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Jupiler is a mark of beer brewed by the belgian group Interbrew. It is one of the most common beers in Belgium, the land with thousands of beers. "La Jup'", as it is called is blonde and light, though common north american beers are lighter. The name Jupiler originates from the exact place where the brewery is located : Jupille, in the neighbourhood of Liège. One interesting fact about this brewery is that guided tours are possible for groups with tasting of beers after the tour. | <urn:uuid:10be1530-028a-45cf-b8a8-9ba2ac94d6c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://everything2.com/title/Jupiler | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00248-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978101 | 110 | 1.5 | 2 |
Using Dashboards to Present NSSP Data
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ACEP COVID-19 in U.S. Emergency Departments
CDC COVID Data Tracker is CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Interactive maps, charts, and other visuals show surveillance data from across the response, including hospitalizations, vaccinations, demographic information, and daily and cumulative case and death counts reported to CDC since January 21, 2020. The tracker follows the burden of COVID-19 among healthcare personnel and across multiple Health Care Settings, including trends in U.S. emergency department visits (NSSP data).
The CDC DOSE system analyzes data from syndromic surveillance systems to rapidly identify outbreaks and provide situational awareness of changes in drug overdose-related emergency department visits at local, state, and regional levels. DOSE uses near real-time syndromic data captured by health departments to gather aggregate data on emergency department visits involving suspected all drug, all opioid, heroin, and all stimulant overdoses. Aggregate data include demographic characteristics of those who overdosed, such as sex, age, and county of patient residence.
Overdose Data to Action (OD2A)
Extreme heat events threaten public health. The CDC Heat and Health Tracker displays NSSP data (rate of emergency department visits) associated with health-related illness per 100,000 emergency department visits by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services region for the selected week.
Tick bites can lead to many diseases of public health concern. The Tick Bite Tracker uses NSSP data to display tick bites by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services region, week/month, and age/sex. Updated weekly, these data can indicate when people in different parts of the country are at greatest risk for tick bites.
Data from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program are shown by U.S. Health and Human Services region on the American College of Emergency Physician’s website. The visualizations show total emergency department visits, COVID-like illness visits, and influenza-like illness visits. Data are updated weekly.
Dashboard excerpt reproduced by permission from the American College of Emergency Physicians (July 2022).
State and Local Dashboards (and Reports)
- Public Health–Seattle & King County monitors behavioral health needs and services as part of an evaluation of the impacts of COVID-19. This includes a dashboard of emergency department (ED) visits involving suicidal ideation or attempt among King County, WA, residents. Public Health–Seattle & King County also has a Family Violence dashboard that tracks emergency department visits involving suspected child abuse/neglect and domestic violence.
- Maine Tracking Network includes a comprehensive data portal of public health indicators, including dashboards that use NSSP data: Tracking Cold-Related Illness, Tracking Heat Illness, and Tracking Tickborne Diseases. (Note. Maine’s dashboard and surveillance activities were featured in the August 2021 NSSP Community of Practice call “All-Hazards Approach to Syndromic Surveillance.” These calls feature the nation’s best practices for using near real-time data, pairing complementary data to better understand health events and threats, and sharing information publicly to improve people’s health.)
- Virginia Department of Health produces the Virginia Heat-Related Illness Surveillance dashboard. Virginia monitors emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits for heat-related illness from May through September each year (2015–present). The dashboard displays daily ED visits for heat-related illness and visualizations for visits by patient city/county, age, and sex.
- Arizona provides a dashboard of Hospital COVID-like and Influenza-like Illness Surveillance. Syndromic surveillance detects key terms and codes within the electronic health record: chief complaint field (patient’s reason for visit), discharge diagnosis field (codes for final diagnosis when patient is released), and specific free-text fields.
- Minnesota developed a comprehensive Weekly COVID-19 Report to support emergency response efforts that includes syndromic data (see example).
- Public Health–Seattle & King County use a dashboard to display emergency department visits and hospitalizations for COVID-like illness and pneumonia.
- North Carolina collects near real-time emergency department data via NC DETECT (https://ncdetect.org). The state’s Mental Health Dashboard uses these data to track ED visits for select mental health-related conditions (anxiety, depression, self-inflicted injury, suicidal ideation, trauma/stressors) and provides links to other sources of mental health data. Users can view county-level ED visit trends by gender, age group, race, ethnicity, and more.
- The Tri-County Health Department (Colorado) Syndromic Surveillance Program works closely with internal programs to support local prevention efforts and interventions. They developed a Mental Health dashboard to show syndromic surveillance trends and other data sets. The dashboards are used by partner organizations and hospitals.
- Arizona displays an Opioid Prevention dashboard of Emergency and Inpatient Visits for Suspected Drug Overdoses. The interactive dashboard lets users view data by visit year, visit type (emergency department and inpatient), and drug category (all suspected, heroin, opioid, or stimulant) and view total visits involving all suspected drug overdoses by month.
- Illinois Department of Public Health provides an Opioid Data Dashboardthat draws from NSSP and other sources. The dashboard shows mortality and morbidity trends, prescription opioid patterns, Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) coverage, Naloxone distribution trends, monthly county-level ED overdoses (by recent year), and all drug overdose mortality data (from the Statewide Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System [SUDORS]).
- Maine’s dashboards use near real-time data to display demographics of Confirmed Drug Deaths, providing a multifaceted picture of the drug overdose crisis.
- Minnesota provides a Syndromic Surveillance Drug Overdose Dashboard to monitor and identify trends for unintentional and undetermined suspected drug overdoses by week.
- The Tri-County Health Department (Colorado) Syndromic Surveillance Program works closely with internal programs to support local prevention efforts and interventions. They developed a Substance Abuse Dashboard to show syndromic surveillance trends and other data sets. The dashboards are used by partner organizations and hospitals.
- Virginia Department of Health provides a data portal on Opioid Indicators–Emergency Department Visits. The portal displays emergency department visit counts and rates among residents who sought emergency department care for unintentional overdose (all drugs, opioids, heroin).
- North Carolina collects near real-time emergency department data via NC DETECT (https://ncdetect.org), which are also displayed in its Annual ED Visit Trends Users can view county-level ED visit trends by gender, age group, race, ethnicity, and more.
- Tri-County Health Department (Colorado) displays syndromic surveillance indicators on dashboards so that staff can readily spot anomalies or concerning trends in health indicators of interest.
- Washington State Department of Health collects near real-time data via its Rapid Health Information NetwOrk (RHINO). RHINO integrates and shares NSSP data.
- Georgia maintains Drug Overdose Syndromic Surveillance Monthly Reports that show patient emergency department visits by county, percent change in those areas, overdose emergency department visits by month, demographics, and opioid- and heroin overdose emergency department visits.
- Maricopa County (Arizona) develops Heat Associated Deaths and Hospital Visits weekly reports. Maricopa County contributes syndromic data to NSSP.
- Minnesota provides a comprehensive weekly COVID-19 Report that included syndromic surveillance data. The Minnesota Department of Health integrates a variety of data sources (absenteeism, radiology, diagnostic labs, poison control, prescriptions, emergency department chief complaints, nurse call center, and over-the-counter sales) into customizable reports and dashboards.
- Oregon Health Authority uses ESSENCE’s surveillance component to generate Hazard Reports. These reports pull near real-time data that public health practitioners and hospital staff can use to monitor what’s happening in emergency departments throughout the state (see example).
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Microsolvated complexes of ibuprofen as revealed by high-resolution rotational spectroscopy†
Hydrogen-bonded complexes between ibuprofen and water generated in a supersonic expansion were characterized using chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy in the 2–8 GHz frequency range. Four spectra were observed allowing the determination of their rotational parameters. Comparison with quantum-chemical calculations led to their identification as the lowest energy 1 : 1 ibuprofen–water complexes. These correspond to the complexes between water and the four different conformers of ibuprofen previously detected in the gas phase, owing to their similar stabilization energies and abundances. Water seems to not change the conformational distribution of ibuprofen. | <urn:uuid:1fffab93-de6c-4bfc-a51c-16e72806802f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/CP/C8CP01088A | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.932243 | 160 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Waste Reduction & Recycling at the Supermarket
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation estimates that New Yorkers annually generate about 28.8 million tons of solid waste. Approximately 13 percent of the municipal solid waste is packaging material from grocery store products (according to a 1992 Franklin Associates study, Grocery Packaging in Municipal Solid Waste).
That adds up to a lot. Not only to a lot of waste and use of natural resources, but a lot of money. Money that your community must spend to manage the waste, and money for the increase in cost that consumers must pay for packaging.
Grocery packaging's total contribution to the solid waste stream has been declining in recent years -- due to source reduction efforts by manufacturers, substitution of lighter weight materials and elimination of some unnecessary packaging. You can also significantly reduce the amount of waste generated by your shopping trips just by following a few simple guidelines.
Shopping With Waste Reduction in Mind
- Buy Products With the Smallest Amount of Unnecessary Packaging
- Keep in mind, however, that some products must use additional packaging for health or safety reasons.
- Buy Reusable, Recycled or Recyclable Products and Packaging
- Look for reusable, durable alternatives to single-use products.
- Look for recycled-content information on a product or package--buying recycled products helps to ensure a market for the materials we recycle.
- Choose recyclable packaging, such as aluminum, steel, glass containers and certain plastics and paper board -- but make sure that the material is included for recycling in your local program.
- Buy in Bulk
- Save on packaging waste by using the bulk food bins (available in many supermarkets) for items such as nuts, candies, pasta, dried foods and fresh produce.
- Buy Larger Sizes
- The largest size package that you can use will save packaging and sometimes money.
- Buy Concentrates
- Concentrates save waste by not packaging water.
For more information on waste reduction and recycling:
Bureau of Waste Reduction and Recycling
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More women are dying from prescription painkiller overdoses than ever before, highlighting what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls a growing public-health epidemic.
The CDC study shows that while men are still more likely to die of overdoses, the number of deaths among women increased five-fold in the last decade, four times more than deaths in women from cocaine and heroin combined, says CDC director Tom Frieden. About 12 percent of these deaths were suicides, CDC experts said.
The rate of prescription drug overdose deaths of women increased 400 percent from 1999 to 2010, compared with an increase of 250 percent for men. More men die of prescription painkiller overdoses – about 23,000 in 2010, compared with 15,300 for women.
“Unfortunately, women are catching up in this regard,” Frieden said.
Women may be more prone to overdoses because they’re more likely to have chronic pain, be prescribed painkillers, have higher doses and use them longer than men, said Linda Degutis, director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. But doctors may not recognize these facts about women, said John Eadie, director of a Brandeis University program that tracks prescription-drug monitoring in the U.S.
Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers skyrocketed during the last decade despite no major increases in the need for prescription painkillers during the last 20 years, said Chris Jones, a health scientist at CDC. Doctors are prescribing medications more frequently for patients who may not need them, a trend in the medical profession that needs to be reversed, Frieden said.
Women between 45 and 54 had the greatest increases in drug overdose deaths, likely because of dependence on prescription drugs to ease chronic pain, experts said.
A jump was also seen in visits to hospital emergency rooms. Painkiller-related ER visits by women more than doubled between 2004 and 2010, the CDC found.
These numbers alone, however, may not tell the whole tale.
“If one looks carefully at the data it can be quickly seen that the vast majority of prescription overdose deaths occur as a consequence of individuals combining these drugs with another sedative,” said Carl Hart, a Columbia University associate professor who studies drugs and behavior.
The solution to this prescription problem lies in maximizing prescription monitoring programs, Frieden said.
Washington began one of the first such programs in 2007, allowing pharmacists to submit patient records of prescriptions, dosage, the dispenser and prescriber to the state’s health department. Frieden says these programs can curb drug use by catching “doctor shoppers” and “pill mills,” but critics say the programs can be intrusive for conscientious clinicians and patients.
Health-care providers should responsibly prescribe prescription painkillers by monitoring patients for substance abuse and mental health problems, discussing patient treatment options that don’t involve prescription drugs, and discussing the risks and benefits of taking painkillers for chronic conditions, the CDC says.
Patients should use prescription drugs only as directed by doctors, discuss all medications they’re taking with their doctors, and dispose of medication after they’ve completed the prescribed treatment, Frieden said. Women should also discuss pregnancy plans with their doctors to ensure infants do not develop heart malformations and become addicted to opiates, he said.
He said giving this “under-recognized issue” a spotlight is key in keeping deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses at bay.
“While we should be concerned about new drug-related trends, especially drug-related deaths, I am more concerned about us missing an important public-health education opportunity,” Hart said.
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Have you ever tried getting into shape by taking a solo approach, but eventually came to find yourself dropping off of your fitness program all together? Have you not even started your pursuit to a healthy lifestyle because you are on your own and unsure where to start? These are fairly common problems that people run into when they try to make healthy changes in their lives all by themselves. Don’t get discouraged though, because for today’s training topic you’ll find out why using the buddy system approach to reach your health and fitness goals will be your best strategy yet!
Maybe you go to the gym to do your usual routine, but every time you are there you notice a small group of people with a trainer or instructor, happily enjoying a boot-camp style workout. Do you also always see the same couple having some friendly competition while working out together? Or when you get home from work every day do you see the same two ladies in sweat pants and hoodies walking briskly by your house and chatting up a storm?
These people have something good going on – they are using the buddy system.. Buddying up when it comes to engaging in exercise and living an overall healthy lifestyle has multiple physical and social benefits. Having a strong support system is very important, especially when it comes to having a partner to trudge through the trenches and climb the highest peaks with you.
So why should you start buddying up?
If you have a partner to begin a workout program with then it makes getting started much less intimating. The motivation from feeling like you are in it together will actually get you and your partner to take the first steps towards your fitness goals (or to physically step foot in a gym). Once you start exercising on a regular basis and eventually make it a habit, your partner can push you past the intensity you would normally work at on your own. When you have a buddy to workout with they not only act as your coach and cheerleader, but also as someone to engage in healthy competition with. Research studies have shown that people are able to more than double their exercise intensity and time when they exercise with someone they perceive to be a better performer than they are. This is amazing! By safely competing in your workouts with your partner you can increase your fitness level much faster than you would by yourself.
Speaking of safety, you’ll also be able to watch out for each other while exercising at higher intensities. Your partner can make sure you are keeping good form with each exercise, and they will be able to spot you when doing heavier lifts like squats or a bench press. Having someone around for extra help will allow you to increase your fitness level even more in a shorter amount of time. While you are working out together you can bounce ideas off of each other with what kind of exercises to do, or different ways to do them, to add plenty of variety into your routine. Your body adapts to the same exercise routine over time, so it’s best to keep your muscles on their toes by mixing it up every now and then. This way you can get stronger and burn more calories. Trying new things makes the whole shared experience so much more fun!
Fun is the name of the game when it comes to the social aspect of exercising with a friend, coworker, or significant other. The honest truth is that in order to see the gains you want it is sometimes going to be uncomfortable and even boring if you are not used to working out. But that can easily be masked when you have a partner to make it fun! With a partner, your workouts can be lighthearted while you encourage and motivate one another through each repetition. When you can laugh at a joke or chat between sets it decreases your perceived exertion of the exercises you are performing. Conversation with your partner also acts as a positive distraction from exercise like timed cardio (e.g. running), which makes the time of your workout seem to fly by.
After all, humans are social animals; so when you are able to chat your way through a workout with your partner that workout becomes more like a free therapy session. Being able to have empathetic interactions, catch up on gossip, and tell stories makes you look forward to your next workout with your partner. When you have the social support of your exercise partner you gain great emotional benefits and a feeling of comradery. You are less likely to bail on an exercise session with your partner because you become emotionally invested and don’t want to let them down. This emotional investment in your partnership keeps you both accountable and serves as a huge motivating factor to working out together so you don’t let the other person down.
Now just because there are so many benefits to having a fitness buddy doesn’t mean that any partner will do. A good partner to exercise with will be someone who is at about the same fitness level as you, if not slightly higher. You should have good rapport with this person or at least be able to confidently build up a positive relationship. The main thing is that you should exercise with someone you like and whom constantly gives off positive vibes to push you further.
So go ahead and grab a buddy to become more physically active with! Soon enough you’ll be making progress and having tons of fun exercising with someone special who keeps you motivated to keep moving.
This is the perfect time to start a health and fitness program with a partner because we are offering our Six Months to Success program for Customized Couple Plans. All you and your partner have to do is commit to 3 months of a plan designed specifically for you, and you’ll get the next 3 months FREE! This deal is unbeatable and is sure to set you up for a great health and fitness journey using the buddy system! Check out our Six Months to Success page now.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The biggest difference between environmental and social sustainability is who sees and feels them.
Everyone cares about carbon emissions because everyone notices climate change one way or the other.
But when it comes to workers’ rights, unless you live in a few poor countries, you’d have no idea what’s happening to workers.
And that makes the progress slow.
The key is education. The more we know, the more we care, and the more we do.
Only one garment factory out of hundreds in Faisalabad in Pakistan, paid workers their full wages during the 2020 lockdown.
Read the article by Alex Crumbie: “Workers’ rights in the clothing industry and what consumers can do”
image © @cleanclothescampaign FashionRevolution ID
If this is not modern-day colonisation, what is?
TW: DECOUTURIZE & Business of fashion.
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A U.S. District Court Judge has reversed his own ruling in a legal battle between the RIAA and a couple it had sued for copyright infringement in 2006. The RIAA sued Pamela and Jeffery Howell over their use of the Kazaa file sharing software, which allowed copyrighted songs to be made available for sharing online. According to CNet, Jeffery Howell said he had ripped songs from his own CDs, but not placed the tracks in the shared folder, nor had he downloaded them using Kazaa. Howell also argued that the computer was technically sharing the songs, not him.
The RIAA had requested a motion of summary judgment, which was denied by Judge Neil V. Wake this week. Judge Wake wrote in a court order that he essentially agreed with the Howells' position. "The court agrees with the great weight of authority that section 106(3) is not violated unless the defendant has actually distributed an unauthorized copy of the work to a member of the public. Merely making an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work available to the public does not violate a copyright holder's exclusive right of distribution." The Judge essentially is asking the RIAA to prove the songs that were shared were actually downloaded and that the Howells deliberately shared the files.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Fred von Lohmann described the order as the "most decisive rejection yet of the recording industry's 'making available' theory of infringement," according to CNet.
The order actually reverses Wake's ruling from August of last year, where he had granted the RIAA summery judgment and fined the Howells over $40,000. The couple appealed the ruling, and with this week's decision, the case will go to trial. | <urn:uuid:bd6a73fe-6e05-4976-a919-b6a942d0c252> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=680411%20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979498 | 357 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Shepherd University is hosting an autism workshop "Creating Inclusion in the Classroom" featuring Amy Bryan-Chapman, autism coordinator and behavior specialist for Berkeley County Schools, Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Erma Ora Byrd Hall.
The workshop will have two sessions. The first is an overview of autism spectrum disorders and the second will cover strategies for easing transition, change and scheduling for students with autism.
"At Shepherd, we are committed to providing teachers, parents and administrators in our region with the information and tools necessary to address best practices for inclusion in the classroom, allowing learning to take place for all students," said Dr. Scott Beard, dean of graduate studies and continuing education at Shepherd.
"We are very pleased to have Amy Bryan-Chapman with us, a local expert on the topic, who has presented information to teachers throughout the region on identification of autism spectrum disorders and transition plans for the classroom."
Bryan-Chapman's work includes conducting functional behavior assessments, analyzing data and developing behavior intervention plans for individuals. She is a Ph.D. candidate in educational leadership at West Virginia University.
Areas to be discussed during the workshop include identifying behaviors, developing strategies and lesson plans for scheduling and transitions, discovering theimpact of autism on developmental skills and learning how autism affects the ability to learn.
Teachers, administrators, school psychologists and counselors, other professionals, parents, students and community members are invited to attend.
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Multiple Choices: Reforming Student Testing in New York State. A Report of the NYSUT Task Force on Student Assessment.
New York State United Teachers.
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) established a Task Force on Student Assessment in the spring of 1990, which was designed to: review available information on testing principles and practices; make recommendations for reform of testing; and communicate its findings to NYSUT members. Ten recommendations were made, centering on the necessity for establishing high standards for student performance and the need for teacher involvement in development and implementation of student assessment. Principles of the ideal assessment are articulated in light of what is currently wrong with assessment in New York State. Emphasis is given to the proper roles of multiple-choice and standardized testing. It is concluded that students and state citizens will be better served by a system of assessment that: (1) is based on clear and challenging state goals for student achievement; (2) ends overreliance on short-answer paper-and-pencil tests; (3) incorporates performance assessments to provide a clearer and more accurate picture of student progress and motivates a higher level of student performance; and (4) reduces the number of tests that currently detract from instructional time and incorporates assessments that become part of the instructional process. Multiple choices for educators should replace reliance on multiple-choice tests. Appendix A describes the current state of student and program testing in New York. Appendix B gives an example of performance assessment. A glossary of testing terms and a 27-item list of references are included. (SLD)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Authoring Institution: New York State United Teachers.
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February 22, 2022
In our Houston-based M&A valuation practice, we have the privilege of looking under the hood of a lot of businesses. Each business - even within the same industry - is unique. Discovering what makes it tick is something we really enjoy.
This month I want to discuss a few of the value detractors we frequently see in our practice. As you read below, keep a mental scorecard regarding how many enhancers vs. detractors are present in your organization. If you read until the end, you will understand why I say this.
While not an exhaustive list, there are often one or more of these characteristics present in companies in the lower middle market. Left unmanaged, these tendencies of privately-held and family-owned businesses can erode the transferable value of the business.
Value detracting business characteristics:
A certain level of imperfection is expected for a company in the acquisition process. All other factors remaining constant, it gives the buyer something to focus on if they can fix some items and provide immediate improvement. However, it is true that the level of preparation a seller goes through before a sale is directly correlated to the enterprise value and deal-terms received in the sale. These are 5 common value detractors we see:
1. Poor accounting practices and financial record keeping – Most business owners are confident they have a good handle on their accounting systems and treasury management - and for day-to-day cash management and decision-making purposes they usually do. However, selling a middle-market business is stepping into the big leagues, and the buyer of your business will likely be financially savvy. They also have lenders and equity stakeholders who will run complex accounting scenarios and stress tests to evaluate risk, rate of return, and whether other investment opportunities provide safer bets than putting capital to work through the purchase of your business. When faced with the complexity of these accounting professionals and their processes, the typical bookkeeping operation of a privately-held or family-owned business quickly concede that expert assistance is needed.
2. Customer, supplier, vendor concentration – In every area of life, depending on a single variable for a sustained outcome is risky. When you move to sell your business, the continuity of that business is a major point of emphasis. Cross-training employees to perform key functions, having non-compete and employment agreements in place, and occasionally using backup vendors to maintain relationships and test quality or timeliness are all ways to reduce concentration risk in your business. When a change of control takes place, it’s vital that none of the front line workers, vendors, or customers faulter. But if they do, showing you’re prepared with proven, tested backups is the sign of great management and vision. It’s important to create a variety of sources for income, products, and representation to assure a buyer and their capital providers that the investment is well-hedged.
3. Weak, aging, or underdeveloped management teams – The saying “you’re only as strong as your weakest link” is not metaphorical. A strong management team is vital for an organization to function seamlessly. It’s critical to have a management team that is well-trained, a succession plan in place for key positions, and a continuing education process for all managers’ personal and professional growth. A young or inexperienced management team, key positions held by family members, and/or an aging management team all introduce risk (albeit in different ways) to the success of the transition. A well-honed, seasoned, proven management team that will remain with the business after you leave is the preferred scenario.
4. Bygone business model, service, products – Think about how your dentist has automated their scheduling. Do you still require customers to call to make an appointment instead of proactively reminding them it’s time to schedule? Is your website lackluster and over 5 years old? Do your customers often request products or services you could offer but just haven’t? Perhaps it’s time to revisit what your customers are asking for and what you can deliver. Low-energy businesses trade for low valuations. High-energy, focused businesses with a proven culture for measuring, improving, and reinventing often trade at a premium.
5. Tired culture lacking clear processes, procedures, and accountability –A value killer that is often hard for owners to admit is the health of the company culture. If processes and procedures are not clear, employees make up their own workarounds. Such a lack of structure leads to reactionary management and potentially to despondency. It may even stifle ingenuity, causing general sluggishness in the workforce. If you find yourself frequently putting out fires, putting out the same fires over and over, dealing with absenteeism in the ranks, or facing high attrition, then your organization needs to establish clear processes and procedures along with proper accountability when expectations are not met. Many buyers don’t want the job of overhauling a company’s culture, and they’ll pay up for a well-oiled machine with predictable outcomes stemming from proven processes.
Are any of these present in your organization? Viewed from another vantage point, remediating any of these value “detractors” has the potential to convert a weakness to a strength and therefore will likely turn into a value “enhancer.” However, we find the best business sales benefit from having a fixable value detractor or two. At GaP, we are adept at positioning them as opportunities for the buyer to make improvements, and we purposefully seek buyers who are strong in the area(s) where our clients have challenges (and vice versa) so that the union of the two businesses can equal something greater.
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The family of water dispensers are developed in-line with a new scientifically infused brand identity. Led by an arrangement of layered geometries and a diagonally imbued composition, the object finely establishes clues of minimal architecture. The front’s gently carved scoop blends seamlessly into the contrasting finishes that materialise the appearance of water, surrounded by the crisp scientific architecture. Wholly designed with busy households in mind, the products are greatly accessible with a spaciously offset spout allowing for a larger variety of container sizes.
The increment of Single Household is a global phenomenon. Even One fourth of Korean live alone. Single Household face several difficulties including small space, relatively less income and frequent move. However, ‘Iron Dryer’ which combined steam iron and hair dryer in one body can lighten economic and spatial burden of Single Household. Users can use this product as a hair dryer daily. and when they need steam iron, they can easily put steam iron parts on top of the main body. So that It is very efficient in terms of Space and Economy, because you have one for two crucial purposes.
According to different sources, traditional wood-burning sauna stoves have one of the highest emission factors among residential heating appliances. The suggested solution includes a structure that makes the airflow circulate inside the stove to provide a better heat exchange and effectively burn combustible gases and particulates. The core is made of fireproof concrete, that resists temperatures high enough to achieve almost total combustion of wood. Its properties to accumulate and radiate heat for a long time allow using less wood.
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The age of electric vehicles (EVs) is here sooner than you think. The age of the electric vehicle (EV) will be here sooner than you think.
Out of 1 billion cars in the world, only 2 million are electric. But that will soon change, as costs diminish, and more governments encourage the adoption of EVs to cut carbon emissions and fight urban pollution.
First of all and out of 1 billion cars in the world, only 2 million are electric vehicles. But that will soon change. That’s because as costs diminish, more governments encourage the adoption of electric vehicles. They also to cut carbon emissions and fight urban pollution.
According to Bloomberg, by 2040, 54 percent of all new car sales will be for electric vehicles. Millions of new EVs will take a big bite out of oil demand and displace 8 million barrels of transport fuel. Yes folks, I mean gasoline and diesel fuel every day.
But the biggest factor in the EV surge is what’s under the hood…lithium ion batteries.
Bloomberg estimates that in the late 2020s, cheap battery technology will allow EVs production to skyrocket.
The key is lithium, “white petroleum,” which is quickly becoming the world’s most sought-after mineral.
Jonathan More of lithium miner Power Metals Corp. calls it the largest commodity boom “in a generation.” The world is going to need “mountains of lithium, from all over the world, to satisfy the global hunger for batteries.”
A lot of those lithium batteries will be needed for EVs. Because fact, major oil companies like Total SA have estimated that 20 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, and they’ll need enough batteries to power 200 million cell phones. That’s 1.2 million tons, six times current production levels.
With future demand like that, it’s no wonder that miners like Power Metals are so bullish. With a 15,000m drilling program about to get underway on 3000 hectares, Power Metals is at the center of the Canadian lithium belt that could contain as much as 7.5 million tons of lithium.
Forget oil and gas; the future of energy belongs to lithium.
When electric vehicles first started to roll off assembly lines, plenty of skeptics scoffed. EV sales were tiny and concentrated on the luxury car market.
The real juggernaut in the global EV market is China, where half of all EVs are currently in use. China will remain the chief EV market for the next 5-7 years, and demand is growingmore quickly than expected.
Global EV sales are estimated to increase from 1.2 million in 2017 to 1.6 million in 2018 and 2 million in 2019. By 2025, some states have decreed that EVs must make up15 percent of all new car sales.
The Boston Consulting Group released a report estimating that hybrids and EVS would cut the market share of internal combustion cars by 50 percent by 2030.
Whether you’re an EV skeptic or a Tesla super-fan, it’s impossible to deny that EVs are going to transform the international auto market…and trigger a massive increase in demand for lithium, the key ingredient in all EV batteries.
The White Gold
You can’t have EVs without lithium ion batteries. That’s why Tesla CEO Elon Musk built a “gigafactory” in the Nevada desert, where thousands of batteries are churned out every year.
Batteries have gotten a lot cheaper to make, but it all hinges on securing an adequate supply of lithium.
New lithium deposits are being uncovered all the time. One asset,Paterson Lake in Ontario, contains thousands of tons of lithium spodumene locked away in “pegmatite,” hard-rock formations that are entirely different from the salt-brine lithium found in South America.
Power Metals Corp., which owns the Paterson Lake property, has launched an aggressive 15,000m drilling program. According to head geologist Dr. Julie Selway, the property contains a “staggering amount of pegmatite dykes” and a “huge potential of finding more lithium mineralization.”
Along with firms like Nemaska Lithium and Quantum Minerals Corp., Power Metals (PMC) is at the forefront of Canada’s lithium boom.
Together with new production in South America, Australia and Europe, Canada will help feed the world’s lithium demand and facilitate the surge in EVs by the 2020s.
When EV demand began picking up in 2015, it triggered a bull market for lithium. Prices shot up as battery manufacturers started buying up all the lithium they could find.
A lot of the money iscoming from China, the world’s leading battery manufacturer. Capital is seeking out lithium properties in South America, as Chinese companies hope to secure lithium supplies to feed EV battery growth.
A Chinese investment group recently acquired Lithium X for $265 million, taking over that company’s Argentinian property at the center of South America’s “lithium triangle.”
Chile and Argentina are the world’s no. 2 and no. 3 lithium producers, and production in Argentina is expected totripleby 2019 to more than 15,000 metric tons per year.
So aggressive has the Chinese push into South American lithium been, the Chileans have started to push back, warning one Chinese firm away from attempting to buy one major lithium producer,worth $5 billion.
Money is flooding into the lithium sector. And lithium miners likePower Metalswill need every penny to fuel surging battery demand.
To feed that colossal demand, the world is going to need lithium. A lot of it.
Miners in Canada and South America will bear the burden. Power Metals could potentially turn Canada into a major lithium producer, and it’s not alone: other companies like Nemaska Lithium have also made big discoveries,riding them to billion-dollar valuations.
Battery manufacturers feeding the EV market will rely upon new sources of lithium production. The surge of investment into lithium mining could turn into a flood.
Pretium Resources (NYSE:PVG): This impressive Canadian company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of precious metal resource properties in the Americas.. Additionally, construction and engineering activities at its top location continue to advance, and commercial production is targeted for this year.
The company’s modest market cap and stock price make it an appealing buy for investors. Pretium has an impressive portfolio and if you can catch the stock while the price is right, there could be huge opportunity for upside.
Newmont Mining Corp (NYSE:NEM)Founded over 100 years ago, Newmont Mining Corporation is one of the leading mining companies in the world. The company holds assets in Peru, Australia, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, and around the United States. Primarily focusing on gold and copper, Newmont has steadily carved out a name for itself among those in the industry.
Newmont has had an excellent start to 2018, and it is set to keep up the pace as burnt bitcoin buyers move back to gold and silver.
Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd (NYSE:AEM)Canadian based miner, Agnico Eagle Mines is an especially noteworthy company for investors. Why? Between 1991-2010, the company paid out dividends every year. With operations in Quebec, Mexico, and Finland, the company also is taking place in exploration activities in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. This is certainly a company with tremendous potential that grows better by the day.
Investors have certainly taken note. In the past month, Agnico has seen its share prices climb steadily, and 2018 looks to be shaping up to be a promising year.
Turquoise Hill Resources (NYSE:TRQ)is a mid-cap Canadian mineral exploration and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its focus is on the Pacific Rim where it is in the process of developing several large mines.
The company mines a diversified set of metals/minerals including Coal, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Silver, Rhenium, Uranium, Lead and Zinc. One of the fortes of Turquoise hill is its good relationship with mining giant Rio Tinto.
Going forward, Turquoise’s success at the giant Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia will be crucial to boost its lagging share price.
Cameco Corporation (NYSE:CCJ)Cameco is one of the largest global producers and sellers of uranium and nuclear fuel. Its operating uranium properties include the McArthur River/Key Lake, Cigar Lake, and Rabbit Lake properties located in Saskatchewan, Canada; the Inkai property situated in Kazakhstan; the Smith Ranch-Highland property located in Wyoming, the United States; and the Crow Butte property situated in Nebraska.
While many analysts see low uranium prices as a problem for miners, an OPEC like move from world uranium leader Kazakhstan to bump prices could benefit Cameco and its peers.
A strong push towards nuclear power from China, India and the Middle East could create further upside for this promising miner.
By James Burgess
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Technology Foresight Training Programme
The UNIDO Training Programme on Technology Foresight* is composed by 5 courses, which will take place as follows:
- Module 1: Technology Foresight for Organizers
- Module 2: Technology Foresight for Practitioners: A Specialized Course on Roadmapping
- Module 3: Technology Foresight for Decision-Makers
- Module 4: Technology Foresight for Corporations;and
- Module 5: Training of Trainers on Technology Foresight
The training programme pursues efforts to develop national and regional capabilities to organize and conduct technology foresight programmes for countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States (NIS).
The courses are offered to professionals, officials and managers as well as representatives of enterprises responsible for applying foresight as an instrument for strategic decision-making in technology development, innovation and industrial policy.
During the courses, leading international experts, deeply involved in foresight exercises world-wide, will deliver lectures and introduce participants to:
- principal foresight experiences and good practices;
- case studies as a reference and inspiration for organizing foresight exercises;
- guided hands-on exercises in organizing foresight programmes; and
- networking of experts and institutions in the region for TF initiatives.
Due to limited seats available, applications are welcome at earliest convenience.
The courses were organized in cooperation with the governments of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic and Turkey.
NOTE: UNIDO reserves rights to make any necessary alterations/changes to the programme and cancellation of the events.
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Every Prison Is Attica: A Short Documentary Film by David Kuhn
The NYSM presents a special online screening of Every Prison Is Attica, a short documentary film directed and produced by David Kuhn in collaboration with the Correctional Association of New York (CANY), the only independent organization in New York with authority under state law to monitor prisons and report its findings to the legislature and the broader public. Following the 16-minute film, a question-and-answer session is led by New York State Museum Senior Historian Aaron Noble, curator of the Museum’s exhibit, Open Wounds: The 50-Year Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising.
Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE)
The New York State Museum is an approved provider of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE). Educators can earn CTLE credit by watching the webinar and completing the survey linked below. Please allow up to two weeks to receive confirmation of completion.
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discussing how the public health system is set up in the U.S. Cover the following:
- For the prevention of COVID-19, provide an analysis of how responsibilities are assigned or delegated among the following:
- The three levels of government: federal, state, and local
- Various agencies of those levels of government
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Rose has a problem. She wants to know how to stop the council from spraying the ‘noxious weeds’ on her roadside.
For more than 20 years, Rose and her partner have lived on their lifestyle block where they run sheep, cattle, pigs, and chooks and maintain an orchard, using organic principles.
“When we came here, it was bare pasture. We’ve planted thousands of trees and the birds and insects have flourished. We now have baby bellbirds, tuis, and fantails as well as quail and pheasants – a flourishing ecosystem.”
They have encouraged native seedlings along the road frontage to further restore native ecosystems and that’s where the problem lies.
“The Council contractors keep spraying it. And killing our native seedlings in the process. We’ve strongly objected on five occasions but the standard response is that they have a legal obligation to keep the roadside free of weeds.”
The weed in question is the broom. Broom says Rose, is endemic in the area for a reason – it’s a midpoint between bare pumice and flourishing native bush.
“We want it there to protect our native seedlings. It’s a necessary step in changing the ecology of the soil – it fixes nitrogen so native seedlings can grow.”
The problem is that broom has been designated a noxious weed – “Taupo District Council won’t allow us to have it on our roadside, even though it is left alone along other road verges between our place and town. It’s not out of control, we control all our weeds and the broom hasn’t spread at all in the years we’ve been here.”
Getting Council on side
Rose is probably not alone with this one, says Waikato ecologist Gerry Kessels of Kessels and Associates Ltd.
All rural Council contractors tend to over-spray road verges, he says. They also tend to be poorly paid and not very well trained – “often they don’t know the difference between a weed and a native, or simply don’t care.”
This ‘evangelical’ spraying regime leaves bare patches which create spaces for more weeds to establish and grow, he says.
Gerry lives near Pirongia, where people can sign a form asking Council spraying contractors not to spray outside their property – “on the proviso that the owner controls the weeds.
“Generally councils don’t like roadsides in rural areas to be planted out, but I have planted low-growing species such as flax and hebe, well back from the formed road edge, taking care not to affect sight lines or visibility around corners and from driveway entrances – the council were fine about this.”
Ngaruawahia resident Wayne Bennett runs Forest Flora, an ecological restoration consultancy and nursery. He has experience in re-establishing natives along roadsides.
“In 1988 I looked at the roadside/riverbank opposite my home and decided to remove the weeds and restore the native vegetation that would have once naturally occurred there. It was important to get the permission of the landowner, in this case, the local district council.”
He then looked at the nearby native forests on similar landforms and studied the natural succession in the area.
“I collected seeds from all the local species and propagated the plants. I worked hard to eliminate wandering jew, honeysuckle, privet, and hawthorn but only removed the lower branches of the willow. I noticed that in the shade of the willows the native shrubs have a competitive advantage over the soft weeds.”
He recommends Rose look around her area for natives that establish early. “These species are typically fast-growing, effective dispersers of seed, tolerant of wind and frost but intolerant of the shade caused by competing plants over time.”
Good examples are toetoe, koromiko, flax, karamu, manuka, kanuka, and five finger.
Gerry Kessels says that New Zealand roadsides provide a haven for native flora and fauna.
“Particularly in a landscape dominated by farmland. The regenerating scrub areas found on road verges often contain a wide variety of native plants, providing seeds and fruits for many birds. Other animals, such as lizards, can find refuge in road scrub areas.”
As for broom, Gerry hasn’t heard if it can be a useful nursery plant. “It may provide shelter, help retain soil structure and moisture suitable for native plant regeneration, but generally I would recommend removing the broom and replanting with native species.”
Wayne Bennett agrees and adds broom may be causing environmental harm in some areas. “It might be worthwhile choosing another nurse crop.”
He works on the principle that the closer you restore an area to the natural vegetation cover, the less effort it is to maintain.
“As well as that you restore a unique ecosystem that is found nowhere else.”
There are a number of things Rose can do at this point, says Gerry. “She should ask the council staff member in charge of road maintenance to meet her on-site with her local Councillor. Explain her case and listen to their side of the story. Suggest to them that she will control the weeds on the road verge in front of her property instead of the contractors.”
Then the trick is to work with council staff to develop a planting plan for the verge, which takes into account road safety and maintenance issues. This only needs to be a very simple sketch and list of plants.
“Use locally sourced native plants to suit the conditions – her local native plant nursery will be able to recommend these
Then there’s being involved at a political level. “Council staff is often entrenched in their views and change may take years of pushing. Being involved in District Plan reviews, the annual planning process, and the Long Term Community Plan process is an important way to have input into Council policy.”
...and the Council says
The Council’s roading engineer was unavailable when I contacted the council, but there are policies in place for this situation, communications manager Suzanne Takiwa told me. “If people wish to plant their berms they make an application to the Council – and if their request fits with the policy we should be able to work something out.” They promised to get back in the next week.
Planting of rural roadsides is not usually encouraged by Taupo District Council, and if someone wanted to do so, prior approval is needed.
Acting transport manager Denis Lewis said the Council adopted a Tree and Vegetation Policy which sets out how vegetation is to be managed on Council-owned land – which includes roadsides. There are a number of requirements that have to be met, such as allowing adequate visibility and the like.
“Approval will be granted or declined to take into account the detail of the policy.”
Because broom has been declared a noxious plant, the Council is required to control it on land controlled by them.
“If a property owner were to control the noxious plants on their roadside frontage then the only chemical control to be undertaken would be vegetation in the immediate vicinity of edge market posts or signposts.”
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What is a Donor-Advised Fund?
A donor-advised fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax benefit and then recommend grants from the fund over time. One benefit for the donor is that by using this type of account, it is possible to separate the timing of your tax deductions from your decisions about giving. An easy way to think about a donor-advised fund is like a charitable savings account: a donor contributes to the fund and then recommends grants to their favorite charity when they are ready.
1. You make an irrevocable contribution of personal assets.
2. You immediately receive the maximum tax deduction that the IRS allows.
3. You name your donor-advised fund account, advisors, and any successors or charitable beneficiaries.
4. Your contribution is placed into a donor-advised fund account where it can be invested and grow tax-free.
5. At any time afterward, you can recommend grants from your account to qualified charities like USA Shooting.
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The UPU cannot deliver alone. Partnerships help strengthen and accelerate the development impact of our projects and policies through both concrete country-level efforts and global and regional initiatives.
With the support of partnerships and stakeholder engagement, the UPU aims to co-create and implement solutions and policies by leveraging local and global postal networks.
As stated in Sustainable Development Goal 17, achieving the ambitious targets of the 2030 Agenda requires a revitalized and enhanced global partnership that brings together governments, civil society, the private sector, United Nations system and other actors, and mobilizes all available resources.
The UPU is committed to working closely with partners from the private sector and across the UN system, alongside industry stakeholders and organizations that share the objectives of inclusive, innovative and sustainable development across its 192 member countries.
The UPU is launching Post4Health
This initiative is aimed at strengthening the value proposition of Posts in delivering health policies, products and services.
UPU involvement with the Iraq eTrade Readiness Assessment 2020
In cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Trade, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development organized the virtual launch of the eTrade Readiness Assessment of Iraq. This is the first of a series of assessments for developing countries that follows an enhanced methodology, including contributions by eTrade for all partners. The assessment of Iraq was prepared in close collaboration with the Universal Postal Union, with the support of the Aid for Trade Initiative for the Arab States programme managed by the International Trade Finance Corporation, member of the Islamic Development Bank Group.
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Atlas of Uvetis and Scleritis by SudhaK Ganesh
English | 1 Dec. 2005 | ISBN: 8180614662 | 179 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
Uveitis is an emerging subspeciality of ophthalmology that presents with a constellation of clinical findings. Accurate diagnosis of uveitis and successful treatment of these patients remain a challenge. The field of uveitis has been revolutionized over the past 50 years.
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Educacion y Ciencias Sociales en el Mundo Moderno. [Education and the Social Sciences in the Modern World].
Rimoldi, Horacio J. A.
The document, written in Spanish, discusses the relationship between research in the social sciences and the role of the university in social science education. The author considers the education of researchers, the application of research, the need for interdisciplinary research methods, and problems involved in cross-cultural studies. He states that the researcher must be freed of the restrictions and models that he learns in certain courses and in questionable textbooks on scientific methodology and techniques of investigation. Without a good comprehension of the fundamental structure of science, which reveals concepts, relationships, and operations in their proper order, one runs the risk of deficient and erroneous applications of research. The conclusion is that intellectual contamination of research leads to dangerous consequences, of much greater significance than environmental contamination. In recognizing that all research is, in a sense, interdisciplinary, requiring knowledge and techniques of other disciplines, the author stresses that the responsibility of universities, academies, and social science organizations is to offer solutions to the problem of integration of knowledge. Finally, the document warns of superficial analysis which may ignore real similarities and differences when comparing cultural groups. (Author/KC)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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NESTLED in the mountains on the country’s stunning southern border with Austria is a typically idyllic German town.
But a quick walk around picture perfect Garmisch reveals how something decidedly exotic has taken hold.
The town is overflowing with signs written in Arabic, but they are not welcoming newly arrived refugees from war-torn Syria.
Instead the placards advertise shops, restaurants and attractions to an army of Middle Eastern tourists who are fuelling an economic boom in the local area.
Cafes now serve coffee brewed the traditional Arabic way and offer halal meat. Pork – a German favourite – is even off the menu altogether in some eateries.
Even the sign on the way into the town now proudly proclaims ‘Ahlan wa sahlan!’ – which means welcome in Arabic.
As one female resident told newspaper Die Welt: “It is a little bit alienating, really. I don’t think it’s great. I’d prefer seeing tradition here.”
One restaurant owner, whose business is booming thanks to the new tourists, said: “We don’t offer pig meat in general and only have Halal food, which means it is cut according to Islamic tradition.”
For visitors from the Middle East, the lush countryside and stunning mountain scenery, which is dotted with ski resorts, is a revelation.
Most have never seen snow before and trips to the toboggan run and bobsled are said to be hugely popular amongst Arabic tourists.
Shop owners also report that designer sunglasses are a huge hit with the visitors and are flying off the selves.
The situation in Garmisch is a far cry from in other Bavarian towns which have struggled to cope with an influx of millions of migrants and refugees into Germamy.
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- These vulnerabilities affect: Internet Explorer (IE) 10 and earlier
- How an attacker exploits them: Typically, by enticing one of your users to visit a web page with malicious content
- Impact: Various; In the worst case, an attacker can execute code on your user’s computer, often gaining complete control of it
- What to do: Install Microsoft’s Internet Explorer updates immediately, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you
In a relatively unusual move, Microsoft released two Internet Explorer (IE) security bulletins today, rather than their typical single cumulative update. Combined, the two bulletins fix 14 vulnerabilities in the popular web browser, many of which allow attackers to execute code on vulnerable Windows systems.
We summarize the two bulletins below:
- MS13-009: February IE Cumulative Update
This update fixes 13 vulnerabilities in IE, most of them being “use after free” vulnerabilities similar to the ones Microsoft fixed with last month’s out-0f-cycle IE bulletin. By luring one of your users to a web site containing malicious code, a remote attacker can exploit most of these vulnerabilities to execute code on your computer, with your privileges. As always, if you have local administrator privileges, the attacker could exploit this issue to gain complete control of your computer.
Microsoft rating: Critical
- MS13-010: VML Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vector Markup Language (VML) is a graphics standard for creating 2D vector illustrations with XML files. The VML component in IE suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability having to do with how it allocates buffers. By enticing your users to a web site with specially crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute code on that user’s computer, with the user’s privileges. Since most Windows users have local administrative privileges, this sort of attack often gives the attacker complete control of their computers.
Microsoft rating: Critical
Malicious hackers often leverage these types of vulnerabilities in drive-by download attacks, and they also target legitimate web sites and booby-trap them with malicious code. In other words, you can sometimes encounter these sorts of “drive-by download” attacks even while visiting trusted, legitimate web sites. We recommend you update your IE users immediately.
These updates fix serious issues. You should download, test, and deploy the appropriate IE patches immediately, or let Windows Automatic Update do it for you.
The links below point directly to the “Affected and Non-Affected Software” section of each bulletin, where you can find links to the various updates:
For All WatchGuard Users:
These attacks travel as normal-looking HTTP traffic, which you must allow if your network users need to access the World Wide Web. Therefore, the patches above are your best solution.
That said, WatchGuard’s Gateway Antivirus and Intrusion Prevention Service can often prevent these sorts of attacks, or the malware they try to distribute. For instance, our IPS team has created signatures for the following:
- Various “use after free” vulnerabilities – CVE-2013-0018, CVE-2013-0019, CVE-2013-0020, CVE-2013-0021, CVE-2013-0022, CVE-2013-0023, CVE-2013-0024, CVE-2013-0025, CVE-2013-0026, CVE-2013-0027, CVE-2013-0028, CVE-2013-0029
- JIS character encoding vulnerability – CVE-2013-0015
- VML memory corruption vulnerability – CVE-2013-0030
These signatures will be available in our next IPS update, which should come out shortly. We highly recommend you enable our security services on your WatchGuard XTM and XCS appliances, and keep IPS and AV up to date.
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Definition of perturbational
a. - Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. 2
The word "perturbational" uses 14 letters: A A B E I L N O P R R T T U.
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qiushengyu / qiú shèng yú / 求生欲 n. the willingness to come up with torturous and innovative ways to please one’s significant other, friends or family members
A: I’m off to my job interview.
B: Good luck!
A: But I’ve already used up all my luck the day I met you.
B: Aw! You’ll nail the interview with such a strong qiushengyu.
We all know that the best way to make a person prove his or her love for you is to torture them. A wife makes her husband spend six hours in a mall on a Saturday so she knows how much he loves her. A boyfriend travels to the other side of the city to get the kind of bubble tea his girlfriend likes to please her. You prove your love for your mother by buying six feet-washing machines and returning five of them.
Besides doing things, we also say things to please our loved ones. Any good boyfriend knows to tell his girlfriend that she is the prettiest girl at a party. You won’t hesitate to tell your father he looks the youngest at his high school reunion.
We endure mild discomfort and tell bold-faced lies in broad daylight to please our loved ones because we can’t live without them and can’t bear to lose them. Literally meaning “the will to survive,” qiushengyu is the willingness, and often ability, to please those important people in our lives by whatever means possible.
Your qiushengyu can be tested in many ways. Sometimes it’s in the form of a tricky question like: “Who would you save first if your mother and I both fall into a river?” (Hint: The right answer is “you,” regardless of who you are speaking to, and you must answer in no more than two seconds.) Sometimes it’s compliment-fishing comments like “I wonder if last year’s dress will still fit me…” (Correct answer: “You are beautiful no matter what!”) Sometimes it’s straight up torture, like making you sit through a four-hour-long French film.
Those who are very good at pleasing their loved ones are said to have a strong qiushengyu. They know exactly what to say when presented with tricky questions and can answer in a timely fashion. Those who have weak qiushengyu often don’t know the right answer or are unable to say it at the right time. But don’t worry, once you’ve endured enough of this sweet torture by the significant people in your life, your qiushengyu will only get stronger!
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Bitboys offers next-gen mobile 3D chips
NEC signed up already
Bitboys, the graphics engine developer once feted as the future of desktop GPU technology, today unveiled its latest mobile phone-oriented graphics processor design.
The G32, G34 and G40 - its not clear if Bitboys is retaining its Acceleon brand name for the new parts, but it doesn't look like it - are all OpenGL ES 1.1-compatible designs pitched at mainstream devices, gaming and multimedia handsets, respectively. They also support Direct3D Mobile and M3G for J2ME.
The G34 provides a full programmable floating-point geometry engine capable of animating numerous vertex-rich entities in 32-bit colour (internal and external) with full anti-aliasing at 30fps. It also adds multi-texturing and trilinear texture filtering.
The G40 builds on the G34 by adding programmable pixel shaders and is being pitched at apps that need a higher level of photorealism than games.
In addition, the three new designs incorporate key features from Bitboys' previous generation of processor, such as texture mapping, bilinear and MIP map texture filtering, texture compression, z-buffers and stencil buffers and 2D hardware acceleration.
Bitboys also announced that NEC has licensed the G34 for use in future mobile phone SoCs. The G32 and G40 are also immediately available for licensing, Bitboys said.
The company began licensing its first mobile-oriented designs, the Acceleon G10, G20 and G30 just over a year ago. Up until that point the graphics chip company had been known chiefly for its ebullient performance claims and a string of missed deadlines. It announced its Glaze3D chip in 1999 for availability in early 2000. Pushed back successively to mid-2000 then to later in the year and beyond, Glaze 3D ultimately never made it to market in the form originally planned, though the experience gained in its development surely fed into the creation of the Acceleon series. ®
Bitboys offers tiny mobile graphics chips
Bitboys' 3D superchip schedule slips again?
Bitboys delays 3D superchip to up feature-count
Bitboys misses 3D superchip debut deadline
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Low unemployment means a criminal record is less of a hurdle
By Gretchen Frazee
A tightening labor market is pushing employers to hire more unskilled workers, including people with criminal records.
During the Great Recession, when the labor market was filled with unemployed, overqualified workers applying for jobs, companies eliminated many low-skilled positions through automation and had the luxury of increasing the skill requirements for the jobs they kept.
But now the unemployment rate has dropped to below 4 percent, down from a peak of 10 percent in 2009. Instead of choosing from a glut of applicants with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, employers are being forced to consider applicants with little to no training at all, including ex-convicts.
“It used to be the case where companies would say, ‘We won’t take ex-offenders,’” said Bill Harrigan, the owner of the Wisconsin-based machine maintenance and food plant sanitation services company Harrigan Solutions. Now, “people say, ‘We don’t want to do a drug test. We don’t want to know because we are desperate for workers.’”
A survey from the National Federation of Independent Businesses recently found that 52 percent of companies said they had few or no qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill.
The labor shortage is not limited to any one industry. The Federal Reserve recently indicated that companies are having “difficulty finding qualified labor” across a “wide range of occupations.” Those include engineers, construction and manufacturing workers, IT professionals and truck drivers.
That translates to more opportunities for people recently released from prison.
“We have seen with the unemployment rate dropping that businesses are far more open to hiring ex-offenders, especially if they have an organization that is sponsoring the person,” said Mary Ann Gilmer, a vice president at Goodwill Industries of the Valleys in Virginia.
That organization helps coach and train people with criminal records and has seen recent success, especially in the IT and manufacturing sectors. Gilmer said her counterparts at other nonprofit organizations across the country are reporting similar upticks in hiring.
“Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that things are opening up for these folks,” she said.
In Wisconsin, the need for workers is so high, some inmates are working at machine shops while they are still incarcerated. Inmates in Wisconsin are also learning factory skills in training programs run by institutions like the Gateway Technical College, which is located about an hour south of Milwaukee.
Randilyn, an inmate at the Robert Ellsworth Correctional Facility who is participating in the 22-week training boot camp and whose last name is being withheld because of Wisconsin Department of Corrections policy, said she was learning computer numerical control, a process that automizes machines using a computer.
“I know there are jobs out there,” Randilyn said. “I see them in the paper. I see them in the want ads.”
Workers are in such high demand that the dozen employers hiring from Gateway’s group of trainees have more job openings than the college can fill.
Kate Walker, the director of operations at Gateway, said a criminal record is not the barrier it once was.
“There’s no hesitation about hiring them,” she said. “Even if it’s for the short term.”
There is scarce data on exactly how many companies are hiring ex-offenders, though it is a large pool of employment; in the U.S., 70 million people have criminal records, about the same number of people who have college degrees.
The evidence that does exist is largely anecdotal, according to Jennifer Doleac, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University who studies prisoner reentry programs.
“But it certainly makes sense that if you go from a situation where you have lots of applicants for any one position to a labor market where you have fewer applicants, as an employer you’re just going to have to dig deeper into the applicant pool and hire people who might not have been your first choice,” Doleac said.
The worker shortage isn’t a long-term solution
Even if they have few options, hiring managers do still have reservations about employing people who have spent time in prison.
A survey from the Society for Human Resource Management and the libertarian Charles Koch Institute found company leaders had several concerns when considering applicants with criminal records.
They worry about legal liability, according to the survey. They expressed concern that the employee would not have reliable transportation to and from work. And they worried about how other employees might react to having a coworker with a rap sheet.
Despite those concerns, employers should not see ex-offenders as a problem, said Angela Hanks, who heads the center for postsecondary and economic success at the anti-poverty policy organization CLASP.
During times with higher unemployment, people on the margins face discrimination, Hanks said. “A tighter labor market reduces employers’ opportunity to engage in discrimination.”
Still, Hanks warned against relying on a low national unemployment rate to reduce the unemployment rates for specific demographics. Hanks said creating more on-the-job training, which has been on the decline over the past several decades, would be a better approach.
Specific efforts, such as the “ban the box” campaign, are dedicated to reducing discrimination. “Ban the box” aims to remove a box from employment applications where applicants must check whether they have a criminal record.
Doleac’s research suggests “ban the box” has raised awareness around hiring people who were incarcerated but has done little to improve ex-offenders’ chances at landing a job.
In some cases, it can lead to more racial discrimination because potential employers are left to guess whether an applicant has a criminal record, and they tend to make a biased guess that young, black male applicants are the most likely to have an illicit past, according to Doleac’s studies.
Black Americans already have a significantly higher unemployment rate than the national average. The unemployment rate for black Americans was 6.6 percent in July, compared to the white unemployment rate of 3.4 percent.
Instead, Doleac has found rehabilitation certificates, which a judge issues to former prisoners after they have met specific requirements, are effective.
“I think there are legitimate reasons employers worry, and there are going to be some negative situations that could scare them off,” Doleac said.
For that reason, Doleac said, policymakers need to be realistic and implement programs that empower Americans on the margins to find work and employers to make the best hiring decisions. If programs that train ex-offenders produce successful employees, that could give employers more confidence to hire more people with criminal records in the future.
At Harrigan Solutions, in Grafton, Wisconsin, the majority of the company’s employees served time in prison.
Bill Harrigan, the company’s owner, said he likes to think of his main goal as something other than fixing machines.
Harrigan regularly meets with his employees to discuss not only their work product but their personal lives as well. He also connects them to nonprofit organizations that could help them with finances, drug addiction and other life management skills. Unlike most post-prison training programs, Harrigan Solutions does not run off donations or state funding. It runs off profits from the company.
So far, the system has worked, Harrigan said. “Our job is to develop people. If we develop our people, we succeed,” he said. “We believe if we help them through these struggles, we get phenomenal employees and phenomenal performance.”
Advocates are hoping other employers will have similar, positive experiences.
“Now is our opportunity to show them that these employees will stay longer and be more loyal and dedicated workers than your average worker,” Gilmer said.
Goodwill Industries of the Valleys has found the retention rate for employees with a criminal history is 12 percent higher than workers with a clean record. Gilmer said that is because ex-offenders realize the difficulty they could have finding a new job.
And if companies begin to experience those benefits firsthand now, they could be more likely to keep hiring people with criminal backgrounds once the unemployment rate rises. | <urn:uuid:3ba9fe34-4cbc-4cdc-824f-fbdb53dfd214> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clasp.org/press-room/news-clips/low-unemployment-means-criminal-record-less-hurdle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.967821 | 1,750 | 1.757813 | 2 |
When Scott Barger founded Ferris Shred a few years ago, he had one goal in mind: create an easygoing environment where boarders of all kinds can get together and share the same passion.
Whether your terrain of choice is asphalt or Aspen, Ferris Shred was made to celebrate all types of board sports whether it’s skateboarding, longboarding, or snowboarding.
When Barger graduated last year, he passed along the reins to Mechanical Engineering Technology junior Daniel Zinn and Computer Information Systems senior Blake Novosel.
“We started Shred for the love of board sports, specifically longboarding and snowboarding. We also wanted to bring the community together and make new connections,” said Novosel. “I started longboarding my freshman year but wanted to take my skills above and beyond just cruising around campus.”
“When I was introduced to the downhill scene, I got so into it that I now ride all over the state on a regular basis with riders from all over. We’re one big family here in Michigan,” said Zinn. “[Shred] is a way to get people who think boarding is cool to see a new level of the sport. It’s all about spreading the stoke.”
The last two years, Shred has hosted the Fat Rapids River Rush, a six-mile race on the river walk along with a slide jam on a local hill.
“Last year there were about 100 riders, and we’re hoping to see some more big numbers this spring. Also, we’re looking to start the first ever snowboard team this winter,” said Novosel.
Shred has a group on Facebook with over 200 members where boarders of all kinds can come together and talk about the hobbies they share, set up outings, and even buy, sell, or trade equipment.
“I found out about shred from members of the group, and I’m considering joining the snowboard team this winter,” said Psychology freshman Jacob Bleshenski.
Snowboarding, skateboarding, longboarding; whatever your forte, Shred was created so students can meet up, share stories, go on trips, ride together and just have fun.
For all students potentially interested in learning more about Shred or just meeting up with some cool people, contact Blake Novosel via Facebook. | <urn:uuid:4d9503a7-cad1-4544-8458-1f615bf27e2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fsutorch.com/2014/11/05/shredding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.941162 | 505 | 1.515625 | 2 |
This can be for a number of reasons so before contacting Solvd, check the following:-
- If your email or internet browsers are running slow then check your internet connectivity. You can check your internet speed by running a speed test by going to http://www.speedtest.net
- If your machine in general is running slow check your Anti-Virus is not currently running a scan. You can do this by going to the bottom of the right hand of your machine and click on the little upward arrow to show hidden icons. Highlight the Anti-Virus icon and see if states that a scan is in place.
- The machine may have recently done an update or you may have so much running on the machine that it cannot handle it depending on how much memory it holds. Restart the machine and see if it has made a difference. | <urn:uuid:2e8a8c2e-74d8-4248-beeb-8b5c72917df1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.solvd.co.uk/faq/my-computer-is-running-very-slowly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.916166 | 173 | 1.726563 | 2 |
If you’re interested in learning about the Afro-Latina Cuban exile who became an icon and ambassador of salsa music, then my Celia Cruz Black History Facts profile is for you.
Noire Histoir Posts
“Straight Outta Compton” is a 2015 F. Gary Gray directed film about NWA, an iconic rap group that helped launch gangsta rap.. In some ways, Straight Outta Compton follows the path of the typical music biopic where you see the group living their lives and how they come together. We see the guys make their first forays into recording the songs that would give rise to gangsta rap. Releasing a hit song followed by a successful album brings the guys attention but shady business dealings and egos threaten to tear the group apart.
If you’re interested in learning about the US Navy cook who became a hero during the attack on Pearl Harbor by carrying the wounded to safety and manning a submachine gun to return fire despite having no training, then my Doris “Dorie” Miller Black History Facts profile is for you.
“The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a biracial man looking back over his life. The story is told in the first-person though the narrator remains unnamed and is never described physically. He tells of being born in the South and growing up in Connecticut where he learns that he is a very light-skinned biracial boy who some assume is White. As a young man he sets out on his own and travels to different parts of America and later Europe, recounting his experiences in Black and White society along the way.
If you’re interested in learning about New York City’s first Black female assistant district attorney who developed the strategy for taking down Charles “Lucky” Luciano, then my Eunice Hunton Carter Black History Facts profile is for you. | <urn:uuid:9a57d964-547c-46ed-9c98-b9796b473e17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://noirehistoir.com/blog/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.96042 | 403 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Here are two key facts:
**Most people actually know the source of their fears. They just do not know how to deal with these debilitating feelings.
**Some people state that their fears have always been part of their lives and they cannot remember how and when these fears started. One thing that they do know is that they no longer want to have them.
You can conquer your fears:
You need to realize that sometimes the fears are just habits and on the surface they may seem hard to shake.
Like any other issue in life you will have to be ready for change. Nobody can make you change.
We always ask clients whether they are at the point of torture and whether they want the issue(s) resolved more than anything else in their lives.
The Good News: When you are actively searching for an answer you are ready for change!
Here are a few resources to help you in letting go of your fears!
Hypnosis: See a hypnotist. Even if you know the source of your fears you may need to deal with them on a subconscious level. Old memories may be deeply buried in this huge computer we call the subconscious mind. Through age regression the source of the issue can be found and dealt with. Many times the fears are the result of another incident way back. The connection may not be easily established otherwise.
Talk Therapy: Sometimes all you need is to sit down and speak with a qualified therapist. You can then identify what are you afraid of and construct an action plan to rid your self of it.
NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a powerful set of practical skills and insights that you can use to improve how you communicate with others, manage your moods and live a more rewarding life. Find a qualified NLP practitioner and she or he may be your ticket to freedom!
Yoga: This is a system of physical postures, breathing techniques and meditation practiced to promote body or mental control and well-being. Sometimes you can release these fears after a few months of yoga practice. Yoga can do wonders for many!
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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” George Bernard Shaw
One of the many definitions of love is, “tenderness, concern and care for another person”. When we love somebody we should show it at all times. However, let’s be honest, it’s hard to show love to others and ourselves when we are unemployed or have career and financial issues. Sometimes, it has the power to spiral us into a pit of despair and depression. It happens so gradually that we begin to accept this as the way things are. We begin to believe we are powerless. As our spirit weakens so does our confidence. The way we feel about ourselves is directly correlated to how we think and treat others.
I understand this because I have once been there myself and unfortunately I see it happening to too many of those around me. Many of my friends are either unemployed or are stuck in miserable jobs which offer little or no opportunity for growth.
A bad economy creates fear. The fear can be so strong that we often times are unable to bring ourselves to take the necessary risks in order to move forward and pursue happiness. All of which brings me to a profound quote by the ancient Greek philosopher and statesman Pericles, “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”
Recent college graduates and the 20-something age group, the very same groups which supported President Obama in overwhelming numbers, are now experiencing high unemployment, financial instability and the personal angst that comes with it.
It is important that they realize the power to change is within themselves and that the American Dream does indeed still exist. It is also equally important that they remember Pericles during our nation’s next election. | <urn:uuid:e2e3d39e-d3c4-4d1b-b321-2009f294dee5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://politichicks.com/2013/09/love-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961972 | 372 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo, 1991) Sandra Ruza, UNECE Secretariat www.unece.org/env/eia Workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements Tirana, Albania, 22-24 June 2010 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and transboundary issues • Espoo Convention in brief • Status of ratification • Contacts • Multilateral agreements • • • • • Transboundary EIA procedure Good practice Case study review Compliance with and implementation of the Convention Subregional cooperation and capacity-building Espoo Convention • Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context • Adopted in 1991 in Espoo, Finland, entered into force in 1997 • Now 44 Parties, including the European Community • UNECE provides Secretariat Status State Convention 1st amendment 2nd amendment Albania Party Party Party Bosnia & Herzegovina Party - - Bulgaria Party Party Party Croatia Party Party Party Greece Party - - Montenegro Party Party Party Romania Party Party - Serbia Party - - The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Party - - Turkey - - - European Union Party Party Party Status • 1st amendment only 19 Parties (not in force) It will open Convention to all UN Member States • 2nd amendment only 16 Parties (not in force) It will make review of compliance and reporting mandatory. It will introduce scoping. Focal points & points of contact State Point of contact Focal point Albania Ministry of Environment Gavrosh ZELA ? Ministry for Foreign Affairs Mehmed CERO Ministry of Environment & Water + Jacquelina METODIEVA, Detelina PEICHEVA Jacquelina METODIEVA, Katia NAIDENOVA, Nina STOYANOVA Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Nenad MIKULIC Greece Ministry of Foreign Affairs Montenegro Romania Serbia The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Turkey Epaminondas TOLERIS cc: Angekiki PSAILA, Alexandros KOLLIOPOULOS (MoFA) Brankica CMILJANOVIC-JOKANOVIC Dorina MOCANU Daniela Eugenia PINETA Aleksandar VESIC Ministry for Environment & Physical Planning Daniela STEFKOVA Ministry for Foreign Affairs Mustafa ER cc: Tugce YUKSEL Main obligations under the Convention to nuclear energy - related projects • Stipulates the obligations of the parties to assess environmental impacts of certain projects at an early planning stage (projects listed in the Appendix I): • Large diameter oil and gas pipelines • Large dams and reservoirs • Lays out means and procedures for preventing, reducing and controlling significant adverse transboundary impacts from proposed activities • Clarifies that the impact assessment process must be carried out by the party responsible for causing said impacts • A domestic EIA-system is not stipulated explicitly but nevertheless needed for the practical application of the Convention Party of origin affected Party Notification Application stops if the affected Party is not interested in participating Confirmation of participation in application of Convention Transmittal of information Preparation of EIA documentation Distribution of EIA documentation for participation of authorities and public of affected Party Consultation between Parties Final decision Transmittal of final decision documentation If Parties so decide Post-project analysis Public participation (may include one or more rounds) Key issues influencing transboundary EIA application • Implementation of the Convention requires the clarification of a number of steps via national legislation and administrative measures • Complex process of technical and participatory assessment of transboundary impacts • Involvement of the public and officials of both countries - the affected country and country of origin • Setting standards, contacts and timelines between the involved parties Key issues influencing transboundary EIA application • Environmental values and significant impacts – perception of environmental values and problems is not in every country the same • Different decision making process: • Strict enforcement of the rules and regulations as tradition in some countries. In others – similar rules are implemented via set of guidelines Good practices • Preliminary consultations about Notification stage • starting point for discussions between developer, country of origin and affected country through the Ministries of Environment and Foreign Affairs • Establishment of “Joint Bilateral/ Multilateral Body” for conducting transboundary EIA processes • joint EIA working group created to make the transboundary evaluation of the project • periodical meetings • working languages should be agreed • EIA report • agreed evaluation criteria on both sides of the border • agreement on alternative solutions Good practices • Public participation • must be promoted by countries involved • take place before the decision making process • formal steps for public participation in the EIA process followed • countries involved should reach an agreement on tasks and the shared costs implied: • translations (what is translated, when and who will pay) • joint hearings could be promoted • common agreement between parties on publicity in the press, radio and other mass media • common agreement on how public comments and objections are received, evaluated and presented in the EIA documentation Good practices • Assessment of the EIA report • ensuring credibility and technical accuracy of the EIA report • ensuring that it includes the opinions of those consulted • Final Decision • should include the results of the bilateral/multilateral evaluation and of the public participation • is announced by the governmental authority (often by the Ministry of Environment) of the country of Origin • it should be legally binding • appeals settlement procedure (legal system) Issues to be considered • Increased complexity of the EIA process with new stages and new participants • Transboundary EIA means focusing on a wider impact area to be assessed and taken into account • Additional administrative procedures, costs and time taken for the decision making process, but could be avoided if: • process elements agreed in advance by the parties involved • More transboundary EIA – more experience and knowledge • Pilot EIA procedures • Guidance and sharing of good practices Application • Increasingly routine – number of Parties and number of cases • Very approximately 30-50 cases per year Nuclear power plant project in Finland • • • • • Party of origin: Finland Notification sent to the affected Parties through the Ministry of Environment. The following Parties were notified: Austria (at its own request), Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden. In addition, the Russian Federation was notified, though it is not a Party to the Convention. Finland & Estonia bilateral agreement The Ministry of Employment and Economy is Competent Authority Nuclear power plant project in Finland • Application of the Espoo Convention: • To the nuclear power plant project. This activity is listed in the Appendix I to the Espoo Convention – “Nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactors” • To a related, planned nuclear waste storage facility. This activity is listed in the Appendix I to the Espoo Convention – “Installations solely designed for the production or enrichment of nuclear fuels, for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuels or for the storage, disposal and processing of radioactive waste” Nuclear power plant project in Finland • EIA procedure is divided in two steps: • “EIA programme”, setting out the scope of the EIA, is submitted to the authorities. The authorities and the public could provide comments • A final “EIA report” is elaborated taking into consideration the comments received in the first step • A summary of the EIA programme was translated into the language of each notified Party and this summary was intended for use by the public • The whole EIA programme was available in Finnish, Swedish and English • Summary of the EIA report was translated into the language of each participating Party. The whole EIA report was available in Finnish, Swedish and English Nuclear power plant project in Finland • The public from the affected Parties had the opportunity to comment on the EIA programme and EIA report. Comments, and a description of how they were considered, were included in the EIA report • Licensing process included four steps: • (1) the “decision in principle” • (2) ratification of the decision in principle by Parliament • (3) issue of the construction licence and • (4) issue of the operating licence LINK (in English) Finnish Ministry on Employment and the Economy (EIA programmes and reports): http://www.tem.fi/index.phtml?l=en&s=1910 Bridge over River Danube • • • • • • • • • Between towns of Vidin (Bulgaria) and Calafat (Romania) Agreement between Governments for bridge construction, with joint EIA Joint Working Group on environmental problems Project Implementation & Management Units in competent authorities Proponent: Bulgarian Ministry of Transport & Communications Public participation in each country EIA in English, Bulgarian & Romanian Costs covered by competent authorities 17 comments received during 2 public hearings EIA: practice Enhancing benefits & reducing costs In a transboundary context, also • Start early – make transboundary contacts early on, informally at first if appropriate • Translate what? and enough – to avoid delays when more information has to be translated • Consultations where and when • Establish agreements with neighbouring States EIA: practice (developers) Enhancing benefits & reducing costs • Scope carefully – focus on what’s important. Lack of proper scoping to determine direction and focus of EIA is likely to cause delays later • Scope with others (if appropriate) – involvement, in scoping and preparing terms of reference, of competent authorities and other stakeholders helps to avoid nasty surprises later, as well as building relationships & understanding – especially in transboundary context • Don’t short-cut – make sure study is adequate. Failure to undertake systematic study and provide relevant / sufficient data may result in need for supplementary information causing delays • Involve the public as early as possible, preferably during scoping • Operate strict timetable for each stage of process, and formalize inputs from participants, to achieve shorter timescale EIA: Costs Domestic EIA: money • Generally EIA costs less than 0.5 % of overall capital cost • Costs over 1% unusual • for particularly controversial projects in sensitive environments • where good EIA practice not followed • Actual costs of EIA tend to rise with capital cost of project EIA: Costs Domestic EIA: money – where it goes • 60-90% of costs for assessment process (writing EIA report) • Preliminary studies conducted in advance of formal EIA (screening whether or not EIA required) • Cost of reviewing EIA and reaching decision on project (except where fees are charged by competent authority) falls on competent authority Extra costs associated with transboundary EIA • Preparing and sending the notification • Preparing and broadcasting announcements (e.g. in the media) • Translation of documents into the language of the affected country • Translation of comments and opinions received from the affected country • Additional printing • Distribution of documents in the affected country • Organization of public hearings (hiring of hall, etc.) • Interpretation costs • Travel and accommodation • Fees charged by the competent authority in the affected country for the review of the EIA documentation, where applicable EIA: time (domestic) • EIAs generally completed in under 2 years • EIA studies usually conducted in 6-12 months • If development in environmentally sensitive area, data for full year normally provided, but faster if information already to hand • Preparation of EIA report typically takes 2-3 months • Subsequent stages of consultation, review & decision-making may take 3-6 months, depending upon complexity of issues raised • These timescales indicative: considerable variation from project to project • Source: EIA - A study on costs and benefits, European Commission, 1996 Review of implementation • Very successful! • All Parties in period 2003-2005 eventually reported • Questionnaire 2006-2009. Parties to report by the 30 June 2010 on their implementation of the Convention Subregional cooperation in South East Europe Bulgaria (Nov 2008) • Subregional workshop, including the relationship between EIA and SEA, Koprivshtitsa (Bulgaria), 17-19 November 2008 Montenegro (Dec 2009) • Subregional workshop on raising awareness of application of the Espoo Convention, Podgorica, 15-16 December 2009 Bosnia and Herzegovina ?(2010) Bucharest Agreement • Multilateral agreement among the countries of South-Eastern Europe for implementation of the Espoo Convention (Bucharest, 2008) State Signature Albania - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Bulgaria 20 May 2008 23 Jan 2009 AA Croatia 20 May ? Greece 20 May Montenegro 20 May Romania 20 May ? Serbia 20 May ? The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 20 May • Depository: Romania Ratification 2009 R Contacts • For more about the Espoo Convention, visit our website: www.unece.org/env/eia • Or email: [email protected] For discussions What are the main transboundary EIA key issues? | <urn:uuid:8691f607-226d-4f6c-bebe-399c3eb2e278> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://slideshowes.com/doc/191049/presentation-on-espoo-convention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895641 | 2,628 | 1.953125 | 2 |
GMP Game Engine Downloads
Code is available in uncompressed and compressed formats. Use the uncompressed version for development, and the compressed (min.js) version for use in production.
The uncompressed code file is written to be readable, but doesn't contain in-line documentation. Use the API Documentation as a companion to the code, as it contains a complete description and explanation of all GMP objects, variables and functions.
Version: 1.7.4 (Current) Released: 2010.10.31
This release is minor. Several missing variable declarations have been added, fixing the scope of those variables. As well, G.makeGob() has been changed, and a new variable G.medialURL has been added.
G.makeGob() behaviour has been changed to destroy and replace any existing Gob with the same ID. Previously, G.makeGob() did nothing if the ID was already in use (the function simply returned if it detected the id). This change allows developers to replace Gobs without the need to run deleteGob() first.
The new variable G.mediaURL provides a standard way to provide the URL path to media files like images. See the updated G documentation for details on how to use it. G.mediaURL is not required for use in games, and is for convenience only.
Version: 1.7.3 Released: 2009.07.28
This release adds the G.deleteGob(id) method. This function will safely delete 'simple' Gobs, so that the id can be reused. Simple Gobs are those which:
- Have no events attached to the Gob tag (you would have added them manually, GMP never adds events to Gobs directly). If you added events (eg, onclick, onmousedown, etc.) to the Gob's tag, then you must set them to NULL before calling G.deleteGob(id).
- Have no child Gobs. If you want to delete a Gob with child Gobs (eg, a viewport, layer or composite sprite), then delete the child Gobs first (go ahead and use G.deleteGob(id) to delete the children). The reason G.deleteGob(id) doesn't to this automatically, is that there are many ways for Gobs to be interconnected by the developer, many more ways than the function could reasonably anticipate!
- Have only standard references. All Gob references must be deleted for the browser to perform garbage collection. G.deleteGob(id) deletes references to Gobs inside G.O, G.CO, G.B.O, G.O.CO (empty parentheses means the entire set is searched for references). If you have other references to the Gob, it is highly recommended that you delete them as well after/before you run G.deleteGob(id).
Thanks to Ray for noticing this method was missing!
Version 1.7.2 Released: 2009.05.09
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The city of Bengaluru has recorded good rains in April. Rains were light in the last 24 hours to the tune of 1 mm. However, Bengaluru received 51 mm rain a day before. Since last four days Bengaluru has been receiving scattered rainfall.
During the last 4 days, on two occasions Bengaluru has received heavy downpour. While the monthly average rainfall for the city is 34 mm, between April 1 and 17, Bengaluru recorded 101 mm rain.
The record for the highest rainfall during the month is of of 323.8 mm in 2001. Meanwhile, the 24 hour rainfall record for April is of 108.6 mm on April 19 in 2001.
Talking about the present situation, a trough is extending from to south interior Karnataka at lower levels. We expect on and off rain to continue over the city for next 4 to 5 days with isolated heavy spells. Bengaluru may not break the highest monthly rainfall record of 2001 but this April seems to be one of the rainiest April for Bengaluru.
Monthly average of Bengaluru is in three digits between May and October with the September month seeing the highest rains at 212.8 mm. | <urn:uuid:c1ee2adb-a3de-4791-8bdb-1cbc19a6a2bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.skymetweather.com/content/weather-news-and-analysis/bengaluru-already-received-three-times-the-average-rains-in-april/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.975649 | 236 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Accession Number : ADA326506
Title : Protection Against Malevolent Use of Vehicles at Nuclear Power Plants: Vehicle Barrier System Selection Guidance,
Corporate Author : CORPS OF ENGINEERS OMAHA NE
Personal Author(s) : Nebuda, D. T.
PDF Url : ADA326506
Report Date : DEC 1994
Pagination or Media Count : 44
Abstract : This manual provides a simplified procedure for selecting land vehicle barriers that will stop the design basis vehicle threat adopted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Proper selection and construction of vehicle barriers should prevent intrusion of the design basis vehicle. In addition, vital safety related equipment should survive a design basis vehicle bomb attack when vehicle barriers are properly selected, sited, and constructed. This manual addresses passive vehicle barriers, active vehicle barriers, and site design features that can be used to reduce vehicle impact velocity.
Descriptors : *BARRIERS, *NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, *COUNTERTERRORISM, LOAD DISTRIBUTION, STANDOFF, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, IMPACT STRENGTH, STRUCTURAL RESPONSE, THREAT EVALUATION, GROUND VEHICLES, ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, IMPACT PREDICTION, ANTIINTRUSION DEVICES, BOMB DAMAGE, STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY.
Subject Categories : Structural Engineering and Building Technology
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something you want to achieve. You are excited and
ready to take on the world, and then a few months
later you can't even be bothered to spend 10 minutes
working towards achieving it. Well welcome to being
human! It is so easy to go from excitement to complete
apathy but there are things you can do to ensure you
stay motivated towards your goal and following are
seven great ones!
1. Is Your Reason WHY Large Enough?
When I wanted to lose weight setting a goal to look
great in clothes was not big enough, what didn't help
was the fact that I loved who I was and what I looked
like, but my health had begun to show signs of being
affected by my excess weight and this is the WHY I
used to ensure I stayed on track. I started with 6
weeks of no diary, no wheat and red meat only once a
week. Do you think I needed a big why to stay
committed to such a regime??!! I knew that health is
my true wealth. Having been unwell for 6 months and
hardly able to walk had taught me that without my
health my goals were useless. So maintaining a healthy
body that would allow me to enjoy the fulfillment of
my goals was the big WHY that kept me on track.
Stop and think about your reason WHY? What reason is
big enough to keep you motivated at times when you
want to give up and/or give in?
2. Create a visual and emotional image of what you
Writing your goals down is an essential tool but not
always enough to keep focused. Writing your goals down
and having a visual image of you completing that goal
adds fuel to the motivational fire. Writing goals
down, having a visual image of your completed goal AND
connecting this image with your emotions is the power
of 3 that will ensure your motivation remains high. At
any point during the day, or at any time when you are
feeling in need of encouragement, you can simply stop,
close your eyes, see your goal and evoke all the
emotions achieving that goal holds for you. Nothing is
3. Questions to ask before, during and after!
It is important to know not only why you are doing
something but also WHAT. What achieving this goal will
provide for yourself and your family. It is easy to
believe that what you want is to make a million, but
for many it is the lifestyle and the time freedom that
this money has the potential to provide that will be
the real motivation.
Spend time asking yourself questions that will help
you identify what achieving your goal will provide.
Questions such as:
•What will it bring me?
•What will it do for me, my family, and/or friends?
•What kind of lifestyle will I be able to have?
•What sacrifices will I need to make?
•What will be the impact on my current routine?
•What will be the impact on my family?
•What outcome do I want to achieve?
•What contributions will I be able to make
Motivation and staying motivated is easy when you know
what the achievement of your goal will provide for you
and we only really lose motivation when we lose sight
of our goal or end result.
4. Creating a visual representation of what you want
Keep the motivational fires burning by creating a
collage with the family of what your end result will
look like, or paint a picture, write a poem, sing a
song, or whatever creative endeavor excites you enough
to complete it.
Whatever you create keep it in a place where you can
see it constantly, I remember listening to someone
talk about sticking a poster of making their first
100,000 on their ceiling so that as they woke up it
was the first thing they saw each morning, and the
last image in their mind before falling asleep.
Leave yourself reminders on your fridge door, on your
bathroom mirror, in your car. The more places you are
able to leave yourself little notes and reminders
about what you want to achieve the better. Doing this
will help your unconscious mind bring you the results
you desire, whilst also supporting you in staying
focused and motivated towards achieving your goal.
5.Get Support from people around you
Support from family and friends is important but also
consider what other support is available to you.
Books, mentoring, work colleagues, life coaching,
forums – these are all things that can support you as
you work towards achieving your goal. Also think about
WHO can support you in staying motivated, can you
buddy up with someone, do you have a boss or lecturer
who will be happy to help you keep accountable.
One thing I recommend is that you tell as many people
as you know about what you want to achieve, this has
the effect of keeping you motivated to complete your
goal because you have told so many people. However, a
word of caution is needed here because it is easy for
people to trample your dreams and fail to support you.
You must first pick and choose carefully those people
you know will want to support you, but also you must
gain enough inner personal strength to be able to
continue no matter what negative comments may come
6.Develop Inner Personal Strength
Ultimately, the person who will determine whether you
stay motivated and achieve your goal will be you. Your
thoughts will determine your behavior which determines
your results. Developing a strong inner personal
strength about your ability to achieve and your
ability to motivate yourself when you are in an
unproductive state of mind is essential. Being able to
see setbacks and failures as opportunities for
continued growth and upset and emotional turmoil as
opportunities to discover what you want and need, will
determine how you view life. One of the best ways to
inner personal strength is to read and listen to
audios that inspire and motivate you. Continued
learning is an essential part of being able to stay
7. Support from Continued Learning
If you are going to need to learn new skills to ensure
you complete your goal then you it is a good idea to
identify what learning you will need to undertake as
early as possible. If you have planned out how you
will achieve your outcome then you will already be
aware of any areas where you need to strengthen your
skills or out source to others who will be able to
fulfill what you need.
There is nothing worse than getting halfway towards
the completion of a goal and to be stopped because you
are not able to complete something because of lack of
knowledge and/or skills. This is a surefire way of
dampening your excitement and your motivation.
Make a list of what you can and can't do and who might
be able to help you. Knowing this in advance can help
you avoid getting frustrated because things aren't
getting done. If you are serious about developing your
personal and professional life then I recommend
getting yourself a Mentor or Life Coach, to ensure you
stay on track.
You should also look at continued learning as it
relates to your own personal development, continuing
with your own personal development will ensure you are
able to work through set backs quickly and stay
Staying motivated when you are looking to achieve your
goals is essential for ultimate success. I have
provided you with seven practical ways to achieve
continued motivation and I recommend you use them all.
Some of them such as creating a collage will be
activities you perform occasionally, but others, such
as continuing your personal development will be a
continuous learning process. There is not one single
thing that will determine your success in staying
motivated but a combination of many, finding the
combination that is right for you will change from
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Since carbon emissions are currently not specifically priced, it does not yet represent part of the acquisition cost of assets. As such, it is currently not accounted for under e.g., International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), US or local generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
The purpose of this framework is to describe accounting policies and procedures for carbon accounting. It provides an initial framework to monitor the resource consumption. While it has been structured and designed with real estate in mind, it could be extended to any other asset/product.
It represents a carbon “accounting” logic, although in this case accounting does not mean a presentation of transactions according to national or international accounting standards. The following policies and procedures have been developed for the sake of efficient and economic management of the operational and embedded carbon.
It is neither practical nor achievable to anticipate all potential cases upfront or to provide guidelines that deliver completely prefabricated answers. As such the framework focuses on a rule-based approach presented in this manual, which allows to address situations that may arise in the normal course of business. Nonetheless, it should be noted at this point, that the focus of the manual is on exemplary clarification of the accounting for carbon. Several terms and definitions used in this manual are similar to the wording of established International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) terms, as e.g. the terms asset and liability. However, it should be noted that the items described here do not fulfill the definition of the IFRS standards or its framework, and therefore should not be interpreted in a similar fashion then within the framework of IFRS, or any other GAAP item. | <urn:uuid:3eb550e2-d230-4cdf-abd4-dd0c569740cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://recap.wiki/index.php/coming-soon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.945283 | 332 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London is responsible for fostering trade and economic relations with the following countries (in alphabetical order).
- The United Kingdom
Based in London, the United Kingdom, this Office:
- promotes bilateral trade with and investment in Hong Kong;
- updates the business communities and governments, trade organisations, business organisations, think-tanks, cultural institutions and media on important developments in Hong Kong;
- organises official visits, seminars and public relations activities in the countries concerned;
- assists investors from the above countries who wish to seek business opportunities in Hong Kong and in Mainland China through Hong Kong as the hub of operation by providing advice and practical assistance; and
- provides inquiry service.
The HKSAR Government is an Associate Member of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) under the name "Hong Kong, China". The Marine Adviser, who is Hong Kong's Permanent Representative to IMO, together with his two Deputies, are based in the London Office. His team is responsible for promoting the Hong Kong Shipping Registry and maritime transport services and rendering support to ship operators of Hong Kong registered ships in the region. Visit Marine Department for more information about the organisation, functions and services. | <urn:uuid:495ebdd3-7e4a-4b99-9384-3ada92745f1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hketolondon.gov.hk/responsibilities.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.917978 | 276 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 5917 (2020)
Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.
Virus cultures were negative for all asymptomatic positive and repositive cases, indicating no “viable virus” in positive cases detected in this study.
The citywide nucleic acid screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan recruited nearly 10 million people, and found no newly confirmed cases with COVID-19. The detection rate of asymptomatic positive cases was very low, and there was no evidence of transmission from asymptomatic positive persons to traced close contacts. There were no asymptomatic positive cases in 96.4% of the residential communities.
Previous studies have shown that asymptomatic individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus were infectious3, and might subsequently become symptomatic4. Compared with symptomatic patients, asymptomatic infected persons generally have low quantity of viral loads and a short duration of viral shedding, which decrease the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-25. In the present study, virus culture was carried out on samples from asymptomatic positive cases, and found no viable SARS-CoV-2 virus. All close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases tested negative, indicating that the asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious.
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong/ Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.
- Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel.
- Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus.
- Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever. | <urn:uuid:ca8f77ea-6540-4971-b9b8-7bb0c2c10868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/12/03/ten-million-screened-post-lockdown-in-wuhan-prevalence-of-covid-19-very-low-no-evidence-of-asymptomatic-transmission-to-close-contacts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.915274 | 1,156 | 2 | 2 |
Rebates are payments or credits that are payable to customers based on pre-established agreements to purchase certain items in specific quantities or amounts.
There can be distinguished between three Rebate types in process manufacturing:
- Rebate – The rebate type is typically processed by sending a check to the customer or by deducting the rebate amount from the customer’s invoice. This type is by far the most used. In reality, there is not much difference between the Rebate Type vs. the TMA Type. Often it is classified differently purely for reporting purposes because often it will get paid via some kind of marketing budget.
- TMA – The Trade and Merchandising Allowance rebates accrue until they are passed on to the customer, which is usually processed by a credit note (however, the system is still flexible enough to allow a payment via check if needed).
- Freight – Freight rebates accrue based on region and are not passed to the customer. They are used only for reporting.
For every Rebate Agreement, a Payment type has to be defined. The payment type determines how the customer receives compensation under the rebate agreement. The customer can receive payment through accounts payable, customer deduction, trade spending, or freight. Important to know is, that validation conditions exist between the Rebate program type and the payment type.
- A rebate agreement with a rebate program type (defined by rebate program ID) “Rebate” is required to have a payment type of “Pay using Accounts Payable” (Which used to be called Check) or “Customer Deductions” (which in effect is a credit).
- A rebate agreement with a rebate program type “TMA” is required to have a payment type of “Trade Spending“.
- A rebate agreement with a rebate program type “Freight” is required to have a payment type of “Freight“.
This setup is really indicating how the rebate agreement should be paid to the customer. In reality, the actual payment process for a rebate agreement of type Rebate or type TMA is no different. From the customer form, one can pay the customer either with a credit or cut a check through Accounts Payable (AP).
One major difference with the TMA type is the option to create a Manual or Free Rebate using a Rebate program ID with type TMA. This would support marketing activities, that doesn’t have to be based on sales orders coming in. It could purely be based on the customer performing a marketing event (i.e. advertising a product on an end aisle display). So for example, the user will pay Customer A $150 for putting a product on an end cap. Once the proof of performance is received, the user would then go to the customer and pay the amount either as a credit or cut a check. This is not based on any sales orders. | <urn:uuid:6cf6cff8-fac0-47fb-b434-3102e1cd082e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2013/02/26/rebate-agreements-in-ax-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.957504 | 603 | 2.34375 | 2 |
If you’ve never tried mead before, you might expect it to be overly sweet, it is made primarily with honey after all. However, like wine and beer, mead takes on different tastes depending on what is added during the process. While often referred to as honey wine, if you try to purchase some, you’ll likely find it with the beer.
Overall, mead tends to taste like honey, so it skews somewhat sweeter. However, there are many types of mead and some are much drier, spicier, or tarter. It all depends on what’s added and the type of honey used.
Just like other forms of alcohol, the taste of mead is dependent on multiple factors. In addition, different types of mead will have different consistencies and feel differently in the mouth.
Types of Mead
There are many types of mead. Here are some of the more common forms, let’s go through them and discuss how they taste and their textures.
A traditional mead is simply honey and water. However, since there are 300 different types of honey, the one chosen will affect the taste of the mead. But basically, it will taste like honey, but that doesn’t always mean it’s sweet.
During fermentation, the sugar gets converted to alcohol, so you get the flavor of the honey, but not necessarily, the sweetness. Kombucha has a similar flavor.. Honey that isn’t sweet tends to taste smoky, woody, and earthy.
Overall, it’s fairly smooth in the mouth and somewhat crisp.
Technically, a mead that contains fruit, in addition to honey and water, is classified as a melomel. These can be either sweet or dry depending on the fruit used, but these are mostly sweet meads. The most common types of fruit used are blends of raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and apricots.
They tend to feel very much like red wine in the mouth and have a fairly medium body.
This is a specific type of melomel made with apples. If you’ve ever had a hard cider, cyser is similar to that in flavor.
It tastes like a blend of apples and honey that comes with a bit of a tart bite to it. Overall, it’s fairly smooth to drink.
Similar to cyser, pyment is a melomel that is made with grapes. This is not wine though, as the grapes are added along with the honey to create mead.
Depending on the grapes used, pyment will taste moderately of honey with either spicy, fruity, or earthy flavors.
It has a medium-bodied mouthfeel.
Metheglins are meads that contain spices and herbs. Often, cinnamon, vanilla, and cloves are most common and can be added to melomels occasionally as well.
These types of mead are typically richer and spicier than some of the others.
Mulled mead is a combination of melomel and metheglin. It’s typically made with warm spices such as cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg (what does nutmeg tastes like?). It often has citrus fruit added such as lemons and oranges.
Typically mulled mead, has a bit of a heavier feel in the mouth.
This type of mead is often heated unlike the other types of mead which are consumed at room temperature or chilled.
Sima, Finland’s claim to mead, is somewhat less of mead than it used to be. While traditionally made with honey, presently, it’s often made with a combination of honey and brown sugar. This makes it much sweeter but isn’t necessarily classified as a mead.
It’s often flavored with lemons as well, which gives it a fresh, citrusy taste as well.
Lighter in the mouth than other meads, Sima is often used more as a sparkling beverage, than a heavier mead.
Bochet is a mead that is made from honey that has been caramelized. The flavor of the honey is dependent on how long it cooks for. When cooked less it tastes like caramel, however, when cooked longer, it tastes like dark chocolate.
Often fruits such as elderberry, blackberries, and dark raspberries are added.
It has a heavier, somewhat creamy texture.
This is very similar to Bochet, however, it is made with maple syrup in addition to honey.
Acergyln is very sweet and heavy.
Made in Lithuania, Midas is somewhat sweet and fairly bitter. Often made with juniper berries, Midas sometimes has a bit of a peppery aftertaste.
It tends to feel light in the mouth.
Braggots are made with grains, hops, and malts which makes them more like beer than wine. However, in order to retain its mead status, it still needs to have over 50% honey.
These types of mead are often tangy, earthy, and spicy, but the flavors can vary based on the levels of grains and hops.
This often has a texture similar to a sour beer like Guinness.. It often has a bit of a pucker and a bite.
While mead has multiple flavors depending on varying factors, most mead tends to smell floral and early with hints of vanilla and citrus.
If your mead smells like rotten eggs, chances are something went wrong during fermentation.
Mead is a fermented drink made from honey that tends to taste slightly sweet. It can also take on spicier or tarter flavors depending on the type.
If you don’t like sweet drinks, be sure to try a traditional mead or Braggot. Alternatively, see if you can find Midas, as it has a peppery finish.
For those who enjoy sweeter flavors, Bochet or Acergyln is what you want. Made with caramelized honey and maple syrup respectively, you get a much sweetener beverage with either of these.
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16 Southern Historical Society Papers.
The view of the meaning of the constitutional compact taken by the then most rampant advocates of loose construction of the Con- stitution in the closing- years of the last century differed widely from the interpretation that their successors chose to adopt.
Dr. Johnson, of Connecticut, said in the Federal Convention : " The fact is the States do exist as so many political societies, and a government is to be formed for them in their political capacity, as well as for the individuals composing them. Does it not seem to follow that if the States, as such, are to exist, they must be armed with some power of self-defence ?" That means the right to se- cede. In the same debate Mr. Ellsworth said: "He turned his eyes, therefore, for the preservation of his rights to the State gov- ernments." Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Sherman unite in saying : ' ' The powers vested in Congress go only to matters respecting the common interests of the Union and are specially defined, so that the particular States retain their sovereignty in other matters." Oliver Ellsworth further said : " The Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies States in their political capacity."
Alexander Hamilton, the head and front of the Centralization party, himself says : " But how can this (military) force be exerted on the States collectively (against State authority ?) It is impossi- ble." Thus, and by like examples much too numerous to quote, we see the view of the limitation of the powers of the general gov- ernment taken by the fathers of the republic and agreed to by their supporters and constituents.
Before the first year of this century the tendency to consolidation became so apparent that two States, at least, passed resolutions as- sertive of their States' rights, and as these resolutions were without opposition or contradiction, they must have embodied the currently received doctrine of their time.
STATE RIGHTS DECLARED.
The declaration of Virginia, drawn up by Mr. Madison, sets forth : "That in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exer- cise of powers not granted in said compact (the Constitution) the States who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them." | <urn:uuid:2d30e46a-14fd-47eb-bd73-6a3c7d8801ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Southern_Historical_Society_Papers_volume_32.djvu/28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96859 | 497 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Students in fourth and eighth grade at New York City schools scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning.
The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation’s report card, showed that the city’s fourth-grade math average dropped 3 points to 234 (on a scale of 500) from 2009, the last time the exams were taken. While federal education officials cautioned that the changes were too small to be significant, that dip diverged from the trend nationally and for other large cities. In 2011, the average fourth-grade math score rose by one point nationally, and two points for cities with populations of 250,000 or more.
Even with the recent declines, New York City’s fourth- and eighth-grade math scores are still up eight points and six points, respectively, since 2003.
Allison Horowitz, a policy analyst with the Education Trust, an advocacy group promoting academic achievement, said a problem was that New York City’s overall averages had not improved as much as those in other cities, though there had been “good progress” in moving students up from the lowest achievement level since 2003.
“Parents in New York City have the same high aspirations for their kids as other parents across the country,” she said. “And we’re not going to get all students where they need to be if all we’re doing is lifting the floor.”
In a press release, the city's Education Department pointed out that since 2003, New York City public school students had made statistically significant improvements in math and reading scores that mirrored or exceeded trends seen across the nation. | <urn:uuid:971ef596-58dd-4a74-8de1-aa7bb7b8b3c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wnyc.org/story/302221-federal-test-scores-show-dips-by-city-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00046-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97382 | 351 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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A prediction: With stocks up nicely year-to-date, we’ll soon see myriad headlines warning us stocks have come too far, too fast, and we should “lock in our gains,” take our bat and ball and go home.
A few things.
This notion stocks have come too far, too fast is built on a faulty premise that stocks ought to deliver more measured returns. But when has that happened, ever? Yes, stock have averaged about 10% a year over long time periods, but that doesn’t mean that’s what they normally return most years.
In fact, the reverse. Stock returns are normally hugely variable. If they weren’t, there wouldn’t be as much inherent risk, and overall returns would likely be lower. That’s just the way the world works. In 61% of years since 1926 (measuring January 1 to December 31), US stocks have been up in excess of 10%—often hugely in excess. 36.8% of the time, stocks were up over 20%. That’s not 36.8% of all positive years—that’s 36.8% of all years! Another factoid folks miss is big down years are pretty rare. They happen! But less than commonly feared—stocks have been down over 20% just 6.9% of all years. If you’re constantly fearing a big, sustained drop, you’re living in fear of something that happens rarely—and is typically quickly erased by stocks’ overall longer and stronger upward sweep.*
Then, there’s the notion that the market’s strong performance this year (US stocks up 16.4% and world stocks up 12.7%)**—and in fact for much of the bull market—is somehow detached from economic reality. And that might make sense if you think headline GDP—which has been relatively lackluster—is the sole determinant of stock returns. But it isn’t, has never been and shouldn’t be. Stocks are a piece of future earnings, hence, given enough time, stock returns track corporate earnings growth pretty closely. In that regard, one could easily argue stocks are still well undervalued in this bull market. Most valuations remain historically low, and profit growth has healthily outpaced stock returns—i.e., this bull probably has room to run. Maybe a lot of room.
Finally, I’ve never understood this notion of “locking-in profits.” Locking them where? Stocks rise 10%, you take the gains and do what? Lock them in a box? If you “take gains,” they’re only locked-in inasmuch as you get a 1099 commemorating the event. Those gains are then, presumably and eventually, reinvested elsewhere. Maybe into another stock—which might rise or fall. Or a bond—which does the same. Your “locked-in” profits, deployed elsewhere, don’t provide assurance against future volatility. Then, too, there’s no set amount a stock—or the market, for that matter—can rise before it must fall again. A stock can rise a lot, then rise a lot more. Maybe your “locked-in” profit is a mere fraction of what that stock (or market) subsequently delivers over the next year or two or five.
Or maybe you don’t reinvest. Maybe they’re “locked-in” and stashed in cash. But if you’re investing in stocks in the first place, you likely have some form of growth goal. Routinely and automatically sweeping profits off the table to stash in cash exposes you to a lot of near-term volatility risk for severely dampened long-term rewards. The magic of compounding interest is your gains earn gains (which earn gains which earn gains). By “taking profits” in this manner, you’re either robbing yourself of future gains or have an odd strategy of achieving lower expected returns.
* Global Financial Data, Inc., as of 01/13/2013. S&P 500 Return (with GFD extension) from 12/31/1925 to 12/31/2012.
** Global Financial Data, Inc., as of 05/24/2013. S&P 500 Total Return (with GFD extension) and MSCI World Total Return inclusive of net dividends from 12/31/2012 to 05/24/2013.
This constitutes the views, opinions and commentary of the author as of May, 2013, and should not be regarded as personal investment advice. No assurances are made the author will continue to hold these views, which may change at any time without notice. No assurances are made regarding the accuracy of any forecast made. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investing in stock markets involves the risk of loss. | <urn:uuid:929d4e84-13fc-48b7-9c24-4df79835c5e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/larahoffmans/2013/05/24/too-far-too-fast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00184-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948432 | 1,046 | 1.734375 | 2 |
One of the unspoken skill sets of a developer is having command line chops. This can cover service management, navigating around the file system, file management and other knowledge required to carry out hosting a website or application. This usually ends up being in a linux environment, at least with most open source tech. We're not saying you need to become a system admin over night, or at all, but you'll end up needing some proficiency. You'll likely start finding this out when that tutorial you're following asks you to run certain commands, or is assuming knowledge of the command line already.
Below are some not-so-beginner tricks that really save time and are sometimes not mentioned, so we're making a point of that now. It's those tricks that you learn over time that you probably wish you knew earlier.
A lot of times you'll see parts of a tutorial asking you to "source" your .bash_profile,.bashrc or some other file. The author will likely just print out the command you'll need, and copy/pasting ensues. There's two ways this can be done. The first is with the source builtin command, the other is with it's synonym, the dot. Both do the same thing on the majority of systems you'll encounter.
What it's basically doing is evaluating the contents of the file following the command, executed in the current context. The "current context" is usually meant to mean the current terminal session into which the user is typing commands. A common example is making some changes to .bash_profile (usually an export statement). Then, to make those updates active right away, you'd "source" file, thus executing the new changes. Then in this example, the next time you'd login, the bash_profile would be read and there'd be no need to source it again. One key thing to note here is that
. .bash_profile aren't the same thing. The latter is to do with source, the former to do with treating the file as an executable, which it's not.
A quick way to get to your home directory is to just type
cd. The tilde is used to reference home as well, and can be useful for targeting files within your home directory. But to go there, I often see
cd ~ or
cd /home/john which isn't necessary. Another trick to get back to the previous directory you were in, is to type
Ever find yourself typing out the same long commands over and over? There's a way to define an abbreviation, or alias, for any command you want. Typically these are defined in your .bash_profile or .bashrc files so they are ready to go upon entering each terminal session. Basically you just type the word alias, followed by the new command name you want to define, then equals, then the real command. Once placing that in to either of the two previously mentioned files, you can source those files to make the aliases active. Here's an example stack of aliases for use with vagrant:
alias vh='vagrant halt'
alias vssh='vagrant ssh'
alias vgs='vagrant global-status'
alias vha='vagrant global-status | grep running | cut -c 1-9 | while read line; do echo $line; vagrant halt $line; done;'
Create a nested directory structure
Sometimes you need to create a new directory, or several leading up to that directory. Using mkdir alone, we'd get an error explaining that the parent directories leading up to the last one don't exist. To get around this, we can use the -p flag to make parent directories as needed. In this case, to make the tree folder, as well as the other 3 leading up to it, we'd do something like the following:
mkdir -p a/deep/directory/tree
Backup and re-source databases
While not strictly command line generic, it's one that is common to web related jobs. Given the hefty size of most databases we work on, the best approach is to gzip the output file as a general rule to keep size down. Given that the default output of mysqldump is text, we're basically just zipping that text. Then, to reload the data, we're using zcat (just like the normal cat command but for zipped files). The output of zcat gets piped into the mysql command which is also specifying the database name to use.
mysqldump -u my_user -p my_database | gzip > my_database.sql.gz
zcat my_database.sql.gz | mysql -u my_user -p my_database
Use tab, like all the time
In most shells, typing the first bit of a command name, file or file path followed by hitting tab will autocomplete the rest for you or give suggestions. Try it out by just typing "cd" in any directory, then tab a couple times. It'll then give you all the possible options you can cd in to. Alternatively for commands, you can see this in action by typing the first bit of a possible command, let's say "whi", and hitting tab a couple times gives 3 possibilities (at least for me on Centos which are which, while and whiptail). Basically before long you'll be compulsively hitting tab in between everything you do, which is awesome. Here's more information about command-line completion.
Watching files as they change
Typically you'll want to watch log files while your app runs. You'll want to use the tail command for this. Typically on it's own, tail just prints the last 10 lines of a specified file. It also has the option of following a file as well, using the -f flag. A common use case is to tail the web server logs. A common one for nginx is below, but that can be subbed for any file. Tail can also just be used on it's own without the follow option on a file that you don't need to watch. It's convenient for logging just because it'll bring you right to the end of the file, hence it's name! As a side note, you'll probably need to sudo for log files if you're not already logged in as the root user.
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
Speed up your keyboard repeat rate
This is a bit of personal preference, but it's something noticeable if not done, especially when moving to another machine that this hasn't been done to. A lot of time can be saved just by increasing the press and hold repeat rate for your keyboard. This becomes especially useful for arrowing through long commands. There are ways to jump words like in other text editors, as well as jump to the beginning and end of lines, but in general you'll want to try it and see if you can see the benefit for yourself.
Recalling commands run in the past; history
A lot of the time, you'll find yourself running the same commands over and over. If those commands are vaguely complex, it can be an annoyance to have to type them out all the time. Thankfully there's ways to reference commands we know we've already run. The primary way is to use CTRL+R. This keyboard combination will present an autocomplete style prompt. It'll start referencing commands that have been run starting in reverse chronological order. To see that full list, you can type the history command. The shortcut above though is the quicker and more usable way to get at known commands. The "history" command itself can be useful for glancing over to see what's been happening in general.
If you find a command in the history list you'd like to run, you can use the number that gets listed out beside the command. Just prefix the number with an exclamation. An example being
!514 which is just a short way of typing
Lastly, you can run the last ran command with
!!. This is handy when you have to run a command again with a sudo or other prefix again, which would look like
Copying files with Rsync
Whenever you find yourself needing to move files around servers, maybe to a stage from prod, or moving and existing site to a new server, you'll want to employ some method of transferring those files. Some people will use the scp command for this. We'll skip that and recommend you use rsync. It's essentially scp, but next level. Essentially rsync supports many more options to fine tune it than does scp. It also keeps track of files already transferred, which is one of its biggest selling points. This means if you're running a backup job, it'll only top up the files that are new and not in the destination. Rather than stuff a big comparison list here, you can read up on the differences between scp and rsync elsewhere if you're interested.
Local to Remote
rsync -avz --progress myfiles/ [email protected]:/home/
Remote to Local
rsync -avzh --progress [email protected]:/home/john/files /tmp/myfiles
Sometimes you start running a command only to find out it's taking way longer than you expected. You'd like to be able to do something else in the meantime, but your terminal is occupied by that running command. The go to solution is to just open another terminal, right? That's the brute force approach. The more elegant solution is to utilize background jobs.
There's a concept of being able to put new commands right into the background to give you the terminal back. To do that, before running a new command, put an ampersand at the end. Using the database dump example from above, that would look like this:
mysqldump -u my_user -p my_database | gzip > my_database.sql.gz &
You can also put running commands in to a suspended/stopped state, giving you the terminal back, to then decide if you want to put that suspended job in to the background or bring it back to the foreground like it was. Taking the above command as the example again, while it's running, use the keyboard combination CTRL+Z. You'll then see the following:
+ Stopped mysqldump -u my_user -p my_database | gzip > my_database.sql.gz
In this state, that job is waiting to either be put back in to the foreground or run in the background. If you wanted to continue running it in the foreground, just typing
fg would resume it. To put it in to the background, type
bg. To see all jobs, just type
jobs. Each job has an index associated to it. By default, using the fg and bg commands will address the first one in the list. If you wanted to choose from another, for example the second job, just add it as a parameter on to fg or bg, like "fg 2" or "bg 2".
Running multiple commands at once
When you know you have to run multiple commands, you don't have to wait for the first command to finish before running next. You can use a semi-colon to separate commands on the same line. What this does is run all the commands listed in order. Now there's no need to wait for the previous commands to finish before running the next.
command1; command2; command3
A variation on the above is to set up multiple commands to run in order, but only proceed if the previous command didn't fail. You can use double ampersands for this. In this example, command2 will only run if command1 was successful
command1 && command2
Less is more
To read a text file, you may have been told to use cat. The truth is it's not the best tool and wasn't designed to read files like you'd want to.
You can use editors like vi or vim but if you just want to read a file, the less command is a better choice.
Moving around in less is similar to vi/vim if you're already familiar with that. If not, you can learn one and apply in both places (for some things).
Reading compressed files without extracting
Files are sometimes gzip compressed to save space. Good examples of this are database dumps and log files. Rather than picking files to look at and extracting them one at a time, we have versions of common commands we can use to deal with this layer of compression. Using a file called website.db.gz, we can use the following commands. Just note we're using a DB file here as an example just because they're usually large text files and so these commands aren't specific to this use case.
using zless to read the database file (good for confirming specifics before running an import):
using zcat to read the database contents and pipe it in to the database:
zcat website.db.gz | mysql -uroot -p website_db
using zgrep to search through the db to find a value:
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Posted By Simpson Law Group LLP Trial Attorneys Posted in:Pedestrian Accident
As you may have heard, there has already been the first fatality cause by an autonomous or “driverless” car. It was inevitable, but somewhat shocking that it happened so soon. A woman crossing a street in Tempe, Arizona was struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle. It marks the first fatality of this kind. This technology has been touted as a way to reduce vehicle crashes and save lives. Now it is being investigated by regulators and is receiving a huge backlash from consumer-safety advocates.
Companies have been investing billions of dollars to develop autonomous vehicles. The initial road tests that have been conducted showed positive results. However we are seeing as more tests are done, the likelihood for a fatal crash shows an increase.
According to the official investigation, the vehicle was driving the speed limit, around 40 mph, when it struck the pedestrian. The computer data appears to show the vehicle did not detect the pedestrian at all, and made no corrections to its speed or trajectory.
The official investigation also revealed the pedestrian was walking outside of the crosswalk when she was struck.
Arizona state law requires that pedestrians yield the right-of-way to vehicles when not using crosswalks.
Arizona also has very few restrictions for operating autonomous vehicles. It has been a hotbed for companies testing their technology.
Currently Uber has stopped operating their autonomous vehicles in it’s test markets and is said to be cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigative teams.
So far, it’s unclear what kind of impact the Uber incident will have on the other companies developing this technology. Will this slow the rapid progress we have been seeing?
Companies such as Waymo and Lyft, say they intend to continue and move forward with their initial plans for autonomous vehicles.
Autonomous vehicles are supposed to eliminate human error because their sensors are always on and they never get tired, distracted, or intoxicated. But how safe is it to test autonomous vehicles on the roads with others that are unaware of them and have not given consent to be involved in any testing environment?
Shouldn’t this autonomous technology be able to detect if a pedestrian is in the vicinity of the vehicle, where ever they are? What is the point of having a person monitoring screens and gauges if they are not able to take control of the vehicle in the event of an emergency? Who is ultimately at fault for this incident, the car, the driver or the pedestrian walking in the street?
This was the first crash. There will certainly be more to come.
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This research study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of a combination drug and biologic
therapy in patients with advanced head and neck cancer.
This research study involves the following drugs and biologics:
- CIML NK donor cells
- IL-15 superagonist
This is a two-part, non randomized, open label, single site Phase 1 study. The purpose of
this research study is to obtain information on the safety and effectiveness of this
combination of study drugs to treat advanced head and neck. The experimental combination
therapy in this study involves CIML NK cells from a haploidentical donor (meaning cells from
another person with similar immune proteins), IL-15, and participants in cohort 2 will also
receive ipilimumab. CIML NK cells are an allogeneic cell product derived from qualified donor
natural killer (NK) cells that have been bathed in special proteins to help to identify and
treat certain advanced cancers.
- Participants who fulfill eligibility criteria will be entered into the trial CTLA-4
Inhibition in Combination with Memory-like Natural Killer (NK) Cell Immune Cell Therapy in
Advanced Head & Neck Cancer.
The study consists of 2 parts:
- Cohort 1 CIML NK cells without ipilimumab
- The investigators are looking the highest dose of the study intervention that can be
administered safely without severe or unmanageable side effects in participants that
have advanced head and neck cancer, not everyone who participates in this research study
will receive the same dose of the study intervention. The dose given will depend on the
number of participants who have been enrolled prior and how well the dose was tolerated
- Cohort 2 participants will be treated at the respective dose (at or below the Maximum
Tolerated Dose), as determined during Cohort plus a lead-in dose of ipilimumab
- It is expected that about 12 people will take part in this research study.
This research study is a Phase I clinical trial, which tests the safety of investigational
drugs and tries to define the appropriate dose of the investigational drugs to use for
"Investigational" means that the drug is being studied. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has not approved CIML NK cells as treatment for any disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved IL-15 as a treatment for any
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved ipilimumab for your specific
disease but it has been approved for other uses.
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed, recurrent or metastatic squamous cell
carcinoma of the head neck (including oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, hypopharynx,
paranasal sinuses) or salivary gland carcinoma (including adenoid cystic carcinoma and
non-adenoid cystic carcinoma histologies)
- Any HPV status or smoking history is permitted. Oropharyngeal cancer patients are
required to undergo HPV testing with p16 immunohistochemistry and/or confirmatory HPV
PCR or ISH testing
- Available haploidentical donor that is willing and eligible for non-mobilized
- Prior exposure to a platinum-containing regimen (either in the definitive or advanced,
recurrent/metastatic setting) and exposure to a PD-1/L1 inhibitor is required for
SCCHN patients only
- Age 18 years or older
- ECOG performance status ≤ 2 (see Appendix A).
- No systemic corticosteroid therapy (≤ 10 mg of prednisone or equivalent dose of
systemic steroids for non-autoimmune indications for at least 4 weeks prior to NK cell
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Negative pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential only. Women of
childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test
(minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of HCG) within 72 hours before the
start of ipilimumab.
- The effects of CIML NK cells and N-803 on the developing human fetus are unknown.
For this reason, WOCBP and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or
barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of
study participation, and for up to 26 weeks after the last dose of all investigational
products (up to 16 weeks after the last N-803 dose), in such a manner that the risk of
pregnancy is minimized. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she
or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician
- Willing to provide blood and tissue from diagnostic biopsy and at the time of surgery
- Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
- leukocytes ≥ 2,500/mcL
- absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mcL
- platelets ≥ 90,000/mcL
- total bilirubin ≤ 1.5x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 3x institutional upper limit of normal
- creatinine within normal institutional limits OR
- creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for participants with creatinine levels
above institutional normal.
- Oxygen saturation: ≥ 90% on room air
- Left ventricular ejection fraction (cardiac function) > 40%
- Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma are not eligible
- Participants who have had anti-tumor chemotherapy or other investigational agents
within 2 weeks prior to cell infusion (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C), or
immunotherapy within 3 weeks prior, or those who have not recovered from adverse
events due to agents administered more than 3 weeks prior.
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic
composition to N-803 or other agents used in study.
- Solid organ transplant (allograft) recipients.
- Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents.
- Participants with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial
because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic
dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events.
- Autoimmune disease: patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease, including
ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease, are excluded from this study, as are patients
with a history of symptomatic disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic
progressive sclerosis [scleroderma], systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune
vasculitis [Wegener's granulomatosis]) and motor neuropathy considered of autoimmune
origin (e.g. Guillain- Barre syndrome and myasthenia gravis). Patients with Hashimoto
thyroiditis are eligible.
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active
infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac
arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because of the unknown teratogenic risk of
CIML NK cells and N-803 and with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient
effects by fludarabine/cyclophosphamide chemotherapy regimen. Because there is an
unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to
treatment of the mother with CIML NK cells and N-803, breastfeeding should be
discontinued if the mother is treated on this study.
- HIV-positive participants are ineligible because of the potential for pharmacokinetic
interactions with anti-retroviral agents used in this study. In addition, these
participants are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with
- Individuals with active uncontrolled hepatitis B or C are ineligible as they are at
high-risk of lethal treatment-related hepatotoxicity in the setting of marrow
- Known non-infectious pneumonitis or any history of interstitial lung disease.
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Residents of Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island are seeking more involvement, and more musk oxen harvest. This is happening as the 20-year-old agreement that guides management is set to undergo changes.
The harvest of musk oxen is currently split between a registration hunt for cows and a costly permit lottery for bulls that’s largely utilized by out of town sport hunters, led by local guides. Managers have issued just 5 cows for the local registration hunt for the past three years and have given out 30 or more bull permits that mostly go to outsiders.
Mekoryuk’s Dale Smith spoke at a recent meeting in Bethel with state and federal managers.
“The way it stands now, they’re favoring a commercial enterprise over a subsistence way of living. It was evident when they voted on that in early January. Of all the thing we discussed, the main thing is subsistence priority. That’s our stance right now,” said Smith.
82 people signed a petition in Mekoryuk asking for an allocation of more musk ox for residents. They’re seeking 30 more musk oxen which would be taken from the outside permit hunt.
In an effort to take a more active role in management, member of Mekoryuk’s tribal council have formed a federally recognized Tribal Conservation District through the USDA. This program allows groups to help manage natural resources and establish conservation priorities. They can seek funding and build partnerships with other agencies.
They unsuccessfully asked the Alaska Board of Game for an emergency allocation this January. Missing at the meeting in Bethel were the guides and transporters that earn their living working with out-of-town hunters.
There are no predators on Nunivak island, where musk oxen were first introduced in 1936, but it is not necessarily straightforward to manage them. A 1992 agreement sets a goal of maintain a population between 500 to 550 musk oxen, that’s musk ox alive after the hunt, but before calves are born. The island has been below that level since 2009.
There were more cows harvested prior to 2010-2011, but the last few years has shown poor survival of calves. Whereas there used to be around 100 calves per year, now they’re getting more like 60. The bull to cow ratio is also out of balance, getting as high as 138 bulls per 100 cows. Patrick Jones is a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
“When you have that many bulls they’re probably injuring a few cows. We’d like to have that ratio around 80 bulls per 100 cows. So we have a surplus of bulls, even though the population is below our objective, it’s to our benefit to lower that bull cow ratio. So we’ve been allowing extra bull harvest. We have it, it’s available, and it’s to the benefit of our population at this point,” said Jones.
The allocation, however, of which hunts get the bulls and cows is up to the Board of Game.
A huge factor is the health of the food supply. The Yukon Delta Nation Wildlfe Refuge does not have current data on the health of the range. The island’s 1,853 reindeer eat on the same territory.
Managers at the meeting agreed to revise the 1992 document that sets the foundation for musk ox management on Nunivak Island. There will be a meeting in March on the island to discuss revisions and meet with stakeholders.
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Eighty years ago today, Florida approved ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment and ending prohibition in the Sunshine State.
The state's beer, wine and spirits industry has contributed to millions of dollars to the economy and in tax revenue to the state and federal government. It also provides thousands of jobs for Floridians.
According to the Wine & Spirits Wolesalers of America, the wine and spirits industry supports 53,740 direct jobs in Florida. According to economic analysis done by WSWA and prepared by New York-based John Dunham & Associates, the total economic impact in the state is $10.3 billion.
The industry also generates $1.7 billion in state business and consumer taxes.
It was this day 80 years ago that led to that impact.
Because of this, we have put together an A to Z tribute to alcohol and how Central Florida might be different if the ratification of the 21st Amendment was never approved in Florida.
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On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia,
Milada's grandmother says, "Remember, Milada. Remember who you are.
Always." Milada promises, but she doesn't understand her
grandmother's words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her
mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka.
Milada, eleven years old, the fastest runner in school. How could
she ever forget?Then the Nazis take Milada away from her family and
send her to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There, she is told she
fits the Aryan ideal: her blond hair and blue eyes are the right
color; her head and nose, the right size. She is given a new name,
Eva, and trained to become the perfect German citizen, to be the
hope of Germany's future--and to forget she was ever a Czech girl
named Milada.Inspired by real events, this fascinating novel sheds
light on a little-known aspect of the Nazi agenda and movingly
portrays a young girl's struggle to hold on to her identity and her
hope in the face of a regime intent on destroying both.
|Country of origin:
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Our project examines health-related aspects of solitude in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present.
We ask how experiences of solitude have changed over the centuries and how these changes have affected individuals and society.
Our research is hosted by Queen Mary University of London and supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust: ‘Pathologies of Solitude, 18th-21st Century’.
We do multidisciplinary research on solitude and social isolation. Our interrelated research themes explore changes in people’s understandings and experiences of solitude and their impact on health and wellbeing.
We run a variety of events based on our research, from lectures and seminar series to reading groups and film screenings.
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This course helps professionals in the industry build their credentials to advance within their organization, allowing them to learn valuable managerial skills as well as how to apply the best practices to keep organizations systems running well.
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Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™
Training & Certification for Professionals
A Comprehensive Approach for Lasting Recovery from Eating Disorders
Developed by “Dr. Dorie” McCubbrey, PhD, MSEd, LPC, LAC, CEDS
There Are Hundreds of EDIT™ Certified Professionals Worldwide
Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ has been used for more than 25 years to help people overcome eating disorders
In 1995, Dr. Dorie McCubbrey began teaching her clients the five principles of Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ which had guided her own recovery from eating disorders. In 2003, Dr. Dorie was approached by other therapists who requested training to use her EDIT™ method. Dr. Dorie subsequently created the EDIT™ Training Institute LLC, which provides training and certification in the EDIT™ approach.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Dorie has trained, supervised, and provided EDIT™ Certification for hundreds of professionals, internationally. The EDIT™ method has been used by Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Dietitians, Health & Life Coaches, and other Wellness Professionals. The EDIT™ approach has also been utilized by Eating Disorder Treatment Centers, Addiction Treatment Centers, and College Campus Counseling Centers.
Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ has applications for all types of eating disorders
EDIT™ has been used to guide successful recovery from Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and other types of addictions. EDIT™ features evidence-based practices combined with cutting-edge tools and techniques. Here are some perspectives:
- EDIT™ Techniques are Evidence-Based — incorporating the “gold standard” of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, plus DBT, ACT, and others
- EDIT™ Approach is Solution-Focused — with an overall goal of lasting freedom from eating disorder behaviors
- EDIT™ Process is Client-Centered — where the client learns to access the voice of their own “Intuitive Therapist” to guide their recovery
- EDIT™ Strategies are Mindfulness-Based — through compassionate “thought edits,” the eating disorder mindset and behaviors can be transformed into the intuitive wisdom and actions of recovery
- EDIT™ Philosophy is Transpersonal — going beyond the perspective of the separate self or “false self” as a dis-eased body, to knowing one’s holistic or “True Self” as a Soul-Heart-Mind-Body, connected with all that is
Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ is a Holistic Approach
In the Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ treatment philosophy, eating disorders are viewed as coping mechanisms which stem from the “false self.” EDIT™ recovery is about remembering and reconnecting with one’s “True Self.” Although eating disorders can go to an extreme and require medical intervention, EDIT™ is designed for individuals who are experiencing mild-to-moderate eating disorder symptoms.
The EDIT™ method guides clients to decipher the “messages” of their eating disorders by becoming curious about their underlying cause. EDIT™ techniques offer strategies to reduce eating disorder behaviors, but true symptom resolution is a natural outcome when clients address the root cause of their eating disorders. As EDIT™ protocols continue, holistic healing occurs at all levels of the True Self — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. EDIT™ involves the practice of these principles:
- Love Your Self — improve body image and enhance self-esteem
- Be True To Your Self — enjoy intuitive eating instead of dieting
- Express Your Self — safely explore and resolve your core issues
- Give To Your Self — replace addictive behaviors with self-care
- Believe In Your Self — prevent relapse and enjoy lasting freedom
Would you like to help people experience these EDIT™ outcomes?
EDIT™ Certified Eating Disorder Treatment Clinicians and EDIT™ Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coaches have specialized training to address Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, and other issues with food, exercise and weight. Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ Certified Professionals are trained to customize recovery plans to meet their clients’ specific needs. Clients report achieving goals including (CLICK ON A SECTION BELOW TO LEARN MORE):
IMPROVED BODY IMAGE: The first EDIT™ Principle, Love Your Self, can guide you to improve self-image and overcome body dysmorphia (a distorted perception of specific physical features). You will discover how to change the critical attitudes you have about your body into a positive sense of your whole Self. Using guided imagery, mindfulness meditation, and interactive take-home techniques, you can heal the disconnect between mind and body to create an integrated experience of overall well-being. Complete recovery from eating disorders begins with a foundation of complete Self-Love.
RENEWED SENSE OF SELF: Sometimes it can feel like your eating disorder is your identity – but recovery from eating disorders is about remembering who you really are! The eating disorder thoughts and behaviors are a “false self,” almost like a mask, projecting who you think you should be and hiding what you don’t want others to see. Underneath this mask lies your “True Self” and its Intuitive Wisdom, waiting to resurface. You will discover what your mask represents, and gradually peel away its layers, revealing the truth of who you are. You will learn the essential aspects of the parts of yourself you’ve tried to keep hidden, and you’ll genuinely want to be free of the mask you’ve been wearing. Through the exploration of your core values, beliefs, purpose, goals and dreams, you will reconnect with your True Self at the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels. Free of the mask of your eating disorder, you can truly be happy with your authentic answers to the question, “Who Am I?”
ENHANCED INTUITIVE EATING ABILITIES: The second EDIT™ Principle, Be True To Your Self, opens you to your intuitive wisdom which can guide your recovery. You’ll make peace with food by challenging your diet myths, gradually making changes to improve your nutrient intake, and implementing strategies to overcome eating-disordered behavior. You will not follow a meal plan, count exchanges, or weigh/measure your food – instead, you will discover the approach of Intuitive Eating, where you will learn how to honor your hunger by selecting the type and amount of food that your body truly needs. By following an intuitive process, you can enjoy the true freedom of complete recovery from eating disorders and food addiction.
HEALTHY INTUITIVE EXERCISE HABITS: If your intuition can guide you in making decisions with your life, your relationships, your career, and your eating, then it can guide you with your exercise choices, too! With an intuitive approach to exercise, you’ll find freedom from the rigors and exhaustion of compulsive exercise behaviors, and discover how to have fun with fitness once again. Consider your Intuitive Wisdom like an Inner Personal Trainer, who has your optimal health and wellbeing in mind. Would this trainer yell at you to force you through a workout, even when you’re exhausted? Would he or she set goals about weight loss or body fat reduction, with a grueling workout regimen to follow every day of the week? Or would you be supported to find fitness activities which you truly enjoy, and encouraged to listen to your body, exercising in the amount your body truly needs – including more rest and relaxation?
BALANCED MOOD: When you’re in your eating disorder mindset, you’re obsessing about something – what you ate, what you shouldn’t have eaten, what you’ll do to get back on track, and so on. With all of that chatter in your mind, there isn’t much room to think about how you feel – except feeling fat, which isn’t an emotion! As you begin your journey of recovery, you may feel out of touch with your emotions. But as your recovery progresses, you’ll learn how to identify your feelings and needs, with an ability to successfully navigate through the “highs and lows” of life events. You’ll feel sad without the depths of depression, and excited without the tension of anxiety. You’ll be able to truly feel your feelings, rather than numbing them with your eating disorder thoughts and behaviors. You’ll come to rely upon the wisdom of your own Intuitive Therapist to help you enjoy an overall balanced mood.
RESOLUTION OF CORE ISSUES: You may have a sense of what some of your core issues and current triggers are, or you may have no idea why your eating disorder began and what sets it off here and now. Through the third EDIT™ Principle, Express Your Self, you’ll learn healthy coping skills to replace eating disorder behaviors. You’ll also gain insights into your core issues, and discover your unique path of healing. You’ll also discover how to effectively handle your current triggers, so the pain of your past doesn’t continue to be reactivated.
INTUITIVE SELF-CARE PRACTICES: You may have a sense about what you “should do” to take care of yourself, but find that you don’t follow through. Intuitive Self-Care takes you beyond your “shoulds,” to an Inner Knowing about what you truly need – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. To “Feed Your Hungry Body,” you could enroll for a cooking class, or try yoga or tai chi. As “Food For Thought,” you might decide to learn a new language, or take a class to learn a new skill. To “Feed Your Hungry Heart,” you could schedule coffee dates to deepen your individual connections with friends, or you may reach out to former classmates or other friends you’ve lost touch with through Facebook. As “Soul Food,” you might learn how to meditate, or explore mindfulness practices for your everyday life. You’ll discover how easy it is to make your new Intuitive Self-Care practices your priority, because you’ll feel so good – much better than your eating disorder behaviors ever could!
SPIRITUALITY IN RECOVERY: As the author of How Much Does Your Soul Weigh? (HarperCollins, 2003), Dr. Dorie suggests, “You might be worried about how much your body weighs, but in all of your efforts to control your eating and your weight, what burden are you placing on your mind, your heart and your soul?” The EDIT™ method incorporates perspectives from Transpersonal Counseling, also know as Spiritual Psychology, which can help you explore a holistic sense of Self, which includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects.
STRATEGIES FOR ONGOING SUCCESS: The EDIT™ philosophy is that complete recovery is possible – that you can be free of your eating disorder behaviors, and in fact live as if you never had an eating disorder! Although complete recovery is possible, relapse is also possible – but it can be prevented. EDIT™ Certified professionals are trained to recognize the warning signs of relapse, and can work with you to plan ahead for prevention. You’ll discover how to trust your own Intuitive Therapist within you as your guide – so you can enjoy the freedom of complete recovery, today and every day!
Who Can Be Certified in Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy (EDIT)™ ?
- Track A: EDIT™ Certified – Eating Disorder Peer Mentor is for those with eating disorder recovery experience, but no training help others. You’ll get basic foundations in the EDIT™ approach, so you can offer support and inspire others in recovery!
- Track B: EDIT™ Certified – Eating Disorder Recovery Coach is for those with experience as a life coach or health instructor. You’ll get essential EDIT™ tools and techniques to use with individual clients, or in groups. Recovery coaching has many opportunities!
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The overwhelming majority thinks eyewitness testimony is reliable.
A CBS News Poll, conducted for the 48 Hours broadcast Eyewitness, found that when comparing the reliability of eyewitness testimony to physical evidence, however, more people put faith in physical evidence, such as a weapon or blood.
When asked about the assasination of John F. Kennedy -- perhaps this country's most enduring controversy about evidence and eyewitness testimony -- physical evidence plays a key role in people's theories.
Nearly nine out of 10 Americans think eyewitness testimony used in trials is at least somewhat reliable. However, trust in physical evidence is even stronger.
A majority of people say physical evidence is generally reliable, compared to just 22% who say that about eyewitnesses.
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Faith in eyewitness accounts is not shaken by peoples' experiences with their own memories. Only 7% think eyewitness testimony is definitely not reliable -- despite 42% who say they themselves remember details accurately only some of the time or not at all. In addition, 61% say that if asked to remember what they saw or heard about a week ago, they would recall only some parts of it accurately -- or nothing at all.
When it comes to a direct comparison of the two types of evidence, about half choose physical evidence as more reliable. Still, more than a third think eyewitnesses are just as reliable as physical evidence. One in 10 thinks eyewitnesses are more reliable than physical evidence.
However, if physical and eyewitness evidence were to conflict, nearly three out of four people say they would believe the physical evidence. And 60% believe scientific tests, such as DNA or other tests, can prove that a person was presen at a crime scene. Younger people are more likely to trust this kind of forensic evidence.
Physical Evidence in the JFK AssassinationThe reliability of eyewitness testimony versus physical evidence is in part at issue in the continuing debate about the Kennedy assassination.
Official reports that attempted to explain alleged inconsistencies in the evidence have not completely alleviated the public's concerns. People on both sides - those who believe in a conspiracy and those who think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone - cite issues surrounding physical evidence as some of the main evidence for their theory.
Those who think there was a conspiracy cite two main reasons for their belief: There were too many shots and bullet wounds for a lone gunman, and Oswald wasn't smart enough to have acted alone.
When pressed about the best evidence to prove Oswald did act alone, 25 percent overall cite the lack of physical and other evidence proving other people were involved.
A majority of Americans has always believed others were involved in the Kennedy assassination. But 35 years later, nearly three out of four say there were conspirators involved in the Kennedy assassination, and nearly as many - 68 percent - believe there was an official cover-up to keep the public from learning the truth. Less than one in five Americans have entirely ruled out the possibility of a cover-up. And 84% think the public will "never really know" what happened.
This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 823 adults interviewed by phone May 6-7, 1998. The error due to sampling could be plus or minus 3 percentage points for results based on the entire sample.
An Eyewitness Expert || Justice & Memory Links
CBS News Poll: Evidence vs. Eyes
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company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest business process outsourcing company in the UK, with an overall market share of 27% in 2009, and has clients in central government, local government and the private sector.
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If you’re one of the 16.5 million people who have atopic dermatitis, a form of eczema, you’re probably used to having flare-ups of itchy skin. For some people, the rash subsides relatively quickly, but others will experience more intense symptoms that take longer to disappear.
While it’s not uncommon for atopic dermatitis symptoms to wax and wane over time, you don’t have to settle for “good enough” care. After all, the goal is to reduce your symptoms as much as possible.
Because there are so many treatment options for eczema, you’ll need to work with your doctor to find the right one for you. “There’s a big toolbox that dermatologists have to choose from,” says Marisa Garshick, MD, a clinical assistant professor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical Center and dermatologist at MDCS Dermatology in New York City. “And because it’s not one size fits all, what works for [one person] may not work for you.”
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It’s been busy month up there in space. This month began with an asteroid coming within a moon’s throw of our planetary home, then reports of more gravity waves detected at the LIGO Observatory gave researchers enough time to point their instruments at a kilonova, and now, as October draws to a close, astronomers confirmed that we’ve been visited by an object that originated outside our solar system.
You may call our extra-solar visitor A/2017 U1.
According to NASA, Rob Weryk, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) was checking the sky for near-earth objects using the university’s powerful telescope on the island of Haleakala on Oct. 19 when he spotted something unusual. “Its motion could not be explained using either a normal solar system asteroid or comet orbit,” he said.
Using multiple nights of footage, and two separate points on Earth from which to make calculations by roping in a colleague at an observatory in the Canary Islands, the reason for the object’s strange orbital characteristics began to pull into focus. “This object came from outside our solar system,” Weryk said.
So far scientists have learned that object, about a quarter-mile (402 meters) in diameter, entered our solar system from the direction of the constellation Lyra, slingshot around the Sun back in September, and is now travelling at 27 miles per second (44 km per second) back out in the direction of Vega. Researchers think the object was ejected from a distant star system during the violent era of that system’s planetary formation, and that A/2017 U1 could have been travelling our galaxy for millions, if not billions, of years before happening on our solar system by chance.
“It sends a shiver down the spine to look at this object and think it has come from another star,” said Alan Fitzsimmons, from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen’s University in Belfast, who is leading an international team now studying A/2017 U1. And though the object is too far (roughly 60 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon at its closest) and far too fast to obtain samples, scientists are hoping that this opportunity may provide more insight into how planetary systems form.
Irene Pease, an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York’s York College, who was not involved in the research, told Quartz that though it’s the first visitor we’ve seen, it’s not necessarily the first visitor we’ve had. “I would assume there are plenty of interplanetary travelers like this,” she said, “I’m assuming that we would see them only very rarely because they are very small, not particularly bright, and are only here for a short period of time.”
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Every four years, we vote for who we feel would be the best person to lead our country. Two months after the election, the new (or returning, if re-elected) president takes the oath of office:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Donald Trump is the leading candidate for one of the two major parties, so we wondered how Donald would “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. We didn’t have to look to far to find troubling inconsistencies.
Trump started his campaign off with a bang, calling Mexicans “thugs” and “rapists,” and said he was going to end birthright citizenship. When Bill O’Reilly pointed out to him that such a move violated the 14th Amendment, which states ” All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside…”, Trump’s response was that the 14th Amendment itself is unconstitutional. He also says he wants to deport all the eleven million undocumented people in the US. How he plans on possibly doing this without violating the 4th Amendment is confusing to us. But, we digress…
Then, we have his statements about Muslims. He wants to ban all Muslims entering the United States. While this is on shaky legal ground, it could be legal, provided he doesn’t include Muslims who live in the US re-entering the country. However, his other proposals definitely aren’t. He proposed requiring all Muslims in the country to register with the government, and creating a database from that information. By singling out a specific religion being required to register, this is definitely against the 1st Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. He also proposes putting mosques under surveillance; a violation of both the 1st and 4th Amendments.
Last week, he said that if he was elected president, he’d toughen the libel laws. This would be another direct assault on the 1st Amendment and freedom of the press, as the way the law sits now, public figures must prove that any defamatory statements were made with “actual malice,” Under Trump’s proposal, basically any negative statement about him could be challenged in the courts by his administration.
There’s also pesky details that he overlooks. When he says that he’s unilaterally going to renegotiate the Iran deal or NAFTA, he overlooks the fact that while he can renegotiate or threaten to break agreements all he wants, he’ll still need congressional approval to do so. In fact, with most of Trump’s proposals, he fails to recognize that he’s only one of the three branches of government, and that what he says he’s going to do can’t be done without at least one of the other branches’ approval. And, make no mistake about it, a President Trump would face stiff opposition in both Congress and the Supreme Court.
So, would a President Trump remain true to his oath of office? From what we’ve seen so far, we’d have to say no; he’d break his oath numerous times within his first month.
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As I was saying, a primary function of the core is stabilization and the best core exercises typically are the big compound exercises -- the ones that require the most stabilization from the core. Lift heavy with compound freeweight exercises and you won't need much if any supplemental "core" exercises. Shockingly, people who can pull 400 off the floor or push 200 over their heads tend to be pretty damn strong the core. Yes, for some people the core is a limiting factor -- powerlifters do a ton of anterior core work, for example.
You really have to think about the muscles in terms of their function. Plank variations are a good exercise (stabilization); crunches are mostly not. Turkish get-ups are tremendous core exercises.
The two best core exercises are the deadlift and the squat.
Shouldn't the Times article read Extra Core Training Not Necessary for Rowing ?
Considering It was the NY times, and not a dedicated training publication I was a bit skeptical and as Gypsy Jazz commented it looks like studies have been taken out of context.
Still some lardasses will I'm sure use it as another excuse not to do exercise.
But honestly didn't know that bit about damaging the spine, it was something I never thought to question. Coupled with weights training I used to do a shed load of crunches 'cause I thought it was beneficial.
Slightly tangental to the discussion but I've only recently started to make a proper recovery from a serious lower back injury from almost 20 years ago. After years of physio and dealing with chiropractors I tried an osteopath who got me started on Foundation Roots program which has pretty much eliminated constant lower back pain. It pretty much turns the traditional idea of core strength on its head and focuses on the posterior chain and back as opposed to the abs. This quote sums it up "The core involves two sets of muscles: deep muscles whose roles are primarily stabilizing the spine, or more generally the trunk, and shallower muscles whose primary role is movement" "For every four exercises you do for the back of the body, you get to do one for the front. I think that's the opposite of what most people are doing."
Anyway, here's the website http://foundationroots.com/home I'd recommend the book to anyone with back pain or an interest in core development.
Kinda on topic: My muay thai trainer has me focus almost solely on situps and running for exercises (I mean aside from jumping rope, shadowboxing, bagwork, etc) and every fighter has a 6 pack. He said it's to make "armor" for your gut from knees. I don't know anything about whether crunches will destroy your spine, or whether core-strength is useless for crew, but is there any truth behind this "gut-shield-of-muscle"?
yes. it's muscle. it's around your guts (literally), and you'de making it stronger.
Originally Posted by WorldWarCheese
I've given up on standard crunches for the past year. I'm not certain that they were related to my lower back problems, but the possibility made me look for other exercises. My back hasn't bothered me in more than a year, but that may be resultant on other things.
My abs routine looks like a combination of these exercises.
Pallof press-hold for 30 seconds (Best thing I've found, and you can really up the weight here)
Planks for 60.
Weighted sit-ups on a decline bench.
Medicine ball twists while sitting on a balance ball.
Jack Knifes on a big bouncy ball.
I have half a dozen other techniques but these are the ones I mostly stick with. They leave a better longer burn than just sit-ups did.
Anti-crunch articles (anti spinal flexion articles) come out every day, saying that crunches are either dangerous or ineffective. Res Judica pretty much hit the nail on the head. A primary function of the core is STABILIZATION and people who deadlift or push press heavy are strong the core.
Spinal flexion is not necessary to work the core! What I was saying before Pizdoff told me to come here was that real core training (planks, squats, ect) will actually correct bad posture, which means better performance in ALL lifts, and prevents injury.
“Personally, I do not believe that it is necessary to specifically train the core". Improper crunches don't lead to better performance therefore all core training is useless." I'm not even going to respond to this.
Here's some food for thought. Edmar Freitas did 133,986 crunches in 30 hours, killing his record of 111,000 in one day. Pacquiao crunches 4,000 times every day and Herschel Walker has been crunching 3,500 times a day, he starting crunching when he was 12. He's now 49.
Some people are more worried about crunches being dangerous than ineffective. Here's the thing. Studies say that spinal extension is bad, spinal rotation is bad, lateral bending is bad, that static compression is bad, dynamic compression is bad, etc, and I can probably source them all. This means that any movement, or lack of movement, of the spine is bad for you. Ironically enough, those with the strongest core are in less danger of injuries (when lifts and exercises are performed correctly).
If you're going to crunch, work the muscles and not the spine. It's as simple as that. Your spine shouldn't flex to max capacity when doing crunches.
If your trainer is making you do countless crunches, you might have to do them due to a respect issue (Some trainers get angry when you question them), but honestly - are you trying to get stronger or are you trying to get some cardio in? Doing 300 crunches is like doing 300 squats - maybe it's time you add some weight and actually get stronger instead of gaining muscular endurance at an extremely weak level. If there's so much weight that you can only do sets of 6-20 reps, there will be more STRENGTH gain, better muscular endurance gain, and depending on your diet, more hypertrophy. Yes, your abs will look big and intimidating, and you won't look like a 13-year old teenager that thinks he's tough because he has low bodyfat.
Joking aside, remember, we are not normal athletes. We play a game where other people attack our anatomy hard and often (striking and grappling) so a strong core is NECESSARY TO US, much more necessary than rowers.
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Friday, December 31, 2021
Richard Thompson James was born in 1918 and graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1939 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Doing his bit for the war effort in 1943, James worked on a method for suspending sensitive instruments on board navy ships, using springs. One day, he accidentally dropped one and needed to chase it as it sprung its way across the floor on its own. The rest is toy industry history.
James invested in a coil-winding machine while his wife Betty came up with the name Slinky. They cranked out 400 pieces. Each was 98 coils of high-grade blue-black Swedish steel, two and a half inches tall in its relaxed state. Although they convinced Gimbels Department store to carry the one-dollar toy for Christmas 1945, the static Slinky impressed no one.
Once James demonstrated the toy in action, however, their entire production run sold in 90 minutes. Since then, 300 million Slinkys have sold world-wide.
Slinkys also prove popular with high school science teachers and college professors because they perfectly demonstrate the properties of waves. Astronauts on the space shuttle have even used them in zero-gravity experiments.
Like every other successful product, the philosophy seems to be if one toy is good, more is better. Slinky Dog debuted in 1952 and was quickly followed by other pull-toy characters like Slinky train Loco, Slinky worm Suzie, and Slinky Crazy Eyes. Along with Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog made it into the Toy Story movies beginning in 1995. Betty James agreed that Pixar’s movie version of Slinky Dog was much cuter than what they’d manufactured.
What makes a Slinky so fun to play with? Sure, you can explain how it performs tricks, flipping down stairs end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity. How, when dropped, a Slinky appears to levitate for a split second. How it will even walk itself across a flat surface once you get it going just right. But something about its wondrous simplicity appeals to kids and adults alike, doesn’t it? At Betty James’ insistence, Slinky has maintained its affordability. The price and size make it a perfect item to include in a Christmas shoe box or stocking.
Sadly, Richard and Betty James divorced in 1960. She took over the company. Richard joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in Bolivia, where he died at the age of 56 from a heart attack. The incredible toy he developed (it was really more of a discovery than an invention) has entertained generations. I heartily recommend the adorable “Trained Slinky Circus” bit on You Tube by Jack Kalvan if you need a laugh. HERE's the link.
The Slinky song holds the title of longest-running jingle in television advertising history. If it isn’t going through your head by now, I can help with that. “A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing! Everyone knows it’s Slinky.”
May this column “spring” you into 2022 with joyful anticipation and hope. I know it’s been a difficult year. I also know God is still on his throne, he loves you, and nothing has caught him off guard. He’s got this. He’s got you. Happy New Year!
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Blame their parents. Memories of my elder son naming his pet skink “Leonardo” and explaining to me how you could tell the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) apart by their weapons made me curious about their origin. When I first heard of them, I assumed it had to be a joke. I wasn’t wrong.
American comic book authors and artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird enjoy telling the story of how they sat around doodling new concepts for comics. Eastman drew a turtle with nunchucks and labelled it “Ninja Turtle.” Laird laughed with him, then drew another and added the words “Teenage Mutant.” They laughed some more. The concept seemed too ridiculous to go anywhere. (Reminds me of Amish Vampires in Space, a book that started as a joke by cover designer Jeff Gerke of Marcher Lord Press, who granted author Kerry Nietz permission to use the concept—and write it straight. The crazy genre-mashup became a thing.)
Eastman and Laird kept going with their characters, developing four of them, naming them after Italian Renaissance artists they admired (Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni—which got misspelled “Michaelanchelo” in the early comics—Raffaello Sanzio, and Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi). The pair proved equally imaginative in creating the turtles’ backstory. Do you know it?
A canister containing an isotope accidentally strikes an innocent bystander carrying a fishbowl. In the bowl are his pets, four baby turtles. The turtles and canister fall down a grate into the sewer below. The canister empties onto the babies, causing them to mutate. At some point they meet a mutant rat named Splinter, the former pet of an exiled ninja warrior. Splinter becomes their martial arts master and adopted father. As teenagers, the turtles naturally live on pizza.
Or something like that.
In May 1984, Eastman’s uncle Quentin loaned the pair a thousand dollars for the first print run of a forty-page, black and white comic book. Would you have done the same? Eastman and Laird had no studio, only a kitchen table and lapboards to use while seated on a couch. I suspect Uncle Quentin considered it a decent investment when the second issue brought in advance orders of 15,000 copies—five times the initial print run of the first. Their creations rapidly became a popular cultural phenomenon that forced them both to take sabbaticals from their artwork to deal with daily pressures of running a multimedia franchise. In 1990, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie released, with Eastman playing a small role as the garbage man. Indigo’s website displays 357 TMNT products, from clothing to books to action figures.
If there’s a point to make, it’s that no one can accurately predict what will become popular—especially with kids. Our God-given imaginations take humans to places that boggle the mind because we were made in the image of someone far more creative still. This is why I’m convinced that eternity won’t bore us for even a second.
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” (I Corinthians 2:9)
Friday, December 17, 2021
|Nate concentrating on a Rubik's Cube in 1982|
Born in Romania during WWII, Ernő Rubik learned much about creativity and design from his engineer father. Rubik studied both sculpture and architecture in Budapest, then went on to teach design at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts and Design. Not surprisingly, he made a hobby of creating geometric models.
Using small blocks of wood and rubber bands, Rubik’s goal was to solve a structural problem of moving parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. Not until he’d scrambled his cube and tried to restore it did he realize he may have created a puzzle.
His students loved it.
Given his father’s experience with applying for patents, Rubik quickly did so and received one for his “Magic Cube” in 1975. Four years later, Ideal Toys released the cube with a more distinct and memorable name. Ernő Rubik became a household name as the company sold around 200 million Rubik’s Cubes by 1983. Winning several Toy of the Year awards, over 350 million have sold to date, making the Rubik’s Cube one of the bestselling toys of all time.
Ideal originally advertised the puzzle as having over three billion combinations but only one solution. Since most people could solve just one or two sides, the next hot items to hit the market were books on how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. At one point in 1981, three of the top ten bestselling books in the US fell into this category.
Then the competitions began as “Speed Cubers” came out of the woodwork. Finally, a sport for math geeks! Budapest hosted the first world championship in 1982. Minh Thai, a Vietnamese student from Los Angeles, won with a time of 22.95 seconds. Currently, the record is 3.47 seconds, held by China’s Du Yusheng, set in 2018.
With so many geniuses improving at this skill, they needed to devise new challenges, like one-handed solving, feet solving, blindfolded solving, and multiple blindfolded solving. That latter is when a contestant studies up to ten cubes, memorizes their configuration, then dons the blindfold and solves them all. The seconds spent studying the cubes are included in their time. I know. Unbelievable.
In 2020, I watched the Netflix documentary The Speedcubers, which explores the rivalry and friendship between two of the fastest speedcubers in the world, Australian Feliks Zemdegs and American Max Park. Diagnosed with autism at the age of two, Max Park developed both social and fine motor skills through cubing. I highly recommend the film.
What boggles my mind more than a Rubik’s Cube is how anyone can believe we humans don’t have a Creator. Believing the brains of these Cube-solvers merely evolved takes more faith than taking apart a Rubik’s Cube, throwing all the pieces in a bag, then shaking the bag until the cube is reassembled with all six sides correctly aligned.
No? Just me?
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” (Psalm 139:13-14)
Friday, December 10, 2021
I’m thinking of asking Santa for a Radio Flyer Wagon this year. That is, I might if my wish list were not already filled with books. And if I believed in Santa.
I don’t recall desiring a little red wagon as a kid, but as an adult who tires easily, I can see where a wagon might come in handy, in any color, around the yard and garden. Ever wonder who decided kids might enjoy a wagon of their own with which to let their imaginations take flight?
In 1897, Antonio Pasin was born in Venice, Italy to a cabinetmaker. At 16, he moved to New York City with dreams of operating his own business. Too young and broke, he instead found himself working endless odd jobs for low wages. Not one to give up, Pasin invested his meagre savings in woodworking tools and a one-room rented workshop. He married a fellow Italian immigrant named Anna. They eventually moved to Chicago with two daughters and one son.
Pasin used a little homemade wooden wagon to carry around the tools he used for making phonograph cabinets. When customers began requesting duplicates of his wagon more than his cabinets, he began building toy wagons and selling them to area shops in 1917. By 1923, he’d formed the Liberty Coaster Company. Demand kept growing for the “Liberty Coasters.”
“I enter so many ventures with more nerve than capital,” Pasin said. In 1927, he tore a page from the auto industry’s book and began mass-producing stamped steel wagons. This move made the wagons affordable for nearly every child. Painted red, the wagons sold for three dollars each, about $50 in today’s economy (although a quick look on Amazon shows me a Canadian price of $170 for the classic wagon).
Pasin was a long-time fan of two other inventors: Guglielmo Marconi, credited with inventing the radio, and Charles Lindbergh, who completed the first non-stop cross-Atlantic flight in 1927. In tribute, Pasin renamed his wagon “Radio Flyer.” His company became the Radio Steel and Manufacturing company. Even during the Great Depression, 1500 wagons a day rolled off assembly lines, earning Pasin the nickname “Little Ford.”
“To give work to others,” Pasin said. “That had something to do with my desire to be in business.”
During World War II, production of wagons stopped while the company produced five gallon “Blitz cans” (now known as jerrycans) for the U.S. army. Once the war ended, the company returned to producing the little wagons that have continued to enjoy much popularity for their high quality, nostalgia, and practical usefulness. So popular, in fact, that in 1987 Radio Steel changed its name to Radio Flyer. By this time, Antonio’s son had taken over.
Since 1997, Antonio Pasin’s grandson, Robert, has been CEO. The company has grown to include tricycles, scooters, and more. Though they also began making plastic wagons, the metal ones remain the most popular. In 1999, the Radio Flyer Wagon was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Antonio died in 1990 and was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame in 2003. His little red wagon has shown up in movies and never fails to add nostalgia to any scene in which it appears.
For a heart-warming video that tells Antonio’s story, click here. What moved me most was his desire, having known poverty himself, to provide wagons for as many children and jobs for as many adults as possible.
“Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.” Proverbs 19:17.
Friday, December 3, 2021
Barbara Millicent Roberts was born March 9, 1959, two weeks after me. Though she appeared about eighteen years my senior at the time, she has somehow managed to maintain her youth and still doesn’t look a day over 23.
Plastic will do that.
Prior to Barbie’s debut, most dolls represented babies—designed for children to cuddle and care for like real infants. Married to the co-founder of the Mattel Toy company, Ruth Handler probably kept a lookout for new toy ideas. When she noticed her daughter, Barbara, assigning her paper dolls adult roles, it sparked the idea for a teenage fashion doll. The concept did not impress Mr. Handler or his board.
His wife persisted. Mattel introduced the first Barbie doll, named for the Handlers’ daughter, at the 1959 American International Toy Fair in NYC. The first year, Mattel sold 350,000 of the 11.5-inch dolls.
By the time I became interested in Barbie, her empire had exploded. Alas, I never actually owned one. I’m not sure whether my parents didn’t buy into the hype or if they took issue with Barbie’s impossible body shape, but they chose to give me a “Tammy” doll instead—12 inches tall and shaped more like an average teenager. I didn’t mind until I realized Tammy couldn’t fit any of Barbie’s clothes. Her flat feet called for nothing but simple rubber sneakers. Though my mother sewed some brilliant outfits for Tammy, I still craved a “real” Barbie of my own. (Ungrateful little snot!)
Over the years, more friends joined Barbie, including her boyfriend, Ken (named for the Handlers’ son), her best friend, Midge, and little sister, Skipper. One could purchase every conceivable outfit and accessory, as well as homes, cars, boats, and more for the popular doll.
In her 62-year existence, Barbie has managed over 150 careers. As an astronaut, she reached the moon in 1965, four years ahead of Neil Armstrong. She’s run for U.S. president numerous times. Although she’s clearly never won, I wonder how many ballots she’s spoiled as a write-in candidate? She’s even been a mermaid.
Her original body shape became the topic of much criticism when someone calculated that a similarly proportioned human woman would stand five feet, nine inches tall and be severely underweight. (In 1965, Barbie came with a fuzzy pink bathroom scale permanently set to 110 pounds.) Concurring that Barbie’s shape might contribute to an unhealthy body image in children, Mattel increased her waist size in 1997.
Barbie continued to evolve with the times, fashions, and political correctness. In 2014 she made the cover of Sports Illustrated in her original black and white swimsuit. Meanwhile, her friend “Ella” underwent cancer treatments as Mattel distributed bald dolls to hospitals in limited numbers.
Mattel reinvented Barbie again in 2016, responding to public pressure that she did not reflect diversity of modern women. Barbie now comes in 22 skin tones, 94 hair colors, 13 eye colors and five body types. I suspect this move profited Mattel, given all the new sizes of clothing needed to go with the various dolls. Still, good for them.
Barbie has appeared in books, films, and video games. She has her own TV show, You Tube channel, and vlog. Streets have been named for her, painters and photographers have captured her, the wealthy have collected her. If you’re ever in Taiwan, you can even visit a Barbie Café.
A quick look at Amazon tells me you can order a doll for as little as five Canadian dollars, or for up to sixty for this years’ “Holiday Barbie” in all her sparkly glory.
As for me, I’ll thank God for the four or five “careers” I’ve learned, my closet filled with previously owned clothing, and a 1959 body that still mostly works.
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|Número de publicación||US5126289 A|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 07/555,217|
|Fecha de publicación||30 Jun 1992|
|Fecha de presentación||20 Jul 1990|
|Fecha de prioridad||20 Jul 1990|
|También publicado como||DE69127792D1, DE69127792T2, EP0470707A2, EP0470707A3, EP0470707B1|
|Número de publicación||07555217, 555217, US 5126289 A, US 5126289A, US-A-5126289, US5126289 A, US5126289A|
|Inventores||David H. Ziger|
|Cesionario original||At&T Bell Laboratories|
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|Citas de patentes (12), Otras citas (4), Citada por (52), Clasificaciones (18), Eventos legales (4)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
This invention relates to semiconductor photolithography methods and, more particularly, to such methods using deep ultraviolet actinic light for defining features of one micron or less.
One step in the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits is the formation of a conductor pattern over a semiconductor substrate through photolithographic masking and etching. A photoresist coating over a metal layer is selectively exposed to actinic light directed through a mask defining the desired conductor pattern. After photoresist development, the photoresist layer constitutes a mask having openings defining the desired conductor pattern which are used to permit selective etching of the exposed portions of the metal layer to leave the desired conductor pattern overlying the substrate. The etching is often done in a plasma etch reactor in which a plasma of ions reacts with and etches away the exposed metal portions.
Trends toward increased circuit density require a shorter wavelength of the actinic light used for exposing the photoresist, a higher degree of control of surface geometry, and substantial elimination of spurious reflections of the actinic light. It has been recognized that a separate antireflection coating should often be included between the metal film and the photoresist film to prevent exposure of photoresist by reflected components. Deep ultraviolet light is of a sufficiently short wavelength to permit definition within submicron tolerances. However, most substrates are more highly reflective of deep ultraviolet light than longer wavelengths, thereby increasing the need for an effective antireflection coating.
The fabrication of semiconductor devices is extremely competitive and it is well recognized in the industry that any methods that reduce the number of fabrication steps required will be of significant value. It is further recognized that any methods that increase the reproducibility with which patterns can be made with submicron tolerances are important. These considerations are subjects of extensive continuing research and development work within the industry.
The invention uses as an antireflection coating for a photolithographic process a layer of organic material that planarizes the surface upon which the photoresist layer is to be deposited, is highly absorptive of deep ultraviolet actinic light, and can be plasma etched along with an underlying metal layer, thereby obviating the need for a separate step to remove the exposed antireflection coating prior to metal etch. To give planarization, the organic material is initially a fluid which is deposited and spun onto the substrate surface such that, after spinning, it settles to a thickness greater than the height of any non-uniformity on the substrate surface. Thereafter, the antireflection coating hardens to provide a planar top surface for conventional coating by spinning of the photoresist material. The photoresist layer is therefore planarized and is made to have a uniform thickness as required for high definition deep ultraviolet lithography.
The fluid deposited as the antireflection coating may be a polymer precursor which hardens to form a polymer layer, or it may be a polymer dissolved in a liquid carrier which is hardened through evaporation of the liquid carrier. Several examples of appropriate materials will be given which can be plasma etched simultaneously with an underlaying metal layer. This method may also be useful for controlling the plasma etch of an underlying non-metal layer such as silicon oxide.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be better understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing.
FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a method for photolithographically masking and etching semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the invention; and
FIGS. 2-5 illustrate a coated semiconductor substrate at various stages of the method depicted in FIG. 5.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a flow chart depicting successive steps in the photolithographic masking and etching of a layer such as a metal layer overlying a semiconductor substrate. Referring to FIG. 2, the method is intended to create a conductor pattern in a conductive film 11 which overlies a semiconductor substrate 12 and is typically insulated from the substrate by a dielectric layer 13 of a material such as silicon dioxide. Referring again to FIG. 1, the first step 15 of the method is to spin an antireflection coating (ARC) on the upper surface of the metal film 11; that is, to deposit a fluid antireflection coating on a surface and then distribute it by spinning the substrate, in a manner well known in the art. Referring to FIG. 2, the fluid antireflection coating 16 that is spread over the surface of the metal layer 11 is of sufficient viscosity and sufficient thickness to be at least thicker, and preferably three times as thick as, the height of the most prominent surface irregularity on the surface of the metal film 11. As will be discussed more fully below, a polymer precursor or a polymer dissolved in a liquid carrier can be devised to meet the these requirements. A surface irregularity 17 may occur due to an irregularity on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 12 with the layers 13 and 11 conforming to that irregularity so that it is manifested on the upper surface of metal layer 11 as illustrated at 17.
As shown in FIG. 1, the second step 18 is to permit the fluid antireflection coating to settle and harden. If a polymer precursor is used, the hardening is the stop of polymerization, and if the fluid 16 is a polymer in a carrier, the hardening results from the evaporation of the carrier. Referring again to FIG. 2, this step results in a planarized upper surface 19 of the coating 16.
Referring again to FIG. 1, the next step 20 is to coat the upper surface 19 with a layer of photoresist. The photoresist is deposited and distributed, again, by spinning, as is well known in the art which results in a photoresist layer 21 shown in FIG. 3. Because of the planarization of the upper surface 19 of antireflection coating 16, the photoresist layer 21 can be made to have a highly uniform thickness and a highly planar upper surface which are desired for accurate selective exposure by deep ultraviolet light, that is, light having a very short wavelength.
The next step 23 of FIG. 1 is to expose selectively the photoresist to deep ultraviolet light. As shown in FIG. 4, the photoresist coating 21 is exposed to ultraviolet light 24 transmitted through an opening in a mask 25. As is known in the art, development of the photoresist coating produces openings 27 in the photoresist coating describing the desired pattern to be formed in the metal layer 11.
In accordance with the invention, the antireflection coating and the metal film are simultaneously plasma etched as indicated by step 29 of FIG. 1. Plasmas of halogen compounds are typically used to anisotropically etch metals such as aluminum. Plasma etching requires that the substrate be placed in a reactor in which a plasma is formed by electrically ionizing a reactive gas such as gaseous CF4 or CCl4. The reactor may be a reactor such as that available from the Applied Materials Corporation of Santa Clara, Calif., known as the Model 5000 reactor.
Referring to FIG. 5, the antireflection coating 16 is reactive with the halogen plasma and so it etches along with the aluminum conductor 11. The patterned photoresist 21 is not etched by the plasma and therefore constitutes a mask for defining the etched pattern in both the antireflection coating and the metal layer 11. After the plasma etch, the photoresist layer 21 and the antireflection coating 16 may be removed by etching, as is known, so as to leave the patterned conductive metal film 11.
In one successful embodiment of the method, polybutylsulfone dissolved in chlorobenzene was used as the antireflection coating. Such coating may contain a dye or ultraviolet absorbing material such as bis-(4-azidophenyl)ether, which has a strong absorption in the two hundred fifty to two hundred eighty nanometer range. Deep ultraviolet light in general can be considered as light having wavelengths of less than about three hundred nanometers. The actinic wavelength used of course corresponds to the absorption band of the ARC.
A potentially more useful embodiment would be to use as the fluid antireflection coating a liquid precursor of a polysulfone or a polyaldehyde. The hardening of step 20 of FIG. 2 would then occur by polymerizing the precursor. These materials are known to have a low resistance to a halogen plasma etch, and they can be thermally or photochemically polymerized. Another ARC resin that could be used would be poly(methyl)pentenesulfone. This is chemically similar to polybutylsulfone and should be unstable in the plasma environment as is required for plasma etching.
Although particularly useful in the lithography of aluminum conductor films, the invention could be used for patterning non-metal films such as silicon dioxide; plasmas can be formed for etching silicon dioxide. The antireflection coating should of course be absorptive of the actinic light, and various additives other than those specifically mentioned may be devised for accomplishing this, or if the material is intrisically sufficiently absorptive, no additive may be required. Various other modifications and embodiments can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Spanish Town Tosses World's Biggest Salad
A town in southern Spain on Saturday tossed what local officials said was the world's largest salad, involving 6,700 kilograms of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers and olives.
It took 20 cooks over three hours to mix all the ingredients needed to make the salad in the town of Pulpi in the province of Almeria, one of Spain's main fruit and vegetable growing areas.
The salad will be distributed to restaurants in Pulpi who will provide it for free to their clients.
A Guinness World Records judge was on hand to confirm that the salad had set a new record, Spanish media reported.
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December Home Maintenance To-Do List
By: Danny Lipford
To-Do #6: Insulate Exposed Water Pipes
A frozen and burst pipe is a very unpleasant winter surprise, so it’s a good idea to insulate water pipes in a crawlspace to reduce the chance of freezing.
Insulating water pipes:
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“Gandhi had many previous adversaries in his life, but none of them had ever aroused his passion or made him despair as Jinnah did. Up to them, in everything Gandhi had said, done, or written there had been a current of optimism, which flowed out of his unshakable faith that Providence guided human destiny. That optimism had begun to diminish. He stopped talking about living to be a hundred and twenty-five, and started calling himself such things as a “Spent bullet.” He was losing his will to live.”2
What can be said about the man, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, that explains his power over other men, and gave him the ability to lead a divided people to nationhood? This brief paper attempts to examine this question by reviewing just a few of Jinnah‘s associations with other Indian Muslim Leaders who were prominent in the pre-independence period.
Jinnah has been characterized by his critics as “haughty, punctilious and stubborn.” Even his bearing and dress have been thoroughly scrutinized, and oftentimes he has been invidiously compares with the British whom he is described as emulating. Many an objective observer has found it necessary to read into Jinnah’s use of the monocle an affectation for English ways and customs. Moreover, his religious practices have come in for special evaluation.
The critics have never ceased to point out that Jinnah was unorthodox in his religious performance, and thus, they conclude, distant from the overwhelming majority of Muslims that he came to lead. It is curious attack. In point of fact, Jinnah has been condemned for achieving Pakistan. A consensus of those who consider themselves informed on South Asian subjects long ago concluded that if not for Jinnah’s driving personality, Pakistan would have remained an unstructured hypothesis. And there is also no mistaking their remorse that India had to be divided into Hindu-dominant and Muslim-dominant states, or that Jinnah is the culprit in the piece.
What is clear about Muhammad Ali Jinnah is that he is little understood outside the country that he was chiefly responsible for creating. His individual traits and features are unfairly compared with those of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is described as an extension of the Indian nation whereas Jinnah is perceived as a product of an alien culture. Gandhi’s appeal, it had been repeated was to the masses; Jinnah, we are informed, was merely the leader of a small, politically-ambitious middle class of Indian Muslims. Gandhi was warm and affectionate, loved by his people. Jinnah, so the comparison reads, was arrogant, remote and intimidating. Gandhi’s ascetic tastes are juxtaposed with Jinnah’s more sophisticated life-style. In the final analysis, the saint-in-politics, clothed simply in a loin cloth or dhoti, is given a place of honour, while the astute, almost debonair statesman whose inner confidence and dogged perseverance frustrated the intentions and purposes of the powerful must continue to “bear the stings and arrows” of the unreconciled mourners of Akhand Bharat.
It is almost thirty years since the establishment of the independent state of Pakistan and one might have expected a different interpretation of Jinnah’s performance and demeanor. Unfortunately, however, serious work on the Father of Pakistan is only now being stimulated. The results of these efforts are still some time in the future but it is possible to raise some interesting points, given the availability of heretofore sealed archives.
Jinnah gave himself the difficult task of leading the Muslims of South Asia into a new era. He artfully represented the cause of a historic community whose pride of accomplishment lay in the past and whose future was questionable and uncertain in the midst of a Hindu renaissance. He successfully articulated the sentiments of his religious brethren, who could feel but not act. It was Jinnah, who harnessed Muslim energies, gave them direction, and transformed cultural nationalism into political organization. But Jinnah could not have succeeded without faithful, energetic assistants, especially those whose responsibility it was to publicize the work of Jinnah and the Muslim League. Jinnah was little known outside India and certain quarters in England. Abroad, he was generally perceived as a rabble rouser, who for selfish interests sought to divide an organically sound Indian polity. This problem is described in a letter to Jinnah by M.A.H. Ispahani, who was his spokesman in the United States. In October 1946, Ispahani was invited to the United States by Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. She had organized the Herald Tribune Forum which on this occasion debated the merits of the Indian National Congress and Muslim League positions. Representatives from the Congress Party as well as the British government spoke on behalf of the unity of India, and it was left to Ispahani to explain the plight of the Muslims of India and why they were demanding a separate homeland. Ispahani notes that after the debates he was:-
Surrounded by a quite few visitors who make it a point to express to me their appreciation of our case. Nearly every one of them told me they did not know of these terrible differences that existed, which necessitated the division of India. All along they have read and have been told that India is one united nation, with the exception of a certain Mr. Jinnah and his handful of followers who are the tools of the British imperialism. Therefore, to them my speech was revelation.
It has certainly done one bit of work, and that is, it has told the people that the Muslims and Hindus cannot be one, and if there is to be peace and tranquility, coupled with good relationship, it is necessary to divide India.3
Ispahani was selected by Jinnah to represent the Muslim League in both the United States and Great Britain. The two men had been drawn together a quarter of a century earlier when Jinnah had resigned his position on the Imperial Legislative Council over the oppressive Rowlatt Act, and, in his subsequent speech-making, demanded that the British provide the people of India with the fundamental freedoms that had long been promised them. Ispahani was overwhelmed with both the manner and precision of Jinnah’s delivery and as he has written “….he (Jinnah) made an indelible impression on the screen of my memory.”4 From the moment Ispahani pledged himself to serve Jinnah and the cause of Indian freedom. Events in India, however, caused a redefinition of this quest for freedom and the independence movement split in subsequent years, with the Congress and Gandhi moving in one direction, and the Muslim League and Jinnah in another. Ispahani, like Jinnah, could not identify with Gandhi, his symbols or his tactics. Both men were schooled in constitutional and parliamentary procedure. Each was a modernist, talented and industrious. They were similarly convinced that the future of India was linked to the type of the political system that would maximize the expression of all the communities within the country. Jinnah was especially fearful that a system which focused almost exclusively on mobilizing the masses would degenerate into demagoguery. In such a condition the minorities would be placed at the mercy of the dominant community, with virtually no safeguards against arbitrary behaviour and decision making. Jinnah, therefore, could not bring himself to support Gandhi who, he judged, was little more than a reserved Tilak. Moreover, Jinnah, was a disciple of Gokhale and he saw in his confrontation with Gandhi an up-dated version of the struggle between these two earlier Congress leaders.
Although Ispahani did not share Jinnah’s legal experience, he was conscious of the different position and the importance of promoting Jinnah’s version. As a businessman with worldwide connections he was in an excellent position to establish Muslim League offices in foreign countries, and these had the primary function of disseminating information about the Muslim League’s program and objectives.
Ispahani also contributed to Jinnah’s understanding of Bengali politics. Given his home base of operations in Calcutta, and as a member of the Provincial Muslim League in Bengal, it was Ispahani who kept Jinnah abreast of developments within that province. In the months immediately prior to partition the Bengal Muslim League was wrenched by conflict with Chief Minister H.S. Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim on one side and Fazlul Haq on the other. Fazlul Haq had left the Muslim League in 1942 and did not rejoin it until February 1947. His return plunged the organization into turmoil. Fuzlul Huq sought to use his popularity in East Bengal to reclaim control of the party, an objective which Jinnah had authorized Ispahani to frustrate. Ispahani reported to Jinnah that “Fazlul Haq has met with Mr. Gandhi and…delivered a speech calling upon the Muslims to work for the overthrow of the present (Suhrawardy) Ministry in Bengal if they wanted to achieve what is their due in the province.”5 It was clear that Fazlul Haq was familiar with the tactics of Gandhi, not Jinnah; that Fazlul Haq sought to gain control of the Muslim League by dint of his popular appeal, and, of course, by emphasizing emotional rather than procedural issues. This is made all the more evident in Ispahani’s letter to Fazlul Haq. It reads in part:-
I was pained to read in the press today…your speech…criticizing the Bengal Ministry and declaring unless there was a change, Muslims could not expect justice…You are a member of a political organization and no member is above its laws. The Ministry is a Muslim League Ministry and is in power because it commands almost the unanimous support of the Muslims within and outside the legislature. If you have any grievances against your own Ministry or any individual Minister, it (sic) should be ventilated in a constitutional way and within the party of which you are a member… Today, every Muslim old and young, big and small, must join hands, forget personal ambitions and grievances and get ready to face the onslaught of the enemy.6 (Italics added).
The struggle with Fazlul Huq points up an obvious but nonetheless important fact of life about Jinnah’s Muslim League almost on the eve of Independence. The divisions within the Muslim League, and between the Muslim League and other Muslim Organizations, made Jinnah’s task of achieving Pakistan immeasureably more difficult. The Congress leaders hoped to exploit these differences and they tried to impress upon the British that Jinnah was hardly the leader of a unified Muslim nation. Jinnah could not ignore this argument and he and his close aides worked arduously to bring dissident Muslim leaders into line.
One Muslim leader with whom Jinnah was reported to have had major differences was H.S. Suhrawardy, the last Chief Minister of undivided Bengal. Nevertheless, there is nothing in the personal correspondence between Suhrawardy and Jinnah that suggest any thing other than cooperation. Even Ispahani acknowledges the positive role played by Suhrawardy in promoting Jinnah’s design in Bengal. In one letter to Jinnah, Ispahani mentions how Suhrawardy was busy “digging Fazlul Huq’s political grave”7 and how important the outcome would be for the Muslim League. Others within the Muslim League were seeking to discredit Suhrawardy, however, and they circulated rumors as well as statements, supposedly made by the Chief Minister, to the effect that either partition was unnecessary, or that he wished to establish an independent severeign United Bengal free of Jinnah’s influence.
In defense of Suhrawardy it should be noted that he held Jinnah in the highest esteem. He was proper, courteous and respectful, and always attempted to keep the Quaid-i-Azam informed of developments in his province. In 1946 the Muslim League entered the Interim Government with the Congress Party, and Suhrawardy took the opportunity to request Jinnah to join with Gandhi in calling a joint meeting of the Premiers and Home Ministers of the different provinces to discuss the best means of promoting better relations and avoiding disturbances between Hindus and Muslims. It is clear that Suhrawardy was a constitutionalist wedded to the rule of law, and that his ties to Jinnah were, in major part, fastened by his abiding faith in procedural due process, and individual rights and in his total abhorrence of demagogic appeals. Thus he came down hard on Fazlul Haq and other Bengali Muslim politicians who were conspiring to oust him and who did not hesitate to employ surreptitious means.
There is a gentleman here Mr. Nurul Amin who is the Speaker of the House, who entertains a secret ambition of becoming Chief Minister. He had joined hand with Fazlul Haq and some of the disgruntled elements of Nazimuddin’s party like Hamidul Huq Choudhry, a young man by the name of Mohan Mia and Abdullah Mahmud… Mr. Fazlul Haq conceived the idea of becoming the President of the Bengal Provincal Muslim League and began to mobilize the students…Fazlul Haq induced the students to enter the Assembly compound and waylaid me but I refused to support Mr. Fazlul Haq.8
Another important observation is the fact that, as late as February 1947, Suhrawardy had assume that India would achieve its independence in June 1948 and that some form of confederation was in the offing. He could not have anticipated the British decision to withdraw from India a year earlier. As Chief of Bengal he was responsible for the transition plans from colonial government to self-rule. He did not doubt Pakistan would be realized, but the form it would take had not yet been clarified. Certainly, he could not have then envisaged the partition of Bengal under the later Radcliffe Award, and hence the loss of the productive centre in and around Calcutta. His views on this subject are clearly outlined in a letter to the Governor of Bengal, Sir Frederick Burrows. The letter concludes with the following statement:-
These thoughts are rather puerile, but they are the first reaction of a person who while believing in independence also believes that sometimes too high a price may have to be paid. Also no attention has yet been paid by anyone regarding the problems that will arise if separation is also coupled with independence. Hence I have no knowledge and no experience.
Would it not be advisable to set up some sort of organization or committee or Special Officer that will advise on the basis of an independent constitution for Bengal? May be we shall not need it but nevertheless it will be useful, if not in its constitutional aspects, in its economic and financial aspects.9 (Italics added).
If someone wants to use this letter as evidence that Suhrawardy was conspiring to establish an independent state in Bengal, it need only be noted that a copy of this letter was sent to Jinnah for his examination on February 26th. Moreover, Suhrawardy was concerned with one overriding issue, the need to kept Bengal intact. Later, when the possible partition of the province was being discussed seriously, Suhrawardy sent a secret communication to Lord Ismay with a copy to the Quaid-i-Azam, in which he deplored the “notional scheme” to divide the province. He made it abundantly clear that he thought the British government was yielding to parties like the Hindu Mahasabha in an effort “to capture Hindu sentiment.”10 At no time did Suhrawardy believe he was doing anything to undermine Jinnah’s negotiations with the British or Muslim League efforts at securing an independent Pakistan.
Nevertheless, by trying to block the partition of Bengal, Suhrawardy did collide with a delicate issue, namely, the future of the “two-nation theory.” In a letter to Liaqat Ali Khan on May 21, 1947, Shurawardy cites this concern. The Bengali Chief Minister had come to a tentative agreement with some leftist leaders of the Bengali Hindus, but he feared that these arrangements would be interpreted as “giving up our principles – referring probably to the two-nation theory.” But Suhrawardy was convinced that “Quaid-i-Azam intends to fight against partition (of Bengal) inch by inch…that is to say he will fight in the Legislative Assembly, in the National Assemblies and even at the time of referendum which he hopes will be granted.” For Suhrawardy, partition would be an unmitigated disaster. “West Bengal will be Hindu dominated” and rich in resources. Contrasted with this was Suhrawardy’s perception of East Bengal.
What will be left of East Bengal will be an area absolutely deficit in foodgrains, and by the time other Muslim areas or surplus areas send foodgrains to us, the Muslims of East Bengal will be dead…..So, will you please give some thought to the problem of Bengal and discuss this matter with the Quaid-i-Azam?.... if the Quaid-i-Azam also says that he is prepared to agree on these terms and if the Congress stands out, then it may well be that the Viceroy may not announce the partition of Bengal in view of the unreasonableness of the Congress attitude.11
Although Jinnah was not nearly as familiar with Bengal as Suhrawardy, there is no doubt that he shared the Chief Minister’s apprehensions. Jinnah did not want Bengal partitioned but he was in no position to prevent the British from imposing their plan. The record reveals that he fought with Mountbatten right up to the last moment, indeed had indicated that he could not accept the British proposal for separation until it had cleared the full Muslim League Council. But the Viceroy was in a great hurry. His decision to yield to Hindu pressures had already been taken. In his biography of Jinnah, Hector Bolitho quotes Mountbatten as saying to Quaid-i-Azam:-
Mr. Jinnah! I do not intend to let you wreck all the work that has gone into this settlement. Since you will not accept for the Muslim League, I will speak for them myself.12
Jinnah’s goal, a homeland for the Muslims within the subcontinent, was about to be realized. As a realist, however, he understood the need for compromise and, although he would have preferred a stronger Pakistan, both in the east and west, he had to acknowledge the logic of his opposition’s demand. It must be stated that Both Jinnah and Suhrawardy were primarily concerned with reducing the intensity of communal strife. Jinnah had been apprised of the Hindu-Muslim riots in Calcutta and Noakhali and, while he had been assured by Suhrawardy that every effort would be made to control the violence, Jinnah had to conclude that resistance to partition in Bengal would only increase the volatility of the situation.
With the partition of Bengal and the independence of Pakistan Suhrawardy and Jinnah went their separate ways. Much has been said about Jinnah’s dissatisfaction with Suhrawardy’s performance, and no doubt there were persons close to Quaid-i-Azam who disliked13 Suhrawardy and who sought to influence him against the erstwhile Bengali Chief Minister. But in the last analysis there can be no mistaking Suhrawardy’s virtual submission to his leader. At no time did Suhrawardy forget that he was a Muslim Leaguer and that Jinnah was the only person capable of achieving Pakistan. From that day in 1946 when Jinnah called for “Direct Action” up to independence and the transfer of power, Suhrawardy sought to comply with Jinnah’s every directive. Both men were convinced that their cause was everything and they gave of themselves freely and unselfishly.14
Quaid-i-Azam had significant problems with other Muslim leaders like Abul Kalam Azad and Fazlul Haq. Neither man was convinced of the necessity of the Pakistan Movement and both challenged Jinnah’s right to speak for the Muslims of South Asia. Jinnah had agreed to assume the leadership of the Muslim League with the understanding that he would have the cooperation of the great majority of Muslim leaders, and that those who did not support his position would at least remain silent so as not to undermine the Muslim cause. When he learned that Azad had agreed to assume the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1940 Jinnah sent him a fiery telegram. He informed Azad that he had forfeited the confidence of Muslim India and that he would be perceived as a “Muslim Showboy Congress President.”15 Jinnah was most fearful about the effect this would have on the thinking of the outside world, especially as he was feverishly working to publicize his two-nation thesis. He severely reprimanded Azad for fronting for the Congress, which Jinnah called a “Hindu Body”, and he argued “if you Azad have any self-respect, resign at once.” Azad’s reply to Jinnah was terse. He asked if there was not an alternative to the two-nation scheme, indeed, if there were no grounds for compromise on the basis of a unified Hindu-Muslim India without Pakistan. Jinnah, of course, informed him that the time for Hindu-Muslim unity had passed, and that the Muslims had recourse but to rally behind the Muslim League. Azad refused to accept the notion that only the Muslim League represented the Indian Muslims and he charged Jinnah with behaving in an “uncompromising” manner. Azad explained:-
In the provinces where Muslims were in a majority, there was no League Ministry. There was a Congress Ministry in the Frontier Province. In Bengal, there was Governor’s rule, while in the Punjab it was a Unionist Ministry. In Sind, Sir Ghulam Hussain depended on Congress support and the same position held in Assam. It could not therefore be claimed that the Muslim League represented all the Muslims. There was in fact a large bloc of Muslims who had nothing to do with the League.16
Azad’s statement cannot be disputed. But it describes in dramatic terms the enormous task that lay before Jinnah. It also explains why the Quaid-i-Azam insisted upon full compliance and obedience. Having concluded that the Muslims of India would be best served in a state that they themselves controlled, and sensing that the Muslim majority supported him in this view, he refused to be deterred by a few notables who clung to older dreams. Moreover, the odds against succeeding in creating Pakistan were great and Jinnah recognized that only a firm, confident hand would sustain the drive for independence. Anything less would have left the Muslims in their traditional fragmented state – their future at best an extension of the dominant Indian community.
Jinnah did not need Suhrawardy to tell him about the difficulties that Fazlul Haq was making for the Muslim League and Pakistan Movement. Fazlul Haq was Chief Minister of Bengal at the outbreak of the World War II and he and Jinnah exchanged a number of letters which highlighted their mutual antagonism. Like Azad, Fazlul Haq was more concerned with promoting Hindu-Muslim unity, and he argued with Jinnah that “the Muslim League should not take the wind out of the sails of their organizations and secure to itself the credit of having done the greatest possible service to India and her people.”17 Fazlul Haq insisted on pursuing his own course, despite the fact that he had presented the Lahore Resolution in March 1940 and had recognized Jinnah as the leader of the Pakisan Movement. In response to Haq’s letter, the Quaid-i-Azam noted how important it was that the Muslims spoke with one voice and therefore that no individual should act “without reference to me.” Jinnah cited from an earlier letter in which the Bengali Chief Minister agreed to obtain his consent before making public statements that involved the League. “But you have already in the public press declared your opinion,” commented Jinnah, “as if the Muslim League was to be goaded by somebody to come to a settlement and decided that we should consider the proposals which you are going to formulate for the purpose.”18 Fazlul Haq argued that he “did not wish to dictate anything” but only that he thought the Muslims and Hindus should endeavour to reconcile their differences and call a truce. He continued:-
….My object was really to put you in the position of the dictator of India…If you still think my move has in any way been unwise, you can tell me accordingly. It is far from intention to bring about a disruption in the Muslim League.19
Jinnah did not succumb to this “flattery,” nor did he envisage himself as the dictator of India. Fazlul Haq was an exasperating experience, and he often wondered how he might communicate with him. Jinnah acknowledged the need for peace between Hindus and Muslims, the Congress and Muslim League, but he remarked:-
When the other party has declared war and is holding a pistol at your head what do you propose that I should do? What do you think is the aim and the object of the Congress in launching Civil Disobedience? It is not obvious that they want to bend the British Government to surrender or yield to their demands? At whose cost?20
With World War II raging, Jinnah felt the Congress tactics might well forces the British to quit India and leave the Indians to organize their own future. On the surface this might have been acceptable, but, given the legacy of Muslim-Hindu hatred and distrust, the communal warfare, and general inability to coalesce, it was his view that an early and hasty British withdrawal would seriously jeopardize the Muslim community. Furthermore, Jinnah had a genuine distaste for mob action. Street demonstration were a poor way to build stable political institutions and at the same time provide for the well-being of the subcontinent’s minorities. Thus in weighing the possibilities, he found himself, if not supporting, at least not weakening the British war effort.
Despite Jinnah’s plea for support and Fazlul Haq’s promise not to undermine Muslim League activities, matters reached a crisis stage between the two leaders. In January 1941, Jinnah accused Fazlul Haq of issuing a report to the press that he was promoting a renewal of Hindu-Muslim unity and that the Pakistan Movement was being suspended. Haq insisted that he had not made any such declaration and that the British census officers in Bengal had come under Hindu influence and had left a million and a half Muslims off the rolls. Haq called upon Jinnah to do something to correct this situation and ended his letter with the comment: “I am afraid Muslims in Bengal will be reduced to a minority and you will lose one of your socalled majority provinces in India.” (Italics added.)21 Jinnah’s reply to this curious request could not conceal his enormous anger. Haq was obviously playing with Jinnah, informing him that if he considered himself a leader of all the Indian Muslims, why not show them that he could remedy this situation. It was obvious that Jinnah had no power to interfere with the administration of Bengal, but Fazlul Haq, as the province’s Chief Minister did have the authority. Wrote Jinnah:-
I shall await further developments as to what you want the League to do. In the meantime I must say that I am astonished to read the account you have given in your letter. You as the Premier of Bengal are in a strong position to fight the matter out with the Government of India firmly and determinately.22
Jinnah and Fazlul Haq never did reconcile their differences. The two men were complete opposites. Moreover, their visions reflected their surroundings; Jinnah had a broad conception of South Asia’s future whereas Fazlul Haq was conditioned by the needs of the Bengali nation.
The Muslims of India were hardly a monolithic entity, all pulling in the same direction for the establishment of Pakistan. It is truly remarkable that Jinnah, with relatively limited forces, a miniscule treasury and only the most abstract plans, could set himself against the combined power of the British colonial government, the Indian National Congress and the whole panoply of powerful subcontinent personalities, both Hindu and Muslim, - and win. When the Governor of the Punjab called upon Sir Khizr Hayat Khan to form a government, it was considered a deliberately conceived act to frustrate the Muslim League. Loyal Jinnah supporters like Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, who had been working tirelessly for the Pakistan Movement and the Quaid-i-Azam, were convinced that the primary forces in the subcontinent were determined to frustrate the Muslim League by preventing it from gaining control of the Punjab. Without it there could be no Pakistan. Nishtar recognized the many divisions within Muslim ranks when he told Jinnah:-
In the Punjab where Muslims are in a majority their verdict is ignored and the government has been practically handed over to non-Muslims. In order to throw dust in the eyes of the Muslims, Khizr has been made a puppet premier. This seems to be a clear challenger to test our mettle. If we do not meet it successfully then I am sure that the…government conspiracy with the Hindu Congress and a few Quislings amongst the Muslims will enforce upon us the scheme of a federation of Akhand Hindustan.23
It had been argued that the British Governor actually had no choice but to ask Khizr to form a government around his Unionist Party – mainly because the Muslim League (although the dominant party in the Punjab after the 1945-46 elections) could not get the other parties to form a coalition with it.24 Nevertheless, the Muslim League was able, through agitation, to hasten the Khizr government’s collapse and leave the Punjab under Governor’s Rule at the time of partition. Jinnah would have preferred another course, insofar as the Muslim League had won the largest number of seats and should have been permitted to form the government in accordance with the 1935 Government of India Act. The fact that there was no smooth transition in the Punjab set the scene for considerable in-fighting after Pakistan became independent. The Sikandar-Daultana factions and the Noon-Tiwana factions could no longer be contained. Jinnah found it necessary to keep Khizr from playing a role in Muslim League politics, but other Unionists remained in important positions within the Punjab and continued to influence the province’s political life. As Craig Baxter has remarked:-
The name Unionist was not to reappear. Instead, new names emerged: the Noon faction of the Muslim League when he became chief minister of the Punjab in 1953, the Republican Party later in 1956, and the Pakistan Muslim League of Ayub Khan in the 1960s. All enjoyed the open or covert support of the Unionist families. And the factions continued to be important.25
A no less chaotic situation prevailed in the North West Frontier Province, where Dr. Khan Sahib’s Congress-dominated government sought to contain popular Muslim League movement. When the provincial government sought to cling to power and ignored the demand for fresh elections, the population was driven to mass civil disobedience and thousands were arrested, imprisoned and detained under the Frontier Crimes Regulation and other repressive laws. The Government also announced that political meetings were banned until normal conditions were once again established in the province. But neither these forceful measures nor the Viceroy’s visit were enough to convince the Muslim League leaders in the Frontier that they should cease their demonstration. Nishtar travelled on the Frontier to survey the situation for Jinnah and reported that he was pained by the excessive use of violence. He called upon Jinnah to attempt to quite the population, and drafted a statement which he hoped the Quaid-i-Azam would issue under his name. It read in part:-
I must earnestly appeal to every Muslim, specially Muslim Leaguers to do all in their power to confine their movement within strictly peaceful and non-violent limits and without any reservation I say that on our side there should be no resort to violence or force. The Muslims must bear up in the spirit of tolerance and despite the gravest provocation should not depart from (a) strictly peaceful path. I must also urge upon the Muslims of N.W.F. Province that in no circumstances should the movement be allowed to take a communal turn. Your fight is not against the Hindus and Sikhs… It is the duty of every Muslim to protect the minorities.26
Nishtar was another bright, dedicated and sensitive Muslim Leaguer who was totally committed to Jinnah and the cause of Pakistan. He played an indispensable role both on the North West Frontier and in the Punjab for Quaid-i-Azam. But he too sensed that the creation of Pakistan was only a beginning. How to come to grips with the divisive forces within the new state would test the strength, stamina and wisdom of all those who followed Jinnah to independence.
In Sind no one gave Jinnah more consistent assistance than Muhammad Hashim Gazder. A consulting engineer by training, he was Mayor of Karachi during the crucial years of World War II. Gazder deplored the way in which the Muslims could be divided and the alacrity with which they turned on each other. In a sorrowful tone he wrote Jinnah:-
It grieves me most to see that even Governors have become parties to unholy parts which have deprived the Muslim majorites of their legitimate rights. Of course our own Muslim brethren are to blame. Without their consent and treachery such surrenders could not be imagined at least in provinces where Muslims were in the majority. Lure of office and salaries have proved too strong for our Muslim friends.27
In that same letter he asked Jinnah to consider an independent Muslim state which would comprise the four provinces of northwest India – this call almost three years before the Lahore Resolution. Gazder was convinced that the Muslims of this region would be secure only when they could no longer be manipulated by the comparatively more educated Hindus. He writes: “I would go so far as to suggest a separate federation of the North West India viz: Sind, Baluchistan, the Punjab and the North Western Frontier Province. Without this I have despaired of any economic, political and educational improvement of Muslim masses of those provinces.” In 1941 Gazder was returned unopposed to his post as mayor of Karachi but still he was dissatisfied with the Muslims who had joined his Assembly party. “Most of these people who had recently joined us do not do so on account of their convictions but it was to get advantage out of the League Ministers…. As I had stated before the Muslim League organization requires to be strengthened in Sind and for this purpose, we require workers and funds. Mr. G.M. Syed is doing his very best in this regard.” But Gazder felt he was getting little additional help and he called upon Jinnah to request Abdoola Haroon and Sheikh Abdul Majid to join in.28 Jinnah answered this latter request with the statement that Haroon and Majid were “doing their bit” and that all the leaders in Sind must learn to “work together and organise our people… You all must put your shoulders to the wheel and I am sure that you will very soon realise the change.”29 It was obvious that Jinnah appreciated the efforts made by people like Gazder, but he also felt that he protested and complained too much about his colleagues. Quaid-i-Azam was always placed in the delicate position of having to balance off competitive and sometimes envious Muslim League Leaders so as to avoid needless ruptures in the movement. Moreover, Jinnah had to contend with much more powerful Sindhis than those represented by Gazder, hence his desire not to take sides. M.A. Khuhro, Yusuf Haroon, Ghulam Husain Hidayatullah and G.M. Syed were constantly bickering among themselves, and yet Jinnah so depended on them for the success of his program, that he could only insist that they settle their own differences and get on with the job of establishing Pakistan.30
The personality of Muhammad Ali Jinnah made Pakistan possible; it also enabled the country to survive those first six incredible months of independence. Although Jinnah could not have created Pakistan alone, it would not have emerged without him. Nevertheless, Quaid-i-Azam knew that the country could not rest its future on a single, mortal human being. Pakistan required an institutional foundation and insofar as its basic structure was still inchoate, much seemed to depend on the vitality and coherence of the Muslim League. Jinnah’s thinking, therefore, aimed at keeping the Muslim League strong, indeed pre-eminent. He did not feel it time to encourage other political parties. When conditions improved there would be sufficient opportunity to establish other political organizations, but what the country needed most urgently was unity and a sense of common experience. Only the Muslim League, thought Jinnah, could sustain Pakistan in its early years. Speaking at a public meeting in Dacca on March 21, 1948, Jinnah said:-
Very often it is said, “why cannot we have this party or that party”? Now let me tell you, and I hope you will agree with me, that we have as a result of unceasing effort and struggle ultimately achieved Pakistan… It is the Muslim League which has done it. There were of course many Mussalmans who were indifferent; some were afraid, because they had vested interests and they though they might lose; some sold themselves to the enemy and worked against us, but we struggled and we fought and by the grace of God and with His help we have established Pakistan which has stunned the world.
Now this is sacred trust in your own hands, i.e. the Muslim League. Is this sacred trust to be guarded by us as the real custodians of the welfare of our country and our people, or not? Are mushroom parties led by men of doubtful past to be started to destroy what we have achieved or capture what we have secured? I ask you one question. Do you believe in Pakistan?...Then I say that the honest course open to every Musalman is to join the Muslim League Party and serve Pakistan to the best of his ability.31
No one believed in Pakistan more than Muhammad Ali Jinnah. No one served Pakistan so selflessly. In his last days Quaid-i-Azam hoped the spirit that motivated his behaviour would permeate the political organization which now assumed the momentous task of leading a new nation into an uncertain future.
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A hard drive image, or system image, is an exact clone of a system containing the operating system, installed programs, settings and data. More beneficial than a simple file backup, a system image allows you to restore your computer to the same state it was in at the time you created the image. If you include system images in your regular backups, you’ll be able to recover quickly from hard drive failures or problems that prevent Windows from working correctly or loading at all. Windows 7 includes Windows Backup, a backup utility that also allows you to create system images.
Log in to Windows using an administrator account.
Click “Start” and click once in the search box.
Type “sdclt” (without quotation marks) in the box and press “Enter.”
Click the “Create a system image” link.
Insert a blank CD or DVD into your drive.
Click “Create a system repair disc.” You’ll use this bootable disc in the event that you need to restore a system image because Windows cannot load.
Click the “Create disc” button.
Click “Close” and then “OK.” Label this disc and store it in a safe place.
Click “Create a system image.” Windows will search for available backup devices on your system.
Choose a backup location. Do not store the image on the same drive where Windows is installed. The easiest option is an external hard drive or high-capacity flash drive. However, you may also store the image on a series of CDs (not recommended due to their low data capacity), DVDs or on another networked computer in your home.
Choose the drives you want included in the image. In most cases, all you’ll need is your C: drive. However, if you have a “Recovery” partition (probably D:) or if you created an additional partition for your data files, be sure to select those as well.
Confirm your backup settings and click “Start backup.” The backup might take an hour or more depending on how much data you have. Windows Backup will inform you when the backup is finished. If you opted to store your backup on DVDs you’ll need to stay in the area to swap out discs when prompted.
- Backup Media
- If you save your image to a hard drive or on optical disc, Windows Backup allows you to store multiple images, space permitting. On hard drives, older images will be deleted automatically once the drive fills up or you can do so manually. If you choose to save the image to another computer in your home, you can only store one image at a time unless you choose a different folder location each time.
- Before initiating the image capture, make sure that the backup drive will not be disturbed during the entire process and do not run a backup if there’s a risk that you could lose power.
- If the backup is interrupted, the image could corrupt and become unusable. If in doubt, do the backup over.
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The need to save is as obvious as day. In addition to protecting you from financial setbacks, savings can benefit you in the future, if placed in the correct savings account. Savings accounts are an excellent way to safeguard your money. It has a lot of features that will help you secure and save your money. Savings accounts also pay higher interest than checking accounts, allowing you to earn more money. Creating a savings account is a simple option, but understanding how to calculate interest on a savings account could be complicated. This blog will make it easier to understand what is interest on savings accounts and how to calculate it.
What Is Interest Rate On A Savings Account?
When you receive interest on your savings account, the bank is effectively paying you money to keep your money in the account. Compound interest is earned on savings accounts, which means that the interest you earn in one period is put into your account. Then, you earn interest on that money in your account in the next period. Calculating the actual amount of interest your deposits earn over time requires you to utilise a formula.
Below you will learn how to calculate interest on a savings account, which is critical if you want to maximise your hard-earned money.
How To Calculate Interest On A Savings Account?
In a savings account, simple interest is calculated by multiplying the account balance by the interest rate, multiplied by the amount of time the money has been in the account. Here’s the formula to understand how to calculate interest on a savings account more clearly –
Simple Interest = P x R x N divided by 100
P = Principal Amount
R = Rate of Interest
N = Number of Periods
For example, assume you have a $10,000 savings account with a 1% annual interest rate. The simple interest for 1 year would be:
Simple Interest = ($10,000 x 1 x 1)/100, which equals to $100.
You can also use a savings calculator to see how much interest you could earn over various periods and rates.
Savings Account Interest Calculator
It’s critical to keep track of how much money you’re saving in your savings account. Interest is earned in a variety of ways depending on the type of account you have. You can use a savings account interest calculator to calculate how much interest you’ll earn on your savings. A savings calculator will save you the trouble of learning how to calculate interest on a savings account manually.
The savings accounts interest rate calculator requires you to enter information such as your average savings and the bank’s interest rate. You’ll also have to decide whether you want the interest paid monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly. The calculator can be used to calculate the daily interest rate and the savings account interest rate.
How To Earn More Interest On Savings Bank Deposits?
You’ll need to place your money in an account with a high interest on savings bank deposits if you want to earn more interest on your money. Savings accounts with above-average interest rates are common at several banks online.
- Which bank is best to open a savings account?
Some of the best banks to open a savings account are American Express High Yield, Capital One 360, Discover Online, Citizens Access, Ally Bank and Citibank.
- Which bank has the highest interest rate on a savings account?
Synchrony High Yield Savings, Discover Online Savings Account, CIT Bank Savings Builder and Vio Bank High Yield Online Savings are some of the best banks with the highest interest rate on a savings account.
- What is a good interest rate for a savings account?
The best interest rate on savings accounts is around 0.50%. Savings rates at brick-and-mortar banks are frequently closer to the national average, which is currently 0.07%.
- Is interest on a savings account calculated monthly?
If your account is compounded daily, your bank will typically calculate your interest every day. However, if your account is compounded monthly or annually, your bank will typically calculate your interest once a month or year.
- How to calculate interest on a savings account with compound interest?
Compound interest is determined by multiplying the initial principal amount by one and then multiplying the annual interest rate by the number of compound periods minus one.
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Experimental and numerical studies on size and constraining effects in lead-free solder joints
Search String Advanced > Saved Searches > ARTICLE TOOLS Get PDF (641K) Save to My Profile E-mail Link to this Article Export Citation for this Article Get Citation Alerts Request Permissions More Sharing ServicesShare | Share on citeulike Share on facebook Share on delicious Share on www.mendeley.com Share on twitter Abstract Article References Cited By View Full Article (HTML) Enhanced Article (HTML) Get PDF (641K) Keywords: constrain effect;elastic-plastic behaviour;finite element;size effect;solder joint;structural optimisation ABSTRACT The durability and reliability of lead-free solder joints depends on a large number of factors, like geometry, processing parameters, microstructure and thermomechanical loads. In this work, the nature and influence of the plastic constraints in the solder due to joining partners have been studied by parametric finite element simulation of solder joints with different dimensions. The apparent hardening due to plastic constraints has been shown to strongly depend on the solder gap to thickness ratio with an inversely proportional evolution. Due to interaction of several parameters, the macroscopic stress–strain constitutive law of lead-free solder materials should be determined in the most realistic conditions. In order to identify the elasto-plastic constitutive law of Sn–Ag–Cu solders, a sub-micron resolution Digital Image Correlation technique has been developed to measure the evolution of strain in solder joints during a tensile test. Experimental results of the stress–strain response of Sn–Ag–Cu solder joints have been determined for several solder gaps. The measured load–displacement curves have been used in an inverse numerical identification procedure to determine the constitutive elasto-plastic behaviour of the solder material. The effects of geometrical constraints in a real solder joint with heterogeneous stress and strain fields are then studied by comparing the apparent (constrained) and constitutive (non-constrained) stress–strain relationships. Once the size dependant constraining effects have been removed from the stress–strain relationship, the scale effects can be studied separately by comparing the constitutive elasto-plastic parameters of joints with a variable thickness. Experimental stress–strain curves (constrained and unconstrained) for Sn–4.0Ag–0.5Cu solder in joints of 0.25–2.4 mm gap are presented and the constraining and the size effects are discussed. | <urn:uuid:312eb5b1-f8e5-45db-8b06-99f049309510> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/99687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00196-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892707 | 529 | 1.820313 | 2 |
I Have Some Friends with ADHD is written from the perspective of a boy who has friends with ADHD.
He understands that their brain works differently to his and he wants to learn why.
He is accepting and understanding of their ADHD and realises that they have some wonderful traits that make his friends even more interesting and fun.
ADHD is a diagnosis and an explanation of a much maligned condition. This book attempts to break down the barriers and reduce the stigma. Written entirely in rhyme and in a specific dyslexic font for accessibility.
Below is a short video with the answers to the word search from our book.
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World Health Day is April 7, and the American Cancer Society wants to help you stay healthy by reminding you about the quality and safety of the food you eat.
Pesticides are helpful in boosting efficient plant yield and preventing insects from harming plant life. But concerns still arise over pesticides being used for produce consumed by humans, so here are some tips on how to avoid pesticide ingestion from the American Cancer Society’s health guidebook, Nutrition for Cancer Survivors (2010).
The “Dirty Dozen” is a list containing fruits and vegetables with the highest amount of pesticide residue. The “Dirty Dozen” list includes: peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, lettuce, imported grapes, carrots and pears.
The “Clean Fifteen” list, on the other hand, is made up of fruits and vegetables containing the smallest amount of pesticide residue. This list includes: onion, avocado, sweet corn, pineapple, mango, asparagus, sweet peas, kiwi, cabbage, eggplant, papaya, watermelon, broccoli, tomato and sweet potato.
But if your favorite fruit or veggie falls on the “Dirty Dozen” list, don’t worry; the Nutrition guidebook says you can still eat it –by just putting a little extra effort into preparing it. A Product Spray or Produce Wash can be used to help remove pesticides. These can be found in your grocery store, or you can make your own (recipes below). Even if your favorite foods fall on the “Clean 15” list, it never hurts to wash produce–all produce.
Produce Wash Recipe
1/2 cup white vinegar
3 tablespoons salt
Stir until salt is dissolved. Pour into sink full of water. Soak produce for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse in cool water and pat dry.
Product Spray Recipe
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons baking soda
1 cup water
Spray produce; allow produce to sit for two to five minutes. Scrub produce, rinse and pat dry.
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The following table shows the plot properties you can customize using plot tools.
|For...||You can customize the following properties:|
For SISO systems, these changes apply to a single plot line or an array of plot lines representing the system on one axis. For MIMO systems, these changes apply to all of the plotted lines representing the system on multiple axes.
Note: To make other changes to response plots, see Customize Response Plots Using the Response Plots Property Editor and Customizing Response Plots from the Command Line.
See the following documentation for information about how to open and work with Plot Tools and the Plot Tools Property Editor:
To change the line color of a MIMO system plot:
Create a step response plot of a MIMO system by typing
In the figure window, select View > Property Editor.
This action opens the Plot Tools Property Editor.
Click the plot line in any of the nine axis.
This action selects the response for the
and updates the Plot Tools Property Editor to show the available editable
properties for the response.
Note: The Plot Tools Property Editor applies changes to the response of the MIMO system. Any change you make applies to all of the plotted lines in the figure.
Tip You can also change the properties of the response using the right-click menu while in plot edit mode.
In the Property Editor – Waveform pane, select the color red.
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Sometimes, people want something so badly and search for it so hard, that they don't see what's right in front of them...
Your Angel To Kiss
|by Angela K. Dyson|
|You kneel by your bed day after day,
fold your hands and repeatedly pray
with heartfelt words, that a miracle be done,
and soon you might meet the blessed one
In your bedroom, you solemnly swear
that when she arrives, for her you will care,
You will cherish and love her, in sickness or health,
and her love in return would prove enough wealth
Like the universe has at its center the sun,
so will she be after her heart you've won:
The center of your life, and bright like a star,
she'll indeed be an angel come down from afar
For years now I've heard you recite this promise,
if you could just have your angel to kiss
Just lift your bowed head, or you'll never know,
that set atop my hair glows a shimmering halo
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I struggled to decide on which blog to put this post. The reality is it bridges the graphical and analytical sides of me. But I ultimately placed it on the dataviz blog because that's where today's story starts.
Data visualization has few set-in-stone rules. If pressed for one, I'd likely cite the "start-at-zero" rule, which has featured regularly on Junk Charts (here, here, and here, for example). This rule only applies to a bar chart, where the heights (and thus, areas) of the bars should encode the data.
Here is a stacked column chart that earns boos from us:
I made it so I'm downvoting myself. What's wrong with this chart? The vertical axis starts at 42 instead of zero. I've cropped out exactly 42 units from each column. Therefore, the column areas are no longer proportional to the ratio of the data. Forty-two is 84% of the column A while it is 19% of column B. By shifting the x-axis, I've made column B dwarf column A. For comparison, I added a second chart that has the x-axis start at zero.
On the right side, Column B is 22 times the height of column A. On the left side, it is 4 times as high. Both are really the same chart, except one has its legs chopped off.
Now, let me reveal the data behind the above chart. It is a re-imagination of the famous cumulative case curve from the Pfizer vaccine trial.
I transferred the data to a stacked column chart. Each column block shows the incremental cases observed in a given week of the trial. All the blocks stacked together rise to the total number of cases observed by the time the interim analysis was presented to the FDA.
Observe that in the cumulative cases chart, the count starts at zero on Day 0 (first dose). This means the chart corresponds to the good stacked column chart, with the x-axis starting from zero on Day 0.
The Pfizer chart above is, however, disconnected from the oft-chanted 95% vaccine efficacy number. You can't find this number on there. Yes, everyone has been lying to you. In a previous post, I did the math, and if you trace the vaccine efficacy throughout the trial, you end up at about 80% toward the right, not 95%.
How can they conclude VE is 95% but show a chart that never reaches that level? The chart was created for a "secondary" analysis included in the report for completeness. The FDA and researchers have long ago decided, before the trials started enrolling people, that they don't care about the cumulative case curve starting on Day 0. The "primary" analysis counts cases starting 7 days after the second shot, which means Day 29.
The first week that concerns the FDA is Days 29-35 (for Pfizer's vaccine). The vaccine arm saw 41 cases in the first 28 days of the trial. In effect, the experts chop the knees off the column chart. When they talk about 95% VE, they are looking at the column chart with the axis starting at 42.
Yes, that deserves a boo.
It's actually even worse than that, if you could believe it.
The most commonly cited excuse for the knee-chop is that any vaccine is expected to be useless in the first X days (X being determined after the trial ends when they analyze the data). A recently published "real world" analysis of the situation in Israel contains a lengthy defense of this tactic, in which they state:
Strictly speaking, the vaccine effectiveness based on this risk ratio overestimates the overall vaccine effectiveness in our study because it does not include the early follow-up period during which the vaccine has no detectable effect (and thus during which the ratio is 1). [Appendix, Supplement 4]
Assuming VE = 0 prior to day X is equivalent to stipulating that the number of cases found in the vaccine arm is the same (within margin of error) as the number of cases in the placebo arm during the first X days.
That assumption is refuted by the Pfizer trial (and every other trial that has results so far.)
The Pfizer/Biontech vaccine was not useless during the first week. It's not 95% efficacious, more like 16%. In the second week, it improves to 33%, and so on. (See the VE curve I plotted above for the Pfizer trial.)
What happened was all the weeks before which the VE has not plateaued were dropped.
So I was simplifying the picture by chopping same-size blocks from both columns in the stacked column chart. Contrary to the no-effect assumption, the blocks at the bottom of each column are of different sizes. Much more was chopped from the placebo arm than from the vaccine arm.
You'd think that would unjustifiably favor the placebo. Not true! As almost all the cases on the vaccine arm were removed, the remaining cases on the placebo arm are now many multiples of those on the vaccine arm.
The following shows what the VE would have been reported if they had started counting cases from day X. The first chart counts all cases from first shot. The second chart removes the first two weeks of cases, corresponding to the analysis that other pharmas have done, namely, evaluate efficacy from 14 days after the first dose. The third chart removes even more cases, and represents what happens if the analysis is conducted from second dose. The fourth chart is the official Pfizer analysis, which began days after the second shot. Finally, the fifth chart shows analysis begining from 14 days after the second shot, the window selected by Moderna and Astrazeneca.
The premise that any vaccine is completely useless for a period after administration is refuted by the actual data. By starting analysis windows at some arbitrary time, the researchers make it unnecessarily difficult to compare trials. Selecting the time of analysis based on the results of a single trial is the kind of post-hoc analysis that statisticians have long warned leads to over-estimation. It's equivalent to making the vertical axis of a column chart start above zero in order to exaggerate the relative heights of the columns.
P.S. [3/1/2021] See comment below. I'm not suggesting vaccines are useless. They are still a miracle of science. I believe the desire to report a 90% VE number is counterproductive. I don't understand why a 70% or 80% effective vaccine is shameful. I really don't. | <urn:uuid:15c632a6-8b5a-4e14-96c4-c51b303ce8a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2021/03/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957892 | 1,366 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Recently my fold3.com subscription was about to expire. I rarely used it, finding it hard to navigate and not very useful. But I decided to give it one last chance to prove itself.
I started poking around the Civil War records, since that’s their specialty. After a few misses, I had a hit. My husband’s great-great-grandfather Charles Alwood, who died in a Civil War camp from typhoid fever, had a wife who applied for a widow’s pension just weeks after he died. I downloaded and printed out the 18 pages of records, and it was a gold mine!
I spent the next few hours analyzing what I’d found. It included:
- The Declaration, partially shown in the photo. It was an sworn affidavit which gave a detailed background of Elizabeth and Charles, his service, his death, and their family. Her parents were the sworn witnesses. One thing they had to swear to was that Elizabeth “has not, in any manner, been engaged in, or aided or abetted the rebellion in the United States.” Elizabeth had to sign all the documents with an “X”—she couldn’t read or write.
- As proof of these facts, a letter from the Adjutant General’s Office which gave the details of Charles’ army service, from enrollment until death. Very handy to have!
- A letter from the Surgeon General’s Office that is the equivalent of a death certificate for Charles. Priceless! I’d never been able to narrow down exactly when and where he died.
- An affidavit from Tuscarawas County, Ohio, stating the details of Charles and Elizabeth’s marriage—the equivalent of a marriage certificate, signed by a judge.
- An affidavit from Elizabeth’s mother, stating that she was present at the birth of all six underage children being listed on the pension application. She gave the details about each birth. A great substitute for official birth records, which the government did not keep in the 1850s!
- Paperwork for Elizabeth’s later application (and approval) for a pension increase; in addition to her $8 per month, she was entitled to an additional $2 per month for each child under age 16. The children are again listed, with birth dates and dates on which they will turn 16, along with many other details.
- A “Drop Pensioner” card which states the details of Elizabeth’s death in 1912, at which time she was receiving $12 a month. Not a death record, but pretty darn close. Better than anything I’d been able to find previously.
I found it interesting that, on these forms created in the middle of the Civil War, the conflict is referred to as “The War of 1861.” I’d never heard it called that before.
So, maybe fold3.com had its place in my toolbox after all... I have written for a Civil War pension record before—to the National Archives—and it was an expensive hassle. This was easy and free! So, I did one more thing that day—I renewed my subscription to fold3.com. | <urn:uuid:ee8b875a-3cfa-4477-86ff-3ab638583248> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ancestrybinders.blogspot.com/2014/02/military-monday-civil-war-widow-applies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984189 | 675 | 1.828125 | 2 |
In the News
"Woman, 95, Knits for Children with AIDS"
Published in The News-Herald, Wayne County, Michigan
March 19, 2006
By Paula Evans Neuman
Louise Moon, 95, of Allen Park knits teddy bears for children who have lost everything.
She has never been to Africa, and probably never will be, but her cuddly bears will make the long journey soon.
Through the Mother Bear Project, the bears will find their way from the hands of the Allen Park grandma into the arms of children orphaned or infected by AIDS.
The children of sub-Saharan Africa who will get the bears have witnessed a world of poverty, crisis, disease and death.
And thousands have been abused, as well, because of a cruel myth that having sex with a young virgin makes a man immune to AIDS.
Moon has always cared about children, said her daughter, Mary Jane Lake of Wisconsin.
A recent stroke took a lot from the Allen Park senior, including most of her ability to speak. Her bears, however, speak for her with eloquence.
She used to knit sweaters, scarves, hats and mittens for children in Head Start programs, Lake said.
When that got too hard, she made prayer shawls and potholders. But the bears she makes for the Mother Bear Project are for children, and that’s important to Moon.
The project has given her mother a mission, and the knowledge that she is needed and useful despite her limitations, her daughter said.
“She knits every single day,” Lake said. “She’s made 19 bears since Christmas.”
Lake learned about the Mother Bear Project by chance, or perhaps it was synchronicity – a word for how things sometimes seem to happen in just the right way.
She was traveling to Michigan to take care of her mother – family members take turns staying with her – and saw a woman at the airport knitting something.
“I just was nosy, and asked her what she was making,” Lake said.
The woman told her she was making teddies for Project Mother Bear, and explained what it was for.
Lake was inspired. She thought immediately of her mother. She looked up the project online, and knew it was “perfect,” she said.
The pattern for the bears is easy enough for Moon, requiring only one stitch.
“It is so simple and they don’t take long,” Lake said. “You could make one in a day.”
When Lake stays with her mother in Allen Park she helps her with the project.
“I sew them together and stuff them,” she said. “We’ve embellished them and they're just darling.”
When she shows them to her mother, Moon just beams, she said.
The nonprofit Mother Bear Project was started a few years ago by Amy Berman of Minnesota, a 39 year-old mother of two.
She read a newspaper article about the AIDS epidemic and Africa, and about the children and what was happening to them.
Since then, her project to send love and comfort to those children has gathered more and more knitters across the country, and thousands of bears, all made with the same simple pattern, have gone to Africa.
Often, the bears are a priceless gift to child who has endured unspeakable horror and has nothing of his or her own.
And that’s why Moon keeps making them, and why she beams when she sees one finished, Lake said.
Each Mother Bear Project pattern costs $3, a price that offsets the shipping charges to Africa. Moon and Lake are hopeful that others will start making bears.
The finished ones are returned to the Mother Bear Project. Volunteers attach a heart to the toy’s chest and mail them to orphanages and centers in Africa.
Each bear is place in the arms of child with a tag attached to it, signed by the person who made it – a message that someone halfway across the world cares. | <urn:uuid:3eb233c5-a0af-4f4b-b57e-e650369033dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://motherbearproject.org/Articles/articles_95yearold.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00267-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977813 | 857 | 1.898438 | 2 |
By Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The head of Turkey's main Kurdish party has called for talks between the government and Kurdish militants to prevent a further escalation of violence which she said could undermine efforts to draw up a new, more liberal constitution.
More than 700 people have been killed since elections in June 2011, according to the International Crisis Group, the highest toll in a 15-month period since Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) chief Abdullah Ocalan was captured and jailed in 1999.
Last week, fighters from the PKK - labeled a terrorist group by Turkey, Washington and the European Union - ambushed a military convoy, killing 10 soldiers and wounding about 60.
"Violence dominates now, from the Kurdish side and is also defining state policy," said Gultan Kisanak, co-chair of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). "If fighting intensifies further, there's a high risk it will spill over into ethnic clashes as social tensions rise."
"Let's return to the path of dialogue and negotiations and lessen the war," she told Reuters at the weekend.
The upsurge in violence coincides with efforts by Turkey's parliament to draft a more liberal constitution to replace a hardline charter drawn up after a 1980 military coup, and the government says it will include greater political freedoms for minorities. Parliament reconvenes after summer recess on October 1.
Recognizing Kurdish identity and rights are fundamental to Turkey's effort to join the European Union. It became a candidate for membership in 1999, but its drive has stalled over slow progress on human rights and arguments about Cyprus.
"The Kurdish problem is about rights and freedom, it's a legal issue, and a solution requires a constitutional foundation," Kisanak said.
"We need to focus on policies for peace and establish a climate of peace. Otherwise it's insincere to work on a constitution while people are dying and blood is being spilled."
Some political analysts link the violence with the failure of secret peace talks, thought to have been held in 2010, in Oslo between intelligence officials and PKK negotiators.
The PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 in a campaign to carve out an ethnic homeland in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey. More than 40,000 people, most of them Kurds, have died in the ensuing violence.
The rebels have scaled back their demands for more political autonomy for Turkey's estimated 15 million ethnic Kurds.
In the latest fighting, one soldier and three PKK fighters were killed late on Saturday after the rebels attacked two military outposts near the town of Tunceli.
More than a dozen people were hurt when an angry crowd stormed the BDP's local offices in the town of Bingol on Friday.
The BDP denies any outright connection with the guerrillas and has criticized some PKK attacks, but opponents say it has not distanced itself enough from the group.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey will halt its operations against the militants once they lay down arms.
An outspoken critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erdogan has accused Syria of arming the PKK in recent months.
Kisanak disagreed and said fighting with the PKK had flared before relations with erstwhile ally Syria soured.
"There is a tendency in Turkey to continually look for excuses to blame domestic problems on the outside," she said.
Erdogan has signaled that some BDP lawmakers, including Kisanak, could lose their immunity to prosecution, granted to all members of parliament, after they were photographed last month embracing PKK fighters who had stopped their convoy on a road in the southeast.
Courts have banned most of the BDP's predecessors for links with the PKK, and pro-Kurdish parties were out of parliament between 1994 and 2007.
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The Pleather Bag
Many people perceive trash or waste as something that is unappealing, unattractive and meant to be thrown away. The Pleather Bag aims to highlight the potential for plastic waste to be transformed into something beautiful, functional and fashionable. Through ironing techniques to fuse sheets of plastic waste together, durable, leather-like fabric was created to transform what were once single-use objects into a bag that can be worn over and over again.
Glasses that track user's head movements through a digital accelerometer, allowing them to create pointilist-style art pieces on the computer by tilting their head. Created using Arduino and Processing.
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possession, or valley of God, one of the encampments of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 21:19), on the confines of Moab. This is identified with the ravine of the Zerka M’ain, the ancient Callirhoe, the hot springs on the east of the Jordan, not far from the Dead Sea. | <urn:uuid:e31889e2-bec4-4f2b-b458-5b7a54e702cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://definithing.com/define-dictionary/nagyvarad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00335-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.727926 | 304 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Distracting Effects of Auditory Warnings on Experienced Drivers
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A range of In-Vehicle Information Systems are currently developed and implemented in trucks to warn drivers about road dangers and vehicle failures. Systems often make use of conventional repetitive auditory warnings to catch attention. In a critical driving situation it might be tempting to use signals that express very high levels of urgency. However, previous studies have shown that more urgent alerts can have a negative impact on the listeners’ affective state. A simulator experiment was conducted to examine how urgent warnings could impact the affective state of experienced truck drivers, and their response performance to an unpredictable situation. As predicted, the more urgent warning was rated more annoying and startling. The drivers who received an urgent warning braked significantly harder to the unpredictable event (a bus pulling out in front of the truck). The drivers also tended to brake later after the urgent warning, but no significant effect on response time or time to collision was found. A concluding recommendation for future research is to investigate distracting effects of urgent auditory warnings on less experienced drivers. | <urn:uuid:b5dfa7d1-9779-4f86-8272-f393b0e7094a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/49879 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947338 | 220 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Recently Medscape.com reported that research confirmed the fact that, "Sleep disorders, particularly insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), are common in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease." If you are a Chronic Kidney Disease patient, this likely comes as no surprise as you know firsthand how difficult it is to get a good night's rest, right?
Still this is not a problem to take lightly as sleep loss has been closely tied with Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Obesity, causing or worsening of Diabetes, severe headaches, chronic pain, depression, and even early death in some patients according to the University of Warwick. While the solutions to correct sleep disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease patients are less than obvious, your diet may offer some relief.
EGGS: Jihan Thompson of The Oprah Magazine noted that eggs play a key role in regulating and assisting your nighttime sleep as well as "daytime wakefulness." DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. recommended that Chronic Kidney Disease patients enjoy 2 powdered, fresh or pasteurized egg whites (7 grams protein, 110 mg sodium, 108 mg potassium, and 10 mg phosphorus) because they have less phosphorus than other protein sources such as egg yolk or meats.
Try eggs in an omelet or egg white sandwich, add pasteurized egg whites to smoothies or shakes, make deviled egg snacks, or add whites of hard-boiled eggs to tuna salad or garden salad for extra protein.
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JASMINE RICE: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that individuals who ate Jasmine Rice in their meals fell asleep "significantly faster at bedtime." How does that sound? Jasmine Rice is considered a High Glycemic Index food which is better for Diabetics and Chronic Kidney Disease patients than Lower Glycemic Index alternative carbohydrates.
Recommended Reading: Steaming Egg Fried Rice: Made Simple and Delicious
CHERRY JUICE: DaVita has noted research highlighting the fact that cherries have been shown to cut swelling and protect against heart complications in Chronic Kidney Disease patients who consume them daily. One 1/2 cup serving of fresh sweet cherries include 0 mg sodium, 160 mg potassium, and 15 mg phosphorus. Researchers from Louisiana State University found that drinking Montmorency tart cherry juice twice a day also improved sleep among patients by approximately 90 minutes each night.
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Yes, these slight changes to your diet could have a drastic impact on the lives of those with Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes. Do not forget to Like KidneyBuzz.com on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter, and most importantly visit the KidneyBuzz.com website daily for the most Breaking News & Information about how Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetics can better manage their lives.
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The fragments of the rice grains are known as broken rice. The rice grains become broken or fragment during the process of drying or at times in the field. This can also break during transport or milling. There are plenty of uses of these broken rice. Mithran Export based in Tamil Nadu provides you with the best quality products at an affordable price. We are known as the best-broken rice exporter from India.
Like the long-grained rice, the broken rice also has all the nutrients and benefits. Some uses of broken rice are as follows.
Milling Of Broken Rice
The broken rice which comes from a rice huller is brown whole grains and the broken rice which comes from a grist mill is white. On milling the Asian rice or the paddy rice 16% broken rice, 50% whole rice, 20% husk and 14% bran and meal are produced.
Because of the dissimilarity of the grains size and shape, the broken rice has a diverse and softer texture compared to the unbroken rice. This can easily absorb the flavours. This takes less cooking time and it also consumes less fuel and used for making rice congees and porridges which take longer time to cook. The broken rice is less expensive and is commonly consumed by people all around the world.
The small broken rice is used by brewers for manufacturing beer. This is used by the pet food industry. This is also used for feeding livestock and aquaculture. Broken rice is used to make starch which is used as laundry starch or in foods or cosmetic and textile manufacture.
The broken rice of our company is used widely by people for many purposes. These have amazing benefits and will help you stay fit and healthy. These have a high amount of fibre in it which makes bowel movement better and relieves from constipation. Also, it has essential minerals and is easy to digest.
For more details call us and get answers to all your answers. To buy broken rice from us, order online and get our products delivered at your doorstep. | <urn:uuid:ebbcb7cb-f372-4de9-ac60-ed1843520519> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mithranexports.com/broken-rice.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.950028 | 522 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Education is the only key to success, which is why every young aspirant is suggested that he/she completes education first. If it hadn’t been for bright minds, everyone would have stayed in dark ages. There are many things that a young graduate should do after completing the bachelor’s program. However, it is important to be mindful about everything that should be done. Most fresh graduates intend to continue their studies after completing their bachelor’s program. However, it is better to go in chronological order so that one can acquire skills and experience with time passing by.
There’s no harm in taking a few months gap for one’s interests. During the bachelor’s program, few students get an opportunity to travel and do what they want to. They say that academic years deprive one of having a cosmopolitan experience of life. However, that is not true at all. Education liberates the mind; it doesn’t close the gates to freedom. So it is important to put the brain at rest for some time and enjoy life. One can pursue anything that he/she likes, such as traveling, international trips, photography, culinary work, etc.
An internship program is the first thing that every fresh graduate must enroll in. Owing to the economic situation of the world, it is very important for young aspirants to gain some experience so that they can enter the job market easily. Internship programs are very important because they give a chance to young people to explore the commercial market and acquire important skills that the market needs. A traditional internship program lasts for about 6 weeks, whereas some top-notch companies offer internship opportunities that might last for around 6 months even.
The priority should be to consider a good job opportunity; however, if that is not available, there’s no harm in setting up your own business. With much advancement in technology and creativity, there are thousands of ideas for one to choose from. Digital marketing is a very good business idea which a lot of young people are currently working on around the globe. Most young people who graduate in the computer-related field can easily start their own business by working with other batch mates.
Education is always going to help in the future. However, a bachelors program should never be regarded as the end of the academic career. With tough competition in the market and a lot of educational courses being offered, it becomes imperative for young people to pursue a master’s degree after the completion of a bachelors program. Most affordable online MBA programs are very flexible in nature and students can even study online without having to travel to the university.
It is important to be confident with the choice that one makes. Not many people get an opportunity to complete their education, so it is important to reap the maximum possible benefit out of it. | <urn:uuid:c3600eba-4695-4b6a-9c51-a6620f6e55e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://icrowdnewswire.com/2019/08/20/4-things-to-do-after-completing-bachelors-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.970379 | 583 | 2.328125 | 2 |
A summer camp lesson in judging others stands test of time
The older I get the more I think about my youth.
Things I should have done differently.
Things I should have said. Or not said.
Girls I should have kissed. Or not kissed.
Opportunities I missed. Or just screwed up.
Being bull-headed. When I should have been flexible.
Times I should have spent with my children. Instead of working.
Public stands I should have taken against prejudice, injustice and wrongs. Instead of clinging to my convenient silence.
Apologies I should make. But, even at my age, I am not strong enough to approach these long-ago matters.
You know. All those times we wish we could go back and do some things again. This time the right way.
When I was a little boy, kindergarten little, I went to a local day camp during the summer. I would attend in the mornings four days a week and all day on Thursdays.
Day camp was fun. Except I did not like putting on my bathing suit. Because the boys had a tent on the lawn where we would have to change. The tent’s flap was tied back to make it easy to enter. I was scared that one of the girls might run by and see me without my pants on. That would be really awful.
We swam in an outdoor pool. Although tiny now, it was huge to me then. I learned to put my face in the water. To kick and make splashes. To jump into the deep end that today would not come up to my waist.
We went on hikes. To the back of the yard.
There was a garden. It had a few vegetables, onions, tomatoes, and maybe a raspberry bush or two. Someone else took care of it. We were able to see how things grow.
There was a small woods. It was dark. I thought there were bears and maybe tigers. I was afraid to go into it.
We played on the jungle gym and the swings and the see-saw.
I loved day camp.
And I liked this little blond girl. Of course, no one knew it except me. I was like Charlie Brown who liked this little red-haired girl. It was my secret. I did not tell anyone including my grandmother to whom I told almost everything.
I wanted to play with this little blond girl, but she was not in my group, because she was a girl and my group was all boys. So all I could do was hope to see her as we played. If she had talked to me, I probably would have been tongue-tied anyway. You may recall how you were as a child.
Then one Thursday the whistle blew to tell us it was time to leave for the day. I found my towel and shoes and socks. And I started to walk from the pool to the house where I would be picked up to be taken home.
And, all of a sudden, the little blond girl walked up beside me.
“Do you like me?”
Well, yeah. I remember being really embarrassed. This was the first time I had ever talked with her. She was pretty. She had really long blond hair. She was smiling. And she could talk. To me.
“I was in the garden. And I ate some onions.”
So now we are walking side by side. This little blond girl and me. I don’t recall, but I was probably smiling too. I do recall being very nervous and tripping over my feet.
After a few steps more she grabbed my arm, pulled me closer to her, and blew her onion breath in my face.
She then let go of my arm, started laughing and asked, “Do you still like me now?”
I mumbled “yes, I guess so.” But inside I wasn’t so sure.
She ran ahead of me.
I did not understand.
The next day, I saw the little blond girl. She wasn’t as pretty as she seemed before. Her hair was wet. And I did not think she was very nice anymore.
It took a while. I worried about how she knew that I liked her. Or maybe she just made it up. Or why she would blow her onion breath into my face. Or what I had done to make her want to do such a thing. I thought I had done something bad.
This incident has stuck with me for nearly 70 years. Maybe because it eventually illuminated something within myself and my relationship with others.
Over the years I learned to judge others not by how they look or how I think they might act. Rather I learned to judge others on what they do. Their kindness toward others, not their use or abuse of those around them.
I also learned that onion breath does not make for a romantic relationship at any age.
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Born of a Congolese commitment to the protection of Virunga National Park, the Virunga Alliance aims to foster peace and prosperity through the responsible economic development of natural resources for four million people who live within a day’s walk of the park’s borders.
A minimum of 30% of the park’s revenues is invested in community development projects. These projects are defined by the community and are based on the principle of free and informed consultation with civil society groups.
Virunga Alliance is the intersection of civil society, private sector and state institutions working together toward sustainable development goals in eastern Congo. Virunga Alliance will deliver large-scale opportunities to tens of thousands of Congolese men and women who are ready to rebuild the region and redefine the country’s future.
We propose a three-phase approach and identify four main sectors for development, including Energy, Tourism, Agro-Industry, Sustainable Fisheries, and Infrastructure.
The Economic Development Plan was conceived in three phases:
The predictions put forth here are based on a combination of experience accumulated during Phase One and independent feasibility studies commissioned by Virunga from reputable independent consulting firms.
|Phase 1||Butahu/Mutwanga||0.4 MW||5,000|
|Phase 3||Various sites||80 MW||840,000|
|Production (tons/yr)||Commercial Value||Employment (direct | indirect)|
|Phase 1||10,000 t||37 M USD||9,000 | 300|
|Phase 2||11,000 t||40 M USD||6,000 | 4,000|
|Phase 3||16,000 t||64 M USD||3,000 | 10,000|
|River/population center||Power||Jobs created in Agro-Industry|
|Phase 1||Butahu/Mutwanga||0.4 MW||250|
|Phase 2||Volcano/Lubero||1 MW||500|
|Phase 3||Various sites||80 MW||60,000|
|Visitors per year||Revenue per year||Annual investment in community programs||Beds available||Employment (estimated direct | indirect)|
|Phase 1||3,300||0.8 M USD||0.7 M USD||38||100 | 400|
|Phase 2||3,610||0.9 M USD||0.2 M USD||50||120 | 500|
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Strengthening Social Infrastructure
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No question about it, here in the United States, people need our help.
Adults are scared.
Kids are hungry.
Families are hurting.
So it’s easy—even justifiable—to think we should limit our concern and our resources to the needs right here in the U.S. Some might even argue it’s the spiritual thing to “help the people at home.” So should we help other countries when our own needs help?
It’s a good question. Logically, it makes sense. Biblically, however, the answer is worth closer consideration.
AN URGENT PROBLEM
Right now, at least 36 countries around the world are facing famines of biblical proportion. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), at the end of 2019, 135 million people were living with acute hunger, but with many countries around the world still experiencing quarantine or the effects of quarantine, as many as 265 million are now struggling to find food.
Countries without sufficient infrastructure to handle crises are crumbing under the weight of the global pandemic. Think of the items that have been hard (or harder) for you to get in recent days: toilet paper, milk, diapers. If we’re struggling to get what we need here in the land of plenty, how are people in countries like Haiti—the poorest country in the Americas—expected to get what they need?
Our own Lifesong teammates and ministry partners around the world have told us that hunger will likely kill a lot more people than coronavirus ever will.
A CHRISTLIKE SOLUTION
When we trusted Christ for salvation, we accepted a citizenship far bigger than anything national—we became part of the family of God.
While we love our country and what God has provided, we are Christian citizens—always in that order—meaning our first and highest obligation is to God and what He cares about.
And what does God care about?
David Platt recently answered the question this way:
Our God loves the world, and we want our hearts to be a reflection of His heart. So yes, we focus on love for each other. Yes, we focus on love for our city. And yes, we focus on love for the world.
We should care about things here at home, but we don’t just care about the needs at home. We should focus on the needs of the nations. And right now, orphans and vulnerable children around the world have big needs. They need our help.
Even as the worst parts of this pandemic lessen here in the U.S., vulnerable children and families around the world will continue to suffer the aftershocks for weeks, months, and even years.
The effects of this pandemic are far from over for those who need our help the most.
A SIMPLE ANSWER
So why do we help people around the world when we need help here at home?
We can try to answer this question using flawless logic and airtight arguments, but in the end, it boils down to simply knowing and mirroring the heart of God. We love the world because God loves the world, and so we join God where He is already working.
And since we know without a shadow of a doubt that God’s heart is for all people, we can be confident that He will see our efforts and be pleased to multiply them.
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According to experts, being able to understand people in so many different ways showcases social intelligence. Not a lot of people are actually aware that they could improve their social intelligence. In fact, most people are not even aware that there is such a thing. If you are looking into how you can improve yours, you can always rely on a few things.
Keep in mind that your social intelligence increases as you grow older, it is not something that you are born with. However, your ability to socialize is something that you have always had. Communicate well and you will be able to have the necessary amount of social intelligence you need. Here is a simple guide that will surely help you out.
Social Intelligence: Be Open-Minded
When it comes to socializing, you might want to keep your mind open. This is something that not a lot of people are doing nowadays. Being able to have an open mind when you are communicating with others is absolutely necessary. That is because it will prevent you to make certain judgments when it comes to other people’s statements and actions.
Keep in mind that it is ideal to not judge people based on anything. Socializing will give you an opportunity to get to know different types of personalities and learn to adjust and accept them. People who have impressive social intelligence never judge a book by its cover.
Social Intelligence: Learn To Listen Effectively
It is also necessary to be able to listen effectively at all times. A good conversation can only work if you and the person you are talking to knows how to listen. Some people might simply hear what you say, but they hear it and immediately think of a reply. This is something that is so usual yet so ineffective.
Your point of view may be necessary but you got to learn how to listen to others as well. Listening means you are paying attention to their words as well as the entire content of their statement. You have to understand it fully to be able to give a suitable reply.
It is a face that everyone is simply different. You have different views and beliefs and that is perfectly understandable. Just be sure that you know how to respect other people’s views and beliefs as well. This is very common when it comes to meeting people from different cultural backgrounds.
One of the biggest reasons why there are misunderstandings between nations nowadays is that they do not respect each other. You have to have social intelligence in order for you to practice this kind of respect towards people.
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Logistics Control is a vital expertise that need considering by all those included in any kind of company. It is additionally included in several other works and industries for example public and military services market sectors. It handles the management of all content method of travel throughout the logistical surroundings. This can include procurement, motion and safe-keeping of even, items and sections finished supply (along with the related data circulate). The total course of action might be constantly closely watched by supervisors to make sure highest possible productiveness and effectiveness. This also consists of developing and utilizing approaches for virtually any logistical situation to lessen threats and maximize output.
For most companies, Logistics Operations takes care of the full everyday life routine of merchandise or products and solutions that need to be taken and stored. Products and solutions storage area and method of travel includes the motion of items from the output vegetation towards the factory, all the way through to the point just where they can be finally transfered to end users. Any given stockroom should really be competent at storing a certain amount of inventory dependant upon the volume of production. But how does logistics managing establish the degree of stock?
For everyone included in logistics control, supply is described as the overall degree of a given fantastic remaining located at any given point in the supply chain management method. There may be a lot more that needs to be located if there are many products getting manufactured. Inventory at virtually any point in the availability sequence can refer to equally long lasting and short-term resources just like fresh products and complete products and solutions. Furthermore, it might consider any ‘supply chain’ that is available. Which means the supply chain consists of vendors, brokerages, suppliers and producers fall shippers, exporters and importers. The supply chain could also be split up into two conditions, utilized interchangeably, which are usually supply operations source and programs chain control systems.
A different time period popular in the area of logistics administration and employed interchangeably is warehousing. Warehousing refers to the control over the physiological location of things or organic supplies and the service themselves. Though it may be vital for many of these organizations to satisfy their logistical requirements, warehousing is predominantly an fiscal function instead of a social one. It defines how businesses store their goods, and exactly how they relocate people goods coming from the factory ground on the stockroom ground, from delivery canisters to van stations on the road, and eventually to purchaser regions.
As a way to see the romance involving these terminology, it is first required to appreciate the partnership involving Logistics Managing and Warehousing. Equally are designed to increase the power with the business to provide a premium quality item to its shoppers. In the event of warehousing, this requires a factory that has the best quantity of items which may need storage containers which may be easily accessed using a customer. With regards to Logistics Control, this requires a warehouse that is made in ways to ensure every one of the merchandise needs, and every one of the required transportation demands are included ahead of time.
There are various aspects of Logistics Managing which make it crucial to fully understand all its relevant facts. One such facet will be the stock. With regards to producing, the products relates to the amount of raw resources that are needed to manufacture a product. In the case of Logistics Administration, it relates to the cost-effective safe-keeping of such unprocessed elements. It might be especially challenging on the face of Logistics Managing.
Regarding companies that have to ship items to final places, poor logistics routines can cost the firm cash and minimize the amount of revenue that could be produced, while the inventory is an essential component of any company. Any time a organization needs to ship its system for the final vacation spot on time, it really is very likely to get more prospects, boost income, minimizing expenses. A firm that wants to succeed will need to be sure that it uses the top transporting routines attainable, and this will have to keep an eye on the amount which it vessels per 30 days or each quarter.
Effectively mastered logistics procedures can be certain there presently exists no bottlenecks during the supply sequence. From the production market, the place there are thousands of tiny merchandise that have to be packed and sent away, any issues may lead to great expenditure and misplaced sales. During the syndication chain, exactly where items are kept and handed out by various different teams, whatever goes wrong while using supply of things could mean big hassle. And also in the list segment, difficulties with the supply chain can result in long setbacks in acquiring products and solutions in stores. But even in such cases, proper logistics operations can stay clear of slow downs by treating bottlenecks. If your company would like to increase its profits by averting high-priced errors, it has to center on increasing logistics steps and on enhancing the way it coordinates together with other portions of the supply chain managing technique.
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On June 15, 2013, as Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and FIFA President Joseph Blatter were introduced to officially open the Confederations Cup soccer tournament, the Mané Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia broke out into a chorus of loud, disapproving boos.
The surprised Blatter admonished the crowd, asking for "respect and fair play" before handing the microphone to Rousseff.
In the days leading up to the tournament, "respect and fair play" are exactly what Brazilians had taken to the streets to demand from their government. The jeers in the stadium were a reflection of the protests that had erupted across the country and that would peak at more than 2 million protestors marching across cities on June 20. Their demand was simple – rather than soccer stadiums, the government should build schools and hospitals and provide the public transportation Brazil so desperately needs.
Respect and fair play are what an emerging, empowered, and digitally connected Latin American middle class is demanding across the region. And the likelihood is that they are demanding both from your company, your brand, or, if you work in an agency, your clients.
Thanks to economic stability and growth over the past 15 years, more than 50 million Latin Americans have left poverty and joined the lower middle class. Today, the region has roughly the same number of poor and middle-class residents as defined by the World Bank. For societies and political systems that historically have been structured to cater primarily to the elite and poor, the rapid growth of a sizable middle class is generating new, and generally healthy, pressures. As a result, the social contract in Latin America is being questioned and re-written.
Who is this middle class? According to the World Bank, they are still dependent on public services, not rich enough to opt out of public education, healthcare, or transportation. They have seen relatively strong improvement in their quality of life within a generation, and their expectations are that improvements will continue for them and their children. The better off are accessing credit for the first time. Cheaper mobile connectivity has put the Internet and social networks in their hands.
Perhaps most importantly, no longer poor, they want to be treated fairly – by the government that provides them with services or the company whose products they purchase. For example, young Brazilians from this emerging middle class have used social networks to organize flash mobs inside shopping malls, often upscale ones that cater to the wealthy. These "rolezinhos" have been a unique combination of social activism, teenage rebellion, and challenge to Brazil’s social norms with a unique message: "I may not look like it, but I just may be your next customer. Deal with it."
But it’s not just Brazil. In 2011, Chile’s university students brought the country to a standstill. Dissatisfaction with the increasing price of higher education and the debt middle class families were taking on to send their children to college ignited strikes and university shutdowns. Again, social media was a critical element in the organization of the student movement. By late 2013, Michelle Bachelet was elected president for her second, non-consecutive term, promising free universal higher education for all Chileans.
In Peru and Colombia, extractive industries have faced pressure from local communities, often indigenous ones, demanding a say in if, how, and when mining, oil, and gas projects move forward. These are classic quality-of-life issues that countries experience as a greater number of their citizens want a bigger voice for themselves and accountability from institutions.
This "renegotiated" social contract has significant implications for companies. Traditionally in Latin America, consensus on major regulatory and other issues was built primarily with elites – government, business, and media. The rest of society was expected to follow. No more. Today, engaging a broad set of stakeholders early, building win-win relationships, empowering a management team that understands the value of building consensus, and effectively executing the right communications strategy can often be the difference between business success and failure.
The new Latin American middle class is rewriting the rules – formal and informal – that govern how regional societies operate. And just like the referees supervising games inside the stadiums across Brazil this month, they will issues red cards to companies and governments that don’t respect them.
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Texas District Implements Software To Help Students with College Planning and Applications
Plano Independent School District (PISD) in Texas has implemented a software suite to help school counselors and students select courses to match graduation and postsecondary goals, submit supporting documents with college applications, and track alumni.
The district adopted the Naviance college and career readiness platform from Hobsons, including the Naviance Course Planner, Naviance eDocs, and Naviance Alumni Tracker.
Naviance Course Planner lets students design their own multi-year course plans to ensure they will meet graduation requirements. Working with school counselors, students aspiring to specific college or university programs can also use the application to ensure their high school coursework will provide them with the necessary prerequisites for their postsecondary program of choice.
Naviance eDocs assists with the college application process by securely sending student application forms, recommendations, transcripts, and secondary school profiles electronically to any of its participating colleges and universities, of which there are more than 1,800. The district will use the tool to reduce the time and cost associated with the college application process.
Naviance Alumni Tracker works with the National Student Clearinghouse to follow high school graduates and track their progress from college enrollment through degree completion. According to Hobsons, Plano will use Alumni Tracker to identify areas for improvement to help future generations of Plano students prepare for college.
“The success of our school district is inextricably linked to the success of our graduates,” said Patty Meyer, associate superintendent for campus services at Plano ISD, in a prepared statement. “Our administrative team and school board are thrilled to acquire a resource that will help students along the path to college and career readiness, while helping us track their progress. We look forward to further assessing and validating Plano ISD’s benchmarks for our students and graduates.”
Plano Independent School District is located 20 miles north of Dallas. The district serves more than 55,000 students from prekindergarten through grade 12 and employs nearly 6,500 teachers, administrators, and support staff.
Further information about the Naviance college and career readiness platform can be found on Hobson's site.
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Blepharitis is inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, possibly with thickening scales, crusts, shallow ulcers, or redness and swelling at the edges of the eyelids.
The inflammation is caused by certain infections, allergic reactions, and some skin conditions.
The eyelids become irritated, red, and swollen and may burn and itch.
Usually the diagnosis is based on symptoms and the appearance of the eyelids.
Any underlying disorders are treated, and sometimes antibiotic ointments or pills, artificial tears, or a combination is given.
Disorders that may cause blepharitis include bacterial (typically staphylococcal) infection of the eyelids or the ducts of the deeper glands that open at the edges of the eyelids, certain viral infections (usually herpes simplex), and allergic reactions (to pollens or sometimes to eye drops). Skin conditions such as seborrheic dermatitis (see Seborrheic Dermatitis) and rosacea (see Rosacea) affect the face including the eyelids, leading to inflammation and blepharitis. Another cause is inflamed, blocked oil glands at the edge of the eyelids (called meibomian gland dysfunction), which can be caused by rosacea. Eye drops can trigger allergic reactions that cause blepharitis (called contact sensitivity allergic blepharitis). Sometimes the inflammation has no known cause.
Blepharitis may cause the feeling that something is in the eye. The eyes and eyelids may itch and burn, and the edges of the eyelids may become red. The eyes may become watery and sensitive to bright light.
In some types of blepharitis, such as those caused by bacterial infections, the eyelids may swell, and some of the eyelashes may turn white or even fall out. Sometimes, small abscesses containing pus (pustules) develop in the sacs at the base of the eyelashes and eventually form shallow ulcers (ulcerative blepharitis). A crust may form and stick tenaciously to the edges of the eyelids. When the crust is removed, the surface may bleed. During sleep, secretions dry and make the eyelids stick together.
Most types of blepharitis tends to recur and stubbornly resist treatment. Blepharitis is inconvenient and unattractive but usually does not damage the cornea or result in loss of vision. Occasionally, ulcerative blepharitis can result in a loss of the eyelashes, scarring of the eyelid margins, and, rarely, even inflammation affecting the cornea.
Diagnosis is usually based on the symptoms and the appearance of the eyelids. A doctor may use a slit lamp (see Figure: What Is a Slit Lamp?) to examine the eyelids more closely. Occasionally, a sample of material is taken from the edges of the eyelids and is cultured to identify the type of bacteria causing the infection and determine how sensitive it is to commonly used antibiotics.
The problem causing the blepharitis is treated when possible. For example, an eye drop that seems to be causing allergic contact sensitivity blepharitis can be stopped.
For blepharitis caused by seborrheic dermatitis, treatment usually includes keeping the eyelids clean by gently scrubbing the edges of the eyelids twice a day with a wash cloth or cotton swab dipped in a dilute solution of baby shampoo (2 or 3 drops in ½ cup of warm water). When seborrheic dermatitis is the cause, the face and scalp must be treated as well (see Overview of Dermatitis).
For meibomian gland dysfunction, warm compresses may help the oil to flow from the meibomian oil glands and relieve inflammation, easing the itching and burning. Rosacea that causes meibomian gland dysfunction should also be treated (see Rosacea : Treatment).
To treat ulcerative blepharitis caused by bacteria, a doctor may prescribe an antibiotic ointment, such as bacitracin plus polymyxin B, gentamicin, erythromycin, or sulfacetamide, or an antibiotic taken by mouth (such as doxycycline).
Viral blepharitis is treated with antiviral pills (such as valacyclovir) that are effective against herpes simplex, which is the usual cause.
Certain treatments can help relieve symptoms such as irritation. Artificial tears used during the day and lubricating ointments applied at night may help. Symptoms can also be relieved with wet compresses, typically cool for allergic or contact sensitivity blepharitis and warm for all other causes of blepharitis.
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Guerrilla Productivity: Gamification and Design-Related Touch Interfaces
Schiller, Peter Andrew
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In recent years, applications for touch screen devices have experienced tremendous growth and distribution. While some of the most widely-adopted applications offer game-based drawing experiences, tools designed specifically for digital drawing and sketching have experienced only modest popularity. Drawing games (and "gamified" experiences) have the ability to captivate users in ways that productivity-focused applications and tools cannot. This thesis describes a history of touch interfaces for designers, including a more thorough analysis of a few contemporary examples. It then identifies strengths and weaknesses in current drawing applications, core principles to abide by when creating new applications, as well as unfulfilled market opportunities. Ultimately, these findings inform the development of a prototype application that serves to demonstrate how principles of gamification and play might be leveraged for a sort of guerrilla productivity -- that is, user experiences that possess dual-citizenship within the realms of work and play.
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Jean Ingelow follows from a different point of view :
Where is our leisure ? Give us rest.
Inherited from Paradise. These two verses represent the closing lines of Tennyson's last and most perfect poem :Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark !
When I embark ;
The flood may bear me lar,
When I have crost the bar.
O earth, our earth, shall time not make us free ?
We sometimes meet with verses from the German whose calmness and love of Nature make them a model for more impetuous races of men, as in these by Eichendorf, which have been translated : O Silence deep and strange !
The earth doth yet in quiet slumber lie : No stir of life, save on yon woodland range
The tall trees bow as if their Lord passed by.
I have no memory of grief and care ;
I am ashamed in this calm morning air. Walt Whitman, whose flashes of inspiration are never more impressive than when he looks toward the barrier between life and death, gives us the following :
At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house, From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,
Let me be wafted !
Let me glide noiselessly forth ; With the key of softness unlock the locks — with a whisper
Set ope the doors, 0 Soul,
may be sure that Professor Longfellow, among the simpler poems of his earlier years, did not fail to preserve such an invocation as this :
And these lines, though different in structure, belong to life, at its very last, as seen through Browning :Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be. The last of life, for which the first was made ; Our times are in His hand Who saith, “ A whole I planned, Youth shows but half ; trust God : see all, nor be
These two verses are from the never-tobe-forgotten poem by Henry Vaughan, perhaps the most beautiful of all spiritual poems. It is given with its quaint spelling :
They are all gone into the world of light !
And I alone sit lingring here ! Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear,
I see them walking in an Air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days ;
Meer glimering and decays.
All souls of men in one man's soul unite.
O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before !
And they complain no more.
Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed-for, the most fair,
The best-beloved Night ! Emerson utters his whole lesson in eight lines ; and we, as his fellow-countrymen, may well refresh our souls with them :
As the bird trims her to the gale,
I trim myself to the storm of time ;
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime :
Right onward drive unharmed ;
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Boston Transcript.
O sea whereon men labor, O great sea That heaven
one with, shall things be ?
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be well to say that a scenario is a synopsisof a play. It gives the characters, a description of the acts, a few bits of the dialogue and some of the action, not necessarily all. It unfolds 'the plot and the development of the characters. The World makes these suggestions to competitors.:
" It should be remembered that the play sought is one which will fit the requirements of a woman star whose power of portrayal includes both comedy and strong emotion.
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“ The introduction of characters with visible affictions, such as cripples, deformed persons, victims of mental weakness, and the like, may call up memories to some in the audience of some one near and dear to them similarly afflicted, or may otherwise work harm. Such characters are dangerous to the success of any play, and should be avoided.
“In writing the scenario, it is well to divide the story into acts. Three or four acts should suffice to set forth almost any play.”
Autograph dealers and collectors of rare manuscripts agree that the tendency to use the typewriter is to increase gradually, but surely, the value of autographs. Those who are interested say that it is becoming difficult to find any but typewritten letters of eminent men of this era, especially those in public office. The same is true of manuscripts. Perhaps this will have a tendency to console. writers who cannot afford a typewriter, and who have to get out their manuscripts in the old-fashioned way by hand.
Of course, Will Irwin takes it for granted that the public will understand that his new book, " Confessions of a Con Man," is not an autobiography.
In view of the New York World's offer of prizes for the best scenarios of plays, it may
The complaint is often made by disappointed writers that editors do not know what they want, and it may be true, but most of them know what they don't want, without an instant's hesitation.
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woman along the line of mental prophylactics and therapeutics, and is doing something to prove her position. A dainty little story of hers, called “Sir Knight,” which the Putnams published some years ago, earned for her immediately a place ( which for some reason she refused ) in the World's Library of Best Literature. During the coming months the Delineator, Harper's Bazar, and other magazines will publish articles by Mrs. Duryea.
W. H. H.
Anna Sturges Duryea, whose poem, "Seed-Time and Harvest,” was printed in Harper's Bazar for May, is also the author of two articles, “Making Friends of One's Nerves” and “The New-Found Realm of the Sub-conscious," which appeared in the June numbers of the Delineator and the Designer. These articles are the outcome of Mrs. Duryea's interest in psychological problems. Though she has published much fiction and verse, she has been for many years a student and a teacher of psychology, with special interest in the problems of the sub-conscious. Mrs. Duryea has taught psychology in Washington and in New York, and on going to Boston for a winter took natural interest in the psychotherapeutic work being done at Emmanuel church. She spends much of her time writing and speaking, and Dr. Worcester has cordially authorized her to speak on the work known as the Emmanuel Movement. Mrs. Duryea believes that there is very much help for the average nervous American
Frances Pusey Gooch, whose novelette, “ His Child's Godmother," was published in the Smart Set for May, is the wife of Robert E. Gooch, of Cleveland, O. She is a Kentucky woman, and a graduate of a Southern college. She decided upon a literary career at the age of twelve, and did juvenile contributions, editorial work on her college paper, short stories, and
novel, “Tangled Lives,” under various pen-names during her girlhood. Miss Mordeck's Father,” published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, and “The Burden of Mystery,” run serially in a Southern magazine, were the first efforts under her own name, and both deal with subjects — double consciousness and hypnotism — which she now admits. her youth alone gave her courage to handle. Her literary career got side-tracked in a pleasant rush of domestic, social, and club. duties. A progressive, rather than “advanced,” club women, she has done work in the literary departments of federated and unfederated clubs, in the several large cities her husband's business has taken them to, that has won for her the reputation of possessing an intellectuality above the average. The interrupted ambition, resumed diversion, has been stimulated by the favor with which her clever and original handling of an
old theme in “ His Child's Godmother” has been received, and Mrs. Gooch is at work more earnestly and systematically than ever before.
Alta Brunt Sembower, author of the story, “The Sheltering of Cecilia,” which Harper's Magazine published in its May number, is a resident of Bloomington, Ind., the seat of
Indiana University. She is a graduate of the university, and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Her first stories were written while she was in college, and were published in class periodicals, although she never attempted the “college story." Her first success in “ disposing of” manuscripts was with Harper & Brothers, who accepted her first manuscript, but her first published story appeared in Collier's Weekly. In Collier's short-story contest of 1905, two of Mrs. Sembower's stories were accepted. Since that time she has had stories published in Harper's Weekly, the Delineator, and Harper's Magazine. She is now at work upon a novel, which she hopes to complete within a year.
I hear good accounts of Hardy's health. Occasionally he comes to London for a short visit, but never with any flourish. Fanfares are left for our Hall Caines and their kind. The number of literary men who have even
seen Hardy is small. I have heard of his attending the academy banquet, he once was guest at a club dinner, on the memorable occasion when the Omar Khayam Club entertained Meredith at Dorking Hardy spoke, and I can testify that once he received the Whitefriars Club at Dorchester. But as a rule the man is more than English in his habit of reserve. By the way, is it generally known that his first book was called “The Poor Man and the Lady” ? Meredith read it in manuscript, recognized its power, recommended it for publication, but privately advised Hardy not to begin his career with a book which, because of its revolutionary theories, might alienate the public. Whereupon Hardy withdrew the manuscript and wrote " Desperate Remedies." He is still busy on his great worlddrama, “ The Dynasts." He finished his
a novelist with “ Jude the Obscure - the one book of his which he expects to live ! - London Letter ( June 7), in Chicago Evening Post.
Meredith. George Meredith's kindness to young authors is illustrated by the following letter written by the veteran novelist to a younger brother of the craft evidently troubled by the attitude of reviewers :
My practice with regard to reviews is to look for none and to read all that may come in my way. It is like expecting a windy day in our climate when we go out of doors and face the air ; an author must master sensitiveness when he publishes. He knows what he intended, and should be able to estimate the degree of his attainments. Criticism will then brace him. We have not much of it, and there will be in. difference to wear through, and sometimes brutality to encounter. Tell yourself that such is our climate. I began sensitively, but soon got braced. Here and there a hostile review is instructive if only that it throws us back on the consciousness of our latent strength.
Clement Shorter devotes a page of the Sphere to George Meredith's literary career. He waited long for the appreciation of his readers, “making so little money by his books that
content until some
Lloyd Roberts, whose poem, "The Saddest Time o' Year," was printed in Appleton's Magazine for May, is one of the younger members of that literary clan — the Robertses -- which has six active members, not including Bliss Carman, the cousin, the others being Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Carman Roberts (associate editor of the Literary Digest ), Theodore Roberts ( author of four novels published by L. C. Page & Co.), Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, and Douglas R. Roberts (son of Charles G. D. Roberts and brother of Lloyd, whose verse has appeared once or twice in Appleton's ). Six years ago Mr. Roberts came from Canada to become the assistant editor of Outing, under Caspar Whitney. After three years he gave up this position and made a two-months' trip to Europe. Returning to New York, he was married within a year, and he now lives at Port Ewen-on-Hudson, where, as he says, he divides his hours between his pen and his hoe. He hopes to have a volume of verse and a first novel published in the fall. | <urn:uuid:9aaa2f60-b4e9-4008-b859-da60784b51cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.lv/books?pg=PA106&vq=expression&dq=editions:ISBN0123704901&lr=&id=K-8S-uzcSu4C&hl=lv&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.968279 | 3,244 | 1.96875 | 2 |
- 1 What was the purpose of myths in ancient Greece?
- 2 What is ancient myth?
- 3 What do Greek myths include?
- 4 What are the 4 key concepts of Greek myths?
- 5 What did ancient Greeks look like?
- 6 How were the Greek gods created?
- 7 Who killed Zeus?
- 8 Who is the strongest Greek god?
- 9 What is the oldest creation story?
- 10 Who is God of Death in Greek?
- 11 Who is the Greek king of gods?
- 12 What are the 4 types of myths?
- 13 What is Zeus the god of?
- 14 Who are the 12 Greek gods and goddesses?
What was the purpose of myths in ancient Greece?
Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history. They used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one’s leaders from a mythological hero or a god.
What is ancient myth?
Myths are stories that are based on tradition. But myths are more than mere stories and they serve a more profound purpose in ancient and modern cultures. Myths are sacred tales that explain the world and man’s experience. Myths are as relevant to us today as they were to the ancients.
What do Greek myths include?
Greek myth takes many forms, from religious myths of origin to folktales and legends of heroes. Other major figures of Greek myth include the heroes Odysseus, Orpheus, and Heracles; the Titans; and the nine Muses.
What are the 4 key concepts of Greek myths?
According to Hesiod, four primary divine beings first came into existence: the Gap (Chaos), Earth (Gaea), the Abyss (Tartarus), and Love (Eros).
What did ancient Greeks look like?
Myth has it that the ancient Greeks were blonds and had blue eyes and while some were never the norm. Evidence from ancient Greek bodies shows the Alpine and Mediterranean types were the most common, as do Greek writings. Also in Greek artwork, they had more dark hair and eyes.
How were the Greek gods created?
The Greeks created gods in the image of humans; that is, their gods had many human qualities even though they were gods. In addition to Zeus and Hera, there were many other major and minor gods in the Greek religion. At her birth, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sprang directly from the head of Zeus.
Who killed Zeus?
No one killed Zeus as Zeus is a greek god and Gods are immortal. So it is impossible to kill a God but there significance can be destroyed by destroying the element from which they are connected to.. For eg Zeus’s significance is thunder or lightning..
Who is the strongest Greek god?
Zeus was the Greek god that both deities and man would call upon for help. Zeus would help the other gods, goddesses, and mortals if they needed help, but would also invoke his wrath upon them if he felt they weren’t worthy of his help. This made Zeus the strongest Greek god in Greek mythology.
What is the oldest creation story?
The earliest record of a Sumerian creation myth, called The Eridu Genesis by historian Thorkild Jacobsen, is found on a single fragmentary tablet excavated in Nippur by the Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania in 1893, and first recognized by Arno Poebel in 1912.
Who is God of Death in Greek?
Thanatos, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the personification of death. Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep.
Who is the Greek king of gods?
Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.
What are the 4 types of myths?
There are four basic theories of myth. Those theories are: the rational myth theory, functional myth theory, structural myth theory, and the psychological myth theory. The rational myth theory states that myths were created to explain natural events and forces.
What is Zeus the god of?
Zeus is the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. As the chief Greek deity, Zeus is considered the ruler, protector, and father of all gods and humans. Zeus is often depicted as an older man with a beard and is represented by symbols such as the lightning bolt and the eagle.
Who are the 12 Greek gods and goddesses?
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. | <urn:uuid:a0b389e7-53b0-4966-bd73-f8577f5b8581> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skiathosfun.com/interesting-about-greece/quick-answer-what-is-myth-in-ancient-greece.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.96703 | 1,027 | 3.140625 | 3 |
The retina is a light-sensitive tissue lining the back of the inner eye, and it contains photoreceptors that capture light images. It then converts them into signals that travel through the optic nerve to the brain to provide us with vision.
The risk for flashes increases with age. Because some people just expect to have poor vision as part of the aging process, they just accept it. But at The Eye Associates, we have the latest technology to give you the best vision possible for your eye and eye conditions. Our well trained and experienced eye doctors will give you a comprehensive dilated eye exam that can detect eye diseases so that if any disease is found, it can be treated as soon as possible.
When the vitreous gel is pulling on the retina, it can cause you to see flashes of light or lightning streaks. Often people will think that they are just seeing a light to the side of their head and not realize that it is actually inside their eye. This can sometimes indicate a serious problem and should be checked out immediately. Take note if the flashing lights begin appearing frequently or are associated with sudden changes in vision. Watch for a “curtain” or “veil” that blocks a portion of your peripheral vision. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, you should contact one of our eye doctors immediately. The sooner the problem is discovered, the better the potential is for preventing vision loss.
Floaters are tiny clumps of liquefied gel found in the vitreous, the jelly‐like substance that fills the inside of the eye. They generally appear as small specks, shadows or even cobwebs‐like images in your line of sight. They randomly move in and out of your field of vision, and can be seen most clearly when looking at a plain background, such as a blue sky or white background.
Floaters can be a normal part of aging, as the vitreous gel tends to naturally liquefy, it can often form clumps or strands. They can be annoying, but they are usually harmless. However, occasionally they are an indication of a more serious condition. If you are experiencing either a sudden increase in the number of floaters or sudden flashes of light, you should see your eye doctor immediately. By dilating your eyes, your eye doctor can evaluate the retina and vitreous. The procedure is painless and non‐invasive, and it is the only way to rule out that a serious, sight‐threatening condition exists.
It is most likely to occur in individuals who have the following risk factors: age, nearsightedness, have had YAG laser surgery, have undergone cataract surgery, and/or have experienced an inflammation inside the eye.
It’s possible that floaters will fade over time, but it’s also possible that they will not. Although the gel clumps will always remain in your eyes, they can become less noticeable with the passage of time. This may be because people become used to them by the brain learning to ignore them, or they may settle below the line of sight. Even if your floaters do become less noticeable, it’s important to have an eye examination when you experience any symptoms to rule out retinal tears and detachments.
Normally, your retina lies smoothly against the inside back wall of the eyeball and functions similar to the film in the back of a camera. The vitreous, the jelly‐like fluid that fills the inside of the eye, pulls away from the retina as a natural process of aging. In most cases, no damage is caused and the majority of people have no symptoms. However, sometimes in certain patients the vitreous gel is very adherent to the retina and can actually take off a piece of the retina during this process causing a tear or even retinal detachment.
Imagine the retina as your “wallpaper” that lines the back wall of your eye. If you get a break (retinal tear) in the wallpaper and the vitreous fluid is able to get through the hole, it has the potential to take the whole wallpaper off the wall (retinal detachment). When this occurs, vision can become blurry or distorted, and may eventually be lost completely.
Your chances of suffering a retinal detachment are increased if you have any of the following risk factors: age, nearsightedness; a history of intraocular surgery, including cataract surgery; glaucoma; severe trauma to the eye; a history of a retinal detachment in your other eye; family history of retinal detachment or weak areas in your retina (lattice degeneration).
Warning signs of a possible retinal detachment include an increased amount of floaters, flashing lights, and/or a black gray curtain moving across your field of vision.
It is important that you seek treatment as soon as possible upon noticing any symptoms. The sooner the treatment occurs, the better the chances are for visual recovery.
The type of treatment that a doctor chooses and the degree of success is directly related to the amount of time lapsed since the detachment is discovered, the type of detachment, the severity, and the location.
Small holes and tears are usually treated with laser surgery, or a freezing method, called cryopexy. Laser surgery fuses the retina back into place by making tiny burns around the hole to help seal the “wallpaper”. On the other hand, using cryopexy, the retina is reattached by freezing the area around the hole to form scar tissue that also seals the “wallpaper” and prevents progression to a retinal detachment.
A retinal detachment requires treatment that is either done in the office or in the operating room. Pneumatic retinopexy is another method used for retinal detachment repairs in certain cases. In this procedure, a small gas bubble is injected inside the eye. The head is positioned in a way that the bubble floats to the detached area, and the retinal tear is pushed back up against the wall of the eye to close it so that no more fluid can enter through the retinal tear. The bubble is harmless and will eventually be absorbed into your body. This procedure is combined with either cryopexy and/or laser retinopexy. Each of these methods is typically an outpatient procedure, performed in your doctor’s office.
The standard treatment to repair a retinal detachment requires treatment in the operating room with a scleral buckle and/or a vitrectomy; both of which can be performed as an outpatient surgery. A scleral buckle is a tiny, flexible silicone band that is wrapped around the outside of the eye to gently push the retina back against the wall of the eye and give it support. A vitrectomy is sometimes performed in addition to placing the scleral buckle. In a vitrectomy procedure, the gel‐like vitreous, which is tugging on the retina, is removed through a tiny incision in the eye. A gas or silicone oil bubble is often injected into the eye to replace the lost fluid and to push the retina against the wall. During the course of healing, the body gradually replaces the vitreous with new fluid.
The improvement in vision after treatment can vary, depending on the severity of the detachment. The earlier the intervention, the better the prognosis for visual recovery. In some cases, vision may never return to the level it was before the detachment. In other cases, complete vision can be returned. However, the larger the detachment is, the less likely it is that you will be able to recover vision. That’s why it is very important to see your eye doctor at the first sign of trouble.
A retinal vein occlusion occurs when there is an abrupt blockage of the small veins that carry blood away from the retina. This usually occurs due to atherosclerosis (thickening) of retinal arteries that subsequently compress the vein as both vessels are inside the same sheath and run together. This blockage of blood flow is like having a “stroke” inside the eye. Damage to the retina includes bleeding, macular edema (swelling), and possibly new leaky blood vessel formation that can lead to blindness.
Treatments include a combination of eye medications (intravitreal ANTI-VEGF injections/implants, steroids) and laser therapy to treat macular edema and new blood vessel growth.
“I will work with patients to provide the optimal treatment strategy for their vision needs. I enjoy working with all our patients in a team approach in order to provide the highest quality of eyecare. I strive everyday to ensure all my patients achieve their best visual potential to enjoy their lives.” explains fellowship trained retina specialist Dr. Joshua Mali. | <urn:uuid:07cb47eb-9028-4035-9851-e1ffc6d80761> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theeyeassociates.com/services/retinal-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.946365 | 1,809 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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Hydraulic jump is the most common method of dissipating water’s kinetic energy in downstream of spillways, shoots and valves. So far several relations have been developed to estimate hydraulic jump characteristics, however, the results of these equations are not general and acceptable due to the uncertainty of the function. In this study, hydraulic jump character-istics such as sequence depth ratio and hydraulic jump were estimated in compound channels (rectangular and trapezoidal channels) with rough beds using Support Vector Machine (SVM). Different models were developed and the influence rate of input parameters in each channel was investigated. Comparison of the obtained results of support vector machine showed the high efficiency of this method in estimation of hydraulic jump characteristics. It was observed that model with input parameters of Fr₁( Fraud number), w/z (ratio of rough elements space to height of them) led to most accurate results and rough elements properties were effective in hydraulic jump characteristics estimation. The best result for test series was obtained for the sequence depth ratio with the values of R=0.979, DC=0.975 and RMSE=0.046 and for and the hydraulic jump length with the values of R=0.935, DC=0.858 and RMSE=0.072 in trapezoidal channel. Also, the results of sensitivity analysis indicated that Fraud number is the most significant parameter in estimation of hydraulic jump charac-teristics. | <urn:uuid:b670317b-399c-4969-bbcc-fcb1c0adface> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://idj.iaid.ir/article_96393.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.906046 | 374 | 2 | 2 |
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said that his country does not intend to remain dependent on donor support but rather aims at transitioning to sustainable development by attracting investments and doing business.
The President was speaking at World Government Summit, currently underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with John Defterios, the CNN emerging markets editor, on a one-on-one discussion.
The global summit is dedicated to shaping the future of governments worldwide by shaping the agenda with a focus on how they can harness innovation and technology to solve universal challenges facing humanity.
Kagame said the national vision is to make sure that Rwanda can stand on its feet, develop, attract investments and do business.
“Donor support is not something we wanted to rely on forever, it was there to help build our foundation, institutions and different fundamentals to be in place so that we can sustain our economy based on what we can do ourselves and also within the region, for example through regional integration,” the President said.
The transition from donor dependence, he said, would be made possible by regional integration and increased intra-Africa trade.
He said so far as a result of integration, Rwanda was already experiencing increased trade within the East African Community as well as trade between the community and other regions.
Under the president’s leadership, Rwanda has been pursuing regional integration through multiple ways and is a member of several trading blocs including; East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Economic Community of Central African States (ECASS).
Sustaining growth with resilience
Kagame noted that, going forward, the country aimed at sustaining economic growth driven by resilience and good partnership.
He added that laws and policies necessary to attract internal and external investments were already in place.
“The laws that we need to have in place have been passed. This is building on what we have done since the year 2000,” Kagame said.
“We have seen a lot of progress in building institutions, strengthening them, service delivery has been very significant and involving the Rwandan people in different productive sectors. 2016 is really focused on building on what we have already done in terms of macro-economic stability created.”
Noting that there was nothing holding back African countries from developing regional trade to the level of developed nations, he called on African countries to deepen trade ties with a goal of shared prosperity.
President Kagame also noted the role of citizen involvement in national development, saying nations will fail if Governments and citizens do not work together to fulfill the people’s aspirations.
Meeting with students
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the summit, President Kagame met students from Harvard Business School and John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard where he tipped them on aspects of leadership and governance.
Speaking to the students, he emphasised on the importance and impact of locally sourced solutions aimed at addressing challenges experienced by locals.
“Nobody will ever deliver a solution from outside. If they say they are, they are not being truthful,” he said.
On the global economy which economists and financial experts have predicted is likely to face tough times ahead, the president said that it is not and should not necessarily be a situation of hopelessness.
He called on African countries to work together as a bloc to confront the challenging times and do what needs to be done.
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Athenaweb – a portal for audiovisual information on science is launched by the European Commission (eGov Monitor)
- The European Commission, in association with a number of professional media and science organisations, is launching an innovative web portal designed for audiovisual and scientific communities in Europe, to support their work in promoting and communicating about science. Functions of this new platform include an electronic library of science programmes, an online agenda of key events, a European science news service and a forum for co-productions and partnerships.
Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research said “Most European citizens get their information from television, including on science and research issues. We need to make sure that the information available is of the highest possible quality. AthenaWeb is an innovative response to some of the problems faced when communicating about science and technology.” More here | <urn:uuid:5093d089-c889-4707-a3fb-e2b39c44fb1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2005/06/sounds-and-videos-of-science.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00046-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923405 | 181 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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