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Objectives: Limited data exist regarding staff's knowledge and perceptions of high alert medications (HAMs) and associated procedures. Objectives of this study were to conduct an initial assessment of institution-specific HAM knowledge among pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff; implement interventions to enhance staff knowledge of HAMs; and conduct a similar assessment 1 year later to determine if interventions successfully enhanced HAM knowledge.
Methods: A 6-question electronic survey was distributed to 1006 pharmacy staff, nurses, and physicians in June 2009. In response to results achieved, HAM-related interventions were implemented over a 6-month period. A similar electronic survey was distributed to hospital staff 1 year later to determine any change in HAM knowledge.
Results: A total of 203 staff completed the presurvey (20% response rate), whereas 170 completed the postsurvey (17% response rate). Before the HAM interventions, 42.9% of respondents expressed confidence in their knowledge of HAMs and the procedures defined by the institution. This increased to 73.5% after the interventions (P < 0.001). More respondents correctly identified HAMs and safety procedures on postsurveys: insulin IV bolus (83.3% vs. 92.4%; P < 0.01), neonatal medications (79.3% vs. 88.2%; P < 0.05), total parenteral nutrition (57.1% vs. 73.5%; P = 0.001), and "documentation of 2 independent registered nurse checks for HAM IV infusion rate changes" (76.4% vs. 92.9%; P < 0.001).
Conclusions: An assessment of staff HAM knowledge and handling procedures allows for customized interventions for institution-specific HAM improvements. Hospital staff knowledge of HAMs increased 1 year after implementing interventions.
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Small Business Owners Speak Out Against Tax Hikes and Mandates
Washington’s latest spending proposals may target the largest corporations to pay for their spending, but unfortunately, the plans would more heavily burden many of America’s small businesses and family-owned businesses. To combat the small business tax increases and mandates being considered in Congress, NFIB’s Small Business Survival federal advocacy campaign is highlighting why tax increases would be harmful to America’s small businesses while holding members of Congress accountable for votes.
Last year, the Biden Administration and Congress proposed a series of new tax increases and mandates, including the following:
- Limiting the Small Business Deduction (IRS Section 199A)
- Increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% without lower rates for small businesses
- Raising the top income tax rate on individually- and family-owned businesses from 37% to 39.6%
- Eliminating stepped-up basis
- Increasing the top capital gains tax rates
- Expanding the reach of 3.8% surtax on small business income over $400,000 for pass-through entities, known as the Small Business Surtax
- Taxing unrealized gains above $100 million with concern the threshold would quickly be lowered over time
- Enacting elements of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act
- Mandating that employers provide paid sick leave and retirement accounts
- Establishing a complicated and inflexible new federal-government-run family and medical paid leave program
NFIB members have been fighting against these policies since a series of multi-trillion dollar spending proposals were announced in early 2021 and thanks to small business owners’ advocacy, several harmful proposals were eliminated from the House-passed version of the Build Back Better Act. However, these policies can still come back in the future legislation, and as the U.S. Senate considers the Build Back Better Act. | <urn:uuid:0ad3fa8c-330f-44ca-8b37-13f5e72394b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ua.nfib.com/small-business-survival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.954059 | 394 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Methods of movement for robotic explorers of other worlds have been as varied as the worlds themselves. Some missions have been simple landers, some rovers, and now there’s even been a helicopter flight on Mars. But there is an unexplored hybrid mode of movement that will soon be coming to a Moon near you – hopping. NASA just granted an additional $41.6 million to support development of a hopping lunar lander that will explore the inside of craters that are permanently in shadow.
The mission, known as Micro-Nova, was granted as part of NASA’s $370 million “Tipping Point” contract for technologies that are developing milestone-based new technologies. The $41.6 million was awarded to Intuitive Machines, a Texas-based company that specializes in developing autonomous systems for drones and other exploration technologies. To be clear – the “hopping” the Micro-Nova will do is actually a control flight using thrusters rather than the more biological form of hopping that insects do on Earth. The company won’t be working alone on the project – they recruited scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration.
Intuitive Machines video discussing the Micro-Nova Hopper
Credit – Intuitive Machines YouTube Channel
Those specialists will help to define what Micro-Nova will carry as part of its 1 kg payload. Most likely it will involve cameras to peer into areas that no person has ever seen before. The reason Micro-Nova uses its unique mobility technique is to peer into “permanently shaded regions” (PSRs) of the moon. Rovers would be unable to descend into the craters, and helicopters wouldn’t work with the moon’s lack of atmosphere. So a hopper is the best bet to reach these difficult environments.
They are not just difficult because they are hard to reach – they are also hard to observe and extraordinarily cold. Even once Micro-Nova is in the crater, it will still only be able to take full color spectra images of its immediate surroundings, but it should be able to take black-and-white images of a wider swath of the whole crater. Any information it is able to gather is better than the complete lack available right now at least.
Conceptual illustration of permanently shadowed, shallow icy craters near the lunar south pole.
Cold is a completely separate problem, with temperatures in these permanently dark areas dipping to 40°-80° Kelvin (-388° to -316° F). Most electronics will not function at those temperatures, and even the materials themselves would fail if they were not especially designed to withstand them.
That is a lot to expect from a hopper that measures only 76.2 centimeters on a side. But with the moon’s miniscule gravity and the hopper’s impressive leaping ability, it should be able to achieve its mission when it is dropped off by a Nova-C lander near the lunar south pole in December 2022.
Artist’s depiction of the Micro-Nova hopper and it’s Nova-C landing craft deployed to the moon.
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Probiotics Shed Light on Obesity & Diabetes
Keeping up with the latest scientific developments on probiotics and human health is becoming very challenging because every month there are new and very exciting findings.
Recently, there have been several reports on how intestinal bacteria play a role in nutrition, obesity and diabetes.
Here are a few of the results of those studies:
- Patients who received probiotics after gastric bypass surgery lost more weight than those who received a placebo (1).
- Women who took probiotics starting in the first trimester of pregnancy were less likely at one year postpartum to have central or abdominal obesity as compared to the control group who did not take a probiotic (2).
- In a study of overweight adolescents who went on a weight loss diet, those who were successful at losing weight had a healthy change in the composition of the intestinal bacteria (3).
These and others studies in humans and animals have discovered that our intestinal bacteria affect the amount of calories we extract from the food we eat, and how we store or use those calories. The studies further suggest that obese and lean people have different intestinal bacterial flora.
Probiotics’ Regulation of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
There are ongoing scientific investigations aimed at determining how the gut bacteria participate in the regulation of our weight and the development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
In a series of experiments, it was found that mice fed a normal diet had 40% higher body fat content than germ-free mice fed a similar diet (4). The bacteria in the colon, particularly Bifidobacteria, can metabolize certain starches in our diet that we can’t digest otherwise. These extra calories harvested by the bacteria contribute to our net calorie balance. A mere 1-2% increase in calorie absorption on a daily basis can add up to many extra pounds over a year.
These studies are a little confusing. If a healthy gut flora includes Bifidobacteria, why don’t the lean individuals who have more of the Bifidobacteria gain weight?
Scientists are trying to sort out these conflicting results. To understand how the good bacteria can help control weight gain, it is important to briefly review a little biochemistry.
Whole grain foods contain starches that are resistant to digestion in the small intestines. These starches enter the colon where they are used as fuel by Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus. The bacteria break the starches down and produce short chain fatty acids (SCFA) by a process called fermentation. The SCFA are absorbed in the colon and contribute to the calories in the diet. But the SCFA also have other effects.
One proposed mechanism is that the short chain fatty acids produced by the Bifidobacteria stimulate the release of intestinal hormones that slow the stomach emptying after a meal (5). This results in a sense of fullness or satiety with less calorie intake; it takes less to fill you up. It may be that people with the healthy bacteria who consume whole grain foods don’t eat as much.
In addition, the healthy bacteria in lean individuals suppress the proliferation of a group of bacteria called “gram negative bacteria.” Gram negative bacteria can produce a substance called lipopolysaccharide (LPS) that causes the liver to convert ingested carbohydrate calories into fat instead of burning the calories as an energy source (6). The fat is then stored in our adipose or fat tissues.
Finally, LPS has been shown to lessen our cells’ sensitivity to the insulin our pancreas produces (6). This can result in Type 2 diabetes. Studies have shown that modifying the bacterial content of the intestines can lessen the production of LPS and the potential for developing diabetes.
The evidence indicates that the gut bacteria composition can be different between healthy individuals and those who are obese and have Type 2 diabetes. The challenge is how to manipulate the intestinal bacteria to lessen these metabolic disorders.
Eat whole grain foods, avoid high fatty diets and consider a highly-potent probiotic supplement like EndoMune. You may just avoid weight gain and the risk of developing diabetes.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has told Congress that Afghanistan is the United States' "greatest military challenge" and said he gives the effort against insurgents poor marks for coordination.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates said the effort to defeat militants and help develop a nation that rejects the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban will be difficult -- more difficult, perhaps, than the war in Iraq.
The country's top defense official also sought to redefine what success in Afghanistan might realistically look like -- not a thriving, prosperous democracy, but a place where Al-Qaeda no longer finds safe haven and the people reject rule by Islamic extremists in favor of a democratically elected government.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said he wants to draw down U.S. forces in Iraq over the next 16 months and add as many as 30,000 more U.S. troops to the current force of 36,000 already in Afghanistan, which he considers the central front in the fight against terrorism.'No Purely Military Solution'
In his testimony, Gates endorsed the plan to increase the size of the Afghan force to mount a stronger defense against increasingly bold Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.
"As in Iraq, there is no purely military solution in Afghanistan," Gates said. "But it is also clear that we have not had enough troops to provide a baseline level of security in some of the most dangerous areas -- a vacuum that increasingly has been filled by the Taliban."
I will tell you that I believe that the civilian casualties are doing us enormous harm in Afghanistan, and we have got to do better in terms of avoiding casualties.
The defense chief said "crushing poverty, a thriving drug trade fueling corruption, a ruthless and resilient insurgency, and violent extremists of many stripes" have devastated the country, and that the coordination of troops, nongovernmental organizations, governance experts, and others has been "less than stellar."
But he also said assessments are under way that take into account lessons learned from the U.S. experience in Iraq and eight years in Afghanistan, and that a way forward is beginning to emerge.
"While this will undoubtedly be a long and difficult fight, we can attain what I believe should be among our strategic objectives," Gates said. "Above all, an Afghan people who do not provide a safe haven for Al-Qaeda, who reject the rule of the Taliban, and support the legitimate government they have elected and in which they have a stake. "
The Pentagon could send two more brigades to the country by late spring, and a third by July in an effort to improve the security situation, which has dramatically worsened in recent months. 'Words Of Caution'
On Iraq, Gates called the Status of Forces Agreement that went into effect January 1 a "watershed" that marks the beginning of an orderly drawdown of U.S. forces there.
He also offered what he said were "words of caution."
"Though the violence [in Iraq] has remained low, there is still the potential for setbacks. And there may be hard days ahead for our troops," Gates warned. "As our military presence decreases over time, we should still expect to be involved in Iraq, on some level, for many years to come, assuming a sovereign Iraq continues to seek our partnership."
Obama will meet with military planners on January 28 for a briefing on a range of options for ending U.S. military involvement in Iraq by as early as May 2010.
In response to questioning, Gates acknowledged that the high rate of civilian casualties in Afghanistan caused by U.S. forces and their allies has angered and alienated the Afghan people.
"I will tell you that I believe that the civilian casualties are doing us enormous harm in Afghanistan, and we have got to do better in terms of avoiding casualties," Gates said. "And I say that knowing full well the Taliban mingle among the people, use them as barriers, but when we go ahead and attack, we play right into their hands."Widespread Anger
A report by Human Rights Watch from September 2008 found that air strikes killed at least 321 civilians in 2007, compared with 116 in 2006. In November, there was widespread anger after international forces called in an air strike against a suspected Taliban hideout in Kandahar Province and mistakenly killed as many as 40 members of a wedding party.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen
Gates noted that nearly 40 percent of air strikes are called in by international forces lacking adequate resources on the ground. He called for a "better way" to respond to insurgent attacks.
"We have got to figure out a better way to do these things, or to have the Afghans in the lead, because my worry is that the Afghans come to see us as part of their problem rather than part of their solution," Gates said. "And then we are lost."
At one point, former Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain asked Gates whether terrorists are operating openly in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, two of the most violent areas of the country. Gates said he has received conflicting intelligence, but that troops on the ground say the situation, while not worse, is "different."
He said the Taliban's ability to freely cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has given them "greater freedom of action than they've had in the last couple of years."
An analysis of 13,000 violent incidents in Afghanistan in 2007 by the Kabul-based consultancy Tundra Strategic Security Solutions showed that the Taliban are increasingly using open-warfare techniques.
Ambushes and attacks with more than one kind of weapon comprised 2,555 incidents in 2008, up 117 percent from 2007, the analysis showed.
'Very Strong Message'
Also in Washington on January 27, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, briefed members of the foreign press and echoed the defense chief on U.S. military priorities.
"I think the top priority for us right now is Afghanistan-Pakistan," Mullen said. "I think President Obama has made that clear and you see that emphasized, and you will see that emphasized, in where the military will be engaged.
"We've talked for weeks now about commander General [David] McKiernan's additional request for forces. We've looked at the planning options to support that, even though all those decisions haven't been made yet. And all that to me sends a very strong message that Afghanistan and Pakistan are at the top of the list," Mullen added
Mullen said he advocates a regional approach to Afghanistan, which means engaging in dialogue with Pakistan and India, as well as Iran, whose nuclear activities "remain a great concern."
"I have said for many, many months, I think it's important to engage Iran," Mullen said. "Iran is unhelpful in many, many ways, in many, many areas. And so I wouldn't be overly optimistic at this point, but there are mutual interests and I think that that might offer some possibilities."
Obama has spoken often about the need for NATO allies to increase their troop commitments to Afghanistan, and Mullen said both he and Gates have been trying to persuade European allies to do so.
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UPDATE The image at the bottom shows what the new trains will presumably look like once they arrive.
Set to appear on city streets in 2017, SFMTA released images of the new Muni trains. Sleek. Cool. Confident. Were there an America’s Next Top Public Transit Vehicle reality competition on the CW, this train model would definitely land in the final three.
Not only will the new trains replace the current fleet of 151, they will also expand it by 64. Which is a relief. Because the city needs more active public transit.
“The new trains (also known as light-rail vehicles) are being built by the renowned manufacturer Siemens at its factory in Sacramento,” notes SF MTA. “With the new grant from CalSTA, which adds to the $41 million awarded for the train fleet from the cap-and-trade program last year, we now have the funding to replace the entire fleet and 42 of the additional trains.”
What’s more, the new Siemens trains will also (hopefully) prove more reliable than the current fleet.
SF MTA goes on: “The new trains have systems that are proven to go significantly longer in between breakdowns and, therefore, require less maintenance. The new Siemens design is projected to run an average of 59,000 miles without breakdowns, which is more than double the minimum of 25,000 miles originally specified.”
Based on rider surveys, there will also be a slew of aesthetic and mechanical changes. For starters, the front steps will raise independently, which will allow operators “to raise only the front steps necessary for platform access, reducing wear on the other steps.”
Also, colors on the digital destination signs, which are now yellow and difficult to read, “will display around the letter for each Metro line (J, K, L, M, N or T) to help riders distinguish the train’s line more easily.”
All said, it’s still probably going to take 45 minutes at least to get to the Outer Sunset. But nothing beats that new Muni smell. Look for it early next year.
- Muni’s First New Trains Are On the Way — and Getting Better [SFMTA]
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Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is stepping up its online efforts in China as a key to the future, but face a tall order to become a major player.
Walmart's Yihaodian e-commerce venture owns 250 hubs and operates in 200 cities, mostly concentrated in eight key cities like Shanghai and Beijing. These hubs offer quick delivery of groceries.
In some places deliveries are made within three hours for 100 to 150 items. Deliveries are made overnight for orders that extend to several hundred thousand grocery items.
Walmart has been trying hard to get a bigger share of the Chinese online market, which now has surpassed the US to become the world's biggest. Four years after buying a minority stake, Walmart took full control over Yihaodian, founded in 2008.
Despite its ambitions to get a larger share of the business, Walmart's overall online share is tiny in China. It is going to be hard to close the gap with the big Chinese giants like Alibaba and JD.com, analysts say.
While Yihaodian has 250 hubs, Alibaba has 14,000 in rural China alone that act as pick-up stations. And as of late March, JD.com had a total of nearly 6,000 delivery and pickup stations in 2,493 counties and districts across China.
"It will be very difficult for Wal-Mart to catch up in e-commerce," says Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel China, which specialises in research on Chinese shopping habits.
Compared to Walmart, most of the Chinese retailers have been online for years, and they understand the nuances of Chinese shopping behavior. Walmart's online business has also been hobbled because it did not have full control over the Chinese venture.
Walmart has just 1.6 per cent share of China's overall online market, ranking it as number 6, a long way behind number top player Alibaba which has a market share of 46.9 per cent and second-ranked JD.com which has 20.1 per cent market share, according to Euromonitor International, a global research firm. (SH)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A co-author of a widely cited forecast that nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs would be created for every percentage point rise in high-speed Internet use said on Friday these and similar estimates are "a gross overestimate."
"There is a great deal of overstatement in most of these studies," said Robert Crandall, a Brookings Institution economist and co-author of the frequently-cited paper with that estimate.
U.S. lawmakers are proposing grants between $6 billion to $9 billion and tax credits to encourage investment in high- speed Internet, as part of an economic stimulus plan winding its way through Congress costing up to $900 billion.
The 300,000 jobs estimate has been used in newspapers and cited by other publications advocating investment in high-speed Internet, or broadband.
The Brookings Institution study, published in July 2007, is not particularly relevant now because of differing employment and related migration trends at the time of the study, Crandall said.
Attempting to extrapolate it nationwide at this time is a "gross overstatement," he said.
Most the data on jobs and broadband is not relevant because it doesn't apply to underserved, mostly rural and high cost areas targeted in the stimulus package, said Shane Greenstein, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
"The experience of Manhattan in 2005 has no relationship to the experience in West Texas," Greenstein said.
Chris King, an investment analyst at Stifel Nicolaus said the proposals targeting unserved rural areas are not enough to propel rural providers to invest in any event, largely because they do not address ongoing operating costs.
"We believe the current plans are unlikely to stimulate private sector investment in unserved areas," King said.
King, concurring with several Wall Street analysts, said tax credits for ultra-fast Internet speeds for underserved areas would likely only benefit Verizon Communications Inc and perhaps some cable companies.
To see the Brookings study, go to: www3.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2007/06labor_crandall/06labor_crandall.pdf
(Editing by Andre Grenon)
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Courtesy of the European Voice, a weekly published in Brussels that is full of news about the EU, we have a reasonably complete list of the referendums (called referenda in the arrticle, but let that pass) on the Constitution. The paper does not speculate about the outcome, though another article bemoans the likely influence of those pesky eurosceptics. So we have to do the speculating ourselves.
First off is likely to be the Netherlands in 2004. The chances are that there will be a yes vote but the turn-out and the margin are uncertain. The Dutch have been grumbling recently and they do not like contributing quite as much money as they do to the whole project. Naturally, they will want to round off the presidency with a successful plebiscite and the government will pull out all stops.
Spain will hold its referendum in February 2005. The chances are that the Spaniards will vote yes, unless Zapatero really messes things up by then. Those funds are needed by the economy.
Portugal will probably have a referendum early in 2005 and is likely to vote yes.
Ireland will have one some time in 2005 and there are no bets at the moment. Anything can happen.
France will probably have one late in 2005 and, again, the outcome remains unpredictable. There are too many imponderables in French politics and too many twists and turns in the average politician’s path.
Belgium will probably have a referendum at some stage, though it will be non-binding, which is probably just as well, given the way votes having been going in that country and given the war waged on the biggest opposition party, the Vlaams Blok.
No date has been announced in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg or Poland. Apart from Luxembourg, these are all risky propositions. Denmark may well vote no, and the East Europeans are already unhappy with their somewhat Faustian bargain.
That leaves the UK, where the date is also unknown. The European Voice seems to think it is likely to take place “following the general elections in late 2005”. Perhaps they have forgotten that the UK takes over the presidency in July 2005. The chances of an election during the subsequent six months are nil and the chances of a probably contentious referendum campaign during an inevitably fraught presidency are also low. The smart money is still on election in the spring of 2005 and referendum in spring 2006. Outcome remains uncertain, despite the likely shenanigans around the No Campaign. | <urn:uuid:5ee95b00-7716-4858-af1d-3f72b74a7334> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2004/09/those-referendums-in-fullish.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97075 | 511 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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• Take action with one or more co-workers to improve your working conditions by, among other means, raising work-related complaints directly with your employer or with a government agency, and seeking help from a union.
• Strike and picket, depending on the purpose or means of the strike or the picketing.
• Choose not to do any of these activities, including joining or remaining a member of a union.
Under the NLRA, it is illegal for your employer to:
• Prohibit you from soliciting for a union during non-work time, such as before or after work or during break times; or from distributing union literature during non-work time, in non-work areas, such as parking lots or break rooms.
• Question you about your union support or activities in a manner that discourages you from engaging in that activity.
• Fire, demote, or transfer you, or reduce your hours or change your shift, or otherwise take adverse action against you, or threaten to take any of these actions, because you join or support a union, or because you engage in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, or because you choose not to engage in any such activity.
• Threaten to close your workplace if workers choose a union to represent them.
• Promise or grant promotions, pay raises, or other benefits to discourage or encourage union support.
• Prohibit you from wearing union hats, buttons, t-shirts, and pins in the workplace except under special circumstances.
• Spy on or videotape peaceful union activities and gatherings or pretend to do so.
If you and your coworkers select a union to act as your collective bargaining representative, your employer and the union are required to bargain in good faith in a genuine effort to reach a written, binding agreement setting your terms and conditions of employment. The union is required to fairly represent you in bargaining and enforcing the agreement. Illegal conduct will not be permitted. If you believe your rights or the rights of others have been violated, you should contact the NLRB promptly to protect your rights, generally within six months of the unlawful activity. You may inquire about possible violations without your employer or anyone else being informed of the inquiry. Charges may be filed by any person and need not be filed by the employee directly affected by the violation. The NLRB may order an employer to rehire a worker fired in violation of the law and to pay lost wages and benefits, and may order an employer or union to cease violating the law. Employees should seek assistance from the nearest regional NLRB office, which can be found on the Agency’s website: www.nlrb.gov.
Click on the NLRB’s page titled “About Us,” which contains a link, “Locating Our Offices.” You can also contact the NLRB by calling toll-free: 1-866-667-NLRB (6572) or (TTY) 1-866-315-NLRB (6572) for hearing impaired.
*The National Labor Relations Act covers most private-sector employers. Excluded from coverage under the NLRA are public-sector employees, agricultural and domestic workers, independent contractors, workers employed by a parent or spouse, employees of air and rail carriers covered by the Railway Labor Act, and supervisors (although supervisors that have been discriminated against for refusing to violate the NLRA may be covered). | <urn:uuid:08eff536-6cd4-41dc-af6e-1687a7ef41b9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cwa-ppmws.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_subarticle.cfm&subHomeID=3696&topHomeID=263795&page=Organizing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00294-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946287 | 911 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Where to find Mr or Ms Right? Try dating website
Editor's Note: Four decades of reform and opening-up have not only turned China into the world's second-biggest economy but also changed people's lifestyle, adding new, earlier unknown, elements to their demands. A veteran journalist with China Daily tries to analyze the changing nature of dating behaviors and attitudes.
Youths in China, especially teenagers, nowadays have little spare time because of the pressure of work or studies. As a result, an increasing number of youths are turning to the internet for dating or finding a life partner. Although detailed data on how many youngsters go online for this purpose are not available, a survey of young men working in the information technology sector shows that about 80 percent of them are active on dating websites.
Not all youths may be logging on to specialized dating websites to search for partners, but online matchmaking has become a big business in China. Baihe Jiayuan Network Group, the country's most popular online matchmaking website, for instance, claims that it has nearly 7 million active users in any given month, and has served more than 200 million users since its launch in 2004.
Some websites are free, because their operators' business strategy is to make money through high matchmaking rates. But the information provided on such sites are incomplete and far from reliable. Other dating sites ask for registration fees ranging from a few hundred yuan to 100,000 yuan ($15,808), depending on the amount of resources and quality of service provided.
But despite the many complaints against some websites for fabricating information and cheating clients－some sites have even been fined by supervisors for malpractice－online matchmaking site operators have never had a shortage of clients. There are about 240 million single adults below the age of 40 in China, many of whom have left their hometowns and settled in other cities and regions. That they have no relatives or close friends in the new environment means they have no choice but to go online for dating.
In the past, marriage decisions were made by the parents. When their children reached marriageable age, the parents paid traditional matchmakers to find the right life partner for their children. Such marriages were solemnized with the consent of the parents of both the boy and the girl, but only after the groom's side "gifted" a handsome dowry to the bride's family.
During my grandparents' time, the bride and the groom might have not even met each other before being married. That tradition was challenged after the downfall of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). But not until the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 were youths encouraged to find their life partners themselves.
For decades, many youths dated and later married their classmates, fellow college students or colleagues. Some met their life partners through friends－my wife and I were introduced by my high school classmate, who happened to be a classmate of my future wife in university. Of course, such introductions were free, and all we did to express our gratitude is to send the friends some candies or sweets after the wedding.
After the launch of reform and opening-up, youths in huge numbers began trooping into cities for work, with some even settling there. An obvious outcome of that was the rising demand for matchmakers. It in turn signaled the return of professional matchmaking as a business－the only difference being that in the past matchmakers were people whom both the bride's and groom's sides knew in person and today's matchmakers are in effect virtual.
With an investment of a few hundred yuan to get a business license, one could open a matchmaking "company" and paste ads on lampposts to attract clients. The huge market demand and low starting cost have lured many people into the business.
Most of these match-making companies have disappeared with only a few, which were smart enough to go online, surviving. The successful ones have made matchmaking a multi-billion yuan business with some, such as Baihe Jiayuan, becoming listed companies in the stock market.
With the ever-increasing market demand, it seems the matchmaking business is here to stay and prosper. But to ensure its healthy development, both the market and internet administrators should strictly supervise the matchmaking companies' operation so that both online and offline information are real, accurate and reliable, and people looking for a life partner have their wishes fulfilled, instead of being deceived.
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Blessington, Marguerite (DNB00)
BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, Countess of (1789–1849), authoress, was born at Knockbrit, near Clonmel, co. Tipperary, 1 Sept. 1789. She was the second daughter and fourth of the seven children of Edmund Power, only son of Michael Power of Curragheen and Clonea, a small landowner descended from an old catholic family of some repute in co. Waterford. Her mother, Ellen, daughter of Edmund Sheeny, also came from an ancient catholic stock in co. Tipperary. Marguerite was chiefly noticeable when a girl as the one plain member in a singularly handsome family. Her father being dissolute, her home was miserable. Miss Anne Dwyer, a friend of her mother's, out of compassion imparted to her the first rudiments of education. Yet her precocity was such that by improvising stories for her brothers and sisters she became the wonder of the neighbourhood. Her father moved his family from Knockbrit to Clonmel. There, in 1797, he was appointed a magistrate, both in Waterford and Tipperary. When the revolt began, he, with the help of a troop of dragoons, resolutely hunted down the insurgents, on one occasion shooting with his own hand a young peasant, Joseph Lonnergan, son of a poor widow at Mullough. He provoked hatred all round. Besides engaging in business as a corn merchant and butter buyer, he started a newspaper. But as proprietor of the 'Clonmel Gazette or Munster Mercury' he began to sink money rapidly. An attempt to redeem his fortunes by entering into yet larger mercantile speculations with a trading firm in Waterford also failed. Impending ruin infuriated his natural irascibility until he came at last to be a terror to his wife and children. Arrayed like a dandy of the period in buckskins and top-boots, he flaunted about then so constantly in lace ruffles and white cravat, that he was habitually spoken of among the Tipperary bloods as ‘Shiver-the-Frills’ or ‘Beau Power.’
In 1804 Marguerite, being then a child of fourteen and a half, was proposed for by two officers of the 47th regiment, then stationed at Clonmel. Her parents forced her to marry one of these, Captain Maurice St. Leger Farmer of Poplar Hall and Laurel Grove, co. Kildare, a man who indulged in such ungovernable outbursts of passion as to suggest insanity. Three months after their marriage, on 7 March 1804, upon Captain Farmer being ordered to join his regiment, then encamped on the Curragh of Kildare, Marguerite resolutely refused to accompany him, and returned to her father's house at Clonmel. In 1807 she was at Cahir, and in 1809 at Dublin, and at eighteen her beauty had become so conspicuous that her portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. In 1816 she was in Manchester Square, London. There she was still residing when, on 21 Oct. 1817, Captain Farmer was killed during a drunken orgie by falling from a window in the King's Bench prison. Four months afterwards his widow, on 16 Feb. 1818, was married at the church in Bryanston Square to Charles John Gardiner, second Viscount Mountjoy, and first Earl of Blessington. Seven years her senior and a widower, this nobleman drew from his estates in Ireland an annual income of thirty thousand pounds. This fortune he squandered on every whim. Upon his first wife's funeral four years earlier he had expended 3,000l. Upon his new bride he lavished every luxury. Their town mansion, 11 St. James's Square, was fitted up like the palace of a Sybarite. Under the influence of Lady Blessington it soon became a centre of social attraction. Early in 1822 she published anonymously her first work, ‘The Magic Lantern, or Sketches of Scenes in the Metropolis,’ 16mo. In 1822 she also published ‘Sketches and Fragments,’ 12mo. On 22 Aug. 1822 Lord and Lady Blessington started upon a continental tour. They were attended by the youngest sister of the countess, Mary Anne Power, afterwards, in 1832, married to the Baron de St. Marsault; by a young architect, who became famous as Charles Mathews the light comedian, and by Alfred Count d'Orsay, proverbially the handsomest man of his time, and a very Crichton in his accomplishments. With him the Countess of Blessington, down to the close of her life, was thenceforth most intimately associated.
At Genoa in 1823, for two months together, from 1 April to 1 June, the Blessingtons were in daily intercourse with Lord Byron. Before Byron parted from the Blessingtons, his acquaintance with whom had so rapidly ripened into intimate friendship that he did so with a passion of tears, he had sold his yacht Bolivar to the earl, and had written not only a jeu d'esprit, but one of the last of his minor poems to the countess.
Early in Lord Blessington's Italian tour his only legitimate son by his first wife, Luke, Viscount Mountjoy, died in his tenth year. Some time before its close the earl's only legitimate daughter, Lady Harriet Gardiner, then a girl of fifteen, was married on 1 Dec. 1827, at Naples, to Count d'Orsay. Towards the end of 1828 the whole party moved homewards, and on arriving in Paris took up their residence in the Hôtel Maréchal-Ney. There, on 23 May 1829, the Earl of Blessington died from a stroke of apoplexy at the age of forty-six. The earl's estate had diminished from 30,000l. to 23,000l. a year. Upon his death all his honours became extinct. The countess remained in Paris during the revolution of 1830. Towards the close of 1831 she took a house in Seamore Place, Mayfair, where she resumed her old social pre-eminence. She in some measure, however, shared the honours of fashionable supremacy with the Countess of Charleville, Lady Holland, and for a while with the Dowager Countess of Cork, down to the latter's death in 1840 at the age of ninety-four. ‘Everybody goes to Lady Blessington,’ writes Haydon in his ‘Diary’ at this period (iii. 12). N. P. Willis, shortly after this, on calling in upon her at Seamore Place, speaks of her, in his ‘Pencillings by the Way’ (p. 356), as ‘one of the most lovely and fascinating women I have ever seen,’ and of Count d'Orsay (p. 355) as ‘the most splendid specimen of a man, and a well-dressed one,’ he had ever beheld. Lady Blessington's income after the earl's death was restricted to her jointure of 2,000l. a year. Besides living expensively she had dependent upon her seven or eight members of her own family. To maintain her position she took to authorship. In 1833 appeared her first novel in 3 vols., ‘Grace Cassidy, or the Repealers.’ She then also began writing industriously for the periodicals, for annuals and magazines. Her house in Seamore Place, in the summer of 1833, was broken into and robbed of plate and jewellery to the value of 1,000l. In 1834 she began her many years' editorship of the ‘Book of Beauty,’ to which she was herself the most industrious contributor. That year also she republished, from the ‘New Monthly,’ her ‘Conversations with Lord Byron,’ 8vo. In 1835 appeared her novel, in 3 vols., ‘The Two Friends,’ descriptive of society in the Faubourg St.-Germain. In 1836 were published her ‘Flowers of Loveliness,’ 4to, and her ‘Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman,’ illustrated by Parris, 8vo. Early in that year she moved into Gore House, Kensington, where for thirteen years she gathered around her the most distinguished men of intellect of that time. In 1837 she published ‘The Victims of Society;’ and in 1838 the ‘Gems of Beauty,’ and the ‘Confessions of an Elderly Lady,’ illustrated by Parris, 12mo. ‘The Works of Lady Blessington’ were issued from the press in a collected form in 2 vols. 8vo in 1838 at Philadelphia. In 1839 she produced ‘The Governess’ and ‘Desultory Thoughts and Reflections,’ besides two volumes of the most successful of all her writings, ‘The Idler in Italy.’ A third volume of that work appeared in 1840. In that year she also published, in a quarto volume illustrated by Chalons, her story in verse, ‘The Belle of a Season.’ In 1841 she produced her ‘Idler in France,’ and began her ten years' editorship of ‘The Keepsake.’ By that work in 1848 she was a loser to the extent of 700l. through the death, in a state of bankruptcy, of Charles Heath the engraver. In 1842 appeared, in 3 vols., her ‘Lottery of Life and other Tales,’ and in 1843, in 4 vols., ‘Strathern, or Life at Home and Abroad: a Story of the Present Day.’ From this work, although only four hundred copies of it were sold, she realised nearly 600l., it having first appeared as a serial in the ‘Sunday Times.’ When the ‘Daily News’ was started, in January 1846, the Countess of Blessington was engaged to contribute to it, at the rate of 500l. a year, ‘exclusive intelligence.’ At the end of six months, however, she withdrew from that engagement. In 1846 she published her novel, in 3 vols., ‘The Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre,’ and (edited by her) ‘Lionel Deerhurst, or Fashionable Life under the Regency.’ In 1847 appeared, in 3 vols., her novel founded on fact, ‘Marmaduke Herbert, or the Fatal Error.’ One other work only appeared from her hand, and that posthumously in 1850, her novel in 3 vols., ‘Country Quarters.’ For nearly twenty years she had been earning an income, according to Jerdan (Autobiography, iv. 320–1), of between 2,000l. and 3,000l. a year. Her annual expenditure at Gore House, however, exceeded 4,000l., and from 1843 her pecuniary difficulties were perpetually increasing. In 1845 the potato disease seriously affected her jointure, which, after rapidly dwindling, in 1848 finally disappeared. Count d'Orsay, meanwhile, who but a few months after his marriage had been separated from his young wife, had for the last dozen years been living at Gore House with the Countess of Blessington. In April 1849 the long-impending crash came upon both. To escape arrest Count d'Orsay, on the night of the 1st, fled to Paris, taking with him his valet and a single portmanteau. On the 14th Lady Blessington followed him thither. From the auction which took place at Gore House on 10 May 1849 less than 12,000l. was realised. Within a month from that time, on 4 June 1849, the Countess of Blessington died very suddenly in her sixtieth year in her apartments in the Rue du Cercle, near the Champs-Elysées, from an apoplectic seizure, complicated by heart disease. She was buried at Chambourcy, near St.-Germain-en-Laye, the residence of her most intimate friends during many years, the Duke and Duchess de Grammont.
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Tim Cook has announced during his WWDC 2012 keynote that there are over 400 million accounts on App Store, all with credit card connected and ready to make purchases. He also officially announced that there are over 650,000 apps available in the App Store, 225,000 of the specifically designed for the iPad. Tim Cook announced that users have downloaded apps over 30 billion times from the App Store over the coarse of 4 years.
Another interesting bit of information revealed by Tim Cook is that Apple has paid over 5 billion dollars to third party developers who are selling their applications on the App Store. Apple is going to bring App Store to 32 new countries this year, that will make the total number of supported countries to 155. [img: Engadget]
- There are 250 Million active iOS devices in the world and 500K apps in the App Store
- App Store gets 500,000 apps and a billion downloads per month
- Apple: There are 315 million iOS devices sold, 580,000 apps in the App Store, and 100 million iCloud users
- App Store achieves 25 billion app downloads milestone
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You're here because you're interested in learning about the 7th of February 1931, right? Here are some facts about this date that you might not know. I bet you'll be surprised! This article is about 10 minutes long. Happy reading!
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If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Saturday, 7th of February 1931. Exactly, it was the 38th day of 1931 which was 06th week of that year. According to Saturday's children nursery rhyme, children born on this day will be modest, studious, wise, practical, and strict. They will be hard workers.
Countdown to Your 92nd Birthday-- days-- hours-- minutes-- seconds
This year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 91st birthday on Monday. How was your 91st birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
Did you know that people born on February 7th, 1931 will be 34,000 days old on March 10th, 2024? How do you plan to celebrate your 34000th day? This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate your birthday in a different way.
We have calculated and figured out your birthday for the next 10 years. Prepare yourself to welcome your upcoming birthdays with your family and close friends. You will get many gifts from people who love and care about you. There are 176 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 92 years old. There have been 33427 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 11143 days, which is equivalent to 30.53 years. You spent 33.55% of your life sleeping!
|2023||Tuesday||92 Years Old|
|2024||Wednesday||93 Years Old|
|2025||Friday||94 Years Old|
|2026||Saturday||95 Years Old|
|2027||Sunday||96 Years Old|
|2028||Monday||97 Years Old|
|2029||Wednesday||98 Years Old|
|2030||Thursday||99 Years Old|
|2031||Friday||100 Years Old|
|2032||Saturday||101 Years Old|
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on February 7th, 1931 is Aquarius and grouped into Air element. Aquarius is the last air sign of the zodiac. The water bearer, also known as Aquarius, takes life to the land. This sign is the most humanitarian of all astrological signs.
People born on February 7, 1931 are patriotic, courageous, and honest. If you're a February baby, Amethyst is your birthstone. It's also the birthstone for people who were born in October. Wearing an amethyst is said to bring calmness, wisdom, and restraint to the wearer.
February 7th is a massive celebrity birthday party. We have Josh Collmenter, Daniella Marie Beckerman, Matthew Gumley, Stephen Hilton, Michael Valgren and other celebs celebrating on February 7.
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on February 7th.
|574||Prince Shōtoku of Japan (d. 622)|
|1102||Empress Matilda, Holy Roman Empress and claimant to the English throne (probable; d. 1167)|
|1478||Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1535)|
|1487||Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (d. 1557)|
|1500||João de Castro, viceroy of Portuguese India (d. 1548)|
Did you know that on February 7th in history, many notable people were died? This list will remind you of the deaths of these important historical figures.
|1333||Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)|
|1520||Alfonsina de' Medici, Regent of Florence (b. 1472)|
|1560||Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (b. 1493)|
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on February 7th.
|457||Leo I the Thracian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.|
|987||Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.|
|1301||Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.|
|1313||King Thihathu founds the Pinya Kingdom as the de jure successor state of the Pagan Kingdom.|
|1497||In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a "Bonfire of the vanities".|
In 1931, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Robert is the most used. A total of 60,518 baby boys were named Robert in 1931. The rest were named James, John, William and Richard. While the popular baby girl name in 1931 was Mary. There were 60,295 baby girls named Mary that year. While the rest were named Betty, Dorothy, Barbara and Joan. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Florida man is a predicate given to someone, both man and woman, who commits a strange or insane crime that is often reported in Florida. From 2013 until now, florida man became an internet meme that breaking the internet and social media. What did Florida Man do on your birthday? This then became a challenge called the #FloridaManChallenge. To find out what florida man did on February 7, 1931, type the phrase "florida man February 7, 1931" into your favorite search engine. You will find a lot of news related to Florida Man that you can share on your social media accounts.
We have collected some interesting news headlines related to what florida man did on February 7, 1931 which we found on google search engine. You can use the headlines below as material for your meme that you can share on your birthday.
(AP) — Authorities in Florida are searching for a missing man who they say believes he's God and has been saying he wants to heal and kill February 7, 2019.
Suspect found hiding in an attic. Elizabeth Gondar. Published: February 7, 2020 4:16 pm Updated: February 12, 2020 3:13 pm. Tags: Strange Florida. ,. Crime.
February 7, 2020 11:57 am NBC News Local News, Top Stories (WBBH) A Florida man is facing charges after he was caught bare naked in ...
2 - A South Florida man who allegedly flashed a 16-year-old girl at a Dunkin' Donuts in Miami Gardens has been arrested and charged with ...
KIRO 7 News Seattle Logo February 12, 2021 at 1:33 pm PST By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk. PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Florida man is accused of throwing a woman onto a bed, then smelling her ...
KIRO 7 News Seattle Logo scott wideman A Florida man caught peeping into neighbor's backyards told police he was under orders from February 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm PST By Cox Media Group National Content Desk.
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History No Simple Matter
|By: Jim Virkler; ©2012|
Among the vast changes in our country occurring about 1960, few possess more impact than the events related to the origin of the intense creationism discussion which commenced about that time. Coincident with what has been termed the “seminal” publication of The Genesis Flood we referenced in our 6/29/12 post, there was renewed interest in origins topics which at first grew slowly within the church in the next few decades and then eventually into the national secular awareness. Eventually creationism became the whipping boy of evolutionists in our educational system in the intervening decades.
At the same time evolution became the whipping boy of creationists. This has become one of the battlegrounds of cultural war in our nation. It may be one of the initial war zones which escalated into other battle zones within our culture. Many people see the 1960s as an important turning point on many fronts. We choose to limit our discussion to science education which had seemingly slumbered in the dozen years since the end of World War II and even in the decades before. To this end my personal experience may lend some light on what happened.
The Russian satellite Sputnik, launched October 4, 1957, brought to light an embarrassing chapter in our nation’s public science education. Our country’s self image suffered a blow when Russia upstaged us in launching an earth-circling satellite. Our program was not really inferior to the Russian technology, but our national pride was wallowing in the embarrassment of being second in this space race as the world watched. Reforms in science education were underway shortly before Sputnik, but it is safe to speak of the 1957 launch as a triggering mechanism. President Eisenhower championed enormous funding to promote the National Science Foundation (NSF) Curriculum Improvement Plan, part of the National Defense Education Act funding in 1958, authorizing funding for broad science education initiatives in public schools. During 1963-65 I participated in three summer NSF institutes in physical sciences and earth sciences funded by the federal government. Our government invested hundreds of millions of dollars in these programs owing to the national perception that our country had fallen behind in crucial areas of public school science education.
One of the most serious deficiencies of our bio-science programs at that time was deemed to be evolution not being taught in our public schools. Accordingly, the NSF responded by providing generous government funding to the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) to provide completely new public school textbooks. The new textbooks replaced the writings of old-style, conventional authors who emphasized the organism. The new textbooks emphasized Neo-Darwinism, and were fueled by the new genetic discoveries of Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953. In general, the new courses took an unabashed turn toward evolution. In previous decades most written resources of our bio-science curriculum had barely mentioned evolution. I recall counseling high school parents about what they could expect from the new emphasis on molecular biology. Public school life science was undergoing a sea change.
Not only was evolutionary biology not on the radar screens in our public schools, but our churches were not tuned in to the creationism time scale discussion except in a small segment of the Christian community before 1960. Specifically, the six literal days of recent creation, and the 6,000 year-old earth was not a basic tenet of faith. Most Christian scholars were far more concerned with evangelism and issues such as the 14-point creed Niagara Bible Conference focusing on sound theology and matters of biblical eschatology. Dozens of sound evangelical science scholars readily endorsed an old earth and accepted the plentiful evidence accumulating for a very old earth as the 19th century became the 20th and mainstream scientific evidence accumulated for a very old earth.
In general, the beliefs of many sincere, faithful evangelical Christians, sometimes estimated to be 40% of our current population and most of whom were born since 1960, anchor their Christian faith on a unique version of Bible interpretation. It is their adamant trust that the Bible allows no interpretation apart from The Genesis Flood, The Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications of John C. Whitcomb and Henry Morris. Such a belief has grounded itself in perceived theological orthodoxy and a large population of sincere evangelicals take comfort that their beliefs are correct and without error.
Who could have predicted this culture war would grow into a major battle ground of our modern time? Evolution now is a word firmly embedded in our modern cultural awareness. It surely is more widely used in the second decade of the 21st century than it was in the days of Sputnik. Our educational system has now become saturated with the term – a cultural icon of our time. In biology texts there are multiple references to the clear meaning of evolution on virtually every page: all earth life has a common ancestor. The implications of this statement are enormous.
What about the young earth creationists’ belief system? This is the other side of the cultural forces aligned that have warred against each other for dominance for over fifty years. If the confluence of these two factors had not occurred from the late 1950s to early 1961, we would have a very different world with respect to the evolution and creationism controversy. The turns of history would have been very different. | <urn:uuid:52500255-1fed-4a3a-9a2b-3d4ea732a3ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jashow.org/articles/history-no-simple-matter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961026 | 1,071 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Art and technology is a beautiful combination and this concept is what UT Dallas grad student, Amy Florence Pickup of the Emerging Media and Communications program, would like to teach girls as she helps hosts the Electronic Fashion Camp along with Etiquette Creative and the Design Your World team from August 1 to 3, 2012 at Oil and Cotton within the Bishops Arts District. At this camp, the girls will learn about designing fashion and electronics using LilyPad Arduino, a microcontroller board specifically for wearable fashion and textiles. This particular electronic device can be sewn into fabric along with power supplies, lights and sensors. One example is a performer’s costume lighting up during a musical concert.
I think this is an absolutely perfect idea and opportunity for young children to be introduced in both the design and technology fields of study so they can be better prepared to be leaders and innovators in this society’s growing techno-culture. We may be looking at future designers, engineers, artists and technologists.
Girls will have an opportunity to work with tech savvy women to create fashion projects using the LilyPad Arduino. Registration is $95 per girl with materials, breakfast and lunch provided for them.
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Dr Philip W. Dyer
(email at [email protected])
The group's research broadly spans the areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry, organometallic, organophosphorus and co-ordination chemistry with much of their work focusing on the preparation and characterisation of molecular transition metal complexes and functionalised organic and heteroatom-containing ligands. These interests are driven by the potential application of these species in industrially-relevant small molecule catalysis. On-going targets include the development of new initiator systems for olefin oligomerisation, co-oligomerisation, and polymerisation; gas-to-liquids technology (GTL); carbonylation; CO2 activation; and hydroformylation. In parallel, the group are exploiting the unusual steric and electronic demands of main group fragments (especially those containing phosphorus) for the stabilisation of a range of unusual, often highly reactive molecular species, which they are starting to use as building blocks for the preparation of tuneable, extended pi-conjugated systems and as "responsive ligands". The group is a part of the Department's Centre for Sustainable Process Chemistry (CSCP).
Further information and research details may be found on the group's web pages.
Selected Research Highlights
1) Multi-functional Heteroditopic Chelate Ligands
Straightforward phosphorus-nitrogen bond-forming reactions provide ready access to a diverse array of multifunctional, heteroditopic P,N-chelate ligands (Scheme 1). P,N-Compounds A-C have found application as ligands for metals in selective alkene dimerisation , oligomerisation , and alkoxy-carbonylation , respectively, while N-phosphino-guanidine D exhibits novel phosphotropic behaviour .
2) “Non-Innocent” Organophosphorus Compounds
The concept of "non-innocent ligands" (NILs) is well-established in transition metal coordination chemistry and describes metal scaffolds that are subject to redox changes at a site remote from the metal. In contrast, there has been little study of redox active motifs at the periphery of main group elements. We have shown that, depending on the nature of the substituents at the phosphorus centre of the N-phosphino-pyridyl imines C, it is possible to exploit the redox behaviour of the pyridyl imine moiety to set up an equilibrium between the 'open' C-o and 'closed' C-c tautomers (Scheme 2) . This equilibrium mixture exhibits a diverse array of chemistry, which can be further 'tuned' by varying the electrophilicity of the phosphorus substituents (R = amido, alkoxy, etc.).
This chemistry opens up an unusual Scholl-type aryl coupling methodology for heterocycles C-c, which may be used to prepare air- and water-stable diphosphonium salts E (Fig. 1). These compounds are analogues of widely studied, electroactive, doubly-reduced viologens, but with a significantly extended pi-conjugated framework, exhibiting interesting photophysical behaviour .
3) “Responsive” Phosphine-based Ligands
a) Variable-coordination Scaffolds
We have started to exploit geometric constraints imposed by organic ligand scaffolds to provide a "flexible" on/off ligand 'arm' binding in conjunction with an asymmetric coordination environment, something of relevance in balancing the steric and electronic demands of many metal-based catalytic cycles (Scheme 3) .
b) Redox-driven Coordination Flexibility
Building on the intriguing and versatile chemistry surrounding pyridyl phosphino imines C, we have begun to explore their use as ligands. Compound C behaves as an unusual multidentate ligand in the coordination sphere of palladium. The neutral form of C coordinates as a kappa-2-P,N-pyridyl ligand , while in its mono-reduced form it behaves as anionic kappa-3-P,N,N scaffold bearing a localised radical, e.g. F. Notably, the Pd(I)-Pd(I) dimer F behaves as a 'masked' form of Pd(0) in its reactions (Scheme 5) .
4) Tungsten-initiated Selective Alkene Dimerisation
Selective alkene dimerisation is an important industrial process used in the manufacture of plastics, fuels, and commodity chemicals. There are a variety of metal initiators known, with one of the most attractive being that derived from reaction of WCl6 with an aryl amine and an alkyl aluminium halide. In collaboration with Sasol Technology UK we are probing the underpinning chemistry surrounding these types of tungsten system, which are believed to involve high oxidation state imido derivatives , and developing initiators with enhanced performance (Scheme 5).
Many of the synthetic procedures used by the group involve working with air- and moisture-sensitive materials that are handled using inert atmosphere glove-box and Schlenk line techniques. Routine use is made of many spectroscopic and analytical techniques including UV-vis, IR, and multinuclear NMR spectroscopies; mass spectrometry; gas chromatography; and X-ray crystallography (undertaken in collaboration with the group of Prof. Judith Howard). Throughout their work the group makes extensive use of 31P NMR spectroscopy, which lends itself very effectively to the in situ monitoring of reactions and makes a powerful diagnostic probe for compound identification and characterisation. Additionally, solid-state NMR is often used to provide further compositional and structural information (collaboration with Dr David Apperley and Fraser Markwell). To further support the group's synthetic chemistry theoretical/computational techniques are applied to determine and rationalize the structure, reactivity, and properties of the compounds prepared. In this area the group collaborate closely with Dr Mark Fox (Durham); Drs Jean-François Halet and Karine Costuas (Université de Rennes 1, France); and Drs Karinne Miqueu and Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France).
Catalyst testing often involves the manipulation of gases under pressure for which the group use dedicated autoclave systems and benefit from access to the Chemistry Department's unique high pressure chemistry facility. Recently, the group have designed and built a high-pressure loop-flow reactor for performing gas/liquid reactions at elevated pressures and, in particular, those involving homogeneous catalysts. The reactor can be used in one of two ways: for rapid/efficient catalyst screening (closed loop) or for undertaking preparative-scale reactions involving gaseous substrates (open loop). The system's small volume brings significant advantages in terms of safety and reactant/solvent economy. In collaboration with Cambridge Reactor Design (www.cambridgereactordesign.com) and the group of Prof. Graham Sandford (Durham), the group have started to explore pressurised gas/liquid reactions in flow regimes.
D. A. Smith, A. S. Batsanov, K. Costuas, R. Edge, D. C. Apperley, D. Collison, J.-F. Halet, J. A. K. Howard, P. W. Dyer, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., 2010, DOI: 10.1002/201003946.
P. W. Dyer, J. Fawcett, M. J. Hanton, Organometallics, 2008, 27, 5082-5087.
C. E. Anderson, A. S. Batsanov, P. W. Dyer, J. A. K. Howard, Dalton Trans., 2006, 5362-5378.
P. W. Dyer, J. Fawcett, M. J. Hanton, J. Organomet. Chem., 2005, 690, 5264-5281.
L. Baiget, A. S. Batsanov, P. W. Dyer, M. A. Fox, M. J. Hanton, J. A. K. Howard, P. K. Lane, S. Solomon, Dalton Trans., 2008, 1043-1056.
D. A. Smith, A. S. Batsanov, K. Miqueu, J-M. Sotiropoulos, D. C. Apperley, J. A. K. Howard, P. W. Dyer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 8674-8677.
D. A. Smith, A. S. Batsanov, M. A. Fox, A. Beeby, D. C. Apperley, J. A. K. Howard, P. W. Dyer, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 9109-9113.
C. E. Anderson, D. C. Apperley, A. S. Batsanov, P. W. Dyer, J. A. K. Howard, Dalton Trans., 2006, 4134-4145.
W. R. H. Wright, A. S. Batsanov, J. A. K. Howard, R. P. Tooze, M. J. Hanton, P. W. Dyer, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 7038-7045.
Chapter in book
- Li, Li, Rowbotham, Jack S., Greenwell, H. Christopher & Dyer, Philip W. (2013). An Introduction to Pyrolysis and Catalytic Pyrolysis: Versatile Techniques for Biomass Conversion. In New and Future Developments in Catalysis: Catalytic Biomass Conversion. Suib, Steven L. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 173-208.
- Redden, Hilary, Milledge, John J., Greenwell, H. Christopher, Dyer, Philip W. & Harvey, Patricia J. (2016). Changes in higher heating value and ash content of seaweed during ensiling. Journal of Applied Phycology
- Radcliffe, James E., Batsanov, Andrei S., Smith, David M., Scott, John A., Dyer, Philip W. & Hanton, Martin J. (2015). Phosphanyl Methanimine (PCN) Ligands for the Selective Trimerization/Tetramerization of Ethylene with Chromium. ACS Catalysis 5(12): 7095-7098.
- Estévez, Laura, Tuxworth, Luke W., Sotiropoulos, Jean-Marc, Dyer, Philip W. Dyer & Miqueu, Karinne (2014). Combined DFT and experimental studies of C–C and C–X elimination reactions promoted by a chelating phosphine–alkene ligand: the key role of penta-coordinate PdII. Dalton Transactions 43(29): 11165-11179.
- Milledge, John J., Smith, Benjamin, Dyer, Philip W. & Harvey, Patricia (2014). Macroalgae-Derived Biofuel: A Review of Methods of Energy Extraction from Seaweed Biomass. Energies 7(11): 7194-7222.
- Anderson, C.E., Batsanov, A.S., Dyer, P.W., Fawcett, J. & Howard, J.A.K. (2006). Chelating N-pyrrolylphosphino-N-arylaldimine ligands synthesis, ligand behaviour and applications in catalysis. Dalton Transactions 45: 5362-5378. | <urn:uuid:afcefbde-999b-47ba-be82-b323f800bb33> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=1317 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.826384 | 2,532 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Ilves in Georgia: Eastern Partnership not a one-way ticket to EU
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, on a two-day official trip to Georgia, said the EU's Eastern Partnership project is not a straight ticket to the union, but added that Georgia, along with Moldova and Ukraine, are in the same boat as the EU.
“We support the expansion of space where common values apply,” Ilves said, adding that the Association Agreement, which is part of the program, but not yet fully ratified by the EU, is a strong part of the EU's policy towards Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. The aim, Ilves said, is to bring the three nations closer to the European Union.
"The Eastern Partnership is not a one-way ticket to the European Union, but we will not rule it out as a final destination," he said.
The EU recently doubled financial aid to Georgia for the 2014-2017 period and trade between the union and Georgia increased 12 percent in six months since signing a free-trade agreement. Ilves said he is optimistic that visa requirements for Georgian citizens will be dropped within 2015.
"The success of Georgia that took the road of innovations after the Revolution of Roses will depend solely on Georgia – the people who live here. This will also depend on the statesmanship of the leaders, freely elected by people, and the scope of your view into the future," said Ilves.
Ilves said Estonia overcame its own stubbornness and convinced outside critics to make it to the EU and NATO, “Because we were sure that if we did everything possible to become as similar to the European Union and NATO member states as possible, the arguments against us would finally lose their strength. This is why I encourage you to follow the path of changes.”
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Alentejo (əlāntāˈzhŏ) [key], historic province, SE Portugal, now divided into Altro (Upper) Alentejo (4,888 sq mi/12,660 sq km) and Baixo (Lower) Alentejo (5,318 sq mi/13,774 sq km). The capital of Altro Alentejo is Évora, and the capital of Baixo Alentejo is Beja. The historic province has been further subdivided into the districts of Beja, Évora, and most of Setúbal and Portalegre. Alentejo, "the granary of Portugal," is drained by the Guadiana River and tributaries of the Sado River. Sheep, horses, cattle, and hogs are raised, and wheat, grains, olives, and fruits are grown. Alentejo produces over half of the world's cork. There are significant wind and solar electrical generation facilities in the region. Alentejo was involved in Portugal's many wars with Castile. The name was formerly spelled Alemtejo.
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Want to know how to improve return on investment in digital marketing. But first understand what it actually means. It specifies whether your marketing campaign could generate worthwhile returns from the resources you have invested. Even though you are taking support of the digital technologies but what matters the most is getting revenue. As a result of this marketers have to be aware of that their efforts are helpful in getting more revenue. In this situation, many organizations look up to ROI to evaluate the impact of all activities.
When you do it, you know how much profit you make and how much you have spent on a campaign. When you get the positive return then it means you are getting good amount of money from your marketing campaigns. However, there is a possibility that you get to know that you are overspending on some of the marketing activities. In this case, you have to work on it and do all the necessary that can help you to get good return as it matters the most.
Once you have discovered those sections that are not performing well then you can take steps for improvement. When you know it then you can realize where you have to spend your marketing budget to gain best results. Furthermore, it is a process where you can enhance the performance and profit by implementing all the strategical decisions. From this blog you will know all the things in an elaborated manner.
What is a good return on investment for digital marketing?
To measure return on investment, you must know how much you have spent and gained from the particular campaign. Therefore, your campaigning budget must include the following components that are present below-
Organic content creation
Social media ads
Marketing tools and platforms
Once you have checked all the marketing expenses, use the subsequent formula to calculate ROI-
Digital Marketing ROI = (Sales Growth – Marketing Cost) / Marketing Cost
You still have the question of whether the ROI is good or bad as you have invested in it. Most marketers consider a 5:1 ROI good, which signifies that you have gained five more times than what you have spent. If your ROI comes in the ratio of 10:1 or more, you yield an impressive return. But if it comes in the proportion of 2:1 or 1:1, then there is a need for improvement.
What is ROI and KPI in Digital Marketing?
In Digital Marketing, ROI stands for Return on Investment, and KPI stands for Key Performance Indicators. However, the term KPI signifies the marketing benchmark measuring the campaign’s performance. It will help you to know various other aspects: customer acquisition cost, cost per lead and customer lifetime value are paramount. All these attributes are essential to know as they are concerned with your marketing efforts that are going on. Furthermore, in the field of Digital Marketing, Return on Investment acts as KPI that will help to know how much was invested and how much profit came. However, if you don’t know how much money you are getting, you won’t know which marketing channels to invest in.
How to measure ROI in digital marketing?
Here are some of the aspects that will help you to measure ROI in digital marketing-
From the conversion rates, you can monitor ROI timely. However, if your marketing objective is to convert, this marketing measure is valid. Most importantly, it will guide you on where you have to spend your resources to acquire better results.
Cost Per Lead
Your cost-per-lead metric proves helpful if you aim to generate more leads through your campaign. Later, you have to estimate how much you spend for each lead.
Lead Close Rate
It becomes essential to analyse the lead close rate. All you have to do is examine the lead close rate in opposition to the generated leads. Furthermore, it will help you to understand how much profit you are getting from a campaign.
Cost Per Acquisition
Your Cost per Acquisition will define how much it costs on average to gain a new customer. If you want to calculate, then you can do it by dividing marketing costs by the number of sales.
Average order value
A metric like Average order value (AOV) seems to be very important. The formula to calculate AOV is to divide the overall revenue by the no of orders. Even though all businesses put more emphasis on getting more no. of orders. But at the same, there is a requirement to give importance to the average value of each order.
Customer Lifetime Value
From a metric like a Customer Lifetime Value, you will keep whether the average consumer will devote their lifetime as a customer.
Strategies to improve Return On Investment in Digital Marketing
Here are some of the strategies that you can use to improve ROI in digital marketing
Establish campaign goals
When you establish campaign goals, then you have to consider numerous aspects. Most of the organizations use SMART goals-Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. When you use this strategy then it can be very beneficial as it will help to reach your goals. Besides this, you can measure the progress of your campaign without facing any difficulty. Even though you’re marketing ROI relies on various other factors which include cost structure, demand etc. Therefore, when you establish the campaign goals then it becomes essential that it will signify the objective of marketing strategy. One thing that you should always remember is to give emphasis in setting up the realistic goals. When you set any unrealistic goals that are concerned with your marketing campaign then it can leave its impact on the entire strategy.
Monitor the right ROI metrics
The foremost important thing is to monitor the right return on investment metrics so that everything is clear. When you go ahead with a paid campaign, you might pay attention to vanity metrics. But these metrics are not helpful as they don’t decipher any value for your campaign results. Moreover, when you invest your time in tracking vanity metrics, it can result in a distraction factor. If you want to know which measurements come under vanity metrics, then it relies on your campaign goal. For example, followers become a vital campaign metric if your goal is to grow your audience.
If your goal is to acquire more leads, calculating followers will result in a distraction or a vanity metric. Therefore, it becomes mandatory to focus on the right metrics and which to ignore. It would be best if your campaign must align with your business objective. For example, revenue is essential if your business aims to acquire more sales. Besides this, other factors vital in the above example include conversions and click-through rates (CTR). Ultimately, all these aspects will help determine how many people have taken an initiative in purchasing the products.
Identify areas for improvement
One helpful strategy is to identify areas for improvement that can be possible only if you discover underperforming metrics. The best way to recognize the weaker sections is to understand the customer’s journey before purchasing. There can be a possibility that the user might visit your website several times before buying anything. If your content isn’t receiving many clicks or has a low CTR, then you should focus on improving all these aspects.
The primary goal is to drive more traffic; you should emphasize the first three pages you want customers to see.When you use a custom audience, you can design a funnel to help you retarget people who have looked at all the pages. Later on, you can make a conversion or sales campaign to help you retarget people who have seen the pages. When you design a multi-step funnel that will acknowledge all the areas of improvement that will help you immensely.
Create higher-value content
Nowadays, it becomes necessary to create higher-value content for your audience. Sometimes there is a possibility that the customers mayn’t respond to you in the same way that you want. Therefore, the best way to deal with this problem is to create high quality of content for the readers. It would be beneficial if you view that the social media captions are going with the potential customers. Besides this, you have to give priority to revisiting your brand voice. Another important thing is that you should go through audience comments and messages to see how your audience interacts.
Later on, you can do some of the chances to facilitate better communication with your customers. In addition, you can add a Call to Action (CTA) that will provoke an immediate response. Furthermore, you should review audience comments as it will help you to recognize Frequently Asked Questions FAQ. After knowing them, your next step is to create content on those questions that will be helpful for the audience. When you provide all the valuable content to the traders, then they will more likely trust your brand.
Test different offers
Obviously, if you pitch in the same way for your product or services, it will not add any value. As a result of this, you should test different offers for your products or services. When you approach them differently, then it can make an impact on them. Therefore when you start experimenting with new offers, then you will get to know what goes well with the customers. Besides this, you should find numerous ways to acquire more revenue for the business.
Here are a few offers that you can follow
Prepare coupon codes for subscribers
Special sales for regular and loyal customers
Experiment with new channels
If you want to increase your brand awareness, you need to experiment with new channels. However, if you are using only a few channels, you will likely miss an opportunity to gain more leads. For example, if you use only one social media platform like Facebook, that is not enough for business. All you can do is take support of other platforms like Instagram that will help a lot in business growth. Plus, you also take support of a paid campaign that will help you to get better results. Another helpful technique will be competitive research that will help you to recognize what is working for other brands. When you do an in-depth analysis, you will know the areas for improvement as it is essential to know.
Leverage marketing automation tools
Some brands believe improving it means reaching a broader audience and acquiring more revenue. However, when the costs are declining, then it can leave an impact on it. One of the best alternatives to decrease expenses of themanual tasks that are taking place in the team. If you could able to manage some tasks, there is a possibility that you will spend less on campaigns. Besides this, you want your entire team to pay attention to higher-value tasks as they matter the most. To abolish manual tasks, you can use some marketing automation tools to handle repetitive tasks. Some automation tools that you can consider to do some of the tasks-
Facebook Chatbot plugins
When the Facebook Chatbot plugins are merged with your website that will urge visitors to raise questions. Later, all the conversations will be displayed in the Facebook inbox that can be managed with DMs.
Facebook Ads Manager
Through Facebook Ads Manager, you can regulate all your paid campaigns within the specific framework. Besides this, you can also turn off inactive campaigns that will help you to save money. Moreover, you can strengthen the successful campaigns that will help you fetch more money.
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Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born11 after the flood.
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided8 in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
And Cush begat1 Nimrod: he began52 to be2 a mighty one in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,11 Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth1 Asshur, and builded4 Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city.
And Mizraim begat1 Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came1 Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
And Canaan begat1 Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.8
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest2 to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest,2 unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.27
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
And Arphaxad begat1 Salah; and Salah begat1 Eber.
And unto Eber were born27 two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided;8 and his brother's name [was] Joktan.
And Joktan begat1 Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the sons of Joktan.
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest2 unto Sephar a mount of the east.
These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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If you thought your Halloween costumes were impressive, meet Cassie McLelland of Mansfield, TX, the DIY genius behind her son's creative Halloween disguises. Caleb McLelland, 9, was born with Spina Bifida (a condition of the spine that limits mobility) and has been in a wheelchair all his life. That doesn't stop Caleb or Cassie from making the most creative costumes around.
Cassie started making costumes for Caleb using his wheelchair when he was 3 years old. "His chair is very much a part of him. It makes sense to make it a part of his costume," she told the TODAY show. Some of her creations include Mario in his Mario Kart, a construction worker, Batman and more.
Noticing a lack of available information and ideas for wheelchair costumes, Cassie started her own blog packed with tips and instructions for replicating her original designs and those from other moms. What brilliant costume is Cassie planning on this year?
"I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but both of my boys love the show Wild Kratts on PBS, so we're planning something with that," she says.
We can't wait to see the finished product! See some of her best work from previous years below.
To learn more about the McLellands and Spina Bifida, visit their family blog, Beyond Measure.
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If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do – Implementing What Helps
The word tightens up and also kicks back doesn’t seem to fit often sufficient – that’s why when it comes to your hips it can be such a vicious circle. Limited hip flexors is a buzz term in many health clubs around America. Individuals in sporting activities circles are regularly stretching their hip flexors; joggers are condemning their great stride on those muscles, and also your consumers are possibly grumbling about their tight aware of you. If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
It’s time to face up to the trouble as well as state enough suffices. You can stretch your hips out all day long as well as never get the advantages. That’s due to the fact that if you wish to get better at points you need to keep them tight. Right here’s a listing of stretches that will certainly aid you do just that.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
One of the best methods to function your hips is to stand on the rounds of your feet and extend your legs directly. Make certain you’re holding a dumbbell in your hands as well as raise your arms from your sides. Next, bend your knees and also go back to the standing placement. Repeat this stretch as lot of times as you can.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
This stretch targets the glutes. Stand with one leg at your side and also maintain your various other leg right. Now, lean somewhat back until you’re practically touching your opposite hip and repeat on the other side. This will certainly target your hip flexors.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
This is also very good for the hips. Stand on the side of a hard flooring surface area, like a step or a small collection of stairways, then prolong your legs out as for they will go. Lean back against the edge of the step or the stairways, taking a small dive at the knees to bring on your own up to a sitting setting. Repeat this stretch as sometimes as you can.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
These stretches can be done prior to and also after you obtain harmed. They will aid you prevent rigidity in the hips. So if you are experiencing hip discomfort, do not ignore the problem. Attempt these stretches to alleviate a few of your pain. You may be pleasantly shocked by how much extending and also warm ups and also other exercises can relieve your signs as well as make you really feel much better.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
You can additionally ask your medical professional or pharmacologist for additional information about this topic. They will certainly have the ability to give you with more in-depth info concerning this condition and concerning hip cracks as well as rheumatoid arthritis. You can also find far more information regarding this condition online. I’ve seen listings of sources that have information on this subject that you can accessibility. Browse the web and find the info you need and afterwards share it with others that are concerned about this essential subject.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
As constantly, be sure to obtain regular check ups from a licensed chiropractic practitioner. This is the best way to keep your hips healthy and balanced. A chiropractic practitioner will certainly have the ability to recognize any type of issues in your stance or your hip flexor muscle mass. He or she can after that deal with you to enhance those muscles and also to recover the appropriate posture.If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
Some individuals experience signs and symptoms comparable to those explained above. This might include an ache or pain in the buttock, hips, groin, or knee. Other people might experience feeling numb or a tingling feeling down their legs or in their arms or fingers. Occasionally individuals feel discomfort, thickness and also also a weakness in their legs. This can be brought on by trochanteric bursitis, which is swelling of the cavity including the trochanterin, a tiny fluid-filled bag that is secreted by the nerve that is part of the hip joint.
If Hip Pain Radiates Into Tailbone What Should I Do
There are several stretches that will assist alleviate this problem. The most common stretch for the hips is the feline stretch. It is called this due to the fact that it goes from the hip to the sphere of the foot. Another stretch involves pushing your back with your knees up and also a hand resting under the buttocks. With your feet hip length apart, delicately pull your bent knees in the direction of the breast and also pull your toes upwards toward the head. You should really feel a stretch in the hamstring muscles that run up the hip shaft and also down the rear of the legs.
Another stretch involves lying on your back with your butts extended. While your legs are straight, pull the inside of your knees toward your upper body. You will certainly really feel the stretch in the hamstring muscle mass that add and down the back of your legs. Repeat on the other side. If you can not get to over and touch your toes, you can make use of a little block to support them. If you can not pull your butt to the ground, you might wish to have a person carefully apply stress or take a break.
One last stretch entails reclining figure 4 stretch. This stretch is less complicated than the pet cat stretch. To carry out the reclined figure 4 stretch, initial pull your knees directly to the floor with the spheres of your feet. Next off, flex your knees so your feet are hing on the flooring. Now, cross your legs over each other and area one foot in the front of the various other with the heel touching the flooring. | <urn:uuid:bd7e693a-d095-40f0-b398-6f6a65985e7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctxtyy.com/if-hip-pain-radiates-into-tailbone-what-should-i-do-learning-what-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952319 | 1,226 | 1.726563 | 2 |
- 1 How graduating from high school is important?
- 2 Why is it important to graduate?
- 3 Why a high school diploma is important to my future?
- 4 What is the value of a high school diploma?
- 5 Why should I finish school and graduate?
- 6 What are the benefits of not quitting school?
- 7 How can college benefit you?
- 8 Is a high school diploma necessary in life?
- 9 How does not having a high school diploma affect your life?
- 10 Is a high school diploma good enough?
- 11 Does a high school diploma matter?
- 12 What is a diploma worth?
How graduating from high school is important?
Higher Wages Not only can your high school diploma help you get better job opportunities, but it can help you to make more money as well. People who do not have diplomas usually make less money, so if you want to make more money at your job, having a diploma is going to be very important.
Why is it important to graduate?
More earnings: A person who gets a graduation degree is liable to get a better job and earn more. It’s obvious that a person, who is more educated, has better knowledge, is more aware and hence qualified to get a better job than just a normal higher secondary pass out.
Why a high school diploma is important to my future?
Not only will your diploma make you competitive for a job and promotions, but your diploma is necessary if you have dreams to pursue any specialized role or career. All trade schools, colleges and universities require applicants have a high school diploma or equivalent in order to qualify to become a student.
What is the value of a high school diploma?
Employers tend to value those who have completed college over those who only have a high school diploma. This means that college graduates are more likely to enjoy greater job security and increased life savings.
Why should I finish school and graduate?
By finishing high school and going on to further education, you are far more likely to get a better job, as the best and most interesting jobs tend to require applicants to have at least an associate’s degree, if not a bachelor’s degree. You’re also far more likely to earn a better salary over your working life.
What are the benefits of not quitting school?
Dropping out of school affects your ability to get a job, your social standing and even your personal health.
- Less Unemployment.
- Better Earning Potential.
- Personal Skill Set.
- Social Benefits.
How can college benefit you?
It prepares you, both intellectually and socially, for your career and your adult life. The benefits of a college education include career opportunities like better paying and higher skilled jobs, but studies have shown that it also leads to overall happiness and stability.
Is a high school diploma necessary in life?
You may ask, “Why is a high school diploma important to my future?” Attaining your high school diploma is a necessary prerequisite to apply for college admission. A college education will help you pursue a career that requires an advanced degree.
How does not having a high school diploma affect your life?
Students who drop out of high school may experience poor health and premature death. Individuals who do not graduate high school are more likely to self-report overall poor health. Ultimately, finishing more years of high school, and especially earning a high school diploma, decreases the risk of premature death.
Is a high school diploma good enough?
Many youths say a high school diploma is enough to succeed, poll shows. Meanwhile, about half said their high school education has provided the skills they need to get a good job right after they graduate. And 45% say a high school diploma is good preparation for future successful workers.
Does a high school diploma matter?
However, in California, you only need to be 18 years or older to attend a community college. A high school diploma is not required, though you may have to take remedial courses offered by the college and some majors, such as engineering, may require a GED before you can transfer to a four-year university.
What is a diploma worth?
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Just like humans, male and female birds share the responsibility of raising children. Both male and female birds leave the nest to collect items to build a nest with. Likewise, both you and your spouse contribute to the home environment whether it is through caring for children or going out into the workplace to earn an income to support your family. Male and female birds also collect food just as both you and your spouse are capable of preparing meals for your children. Once your children have reached an age of maturity they can leave the nest, so to speak, and live their own lives as adults.
However, before your children are old enough to go out on their own you and your spouse need to figure out how to raise your children after a divorce. If you thought that raising a child was difficult when he lived in the same household as your spouse it is the expectation that the degree of difficulty will ramp up now that the two of you are living in separate households. Communication, putting the interests of your child first, and letting your ego take a backseat we’re all important to this equation.
As with anything else, different types of custody agreements come into and out of fashion over time in the world of Texas divorces. Right now, one of the most popular types of visitation in custody arrangements is known as bird’s nest custody. In case any of you were wondering why I was going into detail regarding issues related to birds in the first paragraph of today’s blog post, well, this is why. Since we know that birds and humans share some characteristics when it comes to raising children parents have adopted the bird’s nest approach and have made parenting in this style more common after Texas divorces.
Proponents of this approach to Co-parenting will tell you that it is unique and child-focused. However, as with anything else in the world of Texas family law you need to do a careful analysis of this method of parenting to determine whether or not it would figure to work well for you and your family. In today’s blog post from the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, we are going to walk through bird’s nest custody and whether it seems like it would be a good idea for you and your family. If you have any questions about the material you read in today’s blog post please do not hesitate to contact our office for a free of charge consultation.
Birds nest custody arrangements are becoming more and more popular
In a typical post-divorce world, you and your ex-spouse will be spending a great deal of time in the car driving kids back and forth in between one another’s homes. More accurately, it is the parent who has visitation rights who tends to do more of the driving than the parent who has primary custody. Therefore, many parents try their best to arrange the custody schedule in a way that suits both parents in terms of predictability and ease of logistics. In a city like Houston where traffic can be and often is difficult this is especially important.
While some children get along just fine using this method of back and forth parenting time for many children it does not work out well. Children become used to a certain lifestyle and to up and change the lifestyle abruptly can be a shock to the system of many children. Your children probably have a certain lifestyle that they have become accustomed to in their homes. Friends, school, activities, and other typical markings of a home can be difficult for your child to adjust win put in a situation where they will be separated from those things for extended periods. It can be strange for your child to have two come to grips with only being able to sleep in their bed at home three out of five days of the week or something similar. While we like to think of our children as being resilient oftentimes they are not in the face of incredibly turbulent circumstances after a divorce.
One of the difficult parts about divorce is about your children having to get used to living apart from you and your spouse. For their entire lives, they have become accustomed to knowing that you and your spouse are going to be there each morning and each evening for them. It is comforting to a child to know that they have this sort of stability and consistency in their lives. A divorce can put an end to all of this. children can express the ability to tolerate this type of change but oftentimes life, in general, can impact them just like an adult. What she may find is that your children grow weary of the travel associated with 2 households and not necessarily with having to leave one parent or the other.
The vast majority of the time in a divorce case this is how custody looks once the case comes to an end. Parents will figure out what to do with the marital home including selling it or having one parent stay and one parent move out. Either way there ends up being two households for your child to become acclimated to. The first household is in the old family home but with only one parent. The second household is a brand new home where the parent who moved out now lives. Even with the most child-focused parents in the most flexible children, there can still be a considerable amount of transition involved in this type of custody arrangement.
One of the great things about a Texas divorce case is that the process affords you and your Co-parent ample opportunity to sort through the problems in your family and work out solutions that do not necessarily involve going to court. While going to court in a divorce case is not the end of the world it does not give you any or Co-parent the primary authority to make decisions. Rather, both of you will be tasked with submitting evidence to the judge and the judge will make decisions based on the evidence and the best interests of your children. Oftentimes judges arrive at solutions that work quite well. Oftentimes, however, judges have access to limited information and make decisions that do not suit anyone well. That is the risk of failing to settle your case instead of going before the judge in a trial.
This is where birds nest custody may come in handy for you and your family. Birdsnest custody allows for parents like you and your ex-spouse to choose a common residence for your children to live in. Your children would never have to leave the house. It will be you and your Co-parent that leave the home when you are not slated to have custody of the children. Each of you we have your separate residence apart from the home that is shared with your children. This allows your children, in theory, to have greater consistency in their home environment and hopefully feel like they are more in control of there are surroundings. For the remainder of today’s blog post, we are going to walk through some of the details of the bird’s nest custody period from there, you can apply your circumstances to what we have to say on this subject and can’t have a better determination of whether or not birds nest custody may be something that works for you and your family.
Details on birds nest custody in Texas
To begin with, almost certainly, if you are interested in bird’s nest custody arrangements then new and your spouse will have to negotiate for it in your pre-trial phase. Mediation and informal settlement negotiations should afford you plenty of opportunities to discuss the merits of bird’s nest custody and whether or not it could work for you all. You may choose to negotiate the basic and general details of birds’ nest custody and informal settlement negotiations and choose to use mediation as a time to lock down the final details.
However, if you are not able to negotiate for birds nest custody between you and your spouse before the end of your divorce it is not likely that you will be able to have this implemented into your case. The reason for that is due to most family law judges likely being uncomfortable with implementing such an unorthodox in the somewhat risky method of child custody division. rather, family court judges more often stick with traditional forms of custody and visitation division such as a standard possession order. This does not mean that you cannot have bird’s nest custody assigned to you by a family court judge but the odds are against it. If this is something that you are truly interested in then you need to take matters into your own hands and negotiate for it between you and your spouse.
Bear in mind that a family court judge would need to conclude that bird’s nest custody is in the best interests of your child. This is not out of the realm of possibilities but it is somewhat against the grain and unorthodox. therefore, it would be who’ve you and your Co-parent too be as diligent as possible to use your time together 2 work through different options for custody with your case during negotiations. Do not resolve to do it later or to focus on other issues the first period it is my experience that after a divorce case he will not be satisfied if your finances or property division ended up going the way you wanted it to but we’re not able to say the same about child custody.
One of the factors that I think is extremely relevant when it comes to this subject of sharing a household is that it also means sharing financial responsibilities. You all will have to determine how you want to divide up the financial responsibilities regarding this shared home. this is a tricky situation, to say the least. Being able to figure out how expenses will be shared and how new expenses will be dealt with in the future is something best left for married people to work on. This is one of the most important reasons why people get divorced in the first place. However, you will be continuing with this delicate arrangement after your divorce if you choose to go through with a shared home environment as with a bird’s nest custody plan.
The aim of the divorce court is not to divide property in a way that leaves entanglements between the two of you. on the other hand, well I wouldn’t say that children count as entanglements I also would not tell you that it is unfair to think of them in that way at least in some regards. You and your Co-parent will always have the common bond of your children. No matter what you try to do with custody there will always be the issue of needing to figure out how to best divide time with the children between the two of you. If a bird’s nest plan does not work out then you will need to find something else that does.
what I’m trying to get at is that not only do you all need to think that sharing a house to raise your children in is in their best interests but also that sharing the responsibilities of paying for the house and everything that comes with it is also in the best interest of the children. If you think that you will be bringing in stress and anxiety into your parenting relationship due to the financial aspects of sharing a home after your divorce then I probably would not recommend that arrangement if you were a client.
What to do next if you think bird’s nest custody is a good arrangement for you and your family
The first thing I would do if I were in your shoes would be to collect as much information as possible on the subject of bird’s nest custody. You can talk to experienced attorneys such as those with the law office of Brian Fagan to determine what they’re not this type of custody arrangement seems feasible considering the different circumstances that you all may be facing. I may even go a step farther and ask any divorced parents that you are friends with if they know anyone who has chosen to go this path. You may be able to get a first-hand account of someone who has either had success or failure with this approach to parenting.
The next part of this analysis would be to think about bird’s nest custody from the perspective of whether or not you all can afford this kind of arrangement both from an emotional perspective and form of financial perspective. What will it take for you and your Co-parent to be able to work together to solve the issues in a shared home while you are divorced? Next, you need to determine if the two of you have the financial resources necessary to share a family home and also have your separate residences for when you do not have the children. Being able to pay for one and a half residences is not something that most people can do. You may be able to but you should put some thought into it.
finally, you should begin the process of coming up with a tentative agreement on how to make this work for you and your family. That probably begins with discussing it with your Co-parent and seeing how receptive he or she is to the plan. If it is met with a positive response from your Co-parent and the two of you should put your heads together to see what you can come up with at least on a general basis. The details of a plan can be hammered out in mediation but you need to have preliminary discussions long before mediation to determine whether or not it is even worth your time to try and negotiate through this subject.
Needless to say something as complicated, intricate in unorthodox as this type of structure will take time. You want to be delicate about how you approach the subject given the emotions of a divorce. However, he should also be direct if you believe that this arrangement will be in the best interest of your children.
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In the Nunavut Territory, which is inhabited by less then 32,000 people as stated in a 2011 census, only the hardiest types of plants survive in the Canadian wilderness. Although the summers are short and the winters long, there are 200 flowering plant species in addition to lichens, mosses, evergreen and wetland shrubs, cotton grass, berries and Arctic willows. The official flower of the Nunavut Territory is the purple saxifrage, which is the northernmost flowering plant worldwide.Continue Reading
The average temperature for most of the year in Canada's Nunavut Territory is below freezing. The plant species in the region have developed many adaptations to survive the severe conditions, such as protecting themselves from the cold temperatures by crowding together. This results in the formation of small microclimates. In addition to promoting metabolism and photosynthesis, the temperature within these groupings can be significantly higher than the air around them. Unlike many plants in the temperate latitudes that can be destroyed by freak low temperature conditions, plants in Canada's northern wilderness can be frozen, and then thaw without suffering any damaging effects.
The Inuit people living in the Nunavut Territory, where there are no metropolitan areas, use the hardy plants for both fuel and food. The leaves, fruits and flowers of the Arctic fireweed are made into a salad and the leaves are also used for making tea. The cranberries, blueberries and crowberries of the region are also popular food items among the Inuit.Learn more about Geography | <urn:uuid:97c01bba-1f9a-4a14-8cb9-5667e44c1c32> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/geography/types-plants-found-canadian-wilderness-f83a297b176b48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00250-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953987 | 314 | 4.1875 | 4 |
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Huts on stilts perch above the coral of the turquoise lagoon, hammocks awaiting a lazy siesta and sunset cocktails. The Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat is a living Eden. But for how long?
This remote pearl of Asia between the Pacific and Indian oceans in eastern Indonesia's Papua province has remained a closely guarded secret and one of the last frontiers of tourism, known only to intrepid travellers and avid divers.
Raja Ampat's palm-fringed islands, surrounded by an underwater kaleidoscope of coral and fish, are described by the regional tourism office as "the last paradise on earth".
A 2002 report by US-based Conservation International (CI) classed the waters as "potentially the world's richest in terms of marine biodiversity," with nearly 1400 varieties of fish and 603 species of coral.
The 610 rocky islets of Raja Ampat -- meaning Four Kings in Indonesian -- are sprinkled over an area of 4.5 million hectares, boasting 750 kilometres of pristine sandy beaches.
"It's the best diving in the world," said Pam Roth, an enthusiast for 33 years. "I like the remoteness of the place. You don't see a lot of people here," the 78-year-old retired Londoner said.
But trouble is lurking.
In the Papua mainland, a thousand kilometres southeast of Raja Ampat, calls for independence by Papua's indigenous Melanesian population that began decades ago have become more vocal in recent years, after Indonesia's turn toward democracy in 1998.
Tribal and local leaders accuse the government of robbing rich forests and mines, polluting water and land in the resource-rich region, and putting little back into one of the country's poorest areas.
The Papua region is off-limits to foreign journalists.
Last month eight people were killed in ambushes and clashes with police after an ongoing workers' strike at a gold and copper mine operated by US company Freeport McMoRan turned ugly near Timika, a city in Papua's mainland.
Because of the distance from the mainland, the sparsely populated Raja Ampat islands remain largely untouched by the troubles for now.
The small number of adventurers arriving each year to the idyllic isles remain focused on diving and nature, largely unaware of the problems of the region.
So far, the islands have remained largely protected from another scourge: mass tourism.
They house only seven "resorts" (with three under construction), each with a dozen villas at most. In addition, 39 "liveaboards" with a maximum of 20 people aboard each vessel, ply the waters.
In all, last year Raja Ampat welcomed only 4515 visitors -- one for every 1000 hectares -- each paying up to $US5000 ($A5050) a week for a villa nestled in the mangroves or a cabin in a traditional wooden boat.
But that could change, as the islands gear up to attract and welcome more tourists.
Remoteness has been the main bulwark against mass tourism. With no air link, the most practical way is to land in Sorong, the closest town, and take a three- or four-hour ride on a wheezy ferry that began operating last year.
Signs of change are visible in a runway being hacked out of the forest, where chainsaws clearing the way for an airport due to open next year drown out the singsong of exotic birds.
A road connecting the future airport runs beside a stunning, translucent bay rich with coral that was once completely isolated but now is threatened by the impending scourges of construction and tourism.
"We hope it (the airport) will bring many tourists from many countries," enthused Yusdi Lamatenggo, the regional tourism minister.
But Jimmy Praet, manager of a company that pioneered tourism in Raja Ampat, feared that "an airport will make this place too accessible: it's so remote and unique now".
Praet's "Papua Diving," which opened the first resort in the mid 1990s, rents a dozen villas nestled between jungle and sandy beach or perched above the lagoon on the island of Kri, to up to 34 privileged guests.
"If they want this to be another Bali, the tourists will leave," Praet warned, referring to the popular Indonesian island which is often seen as a victim of mass tourism.
"We do not want to compete with Bali, we do not want to develop big resorts like in Bali," insisted Hari Untoro Dradjat, senior adviser at the National Tourism Ministry.
"Quality, not quantity, is the goal," he added. "We believe in the protection of the uniqueness of this area."
The number of tourists arriving in Raja Ampat is "actually still very low compared to other tourism destinations, nonetheless there are already signs of overcrowding on specific popular dive sites," said Mark Erdmann, senior advisor for Conservation International in Indonesia.
"The important thing will be to carefully manage tourism development to spread the pressure over a greater area of Raja Ampat and avoid crowding on popular sites," he said.
He welcomed a new regulation adopted in July restricting the number of resorts to 20, about three times the present number.
In May 2007, the government imposed an entrance fee of 500,000 Indonesian rupiah ($A55) for foreign visitors and 250,000 for Indonesians, with 30 per cent of the proceeds going to the regional tourism ministry, and the rest for conservation, education and health.
"Raja Ampat is eco tourism not mass tourism like Bali," insisted Lamatenggo, citing as proof the recent creation of seven marine parks covering a total of 1.2 million hectares, or 45 per cent of the region's reefs and mangroves.
But the government has refused to yield on development, despite repeated objections by NGOs in Indonesian Papua.
Erdmann said that construction was beginning to take its toll on the fragile ecosystem.
"Raja Ampat right now is already suffering from a number of ill-conceived government infrastructure development projects, especially from 'ring road' development around many of the bigger islands," he said.
"There is in fact no real justification for these roads, as the people of Raja Ampat do not have any cars or motorbikes but rely on sea transportation," Erdmann stressed, adding that the work is smothering precious reefs.
He complained that the government had turned a deaf ear to calls for a system of public ferries to transport people and goods, in large part because crooked contractors and corrupt officials were pushing road projects, which were being built haphazardly and with little regard for the ecosystem.
Devastating assaults on the archipelago are also coming from dynamite fishing -- which is officially banned but "still exists" according to Lamatenggo -- and from coastal mining projects.
"I'd expect they'll ruin the place," joked Helmut Hochstetter, a 60-year-old German, as he prepared for a dive in the company of manta rays.
"Better then to enjoy it while we still can," he said before disappearing under water.
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Cloth-Diapering 101 by BabyLeaf
WHY USE BABY LEAF CLOTH DIAPERS ?
Cloth Diapers Are Healthier For Your Baby...
Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate. If you have ever seen the gel-like, super absorbent crystals in a disposable, then you have seen this first hand. Sodium polyacrylate is the same substance that was removed from tampons because of its link to toxic shock syndrome. No studies have been done on the long-term effects of this chemical being in contact with a baby's reproductive organs 24 hours a day for upwards of two years.
Baby Leaf One Size Cloth diapers, on the other hand, are free of the many chemicals contained in disposable diapers.
Cloth Diapers Are Better For The Environment...
Disposable diapers require thousands of tons of plastic and hundreds of thousands of trees to manufacture. After a few hours of usage, these used diapers are trucked away, primarily to landfills. When you consider the huge volume of garbage created, the toxic air and water pollution, and the potential health risks to children, it is very difficult to comprehend how washing and reusing cloth diapers could ever be considered an inconvenience. They are a rewarding investment all around - a financial investment, an investment in our children’s health and an investment in our planet.
Cloth diapers are more economical...
The initial investment for Baby Leaf One Size Cloth diapers is more economical because the All-in-one size feature allows you to adjust the diapers’ size as your baby grows. This translates into more savings, since you don’t need to keep buying new sizes as your baby grows. Even after factoring in the water, detergent and energy used in laundering cloth diapers, it still comes out as the more economical choice.
Cloth diapers are convenient.
Baby Leaf One Size Cloth diapers are just as easy to put on as disposables. There is no need to fumble with pins, as snaps have replaced them. There is also no need for rubber or plastic pants like those you see in department stores, which are hot and do not breathe. Our covers are breathable and waterproof.
Cloth diapers are fun!
Baby Leaf One size cloth diapers come in fabulous colors and prints. Shopping for cloth diapers is like shopping for clothes. You pick out the cutest ones and cannot wait to put them on your baby! As your child gets older, he or she can also join in the fun and assert independence by choosing which print or color to wear.
Potty-training is easier.
Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see 4 or even 5-year-olds still in diapers. This is because wearing disposable diapers makes toilet-training more difficult. When a disposable diapered-child urinates, the diaper still feels dry, and the child is unable to make the connection that peeing will result in getting wet and feeling uncomfortable. This also translates into more expenses, since parents have to buy disposable diapers for a longer period of time.
Cloth-diapered children, on the other hand, learn quickly that it is better to pee in the toilet than in their pants.
We've got even more reasons for you to use cloth diapers for your baby! Have you ever considered making the switch?
1. It's better for your baby's health.
Baby Leaf One-Size Cloth Diapers are completely safe for your baby, unlike many conventional disposable diapers which use sodium polyacrylate to absorb moisture. This chemical substance is found in nearly all single-use diapers, and has even been observed to leave a residue on baby's genitals after a diaper change. According to the National Association of Cloth Diapers (U.S.A) dioxin, a by-product of the paper-bleaching process, poses another risk factor among wearers of disposables. This was the same chemical by-product found in a variety of toiletries, which has been linked to cancer, birth defects, liver damage, and skin diseases. With Baby Leaf One-Size Cloth Diapers, you can be sure none of these harmful chemicals will ever touch your baby's delicate skin.
2. It's environmentally-friendly.
It's no mystery that disposable diapers are an environmental risk. Just check out these statistics:
In 1988, over 18 billion diapers were sold and consumed in the United States that year.4 Based on our calculations (listed below under "Cost: National Costs"), we estimate that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are consumed every year in the U.S.1
The instructions on a disposable diaper package advice that all fecal matter should be deposited in the toilet before discarding, yet less than one half of one percent of all waste from single-use diapers goes into the sewage system. Over 92% of all single-use diapers end up in a landfill.
No one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose, but it is estimated to be about 250-500 years, long after your children, grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren will be gone.
These statistics prove that disposables are creating a growing problem in terms of waste and pollution. By using cloth diapers such as Baby Leaf's One-Size Cloth Diapers, you help minimize these environmental risk factors, and you also protect our Earth.
3. It'll be easier to potty train your baby.
According to an article published in the New York Times in 1999, 90 percent of babies in 1957 who used cloth diapers were potty trained as early as 18 months. Since the advent of disposable diapers, the average baby that uses single-use diapers daily is expected to only be potty-trained between his 36th to 42nd month. That's your average 3 to 4 year old! This is mainly due to the fact that disposable diapers “exempts” a baby or child wearing it from the feeling of discomfort after he urinates.
When you use cloth diapers, such as Baby Leaf's One Size Cloth Diapers, your baby feels the wetness whenever he pees or poops. This is actually beneficial for potty-training, since your baby will learn to communicate his discomfort and promote his toilet training habit. This is why cloth diapering encourages your child to develop an increased sense of communication and self-awareness, which is essential to his development.
4. Cloth-diapering actually is convenient, unlike many choose to believe.
Modern cloth diaper makers have considered how multinational producers of disposables have marketed single-use diapers, and have learned how to combine the convenience of using disposables with the eco-friendliness of using cloth. Today, cloth diapers no longer need to be folded, ironed and pinned. You can get cloth diapers with disposable inserts, washable covers, Velcro straps or snaps, organic cloth diapers, and other options.
With Baby Leaf One Size Cloth diapers, for example, you get a cost-effective, one-size diaper made of child-friendly materials that grows with your baby, and comes in a variety of styles and colors. Snap buttons adjust the sizing to fit small, medium and large babies, while providing a snug and comfortable custom fit. It's got a waterproof, outer layer that prevents leaking, an inner layer of custom micro fleece that keeps baby dry, and a pocket insert function.
5. It's more cost-effective in the long run.
While it's true that you will spend a large amount when you get your first bulk supply of cloth diapers, the overall cost-effectiveness of cloth diapers far outweigh what you'll end up spending on disposables. First of all, the Baby Leaf One Size Cloth diapers are more economical because it enables you to adjust the diapers’ size as your baby grows – no need to buy another batch of diapers when your baby shoots up after a growth spurt. Secondly, cloth diapers – as we previously mentioned – encourage early potty training. This means that your baby will be in diapers for less time, which translates to more savings. Thirdly, you'll save on waste production and spending on non-biodegradable disposables, because you can include your cloth diapers in your regular wash loads.
The Baby Leaf Mission
Baby Leaf was founded upon a mission to provide hard-to-find, award-winning and environmentally-friendly baby products to discerning moms and dad. Born out of a working mom’s desire to provide only the best, safest and baby-friendliest for her newborn, Baby Leaf is committed to helping parents do the same: conveniently, affordably, and most of all, naturally.
Baby Leaf brings you a comprehensive, top-of-the-line selection of eco-friendly products. Over the years, our natural parenting and baby products has grown: Now, we offer you a full range of one size cloth diapers, bath and body products, apparel, feeding ware, health & hygiene products, toys & books, baby gear, and fabulous nursing and breastfeeding aids. By making these certified, award-winning products available to you, we hope to help you find the right solutions for your baby care needs.
When you shop at Baby Leaf, you can be sure that you are making conscious choices for your children and our planet.
About the Mompreneur – Trisha Lim
Trisha Lim began Baby Leaf out of a desire to get high-quality, all-natural and eco-friendly items for her baby. When she realized the limited availability of these items in the Philippines, she utilized the power of the Internet so she could cater to many other like-minded moms who wanted the convenience of online shopping for premium baby products. Trisha then established Baby Leaf in 2010 as the online haven for premium, award-winning and eco-friendly products for moms and babies. Today, she maintains a positive and warm relationship with her clients as she manages the operations of Baby Leaf while balancing parenting and marriage. She and her husband, Stuart, have three beautiful little girls.
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The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
by Susan Galbraith, The Quill
Jack Brokaw of Biggsville was born and raised west of Raritan on the old Brokaw home farm. He said, "When I was born my sister Lois, (then 3 years old) was the midwife. She helped with my delivery until the doctor could arrive.
His parents, George E. and Mary Florence Brokaw are deceased.
He has two sisters, Lois Campbell of Stronghurst and Lillian Bray of La Harpe; two brothers, James of Houston, Texas and John of Stronghurst.
In 1940 Jack graduated from Media High School. After high school he went to Chicago and was employed as a truck driver for Chicago and St. Louis Transfer Company.
He then joined the Air Force for 3 years. He enlisted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
He was shipped to England where he met his wife Pat. Pat had sung, when she was younger at family Pubs and when she was 19 she sang for big bands in ballrooms in Manchester, England. The story of their meeting happened when Jack had come into town, on a train, and saw this beautiful young lady walking by on the train platform. He was so taken with her that instead of getting on the train as he had planned, he promptly made a U-turn and got on the same train with her so he could strike up a conversation. He even said, "I went AWOL just to spend time with my beautiful Pat." Four months later they were married.
While he was enlisted in the Air Force he was selected to be in a cadre of the 397th fighter squadron in the 368th group (P-47's). He was a structural repairman ("sheet metal gang') and was first stationed in West Overfield, Maryland and then various locations across the states. He was continually moved so he would be closer to the coast as he was being prepared to ship out overseas. He was deployed on the ship Argentina.
Jack said, "While I was on a convoy on the Argentina, there were several ships that had sailed at the same time. During the night there was a submarine scare and when we got up the next morning we were the only ship in sight. The rest just disappeared."
He said, "After debarking the Argentina I was in Glasgow, Scotland and we were put on trains for Southern England. On June 9th I was on a LST (landing ship tank) weapons carrier to Omaha Beach. The first fighter planes were stationed on the continent."
After his marriage to Pat he was shipped back to the states and two months later Pat came on the Queen Mary. They lived in Kansas City, Missouri for 1 years before moving to his farm near Biggsville where they lived from 1948 to 1999. Jack then built a home in Biggsville where he and Pat resided until she passed away.
To their union they have two children. Terry (Arthur) Bourne of Gulf Shores, Alabama and Steve (Sheri) who lives on the Brokaw home place east of Biggsville.
He and Pat visited all 48 states when the kids were young. "We always enjoyed those family vacations."
They owned a home in Gulf Shores, Alabama for 34 years, traveling there first in the winters and then also spending some time in the summers.
He has 6 grandchildren: Tammatha, Julia (deceased), Christopher, Jason, Jared and Jonathen, 5 great-grandchildren, Victoria, Anthony, Julia, Colt and Cody and 1 great-great granddaughter, Kayla.
"I have gone back to Omaha Beach at Normandy on three different occasions. Twice with Pat and a few years ago I took my daughter, Terry, and husband and spent 6 weeks. We traveled back to the point where the LST of the 368th fighter group had landed when I was there.
A memorial plaque (rock), where the first landing strip was built on the continent after D-Day and dedicated to the servicemen reads: June 18, 1944 the 368th group was the first operation air unit in France after the D-Day advanced landing ground A-3 was built by the 816 Battalion AAF engineers of 9th Air Force in respectful memory to those who gave their lives for liberty. Cardonville, Defosse Fontenay 1-10-1988.
9000 men are buried at Omaha Beach.
"I also was a member of one of the Honor Flights from the Quad Cities. At the same time Mike West went with his dad, Raymond. I shall never forget how helpful Mike was to me. Upon viewing the plaques in Washington, D.C. there was no mention of General Patton on any of them. That was very disappointing to me."
Jack said, "Patton was a great general. I saw him once and his entourage of jeeps when they came to the German airfield where I was. I heard him yell, "Where the h-- is the gasoline."
Jack is a member of the Rozetta Baptist Church.
Jack laughed as he said, "Once when Pat and I were in Gulf Shores we sent Terry and Steve a $100 each to come down and visit. Terry came and Steve pocketed his!"
He enjoys stonework, woodwork, stain glass and farming.
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Here's how to make a water balloon slingshot will give you power and prestige, while defending and dominating your next water fight.
In this project you'll learn how to make a custom sling-bow that lobs water bombs over 150 feet away, and can shoot up to 3 balloons at a time.
These desktop rockets are impressively powerful, leave a cool trail of smoke, and shoot up to 40 feet away. Surprisingly, they’re only powered by one single match head.
In this project you'll learn how to use aluminum foil and a box of matches, to make the ultimate in desktop weaponry ... homemade, Matchbox Rockets!
How to take everyday sprinkler parts and convert them into a portable, hand-held rocket launcher! It's cheap to make, easy to use, and will send a paper rocket over 300 feet!!
How to build an Oxy-Hydrogen generator from scratch. In this project, let's build a sexy looking generator that uses electricity to convert water into an extremely powerful fuel! | <urn:uuid:68c01677-8a35-4e58-8c77-b1ffd2a5abaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tkor.squarespace.com/paypal-test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00116-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913726 | 210 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Malcolm X Day takes place on May 19, 2017. Malcolm X Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Malcolm X which is celebrated either on May 19 (Malcolm's birthday), or the third Sunday in the month of May. The commemoration has legal status in the city of Berkeley, California. It is also a proposed holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C, with numerous calls for it to be celebrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday.
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. (With material from: Wikipedia) | <urn:uuid:c1c6ac23-448c-4f3f-b4c5-ec07789fc80d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cute-calendar.com/event/malcolm-x-day/21375.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00167-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968943 | 191 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Beyond is another song that was created from my deep love of sky/star watching that I’ve had ever since I was a young boy. Nothing has quite captured my attention like looking at the night sky. Looking up the stars; gazing at the absolute mind-blowing hugeness of it all. That is how this song starts - a simple piano melody to portray eyes fixed heaven-ward in complete wonder at the vastness of our view from Earth.
The mighty Andromeda galaxy showing off in all its glory.
The moon blanketed with thousands of craters and kissed by the sun; creating a light-show of shadows dancing across the lunar surface.
It’s overwhelming to behold. It brings a shiver often times to the back of my neck and down my arms.
I’m in complete awe of how all of this was created by a God who knows the very number of hairs upon my head. A God who is intimately acquainted with me, thinks of me, and loves me so much that he would sacrifice his only son Jesus to make a way for me to be with him for my eternity. That He would care for me!? How can it be!
This song musically paints a journey beyond the walls of this world - further than we have ever imagined. Perhaps on one of the incredible SpaceX rockets / capsules, or the new ships being built by NASA. Either way, the cello comes into the center of this song to bring to mind travelers getting set to rocket through our atmosphere. They are looking out the windows of their launch vehicle, anxious with anticipation - perhaps even saying silents prayers for safety as the vehicle begins to come to life.
The rumble of the engines.
The incredible power!
Hurtling through the air at incredible speeds, our travelers pierce the thin veil of Earth’s atmosphere and are at once weightless; floating in the zero gravity of space.
But their journey is not over. The second stage engines are about to send them further and further out into distances we have only heard of in science fiction.
The course is plotted. The time has come.
The quiet of the moment is awakened by the blast of the second stage.
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PAPINEAU, dit Montigny, SAMUEL, soldier, copyholder of the Sulpicians on the côte Saint-Michel, Montreal Island; b. at Montigny in the province of Poitou, son of Samuel Papineau, a merchant, and of Marie Delain (Delair); buried 23 April 1737 at Sault-au-Récollet.
Samuel Papineau was a soldier in the company of the Sieur d’Andresy, which arrived at Quebec in 1688; the latter, who died during the crossing, was replaced by Aloigny de La Groye. For ten years Papineau served faithfully under Frontenac [Buade*] and Callière, and was then discharged. On 25 April 1699 he acquired from the Sulpicians a land grant of 60 acres on the côte Saint-Michel. In 1705 he sold this land to Jean Guillebert, dit Laframboise, and in 1711 obtained ownership of a new grant of land at Rivière-des-Prairies which he retained until his death in 1737. He left only a few possessions, as is shown by the inventory drawn up after his death.
On 6 June 1704, at Rivière-des-Prairies, Samuel Papineau had married Catherine Quevillon (1686–1781), by whom he had nine children. When she was young, Catherine had been carried off by the Iroquois, and ransomed after several years of captivity. She married four times and died at the age of 95.
Samuel Papineau was only a private soldier; he concerned himself particularly with the land grants which were made to him from 1699 on. He is the ancestor of the Papineau families in Canada.
AJM, Documents judiciaires, 29 juillet 1738; Greffe d’Antoine Adhémar, 5 nov. 1705; Greffe de Jacques David, 11 mars 1720; Greffe de Pierre Raimbault, 25 avril 1699, 8 juin 1704, 29 janv. 1711, 29 juillet 1738. Registre des audiences, 31 juillet 1739, 12 janv. 1740. Jean Leclerc, “Les capitaines d’infanterie 1683–1689,” SGCF Mémoires, XI (1960), 163–67. D.-B. Papineau, “Samuel Papineau,” et “Généalogie de la famille Papineau au Canada,” BRH, XXXIX (1933), 331–46, 483–94. | <urn:uuid:3149d060-b3b5-4f12-8058-030d3c78a2da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/papineau_samuel_2E.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884564 | 581 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A Factor of Two
The password is dead. At least, so they say – the headlines anyway. And if you haven’t seen them, you may not be paying attention. From the 2011 Forbes article declaring “The Password is Dead”, to the December 2012 Wired Magazine cover story titled “Kill the Password”, to the recent 2013 American Banker report reiterating “The User Name and Password Are Dead. Now What?”. Houston, we clearly have a problem – one that requires solving.
Authentication processes that only rely on static values presented at each logon event are well known to be vulnerable to compromise. It only takes a single misstep to fall victim to malicious threats lurking in the inter-webs, keystroke-logging their way into your online life.
Is it surprising to see the rapid adoption of two-factor authentication by social and consumer sites such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Twitter, Evernote, Dropbox, PayPal, and so many others? Please explain: why wouldn’t you want to protect your online banking account with at least the same level of security protecting your Facebook account!? Struggling to understand why these online services are surpassing the adoption rates of technologies by banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions? Me too. Maybe what’s even tougher to accept is the number of financial institutions not even offering such enhanced authentication features to their customers? One barrier often cited is the fear institutions tend to have around customer attrition due to overburdening security hoops. I may have given you that one a few years ago, but two-factor authentication is becoming more of a standard offered in many online services, such as the popular ones listed above. Google recently introduced their two-factor authentication for Gmail users. With nothing more than a simple instructional video, Google rolled out this feature in “3 easy steps.” Quite possibly, banks and credit unions alike haven’t considered that such enhanced authentication features might be welcomed and seen as a benefit or differentiating advantage in the eyes of their customers and members.
Introduce the smartphone. Yeah, you know, that device nearly every one of us owns. You remember now – the one you have connected at your hip. Consider online banking, from a security perspective, and realize the opportunity a mobile device introduces. Then consider engaging that mobile device in authentication-based events – representing the “something I have” in the two-factor realm. Why would your institution not leverage this second factor? To send a real-time SMS message to authenticate a user at login? To initiate an automated call containing a one-time code to authorize a transaction? Or to validate a higher-risk activity using a randomly generated value from a soft token app? This added level of security could often be just enough to halt fraudsters perpetrating account takeover attacks. Sure, it has its weaknesses, such as a smart phone infected with a malicious SMS-stealing Trojan. But show me a technology that doesn’t have weaknesses. There isn’t. That’s why the best protection strategy is one that employs “multi-layered” security controls, to compensate for whatever weaknesses may exist in one control with the strengths of other controls.
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The human pathology Wilson disease (WD) is seen as a toxic copper (Cu) accumulation in human brain and liver, leading to, among other signs, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis of hepatocytes. existence of Cu. These data reveal that Candesartan Cilexetil boosts candida tolerance to Cu irrespectively of main ROS-detoxifying protein. Finally, we display that particular ARBs can boost mammalian cell tolerance to Cu, aswell as reduce the prevalence of Cu-induced apoptotic markers. All of the above indicate the potential of ARBs in avoiding Cu-induced toxicity in candida and mammalian cells. continues to be associated with perturbations in sphingolipid (SL) homeostasis 18, which are necessary membrane components in regards to to apoptosis 19 and mitochondrial function 20,21. On the other hand, Lee and coworkers didn’t show any modifications inside a subset of SL varieties in response to Cu treatment 22. Therefore, the query whether Cu certainly leads to mitochondrial dysfunction in candida remains under argument. Nonetheless, with a Cu-induced toxicity display in candida, we previously recognized an model for Cu-intoxication, therefore validating our Cu-toxicity display in candida in the framework of apoptosis and mitochondrial dysfunction. In order to identify small substances that can relieve Cu-induced toxicity in candida, we screened the Pharmakon 1600 repositioning collection comprising 1600 drugs, that are promoted or have already been examined in clinical tests. Drug repositioning is known as the recognition and advancement of fresh uses of existing or forgotten medicines. It possesses many advantages over medication discovery such as for example known security FGF2 and pharmacokinetic information, aswell as understanding of developing and toxicology from the substances looked into 25,26. Current areas appealing for program of such repurposing technique include the id of book antibiotics 27, the boost of efficiency of existing antimycotics by potentiation 28, but also book remedies for orphan illnesses 29. The Pharmakon collection was screened inside our Cu-based yeast-toxicity display screen 18. Repurposed substances that have scored positive within this Cu-based fungus toxicity display screen were further examined because of their potential to improve fungus tolerance to Cp, another inducer of mitochondrial dysfunction. Subsequently, we translated these 97792-45-5 data to a mammalian cell placing. All our data indicate the protective aftereffect of ARBs against Cu-induced toxicity. Outcomes Screening for substances that can boost fungus tolerance to Cu The Pharmakon 1600 repositioning collection was screened for agencies that can boost fungus tolerance to Cu as referred to previously 18. Quickly, WT fungus was inoculated in solid development medium formulated with a lethal Cu focus 97792-45-5 97792-45-5 (100 M) as well as the viability sign dye MTT (0.1 mg/mL). All 1600 substances (10 mM in DMSO) had been discovered (5 L) onto the solid agar. Pursuing 24 h of incubation, the plates had been checked for advancement of crimson halos across the discovered substances, caused by the conversion from the viability dye MTT and therefore indicative for practical cells. Considering that Cu chelation or sequestration is among the main mobile Cu detoxification systems 30,31, we determined many agencies with known chelating activity such as for example Deferoxamine Mesylate 32 and Oxyquinoline Sulfate 33. Therefore, such agents had been 97792-45-5 omitted to exclude aspecific Cu chelation. This led to the id of seven substances (data not proven) that aren’t recognized to chelate Cu and will boost tolerance of fungus cells to Cu. Included in this were two people from the medication course of Angiotensin II Type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) 34, specifically Candesartan and Losartan. Provided the actual fact that many studies have noted beneficial ramifications of ARBs, such as for example Candesartan and Losartan, on individual pathologies associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis, such as for example diabetes, Alzheimer disease and maturing 35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42, we chosen the medication course of ARBs for even more characterization of their activity using the model fungus This collection of mutants was also lately examined to characterize cell loss of life induced by mutant didn’t display changed susceptibility to poisonous Cu when compared with wild type fungus, which is consistent with books 18,45,52, nor.
Purpose We investigated the connection between carotid artery FDG uptake and cardiovascular risk based on the Framingham risk score (FRS) and evaluated the possible role of FDG uptake in terms of risk stratification of asymptomatic adults. factors. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that triglyceride levels, diabetes, and metabolic T-705 syndrome were independent determinants of high TBRglu. Of subjects with metabolic syndrome, those exhibiting high carotid artery FDG uptake had significantly higher levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP). In subjects who did not have metabolic syndrome, FRSs were significantly elevated in those exhibiting high carotid artery FDG uptake compared to those with low uptake (13.1??7.0 vs. 8.2??7.4), as was also true of subjects with the syndrome (21.8??16.0 vs. 13.5??11.9). Conclusion High carotid FDG uptake is significantly associated with clinical risk factors and FGF2 a greater FRS. Of subjects with metabolic syndrome, those with high carotid uptake had significantly higher hsCRP concentrations and FRSs. Therefore, carotid artery FDG activity may serve as a possible biomarker allowing cardiovascular risk stratification of asymptomatic populations. test was used as appropriate when variables were continuous, and the chi-squared or Fishers exact test when variables were categorical. Correlations were sought using Pearsons or Spearmans test. To determine factors affecting TBRglu values, multiple stepwise regression analysis was performed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics, version 18, IBM Inc., New York, NY). A value?0.05 was thought to reflect statistical significance. Outcomes The medical characteristics from the 290 topics are summarized in Desk?1. The mean age group was 54.5?years. Of T-705 most topics, 71 (24.5?%) got hypertension, 42 (14.5?%) diabetes, T-705 123 (42.4?%) had been current smokers, and 28 (9.7?%) took statins. The mean FRS was 12.0??3.4?%. The mean TBR and TBRglu had been 1.3??0.1 and 1.6??1.2, respectively. In today’s study, we didn’t try to compare TBRglu and TBR; thus, we centered on TBRglu in this article. Desk 1 Clinical factors of study topics Ninety-three topics (32.1?%) had been identified as having metabolic symptoms by health verification. Their suggest TBRglu was considerably higher than that of topics without the symptoms (1.5??0.3 vs. 1.3??0.2, P?0.001). The 75th percentile of TBRglu in every topics was 1.5, which worth was chosen by us as the threshold for data analysis. Two groups, displaying low and high FDG uptake from the carotid arteries, could be recognized utilizing a TBRglu threshold of just one 1.5 (Desk?1). More people from the high uptake group had been male (70.8 vs. 49.7?%, P?=?0.003) and more were obese (high bodyweight, P?=?0.003; BMI, P?=?0.001; waistline circumference, P?=?0.004) compared to the low uptake group. The previous topics had considerably higher BP (P?0.005); raised degrees of fasting plasma blood sugar (P?0.001), triglycerides (P?=?0.001), -GT (P?=?0.014), and hsCRP (P?=?0.009); and smaller degrees of HDL cholesterol (P?=?0.001). Also, these topics exhibited even more hypertension (P?0.001), diabetes (P?0.001), and metabolic symptoms (P?0.001) compared to the low uptake group. Furthermore, their FRSs had been considerably higher (P?0.001). Relationship analysis demonstrated that TBRglu was considerably associated with body weight (P?=?0.001); BMI (P?0.001); BP (P?0.001); the levels of triglycerides (P?0.001) and -GT (P?0.001); and the FRS (P?0.001); and negatively associated with the level of HDL cholesterol (P?0.001). In addition, male gender (P?0.001), diabetes (P?0.001), metabolic syndrome (P?0.001), and hypertension (P?0.001) were significantly associated with high TBRglu. The results of multiple stepwise linear regression analysis are presented in Table?2. Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and triglyceride levels were independent determinants of high TBRglu. Table 2 Multiple stepwise regression analysis between glucose-corrected FDG uptake and clinical variables We compared clinical cardiovascular risk factors and FRS data in subjects stratified by the presence of metabolic syndrome and TBRglu (threshold 1.5) (Table?3). Of those without metabolic syndrome, the subgroup with high TBRglu had more males (P?=?0.006) and a higher frequency of diabetes (P?0.001). Among those with metabolic syndrome, the subgroup with high TBRglu had higher fasting plasma glucose (P?0.001), triglyceride (P?=?0.011), and hsCRP (P?=?0.047) levels; diabetes was more common (P?0.001). High uptake subjects with metabolic syndrome had significantly higher levels of hsCRP compared to low uptake subjects with the syndrome (0.23??0.21 vs. 0.14??0.19), whereas the hsCRP level did not differ significantly between subgroups without the syndrome (Fig.?1a). The FRS was significantly higher in subjects with high uptake compared to both non-syndromic and syndromic subjects with low uptake (8.2??7.4 vs. 13.1??7.0; 13.5??11.9 vs. 21.8??16.0, respectively; Fig.?1b). The FRS of subjects with high uptake but no metabolic syndrome was comparable to that of subjects with low uptake and metabolic syndrome T-705 (13.1??7.0 vs. 13.5??11.9). Figure?2 demonstrates the representative PET images of a subject without metabolic syndrome but high carotid uptake and a subject with metabolic syndrome but low uptake. 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The contagious period is from two days to two weeks, if it's bacterial pneumonia, after 48 hours of antibiotics treatment it's considered not contagious any more. If it's viral one, you better consider two weeks. Chemical or fungi are not contagious. For incubation, pneumonia is acute, when the pathogen reaches the lung in half day pneumonia can occur. But it doesn't mean in half day after contacting the pathogen pneumonia occurs. Pathogen starts from respiratory tract and goes down to the lung. Like flu virus, when the virus goes into your body from the nostril, or throat, or eyes, it stays there for several days(incubation), then you have flu symptom, when the disease develop, the virus goes to the lung, pneumonia occurs. | <urn:uuid:1524dec7-0af6-458b-8b2b-816cb9d6f56d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qa.healthtopquestions.com/22122/is-bronchial-pneumonia-contagious | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.937525 | 155 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Lead levels in the water are dropping in Flint, Michigan, marking "the beginning of the end of the public health disaster," according to the Virginia Tech University researchers who exposed the lead problem in that troubled northern U.S. city a year ago.
But residents still should continue to drink only filtered tap water or bottled water while the system heals itself, lead researcher Marc Edwards told a news conference Thursday.
In the most recent round of testing in July, 45 percent of homes did not have detectable levels of lead, compared to only 9 percent of homes in August 2015.
"Flint water now looks like it's entering a range that is considered normal for U.S. cities," Edwards said. "Things are dramatically better now.''
U.S. federal health officials found that young children in Flint had significantly higher levels of dangerous lead in their blood after the city switched its water supply from the Detroit water system to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure.
The city switched its water supply in 2014 without ensuring that water from the Flint River had been treated with anti-corrosive agents, as required by law. It corroded the city's old water mains, turning drinking water brown due to iron contamination, and also leached lead from smaller pipes that carried water into homes.
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Moaning the blues: Angolan artist Henri Dikongue
New CDs reflect post-colonial woes
C'est la Vie
A NEW GENERATION of African singer/songwriters is making its mark on the world. While the continent has been a major source for new musicians over the years--from the ebullient rhythms of such Nigerian high-life artists as King Sunny Ade to the soulful choral arrangements of Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Fela's techno grooves--these new artists are working a slow, bluesy style known as morna (which means "mournful"), whose best-known practitioner is Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora. True to form, Henri Dikongue's C'est la Vie is an evocative collection of mostly acoustic songs, describing the personal costs wrought by the political turmoil of his civil war-torn homeland of Angola, all cloaked in jazzy Latin spices and haunting bossa nova beats. It is simply one of the year's finest world music recordings. Newcomer Fantcha--a Cape Verdean and protégé of Evora's--also evokes a tender, forlorn demeanor in songs rife with lost loved ones and a sadness for the poverty and social strife of her island nation. Together, these highly personal recordings--both distributed by the Rohnert Park-based Tinder Records--bear melancholy testimony, with no hint of bitterness or polemic, to the aftermath of colonial power. Highly recommended.
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke
ALPHA WAVE ALERT! For 15 years, Lisa Gerrard has been responsible for often mesmerizing--and sometimes tedious--gothic-folk music, both as a member of the obscure London-based duo Dead Can Dance, whose moody psychedelia is cut from the same cloth as the Cocteau Twins, and as a solo artist. This disc finds the Australian native full of transcendent song, inspired by Sufi chants, the early Christian compositions of 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and other high sources. Sparse acoustic arrangements, otherworldly vocals, Middle Eastern instrumentation, and lyrics that sound as though Gerrard is speaking in tongues--pop music doesn't get more haunting than this.
IN THE WAKE of Nirvana drummer David Grohl's success with the Foo Fighters, the immediate future of grunge seems to be solo projects. Singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots finds a winning techno sound on his new solo debut while guitarist James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins pursues a flat soft-pop sound on his outing. By contrast, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell doesn't shed his skin on Boggy Depot. Instead, his new solo debut echoes strengths he already has shown with the Seattle heavies. Here, Cantrell is focused on a sparse, grinding gray area between unplugged, bluesy drift and sweet pop-metal crispness. Boggy Depot finds Cantrell with a personal voice that's not divorced from the dark, edgy core of his former band. Like before, Cantrell uses tough riffs to fashion gloom into pop as he moves along.
Ska After Ska After Ska
OKAY, mainstream press claims that ska is the Next Big Thing, but diehard fans know this infectious Jamaican beat never went away, thanks to such New Wave-era British two-tone bands as the Specials and Selector and, more recently, acts like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. This 21-song salute to "real, authentic" ska compiles upbeat dance tunes from the Treasure Island Studio vault and includes early-ska hits by Don Drummond and the Skatalites, Duke Reid and his group, and Justin Hinds and the Dominoes. Deep catalog stuff for serious collectors--and well worth the search.
Smokin' Joe Kubek Featuring Bnois King
Take Your Best Shot
THE TEXAS BLUES tradition has spawned some powerful guitarists over the years, starting with T-Bone Walker and culminating with the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. Lots of folks are trying to lay claim to the mantle unworn since Stevie Ray's untimely death, and Kubek certainly deserves a nod for delivering crunchy take-no-prisoners power blues that is as hot as a Saturday night special. The result is some of the baddest blues axe since Ronnie Earle's greasy solo debut. Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Bnois King comes along for the ride, and legendary bluesman Little Milton makes a guest appearance (as does ex-Nighthawk guitarist Jimmy Thackery). But Kubek is in command all the way--no apologies offered.
FOR HIS SECOND full-length album since his debut two years ago, Dan Bern ups the ante considerably on his in-your-face brand of postpunk-folk-rock. With the assistance of producer/collaborator Ani DiFranco, the singer-songwriter has moved far afield of the "new Dylan" comparisons, supplying frequently outrageous but ultimately compassionate observations on our times. From his opening song, "Tiger Woods"), with its declaration "I got big balls," to the revolutionary "No Missing Link," with its aliens-mated-monkeys sexual theorizing (to paraphrase politely!), the farcical humor of his delivery resolves any reservations about his upfront manner. In lesser hands, this approach would risk a "look-at-me" grab for attention, but the very discipline that may at first seem lacking in Bern's songs enables him to transcend the mundane and provide a unique perspective on these themes. Bern is carving out a niche that is well worth investigating.
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From the April 23-29 1998 issue of the Sonoma County Independent.
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BAFTA Fellowship (1997)
Oswaldmorris Tribute (353.8 KB)
An acclaimed British cinematographer whose career began as a clapper boy while still in his teens, Morris was taken under the wing of his near contemporary Ronald Neame. After decorated war service in the RAF he graduated to director of photography for his good friend on Golden Salamander (1950), and proved to be a quick learner.
Over the course of his long career he lit seven films for John Huston, including Moulin Rouge (1952), Moby Dick (1956) and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He also shot Look Back In Anger (1959) and The Entertainer (1960) for Tony Richardson; The Guns of Navarone (1960) for J. Lee Thompson; Lolita (1962) for Stanley Kubrick; The Hill (1965) for Sidney Lumet; Oliver! (1968) for Carol Reed; Fiddler On The Roof (1971) for Norman Jewison; Sleuth (1972) for Joseph Mankiewicz; and The Odessa File (1974) for his old friend Ronnie Neame.
A superb technician equally comfortable with the demands of both monochrome and full colour, Morris was BAFTA nominated on six occasions. He won for The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Hill (1965) and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1966) – all in black and white. His three American Academy Award nominations came for the colour films Oliver! (1968), Fiddler On The Roof (1971) – which he won – and The Wiz (1978).
The long professional relationships he maintained affirm his unflappable approach to solving whatever challenges his directors set him. Many effects he developed, most notably the textured lighting of Moulin Rouge, influenced the way film stocks were used by his peers.
Morris later reunited with Sidney Lumet for Equus (1977) and The Wiz (1978), before making a pair of films for Jim Henson, The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Dark Crystal (1982) – bringing his film career to a close 50 years after it had first began. | <urn:uuid:bc3974f5-9c43-4a5d-a5cb-7ce020a10b52> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/oswald-morris | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00209-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952257 | 445 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Eating when you aren’t physically hungry can be so frustrating, in addition to being a problem for your health. You promise yourself you aren’t going to do it, and then you do. Again. Afterward, you’re miserably full and bloated and upset that you overate or binged yet again despite your determination to not do so.
Overcoming emotional eating is very difficult and can be a constant challenge. Food is everywhere and tempts with immediate pleasure and relief. You can’t practice abstinence from food. It’s particularly difficult when you are at home all day with few of your outside pleasures.
When you struggle with urges to run to the fridge, wait a moment or two. Use mindfulness to be in the moment and observe and describe what is happening. The pause is not about stopping you from enjoying another piece of chocolate cake, it’s about understanding the reason you are craving it.
Maybe you aren’t sure when you are physically hungry and when it is emotional. Until you learn the physical signals of hunger again, you can ask yourself questions. If you are truly hungry, you’re willing to eat a high protein food like eggs or meat. When it’s emotional hunger you probably crave carbohydrates or sweets.
Maybe you know you’re emotionally hungry rather than physically in need of nourishment. You still really want food. Accept that you can sit with the urge to eat and it will pass. You don’t need to satisfy that urge. Think about the long-term consequences and how emotional eating affects you. Choose to respect your body and take good care of yourself. Frame your choice in terms of the positives rather than depriving yourself.
Awareness of the trigger for your urges is an important step in overcoming emotional eating. Here are some ideas to help you identify what is behind that emotional hunger. Knowing the reason you are eating will help you find a more effective coping strategy.
1. To Avoid Unpleasant Emotions.
Sometimes the emotions you are avoiding can be more subtle or you don’t even notice them before you put food in your mouth. When I’m working and reach a point where I’m not sure what to do next, I often think of food. It’s not about hunger; it’s about getting rid of that anxiety of “What now?” I wasn’t even aware of this tiny moment between ending a task or a paragraph and eating until recently. Eating gives me something to be “doing” so I can stay in my comfort zone.
Be mindful that you are experiencing an unpleasant sensation or emotion. Check that urge to get food–what’s behind it? Are you truly physically hungry? Practice tolerating the emotion. Emotions will pass. They are temporary. You can also practice other coping skills, such a talking it out with someone, writing your emotions, exercising, or distracting yourself. You might want to do an activity that is not compatible with eating such as taking a shower.
2. To End Boredom
In those moments where there is “nothing to do” and there is no one to talk with, you may experience an aloneness that is uncomfortable or a boredom that is difficult to tolerate. Food can seem like the answer. It eases boredom and gives you some pleasure. Eating is something to do.
Create a list of various activities that you can do when you can’t think of anything to do. Keep the list readily available so you can look at it easily. Make a commitment to try at least two activities before turning to food.
3. Out of Habit/Lack of Awareness
Eating mindlessly, putting food in your mouth without being aware of the taste or how satisfied you are is a form of self-soothing. If you aren’t aware of your surroundings, your world, you’re not present in your life. Eating mindlessly may be a way of numbing so you aren’t present. Eating mindlessly may be a habit as well. You may “veg-out” in the same chair each night, watching various television shows, and not even be aware that you aren’t truly present. Maybe you don’t want to be present.
Practice mindfulness to be more present. You may find that you don’t enjoy your routines and need to change them. Perhaps you find that you need a different way to completely slow your mind and relax, so you aren’t thinking about challenges and to do lists.
4. To Squelch Urgency
You think about the chocolate pie that is waiting in the kitchen. You love the taste of it and want more. The difference is that your mind wants more now. You have a sense of urgency to eat it.
Practice delay. Tell yourself that you can have the pie tomorrow or in a few hours. Remind yourself that the pie will be good later. The idea is to learn that having urges for something doesn’t mean you have to act on them and learning to delay is a skill.
Craving food often occurs when you are tired, particularly the burned-out kind of tired. When you’ve been working on taxes for hours, you may not be physically tired but you are tired of concentrating and focusing your attention on an unpleasant task. Food can seem like the answer.
When you are tired, awareness can help you make a more effective choice. You might take a nap, lay by the pool, or play a game. Doing an activity very different from the one that led to the fatigue often offers the best relief.
6. To Create Pleasure
Sometimes food is the easiest way to create a pleasurable experience or add to a celebration.
Practice being openly joyful when you have celebrations. When you express the emotion directly and openly you may have less need to create a physical experience of pleasure with food. If food is your only pleasure, then find ways to bring small joys into your life. Joys that use the senses may be the most helpful, such as rocking a baby or petting a dog.
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Recall that the year 2020 unwillingly hosted “The Great Lockdown”; a period when a global pandemic put nations on their backfoot, necessitating restrictive measures to halt the spread of a ravaging virus, albeit with the undesirable consequence of a self-inflicted economic contraction. For Nigeria, we were able to stage a recovery in non-oil related segments of the economy last year, as Covid-19 restrictions were deemphasized, and the economy attempted a return to normalcy.
However, the oil sector remained lagged all through 2021, shrugging-off an overwhelmingly bullish oil market, and allowing constricted output levels to subdue growth and sustain a negative trajectory. In the recent GDP report released by the National Bureau of Statistics, real GDP growth rate printed at an annualized rate of 3.98% in Q4 2021, drawing support from outperforming sectors like Financial and Insurance, Trade, and Information and Communication.
Nigeria sustained the growth trajectory seen in the last four quarters, as the economy recorded a real growth rate of 3.98% y/y in Q4 2021. The Q4 2021 growth rate represents a decline of 0.05% when compared to the preceding quarter (4.03%), but reflects a sharp uptick of 3.87% relative to the growth rate recorded in Q4 2020 which stood at 0.11%. In nominal terms, aggregate GDP stood at N49.28 trillion in Q4 2021, up by 13.11% when compared to the amount recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020 which stood at N43.56 trillion. The year-on year nominal growth rate for Q4 2021 stood above the levels as of Q4 2020 (10.07%), but fell below the nominal growth seen in the preceding quarter (13.92%). In 2021, aggregate nominal annual growth printed at 13.92%.
Oil Sector – downtrend persists
The oil sector sustained its contractionary trend, as it recorded a real growth rate of -8.06% y/y in the fourth quarter of 2021. The Q4 2021 negative growth rate seen in the oil sector represents an 11.71% improvement when compared to the rate recorded in Q4 2020 (-19.76%) and reflects a 2.68% increase relative to the rate seen in the third quarter of 2021 (-10.73%). The oil sector marked its seventh consecutive period of contraction, despite the overwhelming bullish bias in the international oil market. Brent Crude, which serves as the benchmark crude for Nigeria’s Bonny Light, averaged $79.66/bl in the review period, representing an upsurge of 8.78% and 76.01% relative to the average pricing in Q3 2021 and Q4 2020 ($73.23/bl and $45.25/bl), respectively.
The improvement in oil prices was recorded against a backdrop of growing demand amidst constricted supply. Oil demand recovery was buoyant in the review period, as most economies continued to relax Covid-19 movement and travel restrictions. However, the supply side remained slim, as the disruptive impact of hurricane IDA tempered output from shale producers, while the OPEC+ bloc maintained a modest policy on increasing supply despite pressures from nations like the U.S. for a more generous supply level. Also, these limiting factors on the supply side of the oil market were exacerbated by a prevailing global gas shortage.
Irrespective of the elevated oil prices, oil sector performance was subdued by the weak local production level in the review period. In Q4 2021, oil output stood at 1.50mbpd, reflecting a decline of 0.06mbpd when compared to the production level in Q4 2020 (1.56mbpd). The Q4 2021 oil production level was also lower than the 1.57mbpd output level recorded in Q3 2021. The disappointing oil production level was recorded despite OPEC’s effort to increase output by 400,000bpd monthly throughout the review period, as Nigeria struggled to meet increasing output quotas due to the debilitated state of oil infrastructures, low oil investments, and other factors relating to theft and vandalism. Overall, the sector growth rate printed at -8.30% in 2021.
In terms of GDP contribution, the oil sector accounted for 5.19% of the GDP in the review quarter, lower than 5.87% and 7.49% recorded in Q4 2020 and Q3 2021, respectively. The overall oil sector GDP contribution for 2021 stood at 7.24%.
Non-Oil Sector – remaining resilient
The non-oil sector recorded a real growth rate of 4.73% y/y in the review period, up by 3.05% and down by 0.71% relative to the rates recorded in Q4 2020 (1.69%) and Q3 2021 (5.44%), respectively. The sector continues to draw support from the sustained growth in areas that were resilient during the pandemic-induced recession, and also from the recovery in sectors that fell sharply in the base period. The underlying sectors that supported the Q4 2021 non-oil growth includes; Financial and Insurance, Transportation and Storage, Trade, and Information and Communication.
The non-oil sector’s GDP contribution stood at 94.81% in the review period, higher than its contribution in Q4 2020 which stood at 94.13%, and also above the 92.51% share recorded in the third quarter of 2021.
Sectoral Performance in Q4 2021 – broad-based growth
Of the nineteen sectors under our review, eighteen recorded growth while one contracted. A further probe of the data revealed that the major sectoral underperformers in Q4 2020 delivered some of the best growth rates in the review period. These include sectors like Transportation and Storage, Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply, and manufacturing. As the economy further reopened, these sectors rebounded strongly, given increased activity levels. Elsewhere, we also saw decent upsurges in Real Estate and Construction sectors, benefiting from increased infrastructure spending. Also, we continued to see sustained resilience in Finance and Insurance, Agriculture, and Information and Communication sectors. However, the Mining and Quarrying sector was the sole decliner in the review period.
Activity Sectors – Services remain the outperformer
Of the three major activity sectors, Services retained the largest quotient in terms of GDP contribution, at 55.11%. Hence, Agriculture and Industries contributed 26.84% and 18.05%, respectively, to the GDP in Q4 2021. Consequently, Services was the major sponsor of the overall GDP growth in the review period, as the sector grew by 5.58%. GDP growth was also supported by a 3.58% uptick in Agriculture, while Industries remained in the contractionary region at -0.05%.
The impressive performance seen in Services was buoyed by subcomponent overperformers like Finance and Insurance, and Information and Communication, which recorded real growth rates of 24.14% and 5.03%, respectively, in the review period. Elsewhere, other components like Trade and Transportation leveraged their low base period performance to support Service sector growth in the review period.
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A while back a malicious program called DroidDream was found on the Google Marketplace. The thing about DroidDream is that it exploited a vulnerability that gave it root access. Now contrast how Google treats security software. Security applications are not allowed to have root access. The truth is that the most popular mobile platforms (and Windows Mobile 7 also) will not allow security software to run at the same system level that exploitable bugs in their operating systems will allow malicious software to run in. This means that security vendors don’t get a second chance. If the malware gets by the first time, and for some users it will no matter whose product you use, it has virtually perfect cloaking. On a PC you can book there are remediation techniques to get past rootkits, but on most mobile platforms if you boot in safe mode you may not have booted clean and won’t run security software at a system level.
The problem is even more difficult when you consider the ease in which malware and phishing attacks can occur on mobile devices due to the information that mobile devices hide from users. A recent article at Techworld talks about a study done by researchers at the University of California in which they discussed 15 techniques that cybercriminals can use to trick you into giving them your username and password to a variety of sites. There’s the old saying “fooled me once shame on you, fooled me twice shame on me”. I’m not sure what it is for fooled me 15 times!
Quite simply, virtually none of the visual indicators that help even a moderately savvy novice computer user make informed decision are present on mobile devices. The only reason banks and other financial institutions offer mobile banking applications is for marketing and they know they can recoup the fraud losses through ATM and other fees. Mobile devices remain far too insecure a platform to be conducting commerce on if you are installing applications from unknown developers. Downloading apps from official channels, such as Android Market, only means that the odds of installing a malware-laden app are reduced, not eliminated.
The situation with mobile devices is a bit bleak right now and the only saving grace is that cybercriminals are still ramping up their attacks against mobile devices. If the criminal element focused on mobile devices with the same resources they have attacked the Windows platform then it is probable that mobile malware and phishing would be at epidemic levels.
So, here are some tips to stay a bit safer using your mobile device.
First, set you phone to lock and require a password when you are not using it. If you don’t lock your phone and lose it, then any accounts you automatically log into are compromised and that usually puts your friends at risk from criminals impersonating you.
If you are going to provide log in credentials only do so for applications provided by the site vendor. This means you download the Facebook app written by Facebook, the twitter app written by Twitter, the Yahoo messenger app written by Yahoo.
Do not install apps from unknown developers. Since you probably are going to do this, then don’t do any online banking from your mobile device. I have a variety of apps on my Android that I think are probably perfectly fine, but since I don’t really know the developer I won’t access financial data from the device. There is a risk with using Facebook, etc., but that is where I draw the line.
If you click on a link in an email, then don’t provide log in credentials. It is a calculated risk to click on links in any email, but when doing so on a mobile device the odds are far more heavily stacked against you. Even with a computer, you should never provide a username and password when you arrive at a web page from a link in an email. Always open the browser and type in the name of the trusted website and then provide the credentials.
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If you love the japan culture, you must love its food and snacks. You can find a wide variety of Japanese Food, and its snacks such as sushi, sashimi, pocky, and many other tremendous dishes are available. You can choose any one or all of your choice and enjoy it.
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Brazil’s new president will not have much time to celebrate his victory. The challenges facing his country are vast, so he would do well to quickly transition from election promises to taking action. Specifically, the new cabinet’s first priority should, without a doubt, be to deal with the difficult situation of the public finances.
From a European perspective, we must not view Brazil’s economic situation as a distant problem that should only concern those who have invested in the country. On the one hand, unlike other emerging economies, such as Turkey or Argentina, Brazil’s financial and economic interconnections with the rest of the world are substantial. On the other hand, in addition to being the largest economy in Latin America, Brazil is a key supplier of various raw materials at the global level.
Given the country’s systemic importance, it is no wonder that Brazil always receives significant attention from investors. In recent months, this attention has largely focused on the new Government’s ability to implement the much-needed - but almost always delayed - structural reforms that the country requires. These include improving the transport and energy infrastructure, the regulatory framework - which remains excessively complex and ineffective - and the chronic problems of insecurity. However, the greatest concern is that surrounding Brazil’s public finances, which will be increasingly difficult to put right if decisive measures are not taken.
The concern is well-founded too: in 2017, the budget deficit stood at 7.8% of GDP, while public debt stood at 74.0%, significantly higher than the levels common among emerging economies. Furthermore, these levels have been reached relatively quickly, since in 2013 these two figures stood at 3.0% and 51.5% of GDP, respectively. In addition, everything indicates that these figures will continue to deteriorate if decisive measures are not taken.
What factors are causing the imbalance in the public finances to rise? One natural candidate is the performance of the economy itself, which in recent years has had to deal with a severe recession and a meagre recovery: while average annual growth stood at 3.3% in the period 2009-2013, over the past four years this figure was as low as –1.4%. Nevertheless, according to IMF estimates, the budget deficit actually recorded and the cyclically-adjusted budget deficit are relatively similar almost throughout the period between 2002 and 2017. In other words, the government balance is deteriorating due to structural reasons unrelated to the poor economic performance of recent years.
A second usual suspect in countries with a high level of government debt is interest payments. Between 2014 and 2017, when the budget deficit stood at 8.2% of GDP, interest payments were equivalent to 6.6% of GDP on average (i.e. the bulk of the deficit was due to interest payments, while the primary budget deficit was much smaller, at 1.6% of GDP). However, if we extend the time frame, the conclusion remains unchanged: in the «good years», that is, from 2000 to 2013, Brazil paid an annual average of 6.1% of GDP in interest. This is a heavy burden, and it will be difficult to change in the short term, but the deterioration of Brazil’s public deficit does not seem to be exclusively the result of a rise in the cost of debt.
A third common candidate when explaining a deterioration in public finances is a low level of revenues, which is an Achilles heel for many emerging economies. Yet this is not the case either. Brazil’s revenues are high: although they have declined somewhat in recent years as a proportion of GDP, public revenues still amount to more than 30% of GDP (the OECD average is of the order of 35%).
In short, none of the above factors by themselves explain the deterioration of the budget deficit, and consequently the escalation of debt, which has occurred to some extent since 2014 and with greater intensity since 2015. To identify the real cause, we must focus our attention on the expenditure side. Over the last few years, there has been an increase of more than 25% in public expenditure. This is clearly a significant increase, unprecedented in recent decades. Furthermore, given the strong inertia of Brazil’s public expenditure, a situation of hysteresis arises (i.e. the change persists over time). This explains why attempts to react tend to have little effect. Thus, despite a cap being established on the main items of social expenditure under the central Government in 2016 (such that they could not grow above inflation), this measure has only served to bring expenditure below 40% of GDP. The rising trend of recent years has certainly slowed, but it has not yet been corrected.
The key underlying problem lies in the fact that the Government is only directly responsible for a relatively small portion of public expenditure. Therefore, even if we deduct the interest payments, approximately 80% of the central Government’s primary expenditure consists of non-discretionary expenditure. In particular, over 40% of primary expenditure goes on Social Security (S.S.). This is an area of expenditure that has been growing over the years and which shows no sign of subsiding in the future. According to IMF estimates, expenditure on pensions will rise from around 14% of GDP in 2021 to 18% in 2030 and to 26% in 2050. This significant increase is not a result of an adverse demographic situation, as is the case in many developed economies. Various studies reiterate that Brazil has a very generous system, given the available resources.1 Specifically, it is relatively common to retire at a young age (after making social security contributions for 35 years in the case of men, and 30 years for women, there is no minimum retirement age), with high replacement rates. In this regard, it is regrettable that the previous Government’s attempts to achieve even a moderate reform of the system, focusing on increasing the contribution requirements and setting a mandatory retirement age, failed.
The situation of the public finances is, therefore, a difficult one.The range of alternatives available to the new Government is certainly limited, unless it were to opt for a profound change in the expenditure system, which seems unlikely in light of past experience. In the absence of such a major reformwe will most likely witness a difficult period under a programme of cuts that will seek to reduce discretionary expenditure, contain public salaries and reform the S.S. system. In a manner similar to the reform that failed in the previous term. On the revenue side, we can expect to see some increase in tax revenues, as well as a certain reordering of the tangle of discretionary fiscal benefits and a modest privatisation process, but the fiscal impact could end up being limited. The fiscal outlook is, and will continue to be, difficult. As a result, doubts surrounding the sustainability of the public finances continue to be a source of uncertainty, for Brazil... and for the world.
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Thread: Determining Depth of Cut
08-12-2011, 11:17 AM #1
Determining Depth of Cut
i am curious what other experienced machinist use to determine an end mill depth of cut.
for example i use the 2x longer then 2 square (2x2) rule. that is a end mill sticking out 2 times longer then 1/4 depth of cut.
i ordered 1/2" end mill with 1.25" LOC but received 1.625 length of cut. Formula says with aluminum and HSS end mill
0.80" stick out from collet then 0.684" max depth of cut
1.40" stick out from collet then 0.223" max depth of cut
1.88" stick out from collet then 0.125" max depth of cut
even at 0.100" DOC and climb milling i was getting vibration marks with 0.005" to 0.008" thick chips. Of coarse i could slow feed and lower depth of cut but even doing this vibration marks were still seen.
my point is i never realized before how much a slightly longer end mill could seriously effect machining rates. at first it would appear better to have a longer end mill just in case you might need it but if you do not need the length it can really increase the time to machine a part.
just wondering if anybody has studied this before?? you would think during a war time when producing arms like during WW2 somebody would have studied this. Or the Automakers would have studied this, although they might not publish the info and treat it as a trade secret.
...... Just wondering what formulas others use other than trying things and increasing til vibration is too severe. But doing this you might not realize the vibration is more from the end mill length than anything else.
08-12-2011, 11:32 AM #2
Two words, book title:Machinery's Handbook
08-12-2011, 01:07 PM #3
I use the shortest emdmill I can.
Rigidity goes down eponetentialy the further you stick out.
Always try to maximize rigidity in your set ups. A little bit here and a little bit there adds up. It's common for inexperienced guys to not appreciate how much of a difference rigidity makes. For example, they might stick their work piece extra far out of the lathe chuck because they don't want to risk hitting it. Or they'll use an extra long endmill to lessen the risk of hitting the tool holder or whatever.
Rigidity makes everything easier.
08-12-2011, 01:10 PM #4
It's always best to use the shortest possible end mill. The current trend is towards full depth cuts and very low radial engagement, though.
My formula is typically "set radial engagement to desired specs for tool, then increase DOC until power runs out". It works great.
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08-12-2011, 01:55 PM #5
Rigidity of a beam (end mill) decreases by the power of 3 as length increases.
Rigidity of a beam (end mill) increases by the power of 4 as diameter increases.
I'd be interested to see any formulas for calculating end mill defection. It should be straight forward based on material machinability ratings.
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08-12-2011, 02:33 PM #6
That's why my Power Center has the power of 65,000 Dremels
Another note, you need to have the full dia of the cutter at the collet cutter interface , if you don't, you will set up a load point that will help snap the cutter.
08-12-2011, 03:54 PM #7
GWizard Machinist's Calculator will let you play with these numbers.
You can see how much deflection various combinations of stick-out, tool diameter, axial and radial depth of cut, tool material, work piece material, etc... will create.
In terms of machining dynamics, this presentation that Boeing did at IMTS in 2008 is pretty interesting:
BLUESWARF | Boeing High Speed Machining Seminar
08-12-2011, 05:20 PM #8
I use three flute end mills only. (job shop)
When cutting a full width slot you use the full diameter of the tool, maximum pressure when milling. Standard length end mills. When I'm really serious, I use stub length for extra rigidity.
The slotting cut
I divide the diameter by 120 to establish the chip load for the tool. I figure the gullets (flutes) are wide enough for the particular chip load. This is good for 80% of the materials I cut including, sst, the aluminums, and regular steel. The only time it was over kill is OFHC copper. Reason: The copper itself wasn't strong enough to support the cutting pressure and it was flowing. In general the chip load is the same for all materials. I had to lighten up about 2/3rds on the chip load for the OFHC Copper.
However! The depth of cut may vary from 25%- 50% of the end mill diameter. The tougher the material the shallower the cut. I had 6061-T6 aluminum near the 50%, but 7075-T6 had to be near 40% or it squealed because it's a much harder material.
The roughing cut
I divided the tool by 80 for the chip load. Why? Because the cutting pressure was only 2/3's
the width of the slot cut. Therefore the tool can stand a 50% heavier feed rate. Which means when cutting a pocket, if you start in the middle and make the slot cut at it's chip load, then when you begin to unwind the rest of the pocket you can go at a 50% faster feed rate. You don't bind yourself to one feed rate for the slot cut all the way through milling the pocket.
I leave the finish cut to you.
The math I used may be confusing. Slot cut divide by 120, rough cut divide by 80, You add
50% of 80 to get 120. I'm trying to keep the total cutting pressure ( chip load x percent of end mill in the cut x feed rate ) the same for the two types of cut. I hope this makes sense.
I've had good luck using this, and it's pretty productive.
When sharpening the tool just grind off the dull end and re-point. You still have a full size cutter and its original cutting geometry.
08-12-2011, 09:17 PM #9
current Excel speed and feed calculator
thank you, i will study everybody recommendations
my latest Excel speed and feed and depth of cut calculator
1) using logic statements (IF THEN OTHERWISE) to override formula on depth of cut increase with end mill shorter than 1.5 times diameter
2) feed and chip thickness max limit currently set at 0.015" chip thickness
3) DOC limit even when Machinabilty rating of aluminum or plastic is used to limit max recommended depth of cut to 1.5 times diameter. Plastic can take very large depth of cuts
4) color coded cells so grey cells are not to be changed, blue are cells for inputting cutting parameters, yellow for end milling and green for side or radial milling, orange is for calculating DOC % for a particular DOC
5) added a row for calculating horsepower and metal removal rates for partial end mill width cuts
6) added a end mill shank diameter column that reduces DOC recommendations for shanks smaller than cutting diameter and a logic function that does not increase DOC if shank is bigger that cutting diameter
7) added a formula to reduce DOC as flutes increase. 10 flutes increases hp requirements 10x times so a partial reduction in DOC seems a good ideal so to not overload cutting with high vibration from too high a load. For example a 3" shell mill 10 flute with a R8 shank cannot take the load of a 3" shell mill with a NMTB 40 taper so some sort of formula taking into account shank diameter and number of flutes seems a good ideal.
8) added a column on end mill shank material as solid carbide end mill is more rigid than a carbide insert end mill with a steel shank.
Excel calculator is a work in progress. It is free, easily adapts and software is free if using the free Open Office Calc program.
08-12-2011, 09:39 PM #10
........yes deflection will increase ( with decrease in finish) but end mill does not usually break. i found when using in formula decrease to the power of 3 decreases max recommended depth of cuts too much. end mill can take the DOC but vibration does increase. understanding all the Physical laws is difficult. i am sure there is a reason longer end mill can deflect without breaking but vibration will limit tool life.
also taking into account a shank diameter smaller than cutter diameter and also increased number of flutes and the horsepower increase (vibration) requires thought on formulas. For example a 3" diameter end mill with a 3" shank can take far more than a 3" shell mill with a 3/4" shank.
as i have told Engineers before the Laws of the Universe do not care if big bosses does not like them. sometimes Engineers want to ignore for example part expansion in dimension from higher temperatures. but the Laws of the Universe do not care what an Engineer wants, they are what they are.
......... but it can be difficult figuring out the theory and the why things happen
08-13-2011, 02:47 AM #11
My understanding has alway been that an end mill's rigidity doubles with every diameter you reduce the overhang. For example, if you have a 1/4" end mill sticking out 1.00" and then you reduce it to 3/4" stick out (reduction of 1 diameter) then you just doubled the tools rigidity.
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08-13-2011, 09:28 PM #14
1/4" end mill and stainlless and aluminum
what i get using current excel calculator formulas
1/4" carbide end mill and machining stainless
1" stickout DOC 0.007"
3/4" stickout DOC 0.012"
1/2" stickout DOC 0.027"
1/4" carbide end mill machining aluminum
1" stickout DOC 0.058"
3/4"stickout DOC 0.103"
1/2"stickout DOC 0.232"
because i use the machinability rating in the feed formula
Stainless is about 0.35
Aluminum is about 3.0
........ machinabilty rating is a rough horsepower ratio to machine a cubic inch of material per minute so in general stainless requires 9x the power to machine and thus DOC is reduced and as cutter will deflect more trying to take a large DOC that might be easily done with a softer material.
........this is why some people trying to take deep depth of cuts might get away with it for some metals but might have much more trouble with harder materials
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08-14-2011, 10:24 AM #15
Lately when machining stainless I'll go Full DOC with a 1/4 or 3/8 em (2xd deep). and us a 5-10% step over to keep the endmill from only wearing on the bottom...Gotta use the whole length of the cutter...
08-14-2011, 11:54 AM #16
update so far on depth of cut calculator
updated Excel Speed and Feed, DOC and Horsepower calculator
1) after testing a 1/2" HSS EM sticking out 1" with 2 flutes can cut 0.117" in steel and it will cut 0.029" DOC when sticking out 2" so
if 2x more sticking out reduced DOC 2x2x2=8 then i would only be able to cut 0.015" thus it follows more the 2x longer 1/4 DOC rule. maybe because a end mill has flutes cut into it that it does not follow the 2to 3rd power rule but more the 2 to 2nd power rule
2) Feed of Dia/120 does not work well with larger diameter cutter and with all alloys i use
Thickness Factor (100 is max) x Diameter x (Machinability Rating + Calibration Factor) + 0.0005 (minimum feed no matter what dia) / shank diameter
and also formula has feed override to limit feed to 0.012"
if no override then 3" dia cutter feed is 0.066" thick chip at 6.3" DOC 2 flute with aluminum
by using flute number to lower DOC
by using ratio of shank dia to cutter dia to lower feed i get
3" dia cutter 10 flute and 3/4" shank i now get
DOC 0.176 and 0.004" thick chip at 100% max feed
with stainless (and different Machinabilty rating number)
DOC 0.021" and 0.0014" thick chip at 100% max feed
.......formula with 10 flute, 3" dia cutter with a 2" shank say roughly a 40 taper then i get with stainless
DOC 0.146" and 0.0098 thick chip at 100% max feed and also taking 47 hp at 300 SFPM (382rpm)..... so you maybe understand why the reduction with a 3/4" shank and 3" dia mill compared to 2" shank and 3" diameter mill
....... without some sort of reduction the numbers go way more than a cutter can take if you do not watch the shank diameter.
3) i will now use 3 now for carbide shank material. this will increase DOC 3x for a solid carbide end mill compared to a carbide insert on steel shank end mill but i hesitate to increase DOC 3x for solid carbide because it is brittle and will loose a cutting edge more easily with a vibration that a HSS cutter could tolerate..... so shank material is in formula next to shank diameter
because a 1" dia 1" shank EM can take a higher DOC than a 1" dia 5/8" shank EM
4) calculator has row for side (radial) milling to as well as normal end milling. side milling rows show high DOC and a partial or small stepover and calculates chip thickness for chip thinning that happens at small stepovers.
like i said Excel speed and feed, DOC, Hp calculator is a work in progress. as i notice things with different dia cutters and shank diameters and different materials being cut i modify formulas.
.........For example feed or chip thickness limit i added because a feed with a chip thickness over 0.012" leaves a rough surface...... although with cutter corner radius i suppose you could use high feed and get a good finish
08-14-2011, 01:13 PM #17
08-15-2011, 03:01 AM #18
I chose depth of cut first, and then figure width of cut using G-Wizard's Cut Optimizer to choose a cut width that keeps deflection within limits.
Most of the tooling mfg's discourage more than 0.001" deflection on carbide (HSS will take more as it is less brittle). It's hard to get much accuracy with more than that anyway. G-Wizard scales that figure back on small EM's because they can't take as much deflection.
That 0.001" is a roughing number. Try for more like 0.0002" when finishing.
There's two issues with the deflection. First, eventually you'll deflect far enough to break the tool. That's usually going to be much more than these limits. Second, deflection denotes vibration and chatter. Those are the effects that are more likely to chip, break, or otherwise kill your tool life. Imagine a spindle with 0.001" runout or more. That's effectively what a cut with so much deflection is to the cutter. Not a happy thing.
Why chose depth over width of cut? So you can get more of the flute involved instead of just the end of the cutter, so you can avoid as many levels as you can when pocketing or profiling, and so you can take advantage of chip thinning to speed up your work. The cutter will experience better chip clearing and cooling with lower widths--that's part of the foundation of the HSM toolpaths, the other part being constant loads instead of overloads in the corners.
Optimizing all these factors is a pain, but it makes a difference.
08-15-2011, 08:38 AM #19
Be honest with yourself, make a list of them, as obscure as they may be, address them all and you will get somewhere, and have something useful.
Try generating a table of speeds and feeds for the same cutter, then work out the one that has the least number of chips per cubic inch removed.
08-15-2011, 08:42 AM #20
length to DOC progression (shorten to 1/3)
for end milling (not side / radial milling)
effects of end mill length to depth of cut, that is if shortening stickout by 1/3 does end mill depth of cut increase by 3x3=9 or 3x3x3=27"
1/2" HSS end mill 2" stickout max recommended DOC 0.029" in 1018 Steel
0.029 x 9 = 0.261"
0.029 x 27=0.783"
so if to 3rd power with end mill 0.66" stickout you can take a DOC 0.783" if it stuck out that far?
if to the 2nd power 0.261" DOC in steel with a 1/2" stub length end mill sticking out 0.66"
....... because i use Excel calculator i can change a parameter like stickout and press enter and everything recalculates in a millisecond. if i change things like end mill diameter to 3" or end mill length stickout reduced to 1 diameter (1/2" dia EM sticking out 1/2") i was getting some crazy DOC figures. formulas now are closer to what really happens. DOC increase with shorter stickout i stop at 1.5 dia length (1/2 dia then 3/4" stickout)
something else to consider and i added to the formulas is reducing feed automatically for too many flutes on too small a cutter.
for example 1/4" rotary file with 12 teeth...... good luck upping the feed 6x more than a 2 fluter as the flutes will clog with chips and friction will quickly destroy an end mill.
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"THE TARES WILL BE TAKEN FIRST"
The Bible states that the tares will be taken first during the harvest. The harvest is the end of the world or age. The harvest is a time of the wicked. The Scripture states in St. Matthew 13:30 "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
When we compare the tares and the wheat, the tares are the wicked. The Bible states in Matthew 13: 38-39, the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one. Verse 39-The enemy that sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the world; and reapers are the angels.
The traditional doctrine teaches that the saints will not go through great tribulation, but the Bible teaches that the saints will go through. In St. Luke 17: 26-27-And as it was in the days of Noah so shalt it be also in the days of the Son of man. The Bible compares the days of Noah with the days of the Son of man. When we observe the events that happened in those days with the events in our day, the wicked continues to be sinful. The Bible states in Daniel 12: 9-10-"And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Verse 10- Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
The Bible states that the righteous will remain on the earth and the wicked will be removed. Proverbs 2: 21-22-"For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." Verse 22- "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it."
time is a time of trouble, the Bible declares in Joel 2:12- Let the heathen, be
wakened, and come up to the
My friend, you can see sin is reaching its fullness and the Lord is going to deal with it. The Bible states in Joel 3:14-"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." The wicked does not discern the times nor the season. Proverbs 28: 5- Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things. The Bible declares that the children of the day will understand the times and seasons. 1st Thessalonians 5:1-But the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. Verse-2- For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. Verse 3-For when they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
My friend this is the time of birth pain for the world. The Bible states in 1st Thessalonians 5:4 " But you brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." The Lord is describing to the Christians what will happen when his wrath is poured out on the world. The Lord is encouraging the Christians what to do. The mature Christian should not be frighten about the events that's happening in the world, because the perfect will of God is being complete. The Bible states in 1st Thessalonians 5:5- "You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."
The religious system that is controlled
by man's wisdom has deceived the world with this doctrine of escape. Jesus
Christ said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." (
If Jesus Christ died for the saints to become priests and kings to reign in the earth, why would God turn it over to the devil and the wicked people? The Word of God stands against this false doctrine.
This doctrine of escape has made the saints lazy. They refuse to grow up into maturity. They are sitting around waiting for the Lord Jesus to do what he has called them to do. This is one of the reasons why I am writing this article about the tares. The Lord Jesus Christ wants his spiritual body to carry out their responsibility.
According to Ephesians 4:12-13 the five-fold ministry is: "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: verse 13- Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."
Those Christians who have failed to be obedient to the word of God will not be able to overcome great tribulation. The Bible states in Hosea 4:6- " My people (saints) are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because they have rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
The pastors and ministers who fail to teach the whole counsel of God will be severely judged by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord will judge the people on this earth, and the Lord will not continue to put up with sin. The Bible states in 1st Corinthians 11: 32- " But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
All Christians will not be judged along with the world. There will be some saints who will escape the wrath of God in the earth. There will be a mature overcoming church that will escape the wrath of God. The Bible states in Psalm 91:3-"Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence; verse-10- There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plaque come nigh thy dwelling. Verse 11- "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep the in all thy ways."
The Lord made a promise to keep the
righteous(Christians) in the time of trouble. The Lord kept Abraham,
The Bible states in 2nd Peter 1:4- " Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." There will be a remnant that will overcome all things; and remain in the earth. The Bible states in Revelation 15:1- 2- "And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the last plaques; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. Verse 2- And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
I have found through much prayer and rightly dividing the Word of God that the traditional teaching about the wicked reigning on the earth, and the saints being removed is not Biblical.
The scriptures should to be studied prayerfully, with an open heart and mind. In doing so, God will reveal his word. My conclusion is that His word is the final answer.
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DERAFŠ (“banner, standard, flag, emblem”; Av. drafša-, Mid. Pers. drafš, equivalent to OInd. drapsá-; see Horn, Etymologie, no. 553; AirWb., col. 771) in ancient Iran. The use of the banner as a religious, royal, or military symbol was common among Indo-Iranians (Wikander, pp. 60-62, 96-97; Kramrisch; Kuiper) and Near Eastern peoples (Sarre, pp. 233-44; Nylander, pp. 22-23; for bronze “standards” with animal heads in western Iran, see Moorey). In the Avesta Bactria “with tall banners” (ərəδβō.drafša-; Vd. 1.7), a fluttering “bull banner” (gaoš drafša-; Y. 10.14), and banners of enemies of Iran (Y. 57.25; Yt. 1.11, 4.3, 8.56) are mentioned.
In the Achaemenid period each Persian army division had its own standard (Herodotus, 9.59), and “all officers had banners over their tents,” by which they were recognized in the camp (Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.13; cf. 6.3.4; for evidence of a similar tradition among the Parthians, see below). One such banner is held by a Persian warrior depicted on a Greek vase (the “Duris cup” in the Louvre; Pottier, p. 105 fig. 20). It is a square plaque in saltire, the upper and lower quarters painted black and the side ones white (Plate XXV.b). The origin of this form is Urartian, as is shown by a similar banner (Plate XXV.a) held by a worshiper facing a lion-mounted god on an Urartian bronze disk from Altıntepe (Taşyürek, p. 942 fig. 7; pl. CCXVIII/4-5). The standard of Cyrus iii the Great, “a golden eagle mounted upon a lofty shaft,” remained the royal banner of the Achaemenids (Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.1.4) and at Cunaxa marked the position of Artaxerxes II (Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.12; cf. a similar eagle on the chariot of Darius III; Curtius Rufus, 3.3.16). At Persepolis six “audience scenes” (in the Throne Hall and among the “Treasury reliefs”; Schmidt, p. 166, pls. 98, 99, 123; Tilia, pp. 175-208, figs. 3, 5, 7, 9, 18, 32) include depictions of Persian soldiers carrying square plaques on poles (Plate XXV.c), which Kurt Erdmann (pp. 62-63) first recognized as banners (the ensigns could have been added in color; Nylander, p. 26). The royal standard is also shown on the “Alexander mosaic” from Pompeii (a Roman copy of a Hellenistic painting of about 320 B.C.E.; Hölscher, pp. 122-69, 270-88), in which Alexander the Great is represented fighting Darius III at Issus (against the view of Rumpf, pp. 233-35, that it depicts a Macedonian attack signal, see Nylander, pp. 26-34). The banner, which is affixed atop a long lance, is a rectangular plaque of dark red (probably representing a purple original; Ackerman, p. 2767), separated by a clear red line from a border of dark red with yellow dots; there is a dark-red fringe along the lower edge. Within the field a golden bird, its head crowned with what appears to be a cockscomb, is partially preserved (Plate XXV.d). Some scholars have thus identified the bird as a cock, called the “Persian bird” by the Greeks and “the holy bird” in the Avesta (Sarre, p. 348; Nylander, p. 29 n. 44). Others (Ackerman, p. 2767 n. 4, with references) have considered it an eagle, the usual Achaemenid royal emblem. As the eagle or the related royal falcon (varəγna; Stricker; Shahbazi, 1984) symbolized farr, or God-given glory, and, as the eagle was associated with the Achaemenid family (Achaemenes was said to have been raised by an eagle; Aelian, De Natura Animalium 12.21; in Ezra 18:13 “Eagle of the East” refers to Cyrus; and in Aeschylus, Persae 205-10, the Persian king is personified by an eagle), an eagle or a foyal falcon seems more appropriate for the banner of Darius III. Indeed, a miniature banner in the form of a square tile (12.3 cm2) of Egyptian blue frit showing a falcon with outstretched wings and the sun-disk crown on its head, the whole framed by a border of triangles (Plate XXV.e), was discovered at Persepolis by ʿAlī Samī in 1327 Š./1948 (Īrān-Bāstān Museum, Tehran, no. 2436; Sāmī, fig. facing p. 100; Luschey). Although the origins of this motif can be traced to the Egyptian Horus falcon, its appearance at Persepolis is related to Iranian traditions concerning the “glory-bringing varəγna bird” of the Avesta (Luschey, p. 260 and n. 20). It also clearly recalls the royal Achaemenid emblem, “a golden eagle with outstreched wings,” described by Xenophon (see above). Similar birds were embossed on two Achaemenid gold roundels from the “Oxus treasure” (Dalton, pp. 13-15, pls. XII/33, XXI/34). What appears to be a cockscomb on the banner in the Alexander mosaic is thus to be explained as the vestige of a misunderstood, or misrepresented, sun disk.
Under the Seleucids and Parthians the local rulers of Persis claimed a royal heritage and continued to use traditional Persian dynastic symbols (Shahbazi, 1977, p. 199; Wiesehöfer, pp. 103-08). Early Persid coins (3rd-2nd centuries B.C.E.) are adorned with a banner shaped as a square plaque in saltire, each quarter enclosing a roundel, with tassels along the lower edge (Hill, pp. clx-clxxii; Wiesehöfer, pp. 103-36, figs. 3-7; Plate XXV.f). Sometimes an eagle was added as a finial above the banner (Plate XXV.g), suggesting an even closer association with the Achaemenid royal banner. Ferdinand Justi (Grundriss II, pp. 486-87), followed by Friedrich Sarre (p. 350) and Oskar Mann, identified this banner with that on the “Alexander mosaic” and took both as representations of the Derafš-e Kāvīān. Eagle banners were also used by the Parthians and Armenians (F. C. Andreas apud Sarre, pp. 354-55). The Arsacids additionally used a flag adorned with the image of the sun (Tertullian, Apologeticum 16; cf. Ackerman, p. 2769 n. 3) and, as standards distinguishing units of 1,000 soldiers, silken banners bearing the image of a dragon (Lucian, Hist. Conscr. 20; cf. Christensen, tr., pp. 37-38; Ackerman, p. 2769 n. 1).
Four Sasanian banners are represented in sculptured scenes. One is an unfurled cloth flag (Plate XXVI.d) carried by a dignitary depicted on the rock relief at Bīšāpūr attributed to Šāpūr II (309-79; Sarre and Herzfeld, pp. 213-14, fig. 101; Ghirshman, figs. 225-26; Schmidt, III, p. 137). The remaining three are from Naqš-e Rostam in Fārs. On one, attributed to Bahrām II (274-93), a lance terminates in a ring with two lateral downcurving appendages; below is a crossbar with a large tassel dependent from each end (Plate XXVI.a; Sarre, pp. 357-58; Schmidt, III, p. 130). On the second (Plate XXVI.b), carried by a heavily armed attendant in the equestrian combat of Hormozd II (302-09; Sarre, pp. 256-57; Schmidt, III, p. 135, pls. 91, 93A), there is a crossbar with tassels at the ends and two (originally three) plain ribbons dependent from it. Finally (Plate XXVI.c), a mounted armed attendant in a relief attributed to Šāpūr II (Schmidt, III, pp. 136-37, pl. 95) carries a standard with a crossbar and end tassels, topped by three fluted globes similar to those surmounting Sasanian crowns.
As in feudal Europe, Sasanian magnates and nobles had their own coats of arms and banners (Faustus, 3.7; 4.2, 3, 20; 5.1, 43, tr. Garsoïan, pp. 73, 108, 150, 185, 226; Šāh-nāma, Moscow, II, pp. 212 ff., IV, pp. 41 ff., V, pp. 188-206). The Šāh-nāma, reflecting Parthian and Sasanian social practices, includes the following examples (note the consistency of forms in references to individual banners): Kāvūs, a golden sun crowned with a moon encased in purple (II, p. 212 l. 547); his son Farīborz, a sun banner (IV, pp. 26 l. 294, 41 l. 513); Tōs-e Nowḏa, an elephant banner (II, p. 213 l. 554; IV, pp. 33 l. 399, 41 l. 508); Gōdarz, a golden lion banner (II, p. 213 ll. 556-57; IV, pp. 27 l. 300, 43 l. 527); Gēv, a black banner with a wolf as its emblem (II, p. 214 ll. 577-78; IV, pp. 27 l. 304, 43 l. 526); Gorāza, a wild-boar banner crowned with a golden moon (II, p. 215 l. 588; IV, pp. 29 l. 324, 42 l. 524); Rostam (and his son Frāmarz), a dragon banner atop a lance crowned with a golden lion (II, p. 214 l. 566; IV, pp. 29-30 ll. 345-46, 185 l. 1112, 189 l. 177); Gostahm, a moon banner (IV, pp. 28 l. 318, 42 l. 515); Aškaš, a leopard banner (IV, p. 28 l. 322); and Zanga-ye Šāvorān, a Homāy (the royal falcon) banner (IV, p. 29 l. 328). When Bahrām-e Čōbīn received the supreme command, Hormozd IV (579-90) gave him the dragon banner of Rostam, saying, “You are indeed a second Rostam” (VIII, p. 345 ll. 508-14). The true reason, however, was Bahrām’s Arsacid descent, through which he was heir to the traditional Arsacid dragon banner (Shahbazi, 1994, p. 159).
(For cited works not found in this bibliography and abbreviations found here, see “Short References.”) P. Ackerman, “Standards, Banners, and Badges,” Survey of Persian Art VI, pp. 2766-82.
A. Christensen, Smeden Kāväh og det gamle persiske rigsbanner, Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-Filologiske Meddelelser 2/7, 1919; tr. J. M. Unvala as “The Smith Kāveh and the Ancient Persian Imperial Banner,” Journal of the Cama Oriental Institute 5, 1925, pp. 22-39.
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T. Hölscher, Griechische Historienbilder des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Würzburg, 1973.
S. Kramrisch, “The Banner of Indra,” in K. B. Iyar, ed., Art and Thought. Issued in Honour of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy . . ., London, 1947, pp. 197-201.
F. B. J. Kuiper, review of J. Duchesne-Guillemin, Symbols and Values in Zoroastrianism, IIJ 11, 1958-59, pp. 125-33.
H. Luschey, “Ein königliches Emblem,” AMI 5, 1972, pp. 257-60.
O. Mann, “Kāveh o derafš-e kāvīānī,” Kāveh 1, 24 January 1916, pp. 3-5.
P. R. S. Moorey, “A Note on Pre-Achaemenid Bronze Standard Tops from Western Iran,” Iran 15, 1977, pp. 141-46.
C. Nylander, “The Standard of the Great King—A Problem in the Alexander Mosaic,” Opuscula Romana 14/2, 1983, pp. 19-37.
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(A. SHAPUR SHAHBAZI)
Plate XXV.a. Urartian banner on a bronze disk from Altıntepe. After Taşyürek, p. 942 fig. 7.
Plate XXV.b. Persian banner from the “Duris cup”; after Ackermann, p. 2767 fig. 958.
Plate XXV.c. Achaemenid banner, after a photograph by the author of the Persepolis Treasury relief.
Plate XXV.d. Reconstruction of the banner of Darius III on the “Alexander mosaic” from a drawing by W. Zahn, 1832, after Nylander, p. 31 fig. 11.
Plate XXV.e. Miniature banner from Persepolis. After Sāmī, p. 100, figure.
Plate XXV.f. Persid banner after a Persid coin.
Plate XXV.g. Persid banner from a coin; after Ackermann, p. 2786 fig. 959.
Plate XXVI.a. Standard of Bahrām II from a relief at Naqš-e Rostam; after Sarre, p. 357 fig. 20.
Plate XXVI.b. Standard from the relief of Bahrām II at Naqš-e Rostam; after Sarre, p. 357 fig. 19.
Plate XXVI.c. Standard of Šāpūr II (?) at Naqš-e Rostam; after Schmidt, III, pl. 95.
Plate XXVI.d. Banner of Šāpūr II (?) at Bīšāpūr, from a drawing byEugène Flandin of the rock relief at Bīšāpūr; after Sarre and Herzfeld, p. 213 fig. 101.
(A. Shapur Shahbazi)
Originally Published: December 15, 1994
Last Updated: November 21, 2011
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Runners and walkers who were planning to take part in the annual Shamrockin' Shuffle will have to wait to shuffle another day, as the race and Guinness World Record attempt are postponed.
According to event organizers, "you'll still be part of supporting Toledo Firefighters Local 92 Muscular Dystrophy Foundation and setting a Guinness World Record at a future date. We know everyone is very excited to be a part of the this Guinness World Records attempt on Friday evening in Downtown Toledo.
"In an abundance of caution surrounding the growing impact of COVID-19 in our region, and with the Governor of Ohio's announcements today, we are changing date of the Blarney Shamrockin' Shuffle's Guinness World Record event to a later date, to be determined in the coming days."
What Do You Do Now?
1. Everyone is encouraged to read the facts about COVID-19 and follow the CDC's recommendations to help stop the spread of these germs and misinformation.
2. All registrants will automatically be placed into the event on the new date. You won't have to do anything.
3. Packet pickup remains open so you can get your kilt and perks package. Thursday and Friday from 12 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Dave's Running Shop, Sylvania.
4. Organizers are working closely with city officials and the Blarney Irish Pub to confirm the new date. We'll publish the new information in the coming days, as soon as it is confirmed.
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A student came to me for “tips” to improve her monologue work. She complained the form causes her to struggle and push. Of course it does.
Monologues are evil. No amount of imagination or focus can make up for the fact that they force a performer to work in a vacuum, requiring an intensely connected art to be demonstrated in an isolated, disconnected way.
Evil, yes, and also necessary. But there are ways to dance with the devil—and gain the upper hand.
Choose an active piece. Story pieces, while funny or touching on the page, can spew out in an unfocused ramble. Playing strong actions to achieve a clear objective keeps you on point.
Choose a focal point before you begin. Take a few seconds to look over your auditors’ heads and pick a spot—a window, a piece of tape stuck to the wall, an air vent. Put your imaginary scene partner there, and though he may move around (mine—possessed by the devil—always deserts me), the focal point will remain your anchor.
Choose a short piece. If they ask for a two-minute monologue, choose one that takes less than 90 seconds, even strewn with self-indulgent pauses. Most auditors make up their minds in the first 30 seconds—why worry about going over?
Own it. Once you’ve made your choices, gather your wits and go for it. Find the moment, fill the space, and take your time.
Happily, most auditions rely on cold reads and sides. The monologue—while important in early career stages—eventually returns to the underworld from whence it sprang.
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Vegetation indices time series analysis is increasingly improved for characterizing agricultural land processes. However, this is challenging because of the multeity of factors affecting vegetation growth. In semiarid regions the rainfall, the soil properties and climate are strongly correlated with crop growth. These relationships are commonly analyzed using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). NDVI series from two sites, belonging to different agroclimatic zones, were examined, decomposing them into the overall average pattern, residuals, and anomalies series. All of them were studied by applying the concept of the generalized Hurst exponent. This is derived from the generalized structure function, which characterizes the series’ scaling properties. The cycle pattern of NDVI series from both zones presented differences that could be explained by the differences in the climatic precipitation pattern and soil characteristics. The significant differences found in the soil reflectance bands confirm the differences in both sites. The scaling properties of NDVI original series were confirmed with Hurst exponents higher than 0.5 showing a persistent structure. The opposite was found when analyzing the residual and the anomaly series with a stronger anti-persistent character. These findings reveal the influences of soil–climate interactions in the dynamic of NDVI series of rainfed cereals in the semiarid.
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The average American hospital barely breaks even. But some are enormous profit centers. Forbes’ first-ever survey of America’s most profitable hospitals reveals that some American hospitals make 25 cents or more for every $1 in patient revenue they take in.
Our list, done by the American Hospital Directory, is based on operating income figures that hospitals must report to the federal Medicare program each year. It found that 24 hospitals in the country with over 200 beds make an operating margin of 25% or more. That kind of profit margin compares favorably to drug giants like
The most profitable hospital in the country, 235-bed Flowers Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., recorded an incredible 53% operating margin. It is part of the big for-profit
Not surprisingly, a disproportionate 15 of 25 hospitals on our list were part of for-profit chains. HCA had 10 other hospitals in the top 25, including Medical City Hospital in Dallas, with a 26% operating margin; it is expected to do an initial public offering soon. But some big nonprofits also made the list, including both of Mayo Clinic’s main hospitals and Ohio State University’s hospital.
Some say profitable hospitals may be using local monopoly to overcharge insurers and patients. Others see the high profits simply as sign of efficiency and good quality.
The question is important because hospital charges represent about a third of total health care spending–$718 billion altogether. It’s more than what’s spent on doctors, drugs, nursing homes or any other category-type of care. Hospitals have been quietly consolidating in recent years. Now many hospital “systems” dominate their regional markets, often allowing them to dictate prices to insurers who pay the bill.
“Profitability can be as simple as being in a protected market [with little competition] and having lots of privately insured patients,” says Michael Millenson, a consultant with Health Quality Advisors in Highland Park, Ill. Private insurance usually pays more than the federal Medicare program.
In an industry where four in five facilities are nonprofit charities, those that do run a profit draw scrutiny from policymakers, HMOs and local communities. Hospitals have been accused of excessive charges, discriminating against uninsured or underinsured patients and acting like monopolies by controlling a specific market. Even acknowledging profitability is taboo at many facilities.
There’s another school of thought, however, that says that hospitals that are well-run financially are often those that are producing the best clinical outcomes.
Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody’s, argues that better quality control can improve hospitals’ financial performance. “A strategy aimed at quality can result in improved market share, better ability to recruit and retain physicians, lower nursing vacancy/turnover rates, improved financial performance,” she wrote in an influential report. Moody’s now looks closely at hospital clinical quality measures when rating debt offerings.
The median operating margin for 200-bed hospitals and above was slightly negative (-0.7%) last year. That means the money that was brought in from patients fell short of what they needed to spend on staff, equipment, buildings and other items.
William Shoemaker, of the American Hospital Directory in Louisville, Ky., says patient satisfaction scores from Medicare’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey correlate meaningfully with profitability. He argues that hospitals become more profitable by delivering higher quality care. “Companies that are well-run tend to have happy customers,” he says.
Some hospital chains may use big profits from their premier hospitals to finance empire building around the country. The Mayo Clinic’s two main hospitals in Rochester–Rochester Methodist Hospital (No. 3 on our list) and St. Mary’s Hospital (No. 25)–are both enormously profitable. Yet the Mayo Clinic overall is only modestly profitable, according to its financial statements. Where does all that money go? A spokeswoman for Mayo had no comment. But some of the money may be flowing south to Phoenix, where Mayo has operated an unprofitable hospital since 1998, and to Jacksonville, where it opened a new hospital in 2008.
St. Luke’s, in Cedar Rapids, which is known for its top-flight cardiac care, is the fourth most profitable hospital in the country with a 36% margin. Scott Kallemeyn, director of operations support at St. Luke’s, says that the true operating margin is in the low single-digits. Payments to its parent hospital system for information technology and financial services aren’t captured, nor is equipment depreciation, he says.
Ohio State University Hospital reported a hefty 32% profit margin to the government. When asked about it chief financial officer Jeff Ellison cracked: “I’d like to buy stock in us,” but refused to comment further. Later the university wrote an e-mail claiming the Medicare report “does not give a complete picture.” It would not explain how. | <urn:uuid:718ab7cf-df1a-4b60-9426-b92f65ce33d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/30/profitable-hospitals-hca-healthcare-business-mayo-clinic.html?boxes=Homepagelighttop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957454 | 1,057 | 1.90625 | 2 |
What is the impact of Information Communications Technologies (ICT) and mass media on economic growth and development? This paper from the London School of Economics analyses empirical data on mass media penetration, the spread of ICT and press freedom to assess their impact on corruption, inequality and poverty. The results provide strong evidence that higher mass media penetration (newspapers, radio and TV ownership) is associated with lower corruption. Further, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher newspaper circulation.
The availability of information is crucial for efficient decision making by citizens and consumers. For the voter, information about government actions and political candidates is essential for accurate voting choices. Consumers and investors require information to purchase products and securities. Access to information is, however, circumscribed by lack of communication infrastructure.
Mass media and technological revolutions in telephony and ICT are the two main vehicles of information in modern societies. There is an increasing dependence on the knowledge-based economy for economic development and growth. There are also concerns, however, about how new communication technologies impact on the economy; in particular, how they individually impact on development and growth. Existing studies suggest that:
- The use of ICT and telephony is double edged. It can drive both economic growth and increasing spatial and individual inequalities. In India, for example, cities adopting new technologies early have developed small, scattered clusters of productivity.
- The impact of mass media is not likely to accentuate spatial or individual inequalities. Newspapers, radio and television even out asymmetries in information availability. However the quality of news generated is influenced by government treatment of the media industry.
Analysis of data compiled from the World Bank indicators data set (2004), Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, and the International Country Risk Guide suggests the positive impact of mass media penetration and ICT/mobile telephony. While lack of appropriate data makes causality difficult to establish, there seem to be significant costs associated with having underdeveloped media and ICT sectors in developing countries.
- Both mass media and ICT penetration are associated with lower levels of corruption. This result holds across the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries).
- ICT and mass media are also associated with lower levels of economic inequality.
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FYWIS scholarship is a scholarship available for only girl students pursuing higher degree courses in the field of science. Candidates can go through the below FYWIS scholarship eligibility criteria before applying for the scholarship.
- Female candidates pursuing courses from recognized institutes of India in medical/ engineering/ biotechnology or any other scientific field can apply for this scholarship.
- Interested students must pass their 12th board examinations from Maharashtra/ Delhi/ N.C.R. during the current academic year.
- Students must score atleast 85% marks in PCB/PCM, or they should score atleast 150 marks out of 200 in C.E.T. examinations in the current year.
- The candidate's age must be less than or equal to 19 years as of March 31st, 2022.
- The annual family income of the candidate's family should be less than INR 4,00,000.
- Students having one year gap after the 12th cannot apply for this scholarship.
Candidates who become eligible and apply for this scholarship will be awarded with a maximum FYWIS scholarship amount. Students selected under this scholarship will receive INR 2,50,000 in equal annual installments. The scholarship would be provided on submitting the proof of passing each year.
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Candidates can apply both online and offline mode for the FYWIS scholarship. They can get the FYWIS scholarship application form online by visiting the official portal of the scholarship. The following steps are to apply for Loreal India for Young Women in Science scholarship FYWIS.
Step 1: Candidates can get the application form by visiting the official FYWIS scholarship portal.
Step 2: Applicants need to take out the physical copy of the form and fill it
Step 3: Nothing should be left blank in the application form. If something is not applicable, write "N.A." against that.
Step 4: The applicant should put the application form in an envelope and mention "SCHOLARSHIP" on the top left-hand corner of the envelope.
Step 5: Candidates have to submit physical copies of the required documents along with the application form.
Step 6: The envelope needs to be posted at the official address provided by the authorities.
Step 1: Visit the official website of the FYWIS scholarship.
Step 2: Candidates can get the application form by navigating through the official website of this scholarship.
Step 3: Fill in all the details in the application form.
Step 4: Nothing should be left blank in the application form. If something is not applicable, write "N.A." against that.
Step 5: Upload all the necessary documents.
Step 6: Submit it after reviewing your application carefully.
Applicants are required to submit the physical copy of documents along with the application form through the post itself in case they apply offline or they have to upload the documents in case they apply online. Once submitted, documents would not be returned in any circumstances and are to be enclosed in the same envelope itself. Following is the list of FYWIS scholarship documents that must be submitted.
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- Self-attested copy of income certificates.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi called on religious scholars to adopt moderate rhetoric to tackle bigotry in the country.
In a meeting with religious scholars, Sunni and Shia, around an iftar at the seat of government in the capital, Baghdad, Al-Kazemi compared bigotry to Zionism, which builds its values on racism and sows discord. . Read also After freezing the endowment sharing agreement, Al-Kazemi pulls the wick of sedition in Iraq Sprinkling wheat and breaking the jar are their most notable habits … Learn more about the Iraqi network
According to the statement, Al-Kazemi reportedly said at the meeting: “We affirm the need for moderate speech to confront bigotry, as it helps a lot to get rid of the sectarian stage that Iraq has gone through.”
He stressed that religion is a fundamental pillar of the identity of Iraqi society, and that Islam is an identity, and that the constitution respects Islam, stipulating that it does not violate its principles, respects feelings of the majority of the people, and not prejudices. to its symbols and rituals.
“We most need today to spread hope and to claim it through places of worship and religious (scholars). We need hope that creates societies and works to build our country, ”he said.
Al-Kazemi called on religious scholars to participate in a national dialogue between the different specters of the people, to build and support the future of the country.
And he added: “Dictatorship, occupation, bigotry and terrorism have overtaken them and become a thing of the past, and we now look forward with confidence to construction and construction.”
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“We’ve had at least three of these big crypto bubbles so far,” and added that it could have ended already, or it could end months from now, according to Buterin in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
The recent crash which sent Bitcoin down to around $30,000 was an indicator of the crypto bubble ending, wasn’t touched by Buterin.
The reason the bubbles end up stopping is because some event happens that just makes it clear that the technology isn’t there yet, which is often enough” according to Buterin.
One factor in the Bitcoin price rash was Elon Musk’s announcement of his concerns over Bitcoin’s power usage. Philip Gradwell, Chief Economist of Chainalysis, said other institutional buyers may also hold concerns over crypto’s “environmental impact, use cases, illicit activity, and regulation.” | <urn:uuid:f6c1f8d7-9fd1-46c9-bd9c-a85a9436589a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://testboo.com/crypto/crypto-is-in-a-bubble-vitalik-buterin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970137 | 189 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Consider the Source
It’s safe to say that creative writers are awfully good at imagining the possibilities, as the lines on this issue’s cover, featuring the extraordinary work of graphic novelist Chris Ware, so simply state. As literary artists we are constantly flexing our imaginations to dream up the dynamic plot, the prevailing metaphor, or the thematic arc. Yes, we can imagine the result just fine. But it’s the doing—the action by which that result is brought about—that can prove even trickier. That’s why I look forward to this, our annual Independent Publishing Issue. As usual it’s filled with examples of writers, editors, artists, and others who are engaged in truly amazing, even awe-inspiring projects designed to get the work of writers in front of readers. Nothing new about that, right? Indeed, the authors of the three main articles in our special section all trace the work of their contemporary subjects back to rich historical roots, such as the founding of the Hogarth Press in 1917, Sylvia Beach’s publication of Ulysses in 1922, and the mimeographed zines of the 1960s. But the literary magazines and small presses featured in this issue are all responding—albeit in vastly different ways—to a publishing landscape that has undergone unprecedented changes in just the past decade. The growing popularity of e-readers, the dizzying rise in the number of self-published authors, the loss of brick-and-mortar bookstores, and the ever-amplified digital barkers vying for the last unclaimed minute of a reader’s attention—they’re all pushing today’s (and tomorrow’s) entrepreneurial editors and publishers to forsake the status quo and do truly innovative work. As a result these folks aren’t just selling a product; they’re changing the way we think about books. Whether it is by experimenting with analog and interactive formats, as Carrie Neill explains in “The Medium Is the Message," or, on the other end of the spectrum, banging out a low-fi magazine on an old typewriter, as described by Amelia Gray in “Strange How These Things Happen," the work of independent publishers is pointing to a future that is necessarily uncertain—and therefore extremely exciting. How that future shakes out will be the result of some very determined individuals imagining the possibilities—and then doing whatever it takes to make them a reality. Through it all, of course, one element remains the most important of all: the actual stuff we’re trying to get in front of readers—our words. Let us not, dear poets and writers, forget that. | <urn:uuid:591767cd-4faf-4d2e-b8dd-5f3968a06ec9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.pw.org/content/editors_note_10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935959 | 554 | 1.789063 | 2 |
How a Home's Electrical System Works
The typical American home has a primary circuit coming in from the electrical supplier with two 120 volt "hot" wires and one neutral wire. These wires connect to the main electrical panel and then possibly from there to one or more sub panels. The main panel or sub panel contain circuit breakers (or fuses for older installations). One breaker is used for each of the home's "branch" circuits. Occasionally a breaker may be "double tapped" to control more than one branch circuit, although this may be dangerous and likely violates your local electrical codes. Most branch circuits have one 120 volt hot wire, one neutral wire and one ground wire. A few specialized branch circuits have two hot wires instead of one. Each of the two hot wires carry 120 volts which results in 240 volts being supplied on the circuit. Such circuits are commonly used for air conditioners, electric ranges and dryers.
You may have noticed that electrical devices have ratings listed such as 120v, 115v or 110v. These are all designed to run on a standard circuit in your home. Your electrical supplier delivers 120 volt current to your home. However as electricity travels through the wire, it dissipates some of its energy and as a result the voltage drops. By the time it gets to the farthest outlet in your home, the voltage may have dropped from 120v down to 108v or so. Voltage drops over a distance are normal and to be expected.
Electrical current is commonly measured in watts, amps and volts. The voltage is analogous to water pressure; it measures the "pressure" of the electricity being "pushed" through the wire. Wattage is the quantity of electricity being pushed through the wire. Amperage is the result of wattage divided by voltage. So if you see a device rated for "15 amps", that means when supplied with 120 volt current, it is designed to handle up to 1800 watts
(15 amps * 120 volts = 1800 watts).
Circuit breakers and fuses are important safety devices. They work effectively as a switch and are designed to stop the flow of electricity. While a circuit breaker is very much like a switch, fuses have a one time usage and must be replaced each time they protect a circuit. When too much load is placed on a circuit, the breaker "trips" and interrupts the flow of electricity. An excessive load may result from too many devices simultaneously in use on a circuit, a faulty device or a short circuit, amongst other possibilities.
Without a circuit breaker, an overloaded device could be damaged , a fire could result from the heat generated by the device or wiring or from electrical sparking. Circuit breakers however are not very effective at protecting people from electrocution. The problem is that they do not trip quickly enough to protect you from harm. That is why most electrical codes now call for GFCI outlets in wet locations such as kitchens and bathrooms. GFCI outlets trip very quickly reducing your exposure to dangerous electrical current. | <urn:uuid:b40d3ba5-598c-4670-b3f5-3d62783bb973> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://acmehowto.com/electrical/overview.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943936 | 613 | 3.921875 | 4 |
|The Ice Tree, an unknown species, possibly of alien origin, discovered Wednesday morning in Phoenix|
With temperatures dropping below freezing, and winds from the north from 25-35 mph, both from the whip-tail end of LOW pressure Snowmageddon/USA-2011, this bicycle commuter expedition set out for Ice Station PHX on Wednesday morning, to take readings, return with samples if possible, and to explore the limits of human-powered locomotion added by wind-stopper fleece, basilisk-proof goggles, and ninja sniper gloves (the Plan B commuting outfit).
In addition to the unknown species cataloged above, several residential yards were observed with what appeared to be ice skating rinks which seem to have been intended to be flood irrigation.
This expedition helped me to define the lower limit for my plan B clothing, which I ride in when the temperature drops below about 40. The limit is a windchill of 20 degrees. These clothes actually left me uncomfortably cold, and if we have similar weather on Thursday, I will go with the Plan C ("Cold") outfit: wind pants, parka, shoe covers, and added head insulation. The sniper gloves and basilisk goggles were the bomb, though. My eyes and hands were warm, at least, which goes a long way.
This weather would be notable, if most of the rest of the country weren't significantly worse. But, it's not often that I get to express solidarity with cyclists in other cold places. In this instance, though, I can say, pretty authentically: BRRRRRRRRR. Lows well below freezing Wednesday night (in the 20s? whaaaaat??), with more gusty north winds. It could be a Plan C ride Thursday morning. From Ice Station PHX. Gggggget uppppp. Ggggggo rrrride. | <urn:uuid:7239fcb1-7994-48a0-9c8f-01ce586d1285> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onespeedgo.blogspot.com/2011/02/ice-station-phx-polar-expedition-report.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955574 | 385 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Are you planning a project or development, or changing the way that you use your land, which might have impacts on our environment? If so, you may need additional approvals under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
The EPBC Act is designed to protect our unique animals, plants, habitats and heritage places both now, and into the future. It ensures ‘matters of national environmental significance’ are identified and any potential negative impacts are considered and managed before any changes in land use or new developments are approved.
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How are we preparing for the trip?
Each of our teenagers, in addition to fundraising to help allay the cost of the trip, is undergoing training to prepare for the rigors and demands of the Appalachia Service Project.
In a series of three study nights, on March 12, April 9 and May 21, the teens begin to learn about the culture of Appalachia and the theme of this years service: "Love in Action".
When June rolls around, all of the teenagers will participate in construction training at the Home Depot in order to make sure they have the necessary skills to be of service when we reach West Virginia.
During these months of preparation, we ask the teens to pray for their peers, their chaperones, and the families in Appalachia that we will be serving. It is imperitive to not only prepare our minds and bodies for the trip, but also our hearts.
Many of the teens who have participated in our previous trips have described the experience as "life changing". Please look through our photo albums and videos from previous years to get an idea of the kind of trip we will be leaving on, in just a few short months! | <urn:uuid:a9316f0a-0f38-4f59-92b3-93c09598f538> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/3/miscellaneous4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.962681 | 241 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Background: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are often associated with pain and result in reduced quality-of-life for individuals affected. They are also associated with elevated anxiety1 and a tendency to somatization2in which psychological distress receives apparent somatic expression. Similar findings have been reported in other functional somatic syndromes such as chronic pain and fibromyalgia. The extent to which these associations are specific to gastrointestinal (GI) disorders has not been examined. This study aimed to estimate 1) the overlap between functional GI and extra-GI conditions within individuals,2) level of GI and extra GI symptom burden in sufferers of GI and extra-GI disorders and3) the association between somatization and symptom burden in sufferers of GI and extra GI disorders. Methods: Individuals were sampled from gastroenterology clinics, chiropractic clinics and community samples screened for GI symptoms occurring more than rarely.Standard diagnostic criteria were applied to GI disorders (Rome III) and extra-GI conditions(chronic pain, lower back pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue). All individuals completed standardized measures of GI and extra-GI symptom burden, including the gastrointestinal symptom rating scale (GSRS). Due to overlap, individuals were categorized as meeting criteria for FGID only, extra-GI only, both FGID and extra GI or neither. The final group did not meet criteria but did experience GI or extra GI symptoms and are considered subsyndromal.Pearson correlations (r) are reported. Results: A total of 129 individuals were recruited and grouped as per Table 1. Among individuals who qualified for FGID or extra-GI syndromes39% met criteria for both. Mean GSRS scores were higher in groups meeting FGID criteria but only by degree. Somatic pain intensity scores were highest in groups meeting extra-GI criteria but also elevated in FGIDs. The association between somatization and both GSRS and somatic pain intensity was moderate to strong in all groups and always reached statistical significance (p<0.05) including those who did not meet criteria but were subsyndromal (Table 1). Conclusion: There is substantial overlap between GI and extra-GI somatic disorders.Although somatization levels are elevated in FGIDs compared with extra-GI syndromes the correlation between somatization and both somatic pain and GSRS is relatively similar across conditions. This suggests that somatization may be a common factor in the brain-gut connection across FGID and extra-GI functional somatic syndromes. | <urn:uuid:ebf07bc3-f7dc-4e12-b2e2-cdd8e0316e93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/somatization-is-the-key-link-in-the-overlap-between-functional-ga | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.957274 | 518 | 1.695313 | 2 |
What is the Tea Party?
The Tea Party is a political movement that largely began in 2009 with protests that were sponsored both locally and nationally.
What type of “movement” is the Tea Party?
The Tea Party is essentially a populist movement urging political change for the benefit of the people. The focus is on fiscal conservatism.
How does the Tea Party align with other political movements or parties?
In general the movement is considered conservative as well as libertarian, favoring decreased taxes as well as decreased spending by the government. So far the Tea Party has endorsed Republican candidates.
What are some other important aspects of the Tea Party movement?
Other hallmarks of the Tea Party movement include reducing the federal budget deficit as well as the national debt, and advocating the country’s adherence to the original interpretation of the U.S. Constitution with the belief that the judiciary should only uphold the law and not create new law.
What are the Tea Party protests?
The Tea Party protests occurred beginning in 2009 and took place across the country as part of the larger Tea Party movement demanding fiscal responsibility by politicians.
Also advocated was an adherence to the Constitution, individual freedom and smaller government as well as lower taxes.
What were some of the prominent Tea Party protests?
The first major “Tea Party” protest occurred on Feb. 27, 2009 and was against the TARP bailout bill and the ARRA stimulus bill. TARP stands for Troubled Assets Relief Program and had been signed in 2008 by President George W. Bush. The ARRA stands for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and was signed ten days before the protest by President Barack Obama.
Another Tea Party protest took place on April 15 of 2009 (Tax Day in the U.S.), another on the Fourth of July, and another on Sept. 12, 2009 in commemoration of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
A sustained Tea Party protest took place for one week beginning Mar. 14, 2010 to protest the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the final week of debate on the bill. It was later signed by President Barack Obama on Mar. 23, 2010.
The major health care reform bill was advocated by President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress, which also passed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act signed by Obama on Mar. 30, 2010.
What were the major goals of the Tea Party movement in 2010?
The primary activities of the Tea Party movement in 2010 centered around opposing efforts by the Obama administration to enact the sweeping changes to health care mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In addition to the health care reform protests by the Tea Party movement in 2010, there were also significant efforts to recruit and support political candidates to the carry the Tea Party movement message in both state and national elections.
What is the Tea Party?
Is the Tea Party a United States political party?
The Tea Party movement is not a registered national political party as of Feb., 2010 and “Tea Party” or “Tea Party Movement” has not appeared on any ballots. However there is a U.S. political party called the Boston Tea Party which advocates a libertarian ideology and was named after the famous 1773 Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party was formed in 2006 by former Libertarian Party members with the agenda of reducing the power of government (including its size and scope) on all issues and at all levels.
What was the “Boston Tea Party” all about, in a nutshell?
When the British taxed America’s tea in 1773 the colonists rebelled. The took tea from ships docked at the harbor on Boston and threw it in the ocean. The colonists insisted on no taxation without representation which has become the rallying cry of the modern Tea Party movement as well.
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Does the Tea Party movement have a central leadership?
Who determines the agendas and platforms of the Tea Party movement?
Local and national Tea Party movement groups each determine their own platform as well as their agenda. Many of these groups maintain a loose affiliation with other Tea Party movement groups both locally and nationally.
This lack of central leadership in the Tea Party movement has been a cornerstone of its grass roots nature.
What caused the sudden rise of the Tea Party movement? Some say it was caused by the bank bailouts that began with President George W. Bush and continued under the administration of President Barack Obama.
A significant number of people felt that no one in government was listening to their protests against increasing deficits, spending and taxes.
Who are the people in the Tea Party movement?
Various polls and surveys have yielded conflicting results on who the people who lead and subscribe to the tenets of the Tea Party movement. It is generally agreed that the Tea Party movement constituency is predominantly white. Some polls say there are slightly more males than females while others say females are the majority, and in particular, mothers.
Most of the Tea Party movement constituency is older than 45 and are married, and they tend to be generally more conservative than the general population and are most likely to be registered as Republicans and hold favorable views of the Republican party and negative views of the Democratic Party.
Tea Party Supporters Better Educated
The people in the Tea Party movement also tend to have more education than the general population and are wealthier. Aside from the political differences, income and gender the Tea Party movement members are demographical similar to the general population.
Some prominent polls from respected sources (e.g., Bloomberg, Gallup) have said that nearly half of the members of the Tea Party movement are “born-again” Christians in contrast to an estimated 34% in the general population.
An estimated 40% of the Tea Party constituency was said to be older than 55 with 79% being white, in contrast to about 23% of the general population being older than 55 and 75% being white.
A Gallup poll claimed about four-fifths of Tea Partiers were Republicans leading some to believe the Tea Party movement is somewhat of a rebranding of traditional Republican policies and candidates.
Others see a much broader movement going on that is indeed forcing a reshaping of both major political parties including the Republicans who need to either heed the Tea Party call or face being voted out.
Tea Party - An Umbrella Term
At this point there is no single “Tea Party.” The term is an umbrella descriptor that includes a wide array of people from those on the fringe of the political mainstream to independents, religious conservatives, and other groups.
Tea Party Bring New Faces into Politics
The Tea Party includes many people who have never even been involved in politics before or attended a rally and are now suddenly taking a strong interest in supporting the Tea Party principles.
Most notable among the Tea Party principals is the ideology of fiscal conservatism and the desire to decrease taxes, government spending and government deficits as well as the overall size of government and its involvement in the lives of U.S. citizens.
Who are some prominent figures of the Tea Party movement?
Most notable nationally in regards to their connection with the Tea Party Movement is former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin who was the first woman governor of Alaska from 2006 until she resigned in 2009.
Also prominently associated with the Tea Party movement is Dick Armey (Richard Keith “Dick” Armey) who was a United States Representative from Texas (1985 to 2003) and also served as the House Majority Leader (1995 to 2003).
What is the Tea Party?
When was the first Tea Party protest?
A 2008 fundraising event for Republican Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential run was held on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and advocated the upholding of States’ rights and end to the Federal Reserve System among other ideas. However the even did not specifically conjure the term Tea Party movement.
On Jan. 24 2009 a “Tea Party” protest was organized by the Young Americans for Liberty, a group chaired by Trevor Leach. The event was held in response to more than 100 taxes being imposed by New York Governor David Paterson.
Some of the protesters at this “Tea Party” protest adorned themselves with Native American headdresses as occurred in the original Boston Tea Party protest when the colonists wore similar costumes as they tossed tea in Boston Harbor to protest the British taxation of their tea.
This was followed by other protests spurred on by federal laws involving large amounts of spending including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) and health care reform.
Some tea party style protests were organized in early 2009 advocating and end to wasteful spending and other staunch Tea Party concepts, however the term “Tea Party” was not specifically used.
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April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party Rallies
On April 15, Tax Day, in 2009 a “Tea Party” protest occurred in Seattle which which had been preceded by two other similar protests and each had increased attendance. The Tax Day Tea Party protest drew 1,200 people. These events were orgnized by Keli Carender, a conservative activist and Seattle blogger.
When did the Tea Party movement being to coalesce on a national level?
Many believe that the modern Tea Party movement gained a national foothold due to an event that occurred on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Rick Santelli, the Business News editor for CNBC, was broadcasting live from the trading floor and began to openly criticize mortgage refinancing plans announced by the U.S. government.
Santelli claimed that the government’s refinancing plans were promoting “bad behavior” because they were subsidizing mortgages that should not be subsidized. Santelli then suggested that a tea party should be held for the traders on July 1 so they could toss all of their derivatives into the Chicago River.
Tea Party Suggestion on Floor of Exchange Becomes Viral Video Sensation
As Santelli said this numerous traders on the floor of the Exchange cheered him while the hosts in the studio were amused by the events. This footage was then shown on the Drudge Report and proceed to become a “viral video” widely seen around the nation and world via the internet.
Very quickly numerous “Tea Party” related websites were launched and began to garner significant internet traffic, and Tea Party events began to be scheduled for July 4, Independence Day.
A National Tea Party Movement Begins to Take Shape
And it was these events that many believe caused the “Tea Party” to begin to coalesce under nationally and guests on talk shows began to talk about the new “Tea Party.” Many people begin to get involved and form their own answer to the question of "What is the Tea Party movement?".
Facebook Page Organizes Nationwide Tea Party Protest
On February 20 a Facebook page was established to organize Tea Party protests across the country, one result being the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party protest which took place on February 27, 2009 and included 40 different cities.
The Nationwide Tea Party protest was considered to be the nation’s first modern Tea Party protest.
What is the Tea Party?
Are there any Tea Party umbrella groups or national coordinating bodies for the Tea Party movement?
Several organizations have emerged including the website-based teapartypatriots.org which has nearly 3,000 local affiliates. Several dozen local tea party groups are loosely organized as the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition.
The National Tea Party Convention that took place on Feb. 4 to Feb. 6, 2010 was sponsored by the Tea Party Nation and featured Sarah Palin as a speaker.
A group called the National Tea Party Federation was established on April 8, 2010 by several people who were already leaders in the Tea Party movement.
In July of 2010 Minnesota Republican Representative Michele Bachmann created and chairs the congressional Tea Party Caucus which focuses on Tea Party principles including limiting government, adhering to the United States Constitution and maintaining strict fiscal responsibility.
Because the Tea Party Caucus is largely Republican some have accused them of trying to hijack or co-opt the real grass-roots Tea Party movement.
What influence did the Tea Party supporters have in the 2010 elections?
Candidates who were endorsed by the Tea Party supporters succeeded in upsetting numerous established politicians during the 2010 election cycle. This began in the primaries where Republicans were ousted in South Carolina, Utah, Colorado, Alaska, Delaware and Florida.
Of the 138 candidates for Congress in the 2010 midterm elections that had substantial Tea Party support, all were running as Republicans. Nine ran for the Senate and 129 for the House of Representatives.
Of the estimated 35% of of voters in support of the Tea Party, nearly 85% of these voters preferred Republican candidates while just ten percent preferred Democratic candidates.
One notable candidate who was endorsed by the Tea Party and then victorious in the 2010 election cycle is Scott Brown who was elected as the United States Senator from Massachusetts in the special election that was held after the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy.
The very first Tea Party activist to be elected to office is believed to be Long Island businessman Dean Murray who won a special election for a seat in the New York State Assembly. The Tea Party supporters and Tea Party candidates secured many other victories in the 2010 election cycle.
The Tea Party backed Randal “Rand” Paul, the son of Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul, easily defeated the Republican party establishment backed Trey Grayson in the Super Tuesday GOP primary despite never having held office before.
After getting 60% of the vote, Paul said that the Tea Party movement had the goal of “saving our country from a mountain of debt.” Rand Paul is now the United States Senator from Kentucky. There is a long list of Tea Party backed candidates who were successful in the 2010 election cycle.
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Newly appointed Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari represented his country today at a meeting of the 22-member Arab League. Zebari was invited to attend the meeting after an hours-long debate among League ministers yesterday. Analysts say the step may pave the way for full international recognition of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and its new interim cabinet.
Prague, 9 September 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Hoshiyar Zebari, Iraq's newly appointed interim foreign minister, today told Arab League ministers meeting in Cairo that his country will be different than it was under deposed President Saddam Hussein, and said Iraq was eager to establish friendly relations with its neighbors.
"The new Iraq will be based on diversity, democracy, constitution," he said. "It will put at the top of its priorities respect for law and defense of human rights of Iraqi citizens. The new Iraq will stand firm against terrorism, from which it is now suffering."
Zebari addressed the Arab League in a short speech at the beginning of the two-day session. His presence was a landmark of sorts, coming after a decision by the League yesterday to invite the Governing Council to represent the country at meetings of the 22-member Arab body. In his speech, Zebari -- an Iraqi Kurd who for several years represented the Kurdistan Democratic Party in London and Washington -- sought to lay out the future of Iraq's foreign policy.
"I would like to assure [my fellow Arab ministers] that Iraq will quickly reclaim its role in the Arab world and its affairs. It will work toward the stabilization of the region through adopting a new foreign policy. It will be based on the principals of international law and friendly relations with the neighbors, mutual respect and rejection of war and aggression. [Iraq] will try to achieve cooperation, fraternal, and friendly relations with the Arab countries and try to establish cooperation and mutual understanding with the international community and its organizations," Zebari says.
The Arab League had earlier sought to distance itself from the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. But yesterday's decision may set an important precedent in determining whether the Council will eventually be invited to represent Iraq at the United Nations General Assembly and OPEC.
Arab League ministers debated for several hours yesterday evening before finally making their decision to grant provisional recognition to the Council. Iraq's seat had remained empty since the U.S.-led coalition toppled the Hussein regime in early April.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told reporters after yesterday's late-night debate that "there was a consensus to invite the Governing Council in Iraq to attend this session as a member."
The League will review Iraq's representation and its progress toward forming a government in one year.
Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, opened today's meeting by welcoming Zebari and his delegation.
"There is no doubt that this is an occasion to welcome the Iraqi delegation seeking to restore Iraqi self-rule and to end the occupation," Moussa said. "The decision was taken for the sake of Arab higher interests to help Iraq preserve its Arab identity and its national unity, in order for Iraq to enjoy stability so it can preserve its territory and gain control of its sovereignty, end the occupation and control its destiny."
The decision was seen as a victory for more moderate Arab states. Analysts had predicted that the region's hard-line ministers would try to deny Zebari access to the meeting in order to avoid legitimizing the coalition's occupation of Iraq and the Governing Council. But moderate states are eager to ensure that the Arab world will continue to play a role in Iraq's future.
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Minority Minors and Moral Research Medicine
Bonkovsky, Frederick O.
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 1997 Winter; 6(1): 39-47.
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I'm reading * The Worldly Philosophers, The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers for the fifth time. Almost every page has a thought-provoking statement.
Robert L. Heilbroner, American economist and historian of economic thought said, "It is by the process of handing money around --- taking in each other's wash, it has been described --- that the economy is constantly revitalized."
This is one of the very reasons that I/we/you showcase people and organizations in our industry (and those mashing up with our industry) via blog post, podcast, video, press releases and more.
Some great sites to listen, watch, and read about those who you can start handing money back and forth and around with, but also learn from, teach in turn ... and barter. Yes, barter is hot in 2010!
You can click "Cancel" at first when prompted on any iTunes channel and not downoload any MP3 recording right away, and then browse podcasts for topics, people and groups you are interested in.
VoIP Users Conference (a great mix of mostly developers, applications, solutions that tend to be VoIP-related, more technical in nature)
DIDX Podcasts (a variety of entrepreneurs, developers, inventors, marketeers, educators, early adopters and on topics like voIP, globalization, memory, conferences, languages, non-profit programs, immigration, politics, acquisitions, product launches,
http://www.didx.net/podcast/?p=archive&cat=all (also on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/didx-podcasts/id322949120?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 )
Bending the Needle (a few that highlight a particular industry innovator and his or her innovations)
GeekSpeak (Entertaining! Beware. They tend to make anyone want to be a geek who is not already.)
TMCnet.com (An empowerer, an enabler, a showcaser of innovation, business success, debates, and more... very interesting set of video and audio podcasts.)
Listen and find out who you want to invest in, buy out, pass money around with or maybe trade, barter? Why not?
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Brief Description: This qualification builds a foundational entry into the field of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, specifically into the field of Systems Support and provides the learner with accessibility to be employed within the IT Industry.
It provides an introductory level of understanding about computer industry concepts and covers areas such as entry-level hardware, software, electronics and network support,
on mainly (but not limited to) desktop and hand-held devices and local area networks.
The qualification has a flexible structure to allow for changing requirements in the computer industry and also provides the learner with the flexibility to articulate in the IT environment with a wide variety of specialisation options within the Telecommunications, Information Technology and Electronic Industries and other industries where IT is a key component, like the Financial Services Industry
Entry Level Requirements: Communication and Mathematical Literacy at NQF level 3 and/or a Grade 11 pass.
Target Market: The qualification is designed for learners who wish to be employed in the IT industry and for those intending to study further in the field of Systems Support at Higher Education Levels
Cost: From R35 000 per learner
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Lavender oil is one of the most popular and most used oils in the practice of aromatherapy. It is popular because it is believed to have a number of healing properties and is gentle in its actions. A number of lavender oils are available, so make sure that you know which type of lavender oil you are using. Lavender oil can be used as a bug repellent and applied in a couple of ways. Consult a qualified health professional before using lavender oil as a bug repellent.
Types of Lavender
True lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, is the most common lavender oil used in aromatherapy. Other types of lavender include spike lavender or Lavandula latifolia, lavandin, Lavandula x intermedia and lavender stoechas. According to Julia Price in “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils,” both spike lavender and lavandin oils are similar in their actions to true lavender. However, Patricia Davis, in “Aromatherapy: An A-Z,” writes that lavender stoechas oil is too toxic to be safely used in aromatherapy.
Lavender oil is believed to possess a number of therapeutic properties. Lawless writes that lavender is analgesic, insecticidal, antiseptic and calming. These particular healing properties of lavender are suitable in both preventing insect bites and soothing insect bites and stings.
According to Davis, lavender oil has been used as a bug repellent for many centuries. Lavender was used in the past to protect clothes and linens from the infestation of moths and other insects. Davis advises to use lavender oil to prevent bites from mosquitoes and other biting insects.
Lavender oil also prevents the spread of infection caused by a bug bite and controls the itching and inflammation often associated with bug bites. Valerie Ann Worwood, in “The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy,” writes that lavender oil also helps control the infestation of fleas, black fly, black beetle, flies, greenfly and white fly.
How to Use
Use lavender oil in a lotion base; carrier oil, such as sunflower oil; or a spray before applying to the skin as a bug repellent. Although lavender oil is one of the few essential oils that can be applied to the skin undiluted, it is not advisable to do so without consulting a qualified health professional. Davis advises mixing lavender oil with grapefruit or eucalyptus oil to use as a bug repellent.
Lavender oil is, in general, a gentle, nontoxic and nonsensitizing oil. It is suitable for use with children and the elderly. It can also be used in pregnancy. Before using lavender oil as a bug repellent, however, consult a qualified health care professional, as individual circumstances may differ. | <urn:uuid:ea41c2e7-db98-4873-8a7f-48c2b7d53742> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/255859-lavender-oil-as-a-bug-repellent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00108-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946216 | 614 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Mexico is one of the 17 megadiverse countries of the world. With over 200,000 different species, Mexico is home of 10–12% of the world's biodiversity. Mexico is also considered the second country in the world in ecosystems and fourth in overall species. Approximately 2,500 species are protected by Mexican legislations.
In 2002, Mexico had the second fastest rate of deforestation in the world, second only to Brazil. The government has taken another initiative in the late 1990s to broaden the people's knowledge, interest and use of the country's esteemed biodiversity, through the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad.
In Mexico, 170,000 square kilometres (65,637 sq mi) are considered "Protected Natural Areas." These include 34 biosphere reserves (unaltered ecosystems), 67 national parks, 4 natural monuments (protected in perpetuity for their aesthetic, scientific or historical value), 26 areas of protected flora and fauna, 4 areas for natural resource protection (conservation of soil, hydrological basins and forests) and 17 sanctuaries (zones rich in diverse species). W
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Bringing Solar Energy To Unreached Parts Of Mexico, Dec 19
'It feels like a gift': mobile phone co-op transforms rural Mexican community, Aug 15
A proposal to daylight and restore all 45 of Mexico City’s urban rivers, Jul 15
Mexico City is crowdsourcing its new constitution using Change.org in a democracy experiment, April 21
Other names, other colors: Transition, Latino style, August 26
Four Ways Mexico’s Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future, August 12
An Ecovillage Survives as a Haven for Deep Ecology in Mexico’s Central Mountains, May 29
Mexico Suspends GMO Corn, Effective Immediately, October 28
Mexico City has been experiencing high temperatures, writes Daniel Hernández of Intersections, with some reports of 50 C temperatures inside some Metro stations. May 14
Mexico: water shortages affecting nearly 2 million residents, June 17, 2009 "This should be a wake-up call to start paying attention to the basics, but I expect we’ll wake up one morning in Chicago, or New York or London shocked, shocked that OUR systems have just stopped working and we won’t have a clue how it happened. Same way it’s happening in Mexico City. Just not paying attention to the basics of life." April 9
Transition: Energy descent and transition in Mexico, part 1 by Holger Hieronimi, June 5
Aguascalientes has embarked on an ambitious strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which includes upgrading cycling lanes and suburban trains, switching public lighting to solar power power and capturing methane from landfills to produce biogas. June 5
Water cut off in Mexico City, April 10
Mexico: A lack of water in Mexico City, March 26. Mexico City is running out of water. Daniel Hernandez of Intersections writes about what the local government is doing to address the situation, but officials say “drastic steps” may need to be considered including the possibility of turning off the water on the weekends.
Mexico to host World Environment Day 2009, September 22. The theme will be 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new agreement at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests. | <urn:uuid:81a51834-1406-4cd9-88c6-f61a8d2526f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.appropedia.org/Mexico | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00307-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886666 | 804 | 3.359375 | 3 |
By Tom Randall, Bloomberg News
NEW YORK — Influenza killed an average 23,607 people each year in the last three decades, one-third fewer than the 36,000 estimate previously used to weigh the severity of a flu season, a US study has found.
The 36,000 figure, cited by thousands of media stories during last year’s swine flu pandemic, was based on a 2003 report that examined data from the 1990s. That was a particularly deadly decade for flu strains and the resulting estimate overstated the impact of the flu, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yesterday’s research looked at data from 1976 to 2007.
Influenza is a rapidly evolving virus, and the severity of the season depends on which strains are circulating and how well a population has been inoculated. Annual deaths associated with flu ranged from 3,349 to 48,614 in the study. The new H1N1 strain that emerged last year killed about 13,000 people, though the impact on children and young adults was greater than a typical flu season.
The report “demonstrates the substantial variability in mortality estimates by year, influenza virus type/subtype, and age group,’’ researchers wrote in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Future research that considers years-of-life lost is needed to better communicate the mortality burden of influenza in these younger populations.’’
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That’s the way this teaser begins: “Government Ordinance 458 Guarantees Your Profits on the New “General Electric” of China”
This is an ad not for a subscription, but for a special report from Michael Lombardi (who writes the free newsletter Profit Confidential) — the special report costs $95. I don’t see these very often, probably because most people would prefer to pay for an ongoing service that holds their hands through investment decisions, and because publishers are also quite keen on ongoing annual revenue and automatic credit card renewals.
But still — $95 is quite a price to pay for a single report … one hopes that there’s more to it than just the name of the company. After all, the Gumshoe is fixin’ to figger’ out the name of that company for you, gratis.
So …. what do we learn from the teaser?
We learn that “Ordinance 458” in China is going to benefit this particular company.
The ad compares this company with General Electric, which is clearly a bit of a stretch no matter what the company is, but it does make an interesting point: They claim that GE didn’t really become a huge success until the government mandated the use of electric streetlights as a replacement for gaslights.
I have no idea whether or not that’s true — my knowledge of GE history only goes back about to the time they built my toaster oven. But it’s an interesting point: It’s certainly true that rapid changes in demand for a particular product can be caused by government mandate.
Whether that’s good or bad, I’ll leave for the libertarians and liberals to argue over …. that’s not the Gumshoe’s turf (though I’ve probably got a few doses of both those L words in my bloodstream).
Anyway … we’ve got a teaser to solve here, let’s get moving. He also compares this to being in on the ground floor of several other industries, investing in Ford at the beginning of the auto industry, RCA at the beginning of radio, Zenith at the launch of the television, IBM for computers, etc. etc.
We get it, if we had a time machine we’d be really, really rich. He didn’t mention what it would have been like to invest in one of the other several hundred car companies of the first half of this century, or Digital Equipment instead of IBM … well, you get the idea. And that probably reinforces the point: You need to be in the right company sometimes to get the benefit of a huge new industry, we often look back with what they call “survivor bias” and forget about all of the failed, bankrupt and long gone companies that contributed to building a new industry.
But back to the point, Lombardi thinks he’s got just the company for you.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in a company that makes products that the Chinese government requires businesses to purchase!”
This is some kind of video surveillance company, because they note that this Ordinance 458 requires cafes and entertainment centers and discos, etc. etc., to install video surveillance equipment.
And specifically, the teaser indicates that those businesses that are in Shenzen (the big city just across the border from Hong Kong) will be required to buy from this particular company … and immediately.
“Just like Edison’s GE, the government has enacted a law that requires businesses to purchase a certain type of equipment. That’s important because they’re mandated to purchase it from this company.”
And just to interject here — I didn’t see any evidence in my brief sleuthing exercise that this is true, that the government is specifically directing people to buy from this particular company. It could be so, but I certainly can’t confirm that.
The teaser notes that there are “more than 2 million” entertainment halls that will need to purchase this video equipment.
And, another bit that seems to me to be a bit of extra hyperbole:
“This company’s success (and possibly your profits!) is guaranteed by the Chinese government.”
I always get nervous when people talk about anything being guaranteed. That’s a pretty strong word, no? I think my palms would have stayed drier had he said that the Chinese government’s policies make success more likely for this company … but that doesn’t make you want to throw children and dogs out of your way as you rush to the phone to call your broker, does it?
Anyway, there’s more:
“The Chinese government recently passed another ordinance that requires surveillance equipment to be installed in coal mines, justice departments, and cities throughout China.”
And there’s some more similar regulation that might help this firm — requirements that retailers in Xi’an need to install equipment, and so on. Essentially, we’re told that this is the first swell of a series of massive waves that will crash across China, all of them throwing massive wads of cash into the pockets of this company as the big brother surveillance state is built in earnest. The market should be $33 billion for this stuff in China, according to our author, and the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World’s Fair will be yet further spurs for demand.
Whether or not you think all that surveillance is a swell idea, I think we can stipulate that the Chinese market is potentially massive for this kind of product, as for so many others, and anyone who invests in China does so with a little bit of a blind eye to human rights and individual liberty — which certainly sits better with some investors than other.
We’re not here to judge, however, we’re here to find out the name of this company so you can check it out for yourself, no $95 required. If you do want to read more about the bigger picture, there was a good article in the NY Times about a week ago which also names this company and one or two of their competitors, and talks about the revolving door with these companies and government officials.
And then we get to the only really specific clues for our teaser:
“In the last year alone, this phenomenal company’s revenue exploded 106% — even before the Chinese government ordered its products as “must-buys.”
And they had a “recent financing” of some sort.
So, if you’re really interested in reading all about this I suppose you could order up the special report from Lombardi, “Guaranteed Profits from the New General Electric of China.”
Or, thanks to the quick thinking of one of the Gumshoe’s readers, Louis Sodones (and some research to confirm by the Gumshoe, of course), we can tell you that this company is …
China Security and Surveillance Technology (CSCT, trades over the counter)
This company has also been approved for a NYSE listing, I think, it looks like all they need to go is get a good independent-ish board in place first.
And it’s tough to be absolutely certain about this one, since the 106% “explosion” in revenue was actually from 2005 to 2006, if I read this correctly … so this report might not be quite as fresh as you would like. Recent year over year sales have been significantly higher than that, well over a 500% increase.
This is an acquisitive company that has indeed built a pretty big firm in surveillance equipment, and their claims to future success rest on a few things: Close relationships with the government, which is of course important for virtually every Chinese company; the expansion of required surveillance installations, of which I agree it seems likely they’d get a good share; and vertical integration (they manufacture and sell and install whole systems), which apparently is not the norm in this sector in China, so they feel that gives them a competitive advantage.
But everything I’ve seen says that although these systems are being pilot-tested throughout China in various cities and towns through what they call the “Plan 3111” system.
What’s that you say? Don’t know about Plan 3111? The Gumshoe provides:
This is a quote from the company’s presentation at a Roth conference last Winter:
“What is the 3111 initiative? First of all, it is actually a testing phase for monitoring and reporting. 3 meaning province, city, county or municipals, and 111 meaning each province will select a city, each city will select a county, and each county will select a small district for testing of pilot projects. Last year about 22 cities were selected. We actually got about 13 of them and once successful the government will actually conduct a nation-wide roll-out plan.”
So … they got a bit over half of the pilot projects, which is good but doesn’t necessarily mean that the government is mandating that this particular company’s products be used.
So that’s my biggest concern about these guys: I don’t know that there’s anything so unique about this company’s products that they will be the only ones to benefit — you can bet that since this is China there’s going to be massive competition pouring into this relatively new space now that demand is being stoked, and I assume that individual Chinese shopowners, just like most Chinese consumers, are going to be extremely price-sensitive and savvy customers (though the government might be an easier sell).
It could be that CSCT is big enough, and has acquired a strong enough foothold, that they’ll be able to build on their big market share … it might even be likely. But I’d really hesitate to use that “guaranteed” word. And from what I’ve seen of this ordinance, this is all still pilot programs and testing, with certainly a lot of test sites but no national decree that everyone has to install surveillance just yet (though I wouldn’t be surprised if this does become a national policy at some point — and it’s possible that it has and I’ve missed it).
As usual, the Gumshoe is not going to tell you what to do: I don’t get paid enough to take responsibility for your mistakes, and you’re too wise to give me credit for your successes. I’d just say that from my limited research, it looks like an interesting company but the price seems fairly steep to me if, as I’m guessing, there is likely to be significant competition that might bring margins down. I don’t know whether the NYSE listing when it comes will result in another pop to the price when more investors will hear about them and institutions become able to buy in, or if that is already baked into the shares — they’ve had a really nice run to close out this summer. You could have had shares for as low as $13 or so in June, and they’ve now run up to about $22.
The company is trying quite hard to court US investors ahead of their big board listing — you can see some interesting Q&A sessions and transcripts, as well as the opinions of a few bloggers about the company (mostly pretty enthusiastic), over at Seeking Alpha. If you like what you see in CSCT, let us know. I am a believer in China investing in general, and hold several china stocks and funds (including the A shares CEF that I just re-bought today), but I don’t own shares of this particular company and I’m unlikely to buy them in the near future. | <urn:uuid:cb5433ae-9797-428b-ab5f-a25538882088> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2007/09/government-ordinance-458-guaranteed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962866 | 2,494 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Let's face it - Brushing teeth day after day can be bit of a pain. What's even worse is trying to grab 'handfuls' of water to rinse out the toothpaste. Not only is it difficult, but also, a colossal waste of precious water. You could of course use a rinsing cup, but that has to be cleaned constantly! Now, a design firm has finally seen the light or should we say the rinse?
New York based Amron Experimental recently unveiled a toothbrush that looks very much like a conventional one except for one thing - pour water on the handle and it magically sprouts straight into your mouth, making rinsing a cinch and, a lot of fun!
Called Rinser, the brush is designed such that its handle has a hollowed out section that collects tap water and directs it to a tiny spout. All the user has to do, is aim the tap onto the scoop and the toothbrush will transform into a water fountain.
Besides the fact that it will not be available until November, the only drawback to this nifty invention is its hefty $22 USD price tag - And that, is only if you pre-order it from the design firm's website. Once it goes retail, the price tag is expected to go up to an even steeper $34.99! Since it does come with an replaceable head, one can argue that the toothbrush is technically only $11 (or $17.50) apiece - An argument worth making if you are trying to convince your mum or dad to get you one!
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Characteristics of Courses that Fulfill “Diversity in American Society”
Diversity in American Society – The United States is a society of immigrants; and the diversity in ethnic, religious, and national influences that we enjoy as a result is one of our nation’s greatest strengths and sources of pride. Nevertheless, it is surprisingly easy in the U.S. to live in virtual isolation from this rich diversity of cultures, and even to be ignorant of the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexual orientation shape an individual’s view of American society. It is essential, at the beginning of the 21st century, that a university education address this most pressing of national issues. We recommend as part of the general education curriculum the successful completion of a course that focuses on the issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in American society
To qualify as fulfilling the campus-wide general education requirement in Diversity in U.S. Society, a course will include five general approaches to understanding diversity explained below. Your responses should include specific references to assignments, lecture topics, activities and readings that address each approach.
1) Definitional: The course will impart an awareness of the ways multiple factors such as race/ethnicity, class, gender, religion, disability, and sexual orientation shape individual lives, how they are embedded in and have shaped our social institutions, and how they produce markedly different outcomes and opportunities for individuals and groups.
2) Personal: The course will develop an awareness of students’ own potential biases regarding diversity, the origins of those biases, and their implications for social, economic, and political interactions.
3) Social: The course will lead students to an awareness of their own position within a privilege-oppression continuum, and enable them to explore the implications of that position for their lives and for their responsibilities as citizens of a multicultural democracy.
4) Historical: The course will develop an appreciation of the culturally constructed nature of distinctions based on several important diversity categories, such as race/ethnicity, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and of how they have varied historically.
5) Global: Although the course may focus on a specific American minority culture, the course will impart an awareness of how U.S. culture has been, and continues to be, influenced by diverse Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Oceanic, and Central- and South- American cultures, both historical and contemporary. | <urn:uuid:9e5bf334-fc3f-40fa-8cc4-b86680f3b66d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.iusb.edu/general-educ/course-approval-docs/CSV-Diversity-Course-Characteristics.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00168-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940118 | 502 | 3.53125 | 4 |
- adjective the small subsection of people within a society who conform to its most serious and important values – e.g. intellectual, moral, financial, artistic, etc.
- adjective of very high quality
- adjective very good, usually the best of its kind
- noun a small group of people in a group or society who have high status, power and special advantages
- noun the best people at a particular activity
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Use this Resource Guide to help you plan actions and events around social justice issues! If you have any ideas about what else we should have on here, email us at [email protected].
- DC Permit Process - Where to go to get legal permits for your event.
- Events and Meeting Space - Where to find space for your event or meeting.
- Outdoor Locations for Events - DC area parks for events and rallies.
- FAQs About Risking Arrest at the Capitol - What to expect when you're resisting.
- Housing - Mass Housing Resources for your group and Individual/small group accomodations in DC/MD/VA.
- Law Enforcement Agencies in DC - How to identify some of the various groups of cops in the city.
- Legal Support for Direct Action - Documents and organizations that will help you know your rights and do legal support.
- Libraries - Check out our Political Book Library and Political DVD Library and feel free to borrow for events, reading groups, etc!
- Printers - Find eco-friendly and Union places to make flyers, posters, t-shirts
- Van Rental Companies - Find places in the DC area to rent vehicles to transport your group.
- Sustainability - How to live greener in the DC area.
- Faith-based, Spiritual and Religious Resources - A comprehensive list of local and international organizations, coalitions and publications that promote social justice.
- Arts and Activism Guide - A guide of organizations, artist collectives, regular events, and books/resources relating to arts and activism in the DC metro area.
Training and Educational Resources
- Accessible Organizing/Facilitation - Resources for accessible organizing and movement-building
- Anti-Oppression Resources - Articles, exercises and trainings to dismantle oppression.
- Communications Work Checklist - What to do when you are organizing an event
- Direct Action Checklist - Information to remember before, during and after your actions.
- Project Management & Online Communications/Conference Calls: A guide to the most cost-effective and user friendly resources for conferencing and project management.
- Fundraising Resources - Tips and resources for doing your own fundraising.
- Self-Care Resources- Creating a balance.
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It’s sad but true, but the poor Hippopotamus is bearing the brunt of the effort to save the elephant.
Currently, hippos are still threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their meat and ivory canine teeth.
Since the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species officially imposed a ban on ivory trading in 1990, about 30,000 pounds per year of hippo teeth have been exported from Africa.
Before the ban on ivory, annual numbers were only about 5,600 pounds.
There are about 125,000 to 150,000 hippos left in the wild in Sub-Saharan Africa. Zambia and Tanzania both have the largest populations.
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Published work by: Henry Miller - Anais Nin - James Joyce - Lawrence Durrell
The Young And The Evil (1933) - Charles Henri-Ford, Parker Tyler [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Obelisk Press was an English-language press based in Paris, France, founded by Jack Kahane. It published novels that were to risque to publish in the United States.
Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States; an edition was printed by the Obelisk Press in Paris and copies were smuggled into the United States.
Obelisk also published Anais Nin, James Joyce, Frank Harris and Lawrence Durrell. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_Press [Aug 2005]
The Young And The Evil (1933) - Charles Henri-Ford, Parker Tyler
Praised unflinchingly by Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, this stunning work, first published in 1933 by the Obelisk Press, Paris, is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Parker Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), is anyone surprised that this title didn't clear customs across the Channel or the Pond? For decades?
see also: 1933 - gay fiction - Parker Tyler
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Research topic: winning behaviour
- Factors Influencing the First Generation Entrepreneurs: An Analytical Study on the Graduates of UAE Universities. Kargwell, Samia; Inguva, Srinivas // International Journal of Business & Social Science;2012, Vol. 3 Issue 7, p143
Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ventures of combining resources. In a competitive resource market it is not only very hard to the new entrepreneurs to get interest and to choose the appropriate line of enterprise's activity but also to sustain successful entrepreneurial...
- Look to the future. // Smart Business Akron/Canton;Nov2009, Vol. 19 Issue 6, p15
The article presents pieces of advice shared by Lance Osborne, president of Osborne Capital Group LLC, on working hard, keeping things in perspective and walking on the right path in order to achieve success in business.
- How to create a solid, content-rich mastermind group. Gitomer, Jeffrey // Grand Rapids Business Journal;10/3/2011, Vol. 29 Issue 40, p15
The article offers tips on creating a solid, content-rich mastermind group for a successful business, including appointing a facilitator, taking down notes during a meeting and selecting a book club each month that everyone can read from.
- WHY BUSINESS IS LIKE... GERMAN HUMOUR. // Management Today;Mar2010, p18
The article explores why businesses in Great Britain are successful in their forays abroad even if they fail in their home country as in the case of the British comedy television programme "Dinner for One."
- Midlands wealth on the rise. SOLANKI, SHAILESH // Eastern Eye;5/9/2014, Issue 1250, p1
The article reports on the research findings conducted by the newspaper "Eastern Eye" on the continuing business success of Asian business enterprises contributing £4.3 billion revenue and presents a list of the top 10 richest companies in the Midlands, England.
- Business of wealth. // Eastern Eye;4/11/2014, Issue 1246, p8
The author discusses the success of Asian businesses in Great Britain and the top 101 richest Asians who have increased their estimated wealth based on the magazine "Asian Rich List."
- Eight Steps to Decisiveness. // Credit Union Magazine;Dec2014, Vol. 80 Issue 12, p14
In the article, the author offers several suggestions for taking quick decisions to achieve success in business including the need of critical thinking process, avoiding data overload, and clarifying corporate strategy.
- Your success relies on people and products. JENKINS, LISA // Caterer & Hotelkeeper;6/27/2014, Vol. 203 Issue 4832, p5
The article focuses on the significance of people and products in a successful business, particularly within the hospitality industry.
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HUDDLE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: House and Senate leaders from both parties will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House this morning. Topic A is sequestration, but there’s little chance of a deal to avert it. The reality is that many members of Congress won’t even be in Washington because neither the Senate nor House is in session.
Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn told Morning D yesterday that he held out “zero” hope of a compromise emerging from the White House meeting, calling it a mere photo op. Cornyn also discounted legislative action on sequestration unless it’s rolled into an effort to pass the next continuing resolution. The continuing resolution that now funds the government will expire in less than four weeks, on March 27.
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SENATE 11TH HOUR EFFORT FAILS: It was political theater — Sen. Kelly Ayotte dismissed it as a “charade” — but the Senate went ahead with it regardless. On the eve of sequestration, the Senate held two votes on sequestration avoidance legislation: one from Republicans, proposed by Sens. Jim Inhofe and Pat Toomey, and one from Democrats. Both were DOA, and both failed to secure more than 60 votes to end debate. (Dems received 51 votes for their plan; the GOP received only 38 votes for its plan). POLITICO’s David Rogers has more on the votes: http://politi.co/Z40t1M
WHEN DOES SEQUESTRATION START, ANYHOW? The White House has until 11:59 p.m. to issue a sequestration order, but it could do so anytime during the day, reports Darren Samuelsohn in a helpful primer on the technicalities: http://politi.co/Y82k6u
IT’S A GLOOMY FRIDAY, BUT WELCOME TO MORNING DEFENSE — We’re filling in for Austin Wright on today’s Morning Defense, giving your usual correspondent a much-deserved day off. Send your comments for today’s newsletter to [email protected], or send tips for Monday’s Morning D to [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @ morningdefense, @ timkmak, @ abwrig and @ POLITICOPro.
Sequestration song of the day: “It's the End of the World as We Know It,” by R.E.M., first suggested by reader Kathleen Nichols. http://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY
And Pro Publica rounds up all the sequestration graphics you could want, to explain the effects of the cuts in varying ways: http://bit.ly/Z49qbw
HOW IT’S PLAYING AT THE PENTAGON:
— SECDEF HAGEL: A senior defense official tells Morning D that Hagel made calls to lawmakers Wednesday and yesterday and that sequestration was a “main topic” of conversation. The official declined to specify which lawmakers Hagel has been in touch with. Hagel also spent time yesterday being briefed on Afghanistan and approved his first deployment orders.
— DEPUTY SECDEF CARTER PUSHES BACK ON NYT: Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter writes to The New York Times to protest an editorial that argued the Pentagon could absorb sequestration with "prudence and good management." Argues Carter: "Good management is undermined by sequestration. ... A strategic approach to defense spending is being seriously compromised by gridlock in Washington." http://nyti.ms/Y2zqC2
— SPOX HOLDS OUT HOPE: “Not everything will happen on day one,” Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters yesterday.
WHAT PROS ARE READING:
— SIREN I: PENTAGON TO ASK FOR TWO ROUNDS OF BRAC: The Pentagon is planning to ask Congress for two new rounds of military base closures in its upcoming budget, the first in 2015 and the second in 2017, reports Kate Brannen: http://politi.co/XdKVL6
— SIREN II: F-35 RETURNS TO FLIGHT: The tri-service Lightning II is back on flight status after an examination of the cracked engine blade that grounded the fleet last week, reports Austin Wright. The jets have been grounded and cleared several times in the long history of the program, and yesterday’s decision means they’ll have a clean bill of health just in time for Sequestration Day. More here: http://politi.co/XoRaKA
— SEQUESTRATION DAY FOR DEFENSE INDUSTRY: From an industry perspective, sequestration's doomsday Day 1 is going to look almost exactly like the day before, reports Leigh Munsil for Pros: http://politico.pro/YDCuUY
THE JUICE — Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson Wednesday to smooth things over after the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, said contractors were “trying to squeeze every nickel” out of the Pentagon. Austin’s report, for Pros: http://politico.pro/YDCHYq
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WHO’S WHERE WHEN —
10:00 a.m. — Congressional leaders meet at the White House to discuss sequestration, per CNN.
10:30 a.m. — House Armed Services Committee Chairmen, led by Rep. Buck McKeon, hold a news conference on Capitol Hill to call for a sequestration avoidance plan that spares the Defense Department from cuts.
Neither Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel nor Deputy Carter has public events on their schedules.
FUN WITH SEQUESTRATION: Rearrange the letters of ‘sequestration’ around, and you get ‘quiet senators.’ Could Ayotte, Graham and McCain be the "sane quest trio"? Or are we all going to be left in "a quietness rot" by both parties? POLITICO’s Katie Glueck rounds up the best sequestration anagrams: http://politi.co/Z0ePir
SASC’S DeBOBES TO RETIRE — Rick DeBobes will be retiring after 10 years of serving as the Democratic staff director on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday on the Senate floor. Reid praised DeBobes as a "valued and accomplished" staff member who came to be a part of Levin's staff more than two decades ago. Having served for 26 years in the Navy as a judge advocate, DeBobes spent his entire Capitol Hill career with the Senate Armed Services Committee, first working with Chairman Sam Nunn, then Chairman Carl Levin.
FEINSTEIN: WHITE HOUSE TO RELEASE NEW DOCS FOR BRENNAN — Senate Intel Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said yesterday she had been assured by the White House that it would send over more documents to clear the way for John Brennan's nomination as CIA director. Feinstein wouldn't say if the new documents were related to Benghazi or drone strikes, both of which members of the committee have been seeking information on. Feinstein did say the docs would be classified.
SPEED READ —
— Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf was buried yesterday at West Point after a memorial service at the academy's chapel, reports the AP. Schwarzkopf is best known for commanding the U.S.-led coalition that repelled Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait during the first Gulf War. Among those at Stormin’ Norman’s funeral: Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. http://bit.ly/XdMad4
— HASC Chairman Buck McKeon disputes Bob Woodward, saying he thought the decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier group was made by military leaders who didn't have political motives, reports the Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/Z48dkh
— Just hours before sequestration cuts take effect, Lockheed Martin received a $333.7 million downpayment to buy initial parts, components and materials for an eight batch of F-35 jets, reports Tony Capaccio at Bloomberg: http://bloom.bg/13stDx6
— Sequestration would end flyovers at sports events, reports USA Today: http://1.usa.gov/Z48PX9
— China is trying to turn the tables on the U.S. regarding cyberattacks, reports Reuters. China’s government claims America is the source of two-thirds of the 144,000 hacking attacks its military websites receives a month. http://huff.to/XdMrNl
— Army Pfc. Bradley Manning entered guilty pleas yesterday to 10 of 22 charges in connection with the largest leak of classified information in United States history, writes our very own Josh Gerstein. Among the details: Manning said he attempted to travel to our very own PolitiCave in Rosslyn but was thwarted by the weather, per blogger Kevin Gozstola. http://politi.co/XdMHfb
SNEAK PEEK: Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady's "Deep State," on the government secrecy apparatus, coming out April 1.
"Some secrets are kept near Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Crystal City, Virginia. The restaurant and the secret share the eleventh floor of a federal office building easily accessed by anyone. ... Near the elevator and through the glass windows is what appears to be a dentist’s office. It’s not. A careful observer might notice a single distinguishing feature: a copy of The Starfish and the Spider, a book about organizational theory that successful contemporary military and intelligence officers have come to see as a bible. ... The office would have a single mission: solve technological problems quickly, without the vagaries of the bureaucracy getting in the way. The organization would be secret. ... The group is now called the Special Capabilities Office." For the record, the office is no longer there. Amazon: http://amzn.to/13rEpEm
DESSERT WITH PICTURE: Dennis Rodman meets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un, and they watch a basketball game together. The New York Times is on it: http://nyti.ms/Wurw4E
THAT’S ALL FOR US. Have a great Friday.
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DescriptionKeyboard Creations! lets the player type in a main message which will continually scroll across the screen. The game also lets the player set up an "alarm" message which can pop up every 30 seconds. The player can also set a digital clock to keep track of time.
The instruction manual suggests the following games that can be played:
Movie Madness!: 1 player names a movie and it's up to the other player to type in as many people that are associated with that movie. The main objective is to fill in as many characters (up to 99) of the main message as possible within an agreed amount of time. Then player 2 takes his turn and the player with the most characters filled in wins.
Sportscaster!: Played the same way as Movie Madness, except this time involves naming players of sports teams instead.
Identograms!: One player enters a series of clues on a subject and the other player has a limited amount of time to identify the subject. If the subject is displayed on the screen before the player guesses it, the player loses the game.
Source Word!: One player names a source word and the other player has only 5 minutes to type in as many word variations as they can by using only the letters contained in the source word. The words may be of any length but no letter can be used more than it appears in the source word. Then player 2 takes his turn and the player with the most characters filled in wins.
Tell Tale!: Players take turns entering words of a sentence. A player completing the sentence before the 98th character is out of the game. A player unable to complete a sentence on exactly the 98th space is out of the game. The game continues until only one player is left. If a player ends the sentence on exactly the 98th space, that player is the winner of the game.
Nincompoop!: Player 1 names any vowel the Nincompoop. Then players take turns entering words of increasing length (from 2-5 characters, then the cycle repeats). Anytime the Nincompoop vowel is used the player types Nincompoop in, instead of the vowel that would usually belong there. A player who cannot fit a word of the required length into the 99th space is out of the game. After that player is eliminated, the game starts with anew. The last surviving player is the winner.
Chain Letters!: One player names a category then types in a word that would fit in that category. Then the next player has to type in a word that starts with the last letter of that word that still fits in the current category. A player breaking the letter chain is out of the game and the surviving players continue.until only one player is left, or until a player ends a chain on exactly the 99th space. If a player cannot name a category word that fits into the 99th space, that player loses. A new category is selected after that, with the other surviving players continuing on the game.
Quiz Wiz!: One player programs a series of math problems for the other player to solve in a limited amount of time. The player wins if they arrive at the answer before it appears on the screen.
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- "Videomessaggi" -- Italian title
- "Noticiero electronico" -- Spanish title
- "Nieuwsbericht" -- Dutch title
- "Newscaster" -- UK title
- "Message" -- French title
- "Löpsedeln" -- Swedish title
- "Laufschrift" -- German title
- "Kysavis" -- Danish title
- "Criatividade!" -- Brazilian title
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A Content Delivery Network for WordPress, or CDN for short, can help your site perform better and in a more optimized way. It can save your server resources and allow you to handle larger traffic with ease. However, when does your website really need a CDN? Also, which option should you go for when selecting a Content Delivery Network for WordPress?
This post will answer all of the above questions.
First up, let us try to understand what a CDN can do for us.
Benefits of using a Content Delivery Network for WordPress
A CDN refers to a cluster of geolocated servers that are distributed all around the world. Now, since we are talking about a cluster of servers and not an isolated server, it means that a good CDN can handle large volumes of traffic effectively and easily.
CDNs hold static copies of your website’s data on their independent servers. Thus, as and when you make a change to your site, it is reflected on the CDN’s server copy too.
Since Content Delivery Networks tend to be geographically distributed, your visitors from different parts of the world can access your website faster. Visitors are served content via CDN servers, rather than your main server – the one you paid for at your host.
As such, the biggest advantage of having a Content Delivery Network for WordPress is that it can yield a performance boost for your website (read: it becomes faster). Your site will load faster because the geographical distance is reduced. Plus, the load on your actual hosting server is minimized.
Certain CDN providers also offer some security features, such as a firewall or bot filtering. This can keep your website secure and away from malicious hackers.
As you can see, CDNs do serve very useful and vital purposes. However, does that mean you badly need to get one for your WordPress site right away?
Cases wherein you might *NOT* need a CDN
It is not always that a website needs a Content Delivery Network. At times, you might do well enough even without a CDN. So, you need to take your time and first focus on your requirements.
For example, if you are targeting visitors from a specific location or country only, you should prefer hosting your site on a server located as close to that desired location as possible. In this case, having a geolocated web host is better than having a geolocated CDN.
Similarly, if you just need a CDN to filter out bad traffic from good, investing in a dedicated security solution such as Sucuri might be a wiser choice too. Of course, Content Delivery Networks such as CloudFlare focus heavily on security, but investing in a CDN purely for the sake of security is not a very plausible option.
Lastly, bear in mind that if you use a reputed WordPress hosting provider, there are high chances that your host offers an in-house CDN solution along with server-side caching of your content. For most users of the blogosphere, this will suffice well enough. Check with your web host if you wish to learn more about their solutions for this purpose.
Thus, to sum it up, we can say that your website may not require a CDN if:
- Your website is not growing at an exponential rate (and you do not expect it to grow exponentially either).
- You are targeting localized visitors from a specific region, rather than worldwide users.
- You are not serving a very high amount of media files, images, CSS, etc. If you are, and still wish to avoid a CDN, be sure to invest in a good caching plugin for WordPress.
- Your budget does not permit opting for a Content Delivery Network for WordPress.
If the last point holds true: obviously, money is a constraint. However, there are various cheaper options that you can consider without burning a hole in your pocket.
Picking the best CDN for your WordPress site
There are various CDN providers out there, each with its own set of awesome features and offerings. Which one should you opt for?
To begin with, you should check out this CDN comparison guide – it goes through some of the most popular Content Delivery Networks out there, such as CloudFlare, MaxCDN, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai Edge and Fastly.
That said, there are some considerations that can help you shortlist the CDN on the basis of your requirements.
If you are serving images on your WordPress blog, by all means you should consider giving the Jetpack Photon module a try. Photon is not a pure CDN; instead, it serves the images and photos of your blog on the fly via the global WordPress.com CDN. Naturally, this gives your website a performance boost as all images are cached and served globally. Photon is a free service, so you can use it without spending even a single penny.
For websites that stream a lot of live content, CDNs such as CDN77 are viable options. CDN77 offers server locations in five different continents, and you have the luxury of choosing which locations or continents you want to pay for. Thus, if your target audience is mostly in the Americas, you need not bother with the Asia servers, and so on.
KeyCDN, MaxCDN and CloudFlare are extremely popular for medium- to enterprise-level users. All of these services offer scalable plans that you can pick on the basis of your needs. CloudFlare is especially well known because it offers a very powerful free plan as well. Also, all of these three CDNs offer terrific security features. Even better, they have great integration with WordPress, both by means of official and unofficial plugins.
For advanced users, especially developers, there are Content Delivery Networks such as Google Cloud and Amazon CloudFront. But that’s maybe a case for another post.
What if you just cannot afford a CDN?
Don’t wish to or cannot invest in a Content Delivery Network?
Not a problem. There are still quite a lot many things that you can work with.
First, as already stated, do not forget to set up a good caching WordPress plugin for your website. If you are relying on images, turning Jetpack Photon on will prove useful.
Also, see if you can upgrade your web hosting solution. For instance, many managed WordPress hosting providers offer CDN services free of cost. Many mainstream non-managed web hosts offer features such as Railgun and native CDNs on their higher plans too – those cost less than normal pricing of Content Delivery Networks.
Lastly, do not forget proper website optimization measures. Even if you are not serving your content via a CDN, everything can still load fast if you optimize it well.
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Stigma- the other enemy people face in the battle against COVID-19
Author: Dr. Sheenu Jain, Associate Professor,IIHMR University, Jaipur
World is anxiously waiting to see The-end of Corona virus; we are struggling to regain the sense of control we lost to this threat. COVID-19 will be remembered as a disease that divided us and affecting us much harder than we imagined.
India Inc is under the tight grip of Corona pandemic, and now it is also reporting cases of nurses, doctors, and healthcare professionals who are running the battle for all of us in this country disdained by many of us for fear of being contaminated by novel virus. Door of their own apartments have been shunned for them and they are also facing threat of general isolation. People have been labelling them, discriminating against, treating separately,
and/or they are experiencing loss of status because of perceived link with the novel corona virus.
We are reading reports about landlords asking doctors to vacant the house without any notice as they believe these doctors or medical professionals, if stay in their houses they will become more prone to COVID-19. So many such incidents are coming to the light. This protective physical distancing is no longer protective in fact becoming counterproductive to our society.
There is whole bunch of people nationwide who applauded their selfless services on the day of Janata Curfew, but in the very next moment forgetting the services of these doctors. All these people need to understand that all precautions are being taken by doctors & staff on COVID-19 duty to ensure they’re not carriers of infection in anyway. Let’s not demoralize them, it is our bounden duty to keep their morale high. In case of such social stigma these healthcare professionals can be negatively affected. Let’s not create such discriminatory behaviour with these people Undoubtedly there is mayhem, worry, and fear among the people, but unfortunately it is fuelling harmful typecasts. According to WHO primarily there are three different factors that can be attributed to stigma associated with COVID-19
- 1. A new and unknown disease with still many unknown facts.
- 2. Fear of unknown is universal.
- 3. People easily associate that fear with others.
Such stigma can weaken solidity and prompt possible social isolation of these people which we never know might contribute to a situation where the virus is more likely to spread, and may lead to increased problems, and difficulties in managing outbreak.
It is also affecting caregivers, family, friends and communities. People who are not suffering from COVID-19 but share similar characteristics are also suffering from this stigma. Social stigma is driving people to hide their illness to avoid any kind of discrimination and preventing them from taking immediate healthcare which is rather more dangerous.
There are evidences in the past which suggests that stigma and fear around communicable diseases hampers our response. Let’s work towards building trust in reliable healthcare professionals, empathise with those affected, try and understand the disease, and most importantly adopt practical and effective measures to help people remain safe. Let’s not let this social stigma compounded and join hands together to communicate support and encouragement for those who are on the frontlines of response to this outbreak (health care workers, volunteers, community leaders etc). let’s serve to kill toxicity of stigma and give them added power to conquer and defeat the disease. | <urn:uuid:62f2016b-0447-4975-9d36-59503854de35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gpatindia.com/stigma-the-other-enemy-people-face-in-the-battle-against-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966568 | 704 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Founded in the 1950s, the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) is an interdisciplinary organization composed of academics, professionals, students and others interested in promoting scholarly research and dialogue between the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our scope encompasses the fullness of social life ranging from art and culture to pressing socioeconomic, political and environmental issues. PCCLAS organizes yearly meetings where recent developments in the field are addressed. The Council welcomes participation from the Pacific regions of Mexico, Canada and the United States.
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IMO has chosen to make 2021 a year of action for seafarers, who are facing unprecedented hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite their vital role as key workers for global supply chains.
The World Maritime Theme for 2021, “Seafarers: at the core of shipping’s future” seeks to increase the visibility of seafarers by drawing attention to the invaluable role they play now and will continue to play in the future.
The focus on seafarers comes as the COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on seafarers, with hundreds of thousands of men and women stranded on ships for months beyond their original contracts, unable to be repatriated due to national travel restrictions. A similar number of seafarers are unable to join ships and earn a living. This crew change crisis, which has been ongoing for nearly a year, is a humanitarian emergency that threatens the safety of shipping (read more here).
Throughout the year, the World Maritime Theme will also put the spotlight on other issues related to the human element of shipping, including the safety and security of life on board ships, seafarers’ well-being, and the importance of ensuring an appropriately trained and qualified workforce, ready to meet the challenges and opportunities of digitalization and automation.
Message from IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim
Launching the World Maritime theme, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said more Governments must step up to end the crew change crisis (click here for the full text).
WORLD MARITIME DAY, MYANMAR EVENT AGENDA
“WORLD MARITIME DAY – 2021”
Theme: “Seafarers: at the core of shipping’s future”
Online Event 11:00 AM, 30 SEPTEMBER 2021
- Introduction IMO and history of World Maritime sDay
- Proclamation of the Opening of the Ceremony
- Opening Address
ADMIRAL TIN AUNG SAN,
Union Minister for Transport and Communications
- World Maritime Day 2021 – Video Message of IMO Secretary-General
Mr. Kitack Lim
- Presentation on Myanmar Maritime Activities
- Proclamation of the Closing of the Ceremony
World Maritime Day memorable
The IMO intends to light up the IMO building, in particular the Seafarer Memorial outside the IMO Headquarters in London, in the IMO/maritime blue colour on every World Maritime Day from now on, beginning with this yearʹs celebration on 30 September 2021.
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Yet another part of modern industry has been under scrutiny the last decade or so for selling lethal products. Just in
alone various hair-dyeing products sell for more than sixty million pounds
each year, including both through hair dressers and individual purchases.
The products and action are very popular, especially among women. Approximately sixty percent in
the western world do it at even and uneven intervals. It’s yet another
fashionable act, something «everyone» does, yet another area in today’s society
where mindlessness dominates. United Kingdom
Dyeing the hair increases the risk of contracting various types of cancer significantly. It can give cancer in the bladder and also certain types of leukemia. And there is higher risk of suffering genetic damages and of spontaneous abortion. In a study published in 2002 by Manuela Gago-Dominguez, a researcher in preventive medicine it was determined that nineteen percent of those suffering bladder cancer in
could be traced to hair-dyeing.
That’s a very high number. Hair dressers are certainly even more exposed, five
times more than average in a given population. Later surveys have confirmed
this one. To use permanent colors are the most dangerous, since the skin quite
simply suffers longtime exposure, but all dyeing is dangerous. The body gets
rid of most of the chemicals, among them various forms of arylamines through
the bladder, like it does with many compounds it doesn't want. What remains in
the body may cause the before mentioned leukemia. Los Angeles County
The risk to the hairdressers was well known among researchers and aware people long before the study, but that all users risked cancer evidently came as a surprise. It shouldn't of course, since it has been well known since the sixties that dyeing products contain carcinogenic chemicals. This is quite simply yet another case where such knowledge doesn't become public and is basically ignored by those that could have banned the use of the chemicals.
As always, the risk varies with the individual, but all users have an increased risk compared to those not dyeing their hair and the more often they color it, the more the risk increases.
Lipstick, nail-polishing and cosmetics in general contain many of the same chemicals.
My obvious advice is to stop dyeing your hair and stop covering your skin with lots of poison. Those finding good reasons to keep doing that after having read this, and/or countless similar warnings definitely have problems. People commit lots of stupid acts, but this is truly high on the list.
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Analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast 0.4 percent growth for the second quarter in the eurozone’s top economy as the group grapples with a crippling debt crisis.
“The dynamism in the German economy has cooled significantly since the robust start to the year,” the federal statistics office (Destatis) said in a statement.
It revised the first-quarter growth figure down to 1.3 percent from the 1.5 percent originally reported.
Destatis said the 0.1 percent growth in the second quarter compared to the first quarter came based on only anaemic expansion in exports, the backbone of the German economy.
Imports rose in the second quarter more than exports, undermining the growth figures, as consumer spending and investment in construction also slipped.
The figures were stronger in a year-on-year comparison, with gross domestic product rising 2.8 percent in the second quarter.
In late May, Merkel had said it was likely that gross domestic product would rise more than three percent this year, in line with the forecasts of most economists and key institutions.
The Bundesbank central bank expects 3.1 percent expansion in Europe’s biggest economy this year while the International Monetary Fund has forecast 3.2 percent growth.
The government’s official forecast, reported in April, remains at 2.6 percent but economic data since then had made that prediction seem timid.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy later on Tuesday in Paris for talks on the eurozone crisis, said last month she expected German growth to reach a similar level this year to the rate in 2010, when it hit 3.6 percent.
On the eve of the talks both sides talked down the chances of a breakthrough, and the French and Spanish markets dipped when a German spokesman flatly ruled out talk of issuing a joint eurozone bond.
Last week, European stock markets saw their worst losses since 2008 on rumours that France might lose its Triple A credit rating and as the European Central Bank had to intervene to buy Italian and Spanish government bonds.
Sarkozy has been pushing for a more centralised system of controls across the eurozone, better able in Paris’ eyes to protect against future meltdowns.
But Merkel – and German voters – oppose any bid to create what they dub a “transfer union” in which Germany’s powerful export-led economy effectively underwrites its underperforming eurozone partners.
Such a system would make it easier for struggling members like Greece or Portugal to finance their massive public deficits but would also transfer some of the cost of servicing these debts to German taxpayers.
This would be a complete non-starter for Berlin without a quid pro quo of new rules to enforce tougher fiscal discipline throughout the bloc.
On the eve of the talks, a German spokesman said the idea of eurobonds to pool eurozone public debt would not even be on the agenda in Paris.
Merkel and Sarkozy are to meet in Paris in the afternoon, then hold a press conference before sharing a working dinner.
Afterwards, they will make recommendations to European Union President Herman Van Rompuy.
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Marvel at the breathtaking photography showcasing flora and fauna in the most incredible, intricate detail.
From ants to elephants, the animal kingdom is explored and explained in this extraordinary encyclopedia that puts you at the heart of the action. See the tiny spines on a stinging nettle, watch lichen spreading over a tree, and observe the secret suckers on an iguana’s feet. The mysteries of the natural world are displayed in brand new images, together with cross-sections, macro, and electron microscope images.
Alongside the utterly absorbing visual content, Explanatorium of Nature brings its own fountain of knowledge about how nature works. For instance, did you know that baby foxes are born with blue eyes which turn to gold? Or that reptile scales are made from the same material as your fingernails? Discover how spiders spin webs, how birds fly, how snakes kill, and much, much more.
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Being a nurse myself, you might think I'm a little biased in writing this blog post, but there are amazing nurses who have deeply affected the world in which we live. We often think about famous presidents or events which have shaped our history, but there are also famous nurses in history. Some of the world's most famous nursing leaders have shaped health care into what it is today. Without these influential, brave, and strong women, we nurses might not have the vocation that we know and love.
It took famous nursing leaders to put nursing on the map, and many of these famous nurses in history improved nursing practices for nurses and their patients. Whether they demanded better training or equality, changed legislation, or simply taught us how to care, many of these influential women have shaped our industry into the positive and important industry it is today. Let's look at ten of the most influential nurses in history.
Clara Barton is known as America's "Angel of the Battlefield." While nursing during the Civil War, Barton was deeply affected by the lack of medical supplies available to the wounded soldiers. Barton took action and took medical supplies to the battlefield, nursing the wounded where they lay. Barton also founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led the organization until 1904.
A nurse advocating for the starving, Claire Bertschinger not only worked in Ethiopia during the 1980s, but she was also the inspiration behind Bob Geldof's Band-Aid single that raised money to feed the impoverished nation, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Bertschinger has also worked in Lebanon, Panama, and Papua New Guinea. She penned "Moving Mountains" about her fight against world hunger.
Florence Guinness Blake was a 20th century nurse who fought for better training programs throughout the U.S. She wanted to elevate nursing to new professional heights, particularly when it came to pediatric nursing. Blake dedicated her career to pediatric nursing, including teaching methodologies still used today and writing a book entitled "The Child, His Parents and the Nurse."
Mary Breckinridge became an RN in 1910 and introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States after spending time in France after World War I with the American Committee for Devastated France. Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, providing prenatal and postnatal nurse-midwifery care to women in Kentucky's far-removed Appalachian Mountains.
Dorothea Dix spent 40 years of her life lobbying for mental health care. In 1861, Dix became the superintendent of femalenurses for the Union Army and oversaw a staff of 6,000 hospital nurses. Dix founded 32 mental health institutions throughout her career to facilitate the nation's growing need for better mental health care. She also tirelessly campaigned for the rights of mentally ill people.
The first African-American woman to become a registered nurse, Mary Eliza Mahoney was one of four to graduate from the New England Hospital for Women and Children's nursing program in 1879. Mahoney's success as a nurse allowed more African-American students into nursing schools throughout the nation, and she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908.
Florence Nightingale certainly holds the honor of being the most famous nurse on our list. She became a nurse in 1851 and traveled to Turkey to aid British soldiers during the Crimean War. Devastated by the poor conditions of both the facilities and the soldiers, Nightingale took action, tending to the soldiers and cleaning up the hospitals. Many survived because of Nightingale's proactive approach.
Linda Richards developed the record-keeping that the U.S. and U.K. still use in nursing today after finding herself stunned by the disorganized records she found at her first nursing job. Richards was the superintendent at the Boston Training School for Nurses beginning in 1874, started the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools, and led the Philadelphia Visiting Nurses Society.
Ahead of her time, Margaret Sanger witnessed many deaths resulting from botched abortions while nursing in New York City's Lower East Side. Sanger defied the authorities and opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916. She founded the American Birth Control League in 1942, which eventually became the Planned Parenthood Foundation, and she helped the development of the first birth control pill.
Much like Mary Eliza Mahoney, Mabel Keaton Staupers fiercely advocated for racial equality in nursing. She served as a secretary to Mahoney's NACGN and brought African-American nurses into the armed forces during World War II. In fact, in 1945, Staupers won a battle against the military that led to race no longer playing a role in nurses being accepted into the military. | <urn:uuid:3a78ad87-67b3-4bb9-9c53-3a01540ef193> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://ceufast.com/blog/ten-of-the-most-influential-nurses-in-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977485 | 969 | 3.453125 | 3 |
In this volume, a lecture given at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla dazzles his audience with his keen insight and an array of experiments that pushed the boundaries of human knowledge. Tesla's discoveries, more than a century old, continue to astound students and scholars of the history of science. Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Though he is now widely forgotten, Tesla's greatest invention, AC current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech precision robotics.
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Duke Chapel Dean Samuel Wells put the “$100 million question” to Levi during a lunchtime “Dean’s Dialogue” held at Duke Law School on April 9. Duke Chapel sponsors the occasional dialogues “as an opportunity to talk about the larger questions of common interest to us all,” said Gaston Warner, director of University and Community Relations in his introduction. “We get to listen in on a conversation about how we can change the world with our resources — intellectual and financial.”
Levi premised his response on his belief that lawyers have used their training to lead since the beginning of the republic. Not only have “great lawyers,” such as Jefferson, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, become great statesmen, but attorneys have served as the “social glue” in their communities, mediating between different communities and social classes. “When you study the history of the bar, you’re struck by all these instances of individual lawyers stepping forward at some point in their careers to do something really quite marvelous, quite heroic in retrospect, quite unselfish and altruistic,” said Levi.
Devotion to the rule of law, premised on respect for the individual, is the unifying value among Americans, he said. “It would be nice if we could all love each other, but that’s too much to expect. But it’s not too much to expect that we can all adhere to the rule of law. You don’t have to admire me, you don’t have to love me, you don’t have to bring me into your family. But you do have to respect the fact that I am entitled to practice my religion, to be safe in the workplace without fear of discrimination. In this country, we use the law to unify ourselves. [It is] the one ‘spiritual connection’ that holds the country together.”
The assurance that every person before the court has certain procedural rights, will be heard, and is given the respect that any human being should be entitled to is “an extremely powerful egalitarian force,” he added.
Responding to Wells’ suggestion that his is “a Utopian version of America,” Levi acknowledged its “aspirational” element, repositioning that as a problem that $100 million could help resolve.
“To run a democracy, you have to have citizens with a certain level of knowledge of how the country works, what its laws are, what its structures are, why we have a court system, why it’s important to have independent judges and civilian control over the military,” he said. “Yet the state of civic education in this country is woeful. I would use those resources to put our graduates in the position where they would have the time, the interest, and the ability to go into classrooms and community groups and be the kind of civic educators I think we need. They should have the time to do that.” Heavy debt burden makes it hard for many graduates to find the time, he added. “To have that kind of support for scholarships would be wonderful.
“For any law school or for any lawyer who takes an oath to protect the Constitution, what better way to protect and defend [it] than to explain our system to the next generation of voters?” he added.
Levi’s vision includes spreading the benefits of the rule of law to emerging societies. “To decide what direction they wish to take, what the substance of their communal endeavors will be, and what the substance of their laws will be, they need the rule of law. They need a level of peace and some kind of judicial system they have confidence in,” he said.
“I think our students could have a role in creating that sort of international rule of law … in places where there is not this developed legal profession. This is a very worthwhile endeavor for our graduates. Creating a legal profession and modernizing legal systems throughout the world is something that I think all lawyers think could make a tremendous addition to the sum of human happiness. It’s easily worth $100 million.” | <urn:uuid:c54a5318-524f-4a5c-8fc1-ea0d89b1d65e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://law.duke.edu/news/1897/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974443 | 881 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Pragmatic language use, inhibitory control, and attention in typically-developing preschoolers
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by atypical levels of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, and which is estimated to affect approximately 5% of school-aged children worldwide (Polanczyk, de Lima, Horta, Biederman, & Rohde, 2007). A growing body of empirical research has sought to better understand the phenotypic behaviours associated with ADHD, including behaviours which are frequently observed but are not required for a diagnosis of the disorder – including a wide range of socio-communicative behaviours which are often impaired within this population. In addition, recent conceptualizations of inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive behaviours have begun to emphasize the dimensional nature of these traits, with the recognition that these traits may be present to varying degrees within normative populations. Within this context, this study sought to explore the extent to which inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity were related to the communicative abilities of a sample of typically-developing preschool-aged children. More specifically, this research examined whether inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive traits may mediate the impact of weak inhibitory ability upon both the knowledge and application of appropriate pragmatic behaviours in early development. Thirty-six typically-developing preschoolers and their parents provided the data used in these analyses. Parents completed questionnaires assessing children’s ADHD-related behaviours, while inhibitory control was measured with children using a distraction task. Pragmatic language was assessed via parent report of children’s actual communicative behaviours in their everyday lives (application), and by assessing children’s performance on a task asking them about hypothetical social situations (knowledge). Results indicated that individual differences in children’s inhibitory control predicted both their knowledge and application of appropriate pragmatic language. Hyperactive-impulsive behaviours were found to be a significant mediator of this relationship, but only with respect to children’s ability to effectively apply pragmatic rules in everyday communicative settings. Taken together, these findings suggest that social communication difficulties in some young children may be a downstream effect of hyperactive-impulsive behaviours which arise from poorly developed inhibitory control. | <urn:uuid:c341c207-43be-4a27-8598-a75f67705afd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/9615 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940139 | 477 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Gerwald Rockenschaub February 2008
*1952 in Vienna (A)
Lives & works in Berlin (D)
In the mid-80s Rockenschaub was one of a group of young, international artists concerned with the formal language of the abstract avant-garde. »Neo Geo« permeated the reduced formal language of Minimal Art with Pop Art’s permissive and consumerist approach. Rockenschaub’s model-like, small-format works produced in the eighties appropriated abstraction without wishing to confer a historical quality on it. They do not lead to any sort of discourse in terms of content, nor does their cool neutrality link up with questions relating to painting on the formal plane. He sees them as a »form of representation and play, as a possibility for making artistic statements in model form«. (G. R.). His video installations/animations translate a constructive and synthetic pictorial language into colorfully »poppy« computer animations. The standardized, static compositional principle of abstraction are animated, refracted by means of combination and variation and transferred into a crossover of graphics and techno-music. Rockenschaub’s video work makes it clear how strongly the pictorial reservoir of art has now been taken over by the mass media. The abstract and geometrical art of the 20th century becomes a model supplier for fashion, graphics, and design, and enjoys a great deal of popularity, but paradoxically it remains alien to most people as art. | <urn:uuid:61e9992b-301b-4df0-802d-c80ce2ae53c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ccnoa.org/Gerwald-Rockenschaub | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929122 | 312 | 1.726563 | 2 |
1The wicked flee though none pursue;
but the just, like a lion, are confident.
2If a land is rebellious, its princes will be many;
but with an intelligent and wise ruler there is stability.#The first line expresses the paradox that rebellion, far from doing away with rulers, actually multiplies them. The second line is corrupt.
3One who is poor and extorts from the lowly
is a devastating rain that leaves no food.#The reference may be to tax farmers who collected taxes and took a commission. The collectors’ lack of wealth was the cause of their oppression of poor farmers. They are like a rain too violent to allow crops to grow.
4Those who abandon instruction#Instruction: torah; the word is used both for the teaching of the wise and the law of Moses. praise the wicked,
but those who keep instruction oppose them.
5The evil understand nothing of justice,#Understanding nothing of justice plays on the twofold sense of justice as righteousness and as punishment that comes on the wicked. On the other hand, those who seek the LORD understand everything, i.e., that the Lord punishes the wicked and rewards the righteous (themselves).
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
6Better to be poor and walk in integrity
than rich and crooked in one’s ways.#a. [28:6] Prv 19:1.
7Whoever heeds instruction is a wise son,
but whoever joins with wastrels disgraces his father.
8Whoever amasses wealth by interest and overcharge#Interest and overcharge were strictly forbidden in the old law among Israelites because it was presumed that the borrower was in distress; cf. Ex 22:25; Lv 25:35–37; Dt 23:20; Ps 15:5; Ez 18:8. Divine providence will take the offender’s wealth; cf. Eccl 2:26.
gathers it for the one who is kind to the poor.
9Those who turn their ears from hearing instruction,#b. [28:9] Prv 15:8; 21:27.
even their prayer is an abomination.
10Those who mislead the upright into an evil way
will themselves fall into their own pit,
but the blameless will attain prosperity.
11The rich are wise in their own eyes,
but the poor who are intelligent see through them.
12When the just triumph, there is great glory;
but when the wicked prevail, people hide.#People react in opposite ways to the triumph of good and evil. To the triumph of good, they react by public display, public celebration, and to the triumph of evil, by hiding.
13Those who conceal their sins do not prosper,
but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.#Concealing the faults of another is a good thing in Proverbs (17:9), but concealing one’s own sins is not. Ps 32:1–5 expresses the anguish caused by concealing one’s sins rather than bringing them to light so they can be healed by God.
14Happy those who always fear;#Fear is a different verb than in the phrase “to fear (or revere) the Lord.” In its only other biblical occurrence (Is 51:13), the verb means to dread an oppressor. The saying states a paradox: those who fear in the sense of being cautious are declared happy, whereas those who are fearless will fall into traps they did not “fear.” In short, there is good fear and bad fear.
but those who harden their hearts fall into evil.
15A roaring lion or a ravenous bear
is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
16The less prudent the rulers, the more oppressive their deeds.
Those who hate ill-gotten gain prolong their days.
17Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave,
let no one offer support.
18Whoever walks blamelessly is safe,
but one whose ways are crooked falls into a pit.
19Those who cultivate their land will have plenty of food,
but those who engage in idle pursuits will have plenty of want.#c. [28:19] Prv 12:11.
20The trustworthy will be richly blessed;
but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.#d. [28:20] Prv 13:11.
21To show partiality is never good:#e. [28:21] Prv 24:23.
for even a morsel of bread one may do wrong.#Cf. 24:23. Verse 21b warns that even in a light matter one must remain impartial.
22Misers hurry toward wealth,
not knowing that want is coming toward them.#“Bad of eye” is the Hebrew idiom for miserly. Misers fail to see that poverty is hurrying toward them because of their wrong attitude toward wealth. Because misers are “bad of eye,” they do not see the danger.
23Whoever rebukes another wins more favor
than one who flatters with the tongue.
24Whoever defrauds father or mother and says, “It is no sin,”#f. [28:24] Mk 7:11–13.
is a partner to a brigand.
25The greedy person stirs up strife,
but the one who trusts in the Lord will prosper.
26Those who trust in themselves are fools,
but those who walk in wisdom are safe.
27Those who give to the poor have no lack,#g. [28:27] Prv 19:17; Sir 4:3–8.
but those who avert their eyes, many curses.
28When the wicked prevail, people hide;
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