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Paul’s Ministry Among Them. 1For you yourselves know, brothers, that our reception among you was not without effect. 2Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated, as you know, in Philippi, we drew courage through our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much struggle.a 3Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception. 4But as we were judged worthy* by God to be entrusted with the gospel, that is how we speak, not as trying to please human beings, but rather God, who judges our hearts.b 5Nor, indeed, did we ever appear with flattering speech, as you know, or with a pretext for greed—God is witness— 6nor did we seek praise from human beings, either from you or from others,c 7although we were able to impose our weight as apostles of Christ. Rather, we were gentle* among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children. 8With such affection for you, we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our very selves as well, so dearly beloved had you become to us. 9You recall, brothers, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.d 10You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers. 11As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,e 12exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you conduct yourselves as worthy of the God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.f
Further Thanksgiving. 13And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that, in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe. 14* For you, brothers, have become imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you suffer the same things from your compatriots as they did from the Jews, 15* who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they do not please God, and are opposed to everyone,g 16trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved, thus constantly filling up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has finally begun to come upon them.h
Paul’s Recent Travel Plans. 17Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a short time, in person, not in heart, we were all the more eager in our great desire to see you in person.i 18We decided to go to you—I, Paul, not only once but more than once—yet Satan thwarted us.j 19For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming if not you yourselves?k 20For you are our glory and joy.
* [2:4] Judged worthy: Paul regards “worthiness” not as grounded in one’s own talent or moral self-righteousness but in God’s discernment of genuinely selfless attitudes and actions (see 2 Cor 10:17–18).
* [2:7] Gentle: many excellent manuscripts read “infants” (nēpioi), but “gentle” (ēpioi) better suits the context here.
* [2:14] Luke’s picture of the persecutions at Philippi (by Gentiles) and in Thessalonica and Beroea (by Jews) seems to be considerably schematized (Acts 16:11–40; 17:1–15). Paul pictures the Thessalonian community as composed of converts from paganism (1 Thes 1:9) and speaks here of persecution by their (pagan) compatriots rather than by Jews.
* [2:15–16] Paul is speaking of historical opposition on the part of Palestinian Jews in particular and does so only some twenty years after Jesus’ crucifixion. Even so, he quickly proceeds to depict the persecutors typologically, in apocalyptic terms. His remarks give no grounds for anti-Semitism to those willing to understand him, especially in view of Paul’s pride in his own ethnic and religious background (Rom 9:1–5; 10:1; 11:1–3; Phil 3:4–6). Sinful conduct (1 Thes 2:16) is itself an anticipation of the ultimate wrath or judgment of God (Rom 1:18–2:5), whether or not it is perceived as such. | <urn:uuid:895064a1-7b11-4d01-8f7c-cacbe8ace933> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1thessalonians/2?7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.975461 | 1,002 | 1.5 | 2 |
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th December 10-4 2016
Shepherds Bookbinders are pleased to launch all new City & Guilds Bookbinding Courses, London in partnership with St Bride Foundation. Part 1 Level 1 Unit 118 is the first of the four units in the City & Guild Bookbinding certificate.
For absolute beginners, this is the first unit of a Level 1 City & Guilds Bookbinding course. During the course you will learn essential bookbinding skills and gain experience in the use of materials including adhesives, papers and cloths.
The course will cover how to make pamphlet & multi section books exploring a range of sewing techniques, end papers and cover styles. All materials included.
Students are welcome to undertake the course without enrolling for a City & Guilds qualification. Those who wish to achieve a City & Guilds Award will need to complete a further 15 hours of personal binding and reproduce what is covered on the course at home. This work will need to be accompanied with supporting evidence of design in the form of sketches and notes. The resulting work will then be marked and graded. If students want to achieve a City & Guilds Award participants will need to register with Shepherds before the marking process; this carries a £31 administration charge.
Following the completion of the first Unit, students will have the opportunity to undertake awards in a further 3 Units, along with a design unit, which lead to a City & Guilds Certificate.
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Working papers // The Levy Economics Institute 367
This paper focuses on the persistence of hardship from middle age to old age. Proposed status maintenance models suggest that stratification of economic status occurs over the life course (e.g., little mobility is seen within the income distribution). Some studies have found evidence to support this, but none have looked at broader measures of well-being. Using 29 years (1968-96) of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the author employs hypothesis tests (t-tests) and logistic regression techniques to examine the relationship between middle-age chronic hardships and adverse old-age outcomes. In almost every case, individuals who experience middle-age chronic hardships are significantly (statistically) more likely to experience adverse old-age outcomes. | <urn:uuid:7efba151-9445-4888-9cdf-1bc1da98feb2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/31558 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00228-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931082 | 158 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Modal Collapse in GANs
Prerequisites: General Adversarial Network
Although Generative Adversarial Networks are very powerful neural networks that can be used to generate new data similar to the data upon which it was trained upon, It is limited in the sense that it can be trained upon only single-modal data ie Data whose dependent variable consists of only one categorical entry.
If a Generative Adversarial Network is trained on multi-modal data, it leads to Modal Collapse. Modal Collapse refers to a situation in which the generator part of the network generates only a limited amount of variety of samples regardless of the input. This means that when the network is trained upon multi-modal data directly, the generator learns to fool the discriminator by generating only a limited variety of data.
The following flow-chart illustrates training of a Generative Adversarial Network when trained upon a dataset containing images of cats and dogs:
The following approaches can be used to tackle Modal Collapse:-
- Grouping the classes: One of the primary methods to tackle Modal Collapse is to group the data according to the different classes present in the data. This gives the discriminator the power to discriminate against sub-batches and determine whether a given batch is real or fake.
- Anticipating Counter-actions: This method focuses on removing the situation of the discriminator “chasing” the generator by training the generator to maximally fool the discriminator by taking into account the counter-actions of the discriminator. This method has the downside of increased training time and complicated gradient calculation.
- Learning from Experience: This approach involves training the discriminator on the old fake samples which were generated by the generator in a fixed number of iterations.
- Multiple Networks: This method involves training multiple Generative networks for each different class thus covering all the classes of the data. The disadvantages include increased training time and a typical reduction in the quality of the generated data. | <urn:uuid:11adb6d4-aceb-41c3-ad29-8091d5cf5b1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/modal-collapse-in-gans/?ref=rp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.912007 | 410 | 2.46875 | 2 |
November 14, 2014
Contact: Tara Payne
Email Media Inquiry
Editors, News Directors: You are invited to attend and cover the kick-off of the American Council on Education's College Application Campaign, a national effort to increase the number of first-generation and low-income students pursuing a college degree or other higher education credential.
This event marks the first time that New Hampshire has participated in this national effort.
The primary purpose of this effort is to help high school seniors navigate the complex college admissions process and ensure they apply to at least one postsecondary institution. The College Application Campaign occurs during the school day, with a focus on students who might not otherwise apply to college. The application campaigns are run independently in each state, with various public and private entities organizing the effort. New Hampshire’s event is coordination by the Center for College Planning at NH Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF) in partnership with NH colleges and universities, NH school counselors, NH Department of Education, and NH College & University Council.
When: Monday, November 17, from 9:10 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Where: Concord High School (CHS) TV Studio (Members of the media can meet in the CHS main lobby to be escorted to the TV Studio by student volunteers) | <urn:uuid:e1f1e965-c1a1-451e-ac14-1b03d4fe288e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nhheaf.org/press-141114.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.933214 | 292 | 1.632813 | 2 |
This five-session small group Bible study, In the Dust of the Rabbi, by noted teacher and historian, Ray Vander Laan, is volume six of the 12-part That the World May Know series. In this volume, Vander Laan helps you experience Jesus’ life up close and personal.
Filmed on location in Israel, That the World May Know is a unique video series that brings God's Word to life with astounding relevance. By weaving together the Bible's fascinating historical, cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan reveals unique insights into the Scriptures' significance for modern believers.
This pack includes one Discovery Guide and one DVD.
- When the Rabbi Says, "Come" – Filmed in Galilee
- When the Rabbi Says, "Go" – Filmed in Galilee
- The Presence of God: A Countercultural Community – Filmed in Priene
- Living Stones – Filmed in Priene
- The Very Words of God – Filmed in Didyma
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The furniture and home furnishings company launches a new campaign to reinforce its value and overcome brand misconceptions.
Have you ever had a situation where you have a great brand story to tell but everyone thinks they already know it? That was IKEA's (Ikea's) challenge.
The brand has been in the U.S. for more than 30 years. And despite having only 42 locations nationwide, there is a surprisingly high awareness of the name. But while the brand has rich furniture and home furnishings for people in every life stage, Ikea was having trouble penetrating into existing and new markets—mainly because most people associate Ikea with “starting out” or college furniture.
We needed a way to overcome this “false familiarity” Americans have with the Ikea brand. Many people think they know us, but they don't really understand the offer. Our mission is to improve the everyday lives of people by providing quality, stylish, sustainable home solutions at affordable prices. We want more Americans to understand how and why Ikea can do this and how we can make everyday life at home accessible and achievable for everyone. To communicate this brand value, we launched the “We Help You Make It” campaign.
We started creating the campaign where we usually do at Ikea—by talking to our consumers. We worked with Mindswarms to conduct “at home” qualitative research. We asked people to video themselves in their own homes and to answer a series of questions, including what are some of their challenges with their home, what is their dream home project, and what do they love or value about the Ikea brand?
From that beginning, we worked with Ogilvy to determine how we could align our brand mission to the things in society that people really care about right now. We were looking for a cultural tension that would make sense to most people. During our campaign research, we uncovered a lot of news stories, surveys, and other data that supported the idea that life at home still hadn't returned to normal since the 2008 recession. In fact, it became apparent that people were living a new normal—one where it was harder to “make it” than ever before.
This is where we found a place for our brand mission and our objective to enable people to live that better everyday life at home. | <urn:uuid:ff89aaf6-ce59-4be9-be22-d864cfdd3c16> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.7wdata.be/big-data/ikeas-data-driven-campaign-reintroduces-the-brand-to-u-s-consumers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00507-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978862 | 480 | 1.5 | 2 |
How does the diary format help readers feel like the writer is a good friend?
What details does Anne Frank share about herself that make her seem like an ordinary teenager?
What passages in the diary are particularly effective in making readers aware of the effects of prejudice?
How do the residents of the annex cope with the stress of life in hiding and of sharing tight living quarters with so many other people?
How does Frank place her family’s problems in the larger context of Adolf Hitler’s effort to eliminate the Jewish people?
Frank revised passages of her diary with publication in mind. What evidence is found in the text that she was thinking about an outside audience? | <urn:uuid:3eec7af4-fe2b-48be-b776-34b47e187744> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/anne-frank-anne-frank/in-depth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00131-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954056 | 137 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Matthew Smith is an artist making projects in sculpture, drawing, photography and video, which deal with fictionalised and idealised representations of nature and place. His work explores human kind’s relationship to, and philosophical distance from the natural world.
Human beings value nature for its health and integrity over the artificial works of man, seeing it as real or authentic. His work rejects this idea of one all encompassing original ‘nature’ in favour of infinite interpretations, copies and variations of the natural.
Nature is a human construct, the meaning of which is not fixed and permanent but is created, altered and re-imagined again and again by successive generations to many different ends. Matthew's practice reveals and navigates a way through these myriad natures. | <urn:uuid:6ae3012c-9c6b-47e7-b7e4-e5b237cf04ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://matthewjsmith.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00475-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94289 | 154 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Food nourishes not only our bodies, but our spirits, families, and communities. At its best, food is healthful, economically sustainable, culturally appropriate and environmentally beneficial. Yet, all too often and for too many people, the quantity, quality and character of food remains inadequate for individual nutrition and damaging to our economy, society and environment. Food production and distribution is increasingly mono-culture, globalized and processed, with significant impacts on human well-being, climate, environment, economy, and culture. In the USA, food on average travels more than 1500 miles from producer to consumer, disconnecting us from our food sources. Food processing has reduced the cost of food calories to historic lows, while contributing to rising obesity and Diabetes Type II rates in children and adults. The continuing urbanization of productive farmland, ongoing poverty and undernourishment, and environmentally destructive food practices, both globally and in our country, suggest that new ways of thinking about and planning for food are needed. This course is designed to build knowledge of the food system, how it functions, the forces shaping it, and how
planning, public policy, civic action, and individual choice can help reshape the system. The course will familiarize students with the production, distribution, marketing, and disposal of food, with special focus on issues of equity, access, and impact. The course is a community-interactive seminar. It will develop and challenge students’ thinking through readings, structured discussions, debates, and project-based learning (associated with the Georgia Farmers Market Association). Students should have an increased understanding of food systems as a planning and community development topic, the forces shaping food systems, dimensions of conventional and alternative models, and their own relationship and choices with regard to the contemporary American food system. | <urn:uuid:05271fa0-af7e-42c6-b26e-a2526bd60207> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu/sustainable-food-systems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.942876 | 359 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Udemy Learn How To Freestyle Rap And Write Great Rap Lyrics TUTORiAL-COMPRISED
COMPRISED | April 01 2015| 2.41 GB
It doesn't matter if you've never even thought of learning how to freestyle rap or don't know how to begin rapping, as this step by step program unlocks the freestyle rapping skills you've always had inside of you.
Freestyle Rapping is the art of improvising lyrics on the spot. It will help you rap better, perform more confidently, and naturally write amazing rap lyrics.
Freestyle rapping can also help with songwriting for any genre of music, getting in a creative 'flow state', and public speaking.
This class will teach anyone how to freestyle rap within 7 minutes guaranteed.
Many rappers, entrepreneurs and creatives, feel that they need to be intoxicated with drugs and alcohol to be able to get in a creative flow state where million dollar ideas flow to them.
These simple steps will get you into this flow state in minutes without having to spend money on weed and 40's. | <urn:uuid:36160808-5c09-4c0e-a3ce-87b1d8fc4a4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gfxhome.co/484201-udemy-learn-how-to-freestyle-rap-and-write-great-rap-lyrics-tutorial-comprised.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.827129 | 229 | 1.648438 | 2 |
BY DAVID MIXNER
Superpowers love their geographic boundaries despite the fact that most have no basis in history. Time and time again we have seen world wars, civil wars and senseless violence break out over who really belongs in what country. We have seen literally millions die over these artificial barriers.
Most of the nations in the Middle East were created by energy companies, Africa was cruelly divided by colonists around the early part of the 20th Century, the Balkans have been the source of one war after another, and numerous ethnic groups are still fighting for their 'homelands'.
With each passing day, the stakes in Ukraine grow higher and higher. Civil war is a real possibility, the resumption of the Cold War is not out of the question, thousands could still die, and entire cities could be destroyed. Any sane person only has to look to Syria to see the consequences of endless civil war.
Count me among those who were moved to tears by the barricades in Kiev. The entire scene was right out of Les Miz except with a different ending. You could literally hear 'the people sing' as they gave their lives for freedom. If just somehow we could just hit 'pause' and that would be the end of the story.
Unfortunately, that is not happening. President Putin, who has blood on his hands in Syria and so many other places, is determined to use any means necessary to exert the influence of the Russian Bear and save his own sad face. The major powers have a very narrow window to restore sanity to this situation and seek creative solutions before the entire world and the people of Ukraine are thrown into another spiral of brutal violence.
Right now it is clear the Russians and their surrogates are determined to keep the strategically placed Crimea. This peninsula on the Black Sea has historically been the source of much pain. Over half a million died in the Crimean War between the superpowers in the mid-1800's. Stalin deported the entire population of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula and most died in that process. Crimea became completely Russian and currently most of its population are Russian speakers.
In 1954, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev 'gave' Crimea to the Ukrainian people. Khrushchev, who was a native Russian, rose to power through the Ukrainian Communist Party. Some say it was an act of madness created in a drunken stupor and others consider it a brilliant move by the Russian leader.
Ukraine is split between those who consider themselves Europeans and those who have a historic bond to Russia. The split has been clear in election after election. There are enough facts and figures to sanely partition Ukraine now before it is too late. Minimally, give the damn Crimea back to Russia where it historically belongs.
Drawing the 'line in the sand' over fake boundaries is inviting massive violence, international confrontation and death and destruction. Over what?
Read this National Geographic article on the history of Ukraine to fully understand why we can fully resolve this crisis peacefully and sanely. The history of Ukraine has been one of great struggle and a place that major powers have used and abused over time.
The solution is simple. Let the European section continue as the Ukraine and allow the Russian section to vote on their future either as Russians or a new nation. Finally, return Crimea to the Russians.
America has a unique opportunity to look at the concept of nation states in an innovative way that is more suited to the 21st century and not a return to the 19th Century. Let's embrace it now or the consequences may be horrific. | <urn:uuid:f88253fd-7a40-4304-a45d-c1742d332eda> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.towleroad.com/2014/02/david-mixner-partition-the-ukraine-now-before-it-is-too-late/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00343-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970896 | 723 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Scientific partnerships to promote fruit and vegetable production
The new publication Fruit and Vegetables: Opportunities and challenges for small-scale sustainable farming, developed by FAO and CIRAD, provides comprehensive technical guidance and policy insights, with a particular focus on small-scale farmers, towards developing the fruit and vegetable sector to achieve the SDGs.
This publication was launched by FAO on 20 September 2021, in support of the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 #IYFV2021, through an engaging virtual event to raise awareness of its contents and the critical role of fruits and vegetables in food security, nutrition, livelihoods and incomes of small-scale producers.
This event also provided the unique opportunity to inform the audience of a new Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and to introduce the International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022) in 2022.
The video recording of the Event is available below for on-demand viewing.
The part with the introduction of the FAO-ISHS MoU starts shortly after minute 50:00 into the video.
The link to the FAO webcast of the Event is: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5638/icode/For more information, please contact: [email protected]
A copy of the publication Fruit and Vegetables: Opportunities and challenges for small-scale sustainable farming (ISBN 978-92-5-134238-1, FAO, CIRAD, Rome Italy 2021, 196 pages), is available for download here: http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb4173en | <urn:uuid:9553d044-c58e-409f-b2bc-6cdde59c2e13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ishs.org/news/scientific-partnerships-promote-fruit-and-vegetable-production | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.852291 | 362 | 2.71875 | 3 |
A volcano on the remote southern Japanese island of Kuchinoerabujima
erupted suddenly Friday, blasting plumes of black smoke high into the
sky and prompting authorities to order the evacuation of the island's
Mount Shindake erupted about 10 a.m. (0100 GMT). A pyroclastic flow of
superheated gas and rock flowed down the side of the peak and reached
the ocean, NHK said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries
to the island's roughly 150 residents.
The island, part of the Ryukyu archipelago, is about 160 kilometers
(100 miles) south of Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai nuclear plant on
Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu.
It was not immediately clear if the eruption would affect the power
company's hopes to restart the plant, which on Wednesday cleared the
last step of the nuclear regulator's stringent safety hurdles
introduced after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011.
Japan is one of the world's most seismically active nations, and there
has been a surge in volcanic activity in recent weeks. | <urn:uuid:86887bb9-4e05-4e84-b4c2-7c4027d74a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newshuntermag.com/2015/05/volcano-erupts-on-southern-japanese.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.915874 | 243 | 2.734375 | 3 |
- All > Medicine Access and Rational Use > Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
- All > Medicine Access and Rational Use > Rational Use
- Keywords > antibiotics - use
- Keywords > antibiotics control
- Keywords > antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Keywords > inappropriate use
- Keywords > prescribing
- Keywords > prescribing behaviour
- Keywords > prescribing practices
- Keywords > resistance containment
- Keywords > surveillance - antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use
(2010; 7 pages)
Background. It is necessary to understand physician’s prescribing behaviour in order to develop interventions that will effectively improve the use of antibiotics.
Objective. To explore the factors that influence primary care physicians to prescribe antibiotics and to investigate possible interventions.
Methods. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were used to explore the perspectives of primary care physicians in the public and private sectors from five municipal wards (residential localities) of Delhi from where data on antibiotic use and resistance were collected. FGDs (n = 3 with 36 prescribers) were analysed through grounded theory.
Results. Three broad themes identified were as follows: behavioural characteristics of doctors and patients; laxity in regulation of prescribing and dispensing antibiotics and intervention strategies to decrease misuse of, and resistance to, antibiotics. Important factors identified for antibiotic prescriptions by doctors were diagnostic uncertainty, perceived demand and expectation from the patients, practice sustainability and financial considerations, influence from medical representatives and inadequate knowledge. For public sector doctors, besides the above, overstocked and near-expiry drugs and lack of time were the factors that promoted antibiotic overuse. Doctors also identified certain patient behaviour characteristics and laxity in regulation for prescribing and dispensing of antibiotics as aggravating the problem of antibiotic misuse. Interventions like Continuing Medical Educations for doctors, awareness raising of patients, shared decision making and stricter rules and regulations were suggested to promote rational use of antibiotics in the community.
Conclusion. Exploration of doctors’ antibiotic use practices and possible interventions will be helpful in carrying out interventions to promote appropriate use of antibiotics in the community. | <urn:uuid:6cd48682-ea80-4412-b680-41976fa52bae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/m/abstract/Js19571en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00460-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916531 | 425 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Bitcoin Is Not Inherently Secure
Specifically, I was reacting to the common "Bitcoin's security is inherently inpenetrable" misconception, represented in the blog post as the following statement:
"Bitcoin’s architecture is similar to the Internet’s architecture. There is no centralized control point. No single point of failure."
Welp, yes and no. Web's architecture is amazing, and Bitcoin's is pretty smart, too, but no technology system is ever absolutely secure. Simply because life doesn't deal in absolutes. Ignoring the limits of security is one sure way to get compromised.
While Internet's architecture is indeed exceptionally resilient, it is in no way bulletproof. By now we have amassed a lot of unfortunate examples of how it can be compromised. Internet can be controlled both locally (various country-level "walls" filtering access) as well as: globally (Net Neutrality issues, compromised security protocols, back-channel access into major systems).
To put it in the words of Bruce Schneier:
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
It's one thing when compromised Internet means your Netflix video is slow and image quality is grained, it's completely different when your money can get lost.
Not taking the risks that are present even in the most distributed architectures seriously is—irresponsible. There is no "purely technical" solution here. Bitcoin-like approach may be an improvement, and I am as excited about it as the next person, but I still want offline mechanisms to protect my money when all the tech fails. There is no purely technological solution for international monetary exchange. Outright ignoring all of the experience in the field, and being all radical about it is: well, somewhat childish, to be blunt about it. | <urn:uuid:ccf67cb7-7e40-45e8-a35d-92dcf1866c97> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.freshblurbs.com/blog/2014/02/25/bitcoin-troubles.html | 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 | 0.950869 | 383 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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The Biomimicry Institute empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. The Institute’s goal is to make biomimicry a natural part of the design process. The organization accomplishes this by tackling one massive sustainability problem at a time. Its Design Challenges platform mobilizes tens of thousands of networked practitioners to solve the challenge, and provides those practitioners with the tools to begin. The Institute anticipates dozens of new biomimetic innovations will result, creating a healthier world for all.
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The Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, island republic in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India, is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar. Lying between the two nations is a chain of tiny islands known as Adam's Bridge. Sri Lanka is somewhat pear-shaped, with its apex in the north. The greatest length from north to south is about 440 km (about 273 mi); the greatest width is about 220 km (about 137 mi). The total area of Sri Lanka is 65,610 sq km (25,332 sq mi). The administrative capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardhanapura (Kotte); and Colombo is the largest city.
According to Hindu legend the greater part of Sri Lanka was conquered in prehistoric times by Ramachandra, the seventh incarnation of the supreme deity Vishnu. The written history of the country begins with the chronicle known as the Mahavamsa. This work was started in the 6th century AD and provides a virtually unbroken narrative up to 1815. The Mahavamsa was compiled by a succession of Buddhist monks. Because it often aims to glorify or to degrade certain periods or reigns, it is not a wholly reliable source despite its wealth of historical material.
The Mahavamsa relates that the island was conquered in 504 BC by Vijaya, a Hindu prince from northeast India. After subjugating the aboriginal inhabitants, a people now known as Veddas, Vijaya married a native princess, encouraged emigration from the mainland, and made himself ruler of the entire island. However, the realm (called Sinhala after Vijaya's patrimonial name) that was inherited by his successors consisted of the arid region lying to the north of the south-central mountain system.
Members of the dynasty founded by Vijaya reigned over Sinhala for several centuries. During this period, and particularly after the adoption in the 3rd century BC of Buddhism as the national religion, the Sinhalese created a highly developed civilization. Extant evidence of their engineering skill and architectural achievements includes remnants of vast irrigation projects, many ruined cities, notably the ancient capital Anuradhapura, and numerous ruined shrines called dagobas.
The Cholas , were a Tamil-speaking people of south India, founders of a dynasty that dominated the area from the 10th to the 13th century. The Chola Kingdom, in what is now Tamil Nadu State, probably existed as early as the 1st century AD, but its prominence dates from the mid-9th century, when it began conquering neighboring territories. Rajendra I (reigned 1016-44), the greatest of the Chola kings, ruled Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Sri Lanka. He campaigned as far north as the Ganges River and sent naval expeditions to Burma and the Malay Peninsula. Kulottunga I (reigned 1070-1122) united the Chola domains with those of the Eastern Chalukyas in Andhra Pradesh, forming the Chalukya-Chola dynasty. It declined after 1200, finally dying out in 1279.
From the late 3rd century AD to the middle of the 12th century, Sinhala (Ceylon) was dominated by Tamil kings and by a succession of invaders from southern India. Native princes regained power briefly in the late 12th century and again in the 13th century. From 1408 to 1438 Chinese forces occupied the island of Sinhala, which had been partitioned into a number of petty kingdoms.
Tamil speakers make up the majority of the population of Tamil Nadu state and also inhabit parts of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh states, all situated in the southernmost third of India. Emigrant Tamil may be found in some parts of the Malagasy Republic, the Malay Peninsula, Myanmar (Burma), Indochina, Thailand, eastern Africa, South Africa, the Fiji and Mauritius islands, and the West Indies.
The Tamil area in India is a centre of traditional Hinduism. Tamil schools of personal religious devotion (bhakti) have long been important in Hinduism, being enshrined in a literature dating back to the 6th century AD. Buddhism and Jainism were widespread among the Tamil in the early Christian era, and these religions' literatures predate the early bhakti literature in the Tamil area. Although the present-day Tamil are mostly Hindus, there are Christians, Muslims, and Jains among them. In the recent past, the Tamil area was also the home of the Dravidian movement that calls for the desanskritization and debrahmanization of
Tamil culture, language, and literature.
The Tamil have a long history of achievement; sea travel, city life, and commerce seem to have developed early among them. Tamil trade with the ancient Greeks and Romans is verified by literary, linguistic, and archaeological evidence. The Tamil have the oldest cultivated Dravidian language, and their rich literary tradition extends back to the early Christian era.
The Chera, Chola, Pandya, and Pallava dynasties ruled over the Tamil area before the Vijayanagar empire extended its hegemony in the 14th century, and these earlier dynasties produced many great kingdoms. Under them the Tamil people built great temples, irrigation tanks, dams, and roads, and they played an important role in the transmission of Indian culture to Southeast Asia.
The Chola, for example, were known for their naval power and brought the Malay kingdom of Sri Vijaya under their suzerainty in AD 1025. Though the Tamil area was integrated culturally with the rest of India for a long time, politically it was for most of the time a separate entity until the advent of British rule in India.
The Sri Lankan Tamils
The Tamil in Sri Lanka today are of various groups and castes, and belong mostly to the Hindu religion. The Ceylon Tamil, constituting approximately half of them, are concentrated in the northern part of the island. They are relatively well-educated, and many of them hold clerical and professional positions. The so-called Indian Tamil of Sri Lanka were brought there by the British in the 19th and 20th centuries as workers on the tea estates, and they have been regarded as foreigners by the other ethnic groups. The Ceylon and Indian Tamil are organized under different caste systems and have little social intercourse with each other.
Ethnic, religious, and linguistic distinctions in Sri Lanka are essentially the same. Three ethnic groups--Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim--make up more than 99 percent of the country's population, with Sinhalese alone accounting for nearly three-fourths of the people. Tamil segment comprises two groups, viz; Sri Lankan Tamils (long-settled descendants from southeastern India) and Indian Tamils (recent immigrants from southeastern India, most of whom were migrant workers brought to Sri Lanka under British rule). Slightly more than one-eighth of the total population belongs to the former group. (immigrants from western India), and Veddas (regarded as the aboriginal inhabitants of the country) total less than 1 percent of the population.
The Sinhalese constitute the majority in the southern, western, central, and north-central parts of the country. In the rural areas of the Wet Zone lowlands, they account for more than 95 percent of the population. The foremost concentration of the Sri Lankan Tamils lies in Jaffna Peninsula and in the adjacent districts of the northern lowlands. Smaller agglomerations of this group are also found along the eastern littoral where their settlements are juxtaposed with those of the Muslims.
The Indian Tamils, the vast majority of whom are plantation workers, live in large numbers in the higher areas of the Central Highlands.
While the mother tongue of the Sinhalese is Sinhala--an Indo-Aryan language--the Tamils speak the Dravidian language Tamil.
Jaffna, in the North of the Island has always been the region of Tamil majority and uswed to be the capital of the ancient Tamil kingdoms. The social organization which evolved in this peninsular is very much akin to the Tamil districts of South India. The landowning cultivators, or Vellala, were the pivot of the social structure and also the holders of political and economic power. A number of lesser castes stood in varying degrees of service relationships to the Vellala. Hindu institutions were supported by the king and the people and were strengthened by the influx of Brahmans. Brahmanic temples sprang up in many parts of Jaffna and rituals and public worship were regularly held. The Tamil language struck firm roots in the island and became one of its indigenous lenguages. Tamil literary culture was fostered by the support of the Jaffna Kings and was enriched by the constant contact with South India, yet it developed an individuality in idiom and speech and acquired some linguistic characteristics that distinguished it from its South Indian parent.
The influence of Hinduism has given rise to many famous temples, viz; Thiruketheeswaran in Mannar, Koneswaran in Trincomalee, and Munneswaram in Chilaw. Hindu's celebrate Thai Pongal, Maha Sivarathri, Deepawali, and Hindu New Year, as specuial festive occasions. Fridays are venerated as special holy days and they attend special services at the Temples. Customs of marriage and other social events differ amongst the Tamils based on whether they are Hindus or converted Christians.
The Tamils have contributed to the welfare of the country from time immemorial and many famous Tamil scholars, professionals, and businessmen, have been involved in the struggle for freedom from the Colonial powers. Many Tamils have also held esteemed office in the Legislative assembly and other high political altars, both under foreign colonial rule and even after the granting of independence. | <urn:uuid:02d2997b-c150-453a-b4e3-708d13ad2e53> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/tamintro.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00013-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963471 | 2,072 | 3.671875 | 4 |
I received a fantastic photography question from a reader:
“By any chance do you have any photography tips for people without DSLRs? For example, how would a person with a point and shoot get a semi-decent fireworks shot? A little late but it bugs me every year.”
This is a very fair question. Most of the tutorials on fireworks photography detail the best manual settings – and not all cameras have the ability (though more and more do!). Here are a few tips to maximize your success:
Use a tripod – When taking photos as night, even the lightest hand shake will produce blurry photos. Use a regular or portable tripod. Almost every camera has a tripod adapter on the bottom! If yours doesn’t, get creative to find an alternate way to stabilize your camera.
Use the timer – For the same reason as above, you want to avoid touching the camera. However, many point & shoots don’t have the ability to connect to a shutter remote. As an alternative, you can use the timer function to take a hands-free shot. Try it in burst mode that takes 3 shots in a row – to ensure you get the shot.
Use landscape mode -Â The landscape mode will help your camera focus and the low light will automatically decrease the shutter speed. You might try the night mode too.
Look for “fireworks” setting– Some cameras have a mode especially for fireworks. Dig out that manual and see if this is an option on your camera. It may be a hidden setting!
Make manual adjustments – More and more point & shoot cameras do have the ability to leave fully automatic mode. If you can do this, you’ll want to set it to the lowest ISO (to reduce noise), to focus on infinity, and an f/stop of f/8 – f/16. You can vary the shutter speed to capture multiple bursts and light trails.
Here are four references for further reading. All address using a point & shoot for photographing fireworks.
In the future, Simple Scrapper will work harder to balance tips for DSLR and P&S photography! Thanks for your question.
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We have been leaders in organic movement which we helped initiate nearly 50 years ago. Indeed, from day one we have farmed organically. We also welcomed with open arms the “Local Foods” movement. We were initiators of multiple farmers’ markets in the 1970’s when these local venues were coming back on the scene after decades of absence. We were early supporters of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 which finally defined “organic”. We have certificates back to 1990. One of the hallmarks of the National Organic Program was the requirement for farms to be verified independently on an annual basis. There’s also an alternative system aimed at the same discerning consumer called Certified Naturally Grown. This doesn’t have near the rigor of the NOP. Some growers say “we grow with organic methods”. There’s no proof this is so, nor any way to know if those growers even know what organic is (much less the fact it’s illegal to call something organic without having been inspected through the NOP).
Over a period of decades now, we have all seen a shift. Not only do consumers want food which is organic and local, they are willing to go out of their way to get it and even pay more for the cost of its production.
This has attracted an army of wannabes. Many formerly “commercial” growers, have tweaked their growing practices to qualify as organic. This is generally a good thing, but over time many of the key organic practices have been diluted to allow huge corporations to benefit (putting smaller producers out of business) while largely continuing the spirit of their prior practice. As organics gained economic ground, the larger scale portion of the industry took over writing the rules, creating a kind of “big” and “small” organic. Organic milk and eggs in most grocery stores are familiar examples. But produce is not exempt.
Since consumers have been willing to pay more for organic foods, we’ve seen many, including grocers, who were more than willing to take your whole paycheck. But we’ve always attempted to make our organically grown food available to all in the Pittsburgh region, gifting to foodbank and any family who can't afford our organic foods.
What does this have to do with our CSA program? We were practically alone as organic or even sustainable growers in Pittsburgh 40 years ago. Now, there are any number of other options in the market. We would think you know where the others stand on many key environmental issues. Read between the lines. There are a number of CSA which are conventionally grown, or feature “naturally grown” produce. Others are really an amalgamation of crops grown by a large number of growers. Though some of those growers might be organic, many are not.
We try our best to have a personal relationship with our subscribers—you get to know how we farm, what we believe in, are passionate about, and share in our joys and struggles. It's like having your own garden--gluts of tomatoes in August, none in early June; tons of greens early and late in the season, few in the heat; fruit only in its season; variations year to year, crop by crop; wins and losses.
It's traditional seasonal eating with crops appropriate to our region. We aim for quantities to fit your family. We try to waste nothing. Your own garden would tug you in that thrifty direction as well. | <urn:uuid:f3d6757f-353f-44ce-9c83-1d5291550e01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kretschmannfarm.com/blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976291 | 728 | 1.875 | 2 |
Priming your pages covers the SEO art of page copywriting and asset optimization. This includes deploying your phrases that pay throughout your site and manipulating Google search engine results pages (SERPs).
- How Google stores. Before you can prime your pages you must understand how Google stores your content in its search index.
- On-page optimization is all about effective SEO copywriting of metadata, tags, page text, and other on-page elements, so that web pages are keyword rich for search engines but still read well for humans.
- Asset optimization. It is vital also to optimize the images, documents, videos, and other assets on your site. This section shows you how.
- SERPs and snippets outlines how Google displays its search results and how to manipulate the link and the snippet for your own pages, so that web surfers are enticed to click on the result and visit your site.
How Google finds sites and pages?
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If content with keywords is good, then twice as much content is better, right?
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Pu is released early from Beijing’s number One Detention Centre after serving 19 months for “inciting ethnic hatred” and “picking quarrels” on social media post. He was originally going to be detained for three years. He is released under “residential surveillance”, and has 10 days to decide whether to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
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Something to think about from today’s New York Times:
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.
Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.
To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.
The pressure even gets to those who work for themselves — and are being well-compensated for it.
“I haven’t died yet,” said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular technology blog. The site has brought in millions in advertising revenue, but there has been a hefty cost. Mr. Arrington says he has gained 30 pounds in the last three years, developed a severe sleeping disorder and turned his home into an office for him and four employees. “At some point, I’ll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen.”
“This is not sustainable,” he said.
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References for species Dichaetocoris cupressi Van Duzee, 1925
Dichaetocoris cupressi Van Duzee, 1925 is a junior synonym of Dichaetocoris vanduzeei Carvalho, 1955
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How can I reuse or recycle old paint?
Posting the paint tins entry last week made me wonder what about paint itself.
I know there are a lot of worthwhile causes out there that collect the half-cans of paint sat around in everyone’s cellar/shed/store-cupboard and put them to good uses – like painting murals, bit of furniture or when there is enough left, decorating interiors of community projects and the like.
These things tend to be local but does anyone know of any national schemes? If not, how about local ones in your area? If you do, leave the details in a comment – including which area it is if it’s a local one.
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Education of young boys and girls in Kashmir is being held hostage by the ongoing controversies and unsettled issues, taxing the nerves of an average Kashmiri. Curfews, strikes, protests, bandhs (shutdown) and the like have become order of the day. Earlier, on an average two to three days in a week most institutions used to remain closed and thus a discontinuity in the education process crept in. The current year has been the worse, having seen a painful loss of tens of thousands of education days owing to Islamist protests and resultant curfews. If one just multiplies the number of students in the valley with the number of days lost, the figures will be astonishing. As we calculate the loss of days of the workforce to arrive at losses in economic terms, for loss of education days in the Valley, it results in deprivation of the Right to Life, which is a far greater loss.
This is where the Indian Army steps in – with its Army Goodwill Schools (AGS) still running, without any major disruptions, albeit some minor loss of attendance of students and teachers (staying outside the campuses), who could not make it due to the curfew etc. Army, as part of its Sadbhavna initiative, manages 46 schools, of which a majority-30-are located in the Kashmir Valley. Though the other 16 schools (8 each in Jammu and Ladakh regions respectively) are running as normal, it’s in these 30 schools that special efforts have been made to keep the classes going and the curriculum running, though with minor modifications, like avoiding outdoor trips and excursions or postponing certain events and tournaments. That most of its students and teachers reside in and around the campus definitely helps, because each AGS itself is modelled on the concept of providing quality education at a subsidised cost to those residing in the immediate vicinity. Hence, 50 per cent of the Valley schools are still able to function normally.
Secondly, the Army has propagated another concept – that of sponsoring students from poor backgrounds and remote locations, to schools outside the state, most notable among them being Army Public School, Beas, astride the Jalandhar-Ludhiana Highway.
In this notable institution, the Army has sponsored 60 students of J&K, 26 from Leh region, 30 from the Valley and four from the Jammu region. Comprising of both boys and girls, these students, from classes VI to IX, are getting an uninterrupted quality education in a healthy and competitive environment ,at absolutely no cost to the parents. All that is expected of them is that they will maintain good grades, which in turn will motivate and help others of their ilk to come forward and embrace this opportunity, which transforms their lives and opens new vistas for their future growth and progress.
The scheme’s popularity can be gauged by the fact that there is a long waiting list for admissions and lately an entrance test is being conducted to select the most deserving among the applicants. Annually, approx Rs 1.1 crore is being spent on these children by the Army at APS Beas.
A shining example is the Dhruva Boys Hostel (DBH), Udhampur, wherein 26 boys from various regions of the State are being housed and educated. Among them is the last 10th class topper from J&K Board, Master Sunak Singh, who was adopted by the Army, after his father was merciless gunned down by militants in 2001. From classes 5th to 11th, these bright young boys study hard during the day and play harder in their spare time , and are out to carve a niche for themselves in this competitive world, aided and egged on by the able staff of DBH. Army here spends approx Rs 10 lakhs annually, on their education related expenses.
The unrest post the Burhan Wani killing and the resultant shutdowns across the state, especially in the Valley, has badly affected the education system. It remains a fact that the past two and a half months have been nothing less than a disaster, and the losses will surely percolate down. A consensus should be arrived at for schools and educational institutions to be kept away from any political conflict. They should not only be spared from such calls, but active cooperation should be extended so that education does not suffer because of political protests or the like. This will need the highest degree of political maturity, a strong feeling for a social commitment, support from the executive and mass awareness about the superiority of quality education, over all other affairs.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina is the foundation for a promising new blood test to detect the progression of macular degeneration to its more serious form, which can lead to blindness.
Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of central vision loss in the western world. Those affected by macular degeneration find many daily activities such as driving, reading and watching TV increasingly difficult.
In the United States as many as 11 million Americans have some form of macular degeneration, including both early and later stages of the “dry” and wet” forms. The eye condition deteriorates the macula, the central area of the retina, causing blind spots and blurred or distorted vision.
“People with macular degeneration start out with the dry type, which we can detect with a simple dilated eye exam,” says Dr. Sai H. Chavala, Director of the Laboratory for Retinal Rehabilitation and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Cell biology & Physiology at UNC School of Medicine. He practices at the Kittner Eye Center at UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill and New Bern.
“But about 20 percent of patients at some time in their life will develop wet macular degeneration, which is characterized by blood vessels that grow under the surface of the retina. These abnormal vessels can leak blood and fluid, which causes irreversible damage to the cells of the retina leading to irreversible vision loss. Since we don’t have a way to predict the precise timing of this event, we have no way of preventing it.” he adds.
Currently, no test is available to predict the conversion from dry to wet ARMD. But the new paper, published on-line January 24, 2013, in the journal PLOS ONE describes how it could be accomplished. (http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055079)
The ability to predict the conversion from dry to wet age-related macular degeneration is one of the most coveted achievements in vision science, according to Chavala. “A clinical test that predicts impending conversion is the first step in developing treatments to prevent the switch to wet macular degeneration.”
In the study, the researchers used the Cell Search system, an FDA-approved technology for automated rare cell analysis (ARCA), which Chavala and colleagues applied to the identification and analysis of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). These cell types are rare compared to other blood cells. EPCs are a stem cell subset that give rise to the endothelium found in the inner lining of blood vessels. EPCs are liberated from the bone marrow and circulate in the blood in response to signals for new blood vessel growth.
Previous studies using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), or flow cytometry, have demonstrated that EPCs are elevated in patients with wet macular degeneration compared to patients with the dry type. However, FACS measurements are subject to substantial variability between observers, along with an element of subjectivity when measuring rare cell populations challenging its clinical use.
Chavala and colleagues thought that ARCA, a new technology capable of measuring rare cell populations reliably, was better suited as a diagnostic blood test. This technology is currently being used in clinical practice for cancer patients so the technology can be readily adopted for macular degeneration patients.
The study compared traditional FACS and ARCA in 23 subjects with age-related macular degeneration, both dry and wet. The samples were “masked” so that no one involved in the sample assessments at the two labs where the analyses were done knew the type of macular degeneration the patients had.
“We found a promising trend favoring the ARCA technology in detecting a higher number of EPCs in the wet macular degeneration group compared to the dry. And that trend was not observed with traditional FACS,” Chavala said. “We were surprised that we needed to analyze relatively few patients to detect this trend.”
“Our ‘proof of concept study’ suggests that the ARCA technology could be a powerful tool for monitoring progression in macular degeneration. Further study is required to validate this test for detecting and preventing the conversion from dry to wet macular degeneration.
“The next step is to do a prospective study in a greater number of subjects having the known criteria that puts them at higher risk of progressing from dry to wet macular degeneration,” Chavala said.”
Co-authors include lead author Emil Anthony T. Say, MD, at UNC Kittner Eye Center; Alex Melamud, MD, Retina Group of Washington, Washington, DC; Denise Ann Esserman, PhD, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; and Thomas J. Povsic, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Support for the study came from the Adler Foundation, Hope for Vision, and Research to Prevent Blindness grants.
Disclosure Statement: Dr. Chavala has filed a patent surrounding this technology and is founder of Serrata, LLC, a company that plans to market diagnostic testing for ocular disease.
Dr. Chavala was also recognized in 2012 by the research funding organization, Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), with a $250,000 Career Development Award to support his research. The support is provided over a four-year period.
The RPB Career Development Award Fund was established in 1990 to attract young physicians and basic scientists to eye research. To date the program has recruited over 164 vision scientists to research positions in departments of ophthalmology at universities across the country.
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Many people have trouble with obesity and want to find the right way to resolve the accumulated kilograms in order to look good. One of the right ways is the yogurt diet that we will present you below. Thanks to her, you will reduce the misery with your weight.
People often decide to be more careful with their diet right after the holidays or just before the summer. This diet is based on yogurt that has probiotic properties and acts beneficially on the intestines. Using this diet, you will have better digestion, you will be free from toxins and you will start to lose weight in a healthy way.
While using it, you will improve the performance of your intestines and in general the work of the whole organism. In this diet, you should use about 20 yogurts per day. In addition, you can eat fruits and fresh vegetables. You need to avoid fruit yogurts and the ones on the market with a large dose of sugar. Also, in this diet you will not just drink yogurts, but you will combine it with a food from a list.
Breakfast – In the morning, drink 1 or 2 low fat yogurts, or add flakes without sugar!
Lunch – Fry some vegetable with a olive oil and add a little rice. You should not add spices. For dessert, you can eat some fruit.
Dinner – Before going to bed, eat a salad with apples and carrots. Chop all the ingredients and fry them in olive oil. Add a yogurt in the mixture.
Breakfast – Make a salad from cucumbers. For this, you will need yogurt and cucumbers. Cut the cucumbers into circles and pour them with yogurt.
Lunch – Take chicken meat and cut it into cubes. Add chopped tomatoes, pepper and mushrooms and fry them with olive oil. In the end, add yogurt.
Dinner – Mix two cups of yogurt with berries.
Breakfast – Mix cheese and yogurt. Then, add chopped apples and cinnamon and enjoy.
Lunch – Bake 150 grams of hake. Make a salad with yogurt and cucumber and put a little mustard.
Dinner – Cook pasta and add one egg and chopped pepper. Put all together in a bowl and pour yogurt on them.
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Teenage girls in the UK are receiving significantly less financial education in school than boys, according to a report released today.
The Young Persons’ Money Index, published by financial education specialist ifs University College, reveals that at GCSE level where financial education is compulsory, only 36 per cent of girls currently learn about personal finance, in comparison to 45 per cent of boys the same age.
In addition, it is not just the disparity in the numbers of students learning about finance where education provision is failing girls, but also in its delivery. With 1.98 hours received a week, girls have significantly fewer classroom hours studying financial education when compared with the 2.36 hours boys receive. Over the course of a standard 39-week school year, this equates to an extra 14.82 hours, or more than two extra school days dedicated solely to learning about personal finance.
Alison Pask, Vice Principal of ifs University College, said:
“Women are already far more likely to suffer from financial exclusion in adulthood and while the introduction of financial education into the curriculum is a step in the right direction to tackle these problems, these figures clearly show that much more needs to be done to ensure it is delivered to a consistently high standard for every student.”
For female students aged 16 and above and who are about to go into higher education or enter the world of work, the picture is even starker, where nearly three quarters (74 per cent) receive no formal financial education whatsoever.
Alison Pask continued:
“With female students making up the majority of university entrants each year it is the height of irresponsibility that so many are being sent off into the next stage of their education with next to no practical financial education; a stage of education where life-changing financial decisions about taking on debt and managing the costs of living need to be made.”
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The more IT literate among you may recognise this as a keyboard. This article hopes to break down some of the mysteries of the keyboard and allow you to fully appreciate its usage.
The capslock key serves a useful purpose. If you need to type several capital letters at once, it lets you do this. Simply press once to turn on capitals, and press again to turn them off. Off is important. Usually a light will appear on your keyboard to inform you of the status. If you're not sure which one, if your typing LOOKS LIKE THIS, you really should press it again.
If you want only one capital letter, the shift key is what you need. Hold down shift, and without letting go, press the key you want. This also lets you access the funny symbols on the top of some keys.
Now you know how to use a keyboard, there's NO NEED TO SHOUT, and no need to avoid all punctuation and proper capitalisation. Enjoy your newfound freedom behind the keyboard. Write a novel! Complain to a newspaper! Don't look like a total moron in chatrooms!
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Why is my water cloudy? What you need to know now that Austin's boil notice has lifted
After Austin’s power crisis evolved into a water crisis, thousands across the city remained without running water or under a boil notice until Tuesday.
We rounded up answers to some of the most frequently asked questions:
Is Austin still under a boil notice?
As of Tuesday, Austin Water said that the boil notice has been lifted for all their customers and boiling is no longer needed for water used for drinking, cooking and making ice.
What should I do when my water service is restored?
Austin Water says that if you currently don't have water or if your pressure is low, your faucets do not need to be open when service is restored. When service resumes, ensure water pressure has returned by:
Opening one faucet at the highest level of your home to remove the air.
If water begins to flow, move to the next faucet and repeat the process.
If water doesn't flow, you may have a frozen pipe that needs thawed
Repeat the same process to flush all faucets to remove air and debris.
Close faucets slowly.
What do I need to do after the boil notice is lifted?
You should flush household pipes, ice makers, water fountains and other taps before using for drinking or cooking. Flushing simply means letting the water run to ensure that there is fresh water flowing through your pipes.
Follow these guidelines for flushing:
Run all cold water faucets in your home for one minute.
To flush automatic ice makers, make three batches of ice and discard.
Run water softeners through a regeneration cycle.
What if my water looks cloudy or milky when my water service returns?
A milky appearance in the water typically indicates that there is air in the water, according to Austin Water. If you let the glass sit the bubbles will disperse and clear up.
It also can be common for calcium deposits or sediment to show up when your water service returns. Austin Water recommends that customers flush their plumbing lines by running the bathtub faucet for two minutes.
If the cloudy appearance persists after you’ve flushed your plumbing lines, report the issue using Austin Water’s online form or by calling 512-972-1000.
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading around the world like wildfire at what appears to be at an exponential rate. In fact, as I write this very sentence, thousands of people have already perished because of the virus. What was completely unknown to most people in 2019, at the turn of the new decade, all everyone seems to be talking about is the coronavirus, and for good reason.
Even with the efforts of our most developed governments, one thing seems crystal clear: We are not prepared for a pandemic of this magnitude.
Although I clearly fear contracting the coronavirus myself, what I am more fearful of are those people who are blinded by ignorance, partisanship, and sheer stupidity as these are the people who are not taking the virus seriously, and are thereby more susceptible to not only contracting it themselves, but to spreading it to healthy people as well.
The odious ramblings of individuals who sanctimoniously profess that the coronavirus is but a renamed version of the flu is what we really need to worry about here for the aforementioned reasons I just touched upon.
It is clear that tensions are rising around the globe and paranoia is high. The spread of the coronavirus is making normal everyday people behave in ways that would seem pathological in lieu of such a pandemic. Excessive worry about germs, the hoarding of essential products (good luck finding toilet paper), excessive cleaning, and self-induced quarantining are the norm at this moment in time.
The aforementioned behavior in people’s response to the coronavirus appears to be analogous to the symptoms expressed in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and mysophobia (fear of germs). However, in this instance, their convictions and behaviors are undeniably justified.
It is a combination of the rising number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the increasing number of deaths as each day passes, the number of cases and deaths that we are unaware of, as well as the vast number of people who are either hyperbolically sanguine or insouciant toward how dangerous the coronavirus is that makes those suffering from OCD to be experiencing a sort of hell that was once thought to only exist in their darkest nightmares.
I, myself, have OCD and have had it since I was a teenager. Although I am far removed from the days when I suffered from severe OCD (thanks to years of therapy and medication), a great number of individuals diagnosed with this anxiety disorder are not as fortunate as I am to have reduced my symptoms to the extent I have over the past several years.
I can think back to a time when I used to behave analogously to how people are behaving right now toward the coronavirus, but without any sort of pandemic going on. I was simply stuck in a paralyzing mind-loop of obsessions and compulsions every single day. If you yourself suffer from OCD, then you are all too familiar with what such a life is like.
My heart goes out to not only those who have contracted the coronavirus and who have perished because of it, but also to those with anxiety disorders, specifically OCD, seeing as how pernicious and psychologically agonizing this condition can truly be in the wake of this pandemic.
There is not much advice I have to give on how to cope with the fear associated with the coronavirus disease because I believe that the most extreme forms of cleanliness and isolation are completely justified in this instance. Assuredly, this is antithetical to what any sane therapist would ever tell her OCD riddled client. However, these are not normal times.
If you suffer from OCD and notice that your symptoms are becoming increasingly worse as the coronavirus death toll rises, then I implore you to reach out for help and try to find a mental health professional as soon as you can. If you already have a therapist, then it may be in your best interest to engage in more frequent therapy sessions via teletherapy or even to increase your medication dosage insofar as the intensity of your obsessions and compulsions worsen as the coronavirus worsens. | <urn:uuid:e5eb5790-13a2-4cbf-903a-e663c2cf6017> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psychtimes.com/ocd/coronavirus-and-ocd-a-germaphobes-worst-nightmare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.972838 | 847 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): In the largest-ever investment by the Australian government in India, Canberra will announce an investment of Rs 1,500 crore in the country in multiple sectors at the India-Australia bilateral summit to be held on Monday.
India and Australia will conclude an early harvest agreement by the end of this month, according to sources.
An early harvest agreement is aimed at liberalising tariffs on the trade of certain goods between two countries or trading blocs before a comprehensive agreement.
As per a diplomatic source, the two countries will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of critical minerals, which will help increase India's access to metallic coal and lithium in Australia and cater to India's growing demand for electric vehicles and growing infrastructure.
Australia has one of the biggest reserves of lithium and is also a provider of the cleanest metallic coal.
The two countries will also be building a centre to promote partnership, which will be located in Canberra, Australia. Announcements on space, cyber activities, technology, agriculture, education and broadcasting will also be made, said the source.
According to the source, India-Australia's comprehensive strategic partnership is not just symbolism but there is remarkable depth in relation.
Tomorrow both leaders will demonstrate that India and Australia are top tier partners that deliver.
When asked whether Russia's aggression in Ukraine and India's position will have any impact, the source said that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's 1957 no condemnation policy and space of resolution policy is in place and every country has a different relationship with different countries.
It is widely believed and reported that PM Modi is in discussion with Russian President Putin on the issue.
The source also said that it will have no negative impact on India-Australia bilateral relations or quad, although incidents in Ukraine will have implications in the Indo-Pacific region.
Further, the Union Minister of Coal and Mines in India, Pralhad Joshi, is expected to visit Australia soon.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison will hold the second India-Australia Virtual Summit on Monday to lay the way forward on new initiatives and enhance cooperation in a diverse range of sectors between the two countries.
The Summit follows the historic first Virtual Summit in June 2020 when the relationship was elevated to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. During the upcoming virtual summit, the Leaders will take stock of progress made on various initiatives under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
The Leaders are expected to commit to closer cooperation in trade, critical minerals, migration and mobility, and education, among others, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a press statement.
According to the MEA release, views on regional and international issues of mutual interest will also be discussed by the Leaders. It also said the Summit highlights the importance attached by both countries to their bilateral relations as also their close cooperation on regional and global issues.
The India-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership has maintained the momentum of an upward trajectory with both countries continuing to collaborate closely, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, in wide-ranging areas including science and technology, defence, cyber, critical and strategic materials, water resource management, as well as public administration and governance.
PM Modi and Morrison met in Washington DC for the first in-person meeting after the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2021 on the margins of the Quad Leaders' Summit and jointly launched the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) in Glasgow on the margins of the COP26 in November 2021.
On Friday, Morrison had underlined that the strong bilateral relationship between the two countries is based on a shared vision of an open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific.In an official statement, he said, "Australia and India's strong bilateral relationship is based on mutual understanding and trust, a commitment to democracy, and a shared vision of an open, inclusive, resilient and prosperous Indo-Pacific.""Prime Minister Modi and I will discuss deepening our trade and investment relationship and harnessing new economic opportunities to support our mutual economic recovery and growth. Central to these endeavours are strengthened cooperation in defence and security, science and technology, and critical minerals and clean energy," he added.
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The morning after the Brexit vote, a spike in UK Google searches suggested many British voters didn't know much about the European Union or the consequences of the vote to leave it. In the parlance of political operatives, it was a "low information voter" problem. But the Brexit vote may serve as a prologue to electorate behavior in the U.S. given the remarkable parallels between the hurly burly populism of that vote, and the raw discontent on display by American voters.
In a normal presidential election year, it's a given that political parties will be "all in," competing for voter enthusiasm that normally translates into media coverage, donor dollars and eventually votes. This time around, however, enthusiasm is especially volatile -- even unhinged at times -- and ironically may be ultimately irrelevant.
Some call this the Twitter election. One candidate broadcasts 140 characters about something that's wildly untrue, perhaps even dangerous, and his or her opponent replies with snark. Candidates craft hyperbolic memes designed to trend, and the content of what's trending isn't just popular, it's treated as both fact and the straw-man headline of the day across multiple media channels.
Even by the relatively low standards of politics, the tone of this election has, at best, been juvenile. How might a campaign navigate these unruly, policy-free waters to get its message out? The answer tracks with one of the dominant themes shaping marketing today -- personalization. The race to personalize the electorate will tell us a lot about the immediate future of marketing.
Among political journalists, we've seen a running critique of Donald Trump: He flip-flops wildly, but doesn't pay a price. Interpreting this phenomenon shows that Trump voters have, in effect, self-personalized his messaging. Voters don't believe his wildest promises -- and they don't care.
To Trump voters, the Donald's digital persona mirrors the echo chamber of their discontent. Reactive and random, Trump's digital strategy is still missing in action, save for a late-night tweet about being treated fairly by the press. His digital infrastructure has been slow to develop, if not error prone, and strategy-challenged given the current state of the art in digital politics. He and the campaign seem perfectly content with personalization by punchline -- letting the voters opt-in to the themes that ring their bell, rather than doing what even the down-ballot candidates realize -- the necessity to leverage digital to communicate with select voter groups about key policy initiatives, and encourage them to vote.
In 2008, Obama beat Clinton, in part because the Obama campaign committed to digital and an innovative social and email strategy. But this time around, in spite of a more robust digital campaign from Bernie Sanders, who took online fundraising to entirely new levels, Clinton still won.
To be blunt, the Clinton digital campaign strategy has lacked momentum. To her advantage though, she has some of the Obama digital brain trust on staff, so when it comes to digital strategy and infrastructure, the talent, if not the enthusiasm, is in place. It may not matter as much in this election, as Clinton has a large fundraising lead and has already reserved swing-state television buys. We should expect her campaign to dominate expensive TV buys from now through the fall, while systematically adjusting focus, including proven digital segmentation strategies from 2008 and 2012 that address key constituencies in order to raise funds and excite voters.
The real competitive contests may be found in down-ticket races. Results probably won't swing with the enthusiasm from the top of the ticket, because both presidential candidates are setting records for antipathy. Both candidates are polling negatively, at over 60%. Winning a congressional district or a governor's race will be an exercise in digital data and reach. Campaigns that were run ten years ago by direct mail, phone banks and lawn signs may be decided by IP address and mobile device targeting.
Think of this election as direct mail online. With over 80% of the voter population online, hyper-local targeting your district by the issues and by voter profiles is key. Using the digital targeting tools available to reach all of your voter segments repeatedly creates interest in the issues and sustains a robust voter impetus. Anything less -- like fractional advertising reach of local cable television buys -- won't be cost effective or move the needle because the audience coverage on any given show simply isn't there.
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Displacement of people by conflict is a thread running through Mama Leone, a collection of stories written in the 1990s by Miljenko Jergovic, newly translated from Croatian by David Williams. The conflicts vary but they almost always result in what characters hope to be a temporary change of address. Some of them move to other cities in the states of the former Yugoslavia as they break apart. Others even flee to Spain, Israel, Canada, and the United States.
In the case of twenty-one related stories grouped under the title "When I Was Born a Dog Started Barking in the Hall of the Maternity Ward," a family separates and neither the mother or father feels capable of raising their son. He spends most of his time with his maternal grandparents in Sarajevo with annual trips to summer homes. He is also sent to live with uncles and aunts on some occasions. When his mother joins whatever household he is in, she seems as much a child as he does. He is a precocious child who claims to remember everything, including his birth, a great gift for a narrating character. Like the grandmother, most readers will find him a source of troubling amusement.
The remaining unrelated stories are grouped under the title "That Day a Childhood Story Ended." In most of these short pieces, characters are uprooted by the Balkan Wars. As rival forces attack new cities, family move in with relatives in other regions and draft age men hide or immigrate. Survival in new places often requires taking unfair advantage of others. Some even pledge love for the sake of refuge and a stake in a new place.
I enjoyed how Jerovic told these unfamiliar (to me) stories, balancing hope with despair, sympathy with revulsion, while giving me a peak into a culture different from my own. Mama Leone belongs in libraries with a demand for foreign or literary fiction.
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Caring for Youth With HIV
Adolescence is a time of dramatic physical, emotional, mental, and social change. The transitions that occur usher youth into the social and sexual world as independent beings. These changes provide opportunities for positive growth experiences, but they also bring new vulnerabilities.
Unfortunately, young people in the U.S. and other parts of the world are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. One of the hallmarks of adolescence is the formation of a sexual identity, while another is the propensity for taking risks. When mixed, these characteristics can be dangerous, as reflected in the fact that half of all new HIV infections each year are estimated to occur among youth aged 13 to 24.
The Challenges of Adolescence
Adolescence is marked by a move toward independence and a challenge to family traditions. But young people do not exist in a vacuum. They are a part of social networks that can make living with HIV easier or harder.
Young people with HIV face the same challenges as their HIV-negative peers, including experimental behavior and development of the skills needed for adulthood. But youth with HIV must address these challenges while living with the stigma of their disease. Their choices regarding intimate relationships, sexual activity, and experimentation with drugs and alcohol are complicated by:
Older teens and young adults may be more able than their less mature siblings to take an active role in dealing with HIV. But even they require significant psychological and emotional support. And two other transitions to adult life common to all young people are experienced differently by those with HIV: planning for school and work, and dealing with the adult medical system.
It is critical to help them understand that HIV is a chronic illness that, when successfully managed, can allow for a long and healthy life that includes marriage or long-term relationships, children, and career.
Adolescence is a time of testing limits, marked by risk taking, struggles for independence, experimenting with adult behaviors, impulsivity, and a sense of invulnerability, coupled with awakening sexuality. But normal adolescent behavior that would be relatively safe in other youth can damage the health of a young person with HIV, putting her or him at particular risk and making adherence to treatment difficult.
Adolescents strive for independence, but those with HIV are dependent on doctors, case workers, medicines, etc. Resentment and mixed feelings about such forced dependency are not uncommon and can lead to poor adherence or substance use. For adolescents infected at birth, there can be added challenges arising from the fact that they were not expected to survive childhood and therefore were not helped to develop the skills they would need for independent living.
For some youth, the impact of a new diagnosis is immediate. For others, it can take weeks or years for the emotional reality of the diagnosis to be absorbed. The particular traits of adolescence make it even more challenging to cope with HIV. These include a strong sense of invulnerability and immortality, being prone to peer pressure, difficulty grasping the long-term consequences of behavior, and a struggle between a sense of power and a lack of it.
For adolescents who have experienced poverty or living arrangements that brought constant threats and dangers, living with HIV is another burden in their lives. It is often perceived as proof that the world is untrustworthy.
Adolescents are very concerned about sharing their HIV diagnosis with others. Disclosure of one's HIV status is complex and delicate, and each disclosure comes with consequences. Peer support groups, networks, or interactions may be helpful both before and after disclosure.
On the other hand, sharing one's HIV status with others can result in being shunned and even discriminated against. Referral to a mental health professional or a spiritual adviser who is informed about HIV can help adolescents decide when and how to disclose their status. Role playing can be a particularly effective way for teens to practice informing potential sexual partners.
Mental health problems often lead to poor adherence to treatment among adolescents. Adherence rates for adolescents and young adults taking antiretroviral medications range from about 29% to 61%. Adherence is influenced greatly by:
Some young people may have concerns regarding how well medications work for people from their racial or ethnic group. These concerns may come from adults in the family who have misgivings about the treatment of minorities by the health care system. In fact, a recent survey of African-Americans aged 15 to 44 found widespread belief in AIDS conspiracies:
Certain cultural groups often rely on traditional approaches to healing, but herbs and other supplements can interact with HIV medications. Also, the visible side effects of certain HIV drugs (such as rashes and changes in body shape) can be a barrier to adherence. Including adolescents in treatment decisions and listening to what they have to say about side effects can lead to better adherence and may improve their quality of life.
Racial and ethnic minorities make up a growing number of people living with HIV. The current makeup of AIDS cases in people aged 13 to 19 is as follows:
In many families, certain issues are not discussed with younger members. Secrets regarding substance use or sexual behavior may be off limits. Some families may be hesitant to "air their dirty laundry" and want to maintain privacy. Among African-Americans, this is sometimes related to the historical experience of racism and the need to be cautious because of the risk of mistreatment, sometimes referred to as "healthy cultural paranoia." The stigma associated with HIV may intensify a family's need to be protective of its members.
The use of disease as a strategy for colonization, a history of unethical research, and underfunded reservation-based medical care have left many Native Americans distrustful of medical providers. An extended family is the recognized center of Native American life, so it is critical for the provider to identify those who are considered to be family members. Family distrust can become an issue if family members who usually take on the responsibility of making treatment decisions are ignored by the care provider. Without trust by the family, the person with HIV may not trust either the clinician or the treatment. The HIV-positive young person may have access to rites of passage or activities that can help foster growth and development. Adolescence is seen as a preparation to assume community responsibilities and live productive adult lives. There may be community-based programs available to assist with this.
Among Latino youth, particularly Latina teens, the common adolescent desire to fit in may displace many traditional cultural norms, including the protective effects of familismo (attachment to the family) and taboos against certain risk-taking behaviors. Many Latino families have a respect for the authority of a health care provider that can help to engage the family in issues around medical care. Language can be a barrier or a valuable tool in building relationships with Latino families. People are often more able to discuss emotion-laden topics in their primary language.
White youth are the minority in most HIV clinics. They often describe "standing out" and are concerned about not fitting in or not being taken seriously because of their skin color and assumptions about their lifestyle.
Cultural Beliefs & Mental Health
Beliefs concerning mental health treatment vary between different cultural groups, many of which reject conventional Western methods. In communities where there is a strong sense of spirituality, families may consult spiritual leaders for help. Some may accept conventional medical treatment while also using approaches grounded in their own traditions.
Among Latinos, the use of spiritualism, Santeria, and other religious approaches to both physical and mental health is common. Community storefronts that offer spiritual readings or the neighborhood curandero that promotes the use of herbal treatments, special diets, and spiritual prescriptions can influence people to reject their clinician's recommendations for psychiatric medications and psychotherapy. Of special concern are the adverse effects and interactions between certain holistic treatments and conventional medications. All people with HIV should give detailed information to their care providers regarding all treatments they are using, including herbs and vitamins.
Among Native Americans, the use of traditional medicine varies from group to group. Traditional practices can include ceremonies specifically for the community or for the individual and family. Traditional medicine represents vast systems of prevention and treatment that operate at several levels, with practitioners who dedicate a substantial portion of their lives to healing. As a result of the trauma of colonization and subsequent abuse, Native Americans have long been at risk for behavioral, emotional, and mental health problems. With the strengthening of tribal culture in recent years, there has been an increase in the availability of tribal services and culturally sensitive mainstream mental health services.
The struggle to develop and integrate a positive adult identity -- an important task for all adolescents -- becomes an even greater challenge for LGBT youth, who learn from earliest childhood the profound stigma of a homosexual identity. Unlike many of their heterosexual peers, LGBT youth have no built-in support system or assurances that their friends or family members will not reject them if they acknowledge their sexuality. The social and emotional isolation experienced by LGBT youth is a unique stress that increases vulnerability and the risk of developing a range of health and mental health problems.
The psychosocial stresses to which LGBT adolescents are particularly prone include:
For many members of ethnic minority groups, race and ethnicity are core parts of personal identity. By the time an adolescent becomes aware of a same-sex orientation, that identity is already well established. In a society that discriminates on the basis of race and ethnicity, strong connections with family and ethnic community are essential for survival, but support is rarely available for an adolescent's homosexual identity.
Only among some Native American groups is homosexuality acknowledged in language and lore as part of cultural tradition, although even in many of these communities acceptance has largely been replaced by more negative mainstream attitudes. The stress of managing multiple levels of stigma, including race, ethnicity, homosexuality, and gender, requires additional sensitivity and knowledge of community resources.
For young people who are at risk for HIV, the normal stresses of adolescence are often aggravated by poverty, violence, racism, homophobia, broken families, homelessness, and child abuse. These greatly increase their risk of becoming substance users or developing mental disorders, which can lead to risk-taking behaviors that may expose them to infections, including HIV.
Adolescents with HIV also face other problems such as loss and bereavement, cycles of wellness and poor health, barriers to care and social services, anxiety, and depression. Poor coping skills or difficulty adapting to their diagnosis makes them vulnerable to abusing alcohol and other substances.
Children with HIV have an increased risk of central nervous system diseases, leading to mental, language, physical, and behavioral impairments. Each of these conditions can have a significant impact on the ability to learn and on academic achievement. For example, poor memory may be related to psychological distress, but can also be a symptom of HIV-related cognitive impairment.
Youth with HIV are at increased risk of psychiatric illness during childhood and early adolescence, and a diagnosis of major depression during adolescence appears to be on the rise. Youth with psychiatric illness also may be particularly vulnerable to HIV infection, since low self-esteem may increase the probability of risky behavior.
One of the greatest health disparities in the U.S. is the lack of mental health and substance use treatment services for adolescents. In 2002, it was estimated that 1.4 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 needed substance use treatment. Only 7% of substance use centers provided services for patients younger than 18, however, so only 10% of the youth needing these services actually received them. The scarcity of affordable mental health and substance use services increases risks of HIV infection, untreated mental health issues, academic failure, and homelessness.
Mental Health Stigma
People with mental disorders often feel stigmatized by their illness and can experience shame, grief, and anger over their diagnosis. In addition to their HIV diagnosis, adolescents in particular can perceive psychiatric care as stigmatizing. Many already see themselves as stigmatized because of their appearance, behaviors, and attitudes, so they may be resistant to accepting mental health services.
In recent years, mental health providers have recognized the importance of bringing the service to the patient in an effort to minimize barriers to care: At-home therapy provides services to children, adolescents, and their families where they live. Although not ideal for everyone (some patients tightly guard their privacy and prefer that staff not visit them at home), this approach can be useful for some stable families. It also avoids referring adolescents to mental health services in the community, where they are known to their peers and neighbors.
Alternative approaches can be tried in the event a mental health provider is not available in a particular community. Information on how to obtain support via the internet can fill this gap, especially for those living in rural areas. Some websites offer valuable resources that address many of the concerns associated with a new diagnosis and provide updated information on current treatments. Several youth sites have chat rooms with instant messaging. If a young person is reluctant to seek services in the community for fear of recognition, this cyber approach may be a good alternative. Having an array of choices appeals to youth who are seeking to be more involved in the decision-making process regarding their health.
The Rights of Youth
The parents of an adolescent generally have the legal right to consent to treatment, although many conditions exist in which the adolescent may provide consent. Adolescents have a right to confidentiality in almost all situations in which they have the right of consent. Some situations do arise in which the clinician must assess the patient's competence and determine whether a parent or guardian should be notified.
Open communication between adolescent and adult caregiver is important, but providers are bound by the principle of patient privacy. This can become complex when culture-based family practices are introduced. For example, in some cultures, the family plays a strong role as a unit in the decision-making process, and excluding family members from that process is viewed as disrespectful. It ís best to ask privately whether the teen wants a parent or guardian present, as this acknowledges their position of authority within the family.
Certain issues, such as physical or sexual abuse within the family, drug use, poor mental health, STIs, pregnancy, and homosexuality, will be difficult to introduce into discussions with certain parents or guardians. Mental health care providers can provide extra support in addressing these sensitive issues with parents and other family members. Discussion of these issues may cause anger, sadness, disbelief, and anxiety in the parent. Follow-up counseling is important for helping to ensure their emotional well-being.
Adapted from hivcareforyouth.org, edited by Donna Futterman, M.D., and Stephen Stafford.
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Gym floor finish peeling in a very moderate form, occasionally occurs in new maple installations that experience large swings in temperture levels and is often seen over the painted areas of the gym floor. Gym floor finish peeling can be a result of expansion and contraction of the floor system due to season changes. In older flooring systems the finish sometimes breaks at the seams of the boards.
During the first heating season, a new maple floor will typically contract more than in subsequent years under the same environmental conditions. Assuming drier than average conditions exist in a facility during the first heating season, above-average shrinkage may result in some paint fracture over maple joints and subsequent peeling or chipping of surface finish in these areas, regardless of the application methods used with the floor sealer, game marking paint and finish. With the use of tape or decals, floor finish may experience similar conditions.
Maple flooring adjusts to its environment over its lifetime. Typically, the most expansion/contraction is experienced in the first 18-24 months of a floor life. Its recommended to maintaining indoor relative humidities between 35 percent and 50 percent, and air temperatures between 55 degrees and 75 degrees year-round.
By limiting wide swings in atmospheric conditions inside the facility, flooring owners and facility managers can reduce the expansion and contraction of the flooring system. If flooring materials are properly acclimated, a 15 percent fluctuation in indoor relative humidity will not adversely affect the maple. Excessive shrinkage and/or expansion may occur with indoor relative humidity variations in excess of 15 percent.
In buildings where air conditioning or humidification/dehumidification equipment is not available, many facility managers make use of circulating or venting fans. Other facilities have vent windows or corridor doors available to open as needed to improve air circulation. Facilities without adequate HVAC equipment to regulate the indoor atmosphere, or those facilities that are “closed up” with no ventilation for long periods of time (summer breaks) are more likely to develop flooring problems directly related to environment. Floor finish peeling and/or chipping as a result of expansion/contraction cycles can be minimized by carefully monitoring and adjusting the indoor environment in the facility, particularly during the first year after installation.
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Trying to Feed a Billion People
EACH day, a billion people do not eat enough to satisfy their hunger. Yet, this atrocious condition should not exist, according to the United Nations.
“You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.” So spoke United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on September 8, 2000, to an assembly of the world’s most powerful men and women. They had come together for the United Nations Millennium Summit, during which several of those leaders made frank comments on the problems of the world’s poor. “Extreme poverty is an affront to humanity,” said the vice president of Brazil. The prime minister of Great Britain went even further when he said: “There is a dismal record of failure in Africa on the part of the developed world that shocks and shames our civilization.”
Those two speakers made plain that the nations had disgraced themselves by failing to do what they could to feed starving humans. As proof of their desire to improve living conditions for all on earth, those attending the summit committed themselves to action in an eight-part resolution that included the following: “We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected. . . . We resolve further: To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.”
What progress has been made toward that noble goal since September 2000?
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
In 2003 the Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum began assessing what had been done to achieve the goals outlined in the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The official report, released on January 15, 2004, states: “For all of its most important goals, the world is failing utterly to put forward the needed effort.” Regarding hunger, the report states: “The problem is not an absolute shortage of food in the world
On the overall problem of poverty, the report says: “The responsibility for the lacklustre performance now lies mainly with governments, rich and poor. But a global economic system designed by the wealthy is too often stacked against the poorest. The wealthy countries, despite much rhetoric, show little interest in reforming that system or in substantially increasing development assistance targeted to the poorest.” In the face of this reproof, the politicians continue to debate rather than act and the governments continue to maneuver, each for its own advantage. Meanwhile, the world’s poor continue to have empty stomachs.
A fact sheet from the World Economic Forum, entitled “From Aspiration to Action,” warns that “vast swaths of humanity will face increasing hunger unless international trade policies are changed, national policies focus on hunger and successful local efforts are multiplied.” And who needs to make better policies and more “successful local efforts”? The very governments that in 2000 publicly declared their determination to improve the lot of all humanity.
One broken promise may lead to disappointment; several broken promises lead to distrust. By not keeping their word to care for the poor, the world’s governments have reaped distrust. A mother of five living in a poor Caribbean country is able to feed her family one meal a day. She says: “I only care about whether we can eat. It doesn’t matter who’s in power. We’ve never gotten anything from anyone in power.”
The Bible writer Jeremiah said: “I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.” (Jeremiah 10:23) The failure of human governments to solve the problems of the poor confirms that Bible truth.
But there is a Ruler with both the power and the desire needed to solve man’s problems, and the Bible identifies him. When that Ruler takes charge, no one will ever go hungry again.
A Basis for Hope
“To you the eyes of all look hopefully, and you are giving them their food in its season.” (Psalm 145:15) Who is this One who is attentive to man’s need for food? Our Creator, Jehovah God. Although the human race has suffered from famine and other problems for thousands of years, Jehovah has always been interested in people. He has observed the failure of human governments, and his infallible Word, the Bible, shows that he will soon replace them with his own government.
Jehovah says: “I, even I, have installed my king upon Zion, my holy mountain.” (Psalm 2:6) This proclamation from the highest authority in the universe is cause for hope. While human rulers have often failed to help their subjects, Jesus Christ, as the King appointed by God, will bring benefits never seen by earth’s poorest people.
Through this King, Jehovah will feed all hungry ones. “The Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food,” says Isaiah 25:6 in the New American Bible. Under God’s Kingdom in the hands of Christ, people will never lack good food, no matter where they live. Regarding Jehovah, the Bible says: “You are opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing.”
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“There is a dismal record of failure in Africa on the part of the developed world that shocks and shames our civilization.”
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ETHIOPIA: In this land some 13 million people depend on food aid. The child shown above is one of them
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How Many of Michigan’s Top 20 Attractions Have You Visited?
I recently saw a meme on Facebook that listed many tourist attractions in the United States. The object was to see how many you had visited...
The most shocking statistic was that the average American had only visited five places on the list.
I thought it would be fun to see just how many Michigan tourist spots someone from our state has visited. I found the website Attractions of America. They put together a list of the Michigan Top 20 Attractions. Check out the list places on their list below and count to see how many you have visited, then fill out the poll at the end.
How Many of The Top 20 Michigan Attractions Have You Visited?
Recently named as the "Best Island in the Continental U.S." by Travel + Leisure, this is a popular vacation spot for many people -- whether a Michigan resident or from out of state. Explore the island by bike or horse and carriage. No motorized vehicles allowed! Make sure you get some fudge in one of the many shops along the main street. If you really want to splurge, spend the night on the island at the Grand Hotel. Additional information can be found on the Mackinac Island website or the Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau Facebook page.
You have to travel north to the shores of Lake Superior to enjoy the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. From hiking, to camping, to kayaking, to boat tours -- there is plenty to do and see while enjoying the wonders of Mother Nature. The National Park Service website describes it this way: "Sandstone cliffs, beaches, waterfalls, sand dunes, inland lakes, deep forest, and wild shoreline beckon you to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore." Visit the Picture Rocks National Lakeshore website or the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Facebook page for more information.
Take a trip back in time. You'll find everything from cars to trains to airplanes and more at the museum. They even have a collection of Presidential limousines. Located right next door is Greenfield Village. See some of the most historic buildings in American history. More information can be found on the Henry Ford Museum website or on The Henry Ford Facebook page.
The Michigan State Capitol opened in 1879 and was one of the first state capitol buildings to feature a cast-iron dome. The Capitol is a National Historic Landmark and over 100,000 tourists visit each year. There is also nine-acres of hand painted art at the Capitol. Find out more on the Michigan State Capitol website or the Michigan State Capitol Facebook page.
The University of Michigan campus features a Natural History Museum, the Power Center for the Performing Arts, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Museum of Art, and the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. For information on touring the campus visit the University of Michigan website or the University of Michigan Facebook page.
Here is your chance to explore an isolated island far from other communities. Isle Royale offers adventures for backpackers, hikers, boaters, paddlers, and divers. While visiting the island you might encounter wolves and moose among the wildlife. More information is available on the Isle Royale National Park website or on the Isle Royle National Park Facebook page.
Enjoy over 70,000 acres of forests, bluffs that tower 450 feet above Lake Michigan, inland lakes, and sandy beaches. A visit to the Sleeping Bear Dunes has to include a climb on the sand dunes and a swim in Lake Michigan. More information on visiting the area is available on the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore website or on the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Facebook page.
The 18th century fort has been turned into an interactive museum. Walk through the fort and step back in time to 1779, during the American Revolution. Demonstrations and tours by costumed interpreters take place throughout the day during your visit. Additional information can be found on the Colonial Michilimackinac website and also on the Colonial Michilimackinac State Park Facebook page.
At the Detroit Institute of Art you will find one of the country's largest, most significant art collections. The museum has over 65,000 unique and creative works for you to enjoy. You will find works from some of the greatest artists from around the world. Visit the Detroit Institute of Arts website or the Detroit Institute of the Arts Facebook page.
From blooming tulips in the spring (thousands of annuals and perennials in bloom through spring, summer and fall) to the only authentic working Dutch windmill in the United States, Windmill Island sits on 36 acres on the banks of Lake Macatawa. Learn about the Dutch culture. Get additional information about visiting the Windmill Island Gardens visit their website or the Windmill Island Gardens Facebook page.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, is one of the world’s most significant botanic and sculpture experiences. It was recently listed in the top 100 most visited museums in the world and the 30 most visited museums in the United States. When you visit you will see more than 200 works of art, including the 24 foot da Vinci's Horse sculpture, The American Horse. Learn more about the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park on their website and also on the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Facebook page.
The Detroit Zoo features more than 200 species of animals and is home to more than two thousand animals. Visitors will see free-roaming kangaroos in the Australian Outback, and polar bears swimming around in the Arctic Ring of Life -- one of the largest polar bear habitats in the United States. For more information visit the Detroit Zoo website or the Detroit Zoo Facebook page.
If you want to learn more about the history of the state of Michigan, a stop at the Michigan History Center is a must. The facility is home to two separate attractions -- the Michigan History Museum and the Archives of Michigan. The museum features many artifacts and relics that help tell the story of how Michigan became what it is today. Read more on the Michigan History Center website or on the Michigan History Center Facebook page.
At five miles in length, the Mighty Mackinac Bridge remains one of the longest bridges of its kind. Stretching over the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the bridge opened for car traffic in 1957. Bonus points if you have made the journey across the Mackinac Bridge on foot on Labor Day. It is the only day of the year that pedestrians are allowed on the bridge. Learn more about the history of the "Mighty Mac" on the Mackinac Bridge website or on the Mackinac Bridge Authority Facebook page.
Here is an opportunity to travel through the world's largest waterway traffic system. Freight ships passing from the U.S. to Canada via Lake Superior. You can choose from the popular 90 minute Soo Locks sightseeing tour, lighthouse cruise and more. Experience “locking through” the Soo Locks & view the new super lock. For more information on the Soo Locks Tours, visit their website or the Famous Soo Locks Boat Tours Facebook page.
Belle Isle is the city-owned island park in the center of the Detroit River. The island developed into a favorite attraction for tourists in the late-19th century. In 2014 it became a state park. Belle Isle is so recognized on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On the island you will find the Belle Isle Conservatory, the Belle Isle Aquarium, a museum, and nature center. Additional details about Belle Isle are available on their website or on the Belle Isle Park - Michigan Facebook page.
The Motown Historical Museum, or "Hitsville", is a photo studio that was turned into av recording studio. Many hit songs were recorded there. Get a glimpse inside the origins of the Motown record label. The museum has memorabilia collected from top Motown artists like the legendary Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Smokey Robinson. Details on visiting the Motown Historical Museum can be found on their website or on the Motown Museum Facebook page.
Michigan's Adventure is the largest amusement park in the state of Michigan, with more than 52 rides. The park has seven roller coasters, including the Shivering Timbers wooden coaster and the suspended looping coaster, Thunderhawk. The park also includes an outdoor water park, WildWater Adventure. Bonus points if you visited this place when it was called Deer Park Funland and featured live deer in the park that you could feed. Find out more on the Michigan's Adventure website or on the Michigan's Adventure Facebook page.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum features objects collected from some of the notable shipwrecks that occurred in the Great Lakes. The most notable shipwreck as that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship's bell is preserved and on display at the museum. You can read more on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum website or on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Facebook page.
Kitch-iti-Kipi, also known as "The Big Spring", is the largest natural freshwater spring in the state of Michigan. The lake measures 300 feet by 175 feet and is 40 feet deep. The visibility to the bottom of the water is incredible. You can watch the fish and bubbling springs below the surface while riding on a manually operated raft. This place is one of my favorites! Read more about Kitch-iti-Kipi on their website or on the Kitch-iti-kipi (Big Spring) Facebook page.
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It is a measure of the times to see economic sectors that have historically been substantial producers of byproduct waste take a hard look at what they have been ignoring. One such sector is the forest products industry, which had normally burned its sawdust—much like natural gas was initially burned off by the petroleum industry until they began storing it back underground elsewhere, initially in salt mines.
The factors driving this sea change are many, and one site of this expanded focus has been Europe, particularly Italy and Spain. In some cases, the research behind innovative uses of forest product waste is being funded by innovative and entrepreneurial companies such as CMC Texpan in Italy and HONEXT in Spain (versus, for example, the national lab systems in the U.S.).
In Colzate, Italy, Texpan utilized the first half of 2020 (during the COVID shutdown) to introduce a new processing technology called Lynx (based on SWIR spectroscopy), which automatically identifies and removes contaminants and pollutants—such as plastics, foam, silicone, and polystyrene—from recycled wood-based products, as well as wood waste, chips, and particles. The technology is projected to address higher density materials such as ferrous and nonferrous metals, aluminum, copper, lead, and a range of alloys using X-ray and color-sensing systems. The development of a consolidated inspection line is expected to meet some of the challenges of rapidly diminishing fresh wood resources that is facing Europe.
In contrast to the Italian approach, the Barcelona company focuses on the waste stream from paper production. The driver for HONEXT is a combination of its forecast of raw material supply being outrun by product demand in the coming decades and its identification of a usable pulp and paper industry waste product. Specifically, the residue recovered from the wastewater stream (termed sludge) has historically been sent to landfills. As well, corrugated cardboard, or OCC, utilized for packing and packaging, has been a growing material resource, in part because of the substantial surge of online shopping and shipping. In this case, the Universitat Politecrica de Catalunya in Barcelona spun out HONEXT, which utilizes a new waste reclaiming technology that turns cellulose residue into a construction-ready material (for example, medium density fiberboard, or MDF, with a combination of 75% paper sludge and 25% cardboard waste).
The process is resin free and accomplished without CO2 emissions, resulting in a new range of products that are nontoxic, long lasting, and sustainable. This nonlinear process uses a circular economic model of waste collection to material generation that could be termed cradle to cradle, thus falling into line with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. The ideal will be the development of distributed production networks, where waste is transformed to product at the point of waste generation.
While my previous Foresight Signals articles have focused on environmental innovation in the United States, it is encouraging to observe the level of investment and creativity being brought to bear in this arena in the EU.
Stephen Powney, “Lynx Cleans Up Recycled Wood,” Wood Based Panels International (October/November 2021; posted online November 16).
Geoff Rhodes, “What the Future Holds?” Wood Based Panels International (October/November 2021; posted online November 16).
About the Author
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Corporate Finance is the function that deals with the analysis of businesses and their finance. It consists of the study of financial statements, capital markets, and other aspects of financial management. Corporate finance is an important part of any business, especially for small businesses. A financial analyst helps companies manage their finances by evaluating business risks, creating economic forecasts and reports, and recommending ways to manage those risks.
There is no doubt that corporate finance plays an important role in the world today. A financial analyst has a crucial role in a company’s operations. They create economic forecasts and reports that help managers make important decisions about the company’s future. In this article, we’ll explain what financial analyst does, how they fit into a company, and how they work with the rest of the management team.
Corporate finance has been on the rise with the financialization of the economy. As an analyst, you are in a key position to help your organization benefit from these trends. The modern economy is built on three pillars, and one of these is corporate finance. As a financial analyst, you will be called upon to analyze information on these pillars and prepare the company to operate profitably.
What is corporate finance?
Corporate finance is the practice of managing the finances of a company, including the planning, analysis, and execution of its financial strategy. A corporate finance analyst usually works within the company to ensure that the company is financially healthy. They help managers make critical decisions, including when to expand, restructure, or sell the company. Corporate finance is a specialized field, and it requires a thorough understanding of accounting, economics, and statistics.
The term “corporate finance” is used to refer to the functions performed by corporate finance analysts. Financial analysis: Analysts use financial statements and other information to help management make important decisions. Business planning: An analyst works with a team of managers to create a business plan. This includes identifying all of the company’s products and services, determining the market for these products and services, developing new products, and evaluating the performance of existing products. Funding:
What are the key functions in corporate finance?
Financial forecasting is the process of making projections about future events. It involves projecting revenue, expenses, and cash flow.
Financial reporting is the process of gathering, organizing, and presenting information about the financial position of an organization.
Financial analysis is the process of assessing the risk and potential profitability of a project or investment.
Corporate finance strategies
A financial analyst has a crucial role in a company’s operations. They create economic forecasts and reports that help managers make important decisions about the company’s future. The saying goes, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Choosing a company’s best course of action is just as important as having a good plan. A financial analyst must carefully evaluate business risks, determine whether the company is making a profit, and recommend how to increase profits.
The first step in the planning process is to identify your goals. It is important to know what you hope to gain from your MBA program to understand an MBA’s value better. You should also consider what career path you want to follow after graduation. Analyze your strengths and weaknesses. You should consider your skills, knowledge, and personality traits. A business analyst might also look at a company’s operations to see if any improvements can be made.
Corporate finance management
Corporate finance is the field of study that helps managers understand how money flows through a company. There are two basic kinds of corporate finance: accounting and finance. Accounting is about recording transactions and generating financial statements. These are the numbers that managers use to decide whether to invest or sell. Finance, on the other hand, focuses on making sure that money is flowing in the right direction. Finance also includes risk management, which involves minimizing potential losses and maximizing potential gains.
Finance is not just about numbers, however. It’s also about strategy and an understanding of the business’s overall financial health. The following sections look at some of the more common financial ratios, along with a couple of less common ones. The proportions are ordered by importance — the more important ratios appear first. Financial Ratios Most businesses have a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. The following sections provide a brief introduction to each.
What do you need to know about corporate finance?
As a financial analyst, you’re responsible for evaluating a company’s financial health. This means you’ll be looking at revenue, cash flow, and profits. Your goal is to understand the company’s current financial situation and then project what will happen to that situation in the future. In other words, you’re looking at a company’s finances and trying to find out how healthy that company is.
You’re also creating financial forecasts and reports that give management a good idea of what the company’s finances will look like in the future. This can help with decision-making and help you identify risks before they become problems. You must know a lot about your company and the industry you’re working in. This includes understanding the industry, competitive landscape, company products and services, and overall market.
Frequently asked questions about corporate finance.
Q: How did you end up getting into corporate finance?
A: My first job out of college was working in the financial services industry. That is where I realized what I wanted to do with my life.
Q: What is your favorite part of your job?
A: I love being able to help businesses succeed. I love how it allows me to interact with companies and their employees. It is very rewarding when you can make a difference for someone else.
Q: What are some challenges you face in your line of work?
A: One of the biggest challenges is finding a balance between personal and professional life. There is a difference between when you need to give 100 percent to your job and when you need to take time to recharge and relax.
Myths about corporate finance
1. Corporate finance is not difficult to understand.
2. There are no secrets in corporate finance.
3. Corporate finance involves no technical jargon or sophisticated mathematics.
Corporate Finance is a very important role. It is the role of the analyst in a company. An analyst is someone responsible for financial analysis. They work closely with the business and its management team to determine the future growth of the business. This includes understanding where the company is financially and planning its finances for the future. | <urn:uuid:a5ac750c-ca7c-4585-bd54-49003322524f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iobint.com/corporate-finance-the-role-of-the-financial-analyst/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.954703 | 1,367 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Modern piston pumps allow miners to overcome hurdles related to pumping slurries
Due to economical and environmental considerations, today’s tailings disposal systems operate at higher and higher solids concentrations. Highly concentrated systems offer great benefits, but they place high demands on mechanical equipment. In these applications, hydraulically actuated diaphragm pumps offer decisive advantages, according to Feluwa Pumpen GmbH, which has been making these pumps in Mürlenbach, Germany, since the early 1970s. The company’s latest version, the double-hose, piston-diaphragm pump, retains the successful principles of the original design; the difference is that the diaphragm chamber (hose) is squeezed to discharge the slurry.
Speaking at E&MJ’s Mineral Processing conference, which was held in October 2011 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, Hein Krimpenfort, international sales manager for Feluwa, explained why it’s the most suitable type of pump for tailings disposal. “A double-hose piston diaphragm can provide flow rates up to 4,400 gpm and pressures up to 4,640 psi and it can handle temperatures up to 400°F, and viscosities up to 3,000 centipois,” Krimpenfort said. “A piston pumps hydraulic oil against a rubber diaphragm. It has very few wear parts, only the suction and discharge valves.”
Feluwa has modified its pumps to make them even better. “At the heart of this pump are two hose-diaphragms that are arranged one inside the other enclosing the slurry,” Krimpenfort said. “Simultaneously, they create double hermetic sealing from the hydraulic drive end of the unit. Both hose diaphragms are actuated by the piston by means of hydraulic fluid. In step with the piston stroke, they are subjected to pulsating action, similar to the circulation system of the human body. The cylindrical shape of the diaphragm favors the flow behavior and keeps solids from settling.”
One of the distinct advantages of this design is its linear flow path. This feature makes the pump especially conducive for handling aggressive, abrasive slurries, even at high viscosity, Krimpenfort explained. Unlike traditional diaphragm pumps, hose diaphragms do not require a clamping ring that allows solids to settle, which results in early diaphragm failure.
When a piston pump pushes slurry upward at slow speeds the stream can settle. In a homogenous mixture the small particles will carry the larger particles out of the pump. In a heterogeneous mixture, the small particles will be evacuated from the pump, but gravity pulls the larger particles back into the pump forming a layer of sediment over the suction valve. Rather than pumping upward, Feluwa pumps downward, making use of gravity instead of fighting it.
“If the pump does not have enough oil, the piston will damage the diaphragm,” Krimpenfort said. “If there is too much oil, then the diaphragm will burst. A large pump like this requires some auxiliary equipment. We have a very simple system that uses a mechanical leakage compensation valve with spring-loaded valves. If there is insufficient hydraulic fluid, for whatever reason, the system uses a control disc via a lever to compensate on the backstroke.
“All of our pumps are equipped with a diaphragm monitoring system. We have an inner and outer diaphragm and in between the two we have a layer of water,” Krimpenfort said. “If there is a leakage on either the inside or the outside hose, the discharge pressure will automatically be transferred to that layer of water. The layer of water is connected to a pressure switch.”
Even with one diaphragm leaking, the pump can still operate. The secondary diaphragm protects the moving parts from the abrasive slurry. “The mine could continue to run the pump for as long as 2,000 to 3,000 hours until maintenance can be planned,” Krimpenfort said.
A Check Valve with Balls
With a lifetime of 10,000 to 12,000 hours, the hose is not considered a wearing part. The check valves are the high wear items. Check valves have two types of designs, either ball valves or cone valves. They are normally mounted in a cassette. Feluwa prefers the ball valve because of its simplicity. “The ball, the guide and the seat, has three wear parts,” Krimpenfort said. “A cone valve may have as many as 12 wear parts.”
When pumping slurry at 3,000 psi, the roundness of the balls has a major impact on performance. As an example, a cassette with a ball that is 0.04 mm out of round will probably last only 40 hours. If the tolerance is increased to 0.01 mm, the life time of the valve increases to 3,000 hours. “That’s why we manufacture our own balls,” Krimpenfort said. “At 60 strokes per minute, the lifetime of the valves is 3,500 hours or more in hardrock applications. In coal, the lifetime approaches 8,000 hours.”
Feluwa has developed a special approach to minimize downtime. “The whole cassette swings out,” Krimpefort said. “In some arrangements, you have to disconnect the suction manifold to get to the valve parts. You can replace this valve in 20 minutes without any special tools.”
Condition monitoring is performed the old fashioned way, by listening. Operators can hear the speed or power increase when a leakage occurs. The valve performance monitoring system is based on the principle that leakage will create cavitation and cavitation creates noise. “We know the frequency band and have a sensor at each valve to detect cavitation,” Krimpenfort said.
As an option Feluwa offers a pulsation dampener, which automatically adjusts the charge pressure. Using sensors and PLCs, the system automatically injects nitrogen into (or bleeds it from) the system.
Pump synchronization is also an important consideration. If the pumps discharge into a single line and they happen to run in synch, which mean they all pulse at the same time, it could cause problems. Feluwa can control the pumps electronically to purposely keep them out of synch. The pump monitoring system also detects other problems or trends that might be leading to problems. The system is accessible via the Internet. | <urn:uuid:3ea9d2c9-ff0c-48fb-9c4e-3de1c584fe78> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.e-mj.com/features/1831-cost-and-energy-efficient-tailings-disposal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929211 | 1,400 | 2.59375 | 3 |
New KeRanger Ransomware Targets Mac OS X
The malware was signed with a valid Mac app development certificate.
On March 4, 2015, Palo Alto Networks researchers determined that the OS X installer for the Transmission BitTorrent client was infected with previously undetected ransomware, which the researchers are calling KeRanger.
This is only the second ransomware targeting Mac OS X to be uncovered, following Kaspersky Lab's discovery of the FileCoder ransomware in 2014. Still, the researchers noted, "As FileCoder was incomplete at the time of its discovery, we believe KeRanger is the first fully functional ransomware seen on the OS X platform."
"This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom," Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence director Ryan Olson told Reuters.
Two installers of Transmission version 2.90 were infected with KeRanger on the morning of March 4. "Transmission is an open source project," the researchers wrote. "It's possible that Transmission's official website was compromised and the files were replaced by re-compiled malicious versions, but we can't confirm how this infection occurred."
The malware was signed with a valid Mac app development certificate, allowing it to bypass Apple's Gatekeeper protection. When the app is installed, an embedded executable file is run, and the malware waits for three days before connecting with command and control servers via Tor, then begins encrypting documents and files on the infected system.
Once the encryption process is complete, the ransomware demands that victims pay one bitcoin (approximately $410) to decrypt their files. "Additionally, KeRanger appears to still be under active development and it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their backup data," the researchers noted.
In a blog post, Thomas Reed, director of Mac offerings at Malwarebytes, suggested it's an extremely bad idea to pay any ransom to decrypt files. "In the Windows world, paying the ransom sometimes results in getting a key that can successfully unlock the files," he wrote. "However, it also can result in sending money to the hackers and getting nothing in return, or receiving a key that doesn’t actually work properly because the ransomware was poorly written."
After the researchers notified the Transmission Project and Apple, the malicious installers were removed from Transmission's website, and Apple revoked the app development certificate.
Tripwire director of IT security and risk management Tim Erlin told eSecurity Planet by email that the malware marketplace is ultimately driven by the population of targets, making Windows much more attractive to attackers than OS X. "It may have taken a little longer for ransomware to come to the Mac, but that shouldn’t be interpreted in terms of [relative] security, but in terms of target density," he said. "There are fewer Mac users, especially fewer corporate Mac users, available to pay the ransoms. Apple is, however, growing faster in the PC market than Windows vendors. Any increase in Apple’s user base makes the systems a more attractive target for cybercriminals."
And LogMeOnce CEO Kevin Shahbazi suggested by email that IT departments take the following steps to protect enterprise systems from attacks like these:
- In controlled environments, IT teams should test and validate patches before they deploy to user desktops.
- IT department should take adequate time to test software patches based on their organization's policy. In some organizations, patches are tested for 30 days before being applied. If such a test was conducted, this malware issue would have been simply avoided.
- IT department should perform a controlled roll-out by dispatching patches to select groups first, as part of a patch roll-out and validation.
- IT department should ensure that software patches have an authentic digital signature.
- Antivirus software must be up-to-date on all servers and desktops.
- IT department should ensure that they have regular backup of their critical systems and data.
- Network devices need to have firewall, to fend-off such attacks destined to firewalls.
- SaaS-based password manager with proper backup.
"The first step is prevention, which needs to be planned in advance by deploying software and implementing security policies and procedures," Shahbazi added. "Please keep in mind that security should be treated as a layered system, so your security posture should include defensive layers."
A recent eSecurity Planet article examined the growing threat of ransomware.
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(Today's blog post is by a guest philosopher, Tim Hawken, who lives in Western Australia and is the author of two novels, 'I Am Satan' and 'Hellbound'. Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts from Deakins University with a triple major in Philosophy, Literature and Journalism.
The image of an Immanuel Kant tattoo is by Aron Dubois.)
Picture yourself walking into a bookstore with a friend. You pick a copy of Les Misérables off the shelf, party because of the shiny ‘movie edition’ cover, party because you’re curious to see what all the fuss is about. Turning to a random page you read the quote:
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
Stunned by the beauty of the words you read them out loud to your companion. He snorts in derision and picks up Ann Coulter's latest book. Running his fingers across the jacket photo, he says to you, without a hint of sarcasm: "Now, she’s beautiful."
How could you both be so convinced that you’re right, yet be so wrong in the other’s opinion? More importantly, how can you argue your case that ‘NO, this is beauty; you’re just confused.’ At this point, the trite phrase ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ might spring to mind. But, when something is repeated ad nauseum it just loses all meaning, becoming nothing more than postcard fodder for the brain-dead. We need to think for ourselves, or at least enquire into what great minds thought before us, so we can better form a real case of our own.
The ancient Greek philosophers spoke at length about Beauty, waxing lyrical ridiculous things, like there being a perfection of beauty in the Forms – that there is such a thing as Beauty with a capital B that exists, and that all beautiful things strive toward being like it, but can never be anything but a poor substitute. Again, this lands us with a steaming pile of nothing in our hands. It’s not until the great Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant developed his version of aesthetics that we could start to really talk about what Beauty is in any meaningful way (or at least to argue properly that he was barking up the wrong tree as well).
The first thing you need to know about Kant is that he loved making up his own scientific terms for things. This means that reading his work often leads to gathering a bunch of jargon and trying to figure out what he’s saying. Never fear, however -- it is possible to break down what Kant is getting at, without resorting to big words that only obfuscate things (cue canned laughter).
In The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, Kant explores the notion of beauty and how it relates to the human experience. This work is broken into four separate ‘moments’, each of which gives an explanation of beauty in a different, yet connected way.
In the first moment, Kant states that beholding beauty is a subjective experience felt directly within the person's mind. He holds it is much like a taste, in that we pass judgment immediately and without thinking. For example, if we eat tub of chocolate ice cream, we feel the pleasure of its taste automatically. If we see something beautiful, we feel a similar internal burst of pleasure immediately upon viewing the object. However, unlike ice cream, when it comes to beauty we do not have an interest in the object. In other words we don’t care whether the beautiful object is real or not, just that it is beautiful. When it comes back to the ice cream, we cannot say its flavor is beautiful, because it is linked to our bodily desire of hunger. It is here that Kant makes an important distinction between what is agreeable, what is good and what is beautiful:
The agreeable is what GRATIFIES a man; the beautiful what simply PLEASES him; the good what is ESTEEMED (approved), i.e., that on which he sets an objective worth.
In other words, when something is agreeable it is linked with some kind of desire, such as hunger or lust, and when something is good, it is linked to our sense of moral judgment, i.e. whether something is good or bad. Beauty on the other hand is free of these ties and is therefore more pure -- it lies between our desires and our morality. We are disinterested in the object itself.
Now, alarm bells might be ringing already. This would mean that in terms of beauty to Kant, Ann Coulter must be struck off the list. Shocking, right? More protests might come when we realize that people like Scarlett Johansson or Channing Tatum could only be described as agreeable, because of our bodily desires to rub up against them in dirty ways. Nietzsche would be the first to object to this, saying:
When our aestheticians never weary of maintaining, in favour of Kant, that under the spell of beauty one can view even undraped female statues "without interest", we may laugh a little at their expense.
However, despite this objection, there is something to be learned in Kant’s distinction of beauty as an aesthetic taste. We do feel beauty immediately upon witnessing it, and there is something special in this feeling that is apart from other desires and the like. But, Kant isn’t done yet! He continues to narrow his definition of beauty.
In the second moment, Kant proposes that if something is to be deemed beautiful, it must also be free of any logical ideas. He refers to these as ‘concepts’. This means, for Kant, that there can be ‘no personal conditions’ that can be placed by logic upon the object. I cannot, therefore, talk my friend into thinking Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel roof is beautiful because it represents the wonder of God. It must simply be self-evident that it is beautiful to both of us because of its aesthetic form without reason. In this way, Kant displays that a sense of beauty must be universal:
For where any one is conscious that his delight in an object is with him independent of interest, it is inevitable that he should look on the object as one containing a ground of delight for all.
That is to say if I were to feel something is beautiful within myself, it is because it is devoid of any relation to a thought. Therefore, I would pronounce confidently to anyone else ‘this is beautiful’, knowing in myself they must feel the same way; the object does not rely on my personal experience, but one that is universal to anyone else beholding the same thing. I would hence be incredulous if someone were to disagree with me, because I am not pronouncing this thing is beautiful ‘to me’, but that it is beautiful to everybody.
It is here that I have the most problem with Kant’s theory. Much in the same way as Nietzsche condemns Kant for saying we should be indifferent to our desires and emotions when it comes to beauty, I would say we cannot possibly separate our thought totally from an aesthetic experience. For example, we ask: Is a sunrise beautiful? Of course we must answer with a resounding yes! It is universal enough that anyone experiencing the golden strands of light of a new day being born into the world, with its dusty shades of pink pushing back the dark blue of night, would have to feel its intrinsic beauty. However, it is impossible to separate ourselves firstly from the emotion that we feel when seeing the sun, but also with the idea that it is shedding light and safety onto our world, that it brings life to the planet and that it brings warmth to the cold. Don’t these emotions and thoughts pervade the purity of the beauty? Knox would agree with me whole-heartedly:
To break the continuity in man from the natural to the ideal, and between man and his environment is to shatter the unity of the self with its emotional, cognitive, and volitional phases and to demolish the possibility of interaction between man and this world.
We cannot be asked to simply amputate ourselves from our emotional and logical reality just to figure out if something is truly beautiful. This is asking too much.
To be fair, I don’t think Kant is saying we always need to shut off our thoughts and emotion, but that there is something unique about the beautiful that doesn’t depend on these things. However, I would counter that beauty is deepened by these additional elements. In addition, there are many things in this world that I would deem beautiful that do depend on concepts.
Take our previous passage from Les Misérables. The reason you might find it beautiful is that it relates to your experience and seems to expose a reality that would be felt by everyone in the same situation. Kant, however, would say that because Victor Hugo’s statement depends on a concept of both companionship and also on a command of language (which in itself is a concept), that it couldn’t be beautiful, but rather simply ‘good.’ Again, he may have a point, but what if we take this example a step further into poetry? Surely poetry must be deemed beautiful! Jacques Derrida, who described poetry as ‘the highest of the liberal arts’ would agree, as would Heidegger, who also placed a strong importance on the power of the purity of poetry. The greatest poetry also speaks to us on a deep level personally about life’s experience within a cultural setting. If we have no concept of this culture then we do not understand it, therefore poetry cannot be either universal or without a dependence of concept.
In his third moment Kant provides the extra definition:
Beauty is the form of finality in an object, so far as perceived in it apart from the representation of an end.
What he means here is that when we experience a beautiful object, it can only be beautiful as a complete thing its totality of form. We cannot say a valley is beautiful simply because of its lustrous green color, but rather because of the entire way the green interacts with how the ground slopes, how the trees sway and how it gives us pleasure to view it. Further, this pleasure must be free from our comprehension of the purpose of the object. For example, a car cannot be beautiful in relation to how it drives, only in how it looks. However, to be purely beautiful the concept of the end use of the object must not even enter our minds because:
Just as it is a clog on the purity of the purity of the judgement of taste to have the agreeable (of sensation) joined with beauty to which properly only the form is relevant, so to combine the good with beauty (the good, namely, of the manifold to the thing itself according to its end) mars its purity.
So, if we know what something is intended for when we look at it, then we cannot conceive of it as purely beautiful. It would then follow that when we see a painting and know that it’s a painting, which might be looked at or sold for gain, then we cannot say it is purely beautiful, but only ‘dependently beautiful.’ This is something that seems to defy what many feel defines art: It is beautiful for beauty’s sake.
Kant does try to provide some kind of recompense to this, when at the end of The Critique of Aesthetic Judgement he makes a distinction between mere art and ‘fine-art.’ But really, he’s just confusing himself, confusing us and being a snob all at the same time.
So, where does this leave us?
Kant defines beauty as being judged through an aesthetic experience of taste. This experience must be devoid of any concept, emotion or any interest in the object we are describing as beautiful. Most of all, the experience of beauty is something that we feel. Whether you think this definition is too narrow, too wide or completely bat-shit crazy, you now have at least something to think about and come up with your own ideas. The most redeeming feature, I think, in Kant’s definition is that beauty is universal: It is the only experience on this earth that can be felt by all of us, without a need for communication. In this way it gives humanity a ‘sensus communis’ or a sense of harmony, because of common feelings that transcend race, religion or politics when we see something purely beautiful.
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Human papillomavirus immunization uptake among girls with a refugee background compared with Danish-born girls: a national register-based cohort study
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
Refugee children and their families may experience impaired access to healthcare; therefore, we aimed to uncover human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization patterns among a large group of refugee girls compared with Danish-born girls. We also examined possible predictors of uptake among refugee girls. We used a register-based cohort design where refugee girls (n=3264) who, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 2010, obtained residency permits in Denmark, were included and matched on age and sex with Danish-born girls (n=19 584). Personal identification numbers were cross-linked to the National Danish Health Service Register, identifying all contacts for HPV-immunization in both the ordinary HPV-immunization program and in a catch-up program. We applied logistic regression to estimate the odds ratios (OR) of uptake. We found that refugee girls had significantly lower HPV immunization uptake compared with Danish-born girls in the ordinary immunization program (OR=0.44; 95% confidence interval: 0.37-0.51) and the catch-up program (OR=0.61; 95% confidence interval: 0.54-0.69). The difference in odds decreased after adjusting by family income, but remained significant for the ordinary immunization program. We also identified that region of origin, duration of residence, and income were predictors of uptake among refugee girls. The lower uptake of HPV immunization among refugee girls raises questions about the coverage of this immunization program across increasingly ethnic diverse societies. More efforts to secure equal uptake are needed.
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I am always searching for great low cost and even free books on Beekeeping. I often learn something new from each of these books, so I thought I might share my latest find.
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There’s already evidence that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic could sweep back into different parts of the country, especially as other regions ramp up testing or general complacency sets in. The construction industry has only recently bounced back from the initial setbacks delivered by the virus, and savvy project managers will start making plans for technology solutions that will enable their teams to continue moving forward and working safely.
Of course, in this era of social distancing, technology is going to continue play a central role in helping teams keep projects moving forward even in the wake of a possible second shut down. Fortunately, construction industry software solutions have been increasingly focused on helping teams work together remotely, in order to cut down on unnecessary trips to jobsites and the office, which puts the industry at large in a good position to pivot in the wake of COVID-19.
The need to stay safe is critical to protect on-site workers and partners, along with ensuring projects can continue in a pre-vaccine era. Fortunately, construction companies can deploy cloud-based technology tools that help teams stay connected and keep everyone – from the owners to the subcontractors to the jobsite staff – as safe as possible.
If any aspect of a construction company’s digital roadmap became crystal clear over the last few months, it’s this: those organizations with a clear cloud strategy were able to pivot in response to the sudden economic shutdown and maintain some semblance of normalcy, while those that have yet to invest in cloud-based project management platforms were left trying to figure out to keep business moving forward without a physical office to return to.
Technology experts have long advocated for the construction industry to adopt a mindset that doesn’t rely solely on having a physical office to conduct business from. For years, the old-school approach of field teams returning to the home office on a weekly or daily basis to file reports or collect needed documents was the standard practice, and some firms still relied on this manual process. However, COVID-19 has forced almost every industry to reconsider their reliance on in-person interaction, and cloud software built for the construction industry makes this transition relatively seamless.
But the benefits of transitioning to the cloud aren’t limited to decreasing the reliance on in-person interaction. It also moves data access from on-premise dependency to global availability. Vital project files stored in the cloud reduce the need to visit the home office without negating the ability to get things done – plus, cloud storage makes granting access to fellow team members a breeze, as subcontractors, owners, and architectural partners enjoy the same ease of access as well.
Another technology asset that construction teams may want to consider deploying is video conferencing tools. Zoom meetings became a must-have tech tool seemingly overnight, but digital collaboration in general rose to the forefront of almost every company’s efforts to weather the storm brought by the pandemic. Even after the reliance on Zoom meetings subsides, this sudden need shined a bright light on the importance of remote collaboration. Construction companies have been relying on cloud-based collaboration software for years now in an effort to increase visibility and access, to both personnel and project data, and to connect teams in real-time without depending on an in-person visit.
Finally, as social distancing becomes the norm rather than the exception, new technology tools will help teams maintain the necessary six feet to steel against virus transmission. Proximity sensors, not unlike what tells you if your rear bumper is about to make contact with the car behind you, will help keep proper spacing between workers when jobsites return to peak activity.
Despite the impact COVID-19 has had on jobsites across the country and around the world, a silver lining can be found when considering how quickly many companies pivoted to technology platforms with minimal downtime. Mobile collaboration tools that reduce unnecessary in-person visits and cloud-based project management software that makes data access from anywhere are attainable in the here and now – and ready for deployment.
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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate - Unit
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- First semester 2019 (On-campus)
- First semester 2019 (Online)
In this unit students explore the various ways in which different cultures structure communication and skills for successful intercultural communication. Key theories underpinning intercultural communication are explored, including politeness, face, multilingual context, cultural conceptualizations, and metacultural competence. Students apply their insights to case-studies from a wider variety of languages and contexts, and develop skills to address intercultural communication challenges in their own professional contexts.
Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:
- explain key concepts, including context, face and politeness, intercultural discourse, speech acts, English as a lingua franca, multilingualism, cultural conceptualizations, and metacultural competence;
- demonstrate sensitivity to differences and similarities in cultural expectations, and identify and analyse reasons for intercultural (mis)communication;
- review and summarize key research directions in the field of intercultural communication;
- conduct small-scale research in the area of intercultural communication.
Within semester assessment: 100%
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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diao at HIS.SB.FSU.EDU
Tue Jan 6 16:58:22 EST 1998
I am refining a structure including a sulfate group.
I'd like to know the accurate occupancy of this sulfate group.
What I have done is as follows:
1. After I almost finish the refinement of this structure currently including
protein atoms, water molecules and a sulfate group, I reset all atoms b
factors to 15A^2.
2. Use brefinement.inp to refine all individual atoms thermal factors with
the sulfate group occupancy as 1.00
3. Fix all atoms b-factors except those of the sulfate group. Use bgroup.inp to
refine only the occupancies and b-factors of the sulfate group
4. Use the obtained occupancies of the sulfate group from step 3 to refine all
individual atoms thermal factors. After iterating
step 2 and 3 several times, I have found the occpancies and b factors of the
sulfate group both decrease since the occupancies are coupled with the b
factors, for example, in the beginning, q=1.0 b=48A^2, in the end, q=0.97
5. I have ever noticed that if I iterate the step 2 and step 3 alternatively,
it seems the values of the occupancies and b factors will always go down
together without convergement.
My questions: 1. How can I get the accurate evaluation for the ocupancies of
2. Should I do iterating process? Maybe I should just regard the values
output from the first round of step 3 refinement as what I need ?
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Communities could be asked to look after their local public toilets.
But even if they do that a number are still facing the axe due to budget cuts.
It’s among the suggestions made by officials desperately trying to find budget savings.
Councillors meeting yesterday made no decisions on the proposals but will use them as a guide when it comes to setting next year’s budget.
Closing 32 public loos could lead to savings of £259,000 a year by 2016/17.
This would result in job losses and also have a negative impact on the council’s reputation, officials warn.
Another problem is the “possible impact on elderly with respect to age related medical conditions”.
It is suggested that some of the buildings could be put into community ownership to keep them open, although this may prove difficult and it is thought this could only be done with “a minimum amount” of facilities.
The proposals form part of the more severe of two savings options for the strategic commission budget and would contribute to a saving of £3.636 million by the third year.
Closing all of the region’s public loos – which would save £700,000 – is not completely off the table but has been described as “significantly difficult to deliver”.
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Atlantic Salmon Lake Fishing
Great Lakes salmon fishing is exciting with Lake Michigan in particular being a top spot.
Most Atlantic Salmon are seagoing fish. They don’t usually spend much time in lakes, although they can only be found in lakes at specific times of the year like late summer to early spring unless they’re landlocked salmon as a result of stocking programs. It’s important to know which lakes are stocked as they can be fished all year around.
In warmer waters landlocked Atlantic Salmon hide in deep, cool waters and can be challenging to find. Heavy lead-core line and Davis spinners catch fish in these deep waters.
Landlocked salmon also feed briefly at the surface and this is when you should use a lure or fly resembling a minnow.
Fishing with Smelt
The best way to catch salmon when the ice melts is by following the large schools of spawning smelt as they make their way toward the shallows.
- Use medium-weight spinning gear.
- Cast worms, plugs, spoons, spinners and live smelt that are hooked beneath the dorsal fin.
The best place to catch Atlantic Salmon with the casting technique is from bridges and jetties where the streams meet the lakes.
Fishing with live bait is at its best this time of year. Large minnows work well if you’re unable to get smelt.
If you wanting to step up your game, you could lay traps to catch your own smelt for bait.
Spinners and spoons are your best bet for trolling with a planer board to keep the bait at a specific depth where you’ll find the smelt. Use a swivel when fishing with live bait to prevent the bait from moving about in an unnatural way.
Trolling with a medium-sized No. 6 or No. 8 streamer fly at the mouth of the stream also works well.
Use a 13-foot fly rod for those smaller rivers and streams and a 15-foot rod for the bigger ones.
After the smelt run is over, use a light or medium-weight fly rod with at least 100 yards of backing to troll the shoreline and shallow bars around islands.
Popular landlocked salmon gear includes ultra-light spinning tackle and a 4lb test line.
Use a long, sweeping rod pattern to create a dart-pause fly pattern that draw strikes as the fly pauses.
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Greater Mohican Audubon Society will lead a beginners bird walk Saturday at Malabar Farm. The group will meet in front of the new Louis Bromfield Visitor Education Center. The walk will begin 9 a.m. and end at 11 a.m. Binoculars will be available for participants. The last Malabar Farm bird walk recorded either hearing or seeing the following birds; turkey vulture, Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, rock pigeon, ruby-throated hummingbird, belted kingfisher, eastern wood-pewee, eastern phoebe, eastern kingbird, American crow, barn swallow, white-breasted nut-hatch, house wren, eastern bluebird, American robin, gray catbird, scarlet tanager, eastern towhee, chipping sparrow, song sparrow, northern cardinal, Baltimore oriole, American goldfinch and house sparrow.GMAS beginners bird walks are free and open to the public. Birders of all skill levels are welcome to attend. Upcoming walk dates are scheduled Dec. 9 and Feb. 10.If your class, group or organization is interested in scheduling a bird walk, call Tim Leslie at 419-289-2626 or write to GMAS, P.O. Box 907, Ashland, Ohio 44805. | <urn:uuid:0c0805cb-c670-4b0c-a7d0-6c7361770fcc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.times-gazette.com/local%20news/2006/10/10/audubon-society-bird-walk-saturday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00187-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873636 | 281 | 1.5625 | 2 |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) — Elizabeth Smart is using her voice to shine a light on those who are missing.
By: Abby Walton | WCTV Eyewitness News
January 22, 2017
Smart knows first-hand what these men and women are going through.
In 2002, at just 14-years old, she was kidnapped from her home and held captive for nine months before being rescued.
15 years since her rescue, Smart is now a child safety advocate, taking on issues such as victim’s rights and human trafficking.
On Monday, she made a stop in Tallahassee. Scent Evidence K-9 and Liberty Partners of Tallahassee, LLC. helped bring her to the capitol.
Smart’s trip to Tallahassee coincides with Florida Children’s Week. Her purpose in coming to town: meeting with legislators to share her story.
One of her powerful messages is that when it comes to missing people or victims of human trafficking if you see something that feels off, you need to speak up.
“Looking for changes in your community, looking for changes in your neighbors or people that you know. Looking for oddities, things that don’t seem quite right and then if you do see something report it,” Smart said.
Smart also stressed the importance of supporting the victims. She said only the victim knows what that situation was like.
They do not need someone speculating on how they would have handled it. She said that only re-victimizes the survivor.
Smart also said since her abduction, law enforcement has come a long way in creating new tools to help find missing people.
One such tool, a new type of scent detection kit from Tallahassee-based company, Scent Evidence K-9.
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Do you know how often homeowners move in their community?
According to the National Association of REALTORS, U.S. homeowners become sellers and move once about every 8 years. And a whopping 71 percent of all U.S. sellers remain in the same state in which they purchase their next home.
Early in your real estate career, you may have found that buyers buy more often than sellers sell. But there’s a fundamental difference between finding buyers and finding sellers.
Buyers come to you when you do things to put yourself in their path – most often at open houses, when they visit your Website to look at homes, because they visit your listings, or even because they called when you were handling floor calls at your office.
Sellers, on the hand, tend to be more elusive. You must proactively work to find them. It takes focus, market knowledge, script practice and proactive communication campaigns.
But it’s all worth it! Well-priced listings are a magnet for buyers, buyer agents, and potential sellers in the neighborhood as well. Here are the 4 disciplines of seller-based business:
PREPARE FOR SELLERS
Choose your area of real estate specialization. It might be a geographic area (part of town or certain subdivisions), a property type or a demographic group.
Do your market research. How much inventory is there, and is it rising or falling; how much is selling and how quickly; how are homes getting sold (price reductions, staging, investors, cash buyers.)
Talk like a seller-focused professional. Know your basic market data which might include the number of listings on the market (inventory) and average market time (days on market) that sellers are interested in knowing and practice your scripts for purposeful delivery when you’re in the moment.
Know where to find sellers. As you review MLS data, pay attention to segments of the market where the most sales are happening. Is it in a certain geographic area(s) or perhaps you look within a certain price range.
LEAD GENERATE FOR SELLERS
Accepting the proven premise that seller listings generate your biggest, most-leveraged business opportunity – the question is how best to find them. Focus on these four major sources:
- Your database, especially your Mets.
- Business-to-business leads
- Open Houses
- For Sale by Owners
- Expired Listings
Essential to high-quality professional service is systematic communication. Here are some ways to make that happen with sellers from any group:
Use a Lead Sheet
A lead sheet is a very valuable simple tool. Make it a practice to have one and use it whenever you are having detailed conversation with a prospective seller – it’ll not only help you with you interviewing skills but it’s a HUGE time-saver.
The Lead Sheet
- Has built in interviewing scripts and will prompt you to ask all the important questions about their motivation to sell – and about the property.
- Will save you valuable time later; when it’s time for a listing appointment, you will make god use of the information on your lead sheet – and gather anything that’s missing.
Leverage a CRM to touch seller prospects
Whether you’re using the myMarketing system within eEdge, Keller Williams Realty’s complete lead to close business solution for real estate agents, or your own system, staying in touch through systematic email communications based on their needs is crucial. Try using the 8x8 method: 8 touches over 8 weeks targeted to sellers.
Use blogs, video, social media and Craigslist
Online blogs are part of the repertoire of many top listing agents. Whether it’s a stand-alone site or is incorporated into your main website, writing about seller topics will help position you as a seller expert – and attract sellers to your Website where you may capture them through registration.
Agents have had a lot of success creating video tours of neighborhoods they farm, or of individual listings, to draw attention to the properties and to their expert insights on selling. Post these videos on your blog site or your main Website. Create a YouTube channel. They’re all opportunities to let sellers know you are looking for them, and they you know how to help them.
On Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN or Google+ create posts that demonstrate you understand the selling market. Don’t overdo business posts, but make them part of a blend of personal observations and business comments.
Post properties for sale or offer specialized seller services. You must, however, be willing to update your postings at least twice a day to stay at the top of the list.
How do you go big with sellers?
- Try working with different sources of sellers.
- Go big with FSBOs and/or expired listings
- Show interest and involvement in a chosen property type or demographic group.
- Blog to your farm or other top target audiences.
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Ms. Rand's unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her philosophy are set forth in this insightful piece of nonfiction.
©1961, 1964 Ayn Rand; ©1962, 1963, 1964 by the Objectivist Newsletter Incorporated; (P)2000 Blackstone Audiobooks
Ayn Rand was ahead of her time then and she is spot on now. If you are someone who feels like life is giving you a beating even though you are "doing what you should be doing" read this book. It gets into a lot of political views that are fantastic as well. I'm not super political but Ayn's words just ring true.
Worth a listen.
The title, The Virtue of Selfishness, is purposefully provocative. Don't allow the title to keep you from reading this gem of rational essays making the case for capitalism, individualism, and individual rights. While Rand is clearly critical of religion (my only real quibble with her philosophy of objectivism) this collection should be considered the antidote to the progressive/liberal playbook, Olinsky's "Rules for Radicals." Timely and full of the soul of the nation's founders.
I first read "The Virtue of Selfishness" way back in the 1960,s or maybe the 70"s. does not matter, listening to it now as I walk alone in the darkness each morning brings the truth back to me clearly. It is Number one on my list of great books I have listened to.
This is not a book with characters. It is about personal growth and being a "REAL" capitalist or as some liberal might put it dirty MONEY. Money is never dirty the people are dirty.
There were no characters, however she is a great narrator.
It should be on every teachers required reading list from 6th grade to a Ph.D.
I read this some time ago and found it interesting, but unsettling. After reading a lot of other philosophers, developing an independent view of my own, and coming back to it, I appreciated it much, much more. The problem with Rand is her dogmatism toward her views. My own belief is that ethical frameworks are like solutions to problems, some are better than others, but we can theoretically test for fitness of solutions, in the midst of practical difficulties. She is certain that her view is 'correct', rather than superior to the other views she criticizes, and this turns people off. So you have to look past that. The thing is, I happen to think her ethical framework is an exceptionally good solution, which I appreciate more after reviewing the solutions of many other philosophers. The other thing she does is make rambling inferences along the lines of: altruism is self-loathing, self-loathing is destruction, destruction is murder (sorry I can't remember a real one). Some I agreed with, and some I didn't, but the very mechanism is just sloppy intellectualism, and she can do better. These sound very critical for a 5 star review, but the point is to understand this bathwater so that you don't throw out the baby.
Very thought provoking. Better to read on paper. She is either way smarter than me, or has a hard time putting her thoughts together in a million words or less. I chose this book because I wanted to read something by Ayn. This was among the thinnest. I liked it, but I thought it was a bit pretentious. I'm sure Ayn was great fun at parties.
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by Jill Kristal, PhD and Liz Perelstein, School Choice International
Published in ORC
If you are a parent, you must be reading this for a reason. It can be a great concern to a family if a child who has been functioning well suddenly begins to struggle in school, whether the problem is large or small. You, the parent, may have observed a problem with your child – perhaps a behavioral change. Or the school may have noticed the issue. In some cases, your child may bring the issue to your attention. A problem can occur at any age and may manifest in a variety of ways.
For example, your normally gregarious child becomes quiet, isn’t sleeping well, eating well, and does not want to go to school. When you ask her what is wrong, she bursts into tears and snaps, “nothing”.
There may be multiple explanations for a sudden behavioral change like this one. These may be academic, social, emotional, behavioral, or a combination of any the four. * Insert Sidebar
Sometimes a new behavior will be a function of a learning disability, as a child of any age may have difficulty expressing the fact that s/he is struggling with academic material. More temporary academic explanations occur because a child may have trouble understanding directions or expectations, as he encounters a new teacher, either moving from one grade to another, from elementary to middle school from city to suburbs, one state to another, or internationally.
At other times, the same behavior can be caused by social issues, so the behavior itself does not give any clue to the underlying cause, but is a trigger that something is amiss and parental attention may be wise. Finally, it could be situational, in the case of a child who has just moved, or suffered a major loss, be it a pet, a nanny, or a parent, including the result of divorce.
If you are worried, act but don’t overreact. Try non-invasive strategies first, which use a combination of listening and behavioral approaches.
Non invasive strategies would include talking to your child. You may be able to glean more information from a conversation. Often a drive in the car works best, as your child is captive and she doesn’t have to meet your eyes.
If you are unable to identify the source of the problem, the next step would be to talk to the teacher. What you may be seeing at home may not be manifest at school, or may show up in a different way. Improvement is easiest when everyone is working together to resolve an issue, although this may be difficult to attain. Nevertheless, this should be the goal of parents.
There are many things within a classroom that a good teacher can do. If you can advocate for your child, you can try to get a sympathetic teacher, and to work with the teacher to create the best environment possible. Sometimes advocating for a child is not considered appropriate in a particular system – this is a function of the culture as well as personalities involved. But if you can, get informal interventions, which may include putting your child near the front of the room, separating him/her from specific children, presenting material in varied formats, allowing use of laptops or additional time even if not classified, you may see changes. These can be diagnostic as well as helpful. Sometimes just a sympathetic adult can make a major difference.
A conversation with your doctor would be the next step in identifying what may be bothering your child before going down an invasive route. Your child simply may be going through a developmental or hormonal stage. Alternatively, there may be another medical explanation that can be solved in a simple way.
If you have tried these simple techniques but no change is apparent, it is time to seek further assistance.
There are times that a child may not prosper in a particular school but may do well in another. This is not to say that he or she is not in an excellent school. But some great schools do not fit a particular child, and other schools, that may not have the same reputation, may in fact be a better fit for some children. Sometimes a school is too large, and impersonal and a child simply needs greater attention or direction. Sometimes a child is in a small private school lacking specialist staff and would do better in a public school system with trained personnel and resources. In either of these cases, although change may seem difficult, there is no point in making further investment in the status quo when it is not working. Ultimately a child, who is better understood, better matched academically and socially, will do better and will be happier. Public or private might be better for any particular child – don’t come to the situation with preconceived notions. An educational consultant may be very helpful to you in identifying and weighing the pros and cons of alternatives. Remember that no decision is set in stone.
If you are concerned about a learning disability, it would be wise to talk to the school psychologist or your child’s counselor or family physician, and follow up on leads they provide. They may suggest a psycho-educational evaluation. Briefly, this testing is a way to get an understanding of your child’s current ability in comparison to what he or she could be expected to be capable of. It gives a picture of how a child learns stores, retrieves and outputs information. Different tests are given depending on the difficulties the child seems to be having. Follow up interventions will be suggested by the evaluator.
A psycho-educational evaluation may be administered and paid for within the public school system, but can take a long time to be completed. Some families prefer a private evaluation, which is somewhat faster and you can choose your own evaluator, but it is expensive.
Aside from the expense, there are times that it is preferable to seek support outside of school – this may be as simple as tutoring, or more complex such as psychotherapy. Your decision will depend on the preferences of your family, the needs of your child, how private you wish to be and what is available at school. Often children don’t like being pulled out of class to receive extra help. They believe everyone is looking at them, making judgments and fear being teased.
For children with severe difficulties, for example, a child on the autistic spectrum, you will likely become involved with a while team of professionals in and out of school. But the process will start the same way, and one conversation, for example, with your doctor, will lead to the next referral.
In this article I have provided a very general overview of ways that a child’s failure to thrive may manifest, what your child may be experiencing if he or she is acting differently, and where a parent should turn to get the process of diagnosis and intervention started. Please contact the EAP if you need further information.
Academic – problems affecting performance in school, which may be attributable to learning issues, giftedness, or social/emotional causes.
Social – difficulties in interactions with peers and adults.
Emotional – stem from difficulties understanding, expressing or regulating feelings, but may be displayed behaviorally, academically, or socially.
Behavioral – withdrawal or acting out symptoms that may be caused by any of the previous.
Manifestations of these problems include but are not limited to:
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- eating problems
- anxiety, sadness
- acting out or withdrawal
- poor performance
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Lisa Drummond (York University)
Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto)
Douglas Young (York University)
Alan Mabin (University of the Witwatersrand)
Alison Todes (University of Witwatersrand)
Fulong Wu (University College London)
Julie-Anne Boudreau (Institut national de la recherché scientifique)
Shubra Gururani (York University)
Solomon Benjamin (Manipal University)
Ute Lehrer (York University)
Danielle Labbe (York University)
Phuc Xuan To (Australian National University)
Research Context, Methods & Goals:
The Everyday Suburbanisms research took place in Toronto (Douglas Young, Deborah Cowen), Bangalore (Solly Benjamin), Delhi (Shubhra Gururani), and Johannesburg (Alan Mabin) during Years 1-3.
In Toronto, the focus was on transportation, in particular public transit, and its use and impact on the organization of daily life. A secondary focus of the research was on the use of digital communications technology in everyday life which connects with the National Film Board's (NFB) Highrise project.
In Delhi and Bangalore, the focus of teh research was on the everyday lives of work, mobility, and migration. This was conducted mainly through ethnographic research with villagers, migrant workers, and the new middle class suburbanites.
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What is the Bm chord?
The Most Common Version. Unlike some other commonly used minor chords (like Em or Am), the B minor chord doesn’t use any open strings. For this one you must use one finger to fret multiple strings in what is called a “barre chord.” Your index finger rests across every string but the low E.
What’s the easiest Beatles song to play on guitar?
Easiest Beatles Song To Play on a Guitar
- Come Together.
- Get Back.
- Day Tripper.
- Norwegian Wood.
- Across The Universe.
- You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away.
- Two of Us.
How hard is Here Comes The Sun on guitar?
It is a great song, but it is a bit difficult, so don’t expect to be able to play it overnight. Learning it is well worth the time and effort though, because it sounds fantastic and can be played with a single acoustic guitar without needing other band members. So, let’s sum up our Here Comes the Sun guitar lesson.
What tuning is yesterday in?
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This category lists pages and sites about George W. Bush (1946), the forty-third president of the United States. Bush was sworn into office Jan. 20, 2001.
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Profile of the 43rd President includes video and audio galleries along with his biography, a timeline and transcripts of major speeches.
On the Issues - George W. Bush
Provides quotes and background on various international, domestic, economic and social issues.
Text of Joint Resolution On Iraq
Full text of the congressional resolution dated October 11, 2002 authorizing President George W. Bush to take military action in Iraq.
Whitehouse.gov - George W. Bush
Brief official biography of the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009).
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What are the 2 concepts of health?
- 1. Biomedical "Medical" Model- focus is the diagnosis and treatment of disease
- - assessment factors (signs and symptoms of disease)
- 2. Holistic Models (e.g. Nursing)- Expanded focus
- - Individuals are considered active participants in their health care
- - Assessment factors (expanded to include culture and values, family and social roles, self care behaviors, environmental stress, developmental tasks, etc. )
What are the levels of Disease Prevention and give an example for each.
Primary Prevention: (promote optimum health prior to the onset of problems)-healthy diet, exercise, immunization, etc.
Secondary Prevention: (early identification and treatment of existing health problems)- PAP smear, mammogram, PPD, etc.
Tertiary Prevention: (rehabilitation and restoration of health)- cardiac rehab, etc.
What is a brief definition of assessment?
A collection of subjective and objective data.
What is subjective data?
statements, symptoms (patient history)
What is objective data?
- the signs, observations
- The methods include:
- 1. Inspection
- 2. Palpation
- 3. Percussion
- 4. Auscultation
- 5. Laboratory and diagnostic test results
- 6. Patient's medical records
What is the Medical Diagnosis?
Assessment data used to diagnose disease
What is the Nursing Diagnosis?
Assessment data (used to diagnose a patient's response to actual or potential health problems)- pain, altered skin integrity, ineffective coping, etc.
Here is an example of the differences between Medical and Nursing Diagnosis.
- Subjective data: "I have shortness of breath (SOB)"
- Objective data: wheezing
- Medical diagnoses: asthma
- - Plan (prescribe drug therapy)
- Nursing diagnoses: impaired gas exchange (the patient's response to illness)
- - Plan: teach methods to improve gas exchange (e.g. smoking cessation, proper use of medications, etc.)
What are the 4 types of data?
- 1. Complete (health history and physical examination)- e.g. 1st appointment in primary care, hospital admission
- 2. Episodic (mini data base concerning one problem)
- - e.g., acute illness [common cold]
(to assess progress)
- 4. Emergency (rapid and focused data collection)
- - e.g. chest pain (do you have a history of heart trouble, MI, PUD, hiatal hernia?)
- - The type of data collection may quickly increase/decrease the level of suspicion for a certain type of problem.
What are the purposes of the Interview?
- 1) Allows for collection of subjective data (e.g. health history, symptoms)
- 2) Assists the patient in identifying areas of concern and perceptions of health status.
- 3) Identifies person's problems and strengths
- 4) Establishes rapport and trust for an ongoing working relationship
- 5) Provides a comfortable bridge to the physical examination
- 6) Provides an opportunity for education
What are the components of the interview?
- 1) Purpose (clarify)- Why are you here?
- - it may not always be apparent.
2) Time (set time limits in the beginning)
- 3) Presence of others (other caregivers, family, friends, translator, etc.)
- - Affects communication (positive or negative effect)
- - May be unable to speak freely about issues (abuse, sexual problems,etc.)
- - May help with information acquisition.
- - interpreter e.g. violates confidentiality; risk of misinterpretation.
- 4) Confidentiality
- - avoid conversations of public places
- - don't discuss patients with friends/family; don't refer to patient by name
- - builds patient trust/decreases litigation
What is verbal and nonverbal communication?
- - tone, words, speed, vocalizations, what you don't say
- - posture, gestures, facial expression, eye contact, body position, location in the room)- sometimes conveys more than verbal communication (SMILE)
What are the internal factors affecting the interview?
- 1) Acceptance of others
- - tolerance for weaknesses
- - convey warmth, caring and acceptance
- - respect for other's health care decisions (may be different from yours)
- 2) empathy (to convey understanding for how the patient feels)
- 3) active listening (give the patient full attention)
What are the external factors affecting the interview?
- 1) Environment
- - attempt to achieve a comfortable setting (temperature, lighting, noise reduction, etc.)
- - control interruptions
- - sit 4-5 ft from pt and slightly to the side (allows pt to avoid eye contact if desired by looking straight ahead)
- - avoid standing (implies haste and superiority)
2) Professional Dress (e.g. good hygiene, keeping clothes and shoes neat and clean, and wearing a name tag)
3) Ensure physical or psychological privacy (private room or pull curtain)
What are the challenges of note taking?
- 1) impedes eye contact
- 2) attention shifting
- 3) interrupts patient's narrative flow
- 4) impedes observation of nonverbal behavior
- 5) can be threatening
What are some components for beginning the interview?
(Always introduce yourself and your title)- explain your role.
- Address patient by surname (Mr./Mrs./Ms.)- unless permission given to use 1st name
- - Open ended questions
- - requires narrative responses
- - used to begin interview
- - allows for description, leads to more info
- - Close ended questions
- - requires 1-2 word answers or yes/no responses
- - used to fill in omitted info or to get specific facts
- - ask only one question at a time
What are nine communication techniques?
- 1) Facilitation (encourages patient to say more)- "uh huh" or "go on"
- 2) Silence (gives the patient time to think, helps him/her focus)
- 3) Reflection: (echoes the response; help patient elaborate)- ...you're telling me that it hurts when you cough
- 4) Empathy (shows understanding and acceptance)- "I can understand why your test results would upset you"
- 5) Clarification (describe what you mean by "upset stomach")
- 6) Confrontation: (use this technique if the history is inconsistent)
- - inconsistency may occur in one visit or over time
- - situation: obese male over 300 lbs
- - "before you told me that you rode your bike 10 miles/day, now you say you ride 25 miles/day"
- 7) Interpretation: (links events and associations; your impression of what patient has said)- "It seems as though every time you have a deadline to meet at work, you develop stomach pain"
- 8) Explanation (providing objective info)
- 9) Summary(final review of what the patient has said; surveys what we perceive the health problems/concerns to be)
What are 10 communication traps to avoid?
- 1) Providing False Assurance (may lead to disappointment and lack of trust)- "I'm sure you will be all right"
- 2) Giving Advice- Don't shift accountability for decision making from the patient to you.
- - present patient with the facts and allow him/her to make an informed decision.
- 3) Using Authority "Your doctor knows best"
- 4) Avoiding Difficult Topics- Don't avoid discussion (allow the pt to discuss fears/dying etc.)
- 5) Engaging in Distancing: e.g. saying "the breast" instead of "your breast"
- 6) Using Professional Jargon (use language at the patient's level of understanding)
- 7) Using Leading or Biased Questions (you may not get honest or objective response)- You don't smoke do you?
- 8) Talking Too Much (you can't learn for yourself)
- 9) Interrupting (breaks pt train of thought)- may miss important info
- 10) Asking "Why" questions may put the pt on the defensive; too challenging; implies blame)
- - "why did you wait so long to bring your child to the hospital?"
- - It is better to teach regarding future behavior
What are the seven characteristics of non-verbal behavior?
- 1) Physical appearance (ill/well, student/professional, well groomed/poor hygiene, etc.)
- 2) Posture (relaxed/tense)
- 3) Gesture(agreement/anger/pain)
- 4) Facial expression (alert/relaxed/anxious)
- 5) Eye-contact (shy/withdrawn/depressed)
- 6) Voice (anxious/hearing impaired/sarcasm)
- 7) Touch
What are nine special considerations affecting the interview?
- 1) Hearing impaired- raising your voice increases the pitch and makes hearing worse
- 2) Acutely ill
- 3) Substance abuse
- 4) Personal questions (redirect conversation to the pt) [not obligated to divulge personal info]
- 5) Sexually aggressive (don't tolerate; confront) "your behavior makes me uncomfortable"
- 6) Crying (allow expression of emotions; don't change the subject)
- 7) Anger (deal with this emotion before going on with the interview)
- 8) Those who threaten violence-be sure that you are safe and don't hesitate to seek assistance from others around you
- 9) anxious
What are four cross-cultural considerations
- 1) eye-to-eye contact
- 2) hand shaking
- 3) touch (may or may not be acceptable to the pt)
- 4) personal space and interview distance
What are the three distance zones and their feet and when are they used?
- 1) Social Distance: 4-12 feet, Interview range
- 2) Personal Distance: 1.5-4 feet, Distance for most physical assessment
- 3) Intimate Zone: 0-1.5 feet, Some physical assessment (e.g. HEENT exam)
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2 Fri Dec 2011
For 2 December 2011, Friday of 1st week of Advent, based on Matthew 9:27-31
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying loudly, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!†When he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?†They said to him, “Yes, Lord.†Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you.†And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly ordered them, “See that no one knows of this.†But they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.
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Microsoft Project and SPSS Statistics Training - OnlineGlobal Edulink
£395 - ($319.876) £40 - ($32.393)
- Curso intensivo
¿Qué aprendes en este curso?
Project Management Software
Types of Charts
Our online MS Project and SPSS Statistics Training course has been designed for 20 guided learning hours. Following course outline will provide you idea about main topics areas are covered in this training course. The numbers of sub topics are covered under following each main topic:
Course Content (Course Outline):
SPSS Statistics Fundamental Training
- Introduction to SPSS.
- Building Charts and Recording Data (Variable).
- Calculate descriptive statistics (Eg: Means and Standard Deviations)
- Use inferential statistics (Eg: t-tests and Chi-squares)
- Descriptive Statistics and Hypothesis Testing.
- Types of Charts.
- Create new variables and cross tabulations
- Correlation, Regression and ANOVA Analysis.
- Communicating Results
- Extending SPSS and Sharing Results.
MS Project Advance Training (2010 & 2013)
- Introduction to MS Project.
- Creating a New Project Plan
- Keeping Your Project on Track
- Managing Resources and Project Cost.
- Earned Value Analysis and Copying data into MS Project.
- Import and Export
- Working with Forms
- Customised Filled and Graphical and Visual Report.
- Sharing Customisation and Working with Multiple Projects.
- Linking Tasks in Different Project.
Method of Assessment:
At the end of the course learners will also take online multiple choice questions assessment tests. This online multiple choice questions tests are marked automatically so you will receive an instant grade and know whether you have passed the course.
Benefits you will gain:
By enrolling in to this course, you’ll get:
- High quality e-learning study materials and mock exams.
- Tutorials/materials from the industry leading experts.
- Includes step-by-step tutorial videos and an effective, professional support service.
- 24/7 Access to the Learning Portal.
- Benefit of applying NUS extra Discount Card.
- Recognised Accredited Qualification.
- Access Course Content on Mobile, Tablet or Desktop.
- Study in a user friendly, advanced online learning platform.
- Excellent customer service and administrative support.
All the study materials are available in your student portal including Videos tutorials. One of the most successful online education platforms in the UK. Access to Mock exam and mentor supports. Excellent and flexible mentor supports by our team of experienced tutors/trainers. Effective and efficient administrative service from our staff for your inquiries. Comfortable learning access to your student portal. Technical supports and live chat service for your inquiries. This is very helpful for international learners.
This training leads you to become a Business Analyst, Project Manager, Researcher, Data Analyst, and Business Developer etc.
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Second countable, countable, proof...
I have this problem:
S is a set. P is the discrete topology on S. Prove that (S,P) is second countable iff S is a countable set.
Can somebody expand on this? (I assume it's basically what I'm trying to prove):
"Every discrete space is first-countable; it is moreover second-countable if and only if it is countable."
Is this way of thinking correct (I'm an undergrad):
A topology is second countable if it has a second countable base.
A base is second countable if it contains a countable number of open sets.
The discrete topology on S is the power set of S, where, by definition, every subset of S is open.
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By David Swanson
MSNBC, owned by weapons-maker General Electric, opened Thursday night's debate with the unavoidable topic of Iraq, and unavoidably allowed each of the eight candidates on the stage to address it. Two of them, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Senator Mike Gravel, spoke in favor of ending the war. Kucinich advocated cutting off the funding. Gravel proposed passing a law to make it a felony to remain in Iraq.
Of course, it's also a felony to spy in violation of FISA, to mislead Congress into war, to expose an undercover agent, etc., etc. And, of course, Bush and Cheney can find money at the Pentagon to continue an unfunded war. But Kucinich and Gravel were serious about trying to rein in this White House. The other six Democrats on the stage Thursday night (Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards) made clear that they oppose serious steps to force a swift end to the war. They would prefer to end the war as president, regardless of who has to die in the meantime, and heedless of the failure of such waffling to win elections in the past.
GE spokesman Brian Williams directed the debate and turned it next to scandal questions, asking each candidate a different question about some accusation of wrong doing. Most of the candidates blatantly refused to answer the questions and simply changed the subject. Asked if he could be trusted not to make regrettable comments, Biden gave the one-word answer "Yes."
Amazingly, Williams could come up with nothing to accuse Kucinich of. "You were against the war before being anti-war was popular," he said. "Why do you think you don't have more traction?" Kucinich gave an optimistic response on gaining traction. He may very well be right that he is gaining traction. But I wonder if his answer would have been different had this question come at the end of the debate, because Williams answered his own question by proceeding with much of the debate as if Kucinich and Gravel were not on the stage.
One factor that may have encouraged GE in this, at least in the extreme nature of the imbalance it pursued, may have been that Gravel, an alumnus of Camp Democracy [ http://www.campdemocracy.org ] took his turn on the scandals questions and simply kicked ass. He said he was embarrassed by the current Congress and that some of the candidates scared him, especially by their refusal to oppose any nuclear attack on Iran. Gravel did not quite fill the role of Al Sharpton in last season's debates, but he appeared to speak with great off-the-cuff uncalculated honesty, putting the pro-war candidates in their place. GE immediately put him in his, and when he got a chance to speak much later he said he was beginning to feel like a potted plant on stage.
The next series of questions were about domestic policy, and focused largely on divisive issues like abortion. GE skipped Kucinich and Gravel. Then came health care question, which skipped Kucinich and Gravel. Clinton, who throughout the debate seemed the most ill at ease and the most unwilling to say anything substantive, gave an interesting account of her failed effort at health care reform as first lady. She said that people originally supported her plan, but that their view of it soured after she'd let the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies work on it. From this, as from her vote for the Iraq War, she drew no lessons. She would again allow the insurance companies to continue to exist and to draft her plan, but she would go into the process with more pessimism. (You and the rest of us, Hillary!)
GE next asked each Democrat what the worst mistake was they'd ever made. This was not terribly enlightening, except perhaps by comparison to the upcoming Republican debate in which GE will likely ask the candidates what the worst mistakes are that Democrats have ever made.
Then candidates got a variety of different issue questions, including right-wing phrasing like "illegal aliens." In this round, former Senator Edwards was asked to criticize oil companies' profiteering and refused. Gravel was skipped. And Kucinich was finally called on, about health care. He was given about 20 seconds but nailed it. The plan that he and Congressman John Conyers have put forward for single-payer health care cuts through all of the bluster and bombast (to use an Obama phrase) of the other candidates, who have by now reached the point of warning each other that their band aids won't repair severed limbs.
Next came a series of questions about "non-Iraq foreign policy." Obama was asked to name three allies and only got to two (Europe and Japan) before proposing to use the military to relate well to China. Williams accused Obama of having said that the Palestinian people are suffering, and Obama assured him that he meant they were only suffering from their own leaders' failures and that Israel is not to blame.
This time around, Kucinich was skipped but Gravel was called on. GE asked him to name three enemies. He replied that it was absurd to think we had any enemies while we spend as much on our military as all other nations combined. "Who are you afraid of, Brian?" he asked the nearest representative of the military industrial complex, which he accused of running not only the government, but also "our culture."
Williams asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed there was such a thing as a "global war on terror." Kucinich's hand was one of the few or the only one (MSNBC.com's video does not do as well as its audio, so I couldn't see) not raised, so Williams asked him to explain. He said that the phrase "global war on terror" has been used as a pretext for aggressive war. Kucinich then went back and answered one of the questions he'd been skipped on – that of enemies and allies – and concluded by putting at the top of his agenda brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace in an even-handed manner.
Kucinich got to answer one other question as well. Williams asked which candidates supported impeaching Dick Cheney. Kucinich's hand was the only one, or one of the few, raised (again, I couldn't see, but I'm guessing Gravel raised his hand too). Kucinich raised a copy of the Constitution and spoke of his duty to uphold it. He said that the country had been taken into war on the basis of lies, and that the administration was threatening to do the same on Iran. Sadly, the audience had been strictly forbidden to applaud during the debate. (GE claims to ban clapping to save time, but it would save more time by turning off Richardson's microphone each time he runs over his assigned time limit just clearing his throat. And the debates would be better to watch if some segment of the public were involved.) There was no ban on applause at an event where Kucinich spoke the day before. Here's video:
Then several candidates got new random questions: gay marriage, Cuba, the climate. Even Gravel got a question, on nuclear energy. Kucinich, who was skipped, raised his hand during Obama's turn to challenge the Illinois Senator on his refusal to oppose nuking Iran. Gravel jumped into the exchange as well. But Obama refused to take the option of aggressively nuking another nation off the table.
And that was it, until the post-debate spin room. GE did not ask about the budget or wages or the right to organize. There were, quite stunningly, no questions about which of the new presidential powers these candidates would use if elected. Would you, as president, spy on your political opponents without court warrants? Would you detain people without charge? Would you use any secret prisons? Would you torture? Would you disobey laws? Which ones? Would you announce your intentions in "signing statements"? Would you engage in any aggressive wars? Would you launch any wars not declared by Congress? Would you ever intentionally mislead Congress? Would you lie to the public about matters as grave as hurricanes, wars, and spying? None of these topics came up. | <urn:uuid:5b499d3f-daad-4635-b2e4-d9ca1f6c831c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_070426_the_ge_presidential_.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9862 | 1,712 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Ultimately, every company is unique. From the challenges it faces to the resources available to solve them, there is no universal strategy that a company can just replicate from another.
Singapore, Singapore (PRWEB) January 19, 2013
As technology and complexity of the world’s problems evolve, we require different and dynamic solutions to overcome them. To develop these solutions, our understanding of the world and the very basis of our learning have to change. In a previous installment, blended learning was expounded as the way forward for effective corporate learning. The next question is “how”. Nicholas Goh, CEO at Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, provides a tip sheet for a well-executed blended learning program.
In “Blended Learning: The In-Thing in Corporate Learning”, we acknowledged how the arrival of the Internet has changed the way we learn. “Blended Learning” has expanded from simply including e-learning into classroom courses to encompass a much richer set of learning strategies and dimensions, involving a wide variety of tools and support systems – thus making corporate learning organic.
Blended learning also makes corporate learning effective by addressing three key areas:
1. Need for Interactivity
Inadvertent knowledge sharing through informal interactions via social networking platforms (e.g. Whatsapp™, WeChat™, Viber™, Instagram™).
2. Need for intensity
Intensive multi-dimensional learning environments lead to financial success.
3. Need for Integration
Cutting-edge networking and productivity tools (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) that package together computer-based work, collaboration, and performance support tools – the “workspace” of the future.
Sold on the idea of blended learning? What next? Well, there is no cookie-cutter how-to when it comes to establishing and running an effective blended learning program (or any learning program, for that matter). Every plan has to be customised to the specific needs of the industry and company. The significance of having a realistic and relevant program that suits the company to a tee cannot be underestimated.
That said, there are some basic rules companies can apply even before delving into industry- and company-specific customisations. Consider these:
a. Be Focused on Purpose
“What’s the overall training objective?” Although a fundamental question, some organisations get distracted from their objective in their attempt to make each learning program as interactive and interesting as possible – blending classroom teaching with virtual exercises and discussions on social media.
A program is considered successful only if at the end of it, the organisation is evaluated to be true to its objectives and there are sustainable results. Hence the organisation needs to keep its key objective top of mind. Is the training objective to convey knowledge, change perspective, or impact certain skills or behaviours?
b. Be Consistent with Reality
Blended learning is meant to enhance the learner’s experience, not to complicate things. Hence, authenticity and consistency is crucial when an organisation is mixing various learning systems.
Attention must be given to creating and delivering materials that are consistent and applicable to employees in their daily operations. The learning environment should be designed to reflect the complexity of the environment and to challenge each learner’s thinking. With the classroom – virtual or otherwise – echoing reality, it can only serve to deepen the understanding and application of the learning.
c. Be Interested and Active
While traditional learning programs require active input from the bosses, it is even more so for blended learning programs. Without leaders’ active involvement, blended learning programs can be easily deemed as just another company policy for staff to follow. On the other hand, when leaders actively engage their staff – particularly via the very blended learning channels being promoted – they communicate the company’s commitment to improving and growing itself, as well as their belief in their very own programs. These positive vibes will increase interactions between people, understanding between departments and greater cohesion within the company.
Emergency Medical Services Corporation (EMSC), a provider of medical care services to over 9 million patients per year in the US, ensures that its vice presidents sit in on their e-workshops. Employees have commented that it “adds value to the program to see their leaders take time out of their schedules to attend the courses”.
d. Be Flexible and Inclusive
The start-off point and pace of learning for every employee is different. Studies have shown that the best learning methods for each person varies. Thus, to demand that every employee learns at an equal rate is unrealistic – and unreasonable.
If participants are given the flexibility to plan and pace their own progress, it will optimise their own learning and increase effectiveness of the blended program. Hence, blended programs have to be designed to accommodate various learning styles.
To drastically reduce procrastination – a very real potential problem – constant check-in and tracking of participants is recommended. This can be achieved through creating multiple intermediate checkpoints throughout the entire syllabus, each to be accomplished within a reasonable timeframe. This will help participants learn at their own pace, yet not compromise on the time required.
Ultimately, every company is unique. From the challenges it faces to the resources available to solve them, there is no universal strategy that a company can just replicate from another. Besides the basic pointers above, it will require active implementation, constant feedback and evaluation to ensure the continual evolution of a company’s learning provision methods.
This way, the company can always provide learning programs that are both comprehensive (for company’s needs) and inclusive (of individuals’ learning styles). In turn, this will allow staff to reap real rewards and, eventually, bring benefits and value to the company itself.
Verztec is a leading ISO 9001:2008 Global Content Consulting Services Company. Verztec assists companies around the world to design, develop, localize and publish their global communication messages in over 60 languages across various channels. For more information, please visit http://www.verztec.com.
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Turkey’s heartland is home to an eclectic, albeit remote, variety of emerging artistic initiatives and institutions. Known as ‘Anatolia’, which means ‘east’ in Greek, it is home to a growing group of busy curators, artists and cultural workers.
The video-centric art space Monitor in Izmir holds conceptually rigorous exhibitions, the Mardin Biennale prepares its latest edition, contemporary artists flock to Dou PrintStudio in Ankara to create lithographs, İmalat-Hane in Bursa hosts some of the most beautiful projects in Turkey. edge, and the FIRIN art space in Eskişehir reflects on pressing issues related to the country’s water crisis.
Stretching from the Asian coastline of the Bosphorus to the coasts of three interconnected seas – Black, Aegean, Mediterranean – and sharing territorial borders with Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, the Anatolian region is a besieged ground. Its artists and their colleagues are at the forefront of a fight to preserve its pluralist heritage.
Once hailed as the subcontinent of Asia Minor, it is believed to be the birthplace of Homer and Herodotus, and its cities are home to a dissonant harmony of peoples, histories and ecologies. Here, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Levant, Greek, Romani and Afro-Turkish cultures mingle and multicultural identities intertwine.
With the support of grants from the Goethe Institute and others, independent art organizations in the various regions of Anatolia are flourishing, often without the support of government agencies, which generally do not fund contemporary art out of step with the powerful neo-Ottoman officials, Islamist policy. Young Anatolians are bonding, aligning themselves with local and international movements beyond Turkey’s Istanbul-centric art scene. | <urn:uuid:3adc9df8-5194-4876-b460-c091a2eef3d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nelliecastangallery.com/why-is-anatolias-art-scene-so-popular-artnews-com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.915419 | 380 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Dereplication from the dynamic remove proceeded in an easy manner resulting in the isolation of several new aspulvinone congeners. as much as 63% of the brand new chemical substance entities for medications uncovered between 1981C2006 have already been tracked to or based-on these structurally different supplementary metabolites (Carlson, 2010; Newman, 2008; Cragg and Newman, 2009). Recent research have uncovered that 34 NPs-based medications have been accepted between 1998C2007 (Butler, 2008). Nevertheless, natural-derived small substances have received much less attention lately, due partly towards the laborious procedure involved in id, isolation, and follow-up in comparison to leads produced from artificial libraries (Li and Vederas, 2009). Testing of NP libraries carries a time-demanding workflow including deconvolution frequently, and validation work that became unsustainable in comparison with the timelines possible from HTS of artificial chemical substance libraries. Paradoxically, regardless of the prevalence of NPs among effective drugs and effective chemical substance probes, this burden led to the curtailing or termination of NP remove (NPE)-based discovery initiatives at many pharmaceutical businesses during the last 10 years (Harvey, 2007; Carter and Koehn, 2005; Lam, 2007; Newman, 2008). To test maximum chemical variety in NPE-based testing, the collection should stay sufficiently abundant with chemical substance matter but without undesirable characteristics which make it challenging to check with highly delicate HTS assays (Harvey, 2007; Inglese et al., 2007; Koehn and Carter, 2005). Because of this we centered on NPE libraries where incomplete or pre-fractionation from the crude ingredients was achieved and followed by elution profile data. Rubusoside Fractionated ingredients lessen or remove artifacts connected with crude materials. For example, crude organic solvent ingredients are straightforward to get ready fairly, however the high concentrations of salts, pigments and polymeric constituents Rubusoside may hinder private recognition outputs of contemporary HTS significantly. Compound-mediated phenomena complicating the interpretation of HTS data have become significantly well-characterized (Baell and Holloway, 2010; Inglese et al., 2007; Thorne et al., 2010a). To boost performance of NP id, we explored a fresh technique that integrates latest advancements in HTS and NPE collection production to allow a more effective method of isolating energetic elements from NP resources. Specifically we decided to go with pre-fractionated NPEs from culturable microorganisms that are ready by differential solvent removal of primarily XAD-resin destined NPEs into three pre-fractions that are used in a 384-well dish (Body S1a). We utilized a titration-based verification paradigm also, quantitative HTS (qHTS) (Inglese et al., 2006), where examples in large chemical substance libraries could be quickly examined at different concentrations and concentration-response curves (CRCs) are suited to the info. Titration of the various solvent extractions offers a additional dimension of quality where pharmacological activity of the CRCs is certainly correlated with the NPE elution profile data. Further, in this approach samples could be formatted right into a 1536 well-based titration archive ideal for fast screening (Body S1b, Yasgar et al., 2008). The usage of a CRC classification structure (Inglese et al., 2006; Shukla et al., 2009), produced from qHTS to choose energetic wells offers a unique methods to monitor energetic components in colaboration Rubusoside with the test elution profile, and higher self-confidence data to make sure that regular HTS artifacts are generally avoided. An effective major work using our testing paradigm could re-initiate and enhance the application of the fertile section of organic product chemical substance probe and medication discovery. Right here we record our technique and preliminary validation concerning qHTS in the tests of NPE libraries produced from Costa Rica sea microbial resources. Outcomes Evaluation of the NPE collection by Rabbit Polyclonal to CA12 qHTS In order to improve the procedure for identifying natural activity from NPE libraries we examined ingredients in qHTS format across 35 different assays which were optimized for 1536-well format (Desk S1). To lessen the ionic, aggregation-based and optical disturbance from high sodium focus, pigments, polymeric organics and various other resinous components, we ready the ingredients using XAD-resin to enrich the NPs from these genetically different and pure lifestyle actinomycete and fungal strains while reducing this content of biomass on the extremes of polarity (e.g. nonorganic or extremely lipophilic). The NPE collection we ready for qHTS included 15 eventually,704 examples that comprised 13 different 7-focus inter-plate titration series, in a way that general 91 specific 1536-well plates had been maintained being a titration archive for testing (Body S1b). 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Norovirus bug plea to north Wales hospital visitors
- 7 December 2012
- From the section North East Wales
Health officials in north Wales are asking hospital visitors to help prevent the spread of the diarrhoea and vomiting bug, norovirus.
One surgical ward at Wrexham Maelor hospital is closed to new admissions because of the bug.
Restrictions are also in place on individual bays within four other wards at the hospital.
There are also partial restrictions on three wards at Glan Clwyd hospital at Bodelwyddan.
With the numbers of norovirus infections across the UK at higher levels than normal, and with the peak winter period ahead, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board urged the public to help it keep the infection away from hospitals.
The board issued guidance to help stop the infection spreading.
Most importantly, it said anyone who has suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting should be free of symptoms for at least 48 hours before coming into hospital as a visitor.
Anyone who is due to go in as a patient who develops the illness should ring the ward or out patient department for advice before doing so.
A Betsi Cadwaladr spokesperson said the most effective step that everyone can take to protect themselves from infectious illness is to wash hands regularly.
In particular, visitors going to see family or friends in hospital must use the cleansing hand gel or foam provided at every ward entrance.
The spokesperson added there should be no more than two visitors at any bed at any time, and all visitors should comply with advice from hospital staff or that displayed on notices and posters.
Where there have been cases of norovirus there may be also a time limit for visiting close family members to help reduce the chances of the virus spreading.
Visitors should always wash their hands before leaving a ward area to help avoid carrying any infections away with them.
And if people have visited someone who is on a ward where there have been cases of norovirus they should not visit another part of the hospital.
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A lot of history has been written since 1913. Back then, two World Wars were in the future, not the past. Babe Ruth had yet to make his Major League debut. Women had yet to earn the right to vote.
In the southwest corner of Nassau County, a group of residents were adding their own chapter to the local history books, a chapter that is still being written 100 years later. The Relief Association of Lawrence was formed to help meet the needs of the poor. Today, that organization is known as the Peninsula Counseling Center, which provides a wide array of mental health services and substance abuse programs to the community.
PCC’s 100th anniversary year promises to be a big deal, say leaders of the organization who are in the midst of planning a series of events. Executive Director John Kastan said there will be some of the same events from the past but with a special twist, like the annual A Tasteful Evening fundraiser, and perhaps some new activities.
Kastan said that planning for the 100th anniversary celebration was delayed because of Hurricane Sandy. In the wake of the storm, PCC had to focus its efforts on helping staff and clients who were affected by it.
One of the goals for the anniversary year, Kastan said, will be to build new relationships and create new channels of revenue for PCC, which has faced numerous funding cuts in recent years. Yet these cuts have come at a time when Kastan said more people are turning to organization for help. “The need for the kinds of services that we provide are greater than ever,” he said.
Audrey Goodman, the community relations coordinator, said it is hard to describe in just a few sentences what PCC is all about. The services it offers are very wide-ranging, she explained. “We handle a lot here,” she said. “I don’t think anyone can really fathom how much goes on here.”
PCC employs about 100 people and serves more than 2,500 clients from the Five Towns, Valley Stream, southeast Queens and other surrounding communities. Its annual budget tops $7 million.
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New details are emerging about failed U.S. efforts under the Trump administration to negotiate the release of journalist Austin Tice, who has been held captive by the Syrian government since 2012. The Biden administration seems to be taking a similar approach toward Syria and its human rights abuses. The Associated Press has the story:
Insiders expose why efforts to free journalist Austin Tice from Syrian captivity failed
Last summer, two U.S. officials ventured into hostile territory for a secret high-stakes meeting with American adversaries.
The Syrian government officials they were scheduled to meet in Damascus seemed ready to discuss the fate of U.S. hostages believed held in their country, including Austin Tice, a journalist captured eight years earlier. The release of the Americans would be a boon to President Donald Trump months before the November election. A breakthrough seemed possible.
Yet the trip was ultimately fruitless, with the Syrians raising a series of demands that would have fundamentally reshaped Washington’s policy toward Damascus, including the removal of sanctions, the withdrawal of troops from the country and the restoration of normal diplomatic ties. Equally as problematic for the American negotiators: Syrian officials offered no meaningful information on the fate and whereabouts of Tice and others.
“Success would have been bringing the Americans home and we never got there,” Kash Patel, who attended the meeting as a senior White House aide, said in his first public comments about the effort.
The White House acknowledged the meeting in October, but said little about it. New details have emerged in interviews The Associated Press conducted in recent weeks with people familiar with the talks, some of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The AP has also learned about U.S. attempts to build goodwill with Syria well before the talks took place, with Patel describing how an unidentified U.S. ally in the region offered assistance with cancer treatment for the wife of President Bashar Assad.
The details shed light on the sensitive and often secretive efforts to free hostages held by U.S. adversaries, a process that yielded high-profile successes for Trump but also dead ends. It’s unclear how aggressively the new Biden administration will advance the efforts to free Tice and other Americans held around the world, particularly when demands at a negotiating table clash with the White House’s broader foreign policy goals.
The August meeting in Damascus represented the highest-level talks in years between the U.S. and the Assad government. It was extraordinary given the two countries’ adversarial relationship and because the Syrian government has never acknowledged holding Tice or knowing anything about his whereabouts.
Yet the moment offered some promise. Trump had already shown a willingness to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. And he had made hostage recovery a top foreign policy priority, celebrating releases by inviting freed detainees to the White House.
Months after the Damascus talks, as Tice’s name resurfaced in the news, Trump sent a note to Tice’s parents saying he would “never stop” working for their son’s release, his mother, Debra, told the AP. But Tice’s fate was unknown when Trump left office on Jan. 20 and remains so to this day.
The Biden administration, too, has pledged to make hostage recovery a priority. But it has also called out the Syrian government for human rights abuses and seems unlikely to be more receptive to the conditions Damascus issued last summer to even continue the dialogue.
Austin Tice disappeared from a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus
Tice, who is from Houston and whose work had been published by The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and other outlets, has occupied a prominent spot in the public and political consciousness since disappearing in August 2012 at a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus.
A video released weeks later showed him blindfolded and held by armed men and saying, “Oh, Jesus.” He has not been heard from since. U.S. authorities operate under the assumption he’s alive. Syria has never acknowledged holding him.
Efforts to secure his release have been complicated by a lack of diplomatic relations and the conflict in Syria, where the U.S. maintains about 900 troops in the eastern part of the country in an effort to prevent the Islamic State group’s resurgence.
“My assumption is he’s alive and he’s waiting for me to come and get him,” said Roger Carstens, a former Army Special Forces officer who attended the meeting with Patel in his capacity as U.S. special presidential envoy for hostage affairs under Trump. He was kept in the position by Biden.
“My job,” he added, “is to get Austin Tice back.”
At the time of the meeting, Patel was senior counterterrorism adviser at the White House after serving as House Intelligence Committee aide, where he gained some notoriety for advancing Republican efforts to challenge the investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election. He was previously a Justice Department prosecutor under President Barack Obama.
The meeting was more than a year in the making, Patel said, requiring him to seek help in Lebanon, which still has ties with Assad.
At one point, a U.S. “ally in the region” also helped build goodwill with the Syrian government by providing assistance with cancer treatment for Assad’s wife, he said, declining to provide further details. The Syrian government announced a year before the meeting that she had recovered from breast cancer.
The men arrived as part of an intentionally small delegation, driving through Damascus and seeing no obvious signs of the conflict that has killed around a half million people and displaced half of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million over 10 years.
Inside an office of Ali Mamlouk, the head of the Syrian intelligence agency, they asked for information about Tice as well as Majd Kamalmaz, a psychologist from Virginia who vanished in 2017, and several others.
Hostage talks are innately challenging, with negotiators facing demands that may seem unreasonable, at odds with U.S. foreign policy or that may produce nothing even if satisfied.
In this instance, the conditions floated by the Syrians, as described by multiple people, would have required the U.S. to overhaul virtually its entire Syria policy.
The U.S. shuttered its embassy in Damascus in 2012 and withdrew its ambassador as Syria’s civil war worsened. And though Trump in 2019 announced the withdrawal of troops from northern Syria, a military presence remains to help protect an opposition enclave in the northeast, an area that includes oil and natural gas.
Trump senior aide Kash Patel says not obtaining Tice’s release is one of his biggest failures
With their demands unmet, the Syrians offered no meaningful information on Tice, including a proof of life, that could have generated significant momentum, Patel said. Though he said he was optimistic after a “legitimate diplomatic engagement,” he looks back with regret.
“I would say it’s probably one of my biggest failures under the Trump administration, not getting Austin back,” Patel said.
The outcome of the diplomacy was deflating for Tice’s parents, though they said it showed engagement with Damascus was possible.
“And it’s possible to have that dialogue without the United States national security being threatened, without our Middle East policy being impacted, without all the horrible things that over the years we were told might happen if the United States actually recognized that there was a government in Damascus,” Tice’s father, Marc, said in an interview.
In a statement, State Department spokesman Ned Price called bringing home hostages one of the Biden administration’s highest priorities and urged Syria to free Tice, Kamalmaz and others. But prospects for talks are uncertain, especially without a more substantial commitment from Damascus to share whatever information it has on the hostages. It’s unlikely the administration sees the Syrians, criticized in December by the global chemical watchdog for failing to declare a chemical weapons production facility, as credible negotiating partners.
Biden has said little about Syria, though he included it among international problems the U.N. Security Council should address. In February, he authorized airstrikes against Iran-allied militias in Syria. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who spoke Wednesday with Tice’s parents, said last week the situation in Syria was grave and worsening.
After a false rumor circulated online in November that Tice had been released, his mother wrote a note to be delivered to Trump saying she hoped that news would one day be a reality.
Trump responded, photocopying her note and adding his own Sharpie-written message. “Debra,” he wrote, she said. “Working so hard on this. Looking for the answer. We want Austin back. I will never stop.”
But, she said, the family does not need letters from the president.
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Coconut everything is everywhere. The popularity of coconut in the diet is for good reason; coconut is full of nutrients & GLUTEN FREE!
Coconut flour is made of ground & dried coconut meat. Its grain free, nut free and versatile in your baking. And our coconut flour is also organic.
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Coconut flour contains the same amazing benefits as traditional coconut:
Baking with coconut flour is easy- once you know what you're doing. The secret is adding in equal amounts of liquid to coconut flour to prevent a dry and crumbly product.
Its recommended to use coconut flour for about 20% of the replacement flour in a recipe.
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Categories: Code generation, Persistence - Data-tier,
Latest version: 31jan05
The Software Production Machine (SoProMach) is a software generation engine providing a foundation for specialized code and documentation generators. It's a generalized, language-neutral, multiplatform software source code and documentation generator, capable of accepting several input formats, such as XML, CSV, plain text, and Sisendel EF (entity files), a new textual multitier entity design language for describing metadata.
Several SoProMach-based generators are available for different purposes and target platforms: .NET (C#, VB.NET, ASPX), J2EE, J2SE, PHP, SQL, XML, HTML, etc.
Sopromach is made up of two components:
- Sisendel: SImple Software ENtity DEsign Language. It is a high-level, declarative language to design multi-tier entities and consistently generate database, logic, user interface and documentation files from one textual multi-facet definition.
- Tefigel: TExt FIle GEneration Language. This is the generic low-level file generator or templating machine of Sopromach. It also has built-in list processing and XML/HTML parsing capabilities.
SoProMach can be integrated with any IDE providing support for external tool invocation. IDE integration of SoProMach has been tested with: Eclipse 3, Visual Studio 2005 Beta, Visual Basic Express 2005 Beta, JBuilder X, CodeWarrior Development Studio v2.8.
SoProMach is available for the following platforms: Linux 2.4 (or higher) on x86; Mac OS X 10.2 (or higher) on PowerPC; Windows 2000/XP on x86.
Built for .NET
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May 30, 2005
Mars: Windows on the World
In their explorations of Mars, both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers found evidence that liquid water was once on the planet's surface. Joy Crisp, project scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, discussed the rovers' long journey and their surprising discoveries at a public lecture on May 19, 2005.
Astrobiology Magazine -- In their explorations of Mars, both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers found evidence that liquid water was once on the planet's surface. Joy Crisp, project scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, discussed the rovers' long journey and their surprising discoveries at a public lecture on May 19, 2005.
This edited transcript of the lecture is Part 1 of a 4-part series.
"In January 2004, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars. In May of 2004, four months into the expected three month mission, Nagin Cox gave a talk in this lecture series on the status of the rover mission.
And now, we are a year beyond that. I'm thrilled that I can come here and tell you that these rovers are still working on Mars, and that we've had a whole year's more worth of exciting discoveries.
I'm also amazed to see how many people are in the audience here tonight, and not at the new Star Wars movie.
Mars today is a harsh place for life. It's cold, there's very little atmosphere, and what atmosphere is there is mostly carbon dioxide (CO2). Liquid water is not stable on the surface today. The water that's there is either in the form of ice or vapor.
Life as we know it requires liquid water. As you've probably heard, we are interested in whether life ever got started on Mars.
We had some evidence from orbit that there was liquid water on the planet in the past. We've seen valley networks that were either carved by rivers similar to what we have on the Earth, or by near-surface groundwater sapping. We've also seen very intricate, fan-shaped delta deposits on Mars that are very similar to Earth's delta deposits.
So we sent the two rovers to two different places on Mars, on opposite sides of the planet. We picked two landing sites that had good evidence, from orbit, that there should have once been liquid water there on the surface. To be sure, we needed to go to the surface to see if there had been liquid water in the past, and to see if we could find clues in the rocks that would tell us whether it would have been a favorable environment for life.
We sent Spirit rover to Gusev Crater, where the evidence for past liquid water is in the landforms. From orbit, we saw this long sinuous dry river bed leading up to a crater. We thought water must have flowed through this valley and ponded in that crater, leaving lakebed sediments in that crater and possibly also river sediments. We wanted to send a rover there because the floor in the crater was nice and safe for landing, and we thought we might have a chance of finding water lain sediments.
We sent the other rover, Opportunity, to the plains of Meridiani, which is a nice smooth region, also very safe for landings. We had spotted the mineral hematite from orbit, using the Mars Global Surveyor's Thermal Emission Spectrometer. Hematite is iron oxide, Fe2O3. On Earth, hematite often forms in the presence of liquid water - not always, but often.
The mapped region on Mars showing hematite was a very large region, almost the size of Oklahoma. In high resolution images, along the edges of the flat smooth area, we saw layers in the rocks. We wanted to check to see if the hematite had been deposited by liquid water as a stack of rock layers. We have similar analogues to this sort of thing on the Earth.
Doing field geology is a lot like doing detective work. We are hunting for clues, trying to put the story together to build a case. In this example, we are trying to determine how these rocks formed. Was liquid water around when they formed, or later on when they sat around near the surface of Mars?
There's a TV detective show called "Monk," and the boss in the show once said, "How does he do it? I have two eyes, I see everything he sees. But I don't see everything he sees." The same kind of thing happens when a scientist looks at a rock. Scientists can look at a rock and say, "Wow! Isn't that amazing?" Then you look at it and say, "Well, there's some scratch marks and bumps on it. I don't know what that means." You don't see the same thing as a trained geologist, who has studied geologic processes and learned to read the clues.
And so what I'm going to do in this talk is give you some feel for the kind of clues that we look for, and then what we have found with the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
The main objective of our mission was try to find evidence of past liquid water and try to figure out what was it like when the water was around. One kind of clue to past liquid water is textures in rocks. We can look for that with camera images taken with the rover.
We knew before we got there that we wanted to look for things like ripple marks, rounded grains that looked like they were cemented together, crossbeds, and rock layers that were at angles to each other. We see those kinds of things on the Earth when rocks are laid down by water.
The other kind of clues that we wanted to look for are specific types of minerals that can only form in the presence of liquid water. Either we know they have precipitated out of liquid water, or they're hydrated and actually contain bound water (OH or H2O).
A few examples from the Earth include calcite, dolomite, clays, salts, iron oxides that are hydrated, and sulfates that are hydrated. So we outfitted our rover to try to look for these things.
Another clue is to measure the abundance of the different elements. So we wanted to keep an eye out for differences in chemistry that we might expect if water was around, to look for higher abundances of elements that are easily dissolved in water and can then be re-precipitated in rocks.
The first thing that a field geologist does when they go out in the field is survey the scene, looking around at the landforms and the shapes of the rocks. The rovers can also survey the scene, because cameras are at the top of a mast that is about five feet off the ground. The two science cameras have the clarity of 20/20 vision. So the pictures we get back are very much like what it would be like if you were there, standing on Mars.
The mast can rotate, so we can get a complete 360 degree panorama, we can point it upwards and downwards, command it to look where we want it to look, and then take pictures from blue to green to red to the slightly near infrared - we can choose which filters to put in front of the eyes-- and with red, green, and blue we can put them together and form the color images that we put out on the web.
Also at the top of the mast we have a thermal infrared emission spectrometer. You can think of infrared spectra as little squiggle fingerprints that help us figure out what minerals are present. We compare the infrared spectra from Mars with lots minerals we have measured on the Earth. So we can look at the rocks and soil around us, just as a field geologist would look around and say, "I think I see different kinds of rocks." We did that kind of survey with the rovers, to see where the different types of materials were, and to see what looked like the best places to go for clues to past liquid water.
A field geologist would walk over to something of interest. Because the rovers have wheels, we can send them to specific places, where they can investigate by using instruments on the end of their robotic arm.
If you know any field geologists, they always carry a rock hammer out into the field. The reason you want to break open rocks is so that you can see the textures inside. The outside of rocks, especially on Mars, can be dust covered, and they also can have alteration coatings on the outside as they interact with the atmosphere and soil.
So we put a grinding tool on the end of the robotic arm that clears away a spot, grinds into the rock, and gives us a window into the rock - just like a rock hammer would do.
The other thing a geologist always carries with them is a hand lens to look at shapes of grains, to help them identify what kind of minerals are there and to look at the texture of the rocks. So another thing that we put on that robotic arm is a microscopic imager, which gives us a close-up view of the rocks.
We have two other instruments on the rovers that are extras that geologists don't normally carry into the field -- we usually have to come back to a laboratory with rock samples to take these kinds of measurements. We put on a chemical analyzer that gets us the abundances of the different elements in the periodic table. We also put on a Mössbauer spectrometer that tells us which iron-bearing minerals are in the rocks and soils, and how oxidized, or how rusty the rocks are. Mars is rich in iron, so it's a useful instrument to have.
With that assortment of instruments, including hazard cameras and navigation cameras for driving, we are equipped to go out and do some really exciting science."
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Presentation on theme: "Stillwater High School Social Studies Department."— Presentation transcript:
Stillwater High School Social Studies Department
Required Social Studies Courses…. Government & Oklahoma History World History or AP World History American History or AP American History
What are “AP” Classes? AP stands for Advanced Placement The main goal of an AP class is to prepare you to take a national, standardized test given in May (but you don’t have to!)
AP tests are scored on a scale of 1 to 5 Most colleges will give you either college credit or college placement if you score at least a 3 on the exam
Why take an AP class? You can bring up your weighted GPA You can take a college-level class in high school You can earn college credit You can save hundreds of dollars
Why not just take the course at OSU in concurrent enrollment? You will most likely be in smaller classes at SHS You will get more help and one on one attention You can take other courses at OSU that are not offered at SHS
Government & Oklahoma History
AP World History
Advanced Placement-World History In the last four years 86 students have taken the AP World History Exam 78 (91%) have earned a 3 or higher 31% have made a 5
AP American History
Advanced Placement-American History In the last nine years…. –264 students have taken the AP U.S. History Exam –198 (75%) have received a 3 or higher
Elective Social Studies Courses… CriminologySociology International Affairs
What do we do in Criminology? We study… How do we protect ourselves against crime? Does the death penalty discourage violent crimes?
What is cyberspace bullying? What are some of the most famous crime cases in history?
What do we do in Sociology? We study… Music, Trends, Fashions, & Fads –Why do you like the music you like? –Who decides what is popular? –Did you know that Elvis was once considered a deviant?
What is a “Bobby Soxer”? Who invented the term “rock & roll”?
What do we do in Psychology? We study… Why do teenagers need so much sleep…9.25 hours? –We conduct surveys and interviews to find out! What are the personality traits that make you so unique? –We study famous people to discover what personality traits made them extraordinary.
What do we do in AP Psychology? We study… Does our DNA determine what foods we prefer? Does playing a musical instrument make us better at solving mathematical equations?
Do we have a “hidden brain” that thinks for us? Does time really “fly” when we’re having fun?
AP Human Geography Since the course was first offered in 2003, 97% of SHS students taking the exam have received a 3 or higher.
What do we do in Human Geography? We study how and why humans arrange, occupy and use space the way we do across the world.
We study… Populations & Disease LanguagesReligion
Ethnicity & Race Political Geography Folk & Popular Culture
Agriculture & Rural Land Use Cities & Urban Land Use Economics & Development
You need AP Human Geography if you think… The International Date Line is a program on television… Population Pyramids house Egyptian mummies…
The Dust Bowl is the site of a football game… The Dust Bowl is the site of a football game… Spatial Diffusion is a contagious disease…
U.S. History EOI Results Total Numbers of Students Taking Exam All Numbers based on FAY except Spring 07
Percentage of Students Receiving a Satisfactory Score All Numbers based on FAY except Spring 07
Curriculum Mapping We are currently mapping U.S. History, World History, and Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology. We have begun collaboration with the Junior High and Middle School Social Studies Departments.
However….. We are more than the social studies courses we teach…..
We Are… Coaches
Sponsors… International Club
Indian Student Association
Ballroom Dance Club
WE ARE PIONEERS!
Our goal… To encourage students to become lifelong learners In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
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"The philosophy behind our curriculum is that young children learn best by being INTERACTIVE. "Learning" requires active thinking and experimenting which stimulates a child to find out how things work and to better understand more about the world in which we live.
We utilize the Creative Curriculum, a nationally recognized program from which we plan activities, organize the environment of the class room, select toys and materials, plan the daily schedule, and converse with the children. This curriculum is designed to give your child a successful start in school. The Good Shepherd Day School has been providing services to our community for some fifty years.
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The files who names start with rootsD-H contain plots of all roots of all irreducible polynomials of degree at most D whose coefficients are integers between -H and H (the "height").
Here is a png of roots6-5, which uses colour to indicate the density of roots. Click on the image for a larger version. Click here for an interactive zoomable very high-resolution version.
The rest of the images use a different colour scheme, with points coloured based on their degree. The radius of the dots also varies with the degree. The files with -col and -col2 in their names use a different colour scheme. I like -col2. So roots6-4-col2 is one of my favourites.
If you are able to view the postscript files, the detail present in them is amazing. Here's a screenshot of my postscript viewer, which shows an inset zoom near i. The outer picture shows i near the top and exp(i pi/3) towards the right. The origin is cut-off at the bottom. Click on the image for a larger version.
The files are sized to an 8.5 x 11 inch page in landscape mode.
The .ps and .epsi files are the same data in different formats. I use gv to view the files on screen, and it needs to be given the .ps format. On the other hand, my printer driver can only handle the .epsi format. That's why I've provided both. If anyone can tell me how to make my .ps files more conforming, that would be great! Most of these files are compressed using bzip2, which is indicated by the .bz2 suffix. gv will uncompress these files as it reads them.
When previewing on screen, be sure to turn antialiasing off, e.g. with
gv -noantialias -orientation=landscape -media=letter roots6-4-col2.ps.bz2Even with antialiasing off, the larger ones are slow to view and use hundreds of megabytes of ram. It takes gv about 1 minute to display roots6-4 on my system, but you can see the points fill in during this time which is interesting. Try roots5-4 first.
The roots6-4 files plot 13,553,584 roots. And yet (uncompressed) they are about 24M in size. How do I store the coordinates, colour and radius of each root in under two bytes? The main clever trick is to use the 8 fold symmetry of the plots. The reflection symmetry in the x and y axes is clear, but can you see the third symmetry?
See the readme file for some further explanation of the mathematics, and polynomial-roots.tar for the code I used.
And see http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/ for more about polynomial roots, and links to some references. Scientific American also wrote an article about this topic.
Update: Sam Derbyshire produced a spectacular plot. Here is a close-up of a small portion:
You can view this interactively, with the ability to zoom in, by following this link. The full image is in polynomial_roots.png which is a 90MB file that you probably want to download rather than view within your browser. Here is a zoomable version that I created, which has higher resolution than Sam's, and a colour scheme that changes as you zoom in. | <urn:uuid:ce3ea8f5-d925-4c55-8664-506d10445dcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jdc.math.uwo.ca/roots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.754719 | 1,698 | 1.796875 | 2 |
What Does Other Insurance Clause Mean?
An other insurance clause is a provision included in insurance policy contracts that specifies exactly how much coverage the policy offers if the insured has another policy that covers the same risk. Depending on the clause, the insurers may share coverage or one policy may be sufficient.
Insuranceopedia Explains Other Insurance Clause
The other insurance clause is a protection against overinsurance, a situation in which multiple insurers pay out claims for the same loss. Overinsurance would allow an insured to earn a profit from their insurance policies.
Usually, one policy is assigned as the primary insurance. The primary insurance is the first coverage that will come into effect when the policyholder suffers an insured loss. If the primary policy is exhausted and has not been able to pay for the entire loss, the other policies will provide additional coverage for the remaining loss.
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St Anne’s College Rising Researchers series, 20 October 2020 This is a ten-minute, non-academic presentation of the Translating Illness project, introduced by Dr Marta Arnaldi.
With Marta Arnaldi and Kirsten Ostherr Kirsten Ostherr is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is a media scholar, health researcher and technology analyst as well as the founder and director of the Medical Humanities Program and the Medical Futures Lab at Rice. Prof. Ostherr is the author of numerous publications including two outstanding books: Medical Visions:Continue reading “‘Cinematic Translations: Visualising the Invisible Path of Contagion’ – 21 August 2020”
With Marta Arnaldi and Eivind Engebretsen Eivind Engebretsen is Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. Eivind has recently been elected Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the Oslo Faculty of Medicine, and he is the co-founder of Norway’s first Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education. Professor Engebretsen’s expertise covers fields such as medical philosophy, evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation, and the history of knowledge. Since 2017, he has been a leader of the Oslo-based project The BodyContinue reading “‘Masks, Vaccine and Cure: Translating Medical Evidence During and After the Pandemic’ – 1 July 2020”
With Marta Arnaldi and Karen Thornber Karen Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is the author of multiple publications, including three monographs that have shaped and transformed the fields of world literature, global literature, environmental humanities, and medical humanities. Professor Thornber’s latest volume, entitled Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (BrillContinue reading “‘Global Healing: Towards a World Policy of Care’ – 16 June 2020”
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SRBC withdraws permits in Marcellus region, cites low-flows conditions
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The Susquehanna River Basin Commission has suspended 17 water withdrawal permits because of low-flow conditions. Almost all of the permits were for companies seeking to drill for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region, which overlays much of the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania.
The commission made the announcement April 18. The commission, along with the U.S. Geological Survey, has been closely monitoring the water levels at streams in the Marcellus region where gas companies have been withdrawing water. Typically, a gas company will need several million gallons of water to "frack" a well; the water is laced with chemicals to loosen the gas and coax it out of the rock formation thousands of feet underground.
When the drilling process started, the commission did not have solid monitoring, and occasionally streams were sucked dry for the fracking process. Now, the commission requires all companies withdrawing any amount of water to obtain permits, and they can suspend the permits as needed in low-flow conditions.
The commission will re-instate withdrawal permission once the streams return to normal flow conditions. The suspended permits were for withdrawals in Bradford, Tioga, Lycoming, Susquehanna and Luzerne counties.
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March 22, 2021
Home equity can be one of your biggest assets as a homeowner. It builds over time as you make monthly mortgage payments, and you can use this equity in your home to your advantage. Therefore, it’s important to understand the basics of how home equity works and how it can help you.
By definition, home equity is the difference between the property’s current market value and the amount you still owe on the mortgage for that property.
For example, if your home is currently valued at $350,000 and you owe $125,000 on the mortgage — the amount of equity you’ve built up is $225,000.
If you’re looking to increase your home equity, check out the three most popular ways to do so.
1. Loan Repayment
As you make mortgage payments and pay down your principal, your equity increases. You can also make larger monthly mortgage payments, pay more towards your principal, or make biweekly payments to build home equity quicker.
This is one of the biggest benefits of owning a home versus renting one. The money you’re paying isn’t going into a landlord’s pocket. It’s goes toward your investment, and you can make it work for you.
2. Home Price Appreciation
Here’s a way to build equity without having to do a thing. Your home can gain value if home prices rise and, therefore, your equity increases with your home’s new market value.
Let’s say you bought your house for $200,000, put down $25,000 upfront, and borrowed $175,000. Five years later you’ve made every monthly payment and have paid down $50,000. Now you owe $125,000, but during that time, your home’s value has increased to $250,000. Your equity is $125,000.
3. Home Improvements
Certain home improvement projects where the value exceeds the cost can help you build equity. Simply put, you’ll have a house that’s worth more than what it was before these additions.
Home equity is a huge asset that can really work for you. But how? Here are a couple of ways you can make the most of your home equity.
New Home Purchase: If you’re already a homeowner who plans to sell your home at some point, you can put your earnings from the sale price toward the purchase of your next home. However, if you haven’t paid off the mortgage yet before you sell it, you won’t get to use all the earnings from the buyer, but you’ll get to use the equity (as seen in the example above).
Refinancing With a Return: A cash-out refinance gives you access to your home’s equity by refinancing your existing mortgage into a new one with a larger principal, but you pocket the difference in a lump sum.
If the amount of equity you’ve built up is $125,000 on a $200,000 loan, and you need $50,000, your new mortgage amount will be based on the total amount you owe ($75,000) plus the cash you receive, or $125,000. Typically, your lender will limit the cash-out amount to 80% of the home’s value.
Many homeowners use the cash to pay for major expenses, such as: consolidating high-interest credit card debt, college tuition, and home improvements/renovations.
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On a non-descript street in Norrebro, an ornate mosque, building sites and drab office buildings share a few hundred square metres with the headquarters of the Hells Angels. This was where Islamic State-inspired gunman Omar Abdel Hamid al-Hussein was killed by Danish police on 15 February 2015 after killing two men and injuring six.
Hussein was a petty criminal and gang member who had served time for a stabbing on the Copenhagen subway and was later radicalised. On his Facebook page, the 22-year-old apparently swore allegiance to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi just nine minutes before the first shooting. Earlier he had uploaded a quote from the Quran warning 'disbelievers' that they would be 'driven from their homes'.
In the wake of the attacks – which killed Finn Nørgaard, 55, a film director and a Jewish man, Dan Uzan, 37 – Danish media reported that Hussein had only recently been released from prison and had a background in the rough housing estates of northern Copenhagen, where he had once been affiliated with an Arab street gang known as the 'Brothas'.
The attacks caused outrage across the world but also some soul-searching in Denmark. The country of just under six million has welcomed refugees throughout the 20th century, including those from eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans. Many of them were housed in traditional working class neighbourhoods, which tend to have higher rates of unemployment.
Some are now speculating how much the failures to ensure immigrant communities were effectively integrated in Denmark has made those sectors of Danish society more susceptible to criminality and radicalisation. In the wake of Omar's killing, dozens of bouquets of flowers were left at the site where he was shot. One woman, Janni Nielsen, left flowers at the site claiming that Denmark had 'failed to accommodate [...] young people from alternative communities'.
On a sunny afternoon in Norrebroparken, Copenhagen, IBTimesUK meets a Dane who knows such alternative communities well. Aydin Soei, a sociologist, is author of Angry Young Men, a study of immigrant street gangs in Denmark. He sets out a theory of 'counter-citizenship' in Denmark, a feeling of exclusion that is fuelling both recruitment to street gangs and radicalisation.
"When people feel that they have pay an extra price because of the place that they are living, their skin colour and their age, then the role of religion becomes even greater. We also have to pay a price for our religion – it is hard to get recognised as equal citizens as Muslims and it is in that narrative that you find the criminal environment," he said.
Young criminals like Hussein drawn towards radical ideologies not only because of their social isolation, but also because they are already used to violence. Many have access to weapons through criminal networks and already know how to use them, having honed their skills in the regular gang wars between Arab and biker gangs that regularly arise over territory.
"The ones that are rounded by the criminal subculture are used to doing violence. When they get radicalised it goes really quick," says Soei, snapping his fingers. "And often the intelligence services don't pick them up quick enough – that is what we saw with Omar al-Hussain."
Not all disenfranchised young immigrants become gangsters or jihadis of course, as Soei himself can attest. He is the son of Iranian refugees who moved to Denmark in 1986 and whose qualifications were not recognised by the government. His mother went back to school and has a successful career in Denmark but his father fell into a downward spiral which culminated in him killing another man, being convicted, jailed and then deported.
"My dad became bitter that his skills weren't worth anything and [...] he got angry. He talked about Denmark being a racist country and started drinking and getting more and more f**ked up until he killed another man and was thrown out of the country. You have a lot of young men whose dads from the first generation have failed, who were not there and when they were there, they were violent," Soei said.
Denmark appears to be learning its lesson. Not only has there been a push to get refugees and migrants into work as soon as possible, but they often begin studying or working before their asylum claims have even been decided. There is also an effort on the part of the government to make it easier for skilled refugees to have their qualifications recognised when they come to Denmark.
"That's how you get language and social skills that you can give on to your own kids. My generation of youngsters have grown up with parents who aren't in the labour market and who are angry at the Danish society. Or who look at themselves as clients rather than citizens and that are really bad values to give onto your kids," Soei said. | <urn:uuid:27a1730c-7cc9-4426-905e-c085ce22a906> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/denmark-why-angry-young-danes-have-swapped-dealing-drugs-waging-jihad-1563927 | 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 | 0.988109 | 991 | 1.875 | 2 |
How You Can Play Poker
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(two ) In poker, the actions taken is based upon your odds or comparative final table position. Attacks/actions, if in response to a certain card in response to general player strategy, is made in conjunction with all the cards, lifts and bets. Poker plans are usually divided in to a few groups:'action',''pre-flop' and also'post-flop'. Each has a exceptional influence on the total result.
'Action'in poker,'' describes to the movement of personalities from their present-day status in the poker chip sequence into their own ultimate goal in the game. Tasks might be performed in a reaction to an opponent's bet, or only all in your own initiative. Some common activities incorporate folding, calling for a bet once you have increased or predicted and gambling again, increasing pre-flop to create potential continuation strikes and re-raise pre-flop before this flop to'buy' your opponents' pre-flop actions. Tasks have an immediate and accumulative effect on the final results of the match.
'Preflop' bets would be those raised before the flop, both from a player with money already on hand or by a third party participant (termed the banker). Ordinarily, these stakes have been utilised to offset the strong hands played by the competitions, and to make a strong continuation drama . Examples include bets in answer to a high card or even pre-flop raise by way of a strong player. Preflop bets additionally often involve bets on following springs, when a player has made substantial gains by making earlier bets.
The quantity of raises (whether or not double or triple) that a new player needs to create as a way to reach the marijuana is asking the flop spread. The marijuana chances imply that in case you increase significantly more compared to the total needed to pay your stakes in the flop, then you may secure the marijuana. Raises can be produced in any sequence with the exception of this last two, and in multi-table tournaments, the past two stakes in every pot. In multi-table and even multi-table tournament games, where there was only 1 dining table occupied, the increases in all are confined to this initial four at the kettle. Pot odds don't signify the perfect quantity of increases that a new player should create.
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At an four-card attract, the smallest two cards in the deck are coped off, followed closely by the upper two. In an five-card draw, the two best cards are dealt off, followed by the next and also the fourth card. The greatest possible hand comprise of five or more cards at a straight line, without the loopholes or earnings.
In free-roll and high stakes poker tournaments, the action is sluggish and also there are several more arms . In these types of championships, these pots are bigger and also the chances of winning are far better. The advantage of participating in in a free roll is that the prospect of successful enormous pay outs using a tiny initial bankroll. Highstakes poker tournaments are usually played in a couple of small tables, even where people can play against each other. Players may only have to play with with chips. In a high stakes tournament, the very most greatest possible hands is usually the flush, plus it is not uncommon to find the kettle tied following the very first around. | <urn:uuid:4a20ec30-9b2a-4a51-b729-3bd533f3c6b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogfreely.net/seajoke1/how-you-can-play-poker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.964576 | 875 | 1.5 | 2 |
How has Phoenix impacted your workplace as a whole?
Phoenix has impacted a lot of the employees in my division. It’s had devastating effects. Employees become upset, depressed, stressed to the point where they cannot function, and Phoenix has caused increased sick leave since employees have difficulty coping or understanding why this is happening to them.
What kinds of impacts have you seen/heard it have on people?
The impacts of Phoenix manifest themselves in different ways such as stress, anxiety, depression and despair. Public servants go to work each day thinking we will be paid for our efforts and to realize that you’re not receiving pay makes you feel worthless. You become stressed out and worry how you’re going to survive. Bills and financial obligations don’t stop and often there is no where to turn!
It’s overwhelming and humiliating to ask family members and friends for help, and they can only help so long. During a pandemic, Phoenix makes things worse! I have talked to other employees who’ve been affected by Phoenix and they lost their vehicles, homes and a few have lost their lives. The government is aware of this and hasn’t done enough to resolve the crisis: how many more people must live with Phoenix despair? The pandemic coupled with Phoenix is making me feel even more hopeless. It’s hard to believe that this is happening to me as a Federal employee given 19 years of service.
Has Phoenix directly impacted you? (If so) how?
Phoenix has affected me during a pandemic when finances are needed the most to survive. I did not receive any pay recently. I called the pay centre and they said the system skipped me for the whole pay period. If my pay issues are not corrected by the next pay cycle, I don’t know what I am going to do. I will have to go to a food bank, and I don’t know what I am going to do about my finances. It will destroy my credit and I will encounter future hardships. It’s terrible timing. If it continues, I know I will fall into a deep depression.
How does it feel to live in the middle of Phoenix and now COVID-19?
It’s extremely stressful having to deal with both COVID-19 and Phoenix pay issues. Not receiving my pay is shocking and I am stressed beyond belief. I don’t know where to turn, and I have lost all faith in the system. I will be constantly worrying about my finances and if I will get paid on time or the correct amount. It’s unbearable and although Employee Assistance Program (EAP) exists, the program doesn’t provide funds to purchase food and pay bills. It is not a valid solution to the issues caused by Phoenix. EAP provides some financial support but in the end the stress and depression I am experiencing will stay with me until I retire! I wonder that when I retire if Phoenix will be resolved and we’ll receive our compensation?
What do you think about what the government has done/offered so far?
The government has not done enough to help Phoenix affected employees. They continue to pour funds into a failing system. It’s not working, and the money Phoenix was supposed to save the government has only cost us billions more then its original savings. I find it unacceptable for a Federal Government, especially in Canada, to count on its employees to carry out critical work without pay, missing proper pay, or not being paid at proper levels. If it happened to MPs, I am sure it would have been addressed and corrected in no time. We are not a marginalized country and we are supposed to be a democratic society that treats people fairly and respectfully.
What can PSAC members do now?
PSAC members need to stand up and unite to let the government know it’s not ok. Once this pandemic is over, action must be taken to ensure this system is corrected. If we can rally together to deal with this pandemic, then they should be able to resolve Phoenix long ago and tackle the issue right away.
What do you think the government needs to do about Phoenix?
The federal government needs to solve this problem. I know were in the middle of a crisis and it’s not going to happen anytime soon, but they need to be aware that Phoenix is still happening during the pandemic. At a time where everything is unpredictable and to be without any funds is unacceptable. The government has showed how they can solve finically issues during this pandemic so why has it taken them so long to solve their own employee’s issues?
What would it feel like to see Phoenix finally dealt with properly?
If Phoenix was finally resolved and employees could depend on being paid for their work, it would be such a relief. It would help the healthcare system strained because many employees suffered related health problems. A lot of public servants are depressed, stressed beyond normal and many are now dependent on prescription drugs. This problem can not continue to grow and it’s costing the country millions. It’s taking its tole on people’s health and life.
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A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Saint Lucia
British colonial rule was established in St. Lucia in 1815. The island grew increasingly self-reliant throughout the twentieth century, participating in the West Indies Federation from 1958 until its collapse in 1962. Along with the other Windward Islands, St. Lucia became a federated state associated with the United Kingdom in 1967. Although it achieved independence in 1979, St. Lucia remains a member of the British Commonwealth.
Today the United States and St. Lucia enjoy cooperative relations and have signed several treaties concerning international crime and narcotics trafficking.
U.S. Recognition of Saint Lucian Independence, 1979.
St. Lucia achieved full independence on February 22, 1979. The United States had previously informally recognized St. Lucia as a federated state of the British Commonwealth but did not formally recognize St. Lucian independence until the appointment of Sally Angela Shelton as American Ambassador to St. Lucia on May 17, 1979.
The United States maintains no official presence in St. Lucia. The Ambassador and Embassy officers are resident in Barbados and frequently travel to St. Lucia.
U.S. Special Representative to Saint Lucia Appointed, 1977.
Frank V. Oritz, Jr. was appointed United States Special Representative to the States of Antigua, Dominica, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent on September 1, 1977. The appointment was concurrent to his positions as Ambassador to Barbados and to Grenada.
Diplomatic Relations Established, 1983.
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Since the British mandate, western nations, especially oil-poor European nations, have pandered to Middle Eastern tyrants for a single reason: oil. Israel, poor little Israel, had no oil. That’s why, when the Arabs and Iranians said that they wanted Israel, Europeans were willing to fall in line. Anything, after all, to get that Saudi or Iranian or Kuwaiti or whatever else black gold. America didn’t help things by allowing the environmentalists to make America, which has some of the largest oil reserves in the world, one of the most pathetic (and costly) producers.
One of the little known secrets of the Middle East is that the Muslim nations are running out of oil. I’m not going to go hunting for the link now, as I have to get dinner started, but I’m 99.9% certain that someone conversant with the oil industry told me that Muslims are having to pump water into their wells to raise the oil sufficiently to allow them to get it out. This doesn’t mean they’ll run dry tomorrow, but it doesn’t bode well for them in the long term.
What’s not secret, although it’s not making the splash one would expect it to make, is the fact that Israel turns out to sit on vast oil reserves:
Actual production is still minuscule, but evidence is accumulating that the Promised Land, from a natural resource point of view, could be an El Dorado: inch for inch the most valuable and energy rich country anywhere in the world. If this turns out to be true, a lot of things are going to change, and some of those changes are already underway.
Walter Russell Mead explains how this fact is changing the politics on the ground in the Middle East.
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Image sources: Wikipedia: Stockholmsutställningen 1930, Wikipedia: Stockholm Exhibition (1930), Kornknarren, Stockholms historia, + my own photos and scans.
Wikipedia: Stockholm Exhibition (1930)
"The fair was significant in the history of architecture in Stockholm, firmly establishing functionalism as the dominant architectural style in Sweden."
"The two head architects were Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz."
"All of the fair buildings were temporary. But the fair's ideas lived on and influenced the shape of Swedish housing for years to come."
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Horticultural technicians have recorded an average of about 9 lbs. of tomatoes per plant for heirlooms in North Carolina; 8 to 12 lbs. for tomatoes grown in high tunnels--or impermanent greenhouses--in West Virginia, 8 to 13 lbs. for Romas in Pennsylvania, 10 to 12 lbs. for greenhouse tomatoes in Kentucky, and 4 to 10 lbs. for slicers, 4 to 5 lbs. for plum tomatoes and 2 to 7 lbs. for cherry tomatoes in Washington state.
About this Author
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How Marketing Mix Can Help Small Businesses Grow
If you are doing all you can to grow your small business but nothing is working, you might want to take a step back and reconsider your marketing mix. Doing the right type of marketing at the right place and at the right time requires some brainstorming, research and analytical approach. Take a look at what marketing mix is and how you can use this concept to grow your small business.
Understanding Marketing Mix
In simple words, marketing mix involves the techniques, tactics and strategies you implement to promote your product, service or brand. The marketing mix consists of four Ps: Promotion, Product, Place and Price. If you research the idea a bit more you will find that people are adding more Ps to the mix but their understanding is not as important as the understanding of these four factors. In the new definition of marketing mix, they have also included other Ps like: people, positioning, packaging and politics. Here is a basic understanding of the four essential Ps of the mix.
Product: It could also be a service-anything that you are selling
Price: The value that you want to obtain when you sell the item.
Place: The exact location where you sell the product.
Promotion: The mixture of activities and campaigns that you put in to spread awareness of your product and increase its sales.
To expand your business you have to achieve perfection in your marketing mix. You have to attain a balance in all the areas of the mix for a successful strategy. Working on attaining the right balance right from the beginning will help you lay the foundation of a business that faces least amount of struggle when it comes to expansion and growth.
Using Marketing Mix for Small Business’ Growth
To create the right marketing mix, you have to understand your product at its core. When it comes to the product, you have to have a full understanding of it. What is your product? What problem does it solve? Even if your product solves a problem, have you designed to in a way that a potential customer would look at it and know what it is supposed to do? Once you know your product well, you can get to the other Ps of the marketing mix. Here is a little understanding of how marketing mix works.
- Tying Product with Price
It can be one of the toughest things for most business owners to do. While it is a job for the marketing department, you don’t always have a dedicated marketing department when you are still a startup. When you are about to price your product, you have to consider a lot of factors. First, what type of audience does your product appeal to? What materials have you created the product with? How much competition you have in the market? What is the buying power of the market for which you have designed the product? It is only after taking all of these factors into consideration can you price your product appropriately. Keep in mind that when you are a new business, you cannot charge your customers for your value because there is no value for customers in buying your product at this stage.
- Tying Price with Place
You cannot be thinking of one individual component of the marketing mix at one time. You might have created the right product but the question is “are you selling it to the right people?” What if your product is more appealing for teenagers but you are targeting people over the age of 35? What if you know your target audience but are placing the product in the wrong places? Maybe your item is more sellable online but you are putting it on retail store shelves. Now that you know the “place” where you need to sell the product, you have price the item aptly too. For example, a product that you have designed for teenagers should be affordable within their pocket money.
Moreover, your product might be appealing for a niche market but you might have priced it too low. As a result, too few people would buy it and your revenue will not cover your expenses. You have to be sure that you cover your costs within the limited number of purchases that occur.
- Tying Place with Promotion
When looking at place and promotion as a combination, you have to be sure that you are promoting your product in the right place. Is your product more appealing for women than it is for men? If yes then you should consider promoting it on social networking platforms where women are more active e.g. Pinterest. Moreover, your promotional activities should match the place. For example, if you are promoting in an area where there are Oakland Athletics fans, you don’t want to be wearing San Francisco Giants’ t-shirts and gear.
- Combining All the Ps
Once you have created the right product, priced it perfectly and strategized your promotional campaigns, you have to bring the product in the right place so all the Ps work successfully. Creating the right product, pricing it right and promoting it with passion but in the wrong place will result in disappointing response. Just because you are good with one of the Ps does not mean you will be successful in others as well.
Now that you have a good idea of tying the Ps together, you should have a complete road plan of how you are going to sell your product. It will require a lot of working at initial stages. You cannot know your market unless you do some surveys and spend time collecting data about the market. At the same time, you have to perform a thorough research of the market to know how you will price your product. When it comes to promotion, you will have to come out of the conventional methods and think more digital. You might as well set up a dedicated team for social media marketing and website analytics.
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(24 June 2000, Shizuoka, Japan) 50cc scooters are a common site on Japan's busy streets. They are meant for one rider and one rider alone. There is a law against riding double and violators of this law are subject to a fine. Whether it was an attempt to avoid the law, save transportation costs, or just a show of bravado, three fifteen year old boys decided to ride triple -- yes, triple -- on a scooter. Their ability to accomplish this feat on a small scooter proves that what they lacked in intelligence they more than made up for in dexterity and adventurous spirit. Not one of them possessed a license to drive any vehicle whatsoever, nor did any have the sense to wear a helmet, gloves or any form of protective riding gear.
A fifty-two year old driver quickly ended the boys' adventure with the front end of his car. A moment later the boys were airborne at roughly the same speed they were traveling on the scooter, which can reach speeds in excess of 50km per hour. Two of the boys flew into oncoming traffic and were run over by not one but two consecutive cars. All three suffered severe trauma and were pronounced 'Darwin eligible candidates' at the scene of the accident.
The police had trouble determining which one of the boys was in control of the scooter at the time of the fatal crash, but we all know that it was the Hands of Stupidity placed firmly on the handlebars and throttle.
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AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN
SECRET," ETC., ETC.
Ox the next morning but one news
was received from Mr. Pendril. The place of Michael Vanstone's residence on the
Continent had been discovered. He was living at Zurich, and a letter had been
dispatched to him at that place on the day when the information was obtained. In
the course of the coming week an answer might be expected, and the purport of it
should be communicated forthwith to the ladies at Combe-Raven.
Short as it was the interval of
delay passed wearily. Ten days elapsed before the expected answer was received;
and when it came at last it proved to be, strictly speaking, no answer at all.
Mr. Pendril had been merely referred to an agent in London who was in possession
of Michael Vanstone's instructions. Certain difficulties had been discovered in
connection with those instructions, which had produced the necessity of once
more writing to Zurich. And there "the negotiations" rested again for the
A second paragraph in Mr.
Pendril's letter contained another piece of intelligence entirely new. Mr.
Michael Vanstone's son (and only child), Mr. Noel Vanstone, had recently arrived
in London, and was then staying in lodgings occupied by his cousin, Mr. George
Bartram. Professional considerations had induced Mr. Pendril to pay a visit to
the lodgings. He had been very kindly received by Mr. Bartram, but had been
informed by that gentleman that his cousin was not then in a condition to see
visitors. Mr. Noel Vanstone had been suffering for some years past from a
wearing and obstinate malady; he had come to England expressly to obtain the
best medical advice, and he still felt the fatigue of the journey so severely as
to be confined to his bed. Under these circumstances, Mr. Pendril had no
alternative but to take his leave. An interview with Mr. Noel Vanstone might
have cleared up some of the difficulties in connection with his father's
instructions. As events had turned out there was no help for it but to wait for
a few days more.
The days passed, the empty days
of solitude and suspense. At last a third letter from the lawyer announced the
long-delayed conclusion of the correspondence. The final answer had been
received from Zurich, and Mr.
Pendril would personally communicate it, at Combe-Raven, on the afternoon of the
That next day was Wednesday, the
twelfth of August. The weather had changed in the night, and the sun rose watery
through mist and cloud. By noon the sky was overcast at all points; the
temperature was sensibly colder; and the rain poured down, straight and soft and
steady, on the thirsty earth. Toward three o'clock Miss Garth and Norah entered
the morning-room to await Mr. Pendril's arrival. They were joined shortly
afterward by Magdalen. In half an hour more the familiar fall of the iron latch
the socket reached their ears
from the fence beyond the shrubbery. Mr. Pendril and Mr. Clare advanced into
view along the garden path, walking arm in arm through the rain, sheltered by
the same umbrella. The lawyer bowed as they passed the windows: Mr. Clare walked
straight on, deep in his own thoughts, noticing nothing.
After a delay which seemed
interminable; after a weary scraping of wet feet on the hall mat; after a
mysterious, muttered interchange of question and answer outside the door, the
two came in—Mr. Clare leading the way. The old man walked straight up to the
table without any preliminary greeting, and looked across it at the three women
with a stern pity for them in his rugged, wrinkled face.
"Bad news," he said. "I am an
enemy to all unnecessary suspense. Plainness is kindness in such a case as this.
I mean to be kind; and I tell you plainly—bad news."
Mr. Pendril followed him. He
shook hands, in silence, with Miss Garth and the two sisters, and took a seat
near them. Mr. Clare placed himself apart on a chair by the window. The gray
rainy light fell soft and sad on the faces of Norah and Magdalen, who sat
together opposite to him. Miss Garth had placed herself a little behind them, in
partial shadow; and the lawyer's quiet face was seen in profile, close beside
her. So the four occupants of the room appeared to Mr. Clare, as he sat apart in
his corner; his long claw-like fingers interlaced on his knee; his dark vigilant
eyes fixed searchingly now on one face, now on another. The dripping rustle of
the rain among the leaves, and the clear, ceaseless tick of the clock on the
mantle-piece, made the minute of silence which followed the settling of the
persons present in their places indescribably oppressive. It was a relief to
everyone when Mr. Pendril spoke.
"Mr. Clare has told you already,"
he began, "that I am the bearer of bad news. I am grieved to say, Miss Garth,
that your doubts, when I last saw you, were better founded than my hopes. What
that heartless elder brother was in his youth he is still in his old age. In all
my unhappy experience of the worst side of human nature, I have never met with a
man so utterly dead to every consideration of mercy as Michael Vanstone."
"Do you mean that he takes the
whole of his brother's fortune, and makes no provision whatever for his
brother's children?" asked Miss Garth.
"He offers a sum of money for
present emergencies," replied Mr. Pendril, "so meanly and disgracefully
insufficient that I am ashamed to mention it."
"And nothing for the future?"
As that answer was given the same
thought passed, at the same moment, through Miss Garth's mind and through
Norah's. The decision which deprived both the sisters alike of the resources of
fortune did not end there for the younger of the two. Michael Vanstone's
merciless resolution had virtually pronounced the sentence which dismissed Frank
to China, and which destroyed all present hope of Magdalen's marriage. As the
words passed the lawyer's lips Miss Garth and Norah looked at Magdelen
anxiously. Her face turned a
shade paler, but not a feature of it moved; not a word escaped her. Norah, who
held her sister's hand in her own, felt it tremble for a moment, and then turn
cold—and that was all. "Let me mention plainly what I have done," resumed Mr.
Pendril; "I am very desirous you should not think that I have left any effort
untried. When I wrote to Michael Vanstone, in the first instance, I did not
confine myself to the usual formal statement. I put before him, plainly and
earnestly, every one of the circumstances under which he has become possessed of
his brother's fortune. When I received the answer, referring me to his written
instructions to his lawyer in London—and when a copy of those instructions was
placed in my hands—I positively declined, on becoming acquainted with them, to
receive the writer's decision as final. I induced the solicitor on the other
side to accord us a further term of delay; I attempted to see Mr. Noel Vanstone
in London for the purpose of obtaining his intercession; and, failing in that, I
myself wrote to his father for the second time. The answer referred me, in
insolently curt terms, to the instructions already communicated; declared those
instructions to be final; and declined any further correspondence with me. There
is the beginning and the end of the negotiation. If I have overlooked any means
of touching this heartless man, tell me, and those means shall be tried." He
looked at Norah. She pressed her sister's hand encouragingly, and answered for
both of them. "I speak for my sister as well as for myself," she said, with her
color a little heightened, with her natural gentleness of manner just touched by
a quiet, uncomplaining sadness. "You have done all that could be done, Mr.
Pendril. We have tried to restrain ourselves from hoping too confidently; and we
are deeply grateful for your kindness, at a time when kindness is sorely needed
by both of us." Magdalen's hand returned the pressure of her sister's—withdrew
itself—trifled for a moment impatiently with the arrangement of her dress—then
suddenly moved the chair closer to the table. Leaning one arm on it (with the
hand fast clenched), she looked across at Mr. Pendril. Her face, always
remarkable for its want of color, was now startling to contemplate in its blank,
bloodless pallor. But the light in her large gray eyes was bright and steady as
ever; and her voice, though low in tone, was clear and resolute in accent as she
addressed the lawyer in these terms: "I understood you to say, Mr. Pendril, that
now father's brother had sent his written orders to London, and that you had a
copy. Have you preserved it?"
"Have you got it about you?"
"May I see it?"
Mr. Pendril hesitated and looked
uneasily from Magdalen to Miss Garth, and from Miss Garth back again to Magdalen.
"Pray oblige use by not pressing
your request," he said. "It is surely enough that you know the result of the
instructions. Why should you agitate yourself to no purpose by reading them?
They are expressed so cruelly; they show such abominable want of feeling, that I
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Are you someone who prefers to pound the pavement to stay fit as you age? Well, strap up – our Xali physiotherapy expert is going to set you straight on the benefits of weight training pre- and post-menopause.
First, let me say there is nothing wrong with going for a walk or run. A leisurely walk with a friend to catch up on all the latest gossip is a wonderful way to feel connected and get the heart rate up. There is ample evidence to suggest that regular walks can be a protective factor for a range of long-term health conditions, especially when walking in nature. Walking as a health and well-being tool is excellent for our psychological health.
Running too has a great deal of research that espouses a myriad of benefits. Health, well-being and even mortality rates are all better off in the running population. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, data showed that, those who ran at least once a week had 27% lower risk of all-cause mortality, 30% lower risk of cardiovascular-related death, and 23% lower risk of cancer mortality.
Hell, it has even been shown to reduce the risk of knee osteoarthritis (more on this in a different article!). However, if your first thought is to tie up those laces, then keep reading to see why incorporating weight training – especially during the hormonal changes during menopause – is something you will want to do.
Your body will thank you later.
HOW WEIGHT TRAINING WORKS
There’s an old adage of use it, or you lose it. There is also strain it to gain it. The premise is this: if you load tissues repetitively and appropriately, the body will respond appropriately. The body does this with a moderately high degree of specificity, in order to make that task easier.
Put simply, If you walk a lot, you typically get better at it. Similarly, if you lift weights regularly, your muscles, tendons, nerves, and joints adapt to help you be stronger to lift that weight more efficiently. Interestingly however, there is a body of evidence out there that strength training can make you a much better runner.
In general, strength training activities can positively affect muscle force through several different adaptations. Here’s the breakdown:
- Hypertrophy is the term to describe growth in muscle size and strength, cyclicly and progressively. That is, increased weight load over time.
- Hypertrophy is the outcome after muscles are exposed to repeated bouts of exercise causing micro damage to the muscle cells. When done properly, this is a good thing.
- Micro damage causes an inflammatory response and it is the pain you feel for the next 48hrs after a bout of exercise (also called delayed onset muscle soreness, or DOMS for short).
- It is also the stimulus for the body to mitigate future damage by repairing the damaged tissue and adding more muscle cells.
- Hypertrophy is aided by rest, dietary protein, certain hormones (e.g testosterone) and has a very strong genetic component as well.
SO, WHY SHOULD I WEIGHT TRAIN?
Now that we have the boring, but necessary sciencey bit out of the way, let’s get to it.
Working as a physiotherapist who typically helps rehabilitate a lot of perimenopausal women, there tends to be a perception that walking, whilst great as outlined earlier, will make women strong. I always have to burst their bubble with the following statement: People who run and walk won’t get strong. It is as simple as that.
As controversial as that statement may be to some, hopefully the above premise regarding the cyclical nature of progressive overload has given you an insight as to why you need strength training to make you strong. Often, the intensity of walking is insufficient to create an appreciable amount of muscle growth, and in turn strength.
It makes sense though, right? Look at the build of a marathon runner vs a weightlifter.
LOADING THROUGH MENOPAUSE
Menopause usually occurs in women between the ages of 47 and 55 years. There are both physical and psychological symptoms linked to menopause. The physical changes are driven by a loss of oestrogen hormones. One of these changes is increased belly fat, which is a risk for heart disease and Type 2 Diabetes. The other is the loss of muscle. Muscle loss means that women become weaker and stand more of a chance of developing problems such as osteoporosis.
Because osteoporosis risk skyrockets following menopause (oestrogen is needed to help lay down bone), strength training is especially vital. In fact, research shows osteoporosis is partially preventable with adequate amounts of calcium in the diet, along with progressive high-intensity resistance training. Strength training exercises will help to build bone and muscle strength, burn body fat, and rev up your metabolism.
IS IT TOO LATE TO START?
The great news is that the progress overload adaptation process never stops. So, if it’s been a while between lifts or if you think you are too old to lift weights, it is never too late! Progressive strength and weight training during menopause is efficient and effective to improve bone health, pack on muscle and retain function.
In fact, a recent study (the BELL Trial Protocol) prescribed heavy kettlebell style training for reasonably inactive men and women aged 59-79 years. Participants were able to train 5 days weekly for 3 months, consistently with no injuries. There were large improvements in grip strength, and significant changes in cardiovascular capacity, muscular strength and endurance, functional capacity, and body composition.
As shown in the BELL study (and numerous others), it all comes down to how you train. Training with higher loads generally provokes only marginally larger gains in muscle size. Lifting 85% of your individual maximum voluntary affects how quickly you can improve strength (rate of force development) compared to 60-80%. This is imperative for reducing frailty as we age.
In summary, muscle loss reduces your ability to function normally and can become a vicious cycle of decreasing activity and additional muscle loss. To break this cycle, we advise all women, but especially pre- and post-menopausal women – use strength conditioning routines that include increasingly heavier weights over time for the best results. And if you’re starting at zero, you can achieve improvement even with less frequent training.
However, if you’ve never set foot in a gym, it is certainly worth the investment into a good personal trainer, exercise physiologist, or sports physiotherapist. These professionals will certainly streamline the process and take out all the angst associated with starting something foreign.
Stephen Timms is the Principal Physiotherapist and Sport & Exercise Scientist at Praxis Physiotherapy in Brisbane, Australia. He is a published researcher in the physiotherapy and sports science field and has lectured at conferences around the world in various disciplines.
Stephen has played many sports himself at a competitive level, namely cricket, AFL, and tennis. His exposure to elite sport, personalised health, and clinical experience has equipped him with the skills to effectively treat musculoskeletal pathologies in all populations.
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Weblogging: The trees fight back
Jul 4th 2002
From The Economist print edition
Should old media embrace blogging?
BACK in the mists of early Internet history, online publishing was going to wrest power from the inky fingers of old media groups and put it in the hands of ordinary people. Well, it never happened. Yet just when old media began to feel smug again about its old-fashioned paper-based products, weblogging (known as blogging) happened. The question for the big media world is whether to embrace the phenomenon that, in part, claims to undermine it.
Blogging, the publication of running commentary on personal online weblogs, has in the past couple of years exploded from a cultish techie activity into a cottage industry churning out increasingly compelling content. In 1998, there were about 30,000 weblogs; today, there are some 500,000, according to Cameron Marlow, who runs blogdex, which tracks them.
Blogging has taken off thanks to the development of online tools, such as Blogger and UserLand, which make it simple and cheap to update personal web content instantly. Weblogs range from the political (InstaPundit, Kausfiles, AndrewSullivan) to the high-tech (Dan Gillmor's eJournal, Scripting News, 802.11b, Boing Boing), and from the personal rant to the thoughtful critique. One recurring theme is their quirky, counter-cultural nature. As a recent article in the Online Journalism Review put it: “Weblogs are the anti-newspaper.”
Many thrive on correcting or deriding content published in newspapers and magazines. “Blogs have emerged as an instant critique of major media,” says Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic, whose weblog book reviews can lift a title into the top ten on Amazon. “At the same time, bloggers are parasites on big media, relying on them for stories and raw material.”
How then is big media to respond? Some publishers, such as the San Jose Mercury News and Britain's Guardian newspaper, were quick to set up weblogs. But the general response has been to ignore them. This was not entirely foolish: weblogs do not make money. Some bloggers earn commissions on items bought through a link from their weblog, or receive donations from charitable readers. But even Mr Sullivan says his weblog brings in only about $6,000 a month from such sources. Most bloggers do not blog for money.
So what do big media groups stand to gain from adopting a format that delights in promoting competitors' content, and relies on relinquishing editorial control? Such a question, say bloggers, misunderstands the force of weblogs. “Traditional publishing is about putting on a show; building a network of weblogs is like hosting a party,” says Simon Waldman, head of digital publishing at the Guardian.
For all the costly and failed efforts by media companies to create and charge for online material, blogging suggests that the web works best as a link to other people—and a way of finding and raiding their content. As InstaPundit's Glenn Reynolds says, “the threat to big media is not to its pocketbook but to its self-importance.” | <urn:uuid:ed896c8d-670f-4663-934f-daa9d78648e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://aaditeshwar.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948496 | 682 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Acclaimed author and Louisiana native Fatima Shaik is the 2021 recipient of the Louisiana Writer Award, presented annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana. Shaik is the twenty-second recipient of the prestigious award presented to recognize outstanding contributions to Louisiana's literary and intellectual life exemplified by a contemporary writer's body of work.
Fatima Shaik is a literary author whose meticulous research and commitment to the languages of Louisiana are evidenced by a nearly half-century professional writing career in books, magazines, and newspapers. Her books include her recent nonfiction work on a largely forgotten aspect of Louisiana history, two short story collections, two picture books for children, and a young adult novel, all set in Louisiana.
Shaik is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the John Anson Kittredge Fund, and the Platforms Fund sponsored by the Andy Warhol and Joan Mitchell Foundations. Her books have received Kirkus stars and accolades from a variety of publications.
The current that runs through Shaik’s books is her desire to parse the truth from oral tradition and document it, incorporating Louisiana musicality and ancestral weight.
Her first book, The Mayor of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz, of which the title story is written in the scat patter of conversing musicians, is, according to National Public Radio, a “terrific charging solo.” Publishers Weekly said that the “three lush and evocative novellas…capture the special ambiance of southern Louisiana.” Shaik’s second adult book, What Went Missing and What Got Found, which describes members of a community before and after Hurricane Katrina, is a "collection of fabulous short stories,” according to Susan Larson of The Reading Life. Bostonia magazine wrote, “Shaik’s strengths as a writer are in creating everyday dialogue, in painting her characters’ lives, in moving her plotlines quietly and slowly along. She brews her characters—their status, their intellect, even their skin color—slowly, like tea steeping in a porcelain pot…In compelling fiction such as this, there is power, and truth.”
In picture books published by Penguin, Shaik introduces readers to the syncopation of New Orleans drumming by the phrasing of text, the history of racial segregation through parade traditions, and the names of 19th century Creole authors through rhyming as children dance past a cemetery. Shaik captures African call and response communication “through her rhythmic language that reflects both the complex pattern of jazz music and the emotion and energy it evokes from the second liners” (Marigny Dupuy, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans). Recommended by Parents’ Choice, The Jazz of Our Street, according to Kirkus, is a “compact cultural history.” On Mardi Gras Day was chosen as one of the Best Holiday Books of 1999 by the Bank Street College of Education.
Melitte is a YA novel narrated by a child in 18th century Louisiana who learns that she is enslaved and the daughter of her captor. “The emotional first-person narrative and well-researched historical detail paint a vivid picture of the times and provide a wrenching look at slave life….Accessible and affecting historical fiction,” according to School Library Journal. Melitte received a Best Books for Young Adults recognition from the American Library Association and was an American Booksellers Association Pick of the Lists. The book has been translated into German as Melinde.
The New York Times wrote that Shaik’s seventh book, a nonfiction narrative entitled Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood, published by The Historic New Orleans Collection, “is so inviting that the true depth of its scholarship is revealed only in its bibliography, which lists dozens of archival and other sources. Shaik’s monumental book…is lyrical and mysterious and always captivating.”
Besides The New York Times’s review, Economy Hall has been described as “a must read” and “a landmark work in Louisiana history” (Susan Larson, The Reading Life), “stunning” (America magazine), “remarkable” (The Iron Lattice), and “lively, readable” (Kirkus starred review). Shaik’s research has been referred to as “painstaking” (Christian Science Monitor), “extensive” (American History Review) and “prodigious and fascinating (Washington Independent Review of Books).
Author and historian Caryn Cosse Bell said about Economy Hall, "Afro-Creole writer and activist Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes first offered a glimpse into the Société d’Economie’s early history in Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire....Now, Shaik, a twenty-first century heir to the Desdunes’s legacy, proposes to open an exciting new window onto the city’s rich multiethnic, multiracial history. As her eloquent 'Prologue' indicates, she is ideally suited for the task."
Fatima Shaik’s family can be traced to the 1700s in Louisiana and includes enslaved and free ancestors from Europe, Africa, India, and the Americas. She was born in the historic Seventh Ward of New Orleans and was bred on the oral history of her Creole family and neighbors.
Shaik began working professionally at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans in the summer between her junior and senior years in college, where she spent free time rummaging through its “morgue.” One of her early articles was about Marie Laveau, in which she quoted from an 1875 article. She spent her first two years of college at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her undergraduate thesis for Boston University’s School of Public Communication described the Black newspapers in 19th century New Orleans. She received a B.S. in Journalism in 1974 from BU and an M.A. in Political Science from New York University in 1978. Before attaining her Master’s, she was a summer reporter for the Miami News, statewide editor for the Louisiana Newsleader, and Assistant Editor and Foreign Digests Editor for McGraw-Hill World News.
Shaik was a Scholar-in-Residence at New York University and taught as a tenured faculty member at Saint Peter’s University where she founded its Communication degree program in 1992, received tenure in 1998, and retired from faculty after 28 years.
Shaik’s work appears in several anthologies including N. O. Lit: 200 Years of Louisiana Literature (Lavender Ink), Men We Cherish (Doubleday), African-American Literature (HarperCollins), Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (Penguin), and Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction (Penguin-Viking), and she is featured in A Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans. Shaik has written for The Southern Review, Callaloo, Tribes, The Root, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Literary Hub, and The New York Times among others. Her articles have appeared in the foreign-language magazines Nikkei Architecture and L’Expansion. Her four-part series of essays after Hurricane Katrina for the magazine In These Times followed the evolution of her community over a decade.
Live at the NYPL featured Shaik on its program entitled "Reshaping New Orleans History,” and author Jennifer Egan interviewed her for the Brooklyn Public Library on C-SPAN. Shaik also appeared on a panel called “Mining History” for the 2021 PEN World Voices Festival along with Kaitlyn Greenidge and Saidiya V. Hartman, moderated by Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf. For PEN’s digital festival the previous year, Shaik was one of the “Writers in Residence” and cooked Gumbo Z’herbes. She explained, “This was survival food that carried my family and many others through the centuries. I think about these families and their silent histories when I write. I write stories about Louisiana. I write in its language, and I like to keep that language in my mouth…I wanted you to know this food, so its story goes into the wider world.”
Shaik has also appeared at the Miami Book Fair, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, Louisiana Historical Association conferences, the National Conference of Social Studies, the Satchmo Fest, and more.
A member of The Writers Room in New York City, Shaik is an ex-officio trustee of PEN America as co-chair of the Children’s and Young Adult Books committee. With PEN, she spearheaded the transfer of a children’s library from New York to the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. That effort evolved into a visiting authors program for the Martin Luther King Jr. School for Science and Technology that has lasted more than 12 years. She is the subject of an upcoming documentary, The Bengali, by director Kavery Kaul.
Shaik is married to the abstract painter James Little, lives in New Orleans’s Seventh Ward and Manhattan, and has three daughters.
Regarding the Louisiana Writer Award, Shaik says, “I am honored to be recognized by my state. Louisiana is dear to my heart and its cultural history is central to my work. Anyone who knows me knows that Louisiana is ‘home.’"
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The country’s interim prime minister, Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, leader of the UN-backed Government of National Unity (GNU), is based in Tripoli, western Libya. The parliament building in Tobruk, in the east of the country, is the seat of a rival government led by Prime Minister Fathy Bashag.
Libyan media, including LANA, the internationally recognized government’s official news agency, and Almarsad, one of the main news outlets, reported that protesters entered the Tobruk building on Friday.
Several cities, including Tripoli, have witnessed protests against deteriorating living conditions and calls for the dissolution of political bodies, according to reports.
Videos posted on social media showed protesters inside the parliament building shouting “long live Libya”. Other videos showed people collecting trash and tires in front of the building and setting them on fire. The building was empty when protesters stormed it.
Dbeibeh said in a Twitter post that he supported protesters’ demands across the country.
“All [political] bodies have to go, including the government, and there is no way to do that except through elections,” Dbeibeh said, referring to Bashag’s government.
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