induction cooktops. For a sparkling cooktop, it is essential to get rid of the hard watermarks and spots on the cooker.
If you are in a location where hard water is used, it often contains minerals that may settle and stick onto the induction cooktop surfaces.
To remove this, you could use white vinegar with a clean soft cloth while applying a suitable cooktop cleaner cream to get the best results which is a shiny surface.
When you want to do a more thorough clean-up of the induction cooktop, you should first allow the induction cooktop to cool before proceeding with any cleaning methods.
For this, you will need materials such as paper towels, soft clean cloths, undiluted white vinegar, a damp sponge, a suitable ceramic glass cooktop cleaner, cleaning pads, as well as cooktop scrapers.
When the cooktop has cooled, add some white vinegar onto a suitable soft cloth while rubbing it onto hard water spots and marks stained on the induction cooktop.
Add some cooktop cleaner cream on areas with hardened residues, while using a scraper to remove the thickened residue layers.
Afterward, you can clean the cooktop surface with a suitable cleaner with a paper towel, while drying off the excess with a dry cloth.
Regular cleaning is much easier and takes less time as compared to heavy thorough cleaning.
It is important to wait until your induction cooktop cools down while using a damp sponge/piece of cloth to wipe away any spillages or baked foods.
Using a suitable cooktop cream cleaner, pour this over your induction cooktop while rubbing gently with a suitable paper towel until the top stays clean.
Thereafter, use a clean and dry cloth to wipe off the cleaning material from the surface of the induction cooktop.
How to Clean Burnt Induction Cooktop.
Cleaning a burnt induction cooktop is considerably harder than that of a conventional one, due to the hardened residues and baked spillovers of food.
The first consideration in cleaning a burnt induction cooktop is to prevent scratches and abrasions. All this should be done while maintaining the efficiency of the cooker.
For this, you will need some baking soda, clean soft cloths, a razor blade or scrapping blade, some mild soapy water, lemon juice, some spoons as well as a suitable cleaning agent.
Before cleaning, you should ensure the induction cooktop is cool enough before doing anything. Using a hot cooktop is not only dangerous for you; it can also damage your cooktop.
If the burnt residue is too thick, you should start by scraping away these parts using a spoon or a razor blade. If you find it too difficult, then staining these parts with some olive oil for a few minutes will help loosen and lubricate the residue.
- Once the majority of the residue is gone, mix baking soda with some water in a small dish into a smooth consistent paste.
- Spread this paste over the residues then leave it for some time to spread and dry.
- Alternatively, you can also pour some lemon water over the toughened stains as this could help release the tougher stains.
- Gently scrub these areas with some soft clean cloths, while avoiding abrasive materials which could damage ceramic glass surfaces.
- Keep doing this until all the burnt residue material is removed.
- When all the burnt food is gone, clean the surface normally using warm soap and water or a good cleaning material.
How to Clean Burnt Plastic from a Glass Top Stove.
Cleaning a glass cooktop is considerably sensitive compared to other parts of the induction cooktop. There is a great risk of scratches and abrasions, which can reduce the functionality and efficiency of the induction cooktop.
In as much as many people may consider this damage irreversible, there are still some methods you can use to remove melted and burnt plastic from the induction cooktop.
For this, you will need to have spoons or a knife, olive oil, acetone nail polish remover, baking soda, soft clean cloths, mild soapy water, and razor blades.
Just like for any other method, you should allow the induction cooktop to cool first before doing any process to it.
Trying to clean a hot cooktop can certainly get you burned. When the plastic has cooled, you can try to remove as much of it as possible while using the spoon to scrape away pieces of plastic that you can. It is important to take care not to scratch glass surface tops while doing this.
Spray the thickened plastic with olive oil, while scrapping gently using a razor blade to peel the plastic off. If possible, maintain the razor blade in a flat position as much as possible while gently shoving it into the plastic.
Keep repeating this process to remove as much plastic as possible and for the remainder, add some nail polish remover to get rid of the last layers of plastic.
Using soft cloths apply acetone nail removers onto the remaining plastic, to maintain the moistness of the surface area while scrubbing.
When all of this is done and the plastic is removed, clean the cooktop area with some mild soapy water to remove any leftover cleaning fluids from the surface cooktop. Doing this will have your induction cooktop clean, sparkling, and seemingly brand new!
Using the right methods, as well as good quality cleaning materials will ensure that the induction cooktop remains clean with minimal effort.
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Chongqing, a major city in southwest China, is situated between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the plain on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Built on mountains and partially surrounded by the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, Chongqing is known as the city of mountains and rivers with multiple urban centers. 1st Avenue, located in one of these centers, is a mixed-use development woven into a complex, diverse and dense existing urban fabric in the heart of the city. The landscape integrates high-rise/multi-level residential office, hotel, and retail development with subway connections and below-grade parking.
1st Avenue was shaped to become an urban destination, a social landscape, with spaces and experiences that allow it to be a meeting place as well as the preferred place to live, work, shop, and enjoy time with friends and family. In collaboration with design architects, the owner, and community representatives, the landscape creatively and artfully integrates topography, development program, the landscape, and infrastructure. In doing so, a new, vibrant urban neighborhood has emerged that improves the quality of life, environment, and economics for the people of 1st Avenue as well as the greater urban center and the City of Chongqing.
The design was inspired by seven core principles:
- Create a landscape that integrates architecture with topography creating seamless connectivity and blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor spaces,
- Create a system of human-based, accessible complete streets,
- Create green open spaces that act as urban “Living Rooms”,
- Use the landscape to artfully express grade differences,
- Create active and passive outdoor social spaces,
- Improve connectivity and circulation via elevated pedestrian bridges,
- Artfully integrate the development into adjacent existing conditions while respecting elements of cultural value and legacy trees.
The landscape is defined by a diverse sequence of urban open spaces, mostly over structure woven together by a form language expressed largely through paving patterns interpreting the fluidity of Chongqing’s geomorphology. Characterized by Chongqing’s main rivers as they weave between dramatic layered mountains.
Key urban open spaces include:
- The North Plaza – One of 1st Avenue key social spaces activated by surrounding retail, commercial uses, and subway connection. The highlight of this space is a perforated weathered steel wall that retains grade as a granite stream with a weathered steel pedestrian bridge crosses the flowing water creating direct access to the entry of the plaza.
- The Main Street – A human-scaled complete street. Convenience parallel parking with Palm lined street trees helps to activate the vibrancy of the street.
- Retail Terrace – Upper, middle and lower terraces grow out of the site’s sloping topography and are integrated into the landscape, creating a seamless transition between pedestrian promenades and retail levels.
- The Neighborhood Park – Creating a park opposite an existing residential neighborhood and provides a green oasis for 1st Avenue residents and their neighbors. A preserved forty-year-old Ficus Nitida is the focal point of a park quickly becomes a popular gathering space for residents and neighbors alike.
- The South Plaza – Restaurant and cafes occupy this rare flat space within 1st Avenue capture through the collaboration between the architect and landscape architect. Weathered steel and green walls at the edge of the South Plaza exhibit the narrative for the landscape design. The granite paving patterns within the plaza interpret the region’s fluidity of form and create visual interest at a human scale for pedestrians.
Integrating architecture and landscape into a site this complex required three years of collaboration with the design architects, the owner, community representatives, local professionals, and contractors.
Location: Chongqing, P.R. China
Landscape Architect: Terrain Studio
Design Team: Scott Slaney, Minhui Li, Jiae Lee Ham, Wen Shang, Jingwen Guo
Client: Longfor Chongqing Real Estate Group
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