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In its previous issue, Ii Monthly published Mr. Adra’s paper on “Consequences”. In this issue, Ii Monthly publishes the final parts: Examples of Corruption, Environmental Cost, Impact on Social and Public Services and Conclusion
A- Examples of Corruption
1- Banks Interests
By June 2005, there were 63 banks operating in Lebanon with total deposits amounting to 54.1 billion dollars, of which 70% are owned by 14 of the 63 banks.
The collusion between the privately owned banks and the successive governments enabled the government to afford the heavy cost of the widespread corruption and waste. The government borrowed money from those banks at very high interest rates, enabling the banking sector to make vast profits despite the economic recession, however at the expense of the treasury (the treasury bonds interests in 1993-2005 period amounted to 28,180 million dollars).
2- Bank Merger and Acquisition Law
The parliament ratified in 1994, a law aiming at facilitating bank mergers and the creation of larger banking institutions and assisting smaller ones facing problems resulting from the devaluation of the Lebanese pound or from bad management, by providing loans from the Central Bank to the merging banks. Accordingly, 25 mergers were carried without accurate auditing, investigation into the management, or examining the actual needs and intents of those banks. The value of loans granted amounted to 1150 million dollars at a mere 3-5% long term interest rate. Merging banks in turn “invested” those loans, in treasury bonds, generating enormous profits.
3- Money Laundering
Lebanon was one of the first countries in the region to adopt the banks confidentiality law, which drew deposits from the different Arab countries witnessing regime change and an inflow of Petro-dollars. Lebanon became a haven for money laundering operations. This led to the classification of Lebanon among the 15 non cooperative money laundering countries by the International Financial Action Group (GAFI). A law relating to combating money laundry was endorsed in 2001, yet corrupt practices protected by the ruling political class, continued, such as the Al Madina Bank case.
4- Cement Companies
The Lebanese government agreed to ban importation of cement in return for the promise of the three major operating companies to decrease their prices. However, the companies did not respect their promise, created a monopoly, and increased their prices gaining vast profits at the expense of the public. The annual estimated cost that the Lebanese consumer has over paid between the years 1993-2003 is approximately 1.3 billion dollars according to an unpublished report on the cost of corruption prepared by Information International.
5- Cellular Sector
The government issued licenses to two private companies in 1994 to operate two mobile networks, whose shareholders were related to high ranking officials. The two companies fixed, with the government(s) blessing, cost of lines and minute that were considered to be among the highest worldwide. Huge profits were realized estimated to exceed a billion dollars in the last decade. Furthermore, the two companies earned 180 million dollars as compensation from the government for the early questionable termination of their contracts, and a further 600 million dollars as a result of the international arbitration, which could not have been gained had the government not terminated the contracts.
6- Public Property
During the Lebanese civil war, a great number of powerful politicians and parties Zu’ama’ took over public property on the riverbanks and coastlines and established tourist and commercial projects. A proposed law in the parliament, concerning the rectification of the current conditions has been blocked since 1993. The losses are estimated to amount to a minimum of 500 million dollars in potential settlement and 50-70 million dollars a year in rental fees, in addition hindrances facing the infrastructure, remain unresolved.
Lebanon spent more than 1.8 billion dollars to rehabilitate and establish power plants and networks. Yet it has failed to insure a continuous power supply due to many reasons, such as abrupt disorders, lack of fuel, budget deficit resulting from the increase of world fuel prices, and from power theft estimated to be worth 300 million dollars yearly. The Lebanese government aimed at reducing the power theft to 260 million dollars but failed.
Many governmental bodies are responsible for insuring health care: the Ministry of Health, military hospitalization, Cooperative for Public Employees, Ministry of Social Affairs, the Mutual fund, and The National Social Security Fund. The total cost amounted to 590 million dollars, in addition to the private insurance companies’ coverage of citizens amounting to 250 billion LBP yearly, and the citizens’ direct payment of bills. The total public and private expenditure amounts to 1.5 billion dollars or 12% of the national GDP according to the previously mentioned report, which is very high compared to countries similar to Lebanon.
Moreover, expenditures allocated for medicine amounted to 25-30% from the total health expenditure, and estimated at 450-500 million dollars per year (2000-2003), which is also a very high number when compared to the other Arab countries such as Jordan (120 million dollars), Kuwait (150 million dollars), Libya (215 million dollars), Syria (225 million dollars), Oman (110 million dollars), and United Arab Emirates (190 million dollars).
This high public spending on health and medical care is due to multitude of concerned bodies adopting different price lists even within the same hospital; high number of contracts with private hospitals drawn for political and confessional considerations rather than medical needs; absence of control and audit of hospitals bills, even when contraventions were revealed, the cases were closed due to the institution’s political protection. The previously mentioned study also revealed that, this cost can be decreased by 500 million dollars, thus decreasing the health sector cost to 6% of the GDP instead of 12%.
The sums allocated to the educational sector in the 2004 governmental budget amounted to 690 million dollars, in addition to the private expenditures, thus a total of 1.6 billion dollars.
This extravagant spending implies waste which can be summarized as follows:
- The surplus in the number of teachers in public schools, with a ratio of 1 teacher to 9 students, compared to the rate of 1 teacher for 15 students in private schools.
- Contracting teachers without an apparent need for them.
- Awarding educational assistantships to public sector employees whose children are studying in private schools.
- Allocating 20 million dollars per year to gratuitous private schools (belonging to religious institutions) although the public schools can absorb students enrolled in them.
Serious studies revealed that this expenditure can be decreased by 800 million dollars, thus decreasing the educational sector cost to 5%, which is the average expenditure in similar countries.
10- Non Governmental Organizations
The Ministry of Social Affairs allocates annual funds to non profit organizations, which amounted to 70 million dollars in 2004. Despite the inefficiency and lack of transparency of some of those NGOs, however the government is unable to cut their funding since they enjoy political and confessional support.
The number of the surplus employees in public administrations and institutions (except for teachers and security forces) was estimated at 13 thousand, with an annual cost of 60-70 million dollars. Once again, the government is helpless in taking an action due to the political or religious immunity these employees enjoy.
12- Ministry of the Displaced
The Lebanese government estimated in 1993 the cost of the settlement of the displaced cases at 550 million dollars. The successive governments have managed to spend 1,150 million dollars by the end of July 2005, and affirmed the need for another 500 million dollars to close this file. The real reason lying behind this wasteful spending is the payment of evacuation and reconstruction compensations according to electoral political and confessional interests rather than real needs.
B- Environmental Cost
Environmental degradation is one of the main problems faced in Lebanon. The World Bank estimated its cost to vary between 500 and 560 million dollars per year(1). There are several causes for this degradation such as:
- Emissions from car engines, particularly in the crowded cities.
- Emissions from factories, particularly cement factories in the North.
- Absence of wastewater treatment plants and networks.
- Absence of solid waste disposal plan.
- Lack of organization and law enforcement concerning quarries.
- Non implementation or absence of rural and urban plans.
C- Impact on Social and Public Services
Due to the existing arrangement, several social groups suffer from neglect, since they do not represent an important player for the political class, such as the vulnerable groups (children with special needs, senior citizens, orphans, handicapped, the Palestinian refugees, foreign maids etc.) (Graph No. 1). Services provided by the government responding to the needs of these groups are mediocre or non existent. As a result, citizens are forced to refer to their confessional institutions (the majority of which are funded by public money) that may or may not provide them with these services, further deepening the citizens’ affiliation, and dependence on those institutions instead of the state.
The Lebanese system is perhaps the “perfect crime”, whereby the citizens blame the civil servants, who blame the politicians, who in turn blame the citizens, civil servants and international interference with the latter blaming all of the above. No one is held accountable for the prevalent syndrome. The citizens continue to assign power to the same political class, which returns the favor by guaranteeing privileges to the confessions. The civil servants complain from political interference, yet it is the same interference that appointed them and kept them in their positions, in the absence of meritocracy, and the prevailing nepotism.
The political Zu’ama invite the interference of the eager foreign powers, who in turn supports and enforces their rule, despite the fact that these powers complain from its corruption and from the dominating geopolitical circumstances which is of their own making. Today, Lebanon is witnessing a heat of foreign political intervention invited by the different confessions, with the Sunni confessional Zu’ama allying with the United States, the Druze with France, the Shia’a with Iran and Syria, and the Maronites with France and the United States.
This paper mainly tackled examples of corruption that are the direct responsibility of the Lebanese public and officials. However an in depth analysis of corruption requires, in addition to what was previously mentioned, an analysis of corruption resulting from direct external interference, such as the Syrian intervention in the past two decades. In addition the roles of international organizations such the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which financed the expansion of a cement plant in the North despite its awareness of the negative effect it poses on the environment, and certain UN agencies that continue to provide an umbrella for waste and corruption, aught to be examined.
The system is extremely accommodating to those who play by its rules and entrapping to those who are seduced by its unscrupulous games yet it crushes the weak, the meager and the rebel without mercy. Finally, this paper has also shown the resiliency and coherency of this system. Thus any attempt to find a cure for this syndrome, and curb corruption should aim at abolishing the confessional system itself. Consequently, modern notions concerning social and financial reform, such as the “islands of integrity” and the “Quick fix” approach that target partial reform, with the absence of an overall comprehensive strategy, will be doomed to fail. A real debate between the Lebanese to diagnose the root causes is a necessary step towards a “cultural revolution” which would hopefully establish a scale of values that would break the vicious cycle and initiate the long journey of reform.
(1) World Bank, 2004, p.:15
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This report was fully disclosed on 16 March 2021
On 16 December 2020 an open redirect vulnerability was found on
canadiantire.ca. Due to a lack of input filtering and validation it is possible for a user to be directed to the trusted web application but subsequently be redirected an arbitrary URL.
Impact: An attacker can construct a URL within the application that causes a redirection to an arbitrary external domain. This behaviour can be leveraged to facilitate phishing attacks against users of the application.
About CanadianTire: “Canadian Tire Corporation Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors”
Proof of Concept
Visit the affected URL listed below. Optionally replace the contents of the
emailVerificationLink parameter with an attacker controlled URL, in this case we used
https://glitchwitch.io/ as a proof of concept.
This vulnerability was originally discovered from a suspicious looking email that was automatically flagged as spam/phishing. The email in question was sent to a single use email provided during an online purchase on
canadiantire.ca in 2018 while travelling, it was received from
[email protected] and included the link
While the email appears to be a legitimate email from Canadian Tire, it is in fact sent by the third party company
Gigya.com, a “customer identity management platform”.
This email demonstrates a perfect example of how an attacker could mimic an authentic email from Canadian Tire and trick unsuspecting users into providing sensitive content such as personal information, passwords, or even financial details.
At this time it has not been confirmed if the email was legitimate in nature, however if it were authorized by Canadian Tire a serious review of this practice should be undertaken as it could lead users to trust emails from illegitimate third parties claiming to be Canadian Tire.
No security.txt or other security contact information was found on the main site, corporate information site, or the cyber security recruitment site.
Initial contact with a request for the appropriate information security teams contact info was made on 16 December 2020. Additionally messages requesting the same were sent via email and LinkedIn to employees working within the Information Security and Cyber Security departments of the company. At the time of publishing, no response has been received.
- 16 December 2020: Affected Party Notified
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Favourite Poems of England : A Collection to Celebrate This Green and Pleasant Land Hardback
Edited by Jane McMorland-Hunter
A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English - from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London's bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather.
Ode to England encompasses a breadth of poetry from our most renowned writers - such as William Wordsworth, D.
H. Lawrence and William Blake - alongside verses from less prestigious names which equally capture many inspiring visions of our 'sceptered isle'.
The poems are presented alongside stunning illustrations which pay further tribute to the beauty of this green and pleasant land.
The perfect gift for any Englishman or Anglophile, this wonderful collection captures all the beauty and eccentricities of England and Englishness.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 176 pages, 30 colour illustrations
- Publisher: Pavilion Books
- Publication Date: 03/04/2014
- Category: Poetry anthologies (various poets)
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They have a lot of potential applications in various fields: registries, finance, healthcare, supply chains, gaming. However, the problem is that blockchain technology still suffers from very serious limitations; the worst of them is the speed of transactions.
Even Ethereum, which is the most popular blockchain platform, still doesn’t have any mainstream services or applications. All popular applications such as Cryptokitties clogged the network so much that the regular transaction was taking one day to be completed. At the same time, all networks that can achieve higher throughput are more centralized - such as EOS, Tron, NEO, all of them have only 20-100 nodes. That’s why large businesses can’t build anything on these platforms - they simply don’t trust them.
Another problem is that none of these platforms uses the rich arsenal of tools for Ethereum developers, trying to invent their own tools, and the large community of Ethereum developers doesn’t want to touch these platforms, preferring to wait until Ethereum gets upgraded.
That’s where layer 2 solutions can shine. What is layer 2 for a blockchain? That’s another chain connected to the main one, that can be used to transfer assets from Layer 1.
The layer 2 scaling solution for Bitcoin is called Lightning Network. The solution for Ethereum is called Plasma. The concepts for both are developed by Joseph Poon. There are two types of layer 2 blockchains - side chains and child chains and currently, there are two working implementations of Plasma, OMG Network (OMG) and Polygon (previously Matic). The first one is the child chain Plasma implementation, and it roots its security in the Ethereum parent chain. Polygon, on the other hand, is a child chain with its rules, connected to Ethereum. The only true Plasma according to the initial design is OMG, but a side chain implementation can also be useful for scaling.
How do they work?
OMG Network’s blockchain is anchored to Ethereum. Assets get sent to a smart contract on Layer 1 and then can be transferred on Layer 2. When necessary, the network can save the current state and balances on Ethereum. The security of the network is controlled by decentralized Watchers, special smart contracts that supervise the network. Currently, all blocks are generated by a single producer node, called the Operator, but in the future, it will be possible to switch to a decentralized scheme of the PoS consensus.
The most important feature is the total security of funds, meaning that even if some operators go malicious and try to attack the chain, all users will still be able to exit safely to the main chain retrieving all their funds.
Polygon on the other hand works as a PoS Plasma side-chain hosted on the Tendermint blockchain. Currently, its maximum throughput is 10,000 tx/s. It can also be scaled in the future by launching additional side chains. It has its own security scheme which doesn’t rely completely on Ethereum security.
Polygon owners stake their tokens in the root contract of the Ethereum chain to be able to verify transactions on the 2nd layer, on the Tendermint side chain, the main Polygon 2nd layer. Stakers also choose Block Producers who have to stake a significant amount of MATIC tokens to be nominated. There is a very low number of Block Producers to achieve faster block generation times. Any user can deposit ERC-20 or ERC-721 in the Polygon contract on the Ethereum chain.
When the transaction gets completed, the same amount of tokens appears on the Polygon chain and then can be sent to any address with a very small fee and faster confirmations (1 second or less). When a user wants to exit the Polygon chain, they can withdraw the remaining tokens from the Root contract. The current state of the Polygon chain gets saved on the Ethereum chain from time to time, every several Polygon blocks.
If somebody finds a fraudulent transaction from the bad actor on the Polygon layer, they can challenge the transaction, and if they’re right, the fraudulent node gets slashed and all its tokens go to the reporter. That’s a small additional security measure.
Overall, both Plasma implementations are very good and can be used in many areas, such as DeFi, lending platforms, exchange platforms, healthcare, and even games, as they allow to transfer ERC-721 non-fungible tokens such as CryptoKitties. Layer 2 solutions are probably going to be widely used in the future to scale blockchains. | <urn:uuid:2f5ec02a-efea-424e-a34e-6daf67f7123b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getblock.io/blog/layer-2-solutions-for-ethereum-how-do-they-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943608 | 941 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Held once every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business, and academia, with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges.
INBO contributed to the preparation of the Congress and will organize there a series of events on how to improve the management of freshwater resources, associated ecosystems and biodiversity, how to implement nature-based solutions and adapt to climate changes.
The trilingual flyer (English – French Spanish) providing an overview of this series of events (date, event & location) and, in the “Program” section (see left side of this web page), their detailed programs:
To participate in the IUCN World Conservation Congress and to these specific events, you must register and pay the registration fee here: https://www.iucncongress2020.org/registration/register-now
You can check the overview of our events at the Congress (here) the overview of "Nature-based Solutions" events organized by INBO & its partners (OiEau, the French Committee of IUCN and French Biodiversity Agency ; here) and the specific programs of:
Conception et mise en oeuvre des Solutions Fondées sur la Nature pour l'adaptation aux changements climatiques dans le cadre d'une gestion coopérative dans le bassin de la Volta - Robert Y. DESSOUASSI (ABV)
Coopération sur les solutions données sur la nature pour l’adaptation dans les bassins des lacs, fleuves et aquifères - M. RATOVONIAINA Thierry Emmanuel
(Ministère de l’Eau, de l’Assainissement et de l’Hygiène Madagascar)
Nature-Based Solution to Promote regional Water-Energy-Food-Nexus - Dr. Marwan Alraggad (INWRDAM)
Cooperation on Nature-based Solutions for Adaptation: Moving to action and impact in the MENA - Maha Al-Zu’bi, PhD (IWMI)
- “Scaling up implementation of Nature-based Solutions for water” (ENG-FR-SP)
Tuesday 7th of September, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Parc Chanot, Hall 8, Room 5 Mer de Corail
Scaling up implementation of Nature-based Solutions for water. Projet Life ARTISAN - Mathilde Loury (OFB)
Scaling up implementation of Nature-based Solutions for water - Bertrand Camus (Suez)
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My great-grandmother, grandmother, and mom had breast cancer, and I'm scared I'm going to get it. What are my chances?
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What do you suggest if my great-grandmother, grandmother, and mom had breast cancer, and I'm scared I'm going to get it?
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The United States Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced that Smart City Holdings had agreed to pay a US$750,000 fine to settle allegations that it blocked personal mobile hotspots in several convention centers, forcing exhibitors and attendees to use its services instead, at $80 a day.
Blocking FCC-approved WiFi connections is “patently unlawful,” remarked Travis LeBlanc, chief of the commission’s enforcement bureau.
Personal WiFi hotspots “should not be viewed as a commercial rival to Smart City or hotel WiFi operators’ own WiFi or fixed Internet access,” said Sue Rudd, a research director at Strategy Analytics.
Personal hotspots “really act as access concentrators to share existing Internet connections,” Rudd told the E-commerce Times, and they “don’t provide a commercial alternative.”
The FCC did not find that Smart City violated any laws, and the company did not admit any liability, said spokesperson Amanda Shipley.
Chain of Events
The FCC last year received an informal complaint from a company providing equipment that lets users establish hotspots. The complaint alleged that Smart City used deauthentication frames to prevent the provider’s customers from using its equipment at several venues where Smart City operates or manages WiFi access.
The blocking occurred at convention centers in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona.
Smart City automatically transmitted the frames to prevent WiFi users whose devices produced signals above a preset power level from establishing or maintaining their own WiFi networks at its access points, the company explained in response to the FCC’s letters of inquiry.
Smart City submitted no evidence that the blocking occurred in response to a specific security threat to its network or the users of its network, the FCC noted.
The inquiry was conducted in October, and Smart City instructed its WiFi network managers to stop deauthentication practices in October as well.
Smart City’s Defense
“Significantly less than 1 percent” of all devices were deauthenticated, spokeperson Shipley told the E-Commerce Times, and the technologies the company employed were widely used by major convention centers across the globe, as well as by many U.S. federal agencies.
Further, Smart City had no prior notice that the FCC considered the use of this “standardized, available, out-of-the-box” technology to be a violation of its rules.
However, Smart City bills itself as the largest independent provider of managed network services to the convention and trade show industry and it could reasonably be expected to be familiar with the laws against blocking or jamming radio communications.
Smart City “invested in their own proprietary networks and hoped to profit from their systems, but blocking people from legally using their phones and access to cellular networks they already pay for isn’t just illegal — it’s deeply stupid,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
“The negative PR Smart City is receiving is far more hurtful than the FCC fine,” he told the E-Commerce Times.
The Lovely Lure of Lucre
Smart City isn’t the first to jam consumer devices. The Marriott hotel chain last year agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve an FCC investigation into charges it had disabled consumer WiFi networks at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
“We’re in one of those awkward transitional periods where personal technologies are quickly replacing profitable services, in much the same way that cellphones largely killed off the demand for pay phones,” King pointed out. “That process is obviously painful for businesses that invested in those faltering services.” | <urn:uuid:0e7e81f5-6c32-4289-bdc7-13faa6d71926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/fcc-fine-hints-at-end-to-exorbitant-convention-center-wifi-fees-82395.html?rss=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.953738 | 772 | 1.90625 | 2 |
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Appropriation (Repeal and Amendment) Act, 2020 into law on Friday at the presidential villa, Abuja.
President Buhari stated that the 2020 budget of N10.8 trillion had to be revised because of the effect of coronavirus on the nation’s economy.
The amendment signed is N216 billion over the level of expenditure initially proposed in the 2020 Appropriation Act.
Recall that the National Assembly passed the revised budget last month.
It was initially passed in December 2019 but was returned to the legislature after the executive reworked it to reflect the current economic realities occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic.
Buhari asserted that ministries, departments and agencies will be given 50 per cent of their capital allocation by the end of the month.
Present at the signing ceremony were Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President, Ahmed Lawan; Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; and the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari.
Others were the Ministers Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; Minister of State Finance, Clement Agba, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emiefile and Director General Budget, Ben Akabueze; Senator Babajide Omoworare, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) and Hon. Umar el-Yakub, on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).
While thanking the National Assembly for the prompt review and passage of the amendments to the 2020 Appropriation Act, President Buhari recalled that he signed the 2020 Appropriation Act into law on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
He explained: “However, it became necessary to revise the Appropriation Act 2020 in response to recent developments, in particular, the COVID-19 Pandemic. Crude oil prices in the world market declined sharply from a high of $72.20 per barrel in January 2020 to below $20 per barrel in April 2020, and have since remained around $40 per barrel.
“Nigeria’s crude oil production quota has been reduced as part of the efforts of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC to strengthen the oil market. Global trade has generally been disrupted as almost all economies were locked down for protracted periods in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
“All these developments are plunging the global economy into recession, and Nigeria has not escaped the impact of this. In effect, the assumptions underlying the 2020 Appropriation Act are no longer sustainable.
“It is therefore imperative to adjust our expected revenues, considering the widespread disruptions in domestic and international economic activities due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the containment measures taken in response thereto.
“Understandably too, we needed to reallocate resources in the Appropriation (Repeal and Amendment) Act, 2020 to ensure effective implementation of required health and emergency measures, as well as to mitigate the negative socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
The president said the 2020 Amended Budget underscores his administration’s firm commitment to effectively contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect the lives and livelihood of our people.
He stated: “With these budget amendments, as well as our recently launched N2.3 trillion Stimulus Programme, we are well-positioned to safeguard the economy.”
President Buhari directed that efforts be made to ensure effective implementation of the budget to realise its laudable objectives, considering recent budget implementation challenges.
He also directed that all Ministers are to ensure that their Ministries, Departments and Agencies intensify capital project delivery efforts and fully cooperate with the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to achieve the laudable objectives of the Budget.
He affirmed that government has made some progress in the implementation of the Appropriation Act 2020, noting that as at 31st May 2020, the sum of N253.33 billion has been released for the implementation of capital projects.
Buhari revealed that the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning is in the process of effecting budgetary releases that will ensure that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies receive at least 50 per cent of their amended capital budgets by the end of this month.
He further stated: “The Appropriation (Repeal and Amendment) Act, 2020 that I have just signed into law provides for aggregate expenditures of N10.81 trillion, which is an increase of N216 billion over the level of expenditure initially proposed in the 2020 Appropriation Act.”
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Parts of this beautiful historic church date back to the 12th century.
The brick entrance porch is dated 1643 and the large oak door is as old as the church. As you enter you see opposite an arcade of three bays with semicircular arches. The west bay, on the left, is larger than the others and dates back to the 13th century. The tower, also 13th century, has walls a metre thick. There are four bells and a shingle spire. Unusually the bells are fixed and are rung with strikers.
The last major addition was by Thomas Massey, who built on the chancel in 1865. He held the living for 62 years and also built the adjacent massive Massey’s folly.
The famous naturalist Gilbert White was curate for 25 years, from 1761. He regularly rode over from his home in Selborne, where he was also the curate at various times.
Jane Austen walked over to the church from nearby Chawton.
The large and attractive churchyard is unusually well kept. There is an elegant Georgian Cross near the porch and next to one of the ancient Yew trees. A famous gravestone records the death of Mary Windebank who was dragged from her four poster bed and murdered for the bags of money she kept under her bed. The bed can just be seen on the gravestone but the lengthy inscription is now impossible to read.
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Recent technological studies have shown that Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) alone are not sufficient for the safety of maritime ships, as there are certain limitations like security issues to be resolved, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) has been introduced on board ships which when implemented not only provides with the current location of all nearby ships to the ships on which they are implemented but they also provides with the latest information on freight and cargo issues…
VTS introduction despite of making shipping safer has also reduced catastrophic threats like oil spills in heaving and narrow waterways, colliding disasters and damages. VTS implementations outcome vary from country to country, as the zonal rules and regulations also vary. AIS implementation along with overcoming the limitations of VTS provides with the latest statistical information between the cargos or ships and coastal stations.
developing and this symposium is a part of that process. It will contribute to our knowledge, stimulate ideas and help us to decide how best to utilize the technology that has been and is being developed."
Vessel traffic services (VTS) are shore-side systems, designed to prevent different types of collisions in the harbors, which range from the provision of simple information messages to ships, such as position of other traffic or meteorological hazard warnings, to extensive collisions and management of traffic within a port or waterway. VTS acts as a tool, which plays a vital role in:
The purpose of a VTS is to provide active monitoring and navigational advice for vessels in particularly confined and busy waterways. ...
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Core modules: Theory and practice of communication; communication in different contexts (writing and speech); dissertation/major project. Optional modules: Communicating with different audiences; independent learning; intercultural communication; specialised translation.
Assessment is based on essays, projects, portfolios, practical translation assignments, presentations, in-class tests and a dissertation.
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The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix takes place in it’s most usual venue, at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, which is a purpose-built, street-like circuit built upon Montreal’s man-made island, Île Notre-Dame.
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2011 Canadian Grand Prix Circuit Guide – Circuit Gilles Vileneuve
- Lap Length: 4.361 KM (2.71 Miles)
- Lap Record: 1:13.622 (Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari, 2004)
- Total 2011 Race Laps: 70
- Total 2011 Race Distance: 305.270KM (189.685 Miles)
- Pitlane Speed Limit: Practice 60 km/h; Race 100 km/h
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Opening remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Paris, 20 May 2009
Mr. Darcos, distinguished guests from around the world and from here in France:
The OECD is honoured to hold this international symposium with our partner: l’Institut pour l’Education Financière du Public. The Symposium addresses an issue of critical importance in today’s world: financial awareness and education.
The financial crisis has reached every country, highlighting the need for strengthened national and global financial regulation and supervision. Corrective policy measures have been implemented in many countries. These measures have also included initiatives to improve consumers’ financial literacy, awareness and capability. We should not forget that the low level of financial literacy observed in most countries, has been - if not a direct cause of the crisis - at least one of the aggravating factors.
Financial markets and services are playing a greater social and economic role in the daily life of the average individual. At the same time they are also becoming increasingly complex, and the associated risks are multiplying. Households and individuals are being called upon to take financial decisions that could have severe consequences for their wealth and well being. They need the right financial skills to both protect themselves and also to benefit from the many new products available. Households that are finance savy may also contribute to overall financial and economic stability and to the development of the countries they live in.
If there is a consolation to be gleaned from this crisis, it is that the importance and profile of financial education has been raised decisively around the world. Some might even say that we are experiencing a “teachable moment” when the public is more interested in and wants to know more about financial matters than ever before. Financial education is climbing up national agendas around the world. More and more countries are developing national strategies. The participation today of the French Education Minister Xavier Darcos and the French Economy, Industry and Employment Minister Christine Lagarde attest to the importance the French government places on financial education. It is thus not surprising that financial education is also a component of the OECD Strategic Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis. But not all policymakers are onboard. Financial education is missing from the current G20 statement. We will try to correct this.
In a short while Mr. Laboul will share with you the details of the OECD financial education project and the work carried by the newly created International Network on Financial Education. Financial education is one strategic priority of the OECD. But the creation of this Network conveys another important message from the OECD: we are an open organisation and as such we wish to work together with all interested non OECD countries. This is because financial education is a global issue. I think the message is clear from the composition of this Network, which comprises representatives from more than 50 countries.
But let me be more focussed. I will touch first on the important issue of financial education at school (in honour of our guest Mr Darcos). Next, I will move to vulnerable groups and an area that deserves particularly attention: pensions.
One of the main, and now urgent, challenges is to move from raising awareness on financial issues to actually changing consumers’ behaviours. As many of you have identified, we can do this by integrating financial literacy into school curricula. You might assume that our IT-skilled and globally connected young generations would be at ease with financial matters. Evidence clearly shows the opposite. Most surveys conducted in OECD and non OECD countries including in France, demonstrate that youth know little about financial matters -- even less than adults. Young people think this is a boring and stressful topic, not relevant for them. This is all the more worrying since social and economic trends imply that younger generations will need to be more financially skilful than their elders.
Through schools we can reach the widest national audience and nurture financial capability and responsibility. And, as shown in other areas of policy intervention such as health care prevention, children and teenagers are very good disseminators of information and changed behaviours to their parents and relatives.
Many countries have already grasped the significance of this issue and have included financial education into school curriculum. But there are challenges: crowded school curricula, lack of sustainable resources and lack of training for teachers and trainer. And governments must have commitment and must also apply themselves to coordination between relevant public bodies and partners.
In 2005, the OECD Principles and Good Practices on Financial Education and Awareness approved by OECD Governments recommended that the teaching of financial education start as early as possible and at school. Further analytical work was then carried out over 2006/2008 and is now pursued notably by a dedicated expert subgroup of the International Network on Financial Education. This work should lead to the development of tailored international guidelines that can help policymakers and practitioners.
I am particularly pleased to announce that a financial education component will be included in the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) for 2012. This programme is now conducted in more than 65 countries. The results of the 2012 PISA exercise should provide another impetus for countries and their government to introduce financial education as a component of the school curriculum and devote the time and resource it deserves.
I would now like to refer to vulnerable groups, which exist in all countries, developed or not. These groups have little or no access to appropriate financial and advisory services and this is exacerbated by their negligible financial awareness and literacy. This is not tolerable. We need to fix this. There is an urgent need to improve their financial literacy in order to better integrate them, not just into the financial system, but also the economy as a whole. We are working on designing tailored programmes to address this.
A few words on something very important for all of us: our pensions. The crisis has generally heightened anxiety about pensions and underlines the importance of informed decisions by individuals on saving for retirement. This concerns especially workers with defined contributions schemes, who fully bear longevity and investment risks and can find themselves with low benefits or even nothing when retiring. The OECD will continue to develop public awareness and education on pension issues and also promote adequate regulation to protect future pensioners. I am pleased to announce today that the OECD Council should soon endorse a revised set of the OECD core principles for the regulation of private pensions.
Mr. Darcos, Dear guests
Awareness of the need for financial education is gaining momentum. It is becoming acknowledged as an essential pillar of a sound and sustainable financial regulatory and supervisory framework.
The OECD will continue to strengthen its efforts to deepen international policy dialogue and cooperation on this fundamental issue notably through the work of its dedicated committees and its International Network on Financial Education. It will also do so through more international analysis, principles and guidelines in areas that need it, as well as methodologies to design, develop and further improve financial education programmes worldwide.
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Item description for Ecclesiology: The Church As Communion and Mission (Catholic Basics) by Morris Pelzel & Thomas P. Walters...
Overview Through its framework of communion and mission, this book provides a clear and appealing vision of the Church, including critical insights from Church history, Church councils, and teaching. It explores critical issues that challenge both the individual and the parish community, including the role of culture, evangelization, and social teaching.
Publishers Description "Ecclesiology: The Church as Communion and Mission "presents the basic information needed to have a clear understanding of nature of the Church.This book is a theological study of the Church, that is, an ecclesiology. There is a rhythm at work in the eucharistic Liturgy and thus in the Christian life as a whole that provides us with a key insight for understanding the Church. In this dynamic movement of coming together and going forth, symbolized in the rites of gathering and dismissal that frame the Mass, we have the basic elements for a theology of the Church. In theological categories, those basic elements may be termed "communion" and "mission." Reflection upon our ongoing experience of communion and mission can thus provide us with a vision of what it means to be the Church. --From chapter 1 Catholic Basics: A Pastoral Series that offers an in-depth yet accessible understanding of the fundamentals of the Catholic faith for adults, both those active in pastoral ministry and those preparing for ministry. The series helps readers explore the Catholic tradition and apply what they have learned to their lives and ministry situations. Includes study questions and suggestions for further reading."Ecclesiology: The Church as Communion and Mission "addresses Standards #520.01 and 520.03-520.06.
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Release Date Jul 1, 2001
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Morris Pelzel es profesor asistente de teologia sistematica de Saint Meinrad School of Theology, en San Meinard, Indiana. Obtuvo su doctorado en teologia en Catholic University of America en 1994. Ensena diversos cursos en Saint Meinrad, incluyendo Teologia fundamental, Antropologia teologica, Trinidad, Teologia ecumenica, y Eclesiologia. Su curso en ciencias y teologia fue seleccionado como ganador en 1977 al premio "Templeton Foundation Course Design Program in Science and Religion."
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a little gem Nov 9, 2007
Catholic theology needs basic treatments of post-Vatican II theology that avoid the ideological battles that so often bedevil the church. This short book is an outstanding exposition of what the church is (communion) and is for (mission), particularly well-balanced and clearly written. I think it would be equally acceptable to someone like Pope Benedict and someone of a very different theological stamp like, say, me. Lay theology courses and seminary classrooms would benefit enormously from using this book as a basic ecclesiology text.
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Salt gets a bad wrap most of the time I see it talked about, however there have been a few articles I’ve read lately that said that muscle cramps are due to a lack of sodium. If low sodium causes cramps, why do people think salt is so bad for your health?
Thank you for your question!
Salt is something that is often overlooked within the diet, fading into the background aura of the main macronutrients of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. We always have heard the messages to watch our salt (or sodium) intake in our diet, but we have not really been given a solid understanding of why. Why is salt added to so many foods, what can it do for our food and what effects can it have within our body?
When for general health we only need 1600mg of sodium (salt) each day, with an upper limit of 2400mg sodium (salt) each day. And if you are struggling to work out how to convert sodium to salt, use this equation:
Sodium grams x 2.5 = salt in grams
So let’s look at why salt is being added to so many foods and what it does to foods. It really comes down to three main areas:
- Taste: Additional salt added to foods acts as a flavour enhancing agent, and can even enhance other attributes such as the sweetness of a food (think salted caramel). With the ever-expanding industry of processed convenience foods where taste is often the determinant of consumer choice, the addition of significant amounts of salt (or sodium) is commonplace and can be the difference between a products success or failure in the marketplace.
Another key area to note, is the tolerance that is built to salt or sodium within our diet. Simply put, the constant intake of high salt/sodium foods will lead to other lower sodium foods tasting bland, with the opposite true for those reducing salt in their diet as the body becomes far more “sensitive” to tasting the salt/sodium in lower concentrations.
- Preservation: A cheap and easy way to ensure microbes do not spoil your food is to add a bucket-load of salt to it. Think back to when Captain Cook was around, just about everything on the ship was pickled and high in salt to ensure that the foods had a longer lifespan. Another key point is that salt is dirt-cheap. Food companies know this, and also know the appeal of a longer shelf-life for their products which is another key reason that pre-packaged foods and preserved foods are quite high in salt/sodium. Salt is a fantastic agent to inhibit bacterial growth, they simply cannot stand the salty environment and prosper as in other areas.
- Texture Modification: Adding salt to a food acts to draw moisture content. Again think of the best pork crackling you have ever had, or the crispiest skinned salmon you have ever had. Salt was used in those instances to draw out the moisture content and provide that textural effect.
So now we understand why salt is found in heavy concentrations in pre-packaged foods and even the take-away foods you consume. But what effect does it have on the body? Essentially the risk you run with a high salt intake is developing high blood pressure, which is bad news for your organs. Higher pressure in your circulation system is akin to having high pressure in the radiator of your car, over time the risks of something going “pop” and breaking down significantly increases. For your body, this “pop” could mean a heart attack, heart failure, stroke or kidney damage with some of the lesser known consequences being oedema, heart muscle thickening or osteoporosis.
Essentially, lowering your sodium intake in today’s world can be difficult, especially considering some food staples in Western diets that are minimally processed (such as dairy products) are quite high in sodium, along with most bread products. Although it has not been proven a certainty that a high sodium intake will cause high blood pressure development and the associated health risk factors listed above, it is always wise to use the analogy of less is more with salt.
If in doubt, opt to eat a diet full of foods that aren’t processed or contain minimal processing and refrain from adding extra salt to your foods at the table and in cooking and you are well on the way to addressing this common nutrition concern. If you would like further information on how to tweak your nutrition to lower your sodium intake, be sure to contact our experienced team at Enliven Nutrition today!
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Accidental legal drug deaths are on the rise in Albany County
Albany County saw more prescription drug overdoses in the first three months of 2012 than in all of 2011. In fact, a third of non-natural and accidental deaths in Albany County last year can be linked to prescription drug overdoses, according to County Coroner Kathleen Vernon-Kubichek, nearly triple the amount seen in 2011.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified prescription drug abuse as a national epidemic, a trend that prompted the Obama Administration to launch its National Prescription Drug Abuse Plan in 2011. Vernon-Kubichek says that a small part of the increase in her county might be due to improved mandatory toxicology exams for each case, not just those suspected of overdose. However, she says there does seem to be a big increase in deaths from opiate painkillers and common sedatives, like Clonazepam and Diazepam.
“My conjecture is that because the mindset is that these are medications and not drugs that they’re safe,” she says, “and that’s causing people to use them a little more liberally or abuse them much more readily than they would were they illegal street drugs.”
Vernon-Kubichek says the majority of drug fatalities are unintentional, and that people underestimate how dangerous it is to mix medications or to drink even small amounts of alcohol while taking prescription drugs.
“It’s not necessarily that people are taking too many of their Oxycontin and then going to the bar and getting just absolutely wasted and, you know, you’d be surprised that they survived drinking that much alcohol anyway,” says Vernon-Kubichek, “it’s that they’re having the couple of beers or the couple of scotches that a person would have anyway, just in concert with those other drugs it’s very dangerous.”
Wyoming Board of Pharmacy Director Mary Walker says that the board is working to put its prescription database online to make it easier for doctors, dentists and law enforcement officials to monitor patients who may be getting prescriptions from multiple doctors for personal or illicit reasons. In the meantime, providers can access a faxable form through the Pharmacy Board’s website at http://pharmacyboard.state.wy.us/. | <urn:uuid:d0564df3-dbd6-4248-88b1-3fda38be3c88> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/accidental-legal-drug-deaths-are-rise-albany-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00417-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959697 | 489 | 2.1875 | 2 |
How bad is the economy?
So bad that “our economy can’t afford the $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, much of which may not get repaid because students don’t have the capacity to repay it,” President Barack Obama told college students at the University at Buffalo, N.Y.
So bad that “if you drop out of high school today, you’re basically condemned to poverty and social failure,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters prior to the president’s speech.
“There are no good jobs out there. If you have a high school diploma, there’s almost nothing for you,” Duncan admitted.
Each year, roughly 1.3 million Americans drop out of high school without diplomas. That’s about a third of all youths, suggesting that more than 50 million Americans do not have a high-school diploma, amid intense federal oversight of the government-run education system.
The numbers are worse for minorities that Obama says he want to aid.”Only 56 percent of Hispanic, 54 percent of African-American … students in the U.S. graduate with a regular diploma, compared to 77 percent of white students and 81 percent of Asian Americans,” according to the Alliance for Excellent Education.
The top-level confessions of economic paralysis came amid a rash of bad news.
The reports show a sustained drop in wages and family income, a gradual shift in employment from full-time to low-wage part-time work, and job growth that barely keeps pace with population growth and new immigration, despite four years of deficit-funded stimulus funding that have pushed the federal debt above $17 trillion.
The bad news comes as Obama pushes for an immigration rewrite that would invite 46 million foreign workers — most of whom would be the unskilled relatives of recent legal and illegal immigrants — over the next two decade to compete for jobs against the huge pool of unemployed and underemployed Americans.
That pool is estimated at 20 million to 57 million Americans, and includes people who are now looking for full-time jobs and those who would take jobs if wages were growing in a vibrant economy. The Senate immigration bill, passed in July, would allocate only up to 15 percent of green-cards to skilled immigrants.
Obama argued that the fix to the tightly-regulated, indebted economy is more federal spending and more regulation, plus more federal control of colleges and universities.
“Higher education cannot be a luxury — it is an economic imperative. Every American family should be able to afford to get it,” Obama declared, as he announced plans to leverage federal control over student loans into more federal control over colleges’ operations and admissions policies.
“Our national mission must be to profit off having the best-educated workforce in the world,” Obama told the Buffalo students, without mentioning his support for large-scale immigration of unskilled foreign workers.
The problem of student loans, which has grown 27 percent since 2008, can be ameliorated by capping the borrowers’ repayments at 10 percent of their income, he said.
“College has to be the goal, has to be the aspiration,” declared Duncan. “If we want to build a growing and thriving middle class, the only way to do that is to open the door to higher education, to make it more accessible, more affordable, make sure folks are graduating and have a chance to earn a good living.”
In contrast, GOP legislators and free-market advocates say the best way to improve the economy and education is curb federal regulation so that workers, entrepreneurs and companies can sell their products and services, including education.
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Russia has asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the arrest of five Russian army officers in Georgia.
Russia asked for the emergency session Thursday, after Georgia arrested the five Russian officers on charges of spying. Closed consultations were immediately scheduled for later in the day.
Russia earlier recalled its ambassador from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and ordered a partial evacuation of Russian personnel and their families.
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Konstantin Dolgov, called the arrests "very troubling news." He told VOA, Moscow wants the Council to take up the matter as a threat to regional peace and security.
"Very unfortunate, destabilizing the region, on the part of Tbilisi," he said. "So, we think that it's high time for the Security Council to get seized of the matter."
Russian diplomats say the request for an urgent Council meeting came from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov, on a trip to Russia's far east, was quoted as calling the spying charges "absurd." He demanded the officers' immediate release.
Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have been increasingly tense since Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in the wake of the country's peaceful "Rose revolution" in 2003. In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last Friday, Saakashvili accused Russia of what he termed a "gangster occupation" of the disputed Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Russian officers were detained Wednesday, after Georgian police and guards surrounded the regional headquarters of Russian troops in Tbilisi. Reports say 12 Georgians suspected of involvement were also detained.
Russia's defense minister, Sergei Ivanov, was quoted Thursday as calling the arrests "an outrage."
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In defense of President Trump’s revised travel ban, the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office—perhaps the most revered legal office in the country—is making arguments to the Supreme Court that are belied by reality.
In its recent briefing to the Court, it represents that the government views the ban as “an urgent objective of the highest order.” It says that “no governmental interest is more compelling,” that the ban is essential to national security, and that failure to reinstate the ban will cause irreparable harm. These representations are critical to the government’s argument, given the extraordinary relief it is seeking (which includes a stay of a Hawaii district court injunction before the Ninth Circuit has even had a chance to rule on it).
The problem is they border on insincerity considering the deliberate—and purely political—delay that featured in the Administration’s strategy up until this point.
Recall that the revised travel ban began with open and deliberate political delay: After acknowledging that it had been finalized, the Administration decided to postpone its issuance for five days due to positive media reception that followed the President’s State of the Union address. As I lay out below, a willingness to place political strategy over expedience remained characteristic throughout litigation in the courts below.
Government lawyers know how to get a truly urgent case to the Supreme Court extremely fast. Any government lawyer who didn’t know was taught first hand in the context of President Trump’s first travel ban. There, within approximately 24 hours of Judge James Robart’s decision blocking the ban, the Administration filed an emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for an emergency administrative stay and a stay pending appeal. The administrative stay was denied that same day and the stay pending appeal was denied in a written opinion five days later. In other words, the government was able to obtain an order that could have been taken to the U.S. Supreme Court within one day (or, at most, five days if it wanted a written opinion to challenge).
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When it came time for President Trump’s revised travel ban, however, the Administration took a decidedly unhurried approach (it is probably not happenstance that the change in fervor coincided with the Justice Department, State Department, and Homeland Security’s opportunities to analyze the actual import of the ban). In addition to the purely political State-of-the-Union delay, once litigation began and the revised Executive Order was enjoined, the Administration decided not to pursue any emergency options that were available to it. Instead, it delayed its own briefing and proposed briefing schedules that are inconsistent with the notion of an urgent national security demand.
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In total, the delay attributable to (or proposed by) the Administration was approximately two months. These illustrations are even more stark when compared side-by-side and to-scale, demonstrating just how vigorously the Administration could have, but did not, pursue its defense of the ban.
Why the delay? Shortly after the revised ban was issued, I predicted that the Administration would likely seek to delay any possibility of Supreme Court review until it was assured that Justice Neil Gorsuch would be on the bench, on the theory that this would maximize the possibility of prevailing and the Administration would prioritize the political benefit of a positive outcome. As the illustration above shows, the Administration’s proposed briefing schedules coincide nicely with the start of Justice Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings (which began on March 20, 2017) and provided sufficient buffer to virtually guarantee that he would be on the Court before the courts of appeals were in a position to issue a decision. Once Justice Gorsuch was confirmed (April 6), the Administration went directly to the Supreme Court just six days after its first realistic opportunity to do so, without even waiting for the Ninth Circuit.
Whether the Administration’s political calculation will pay off is anyone’s guess. What is clear, however, is that its actions are not consistent with an honest belief that the revised travel ban concerns an urgent national security objective. Indeed, the Administration appears to be treating the Court as though it were the purely "political" institution that President Trump believes it to be. | <urn:uuid:af5d990e-2590-4f86-8454-80fcce573726> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://takecareblog.com/blog/the-travel-ban-s-non-urgency-in-pictures | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.967069 | 881 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Seed dispersal of a dandelion flower
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By Jake Grovum, Stateline.org
WASHINGTON — Almost 2 million Americans who have been out of work for longer than six months have missed out on extended unemployment benefits since Congress allowed the program to expire in December, according to a new analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data.
In seven states, at least 100,000 unemployed workers have missed out on unemployment benefits they would have otherwise received, according to the analysis from the National Employment Law Project, a group that advocates for workers and has lobbied for an extension of the benefits.
Extended unemployment benefits began during the George W. Bush administration in 2008 as a response to a spike in long-term unemployment during the Great Recession. The extended benefits allowed unemployed workers to collect aid for up to 99 weeks, instead of the normal 26 weeks.
The White House and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are interested in reinstating the benefits. Four Republicans joined Senate Democrats last month to almost pass an extension, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has said he’s open to an extension, provided the cost is offset with other budget cuts. But so far, disputes over how to pay for continuing the measure and how long to extend the benefits have derailed any deals.
The most populous states have the most people who have been affected by the expiration of the benefits. But states such as New Jersey and Florida have been hit disproportionately hard because they have high levels of long-term unemployment.
States largely are responsible for regular unemployment benefits, but the federal government covered the cost of the extended benefits. From 2008 through the first half of 2013, Washington spent $252 billion on extended benefits for at least 24 million unemployed Americans.
If the program is not reinstated before April, states and their unemployed workers will have missed out on more than $5 billion in federal money, according to the analysis. Previous government and private-sector analyses have estimated that the cuts could cost as many as 240,000 jobs if they continue through the end of 2014.
The total number of those missing benefits includes those who were receiving extended benefits when the program expired in December, as well as those who have exhausted state jobless benefits in the months since and would have been eligible for extended benefits.
In the wake of the Great Recession, a historically high percentage of the unemployed have been out of work for six months or longer. Long-term joblessness as a share of the total unemployed reached a pre-Great Recession high of 26 percent in mid-1983. As of January this year, 41 states and the District of Columbia had long-term unemployment rates above that level.
Even before the expiration of the extended benefits, some states had scaled back their unemployment programs, leaving workers with even fewer weeks of jobless benefits. Florida, for example, now offers 19 weeks of benefits to the unemployed, while Georgia offers 18. South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas and Michigan have also reduced the number of weeks the unemployed can receive aid. North Carolina is a special case because the state not only cut its standard benefits program to 19 weeks, but also earlier this year opted out of the extended benefits program entirely — the first and only state to do so.
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NEWPORT NEWS — While it will be illegal for people to live in motels and hotels in Newport News starting in 2014, City Manager Neil Morgan said the enforcement of the new law will focus on business owners, not people in unfortunate circumstances.
City Council unanimously approved the ban on living in motels and hotels at its Tuesday meeting.
The ordinance will make it illegal for people to stay in and hotel owners to rent out rooms for more than 30 days in a 60-day period..
Many exceptions are carved into the law — such as for business purposes — and extended-stay hotels will be exempt from its provisions.
Council members said that the ordinance will not increase homelessness.
"The last thing anyone wants to do is put anyone on the street," said Councilman Rob Coleman. "This ordinance is going to do a lot of good."
The new law would permit the human services department to grant 90-day waivers for people who could prove that they need more time to find alternative housing.
Lynne Finding, executive director of the Living Interfaith Network, which operates a seasonal homeless shelter, said she's concerned that without affordable housing options in place, the unintended consequence of the law could be more homelessness.
Finding said that the budget hotels and motels serve as apartments for those who can't otherwise rent an apartment, perhaps due to past evictions or poor credit. She said there are more than 500 homeless in Newport News.
Councilwoman Pat Woodbury said she hopes that between now and when the ordinance takes effect in January, the city will work on finding more solutions to its homeless problem.
"We are not addressing the homeless issue as aggressively as we should be," Woodbury said.
Resident Mike Minarik said the "big concern" he has is for the residents of the hotels.
"They're already homeless, so why add to their problems?" Minarik said.
Vice Mayor Bert Bateman said that while there should be exceptions based on circumstances, he believes it would be better if fewer people lived in motels.
"We don't want to cultivate a culture in Newport News where families think it's OK to raise a family in a motel or a hotel," Bateman said.
In addition to the 30-day limit, the hotels and motels would have to obtain a $100 operating permit and be subject to inspections by the city's building, codes compliance, health, fire and police departments. Those that don't comply with health and safety standards could be closed by the city.
Morgan said that the interiors of many of the budget motels are in such disrepair that being able to inspect the buildings and mandate upgrades should help improve the lconditions in the motels.
Motel ordinance approved
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Leadership for Student Learning: Recognizing the State's Role in Public Education. School Leadership for the 21st Century Initiative: A Report of the Task Force on State Leadership.
Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC.
Historically states are seen as more comfortable with narrowly focused rules, regulation, and monitoring responsibilities than with broad change. Currently states face revolutionary new arrangements for financing education, overseeing federal commitments, and providing fair and meaningful standards for educational performance. The major educational policy challenges of improving teaching and learning, implementing systemic reform, narrowing achievement gaps, and promoting equity through finance equalization are not issues that lend themselves to quick and tidy solutions. The capacity to deal with these issues must come from governors, chief state school officers, state agencies, legislatures, and state education boards. No single solution will be applicable to all states. The Task Force on State Leadership identifies additional concerns. Archaic statutes, convoluted arrangements for financing education, and state-level territoriality combine with competition among legislatures, state school boards, and permanent bureaucracies to create confusion. Governors, business interests, lobbies, the federal government, and mass media also assert their concerns. The task force describes the primary components of the stare educational policymaking apparatus, outlines some of the challenges and issues confronting those components, and offers guidance for increasing the capacity of states to provide leadership for student learning. (Contains 24 references.) (RKJ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship, Leadership Responsibility, Public Schools, State Action, State Aid, State Programs, State Regulation, State School District Relationship, State Standards
Institute for Educational Leadership, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-822-8405; Fax: 202-872-4050. For full text: http://www.iel.org.
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Sponsor: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.; Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.; Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.; UPS Foundation, Inc., Greenwich, CT.; Metropolitan Life Foundation.
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As rural Newfoundland and Labrador attempts to diversify its economy away from the fishery, many regions are looking at tourism – and especially cultural tourism – as a means of generating employment and income. As a result, artists and tradition bearers have become entrepreneurs, creating businesses which both celebrate our culture and cater to visitors.
This session described how cultural entrepreneurs are doing things in this province and elsewhere, and explored what other opportunities exist to create a sustainable rural economy which builds upon and respects our cultural traditions.
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This event was part of the Trails, Tales and Tunes Festival. For
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Your dishwasher could work harder you know! It can clean a lot more things than you realise. It’s such a handy little fella.
There are some items you should avoid throwing in the dishwasher – like fragile, wooden, cast iron, copper and such – but there are many you can.
Just remember not everything is dishwasher safe, so consider that before you throw things in for a clean. Placing on the top rack is always best and possibly run these items on their own cycle.
1. Kitchen sponges and brushes – the high heat from the water will zap those bugs away and clean hidden grime on brushes.
2. Most kitchen/bathroom exhaust fans and covers – no need to stand over the sink, throw them in.
3. Fridge shelves and trays – lay shelves in the dishwasher for a better clean.
4. Drawer organisers – the cutlery trays trap dirt. Throw in bathroom ones too if you have them.
5. Hairbrushes and combs – remove excess hair first.
6. Vases and jars – it will clean off those hard water lines that develop after a while.
7. Power-point/light covers – take the covers off and let the dishwasher clean off any grime.
8. Ceiling light covers – as long as they are dishwasher safe.
9. Dust pan – high heat will get rid of any germs you may have swept up.
10. Sink drainer – because it’s always filthy.
11. Soap dishes and toothbrush holders – even throw your toothbrush in.
12. Manicure tools – they will come up brand new and clean.
13. Bath toys – an easy way to remove any built up slime that can happen if they’ve been in the bath too long.
14. Garden tools – you’ll be happy to see how clean they are.
15. Thongs (shoes!) – you’ll get brand new looking summer shoes.
16. Keys (not the ones with batteries) – because you never know where they’ve been.
17. Pet bowls – we wouldn’t eat out of a dirty bowl so why should our pets?
18. Vacuum tools – no more built up dust.
19. Car cup holders – even compartments from the car could use a good clean.
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A century ago as the world slowly emerged from the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic a new organization was established in Canada to bring education, entertainment and cultural enlightenment to rural areas.
As Canada emerges from another pandemic Muskoka Chautauqua continues to carry the torch and position themselves for a bright future.
“Chautauqua” is an Iroquois word with a few meanings – “a bag tied in the middle” or “two moccasins tied together” and it describes the shape of Chautauqua Lake, located in southwest New York. This area was the setting for the first educational assembly (Chautauqua Institution) in 1874 and so provided the name to the movement.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation and the Canadian Chautauqua Institution and although the plans are still somewhat dependent on covid restrictions, Muskoka Chautauqua plans to mark the occasion with a summer arts and culture festival in Windermere from August 6 -15.
“It’s still pretty similar to the way it was 100 years ago near, and very near where it all started at Windermere House,” says Gayle Dempsey, who runs Chautauqua with Gary Froude from their property overlooking Lake Rosseau. “100 years ago we were just emerging from a pandemic and ready for the Roaring Twenties, and I feel like we’re ready for the Roaring Twenties again.”
Chautauqua’s goal is to provide high calibre, accessible year-round arts, culture and heritage programming to residents and visitors of the Muskoka region, surrounded by nature on the shores of Lake Rosseau. Muskoka Chautauqua’s activities always ramp up during the summer months but this year the centennial makes the occasion extra special.
The line-up includes a visit from jazz artists the Morgan Childs Lakeside Quartet, the annual authors panel and the Hot Docs video documentary series among many other planned activities.
“It should be amazing,” says Froude. “We’ll have the Toronto All-Star Big Band playing on the shore by Windermere House. That will be a boat-in event where people can pay what they want.”
From an outdoor art gallery to a pop-up theatre in the woods, this year’s version of the Chautauqua will likely resemble that of the original celebrations.
Tobin Island on Lake Rousseau was the setting of the first Chautauqua.
According to the Chautauqua archives, which are now housed at the Muskoka Lakes Museum in Port Carling, a typical day at Chautauqua would be divided into education in the morning, recreation in the afternoon and entertainment in the evening. It was an opportunity for rejuvenation in a beautiful natural setting, through intellectual challenge, physical workouts and artistic and spiritual enlightenment.
In Muskoka, an extremely important part of this movement was the Reading Circle, whose intention was to introduce and advance the works of Canadian authors. Chautauqua weeks featured famous authors of the day such as Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, E. J. Pratt, and Dorothy Livesay reading from their works and discussing current issues.
“At that time Muskoka was actually known as Canada’s literary capital,” says Dempsey. “And that continues to be a mainstay of what we do.”
The current iteration of Muskoka Chautauqua grew out of the Muskoka Lakes Music Festival, which began in 1997. Out of a need to expand beyond musical offerings, and upon the discovery of the historical Chautauqua in Muskoka, a multidisciplinary arts community was formed.
Dempsey and Froude say they’re both grateful for the financial support of both Fednor and the province, as well as local groups like Explorers Edge, Muskoka Tourism and the Muskoka Lakes Chamber Of Commerce.
For all the latest news on the upcoming celebrations and events visit https://www.muskokachautauqua.com/about/.
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Tehran, Iran, November 8
By Mehdi Sepahvand -- Trend:
Iran will be able to resume its nuclear activities at its current level after altering its nuclear facilities according to the requirements of the JCPOA, Iran Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrooz Kamalvandi said.
"By redesigning the Arak reactor, we will fall behind two to three years. But if we decide to return, we will be able to do so in less than two years, that is, we will produce another core for the reactor very quickly because we have already done so once, and have all the blueprints and materials," Kamalvandi said, Fars news agency reported November 8.
"The nuclear agreement was made in a very prime situation... if we had continued the former state for another 10 or 15 years, then there would have been problems. So we had to reach some agreement within a special time span," he noted.
"With the current trend, we can be a producer of fuel in one year. It is correct that we produced 20-percent fuel, but power plant fuel has its specific problems," said Kamalvandi.
"The JCPOA has also created problems for us in the R&D area, but we have the necessary machines to allow us to continue researching. We intentionally introduced the IR8 machines into the game toward the end of the nuclear talks. It created quite a row and the talks were nearly disrupted... it is 24 times more powerful than the IR1 machines. It changed the equations," Kamanlvandi said.
He noted that even if there is no restriction on Iran regarding the number of centrifuges and uranium enrichment, there are three main problems ahead.
"One is that our machines are not yet fully reliable, so making thousands of them will be problematic. The second is the material. And the third is the safety of nuclear power plants. That is, if we do not observe international standards and something bad happens, then we will be held accountable before the whole world," he stated.
According to the JCPOA, reached between Iran and the 5+1 group made up of the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany on July 14, Iran has to limit its nuclear activities and make changes to its program before the six powers lift economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
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Unconstrained by market pressures, private schools have been gouging their customers at a similar pace.
News that the securities firm where he worked after his FBI gig was “sanctioned repeatedly by regulators for gouging customers.”
Then, in an account that is bone-chilling, she says her husband pressed his fingers into her eyes, gouging them out.
With satin walnut, pine, American white-wood, gouging is not a difficult matter.
They've a notion it's all gouging and luck, and you couldn't beat that out of them if you tried.
Almost all have a slope or steep rising above them, down which the ice descended while gouging out their basins.
Biting, kicking, gouging, all were the same to this silent and powerful antagonist.
The fight was conducted in the old border style of "rough and tumble," including biting and gouging.
Johnson's left hand was gouging at my face, his fingers digging at my eyes.
She hated these sharp, gimlet, gouging sort of men that would put a screw between body and soul for money.
mid-14c., "chisel with a concave blade," from Old French gouge, from Late Latin gubia, alteration of gulbia "hollow beveled chisel," probably from Gaulish (cf. Old Irish gulban "prick, prickle," Welsh gylfin "beak").
1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers). Related: Gouged; gouging.
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If complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) isn’t one of your practice’s top priorities, it should be. While there are no new requirements for 2018, HIPAA is more strictly enforced than ever, and important clarifications have been issued as technology becomes more deeply integrated into practice management. The safety of your patients’ data and the longevity of your practice depend on your compliance.
A brief history of HIPAA
Passed in 1996, HIPAA established the first set of national guidelines for healthcare data maintenance and exchange. Over the next 10+ years, HIPAA expanded to include the enactment of the Privacy, Security and Enforcement rules, which set standards for personal health information (PHI) protection, disclosure, and access. These rules also outlined the compliance infrastructure that healthcare providers, health plans, and clearinghouses should have in place to protect data, monitor HIPAA adherence and report breaches.
The Enforcement Rule put initial financial penalties in place, but HIPAA didn’t gain teeth until three things happened:
- The HITECH Act expanded HIPAA’s scope as part of a national mandate for implementing and promoting the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs)
- The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was named enforcing agency for HIPAA violations, commencing nominal audits in 2011 and a second round in 2016.
- The Omnibus Rule of 2013, among its many provisions, expanded HIPAA requirements to the business associates of covered entities (e.g., EHR vendors) and put more enforcement and penalty provisions into place.
As the law enters its third decade, being “HIPAA ready” means having not only the right systems in place but also having a compliance and risk assessment program that clearly demonstrates a commitment to privacy and security.
A formal compliance program has never been more important
The past two years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of HIPAA-related settlements and associated financial penalties. It’s critical that your practice implement/maintain a formal compliance program with the policies, procedures, and personnel to pass muster with the OCR. While the agency has not yet announced a new round of audits, practices would do well to familiarize themselves with the existing protocols, which cover:
- Information use and disclosure
- PHI and authorized representatives
- Confidential communications
- Privacy practice notice requirements
- Business associate agreements (BAAs)
The OCR, along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has also compiled an excellent toolkit for HIPAA compliance, including sample BAAs and privacy notices that practices can freely use.
E-mail and text? Yes, but know the rules
As Smartphones gain dominion over every aspect of our lives, email and text messaging have become powerful tools for patient engagement and health management. Practices are now using marketing automation tools, social media, chatbots, and SMS marketing tools to remind patients of existing appointments and make positive changes through wellness initiatives.
HIPAA allows providers to use these tools for communications to and from patients, but message encryption/security is critical. If not offered, practices must notify patients and allow them to opt out.
In December 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) clarified that while providers may text patient information to one another, it must be via a secure platform and cannot include the texting of patient orders. Its position reinforces not only HIPAA but its own Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) agreements.
HIPAA and cloud-based data requirements
More and more patient data is migrating to the cloud, which HIPAA allows. The OCR issued guidance in 2016 outlining requirements for the cloud service providers (CSPs) that medical practices must inevitably turn to for secure system implementation. Critical to note, your CSP is considered a business associate under HIPAA and therefore subject to its rules, even if the CSP only stores your data and does not maintain the encryption key.
Your BAA with your CSP must contain language that holds it liable for HIPAA compliance. This includes adherence to the Security Rule (ensuring limited access to ePHI), Privacy Rule (ensuring proper use and disclosure of ePHI), and the Breach Notification Rule (reporting incidents). Troy Parks with the American Medical Association says it best: “[If] you use or are thinking of using a CSP to create, receive, maintain or transmit ePHI on your behalf, you must have a BAA with the CSP, or both you and the CSP will be in violation of HIPAA.”
New administration, new competition
Currently, messages are mixed as to whether HIPAA will expand under the Trump Administration. On one hand, the OCR’s 2018 budget includes fewer dollars for enforcement. On the other, OCR Director Roger Severino has indicated that finding a “big, juicy, egregious” data breach case is among his top priorities. Whatever tack the OCR takes, one thing is clear: with nine settlements and more than $17 million in associated fines in 2017, HIPAA compliance will remain paramount.
A final thing practices should bear in mind? The role of new competitors and the impact on the HIPAA landscape. In January of this year, Amazon announced its search for a HIPAA Compliance Lead, fueling speculation that the online retailer is looking to enter healthcare in a big way.
AdvancedMD will continue to watch this space as more players enter the healthcare landscape and look for ways to remain compliant as cloud-based and other tech solutions grow.
Laura Beerman is a writer for TechnologyAdvice. Her insights have appeared in RevCycleIntelligence, Becker’s, InformationWeek and other outlets. She has spoken nationally on population health, long-term care, and been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal for her accountable care predictions. She resides in Nashville with her Canadian husband and American kittens. You can find her on LinkedIn. | <urn:uuid:be337ca8-4db1-48d8-aa60-babfd7a98252> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advancedmd.com/blog/2018-hipaa-compliance-means-practice-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.936466 | 1,237 | 1.789063 | 2 |
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla is once again under the lens in the US for a vehicle crash when the Autopilot mode was in use — a third crash involving Tesla vehicles in recent weeks.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) swung into action after the driver of a Tesla Model Y smashed into a state trooper’s cruiser near Michigan.
Michigan police said the driver was using Autopilot, Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS), at the time of the crash, The Verge reported on Thursday.
“NHTSA is aware of the incident involving a Tesla vehicle near Lansing, Michigan. Consistent with NHTSA’s vigilant oversight and robust authority over the safety of all motor vehicles and equipment, including automated technologies, we have launched a Special Crash Investigation team to investigate the crash,” a NHTSA spokesperson said in a statement.
The other two crashes occurred in Houston and Detroit that are also under the scanner.
There have been at least two fatal crashes in which a Tesla owner has smashed into a stopped vehicle, and the electric car-maker “has yet to address it in any meaningful way”.
The company recently rolled out a beta version of Autopilot called “Full Self Driving”, calling its the next step towards secure driving.
Last year, US federal agencies opened probe into the circumstances that led to a fatal collision involving Tesla vehicles in March.
The agencies, Washington-headquartered National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and NHTSA were investigating a collision between a Tesla Model 3 and a semi-truck in Delray Beach, Florida in which 50-year-old Jeremy Beren Banner was killed.
The accident came almost two years after the NTSB said the design limitations of the Autopilot system played a major role in the 2016 crash that killed Tesla driver Joshua Brown in Florida.
In 2018, US safety regulators launched investigation into a crash in the city of Utah in the US that occurred when a Tesla Model S plowed into a fire department vehicle while it was on “autopilot” mode in the month of May.
NHTSA has begun investigations into 13 Tesla crashes dating back to 2016 in which the agency believes Autopilot was operating. The agency is yet to issue any regulations.
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
New Book: 'To Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick', by Bob Jaffray
The book's subtitle is 'Glimpses of the Herding Life over Thirty Years in Lammermuir 1935-1965', and as a retired shepherd with a family connection to herding in the Lammermuirs going back to shortly after World War I, Bob recalls his memories of living in remote cottages high up in the hills and his subsequent life as a shepherd.
As he writes, ‘by the 1980s, a new mode of herding came into being with economic considerations dictating much larger farms and higher flock numbers ....’. Thus a whole way of life changed and herding techniques and skills which had evolved over hundreds of years are in danger of being forgotten. Bob's aim in the book is to preserve them for posterity.
Times were certainly difficult by today’s standards, all provisions and essentials being left at a neighbouring farm as the track to the cottage was effectively impassable, certainly in the wet. Remote as it was not though forgotten by the church, it being written into the minister's’ contract that he should hold an open air sermon on the top of an adjoining hill; Windy Law ‘to bring the gospel to the heathens of Rawburn’.
Bob recalls his life at Longformacus Village School with memories of fellow pupils and teachers. Most interestingly, he has included a full list of all who attended the school between the years 1937 and 1945. The figures themselves reflect the period, the number of new admissions (normally 6 or 7 per year), triplicating in the years 1939 and 1940 because of evacuees from the cities.
There are recollections of the effects of World War II on such a rural community and how the effect of rationing was not as severe as elsewhere. In 1943, Polish troops were billeted at Longformacus House and the youngsters of the day seem to have mingled freely with the troops, been given access to the vehicles and shown their weapons.
After the War, working as shepherd with particular recollections of the harsh winter and the hardships caused. There is a detail of day to day life with all sorts of anecdotes and personal recollections thrown in as well as recalling the practices and methods employed in shepherding, now mostly overtaken.
Also included are Jaffray and Welsh (the author’s mother’s name) family trees and well as different maps of the Lammermuirs with copies of charts produced by the Blackface Sheep Breeders Association containing the names of different farms and occupiers, a glossary and more than 40 photographs.
An enthralling read, even for people like me, whose knowledge of sheep is barely more than the taste on my dinner plate - certainly a must for anyone connected with farming, shepherding or the Scottish Borders.
The book is 94 pages long on heavy paper within card covers and costs £7.50 plus postage. It can be bought at our premises in Galashiels or by choosing the appropriate delivery option and pressing the button below.
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Tums are not considered toxic for kids and are even taken as calcium supplements and an antacid by adults. If your little one has popped in a few of those, give them a few sips of water, and they should be fine. However, your toddler might be constipated or have a belly ache. If you don’t know the number of tums your toddler has taken, call Poison Control or take him to the nearest ER. Your toddler might experience symptoms like bloating and constipation. Still, in case you’re unsure, or your little one is showing severe symptoms like severe bellyache, vomiting, or even fever, call Poison Control or rush to the ER.
What are tums?
Well, tums are candy-looking medication that is great for treating symptoms like heartburn, upset stomach, indigestion, or acid reflux. It works as an antacid by lowering the amount of acid in the stomach.
Tums come in a chewable form which adults need to chew before swallowing. Adults and children above the age of 12 are recommended to chew 2-4 tablets or as the doctor recommends.
On their official website, you’ll find that the main active ingredient in Tums is calcium carbonate, which is naturally mined from limestone and works quickly to calm down heartburn.
Heartburn, also known as acid reflux, is caused when acid is backed up in the stomach and flows back into the esophagus, a tube connecting the throat and the stomach and through- which food contents pass through and enters the stomach, causing painful heartburn.
The calcium carbonate in tums quickly neutralizes the stomach acid, giving relief to the adult.
What should I do if my toddler has eaten tums accidentally?
Well, tums basically look like candies in a bottle, and the moment they come to know that their parent has hidden a few candies from them- they’re definitely going to sneak in a few of them to know how it tastes.
If any of these happen, rush your toddler to the nearest ER. If you live far from an ER, call Poison Control again, and they’ll tell you what to do next and even arrange transport for you.
Also, if you’re not sure how many tums your little one has eaten, or you’re not comfortable sitting around waiting for any symptoms to occur, call the pediatrician or take your toddler to the nearest hospital. But, most likely, your toddler is going to be fine.
A friend of mine told me once how her toddler, who was 2 years and 6 months, ate a handful of tums.
She panicked and called Poison Control while her husband was getting dressed to rush to the ER, but Poison Control told her that it was fine and not to worry about it.
That toddler is now almost 6 and is completely fine.
Can my 2-year-old toddler take antacids?
You need to consult the pediatrician before giving your toddler any medication. Most over-the-counter antacids are not recommended for children under the age of 2.
What foods cause acid reflux in toddlers?
Foods that can cause acid reflux and should be avoided for toddlers are carbonated drinks, fatty and spicy foods, mustard and vinegar, and acidic foods such as pickles and peppermint.
What can you give a toddler for an upset stomach?
Encourage your little one to drink water and withhold solids for a little while, especially if she’s throwing up. After a while, try offering mild foods like crackers, applesauce, dry toast, or even plain rice.
Tums are basically calcium carbonate, so your toddler might be completely fine and might not even have any symptoms.
On the other hand, they might have constipation or slight tummy ache, which is not worrisome and will resolve itself.
Do offer your little one water often, as it might help with constipation.
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Supplementary Materials Data Dietary supplement 1 supp_284_24_16298__index. resulting in assembly of the forming of normal but proteolytically inactive -secretase complexes structurally. Substitution using a adversely charged side string (His-to-Asp) or changing the structural located area of the histidines also disrupted -secretase binding and abolished efficiency of APH1. These outcomes claim that the conserved transmembrane histidine residues donate to APH1 function and will have an effect on presenilin catalytic activity. The anterior pharynx faulty-1 (APH1)5 proteins is an important element of presenilin-dependent complexes necessary for the /?-secretase activity (1). The multicomponent -secretase is in charge of the intramembrane proteolysis of a number of substrates like the amyloid- precursor proteins (APP) and Notch receptor. Notch signaling is normally involved in a number of essential cell destiny decisions during embryogenesis and adulthood (2). The /?-secretase cleavage of APP proteins relates to the pathogenesis of Riociguat novel inhibtior Alzheimer disease by launching the 4-kDa amyloid -peptide (A) which accumulates as senile plaques in individuals with Alzheimer disease (3, 4). The -complexes are comprised of multispanning transmembrane proteins including APH1 (5, 6), presenilin (PS1 or PS2) (7C10), Pencil2 (5), and the sort 1 transmembrane nicastrin (NCT) (11). All components are crucial for proteolytic activity, and lack of any one element destabilizes the complicated, resulting in the increased loss of substrate cleavage. Conversely, co-expression of most four components boosts -secretase activity (12C14). Through the maturation from the complexes, presenilins go through an endoproteolytic cleavage to create amino- and carboxyl-terminal fragments which stay linked as heterodimers in the energetic high molecular fat complexes (15C18). Although the precise function of presenilins continues to be debated (19, 20), it’s been proposed which the presenilins are aspartyl proteases with two transmembrane residues constituting the catalytic subunit (21). Analogous aspartyl catalytic dyads are located in the indication peptide peptidases (21, 22). Efforts from the various other elements are under analysis, and it’s been shown, for instance, which the huge ectodomain of NCT has a key function in substrate Riociguat novel inhibtior identification (23, 24). It has additionally been proven that other protein can control activity such as for example TMP21, an associate of p24 cargo proteins, which binds to the presenilin complexes and selectively modulates but not ? cleavage (25, 26). APH1 is a seven-transmembrane protein with a topology such that the amino terminus is oriented with the endoplasmic reticulum and the carboxyl terminus resides in the cytoplasm (6, 27). It is also expressed as different isoforms encoded by two genes in humans Kit (APH1a on chromosome 1; APH1b on chromosome 15) or three genes in rodents (APH1a on chromosome 3; APH1b and APH1c Riociguat novel inhibtior on chromosome 9). APH1a has 55% sequence similarity with APH1b/APH1c, whereas APH1b and APH1c share 95% similarity. In addition to these different genes, APH1a is alternatively spliced to generate a short (APH1aS) and a long isoform (APH1aL). These two isoforms differ by the addition of 18 residues on the carboxyl-terminal part of APH1aL (28, 29). Deletion of APH1a in mice is embryonically lethal and is associated with developmental and patterning defects similar to those found in Notch, NCT, or PS1 null embryos (30, 31). In contrast to the essential nature of APH1a, the combined APH1b/c-deficient mice survive into adulthood (31). This suggests that APH1a is the major homologue involved in presenilin-dependent function during embryonic development. In addition, these different APH1 variants are constituents of distinct, proteolytically active presenilin-containing complexes and may, therefore, make unique contributions to -secretase activity (30C32). Despite their importance to complex formation and function, the exact role of the APH1 isoforms in presenilin-dependent /?-secretase activity remains under investigation. In the current study, several highly conserved polar and charged residues located within the transmembrane domains of APH1 were identified. Mutagenesis of two conserved histidine residues inlayed in TM5 and TM6 (His-171 and His-197) result in modifications in -secretase complicated maturation and activity. The histidine residues donate to APH1 function and so are involved with stabilizing relationships with additional -secretase parts. These essential histidines can also be literally localized close to the presenilin energetic site and mixed up in -secretase activity as demonstrated from the reduced activity of -secretase complexes that are constructed using the His-mutants. EXPERIMENTAL Methods Mutagenesis and cDNA Constructs The human being APH1aL cDNA was mutated by PCR site-directed mutagenesis using the QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis package from Stratagene, all constructs were confirmed by DNA sequencing then. Manifestation constructs for human being wild-type (WT) or mutant APH1aL had been cloned without the label in pcDNA4 vector. The PS1 create where aspartate 257 and/or 385 had been mutated to alanine had been cloned in pcDNA3 and acquired as previously referred to (63). 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Trump vows to continue fight against New York's rejection of new pipelines
ALBANY – New York's efforts to block new natural-gas pipelines are "unfair to the rest of the country," President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
The president's comments come just days after the gas company Williams LP scrapped plans to build the 124-mile long Constitution pipeline that would have run through the Southern Tier to just outside of Albany.
"We're unable to build a pipeline through New York state, where they'd love the jobs of doing the pipeline. And because of that, New England has very, very high energy prices," Trump said while speaking to the National Association of Counties in Washington on Tuesday.
New York has moved to block a number of natural-gas pipelines over environmental concerns in recent years, including the Constitution pipeline and the so-called Williams pipeline that would bring natural gas into the New York City-area.
Trump vowed to fight back, arguing the state's decision is driving up energy costs and impacting neighboring states.
"And we're fighting them very hard, and I think we’ll be successful," he said.
"But if they'd allow a pipeline to go through, we would cut the prices of energy down by half, and even more so than that. It's a terrible thing. It's a very unfair thing to the rest of the country."
Environmental advocates pushed back against the president's remarks, saying the state's efforts to combat climate change are critical for the planet moving forward.
"The science indicates society is at a critical juncture to fight the climate crisis. Unless action is taken immediately, the world will face catastrophe. Which is why New York must stand strong in opposition to any fossil fuel expansion," Liz Moran, environmental policy director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said in a statement.
New York's move to block new pipelines is in line with the state's plans to slash carbon emissions. Last year, lawmakers approved the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which calls for net-zero emissions by 2050.
But critics of the legislation argue natural gas is essential to the state's energy future and the law is aimed at reducing fossil fuel use, not eliminating it entirely.
And Con Edison currently has a moratorium on new hookups in Westchester County because it claims there is a shortage of gas.
Trump echoed similar sentiments on Tuesday, saying wind and solar energies are not suitable for large manufacturers.
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How to operate on a specified parts of a matrix in a loop?
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I needed help with my script, all suggestions would be very helpful. Suppose that I have a 100x50 matrix. I need to partition it into 10 submatrices or blocks, and operate on the first submatrix (say 10 first rows) in a for loop, record the results; then move on to the next 10 rows, etc. In essence, these submatrices are my different resampled data sets that I need to treat as separate and operate upon in my for loop, and record the results for each sample. How can I index and refer to these samples? Thanks in advance for all help.
Alexandra Harkai on 13 Mar 2017
It would depend on the particular 'operation'. If your 'operation' works on a 10*50 matrix, and for example produces a scalar value, then you could record this for all 10 data sets:
size_of_dataset = 10;
n_datasets = size(myMatrix, 1) / size_of_dataset; % check how many observations are there
res = zeros(1, n_datasets); % initialise results as zeros
for k = 1:n_datasets
res(k) = myOperation( myMatrix(k-1+(1:size_of_dataset),:) ); % get all data for the dataset
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By Ruzanna Stepanian
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) plans a major shift in its decades-long campaign for international recognition of the Armenian genocide that will aim to hold modern-day Turkey accountable for the events of 1915-1918, it emerged on Friday.
Giro Manoyan, the spokesman for the pan-Armenian party’s governing Bureau, said that genocide recognition alone would not restore historic justice and that the international community should now “hold Turkey accountable” for the extermination of some 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
“There is no longer a need to merely prove a historic fact,” Manoyan told RFE/RL. He indicated that this will be at the heart of a planned “adjustment” of the activities Dashnaktsutyun’s lobbying structures in the United States, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
Representatives of those structures began on Friday a two-day meeting to discuss the shift in the nationalist party’s emphases. The meeting took place behind the closed doors.
The policy change is in tune with one of the main tenets of Dashnaktsutyun which has never made secret of its desire to get Turkey to not only admit to the genocide but also pay material compensation to Armenia and descendants of genocide victims.
Earlier this year, Dashnaktsutyun accused the United States of prodding Turkey to recognize the genocide “without consequences.” Its leaders also want Yerevan to keep the door open for future territorial and financial claims to Ankara.
“We believe that Armenia is unable to make such demands today,” Manoyan told RFE/RL in April. “But this doesn’t mean that it will be unable to do so tomorrow.”
This stance contrasts with the official position of the Armenian government in which Dashnaktsutyun is represented with three ministers. “We are not talking about compensations, this is only about a moral issue,” President Robert Kocharian said recently.
Manoyan claimed on Friday that in seeking Turkish reparations the Armenians can count on the support of countries like France that want Turkey to address the genocide issue before joining the European Union. “Incidentally, these are the countries that have said ‘no’ to the EU constitution,” he said. “According to commentators in those countries, the ‘no’ vote was in large part due to the prospect of Turkey’s EU membership.”
However, neither France nor other EU nations that recognized the Armenian genocide have ever called for Turkish reparations. In a landmark 1987 resolution, the European Parliament stressed that “neither political nor legal or material claims against present-day Turkey can be derived from the recognition of this historical event as an act of genocide.” | <urn:uuid:1a46ebcb-b307-4976-8d16-e31f2c3d0bfa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.azatutyun.am/a/1577198.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00377-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945864 | 601 | 2 | 2 |
HOMONYMS are words that sound alike but have different meanings.Homophones are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings.
HOMOGRAPHS are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.Heteronyms are a type of homograph that are also spelled the same and have different meanings, but sound different.
lead (to go in front of)/lead (a metal)
wind (to follow a course that is not straight)/wind (a gust of air)
bass (low, deep sound)/bass (a type of fish)
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The answer it seems goes back many many years!
I was having lunch recently with a friend of mine and the topic of our kids living in New York City came up.
While living in NYC is the dream for many young adults, the nightmare reality is that rents are so high that few can afford to actually achieve it.
The sad fact is that the average cost for a rental apartment in Manhattan is now over $3,000 a month while some are paying much more than that for a studio that is barely bigger than a walk-in closet.
Why is this the case and wouldn't the problem be solved by more subsidized housing being built? Not necessarily!
Why are New York City rents so damn high?
So, as the various mayoral candidates proclaim, why isn't the answer to build more units of subsidized housing?
According to the article 'The Frozen City', the author explains why the problem of affordable housing isn't necessarily due to a shortage of subsidized housing but instead because of a history of too much subsidized housing.
It’s hard to blame New Yorkers for thinking that the city should “seek to create additional units of below–market rate affordable housing,” as 71 percent of respondents answered in a Zogby poll commissioned by the Manhattan Institute. After all, New York residents continually see evidence of a dysfunctional housing market: high rents; low vacancy rates; young adults tripled up in tiny apartments; illegal and unsafe conversions to divide old units into new ones; stratospheric prices for co-ops and condos in high-income neighborhoods. No serious political voice has argued for trying to solve these problems with anything but more subsidized construction.
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The NCTeach pathway is a fast-track option for lateral entry teachers to clear their provisional license. NCTeach operates in a cohort model and is offered 100% online (Special Education Laterals are required to participate in a 10 day face-to-face each summer). NCTeach plans of study consist of 5 courses at distance education tuition rates. With respect to the lateral entry role, all coursework and licensure requirements MUST be completed by the end of your third year of teaching. Lateral Entry Teachers are responsible for securing their own teaching position and will be teaching while they complete their licensure coursework. Failure to maintain employment in the licensure area will result in re-classification as a Licensure Only student and will result in additional coursework. Students must take classes each semester in order to maintain their course planner. Continuous enrollment is required for 5 consecutive semesters (beginning in spring or summer I) as identified on the approved course planner. NCTeach acceptance is a separate process from institutional admission, so please secure NCTeach acceptance prior to applying with ECU Admissions.
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Guardpack recognizes that protection of the environment requires our commercial activity to be conducted in a sustainable manner.
It is appreciated that sustainable development cannot be achieved alone and we therefore ask our clients to join us in this effort, so together, we can jointly drive down damage to both our sewage systems and the environment as a whole.
In light of recent press coverage, calling for a ban on wet wipes is not the answer.
Wet wipes have been around for many years and are a modern day phenomenon used for a variety of cleansing purposes such as personal hygiene and household cleaning. Their uses have changed peoples lives for the better, not only are they convenient and reduce the water wastage they vitally prevent cross contamination of bacteria and help reduce the spread of diseases. They are also widely used in the medical industry and for people with incontinence and disabilities, these wipes are critical to their lifestyle.
Many of our products contain wipes that our 100% Biodegradable, which mean they will decompose in landfill, however this does not mean they can be flushed in our sewer system.
For many years water companies discourage the flushing of wet wipes down toilets, as their failure to break down can contribute to sewer blockages known as fatbergs however the message is still not clear to consumers.
There are some 100% Biodegradable materials that are flushable and some which are not.
In order to combat this confusion and educate consumers appropriately, the Code of Practice (CoP) has been initiated by the Non-Woven industry to incorporate the DO NOT FLUSH logo on all wet wipes that are likely to be flushed, this includes cosmetic, cleaning and baby wipes which are often often used in a bathroom setting, that are non-flushable.
Working closing with our suppliers and non-woven industry groups, Guardpack fully support the Code of Practice ‘Do Not Flush’ labeling initiative and are committed to helping consumers understand what is – and is not – safe to flush. The deadline for this initiative is 30th October 2018 and whilst it is not legislative, we strongly advise our private label clients to think about changes to their own artwork.
There is strong argument for consistency that this should be adopted across all non-flushable wet wipe products and we will be working with our customers to actively encourage changes to their packaging. Not only do we believe this is the correct action for the environment, we expect an increase in efforts to reduce non-compliant products after this date.
We are continually working with our non-woven suppliers to offer more and more 100% biodegradable and flushable options and we are happy to discuss these options with our clients. | <urn:uuid:358c1389-5b18-4bb7-9a69-a1b11dfb854f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.guardpack.co.uk/biodegradable-does-not-mean-flushable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.96028 | 547 | 2.5 | 2 |
Although there is still some intrigue left in the primary contests — especially on the Republican side — the focus is beginning to shift to each party’s prospects in November. The biggest question is whether Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, can win a general election contest against Hillary Clinton.
Before investigating electability, we need to clear up a few things. Although it is sometimes treated as a static political attribute — a property with little or no variation across different electoral contests — electability is actually more of a fluid concept than it first appears. In fact, each presidential cycle should see a reset of what we take electability to be. Not in a wholesale, forget-everything-you-think-you-know sort of way, but in a way that is sensitive to changes in the electorate.
The 2016 contests have thus far demonstrated why it is vital to make adjustments based on the particularities of the current year’s race. There is no sense applying the old assumptions of electability — that is, electability as traditionally construed — to a sui generis candidate such as Trump. Last September, The New York Times’ Nate Cohn argued that “no candidate remotely like [Trump] has ever come close to winning a presidential nomination.” Yet here we all are.
Induction is indeed a powerful mechanism, although we don’t need to be David Hume scholars to recognize that the present is not guaranteed to be like the past. At the start of the race it seemed Jeb Bush was the electable one, but it turned out this was true only if we limit the voting field to Republican mega donors.
If Voters Turn Out Early, They Turn Out Late
One theory for better understanding electability is to consider voter participation numbers, i.e. turnout. The idea is that turnout levels in the primaries can be a strong indicator of turnout levels in the general election. The reasoning here is simple: great enthusiasm during the party nomination process should naturally carry over into November.
When we look at the data, what do they tell us? The 2008 primaries saw Democrats come out in droves, far exceeding their turnout during the previous two primaries but also exceeding this year’s totals thus far. Here is a comparison of the turnout data from four early states during that time period.
When we look at Republican turnout, this year’s numbers are shattering previous ones.
In 2008, the Democrats followed strong turnout levels during the primaries with superb turnout in the general. Republicans are wondering if this year they should expect the same. If Trump is the nominee, will the enthusiasm shown so far translate into a large turnout this fall?
But Not Always
In an article written during the 2012 primary season, Real Clear Politics analyst Sean Trende argues that enthusiasm during the primaries doesn’t necessarily correlate with enthusiasm during the general. In 1988, George H. W. Bush annihilated Michael Dukakis, winning 40 states and cruising to a 426-to-111 Electoral College victory, despite the fact that the 1988 Democratic primaries saw record-breaking turnout levels. To this day, only the 2008 primaries turned out more people.
Why such a discrepancy? If the Democratic primaries in 1988 generated so much interest, how did all that enthusiasm disappear mere months later? The answer is that the 1988 Democratic contests featured a multiplicity of candidates, each enjoying non-negligible support: in addition to Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, and Paul Simon also generated lots of interest. Trende concludes that “participation in presidential primaries is driven by close contests with multiple candidates vying for the vote.”
If Trende’s analysis is correct, then a graphic like the following, while impressive-looking, is not necessarily predictive of turnout levels for November.
In fact there is even more reason to doubt that current turnout levels serve as a harbinger for a Trumpian November. In their study for the American Enterprise Institute, Jonathan S. Hartley and Kevin A. Hassett measure electability based on the behavior of betting markets. They look at how much (or how little) a candidate’s general election prospects increase as a result of an increase in his prospects for his party’s nomination.
Let’s run through an example: A candidate who experiences a 2 percent bump to his general election prospects after receiving a ten percentage point boost to his chances for the nomination is not as electable as a candidate who gets a six-point bump to his general election prospects after a ten-point boost to his primary odds. Hartley and Hassett find that, among the 2016 field, Trump is the second-least-electable candidate, behind only Rand Paul.
General Election Voters Prefer Hillary to Trump
The way McLaughlin measures Trump’s general election prospects is also instructive. He looks at various kinds of polling data: head-to-head national polls, head-to-head state polls, and favorability polls. McLaughlin’s approach helps to bring into focus a factor highly important for electability estimates: the political viability of the rival candidate.
When we look at the Clinton versus Trump numbers, whether at the national level or for individual states, we see how voters feel about both candidates. Head-to-head polling forces respondents to make determinations — albeit early ones — not just about Trump’s intrinsic political qualities but also about Clinton’s.
Considered in abstraction, Trump’s status as the consummate deal-maker resonates strongly with an important segment of the population. In a battle with Sanders, voters who prioritize this trait would find themselves in Trump’s corner. But against Clinton, a subset of that group might prefer Clinton’s experience as secretary of State to Trump’s experience making deals in the corporate world.
Assume for the moment that some of these voters have a high opinion of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Clinton played a formative role in the talks that led to the eventual arrangement. A plausible conclusion to reach is that whereas Trump would have this demographic — those who prioritize deal-making — locked up in a fight with Sanders, Clinton could do better than Sanders at eating up some of this vote. Head-to-head polling factors in the particularities of what each candidate brings (or doesn’t bring) to the table in a hypothetical matchup.
What do we find when we consider the head-to-head polling? McLaughlin says: “Trump…is flat-out lying when he claims to lead Hillary in every poll – out of 45 [head-to-head] polls in RCP’s database, Trump leads Hillary in only 5, is tied in 2 others, and trails in 38 of them…. [And] the evidence we have from the state-level polling is consistent with the national polling…. Trump would enter multiple battleground states polling below 40%, consistent with his massive unfavorables.”
McLaughlin alludes to favorability ratings, a highly important consideration given that there is a way to see head-to-head polling as a function of each candidate’s favorables. Trump currently has a 33 to 62 favorable/unfavorable score, according to HuffPost Pollster, which is so low it’s subterranean. For her part, Clinton has a 42 to 54 rating, also quite low.
If Trump were running against President Obama, he would be facing a much tougher battle in this regard, since Obama’s favorables are currently 46 to 47. But since Clinton has high unfavorables, it doesn’t nullify (though it certainly reduces) the liability that Trump’s own low numbers represent for his chances.
But the flip side is true, too: Despite the “we’re talking him very seriously” assurances from the Clinton side, Hillary is hoping and praying that the Republicans nominate Trump. No other candidate in the field can match — let alone eclipse — Clinton’s abiding unpopularity like Trump can. In fact, the Washington Post’s Philip Bump found that Trump’s unfavorables are the highest of any candidate in the past 25 years.
Trump’s Unfavorables Aren’t Just Due to His Visibility
Now, Trump is a well-known entity — perhaps that’s what explains his low numbers. Although Marco Rubio is no longer in the race, could it be that his comparatively astronomical favorables while he was in were a product of the fact that he is not a nationally known figure in the vein of someone like Trump?
Perhaps, the thinking goes, had Rubio advanced and faced off against Clinton, the Democratic spin machine would have gone to work on him to such effect that the broader electorate would’ve had ready access to information about him that is far harder-hitting than what is out there now. Had this happened, the argument holds, his favorables would have dropped.
The problem with this argument is it doesn’t take into account that other political figures as well-known as Trump do not have Trump’s basement-level unfavorables. The above argument also overstates the efficacy of cross-party anti-messaging.
Here’s an example: For the entirety of 2008, Obama hovered around 60 percent favorability, a remarkable statistic given that during that time span he faced intense intra-party opposition from Hillary Clinton during the primary fight but also cross-party opposition from the Republicans during the general. Candidates with strong likability numbers do not drop to Trump’s low levels due to opposition research or attack ads; they drop to Trump-like levels only if they’re as unfathomably disagreeable as Trump is.
Donald Trump’s Dismal Electability Prospects
Although favorability polls remain an important barometer of electability, it’s important to note that the factors considered above purport merely to measure electability — they do not try to define it. But of course there is a big difference between tracking electability and investigating what goes into it. To define it we need to determine what factors tend to amount to electoral success. Here are some categories and relevant questions that together form much of what we take electability to be.
Personality/Temperament: Does Trump have personality traits that lend themselves to easy characterization as incompatible with the presidency? Can he be effectively caricatured as temperamentally unsuited for the demands of the office?
Character/Past Behavior: Does he have the kind of baggage that would turn people off from voting for him? If he has a past full of bad behavior, is his history nevertheless “spinnable,” i.e., capable of being answered with an effective counter narrative? Will voters be able to believe he is no longer who he once was?
Political Appeal: Obama crushed John McCain and Romney by several million votes — can Trump expand the Republican Party into erasing this general election deficit? Can Trump generate more support from Hispanics, African-Americans, moderates, and Independents than McCain and Romney got? Can Trump win crucial swing-state voters? If we assume Obama-level turnout for Clinton, will Trump be capable of winning over the swing voters who place a premium on policy specifics and who are horrified by “extreme” candidates?
Messaging: Will Trump be able to stay relatively gaffe-free? His outrageous statements seemed to have helped, not hurt, his position in the primaries — but with the expansion of the electorate during the general, will he be able to pivot to a more measured posture with respect to messaging? Will he be knocked off message by the deluge of opposition research that Democrats will inevitably dump on him? Will he have a vision capable not only of inspiring voters but capable of inspiring donors to give his campaign what he needs to be competitive?
I’m afraid that to ask these questions is to answer them. Of course Trump will not be able to unify the party. You have to go back to Barry Goldwater to find a candidate more internally combustible than Trump. The #NeverTrump hashtag is not circumscribed to the conservative grassroots: actual, sitting politicians have embraced it.
There is no chance Trump will expand the electorate to compete with Clinton, even given the latter’s abysmal integrity ratings. At one point it was an open question as to whether Clinton could electrify the base enough to retain the Obama coalition. The answer as to how she will do it is now clear: Trump will ensure the Democrats get out the vote. | <urn:uuid:cc5bc5e5-5f8e-4c4e-9d0f-716bae580fee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/17/donald-trump-will-get-out-the-vote-for-democrats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00545-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953319 | 2,593 | 2.0625 | 2 |
El Diablo (Lazarus Lane) first appeared in All-Star Western # 2 (Oct./Nov. 1970). Lazarus Lane the original El Diablo [a second version was introduced by DC in 1989]operated in the latter half of the 19th Century in the old American West, although the character could easily have been placed in a contemporary setting, with the bedridden & catatonic Lane being a modern hero and his ghostly alter ego being played just as it was in the first series.
As it was, Lazarus Lane was a bank teller who was nearly killed by a gang of thieves and then put in a coma after being hit by lightning. After being revived by a Native American shaman, Lane becomes a vigilante and called himself El Diablo. He is one of several Wild West DC characters, along with Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Pow-Wow Smith, and the heroic Trigger Twins. The name El Diablo means "the devil" in Spanish.
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Which Military Branch Has The Fastest Promotions?
The U.S. Army - The U.S. Army is generally the branch of the military that promotes the fastest. That said, your military job and the level of advanced education you have will impact your ability to be promoted. A college degree can help you get promoted more rapidly, regardless of the branch you're in.
Among officers, however, Air Force promotes faster than Army and Marine Corps peers through 20 years' service, and even surpasses Navy's pace over a typical 24-year officer career, service promotion data show.
Promotion Rate Disparities Impact Total Career Pay - Military ...
How fast can you rank up in the military?
As stated by the Enlisted Promotions and Reductions Regulation protocol, skirmishes might cause you to have to wait up to one year for promotion. But you should move from your initial E1 ranking to an E4 ranking without a hitch within 18 months to three years, at most.
How to Move Up in Rank in the Army - Classroom
How quickly can you get promoted in the Army?
Soldiers generally receive this rank after either completion of Basic Combat Training, or six months of Army service. Soldiers are generally promoted to this level within a year by request of a supervisor.
Ranks | GoArmy.com
What is the hardest branch to rank up in?
The hardest military branch to get into in terms of education requirements is the Air Force. The military branch with the toughest basic training is the Marine Corps. The hardest military branch for non-males because of exclusivity and male dominance is the Marine Corps.
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Small Changes, Big Impact Workshop Series: UDL Discovery
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) empowers students from diverse backgrounds to actively participate in their courses and more effectively interpret and apply their learning in a collaborative setting. Learn the fundamentals of universal design for higher education and develop a set of five best practices that you can adapt to your instructional approach and discipline. RSVP below.
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Comcast Tells 200K Users to Reset Passwords in Security Threat
Hackers matched usernames and passwords on Comcast accounts with usernames and passwords they had obtained from past, shared hacks.Here's yet another example of why people need to use multiple passwords when handling transactions of any type on the Internet. Comcast, the largest cable television and Internet services provider in the United States with more than 28 million subscribers, revealed Nov. 9 that it has required about 200,000 of its customers to reset their passwords after the company discovered its information was being sold and resold online by black-market personal-information brokers. This particular mishap was not the result of a hacking event on Comcast's data stores. Instead, hackers matched usernames (in Comcast's case, usernames are email addresses) and passwords on Comcast accounts with usernames and passwords they had obtained from past, shared hacks of other companies. Not only does this show how often people use the same username/email address and password for various different accounts, but it also is a first-rate example of how commoditized this type of stolen data has become.
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Explore our guide for all the ultimate tips and tricks you need to know about importing goods into Australia.
For most industries, the import and export of goods play an integral part in the functionality of many businesses. It is the backbone of branching out into the international market, access to new products, and a way to ensure a seamless exchange between buyers and sellers. However, the regulations and compliance laws about importation and exportation can be intricate and ever-changing for both new and seasoned businesses.
From shipments big and small, every business needs an import consultant to provide them with the necessary skills and knowledge to ensure this area of your business is working as proficiently as any other. At Prof. Consulting Group, with years of industry experience and thorough comprehension of the intricacies of importing goods to Australia, we will advise to ensure your products and business are best prepared to access new markets.
When a business ventures into the international market by importing goods to Australia, we can track critical components which give us a broad trajectory of the potential success they will encounter. Businesses should constantly seek ways to improve their supply chain’s organisation and reduce costs simultaneously. One way to improve a business’s profit margin is by importing goods and services. Importing certain goods to Australia from international sources can offer a myriad of benefits including comprising lower-priced goods through volume benefits, higher quality products through innovation, access to new products entering the market that in many cases have been already developed for other markets ( turnkey innovation), and the advantages of free trade agreements. Here are those benefits explained in more depth:
Comparative advantage is one of the many reasons a business may source goods and services from an international supplier. The circumstances in a foreign market offer lower production costs due to differing labour costs and tax structures. Rather than investing money into expensive infrastructure to meet demands, businesses can reduce costs by importing goods and services at a lower price, enhancing their profit margin. Leading innovation can be expensive and high risk, the ability to source innovation internationally to establish a market before investing in local capability reduces this risk in a logical approach.
Every country worldwide has unique resources and fields they excel in, which will always be in demand in a global market. The ability to thrive in the worldwide market can come down to the quality of the imported product, which is why many countries have introduced standards and regulations about products leaving and entering their ports. A business model that utilises the importation ensures a high-quality product due to manufacturers relying on a good reputation in the global market and adherence to standards of products not readily available domestically. Additionally, consumers are becoming increasingly focused on authentic foods driven by their love of travel, creating further import opportunities (ethnic spices, rice, coffee or dried pasta as common examples).
The market in Europe and America often sources a predominant portion of their goods from numerous businesses in India and China, primarily due to the market size in conjunction with the population. New products introduced in these markets may take over twelve months before we see them in our own.
Market researchers on our team can observe global trends to find out what products are well received in these countries, determine if there is a need for those products in the market our client is entering, and develop effective marketing strategies ahead of competitors.
The trade industry, and trade relations, are supported by most governments from around the world. For suppliers in developing countries, it assists with the growth of their economy and, in return, positive trade relations for resources outside their borders. Many negotiated and established free trade agreements (FTAs) provide specific advantages, such as access to exclusive resources, and make importation a smooth and more cost-effective process. Currently, Australia has six FTAs, and an additional eight in negotiation.
Importation is a cornerstone of business because it is the pivotal link in the economic chain connecting industries worldwide and supporting our global market expansion. Every country is home to its natural resources, but they may also have limited availabilities or shortages of others. Importation allows the exchange of resources between countries, filling the gaps in different global markets and meeting consumer demands. This symbiotic relationship connects businesses and individuals to resources and services, which, in turn, creates economic expansion and the international development of companies and manufacturing.
In manufacturing your product, some ingredients you require cannot be domestically sourced, or it is more economical when to import goods to Australia. These benefits also affect consumers as the imported products are more cost-effective and present a diverse range for them to engage with, incentivising them to be return consumers.
Businesses in the process of importing goods to Australia through customs can often feel completely overwhelmed by the numerous legislations, laws, and conditions of entry. Expenses associated with this process continuously change to match current economic developments and newly introduced free trade agreements, but required documentation remains predominantly unchanged. These documents are one method the Department uses to assess any biosecurity risks of imported goods and manage outcomes from the information provided in the documentation.
The five primary custom documents that importers must complete include:
Completing an Import Declaration must be done when you import goods into Australia. The declaration form depends on factors including the valuation of the product and warehouse storage before customs clearance.
Three key declaration documents include a Self-Assessed Clearance Declaration for imports with a value lesser than AUD 1000.00, an Import Declaration (N10) for substances with a value exceeding AUD 1000.00, and a Warehouse Declaration (N20) for imports with a value exceeding AUD 1000.00 intended to store, before customs clearance.
Depending on the classification and requirements of the imported goods, you may require an import permit Australia-wide. Goods arriving at customs without the necessary permit may be seized or destroyed. You can contact one or more of the following agencies for permission regarding the importation of your goods: Biosecurity Import Conditions, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Office of Drug Control, Therapeutic Goods Administration.
A Bill of Lading (BOL) is a mandatory legal document that outlines the transportation of goods from the point of export to the end of import. This document is confirmation of goods by the exporter, loaded onto the mode of transport, and the condition they were received. The BOL also includes the contract of the arranged method of transportation, time and date of the handover, ports involved in the transfer, details of goods, importers’ name and details, and additional shipping information.
A Commercial Invoice is a document primarily used to determine the value of goods and applicable duties and taxes. The information in this document should include all three parties involved in this import (exporter, shipper, and importer), a description of product contents, the commercial value of the goods, terms of purchase, and the country of export.
The last document required is to be completed by the exporter; this is a Certificate of Origin. This document is a declaration that specifies the country the goods originate from or the country that manufactured the goods. This document includes the country exporting the goods, a description of the goods, and the country receiving the goods. A valid Certificate of Origin support importers in discerning any concessions or tariff reductions of eligibility.
Unfortunately, there is almost certainly no way to avoid paying import tax in Australia.
However, there are ways to reduce high or unnecessary costs when importing goods to Australia.
Although import tariffs and taxes are almost entirely unavoidable, our team can support you in finding the most cost-effective way of importing goods to Australia and connecting you to where you need to go.
When importing goods into Australia, it is essential to consider these aspects:
What is the value of the goods entering Australia? The transaction value is the most frequently used process for valuing any import or the price the importer paid for the product. The imported product must be labelled and documented with the correct valuation to determine the associated duties and taxes. Two necessary conditions for this method to be used are the buyer and seller have no relation and that this exchange is business motivated. Alternate methods can include identical goods value, similar goods value, deductive value, computed value, and fall-back value.
What is the tariff classification of goods entering Australia? When importing goods to Australia, all goods are legally required to have a tariff classification; this assists customs in applying duty rate, GST, and any additional fees. It is essential to research the free trade agreements in Australia and whether your product is entitled to any concession or exemptions. We can walk you through this information during a consultation if you are unsure of these guidelines.
Identifying the Country of Origin is an importation requirement as it helps establish the country of export. This information allows customs to determine if your goods are subject to any tax or duty decrease under a free trade agreement, trade sanctions, and import quotas. For example, Australia has an FTA with Singapore, our leading trade associate in South-East Asia. Therefore, imports originating from this country are entitled to a tariff exemption.
What is the number of goods entering Australia? All imported goods must adhere to import quotas, which are limitations governments put on certain goods to safeguard domestic interests. All imported goods must document the contents, including quantity, to ensure importers meet their compliance obligations. The World Customs Organisation’s standard units of measure weight, length, area, volume, electrical power, and number (units).
Our team at Prof. Consulting Group is paving the way for businesses entering the global market. In this fast-paced industry, we are with you to navigate through the complex process of importation and exportation. Our team of experts have extensive experience in market research, trade process, manufacturing, and supply and sourcing of product. With our well-established networks expanding across Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Europe, and South America, we can connect you and your product to markets domestically and internationally.
We take many steps in market research to review your product, understand its alignment to the target market, match the retail narrative, and research key profitability indicators. But further, we also guide you in ensuring your product is import compliant.
Australia has detailed and specific regulations regarding importing food-related products and ingredients to reduce biosecurity and consumer food safety risks. During the early stages of consultation, our team will guide you through what food products/ingredients are permitted or not permitted in this market and which components are permitted or not permitted in the markets you intend on entering. We will discuss alternative sources for products that are not allowed.
Our leading industry experts will inform you of the declarations, documentation, permits, or customs clearance requirements. The importation process can be complex, time-consuming and expensive if not completed correctly, which is why we provide this service to our clients. Our experienced team will direct you on how to effectively and cost-effectively import your product.
Ensuring your ingredients are compliant in the market also means ensuring that the product’s labelling and packaging are also compliant. Evaluations help to guarantee the product labelling is legally compliant, with all relevant information, including the nutritional panel and listed allergens clearly and correctly identifiable. Our team will, with industry guidelines, evaluate the product to ensure it is adhering to manufacturing standards.
When challenges arise that prevent imports from being cleared through customs, our team will construct a strategy to negotiate a way forward between government agencies, key stakeholders, manufacturers, and the client. Our team of experts in the field will support you in navigating these strict biosecurity laws both before shipment and arrival through evaluation of documentation and liaising with relevant customs offices.
For most industries, the import and export of goods play an integral part in the functionality of many businesses. It is the backbone of branching out into the international market, accessing new products, and a way to ensure a seamless exchange between buyers and sellers.
Here at Prof. Consulting Group, our team of industry experts is here to assist you in navigating this dynamic landscape. From providing you with market research, helping you move through the import laws and regulations quickly, to connecting you with new global markets. We are with you every step of the way.
The trade landscape is rapidly expanding, don’t let your business get left behind; contact Prof. Consulting Group today.
The process of importing goods into Australia, for businesses small and large, requires thorough knowledge of trade regulatory systems to ensure that this exchange complies with international import laws. Importing consultants are well versed in industry regulations and import guidelines to support you and your business in a seamless transaction. We will help you avoid potential importation fines due to incorrect adherence to custom requirements.
We are a reference point for all things trade. They provide:
Due to biosecurity laws, some commodities entering Australia may be subject to a permit granted before those commodities arrive.
Applications made through the Department for a Standard Permit cost an estimated $180, compromised by the standard application levy and assessment fee. Please ensure you read through the import conditions and that your goods meet all requirements to obtain a Standard permit.
If you do not meet these requirements, you can apply online for a Non-Standard Permit, which ranges in price according to the listed category. An import consultant can help you in navigating this process. Please ensure a completed application to avoid any additional fees associated with incomplete applications.
Although businesses and individuals do not require a license to import goods, you may need to obtain an import permit Australia-wide for certain imported products. Please review your local importing laws and regulations for more information on what products require a permit.
Goods that enter Australia must be cleared through the Australian Border Force and may incur GST, duty, or additional charges. Based on the HS Code and documentation provided for your shipment, a tariff rate will be calculated and applied, and payment of duty will incur. You may be eligible for a tariff concession if no Australian manufacturers can effectively replicate the imported goods.
When asking how much customs duty is in Australia, the best way to calculate that is by the classification of the product, any concessions or exemptions, and any existing free trade agreements. For most products, Australia’s customs duty is a standard rate of 5% of the product’s value converted to a predetermined exchange rate. | <urn:uuid:149b0fd4-1256-4f9e-9e60-c42954435487> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.profcg.com/importing-goods-to-australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.931884 | 2,910 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Boston is an amazing place to go to college. Thousands of students from every corner of the world come here to experience all the city has to offer every year. BU students especially love to frequent Boston’s famous North End, Newbury Street and Boston Common, but there are many parts of the city that go unseen by the vast majority of students and visitors. In this series, we’re writing about the Boston neighborhoods outside of the BU bubble that are just as worthy of exploration as downtown and the Back Bay.
Beacon Hill is a Boston neighborhood often talked about, but seldom visited for more than a short period of time. Sure, Boston University students will head to Beacon Hill on occasion to walk along Acorn Street and snap a photo of one of the historic colonial-era brick rowhouses. But there is a lot more packed into Beacon Hill than most people assume. Charles Street is home to some great local stores and restaurants that are often overlooked. There are some great attractions tucked away on unsuspecting streets throughout the neighborhood. The best thing to do would be to simply get out and explore the area, but here are a few ideas to get you started.
To start, a visit to each of the three Harrison Gray Otis Houses will give you an overview of the area. The three houses were built for the famous Massachusetts senator and mayor of Boston, Harrison Gray Otis. They were built by one of the earliest well-known American architects, Charles Bulfinch. A walk between these three homes, which serve as a great example of federal architecture, will give you a feel for what the area has to offer. The first of the three homes is open for tours, although it is technically located in the West End, not Beacon Hill.
The Black Heritage Trail winds through Beacon Hill with stops at places important in black American history. The African Meeting House and the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, dedicated to the first black regiment in the Union Army, are both important sites along the trail, which will also help you explore the area.
If you’re hungry, stop by The Paramount. Open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, and serving everything from pancakes and eggs at breakfast to pasta and tacos for dinner, the Paramount has been feeding hungry folks in Beacon Hill since 1937.
When you’re done grabbing a bite to eat, a walk down Charles Street will offer you a great opportunity to get some shopping in. North River Outfitter has two locations on Charles Street, with one location focussed on classic, preppy men’s and women’s clothing and accessories, while the other (NRO Sport) will outfit you for any athletic activity from running to skiing. Both shops offer excellent customer service and a unique offering of goods.
Charles Street and the streets stemming from it are home to many shops and restaurants.
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Douglass's master had two sons, Andrew and Richard, and one daughter, Lucretia, who was married to Captain Thomas Auld. They lived on the plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd; Anthony was the clerk and superintendent for Lloyd – a veritable overseer of the overseers. This was where Douglass spent two years of his childhood. The plantation produced tobacco, corn, and wheat. There were about 300-400 slaves on the home plantation and many more on the neighboring farms, the closest ones being Wye Town and New Design. There were over twenty neighboring farms.
The home plantation was an important business seat in the county. Disputes were settled here, and slaves received their scanty yearly allowance of clothes and monthly allowance of food. Slaves did not have beds, only coarse blankets. However, there was more of want of time to sleep rather than a want of beds. The daily work left little time to take care of personal needs. Sleep was also hard to come by; any slave caught sleeping past the morning bell was beaten.
The overseer was a man named Mr. Severe, and he absolutely lived up to his name. He was merciless and savage and accompanied his cruel deeds with the most blasphemous and despicable profanity. After he died, right before Douglass arrived, a Mr. Hopkins took over as overseer. He was preferred by the slaves since he took no pleasure in beatings and was less cruel and profane.
Colonel Lloyd's home plantation looked like a country village because it was completely self-sufficient. It was very business-like and had many houses. The slaves referred to it as "Great House Farm", and it was considered a privilege to be sent on an errand there. Slaves considered the honor of being sent there equivalent to being elected to the American Congress. Those who wanted to be sent competed to please their overseer.
When a slave was sent to the Great House Farm, he traveled through the thickly-wooded forest, singing at the top of his lungs. The songs were spontaneous, passionate, and moving. The slaves would sometimes "sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone." Douglass believed the hearing of those songs would do more to impart the terrors of slavery than reading volumes of philosophy on the topic.
When he was a slave he did not truly understand the meaning of the songs; they were "beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the power and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish." The songs were what truly allowed him to glimpse how dehumanizing and miserable slavery really was.
Douglass commented that he was astonished how people claimed that slaves sang because they were happy, and thus concluded that they were a happy bunch of people. A slave's woes can only be relieved by singing. It did not make sense to him to sing for happiness, only for misery.
Edward Lloyd V was one of the wealthiest and most powerful Maryland scions. He was considered the state's most successful wheat grower and cattle raiser. He was a charter member in the Maryland Agricultural Society, a Republican delegate to the state legislature, a U.S. Congressman, the governor of Maryland, and a U.S. Senator. His illustrious political career was buffeted by his immense wealth and landholdings. Douglass did overestimate the number of slaves at the plantation; it was closer to 200. Wye House, referred to by Douglass and the other slaves as the Great House Farm, was built in 1784 and overlooked Lloyd's Cove on the Wye River. Anthony and his family resided in the "Captain's House." Douglass was enslaved there from August 1824 to March 1826.
Even though William Lloyd Garrison correctly identified Maryland as one of the states where slavery was the least brutal, it was still profoundly miserable for the men, women, and children who were in the bonds of servitude. Douglass provides more documentation of the difficulties of slavery in this chapter. He wrote of the coarse and limited clothing the slaves received once a year, and noted that children often went without. Douglass himself wore only an old linen shirt in both summer and winter. Slaves did not have warm blankets or anything else comfortable to sleep on, but this was not the most salient problem: there was barely enough time to sleep, for the rigors of the day did not end when labor on the farm ceased. Slaves had to fit in their personal chores after they stopped work for the day, and this often cut into their sleeping time. Of course, if they slept in later than even a minute, the overseer would whip them. These daily degradations paint the emotional toll that often accompanied the physical punishment of slavery.
Douglass wrote of the haunting melodies of the slaves as they traversed the forests and worked the fields. He negated a persistent rumor amongst slaveholders and southerners by explaining that slaves did not sing because they were happy and content; rather, they sang to give mournful utterance to the deepest anguish of their souls. Each "tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains" (20). Douglass did not fully understand the depth of meaning when he heard these songs as a child, but as he grew older he began to detect within them "the tale of woe" and the "dehumanizing character of slavery" (20).
The Princeton University Professor Albert J. Raboteau's influential book Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South offers important insights to slave songs and spirituals. Spirituals were unable to be divorced from their context, which was often religious in nature. They were a communal experience as well as intensely personal. Some historians believe that the spirituals were coded protest songs, but even though Douglass clearly alludes to their ability to articulate the woes of slavery, they were more complex than that; many of the spirituals' meanings changed in different contexts and were quite ambiguous in theme and format. Many of the spirituals invoked religion, and "to some slaves they undoubtedly meant freedom from physical as well as spiritual bondage." As the identification with the Children of Israel was a salient component of slave religion, invocations of the flight into Egypt crept into the spirituals; this was more pronounced after the war when slavery was abolished.
Spirituals also, as Raboteau wrote, "presented the slave's reflection on the human condition, which masters had to endure as well as slaves." They found meaning in their religion and their songs, which can be observed the often jarring contrasts of suffering and joy in the verses. Some spirituals wistfully evinced the desire for peace and rest in the afterlife, where friends and families could meet again after their suffering was over. Raboteau concluded that "the moods of the spirituals were many – sad, triumphant, resigned, expectant, serious, and light." Even though Douglass focuses on the depressing melodies and words of the slave songs, "it is sometimes forgotten that the slaves' religion embraced a lighter side. Indeed, spirituals and shouts were performed for social occasions – on holidays, at weddings and celebrations..." | <urn:uuid:c5dfb667-bbf9-4263-89b6-27624e27bc50> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gradesaver.com/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave-written-by-himself/study-guide/summary-chapter-ii | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988605 | 1,492 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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Warrior Blog: Golf as Therapy
Team 43 member B.J. Ganem, who played in this week's Warrior Open, writes a guest blog about the importance of golf as therapy in his recovery and his experience at his first Warrior Open in 2015.
Team 43 member B.J. Ganem writes on his experience at his first Warrior Open and how he has used golf as therapy to help recover.
When I was in grade school and high school growing up in Savannah, GA, I viewed golf as a game for old folks or rich kids. I did not understand how a game where participants chasing little balls across perfectly manicured lawns could be seen as a challenging sport. I played full contact sports. These were sports where you not only had to be at your best, you had to know your opponent’s weaknesses, exploit them, and most of all be tough when they tried to exploit yours. So after my leg was amputated due to injuries sustained from an I.E.D. attack and someone mentioned I take up golf as a challenge during rehab, I scoffed with contempt. Boy was I wrong.
In fact, it was one of the best “therapies” I was exposed to after my injury and subsequent ending of my career as a warfighter. Golf is a powerful therapy for guys like me. It offers me the opportunity to refine my skills. I thrive in competition, but I have to do so in an environment that rewards balance, precision, control, and etiquette. If you allow yourself to get “amped” up like athletes do before a football or basketball game, there would be no chance of success on the golf course. In those sports an athlete can ride emotion to play one of their best games.
In combat, many of our actions are dominated by muscle memory of our training and by our severe love of our fellow men and women in uniform. But golf does not reward emotion, in fact if a golfer does not maintain balance with their emotions their game can go awry very quickly. For this reason, especially, I credit so much of my success in transition to my exposure to the sport of golf.
The 2015 Bush Warrior Open was my first experience with a serious golf tournament. Not only was our 43rd President and his wife Mrs. Bush in attendance, but the galleries were full and we had PGA referees manning the event. Golf is a challenging game on its own, but add in people watching and remove the “foot” wedge and it becomes a whole different monster. This one experience opened my eyes to what more I had to learn from the game of golf, and in life for that matter.
President Bush took such a genuine interest in our recovery. He not only hosted the Warrior Open, but participated and engaged each of us over the course of the three days. It was an experience that one couldn’t help but come away with a renewed vigor and sense of value in life.
Every person in attendance, whether they were a CEO or just a patriotic citizen, began to see us differently. We weren’t just a sad or inspirational story. Thanks to the leadership of President Bush and his team, people are beginning to understand the wounds of war (visible and invisible) and the stigma of being a wounded warrior, especially when it comes to asking for help, can end. | <urn:uuid:13812995-e705-4c51-9953-2c1241c2e768> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/articles/2017/05/warrior-blog-golf-as-therapy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.987245 | 704 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Sélecteur de langues
Brussels, 25 October 2007
The European Parliament today voted in favour of adopting the Recommendation on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF), proposed by the Commission in September 2006. The EQF will act as a translation device between Member States' qualifications systems in order to help employers and individuals compare and better understand citizens' qualifications and thus support mobility and lifelong learning.
The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) is a translation grid for qualifications around Europe. It has two principal purposes: (1) to promote mobility between countries, and (2) to facilitate lifelong learning. Both are indispensable for achieving more and better jobs and growth, as Europe faces the challenges of becoming an advanced, knowledge-based economy. The European Parliament has today approved the Commission proposal for a Recommendation to set up the EQF.
Ján Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, explained its significance: “People in Europe too often face obstacles when they try to move from one country to another to learn or work. They sometimes also face obstacles when they want to move from one part of their own country's education system to another, e.g. from vocational education and training to higher education. The EQF will make different qualifications more easily readable between different European countries, and so promote increased mobility for learning or working. Within countries, it has already encouraged the development of National Qualifications Frameworks. This will promote lifelong learning, for example by making it easier to gain credit for the learning people have already achieved."
At the core of the EQF are its eight reference levels, covering basic to most advanced qualifications. These describe what a learner knows, understands and is able to do, regardless of the system in which the learner's qualification was acquired.
The EQF therefore shifts the focus away from learning inputs (such as the length of a learning experience, or the type of institution), to learning outcomes. Shifting the focus towards learning outcomes brings significant advantages:
As an instrument for promoting lifelong learning, the EQF encompasses general and adult education, vocational education and training, as well as higher education. The eight EQF levels cover the entire span of qualifications from those achieved at the end of compulsory education, up to those awarded at the highest level of academic and professional or vocational education and training.
The Recommendation approved by the European Parliament foresees that Member States relate their national qualifications systems to the EQF by 2010, and that individual certificates or diplomas should bear an EQF reference by 2012.
The political agreement reached in the European Parliament follows three years of intensive preparation, in close co-operation with Member States and stakeholders. The EQF is already influencing the development of National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) in many Member States, where NQFs are often themselves part of the wider national reform process. Most countries now are developing NQFs. The Commission is also supporting this process by funding projects bringing together groups of countries and sectors testing the implementation of the EQF.
It will therefore enable individuals and employers to use the EQF as a reference tool to compare the qualifications levels of different countries and different education and training systems.
Following the agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the EQF will be formally adopted by the Council in the coming weeks.
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Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate will be conducting tests of a new bioterror sensing system in Boston's Subway system soon. After the subways close at night, a team of researchers will release dead bacteria, of the species Bacillus subtilis, which is non-toxic and doesn't cause disease even when alive.
This common, food-grade bacterium is found everywhere in soil, water, air, and decomposing plant matter.
They will use the dead bacteria in a simulated biological weapon attack at several stations to test a new set of bioterror sensors. They will use the sensors to monitor the spread of the bacteria through the air in the subway tunnels over the next six months to see if these contractor-created technologies are up to snuff.
The sensors should be able to identify and confirm the release of biological agents within minutes of release, a statement from the Directorate said.
“While there is no known threat of a biological attack on subway systems in the United States, the S&T testing will help determine whether the new sensors can quickly detect biological agents in order to trigger a public safety response as quickly as possible,” Anne Hultgren, manager of the project, called "detect to protect" or D2P, said in a statement.
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The Essential EFA Stack For Serious Lifters!
EFAs are those necessary fats that we as humans are unable to synthesize in our bodies and must be obtained from either diet or supplementation. Just like essential amino acids (EAAs as found in Animal Nitro), and other essential micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals, we need optimum amounts in order for the body to function properly, let alone to make gains in lean mass. Getting the proper EFAs isn't always easy, especially when they are hard to obtain with a typical diet. A typical diet consists of an overabundance of saturated fats, trans fats, and those fats from plant sources (think of common cooking oils) usually overloaded with omega 6 compounds, as they are the easiest and most economical to get your hands on. Now don't get me wrong. Omega 6s are important, as they are EFAs too. But it's not just the types of fats. It's also the ratios. More on that later.
EFAs have been clinically proven to exert positive effects in many areas, including-balancing insulin levels, thermogenesis, anabolism, hormone synthesis, fertility, prostaglandin function, immune function, repair of cellular membranes, enabling cells to obtain optimum nutrition and more. For the bodybuilder, EFAs are vital for optimal metabolism, hormone production, cardiovascular health, peak performance, reducing exercise soreness and maximizing fat burning. It's a wonder why they are so overlooked and underutilized by the population.
For supplementation purposes there are only 2 types of fats that are needed; Omega 3's (n-3) and Omega 6's (n-6). Omega 9 is necessary, yet not essential because it can be made by the body in modest amounts. The reason why the body can't make an n-3 or n-6 fatty acid is that human metabolism can't add a double bond to a fatty acid that is more than 9 carbons away from the delta end (acid end). This is also the reason why the body can't convert an n-3 fatty acid to an n-6 fatty acid. Yeah, it sounds like science mumbo jumbo, but is important to see from a chemistry perspective why it's so hard to obtain the right EFAs from the diet.
This is where a supplement like Animal Omega comes into play. Sure, it ain't fancy. No cool bells and whistles here, just the basics. It's not going to "pack on 10 lb in a week" but long-term, it'll get ya to where ya want to be. EFAs are needed, not just any old EFAs, but the right kinds and the right amounts. That's what Animal Omega is all about. Omega is the most complete EFA product on the market. It contains the right fats that bodybuilders require. It's a full spectrum, molecularly distilled EFA supplement, each pack containing a precise and pre-dosed ratio of n-3 to n-6. It is packed with sources of Omega 3 oils extracted from various fish sources such as salmon, cod liver, herring, and plant-sourced omega 3s from flaxseed oil. Such a well-rounded mixture, ensures that you obtain all of the various n-3 extracts that are so important for general health. You get the balance of alpha linoleic acid from flax and the key fish oil extracts, EPA and DHA.
Animal Omega is then rounded out with key Omega 6 oils, including; borage, evening primrose, sesamin, and CLA. Linoleic acid is the other essential fatty acid found in nature. As said before, lack of n-6 in ones diet is hard to come by. However, there is a specific form of n-6, gamma linoneic acid or GLA, that is crucial for health. This is contained in ample doses in Omega. The body uses n-6 essential fatty acids to make various prostaglandins and leukotrienes. These substances influence inflammation and pain; some of them increase symptoms, while others decrease them.
Another n-6 found in Animal Omega is CLA. CLA, is touted for its ability to reduce body fat, being anti-catabolic, acting as an antioxidant and enhancing the immune system. Although exactly how CLA works is completely understood, it's been show by the research community that CLA positively influences the metabolism and assists with fat regulation and protein metabolism. CLA, though is not specifically an EFA, (it's a naturally occurring fatty acid found in meal and dairy) is an important addition to the Animal Omega formula as its health promoting properties were too good to pass up.
Sesamin is another hot ingredient added to the Omega formula. It's a naturally occurring lignan found in sesame oil. Research has shown sesamin can help maximize fat loss, support liver and kidney health and maintain healthy lipid profiles when combined along with other EFAs as found in Animal Omega. Sesamin is touted as a promising ingredient in the process of lean mass recomposition.
All of these potent fatty nutrients are supported by a comprehensive nutrient transport complex which allows for maximum absorption and utilization and transport of Omega's essential fatty acids. L-carnitine, lipase and lecithin make up the complex so you rest assured that the components that make up the n-3 and n-6 complexes are actually getting into your system efficiently and effectively. Another important aspect of this complex is the addition of important antioxidants, Vitamins A, D and E, which ensure EFA stability and prevents 'em from breaking down in the can. A must have for any type of EFA supplement. This translates to ultra potent softgels right from the get-go.
All in all, Animal Omega provides essential nutrition for the bodybuilder. It's loaded with all of the right fats, in a proper ratio of n-3 to n-6 to help support high quality metabolic functioning and body recomposition. It also supports cardio-vascular protection, a healthy immune system and overall health and well being. It won't change your physique overnight, but it will be an important addition to your long term physique goals.
Animal Omega FAQs
Q: When using Animal Omega, do I need to supplement with any other EFAs?
A: No. Animal Omega is complete and comprehensive. It makes EFA supplementation easy-just pop a pack and you're all covered. Keep in mind Animal Omega was not designed for the weekend warrior, but the serious lifter. If anything, you could double on the "packs", but for the majority, a single pack will be plenty.
Q: Can Animal Omega be stacked with other Animal supplements?
A: Absolutely. Animal Omega is a "foundational" supplement pack and can be stacked along with any of the other Animal supplements, with the possible exception for Animal Test. For best absorption, leave an hour in between the time you take the Omega and any other Animal supplement.
An ideal "foundational stack", a year round stack, would include Animal Omega (EFAs), Animal Pak (vits) and Animal Flex (joint).
Q: When should I take the Animal Omega?
A: For best absorption, Animal Omega should be taken with a meal (like Animal Pak), never on an empty stomach. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or any whole food meal will do the trick.
Q: Does Animal Omega have to be cycled?
A: Nope. Animal Omega, as it's a foundational supplement just like Animal Pak, can be taken year round, 365. The key fats found in Omega are absolutely "essential", so you want these all the time.
Q: How many pills are there in Animal Omega?
A: 7 softgels and 1 capsule. All moderately sized and specially coated.
Q: How long will Animal Omega last?
A: 30 packs total. At one pack per day, you're looking at about one month's worth of EFA supplementation.
Q: Why does Animal Omega contain flaxseed oil? If ALA has to convert (not efficiently) to DHA/EPA, why include flax at all, as shouldn't fish oil suffice?
A: In short, yes, the body converts ALA over to DHA and EPA, however, there are many other essential processes in the body that require straight ALA in order to properly function. Fish oil, though it is very beneficial in other areas, cannot provide straight ALA, as EPA and DHA cannot be converted reversibly back into ALA, and therefore a straight fish oil supplement deprives the consumer of critical ALA. Omega provides a balance of the two -- fish and flax -- to ensure that overall EFA intake is being covered and benefits will be obtained from all angles. We leave no stone unturned. | <urn:uuid:94c3b602-0e95-4177-9f35-1beef1f9210c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.illpumpyouup.com/universal/animal-omega.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944295 | 1,825 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources and Library Foundation of Los Angeles to present Los Angeles Citywide Historic Resources Survey
March 11, 2009
LOS ANGELES—SurveyLA, the City’s first-ever comprehensive program to identify significant historic resources throughout Los Angeles, will have a special citywide kickoff celebration on April 4, 2009, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. The day’s activities will include the opportunity for the general public to share neighborhood stories, join a panel discussion moderated by KPCC Air Talk Host Larry Mantle, and view the award-winning video SurveyLA: Preserving Los Angeles.
SurveyLA marks a coming-of-age for Los Angeles' historic preservation movement, and will serve as a centerpiece for the City’s first truly comprehensive preservation program. While Los Angeles has a rich and diverse cultural heritage and a remarkable architectural legacy, 85% of the city has never been surveyed to identify these significant historic places. The groundwork for the citywide survey was laid by the Getty Conservation Institute, with the project coordinated by the City of Los Angeles’ Office of Historic Resources.
SurveyLA's citywide launch will appropriately be held at the Los Angeles Central Library – a historic icon and Los Angeles' true civic crossroads.
During the day-long event, called “MYhistoricLA: Preserving Los Angeles,” the public is invited to meet staff and volunteers from the Office of Historic Resources and share their special stories about local buildings or their neighborhoods. Participants also are invited to join KPCC-FM Air Talk host Larry Mantle from 1pm – 2:30 pm for a lively panel discussion with city officials, preservationists, community organizers and developers discussing the key issues surrounding Los Angeles’ citywide survey. Seating is limited, and reservations are recommended – visit www.aloudla.org. Screenings of the award-winning video SurveyLA: Preserving Los Angeles also will be offered.
Historic preservation professionals will be conducting the survey over the next three years in communities throughout the city. With pilot surveys already underway and the citywide rollout of SurveyLA is scheduled to begin this summer, City officials are asking for the public’s help to identify historic places that might otherwise be overlooked. All participants in “MYhistoricLA” will be asked to tell the survey team about at least one Los Angeles “hidden gem” – a lesser-known building, place, or neighborhood that they consider historically or architecturally significant.
For more information, visit www.surveyla.orgwww.surveyla.org, or www.getty.edu. The daylong kickoff event is sponsored by the Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles; the Getty Conservation Institute; and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.
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Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Acts of the Apostles 12:1-11 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16:13-19
Whether we like to admit it or not, most of us are at least somewhat concerned about the opinions of others. How much we care about their opinions has more to do with our relationship with them than with the status of the individuals themselves. Only those who truly know us have valid opinions and those who know us best have the truest opinions.
One of my most vivid memories from the time of my mother's death is my first thought when she died. It was not grief. It was not shock. It was not even loss. I wondered at that moment what she thought about me in the clarity of eternity.
During her lifetime, I never had to ask my mother who she thought I was or what I meant to her. Her support and affirmation were often expressed and always important to me. Because I loved her, I always tried to be my best self as her daughter. Still, I always believed that she thought too highly of me. At that first moment of her death, my only consolation was my faith that there is no disappointment in eternity.
Jesus asks a question in today's Gospel. "Who do people say that I am?" What do they think about me,” he inquires. He doesn't seem particularly interested in the answer. After all, “people” are not those who know Jesus best. But then he asks those closest to him: "Who do you say that I am?" His delight in the disciples’ response is much like the joy we have when people who know us best declare their love for us. We want to give them something in return--a piece of ourselves and Jesus does just that. Into the hands of his followers he places the future of the Church.
This is the Church that today celebrates not only that we know who the Lord is but that he knows who we are. This is the Church that is challenged to reach out to others in affirmation and support. We announce to the world at this Eucharist that we believe in the Lord. We proclaim that we believe in one another.
There is another step that we might well take. Reach out to someone you love and tell that person of your affection. Give those nearest you the opportunity to tell you of their love. This is indeed what the Lord did when he asked the questions of his disciples. Maybe those who love us are only waiting for the questions that will let them not only declare their love but know of our care for them.
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Taking It to the Street
The Faculty of Dentistry's programme has complemented the work of Project Concern Hong Kong by focusing on prevention to benefit people from low-income backgrounds.
A team from the Faculty of Dentistry has been travelling to Hong Kong districts that have significant populations of people from low-income backgrounds to deliver oral health education and free dental checks.
Many of the people in those areas cannot afford a visit to the dentist and are suffering from cavities, gum disease and other oral health problems.
The dentistry team, led by Professor Chun-hung Chu, Dr Mike Yiu-yan Leung, Dr Dominic King-lun Ho and Dr Duangporn Duangthip, visited seven districts in 2015-16 with more than 20 supporters including dental students, research assistants, volunteer dentists and dental staff of their community partner, Project Concern Hong Kong.
Project Concern Hong Kong is a non-profit social service organisation that delivers dental and medical services to those in need after disease has already set in, and the Faculty's programme has complemented that work by focusing on prevention.
"Our epidemiology studies have shown that in disadvantaged communities, people don't tend to have regular dental checks and they don't practice prevention, so they are at risk of disease," Professor Chu said.
A few years ago he started providing empowerment training and continuous professional development to Project Concern's dentists and nurses, with a particular focus on how to most effectively deliver dental services from a mobile van (the group has three vans). That led to the KE Fund-backed project to help the group deliver prevention programmes.
The Faculty's team and Project Concern have paid one-day drop-in visits to each of the seven districts, providing free oral health checks to about 200 patients at each place and oral health education to many more who visited their booth. Follow-up emergency care was provided to relieve pain in Project Concern's van. Patients needing more treatment were provided with notes to present to a dentist.
The Faculty team also helped Project Concern to apply for funding from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trustto cover the cost of this follow-up treatment.
"We have received good feedback from the patients and also from District Councillors in the places we visited. Now these stakeholders understand the importance of oral health," Professor Chu said.
The KE project is continuing in 2016-17 with visits to four more districts, and hoping to do another four next year. "Hopefully we will be able to visit every district, depending on resources," he added.
Dr Dominic K.L. Ho and his team members, Professor Chun-hung Chu, Dr Mike Y.Y. Leung and Dr Duangporn Duangthip, received the Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award 2016 of the Faculty of Dentistry for the project 'Empowering a Non-governmental Non-profit Organisation to Deliver Primary Oral Care to Hong Kong Citizens'. | <urn:uuid:3c713209-ce55-4f3f-aa44-c652bd4903f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ke.hku.hk/story/taking-it-to-the-street | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.965177 | 600 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Creative and Alternative Financing Strategies
Now that we've discussed a standard overview for financing real estate, let's take a look at other ways to creatively finance a deal. There are several alternative financing scenarios that can suit your needs. Let's begin by looking at lease options, otherwise known as rent to own:
Lease Options: Lease with option to buy homes offer a combination between a rental agreement and a purchase option. Essentially, it allows you to rent to own a property over a fixed period of time. You'll maintain the right to purchase the property at an agreed option price during the term of the lease. The benefit of this approach is that it gives you the right, but not the obligation to purchase the property. For example, if property prices escalate rapidly during the option term, chances are that you will be able to purchase the property for below market value. Another benefit is that the cost to secure a lease option is usually much less than a down payment, effectively giving you control of the property for very little cash.
Use Equity in Your Home: If you currently own a home, there is a very good chance you can borrow against the equity in your home. This is probably the fastest and easiest way to finance investment property. Home equity is determined by the fair market value (or appraised value) of your home, less the balances of mortgages or liens against it. If your home is worth $200,000 and you owe $120,000 secured by a lien against your home, then you may have $80,000 of available equity, which you can use however you wish. And remember that the interest you pay on a home equity loan may be tax deductible.
Hard Money Loans: This type of loan gives the applicant access to funds without the red tape required for conventional loans. Pre-qualifying for a hard money loan is usually faster and less tedious. However, hard money lenders charge interest rates and fees that are substantially higher than conventional borrowers. Interest rates can range from 12 - 18% annually and typically require 4 - 8 points on singing. Hard money loans fill a niche in mortgage lending, helping consumers who have specialized needs or too many credit problems to get conventional financing. Real estate investors frequently use hard money loans. These buyers purchase properties on the cheap, fix them up and sell them for profit. They use private loans because the loans come with less red tape and restrictions than bank loans.
Owner Financed Mortgage: In some cases, the property seller may be interested in financing your home purchase directly. These homeowners may be interested in earning long-term interest from you on your payments. In most cases, you will be paying a slightly higher interest rate versus standard investment interest returns. But, overall the rate you pay may still be below standard mortgage rates. In addition, if you prefer to use a standard mortgage for part of your purchase amount, an owner financed mortgage may be a way to cover the balance. This is called a partial owner financed mortgage.
Find Partners: By partnering with others, you will no longer be limited to only those properties meeting your individual budget. This provides greater flexibility in identifying the right investment property. Other benefits of partnering include the pooling of expertise and financial backing while enjoying the support of partners who have the same objectives. Completing a successful real estate transaction with partners can be a very exciting and fulfilling experience. The primary downside is that you lose some control and must make decisions jointly. Bottom line , pick your partners very carefully.
Equity Sharing: For a first-time buyer with limited cash for a down payment, equity sharing can be a great opportunity. The common equity sharing agreement involves one party living in the property and the other partner financing the purchase. Both the occupant and the investor enjoy tax benefits and share the profit. First-time homebuyers make great resident partners while family members or real estate investors fill the non-resident partner role.
While there are many benefits to equity sharing, joint ownership can have its challenges. For example, what happens if the resident does not maintain the property or make the mortgage, insurance or property taxes payments? Furthermore, the property may not go up in value, so the investor who put up his credit or cash may not realize any profits. Like any real estate investment, the shared equity arrangement should be approached with profit, not just financing, in mind. | <urn:uuid:8db3fb68-5bbf-4013-8fbf-14ca30a3cef4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.realtystore.com/realty-guide/foreclosure-tutorial/alternative-financing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00249-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952052 | 885 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Fed-up Holman prisoners rose up like Nat Turner and rebelled on March 11, broadcasting their photos to the world. See more of their photos at http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/03/reported_riot_fires_at_holman.html
Editor’s note: Holman is the prison where the Free Alabama Movement and the prison strikes to end slavery were born. It takes a fiery hot furnace to forge steel, and inside this hellhole, men have grown strong as steel, their minds fertile and their brave hearts devoted to the oppressed. It was these men who spread the word that the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment still makes slavery legal for prisoners. It’s up to us to keep them alive and strategizing. Help these brilliant organizers by telling Gov. Robert Bentley to support their Peace Summits, fully staff Holman with guards who will ensure everyone’s safety with justice and reduce overcrowding by releasing prisoners, not building new prisons, as he proposes to do. Call 334-242-7100 or use Gov. Bentley’s contact form online at http://220.127.116.11/forms/contact.aspx.
Since opening its doors on Dec. 15, 1969, Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, has been a bastion of violence, fear, pain and baleful human suffering.
Built on a shoestring budget of $5 million during Gov. Lurleen Wallace’s administration, it took just five years for Holman prison’s perpetually overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions to draw the ire of federal officials.
In an article titled, “Court closes Alabama prison gates,” dated Aug. 30, 1975, The St. Petersburg Times (now The Tampa Bay Times), in neighboring Florida, reported that two federal district court judges, William Brevard Hand and Frank M. Johnson Jr., ordered Alabama to stop sending prisoners to Holman (and three other prisons) due to overcrowding and the accompanying inhumanity, violence and other perils that brings.
Although much more consciousness-raising is needed, the mostly Black prisoners at Holman have an unusually strong sense of unity. This is another of their photos from the March 11 rebellion.
Forty-one years later, nothing has changed.
Connor Sheets for al.com writes on Oct. 20, 2016, that “[v]iolence continues to rage at Alabama’s notorious William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. In just the past two weeks, a Holman inmate was stabbed during a four-way fight and another died of an apparent suicide.”
These incidents come “less than two weeks after the Department of Justice launched an investigation into violence, sex abuse, overcrowding and other issues at Alabama’s prisons.” Two weeks earlier, al.com’s Christopher Harress reported that “[a]s many as nine corrections officers failed to report” for work at Holman, “citing increasingly dangerous conditions and fears that they may be killed while on duty.”
In contrast to these jarring reports, Alabama’s Department of Corrections’ website presents a much more idyllic and serene (if also bleak and plantation-like) description of Holman: “Holman is located ten miles north of Atmore, Alabama[.] The perimeter of the security compound is surrounded by two fences. The inner fence is taut wire fence with the outer fence chain link.
“The compound has six towers and two perimeter vehicles which operate 24 hours a day. During the hours of darkness, the perimeter is fully lighted. The countryside in the vicinity of Holman prison is farm and timberland. The main crops are cotton and peanuts.
“Located directly behind the facility within the security compound is an industrial area consisting of a Tag Plant where all the state’s motor vehicle tags are manufactured and a sewing factory which makes sheets and pillow cases that are distributed to other state prisons.”
In this official photo by the Alabama Department of Corrections, Holman Correctional Facility’s serene exterior belies the hellhole inside. Remind Gov. Bentley that it’s official motto is “where public safety is an everyday commitment” and that prisoners are the public. Demand no more unnatural deaths at Holman!
What I’ve observed and know from first-hand experience (as I wrote about in April, in the Selma Times-Journal) is: Every single employee the DOJ has, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch, can take a junket down South to keep a 24-hour vigil over how Alabamians treat their inmates, and still, it won’t do a damn bit of good.
Using history as a guide, even if under temporary federal scrutiny, prison conditions shape up briefly, but as soon as the Yankees depart, it’ll be back to business as usual at Holman: Prisoners will be mashed together, one on top of the other. They’ll be kept indoors all day, every day, squashed in squalid, outdated, utterly inhumane and unsafe conditions.
They’ll be fed food you wouldn’t give a dog you hated. In wintertime, the heat will be kept just above testicle-freezing temperatures, and in summer – which, in this age of global warming, runs long, sometimes interminably – the temperature will be so oppressively hot and the degradation of humanity within its walls so great that Holman becomes, literally, hell on earth.
Federal oversight of Holman and the rest of Alabama’s troubled prison system is like stretching a small band-aid over a gaping wound. Until Alabamians elect a governor and legislators willing to make a real commitment – and financial investment – in the way the state treats its prisoners, even those convicted of the most heinous crimes, Alabama’s prison problems will exist in perpetuity.
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons,” wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
It is long past time for Alabama’s antiquated prison system to emerge from the Dark Ages.
Stephen A. Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. This story first appeared on CounterPunch. | <urn:uuid:5642c6d9-f633-46d6-a675-c8d13b858dde> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://beforeitsnews.com/african-american-news/2016/10/hell-on-earth-in-alabama-inside-holman-prison-2458191.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00264-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942749 | 1,383 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Here at Pennant, we understand how important it is to provide enthusiastic students with the necessary tools to develop their skills and enable them to progress into their future engineering careers successfully.
This requirement has been a driver for recent additions to our range of Generic Maintenance Trainers. These include the Generic Fastener Installation Trainer (GFIT) and the Generic Hand Skills Trainer (GenSkill Mk2), both of which provide a student with the initial cognitive and manipulative skills required for accurate hardware assembly.
If your training establishment is considering the following, then these could be the signs that you need to invest in a Pennant training aid:
- You are looking to improve student hand skill capabilities in a safe environment
- You require reliable equipment from a trusted supplier at different price points
- You need the training aids to be aligned to aviation regulations and qualification standards such as: EASA Pt66, FAA, City & Guilds and CASA MEA
- You are looking to invest in quality training aids that are robust and durable
- You are after equipment that saves time and money before students move onto high-end domain trainers or live platforms
The GFIT is suitable for training academies with large groups of students as the portable and cost-effective trainer only requires a limited selection of hand tools and a bench vice. In addition, with minimal space required this makes it the perfect training aid for students to work individually or in pairs to support one another with torque techniques, split pinning, lock wiring and much more.
The GenSkill Mk2 has a functioning low voltage aircraft circuit as a fabrication and modification embodiment, to extend training to avionic skills. This enhancement compliments the existing capabilities of the hand skills trainer where students can practise R&I tasks of aircraft components through confined spaces and access panels.
Historically, we’ve found training academies have used the GenSkill as the starting piece for hand skill training, but now, with the GFIT, students can progress at a pace that suits them, slowly progressing to the GenSkill Mk2 to cover more challenging hardware and electrical training tasks. | <urn:uuid:dd11e0ed-bdb4-482c-a2a0-be9fb1f7a79b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pennantplc.co.uk/5-signs-your-training-academy-needs-to-invest-in-a-gfit-and-genskill-mk2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.941449 | 424 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Tree of Life by Leonard Eisenberg
The Great Tree of Life by Leonard Eisenberg
"We are related not only to every living thing, but also to every thing that ever lived."
"The geologic time scale on the Great Tree of Life begins at the center bottom, at Earth's birth, more than four thousand million (4 billion) years ago. As you move away from this center…
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Identification of genes involved in induction of plant hypersensitive cell death
The hypersensitive response (HR) is a form of programmed cell death commonly associated with immune response in plants. Incompatible N1141 strain of <i>Acidovorax avenae</i> elicits HR cell death in cultured rice cells, while flagellin-deficient N1141 mutant (Δfla-N1141) lost the ability to induce immune responses. We present evidence that initiation of HR cell death induced by the incompatible N1141 strain requires <i>de novo</i> protein synthesis. The protein kinase inhibitors, staurosporine and K252a, effectively suppressed HR cell death, while the protein phosphatase inhibitors, calyculin A and okadaic acid, did not affect the induction of HR cell death. To identify the key initiator of HR cell death, PCR subtraction analysis and microarray analysis were performed. PCR subtraction analysis identified 42 genes which are induced during HR cell death, and microarray analysis (22K) showed that 87 genes were induced during HR cell death. Among identified genes, <i>OsNAC</i> gene encoding plant specific transcription factor was identified in both analyses. Real-time reverse-transcription PCR analysis for several <i>OsNAC</i> family genes revealed that <i>OsNAC4</i> gene was strongly and specifically induced during HR cell death in cultured rice cells. Results showed that OsNAC4 transcription factor is an influential candidate as a key initiator in plant HR cell death.
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Plant biotechnology 24(2), 191-200, 2007-03-01
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Instructions to the enumerator for the 1910 census for that category:
116. Column 10. Number of children born.-This question applies to women who are now married, or who are widowed, or divorced. The answer should give the total number of children that each such woman has had during her lifetime. It should include, therefore, the children by any former marriage as well as by her present marriage. It should not include the children which her present husband may have had by a former wife, even though they are members of her present family. Stillborn children should not be included. If the woman has never had any children, write "0" in this column and also in column 11.
Full instructions: http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/inst1910.shtml
I know in my own family, my 2xg grandmother gave a different answer for total number in 1900 and 1910. By 1910, she was elderly, and I have heard that her memory was failing. Today, she would probably have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Another 2xg grandmother was living at the 1900 census and deceased before 1910, but the count for 1900 was far short of the confirmed known children. | <urn:uuid:a0c57a9d-2631-4293-b046-e7d7eacce6f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=2&p=topics.stillmis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9927 | 249 | 2.53125 | 3 |
SEATTLE (AP) Civil rights lawyer Joaquin Avila, who fought discrimination in classrooms, workplaces and voting booths as a leader of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has died. He was 69.
Avila died Friday of cancer at his Seattle home, the advocacy group said.
Avila was a point man in the Hispanic civil rights battle and argued voting rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1996, he was awarded the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” one of several noted accolades for his work on the issue.
His son said Avila was a kind, compassionate person.
“If he saw someone in trouble he tried to do something about it,” Joaquin Avila Jr. said in a statement.
As a former president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Avila was involved in multiple groundbreaking court victories that led to more Hispanics working as electricians, firefighters and border guards, and allowed parents in the country illegally to enroll their children in public schools without paying tuition.
In an Associated Press interview in 1983, Avila said he saw those successes as a measure of how the system can be changed by working within it.
“We”re an instrument at the forefront of social change,” he said at the time.
Avila has also been credited as the chief architect of the California Voting Rights Act, a state law that allowed voters to challenge at-large election systems on the basis that they dilute the strength of minority voters.
However, his work also prompted criticisms when Avila himself was handling dozens of cases against cities and school boards involving the issue.
In 2003, he authored a UCLA law school study that said the state constitution should be amended so millions of non-citizen adults can vote in local elections.
Avila most recently was director of the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University School of Law.
The native of San Antonio had degrees from Yale University and Harvard Law School. He is survived by his wife, three children and a brother. | <urn:uuid:afb4525a-d048-4c50-b18d-29ed03712014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.montereyherald.com/2018/03/12/joaquin-avila-who-fought-for-hispanic-rights-has-died/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.984484 | 440 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Liberals and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a difficult-to-read font, researchers report in a new study. Likewise, people with induced bias for or against a defendant in a mock trial are less likely to act on that bias if they have to struggle to read the evidence against him.
... subtle manipulations that affect how people take in information can reduce political polarization.
Liberals and conservatives who read the argument in an easy-to-read font were much more polarized on the subject than those who had to slog through the difficult version.
The study is the first to use difficult-to-read materials to disrupt what researchers call the "confirmation bias," the tendency to selectively see only arguments that support what you already believe, Preston said. And it is the first to show that the intervention can moderate both deeply held political beliefs as well as newly formed biases, she said.
"We showed that if we can slow people down, if we can make them stop relying on their gut reaction -- that feeling that they already know what something says -- it can make them more moderate; it can have them start doubting their initial beliefs and start seeing the other side of the argument a little bit more," Hernandez said.
Two other techniques foster political moderation,
Researchers report that simply answering three "why" questions on an innocuous topic leads people to be more moderate in their views on an otherwise polarizing political issue.
The researchers used techniques known to induce an abstract mindset in people, Preston said. Previous studies had shown that asking people to think broadly about a subject (with "why" rather than "how" questions, for example) makes it easier for them to look at an issue from different perspectives.
" 'Why' questions make people think more in terms of the big picture, more in terms of intentions and goals, whereas more concrete 'how' questions are focused on something very specific, something right in front of you, basically," Preston said.
"We observed that liberals and conservatives became more moderate in their attitudes," she said. "After this very brief task that just put them in this abstract mindset, they were more willing to consider the point of view of the opposition."
The researchers conducted a third experiment online to test the effects in a more diverse population. In this round, they asked participants to read an ambiguous "faux Yahoo! News" article that included multiple arguments for and against the Islamic center.
Those who viewed the article in an easy-to-read format remained polarized in their views, the researchers found. But those who read the same article after it had been photocopied and made harder to read were more moderate in their responses.
Making the information harder to read induced abstract thinking, Preston said.
"It's a surprisingly powerful manipulation because people are thinking in a different way and putting in more mental effort while reading," she said. [emphasis mine] | <urn:uuid:76e327ce-021f-4d09-99a8-0480bb6021d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://atheistnexus.org/group/propaganda/forum/topics/difficult-to-read-font-reduces-confirmation-bias | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00415-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971493 | 600 | 2.390625 | 2 |
UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman urges equal rights for women
Acceptance speech by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman upon being receiving the Variety Magazine Award at the Power of Women luncheon in Hollywood, 4 October, 2013.
Date : vendredi 4 octobre 2013
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I am proud to represent UN Women on this wonderful occasion. Thank you Variety and Lifetime for acknowledging the work done by this important organization. Simply put, UN Women works so that half of humanity--women--can finally enjoy the same rights and opportunities as men.
I became involved because I was raised by a feminist mother who planted the seed early in me to speak out against the fact that women are so often treated differently than men. She was very clear with me: she said stand tall, do not settle for less than what is fair. Discriminating against more than 50 per cent of the population just because they are female is terribly unfair.
But it is also not very smart.
We know that when women have money, they invest more in their children, and therefore in our future. But in many countries, women cannot own land and have no access to credit. And almost everywhere they earn less than men for the same work. We also know that where women have a say in politics, they put more emphasis on social issues, on education and the environment. But only one in five Parliamentarians worldwide is female. And by the way: companies --and this includes the film and television industry, of course-- with more women in management positions turn a significantly higher profit. Only 21 women, however, lead Fortune 500 companies.
UN Women is a smart organization, and I have seen with my own eyes what they can do: they go and work directly with women in countries around the world. They support women to get elected into office and help them to have viable options to earn a living for themselves and their children. Right now, in conflict zones like Syria, where women and children are particularly affected, UN Women is rendering much-needed assistance to respond to women’s humanitarian needs. UN Women supports women in Syria and elsewhere to make their voices heard.
I have also seen UN Women address what to me is the greatest injustice and outrage of all: violence against women. No matter how long I devote my time to this, I will never be able to comprehend and I will never accept that one in three women and girls will be raped, beaten or otherwise abused in their lifetime. UN Women supports local organizations, right at the grassroots, to provide shelter and support for survivors of violence. It works to change laws so that there can be no impunity for violence and it works with youth to prevent violence from happening in the first place.
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Will a man-made synthetic, self-replicating, nano pathogen be the cause of a new global pandemic that may forever change the future of mankind? It sounds like some kind of science fiction horror invading from another planet. Self replicating nano machine pathogens floating unobserved through the air silently invading their unsuspecting human hosts and slowly turning them into gray goo. Once they establish a beach head in the human body they exhibit a type of group intelligence allowing them to communicate & invade all parts of the body including the brain. This story may be accessed on the front page of bariumblues.com
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Examine the nuances of alternating and direct currents, see how transformers use electromagnetic induction to transform voltage levels in AC circuits, and observe the role of diodes and capacitors in regulating current. See how the DC power supplies that charge our cell phones are constructed so that they convert alternating to direct current.
Understanding Modern Electronics. Episode 4, AC versus DC.
The Great Courses, 2014.; [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Title from title frames.; Film; In Process Record.
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2014.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Wolfson, Richard, actor.
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Be Like Hezekiah
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to make war on Jerusalem, he consulted with his officials and military staff about blocking off the water from the springs outside the city, and they helped him. A large force of men assembled, and they blocked all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?" they said.
Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons and shields. (2 Chronicles 32:2-5 NIV)
Hezekiah, the great king of Judah, who followed God faithfully, faced a trial. Sennacherib was a tough opponent. He was not an easy target. Fighting him would be a tough challenge, even for Hezekiah. It would have been easy to become afraid, paralyzed by the pressure of leadership. Hezekiah, however, knowing in whom he placed his trust, set out to face Sennacherib.
I like the phrase "he worked hard". To be honest, we don't see enough of hard work these days. As the owner of a small company, I can say that finding, and keeping, a good worker is one of the toughest things I do. In the past year we have hired nearly a dozen people who work a few weeks and then suddenly disappear. Sometimes they go to lunch and never come back. Most of the time if someone isn't working out, I don't have to worry about firing them, a little hard work will cause them to quit!
The story is no different in the church. Statistics say that ten percent of the people do ninety percent of the work. I don't know if that is true, but I do know the really faithful, hard working saints are hard to find.
Hezekiah worked hard. We will see in the days to come that he trusted in the Lord, but it was not a faith without action. Hezekiah put feet to his faith. He continued to do what he knew he was supposed to do. He worked hard, while he waited on the Lord.
Do you have a difficult situation in your life? Don't give up so easily! Apply some hard work to it! Put a little sweat and muscle behind it. Work on the problem with all the strength and wisdom God has given you! Trust me in this, when God says to wait upon the Lord, He doesn't always mean to wait and do nothing. Sometimes God expects us to work and wait. Continue to do what God has called you to do, trusting that He will turn things around for your good, waiting on Him to provide you with the answer.
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The purpose of these Tenets of Professionalism is to provide a framework of conduct above and beyond the minimum standards provided by the Code of Ethics of the Ice Skating Institute.
The Ice Skating Institute is aware that applicable rules of ethics covering professional responsibility generally provide only minimum standards of acceptable conduct. The Ice Skating Institute and its membership aspire to the highest ideals of professionalism and acknowledge that the following tenets of professional conduct should be followed in the performance of professional services provided to those with whom we have contact.
1. As coaches, we will conduct ourselves in a manner that demonstrates respect for the rules under which our skaters compete, and that we will preserve with honor and integrity ISI testing programs and competitions.
2. The Ice Skating Institute recognizes that professional courtesy is consistent with the role of the coach. As members of the Ice Skating Institute, coaches will be civil and courteous to all with whom we come in contact and will endeavor to maintain a collegial relationship with other coaches.
3. As skating coaches, we acknowledge that from time to time the students with whom we work may wish to leave us as their coach and seek coaching elsewhere. We acknowledge that we will cooperate with other coaches when conflicts arise and will be willing to make such changes on behalf of the students as will complement the further performance and progress of those students.
4. When competitions or testing situations arise, we agree to keep our students and the parents of those students well informed and involve them in the decision-making that affects their interest while at the same time avoiding emotional attachment to our students and their activities, both in skating and out of skating, that might impair our ability to render professional service.
5. As professionals, and as members of the Ice Skating Institute, we will honor our promises and our commitments, whether oral or in writing, and strive to build a reputation for dignity, honesty and integrity in the skating profession.
6. As professionals, and members of the Ice Skating Institute, we will not make groundless accusations of impropriety or attribute bad motives to other coaches in bad faith or without good cause.
7. As professionals, and as members of the Ice Skating Institute, we will not engage in any course of conduct designed to harass another coach, skating organization official, skater or parent of a skater.
8. As professionals, and as members of the Ice Skating Institute, we will strive to expand our knowledge of skating and to achieve and maintain proficiency in our area of expertise.
9. We will never allow race, gender, religion, age or other suspect classifications of persons to improperly motivate our actions.
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Gates points out that that when technicians replace the timing belt in the Synchronous Belt Drive Systems (SBDS) on diesel models in this range, they often make the mistake of turning the high pressure pump, manually, in order to ensure that it is free running.
These are common rail injection diesel engines and rotating the high-pressure pump is not part of the recommended procedure. To do so, causes problems. In fact, the pump must be ‘pinned’ in order to prevent movement during the belt replacement procedure.
The high-pressure pump is timed and its performance is crucial to the SBDS. It must generate the correct pressure at the correct time. If it is not pinned during the belt replacement procedure, the pump generates excessive vibrations that will cause the tensioner to fail.
A consequence is that the bracket on the high-pressure pump becomes subject to increased stress and will crack. Once the tensioner and/or the bracket fails, the timing belt will fail and catastrophic engine damage is the inevitable consequence.
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The Hunger Games takes place in an arena designed for clash and death; Squid Game is on a remote island hidden away from the rest of the population. Now, the most brutal game of all, held in Bliss Hall (not for the faint of heart), we have the Battle of the Languages! Lakesiders have been studying one of the 4 languages offered for years, praising their language while secretly criticizing all the others. Now, these groups finally get the chance to put their feelings on display and show everyone why the language they’re learning is the best of them all!
The first contender: French. For me, the first things that come to mind when French is mentioned are baguettes, berets, and oui oui’s. But there is (probably) more to this language than bread, questionable fashion choices, and one of the most well-known words for “yes.” First up, we have a take from Sophie B. ’24, a French III student who writes that French is “ABSOLUTELY the best language. Unlike other languages *cough cough* Latin *cough cough*, it is used around the world in many different countries… and comes in handy whenever you need to impress your date.” Though the Latin slander was a bit uncalled for, Sophie brings up good points. So what do people on the other side of the argument have to say? One student surveyed in the Tatler poll remarks that “the accent required to speak properly in this language is difficult. French classes at Lakeside are also reputed for their intensity.” Another said “I take French, and it’s so useless. When am I ever going to use this?!”
Next up is Spanish. Definitely the most popular language, seeing as it’s second most spoken in the world (Spanish learners LOVE to use that statistic). But is it worth all the hype? One student in Spanish II thinks so: “The food from Spanish speaking countries is top notch, and it’s a pretty useful language. Spanish is also really fun to speak because of how fast it can be.” On the flip side, many students think Spanish is too fast-paced. One says “Spanish classes tend to progress the fastest, resulting in more homework and complicated content.” But according to Sophie, Spanish is hard to pronounce and “generally not as cool as French.”
Third, we have Chinese, which seems to be a very mysterious language at Lakeside. One surveyed student sums it up nicely: “Nobody knows who takes Chinese!” Luckily, I was able to find Akal S. ’25, who is currently in Chinese II. “I like Chinese because it provides me with a good challenge… The class also creates an environment that encourages students to learn from their mistakes,” she says. A big problem that other people have with Chinese is its difficulty. One complaint: “The lack of an alphabet makes writing quite hard. It is also very hard to speak if one has not been exposed to it from a young age.” And, my favorite poll response: “Chinese hard.”
Lastly, the one everyone’s been waiting for, Latin. I’d like to take on this language myself – from a completely unbiased viewpoint of a Latin I student, of course. That being said: LATIN IS THE BEST. I know that we’ve all heard the common gripes: what’s the point of learning a dead language? But in the words of the great Magister Searl, “Why are we judging it based on its usefulness?” Sure, it might not be useful, but are you really only learning a language because it will be useful later on? We do lots of things that don’t directly help us. Take art classes: when you’re trying to figure out how to pay rent, the tricks your band teacher taught you to get the best tone quality aren’t going to be that helpful either. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be in band! Likewise, just because Latin is dead, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t learn it.
In the end, all the languages have good things about them; I just think we should get a chance to complain, at least a little bit. Let’s all just remember the most important takeaway: Chinese, French and Spanish are great; Latin is just a little better. | <urn:uuid:8b401fe0-6dff-41e5-bbe5-57abe540ec3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tatler.lakesideschool.org/2897/life-culture/battle-of-the-languages/?print=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.965647 | 942 | 2.328125 | 2 |
While plans are in place to reopen Glacier National Park in early June, a specific date has not yet been announced, and it’s still not clear exactly how operations will look when the park does open back up the public.
The "Crown of the Continent" closed on March 27 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Park Superintendent Jeff Mow says that it’s very likely that the Park will resemble what visitors normally see around June, which already offers limited amenities and park locations to visitors.
Part of the preparation process includes enhanced sanitizing measures, social distancing signage, and how to deal with a potentially large influx of people coming in from out of state.
“We don’t have a great understanding, just yet, of what that more distant market will look like,” Mow explained. “Obviously, the airlines won’t be flying at the capacity they’re used to, the Canadian border being closed into June is going to sort of temper the visitation that we usually see from the north, and we’ll see what the interest is for visitors that have to drive 600 miles or more to get to Glacier, what that looks like.”
Park officials are following guidelines from the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention for social distancing and sanitation, and they are also working with Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services State medical officer Greg Holzman, officials from the Blackfeet Nation, and Flathead County and Glacier County.
One of the difficulties that the park has faced is that some staff members had to travel across the country to get to the park. The delay in that process has slowed the preparations for reopening. The park will not be able to operate a full range of services when they first open, but Mow says that the primary focus right now is simply opening their doors to the public.
One thing that Mow has consistently asked of his staff and future visitors is patience.
“I think the nature of COVID-19, I think for our visitors, as well as for our staff, it’s evolving,” said Mow. “We’re asking people to be adaptable and flexible. I always like to say ‘Glacier National Park is the tip of the iceberg for what’s available in Northwest Montana,’ so I think people should just keep that in mind and recognize that if the park is very crowded or if it’s difficult to access because of the demand, that there’s lots of other opportunities in NW Montana for recreation and spectacular scenery.”
He also likened it to building an airplane while flying. Even Mow’s six and a half years as the Glacier National Park Superintendent couldn’t quite prepare him for a global pandemic. He said that there aren’t any clear cut solutions, and the evolving nature of the pandemic has created a unique situation for everyone from movie theater managers to park rangers.
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Our team has been working on the question of how many personas to create for a while now. It’s an elusive questions that keeps us searching for a final answer that may not be out there.
Regardless, we have been able to identify some factors relevant to this question. In this post, I’ll briefly go through these factors.
- Technical optimality
- User experience (UX) optimality
- Task optimality
Technical optimality deals with the question, “does the data contain a lot or little variability?”. The more variability there is, the more personas are needed to adequately represent the data.
UX optimality deals with the question, “can the chosen persona medium deliver many or few personas in an efficient way?”. If personas are presented as A4 prints or posters, then it is difficult to have many personas because they would quickly become unmanageable to designers.
Taks optimality deals with the question, “are many or few personas needed for the job?”. Sometimes, practitioners want to focus on a specific persona (“give me one persona to design for”). Other times, they want to compare several personas (“give me all personas from Finland, so I can see their similarities and differences”).
Ultimately, there may not necessarily exist a magical number of personas that should always be created. Nonetheless, the question matters. If restricting the number of personas too low, we hamper the designer’s world-view, by excluding some groups that might be relevant. In contrast, if we present too many personas, we may alienate the designer, who feels they are lost in complexity.
People want simplicity, but at the same time they do no want to be fooled. To address this dilemma, we believe that tools are needed to help designers carve out a number that is just right for them – one that is faithful to the source data, manageable by using an interactive system, and works for the task at hand. | <urn:uuid:d783df4b-1a0c-46be-bc8c-2e4cd5add09f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://persona.qcri.org/blog/factors-of-selecting-optimal-number-of-personas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.93747 | 430 | 1.875 | 2 |
Could anyone give me a list of all the possible topics for paper one and for paper two higher level?? Would be much appreciated!
@syranbruen would you have any notes on changing the subject of a formula, badly needed?
Sophie I think these notes will be of use to you
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DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Fighting raged on Saturday near an expanding nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, despite warnings from nuclear safety monitors earlier this week that conditions there posed a risk and were “out of control.”
The Russian military is using the Zaporozhye plant, Europe’s largest, as a base for an assault on the Ukrainian-held city of Nikopol across the river. On Saturday, it fired a volley of Grad rockets that damaged 11 residential buildings and 36 private houses, and injured three people, the Ukrainian army reported.
The attack also cut electricity, water and natural gas supplies to the city, where residents are fleeing artillery attacks and the accompanying risk of radiation, the Ukrainian military said.
Russian forces began launching artillery attacks from the plant about a month ago, and the Ukrainian military said it could not return fire for fear it would hit a reactor at the plant, causing a radiation disaster.
Ukraine also accused the Russians of setting off explosions at the plant aimed at unnerving European allies about nuclear safety and discouraging Ukraine from arming itself.
The Zaporozhye factory occupies a dangerous location on the wide Dnieper River, along the front line of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian army controls the west bank, while the Russians are entrenched around the plant on the east bank of the river.
The fighting near the nuclear plant came as clashes continued elsewhere in Ukraine, including Russian artillery and tank attacks on the eastern city of Bakhmut, the site of some of the fiercest fighting on the front in recent days.
The Ukrainian military continued to strike targets far behind Russia’s front lines, hoping to cut ammunition and fuel supplies. US-supplied HIMARS missiles helped turn the tide of the war, and on Friday Ukraine struck three command posts and six ammunition depots at various positions behind enemy lines on the front lines, it said in a statement.
Outrage over nuclear safety violations — Rafael Grossi, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said Tuesday that “every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” — has done nothing to drive the Russian army from the site, and fighting continues daily, with explosions in the early afternoon in Friday. mr. Grossi called conditions at the plant “out of control.”
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mr. Grossi said he was far more worried about Zaporozhye than Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, also in Ukraine, that irradiated the surrounding area and threatened Europe.
“Chernobyl, I think we’re fine,” said Mr. Grossi, noting that his agency regularly inspected the plant and restored radiation monitoring sensors and other detection devices.
But the IAEA has been unable to gain access to key parts of the reactors in Zaporozhye because occupying Russian forces and surrounding shelling make it too dangerous for inspectors. That raises the prospect that if damage is done to the facility, it may be difficult at best to assess the danger, he added.
In a statement released on Saturday, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company Enerhoatam said Russian soldiers had occupied basements at the plant and were preventing employees from sheltering in them, despite the risks of fighting in the area. “People will have no shelter and are in danger,” the statement said.
Blocking access to the shelters comes on top of other psychological stress for Ukrainian workers in the reactor’s control room and other plant employees, who have been subjected to brutal interrogations, including electric shock torture, according to Ukrainian officials. The voltage poses a risk of accidents due to human error, officials said.
Friday’s explosions knocked out high-voltage power lines, forcing Ukrainian workers to cut power to one of the plant’s six reactors. Two others had already been shut down, and a third was undergoing routine maintenance.
Later in the day, a second series of explosions damaged a building on the plant’s grounds, according to Ukraine’s state nuclear power company. The company said Russia orchestrated the blasts; The Russian military said the attacks came from the Ukrainian side.
In his overnight address to Ukrainians on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky highlighted what he called the “brazen crime” of the Russian military using the nuclear power plant as cover.
“The occupiers have created another extremely risky situation for everyone in Europe. Zelensky said, citing explosions earlier in the day at the plant. “This is the largest nuclear power plant on our continent. And any shelling of this facility is an open, brazen crime, an act of terrorism.
Advisor to Mr. Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, addressed the risk even more bluntly in a Twitter post on Saturday, suggesting that a catastrophe that sends radiation over Europe could happen any day.
“This morning in Europe became possible only because the Zaporozhye NPP miraculously did not explode yesterday,” he wrote, using the acronym for nuclear power plant. He proposed that the UN negotiate a Russian withdrawal from the plant, which would place the site under the control of an independent “special commission”.
Western countries have imposed heavy sanctions on Russia for its war against Ukraine and Mr. Zelensky urged them to extend them to the Russian state nuclear power company Rosatom. The the company has signed contracts with dozens of countries around the world, including China, India, Turkey and Finland, to design and build nuclear power plants
“It’s purely a matter of safety,” Mr. Zelensky said. “One who creates nuclear threats to other nations is definitely not capable of using nuclear technology safely.
mr. Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine “threatens one of the largest nuclear energy programs in the world”. noting multiple safety violations at the Zaporizhia plant and describing the situation as “out of control.”
“Inaction is reckless,” he said. “If an accident happens at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, we will not blame it on a natural disaster. We will have only ourselves to answer to.”
Basing military equipment at the plant gives Russia a tactical advantage, Ukrainian military commanders and civilian officials say.
Russia has parked an armored personnel carrier and trucks in the engine room of reactor no. 1, according to Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Enerhodar, the city where the nuclear plant is located.
Russia is placing rocket artillery mounts between reactor hulls, Mr. said Orlov. Ukrainian military intelligence claims to have hit one with a drone ammunition in July.
Russia’s use of the site for military purposes is also intended to signal the danger of the continuation of the Western policy of arming Ukraine, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said in a statement.
The Council’s Counter-Disinformation Center described the goal as increasing “fear in Europe of the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe and reducing the willingness of Western countries to provide military aid.”
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In a radical departure from the race tradition which has underpinned most of the major developments in yacht racing design and technology over the past 39 years, organisers have unveiled plans to introduce a fleet of identical 65 foot monohulls, designed to be equal in performance and reliability.
They will be built by British boatbuilders Green Marine and priced at €4.5m, around €1m less than the current Volvo 70s which are designed to a box rule giving scope to push boundaries with rigging and other speed enhancing innovations.
The idea behind the change is to reduce the cost of mounting a competitive campaign and increase the number of entries to between eight and 10 in future races.
There are currently six boats competing in the Volvo Ocean Race. While this is mainly down to the prevailing economic climate throughout the world, it represents the smallest fleet ever in the history of the race.
"Our clear goal throughout the planning process for the next race has been to make it easier and less costly to mount a campaign in the next race. This is a big step towards that goal," said Knut Frostad, the race's chief executive officer.
Proposals for the new boat have been bounced off existing sponsors, some of whom have ploughed around €30m into their 2011-12 campaigns, as well as potential sponsors who have expressed an interest in mounting a future campaign, which Frostad estimates should not cost more than €15m.
But the news has had a mixed reception among the yacht racing community who are worried the race's boast that it drives marine technology, in the same way that F1 drives the technology of the automotive industry, will be a thing of the past.
"I can see it makes commercial sense but I think it is a shame," said Jason Carrington, who has been involved as either a sailor or boatbuilder in the past five races.
"It is sad that designers like Juan Kouyoumdjian who has designed some pretty cool boats for this race won't get the chance to do any more. I think there would have been some merit in launching one set of hull lines so there was still a chance for designers to fix the rigging, rudders and the foil.
One of the most interesting aspects of the race – the cutting edge technology – is going to go."
The new boat will be designed by Farr Yacht Design, based in the US. Finance has been put in place to build a minimum of eight boats with the price tag set to include sails and a sophisticated media production station to allow a greater flow of video and other content from the boats.
They will be raced by eight crew – ten if it is an all-women's boat – plus one media crew member, which amounts to two less than the current arrangements. Work on building the new boat will start in August with the first boat due to be launched in June 2013, more than a year before the start of the next race in 2014. | <urn:uuid:125e83b1-e2e9-468b-9a8b-8ef54be36018> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/sailing/volvo-ocean-race/9361540/Volvo-Ocean-Race-organisers-to-introduce-brand-new-fleet-of-high-performance-racing-yachts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00241-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978251 | 603 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Assessing the roles of multi-stakeholder initiatives in advancing the business and human rights agenda
30-09-2012 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 887, by Scott Jerbi
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Growing reliance on ‘multi-stakeholder initiatives’ (MSIs) aimed at improving business performance with respect to specific human rights-related challenges has become a significant dimension of the evolving corporate responsibility agenda over recent decades. A number of such initiatives have developed in direct response to calls for greater state and corporate accountability in areas of weak governance and violent conflict. This article examines the evolution of key MSIs in light of the 2011 adoption of the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and addresses challenges facing these initiatives in the future.
Keywords: multi-stakeholder initiatives, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Scott Jerbi is Director of Communications of the Institute for Human Rights and Business. From 1997 to 2002 he worked in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, where his duties included leading the development of the Office’s policies and interactions with the private sector. From 2002 to 2010 he served as Senior Advisor to Mary Robinson at Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative. | <urn:uuid:54fc4738-4249-43b5-8868-cc56b0d962c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/review-2012/irrc-887-jerbi.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909453 | 264 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The rotary jaw crusher; new industry tool.
International Symposium on Mine Mechanization & Automation 1991 Jan; 2:11-25 - 11-33
Over the past decade, the U.S. Bureau of Mines has been involved in the development of a hard-rock crusher with a unique design that is a total departure from current industry practice. This innovation was a product of the Bureau program to develop a portable crusher for underground hard-rock mines. The rotary jaw concept was developed under a Bureau research contract by the firm Rapidex, Inc., which created the design and built a quarter-scale working model for demonstration. The model was tested on sample batches of rock with a wide variety of physical properties and performed above expectations. Personnel with the firm mine support systems became interested in the rotary jaw concept and obtained a license from the government that enabled it to further develop the system and offer it to the mining industry. Through a cooperative agreement with the Bureau, mine support systems obtained the quarter-scale model to study the theoretical basis for the crusher's performance. Additional testing along with other technological developments led to an expanded definition of the crusher's capabilities and design improvements. This paper describes the rotary jaw concept and presents the results of testing conducted to date.
Mining-industry; Mining-equipment; Underground-mining; Engineering; Hard-rock-mines
OP; Conference/Symposia Proceedings
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Roycroft products were made by the Roycrofter community of East Aurora, New York, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The community was founded by Elbert Hubbard, famous philosopher, writer, and artist. The workshops owned by the community made furniture, metalware, leatherwork, embroidery, and jewelry. Hardware made by Roycroft was often copper or brass that was handmade in the shops. A printshop produced many signs, books, and the magazines that promoted the sayings of Elbert Hubbard. Furniture by the Roycroft community is listed in the Furniture category. | <urn:uuid:ca5bafff-d311-4d6c-9a95-43ea02bf2dc0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.kovels.com/index.php?option=com_datalists&Itemid=39&catid=695&lang=en&view=category&eid=428413&fontstyle=f-default | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00435-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987266 | 120 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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CA ERwin Data Modeler’s Role in the Relational Cloud
The Database as a Service (DaaS) model is growing its presence across the virtual globe. Enterprises are asking whether DaaS is mature enough to meet their low-cost and high-security data management requirements using a cloud paradigm. Companies are deploying virtualized applications and, as a consequence, they are asking for Relational Cloud as well. Dynamic scalability, privacy, performance and heterogeneous environments or interfaces to business intelligence products ask for a class of solutions to satisfy the cloud paradigm as a whole. Data modeling supports DaaS in that it provides a clear mapping of the deployed data structures, storage and data topology as well as the core business concepts. In this way, CA ERwin Data Modeler enables organizations to collect and serve data models from and to any web data source and data management system in the cloud. Read this white paper to learn more about DaaS and how it can significantly improve your business's database management. | <urn:uuid:2757716b-6837-4b9d-add5-83e91f5ee093> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1319042234_625.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935697 | 213 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Introduction to Finite Element Methods (ASEN 5007)
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
This is the public web site for the graduate core course ASEN 5007: Introduction To Finite Element Methods (IFEM). This master level course is part of the Aerospace Systems Focus Area of the graduate curriculum in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Offered yearly during the Fall Semester, both on-campus and remotely through CAETE. First taught in 1987. This website dates from 1998 and is continuously being revised. Related courses may be accessed at
AFEM: Advanced Finite Element Methods (ASEN 6347) Master & doctoral level
AVMM: Advanced Variational Methods in Mechanics Master & doctoral level (in preparation)
FSI: Fluid Structure Interaction (ASEN 5509) Doctoral level
MFEMD: Matrix Finite Element Methods in Dynamics Master & senior-elective level (in preparation)
MFEMS: Matrix Finite Element Methods in Statics Master & senior-elective level (in preparation)
NFEM: Nonlinear Finite Element Methods (ASEN 6107) Master & doctoral level
IAST: Intro to Aerospace Structures (ASEN 3112) Junior undergraduate level
General Course Information. Syllabus, coursework, schedule, roster ...
Part 0: Preface
Part I: Finite Element Discretization and the Direct Stiffness Method
Chapter 1 Index. Overview. Not covered
Chapter 2 Index. The Direct Stiffness Method I. HW#1 posted, due 9/1/16 for on-campus students. Solutions posted
Chapter 3 Index. The Direct Stiffness Method II. HW#1 solutions posted
Chapter 4 Index. Plane Truss Analysis by a CAS. Completely rewritten 9/16. HW#5 solutions posted
Chapter 5 Index. Constructing MoM Members. HW#2 posted, due 9/8/16 for on-campus students. Solutions posted
Chapter 6 Index. Finite Element Modeling: Introduction.
Chapter 7 Index. Finite Element Modeling: Mesh, Loads, BCs. HW#3 posted, due 9/15/16 for on-campus students. Solutions posted
Chapter 8 Index. Multifreedom Constraints I. HW#4 posted, due 9/22/16 for on-campus students. Has detailed info on Midterm 1. Solutions posted
Chapter 9 Index. Multifreedom Constraints II. HW#4 solutions posted
Chapter 10 Index. Superelements and Global-Local Analysis. HW#5 posted, due 10/4/16 for on-campus and BBA students. HW#5 solutions posted
Part II: Mathematical Formulation of Finite Elements
Chapter 11 Index. Variational Formulation of Bar Element. HW#6 posted, due 10/13/16 for on-campus students. HW#6 solutions posted
Chapter 12 Index. Variational Formulation of Plane Beam Element. HW#6 solutions posted
Chapter 13 Index. Advanced One-Dimensional Elements. Not covered
Chapter 14 Index. The Plane Stress Problem. HW#6 solutions posted
Chapter 15 Index. Three-Node Plane Stress Triangles. HW#7 posted, due 10/20/16 for on-campus students. Solutions posted.
Chapter 16 Index. The Isoparametric Representation. HW#7 Solutions posted
Chapter 17 Index. Isoparametric Quadrilaterals. HW#8 posted, due 10/27/16 for on-campus students; has info on Midterm 2. Solutions posted
Chapter 18 Index. Shape Function Magic. HW#8 solutions posted
Chapter 19 Index. FEM Convergence Requirements HW#9 posted, due 11/3/16 for on-campus and BBA students; has info on Midterm 2. Solutions posted
Part III: Computer Implementation of Finite Elements
Chapter 20 Index. Implementation of One-Dimensional Elements. HW#10 posted, due 11/17/16 for both on-campus and BBA students. Solutions posted
Chapter 21 Index. FEM Program for Space Trusses. HW#10 solutions posted
Chapter 22 Index. FEM Programs for Frameworks. Not covered
Chapter 23 Index. Implementation of iso-P Quadrilateral Elements. HW#11 posted, due 12/3/16 for both on-campus and BBA students. Solutions posted
Chapter 24 Index. Implementation of iso-P Triangular Elements. HW#11 solutions posted
Chapter 25 Index. The Assembly Process. HW#12 (last HW) due 12/08/16, posted. Contains information on final exam.
Chapter 26 Index. Solving FEM Equations. Not covered
Chapter 27 Index. A Complete Plane Stress FEM Program. For demos.
Chapter 28 Index. Stress Recovery.
Chapter 29 Index. Fitting Fields Over Triangles (in progress) Not covered
Chapter 30 Index. Thermomechanical Effects. Not covered
Part IV: Intro to Dynamics and Vibrations
This Part has been moved to the MFEMD web site.
Appendices & Miscellaneous Stuff
Appendix A Index. Linear Algebra: Vectors.
Appendix B Index. Linear Algebra: Matrices.
Appendix C Index. Linear Algebra: Matrix Calculus.
Appendix E Index. Linear Algebra: Eigenproblems.
Appendix F Index. Fitting Element Fields.
Appendix G Index. Graphics Utilities.
Appendix H Index. History of MSA -> FEM.
Appendix M Index. From IOMoDE to FOMoDE (advanced stuff).
Appendix O Index. The Origins of the Finite Element Method.
Appendix P Index. Partitioned Matrices and the Schur Complement.
Appendix Q Index. Miscellaneous FEM Formulation Topics.
Appendix R Index. References (in progress).
Appendix S Index. Spatial Applications of Matrices.
Appendix T Index. Three-Dimensional Continuum Mechanics.
CAETE PPT files . Chapters 1-21, 23-28.
Exam Material Index. Midterm exams 1 and 2, and their solutions posted. Final take home exam to be posted 12/7/16.
Last update: December 6, 2016.
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Technology Showcase: Wireless In-ear Monitoring SystemsToday's systems make performers masters of their own monitoring environments. 7/01/2008 8:00 AM Eastern
Technology Showcase: Wireless In-ear Monitoring Systems
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Bennett Liles
Today's systems make performers masters of their own monitoring environments.
In 1990, only the top names in musical entertainment could be seen using in-ear monitoring systems. But in the time since then, these devices have rapidly spread through the ranks — and now practically any pro or semi-pro vocalist or musician can afford them. The earlier version of personal monitoring took the recording studio design and simply moved it onstage with one or more headphone amplifiers snaking their outputs around the stage to each musician, but vocalists and other highly mobile performers had to stick to their floor wedges blasting the stage with acoustic power.
As the substantial advantages of in-ear monitoring systems won more converts, the wireless microphone companies took notice and developed lines of equipment built on their existing technology to reverse the wireless transmission process and send monitor mixes back to the performers. Improved sound quality and stereo imaging, elimination of feedback, and ultimate portability are just a few of the big steps up that were provided to performers — and it was clear by the mid-'90s that they weren't going back.
FOH and monitoring technicians reaped the advantages of less bleed-over into adjacent mics and less mind-numbing feedback. The more recent addition of personal monitor mixers and digital audio networks carrying 16, 32, or more channels of uncompressed PCM audio into those in-ear monitors has made each performer the master of his or her own monitoring environment while freeing the tech to concentrate on equipment performance and FOH mixing. Here, we take a plunge into the world of in-ear monitoring systems and have a look at the workings and features.
The AKG IVM 4 system consists of the SST 4 stereo transmitter, the SPR 4 body-pack receiver, one pair of IP 2 ear buds with three pairs of ear molds, a rod antenna, a rackmounting kit, power supply, batteries, and a 12-piece color-coding kit. The SST 4 transmits stereo sound on one of 1,200 channels between 500MHz and 860MHz. The SST4 also features an integrated compressor, a limiter, a high-pass filter, and a dedicated binaural room simulator. The rotary headphone volume control knob is combined with a push-push function for power on and off. The LC display shows all the setup parameters — including compressor and limiter gain reduction; menus for frequency, transmitter name, input gain, and audio processing; along with submenus for frequency group assignment, sub-channel, and RF output. There is also an input level bar graph and a red peak LED indicator. The rear panel has loop jacks for left and right audio channels that are connected in parallel with the audio in connectors. A 1/4in. TRS jack carries the processed stereo output sound. The SPR 4 body-pack receiver unit has a mini TRS jack for ear-bud connection and a rotary on/off switch and volume control for the ear buds, and it includes a permanently mounted receiver antenna and status LED. The battery compartment can accept either a pair of AA batteries or the optional rechargeable BP 4000 battery pack to be used with the CU 4000 charger.
The M3 wireless in-ear monitor system from Audio-Technica offers a choice of 1321 UHF channels shown on the backlit front panel LED display. Up to 16 M3 systems may be used simultaneously in pre-coordinated frequency groups. The MT3 stereo transmitter has versatile combination 1/4in./XLR input connectors on the rear panel along with XLR loop output connectors and attenuation switches. The front panel has a 1/4in. headphone output with volume control, and a selectable auxiliary input offers a connection point for an ambient microphone, click track, or other mic- or line-level input. The multilevel limiter serves to protect hearing and the pilot tone muting system works just like those on wireless microphones to prevent unwanted transmissions from entering the system when the transmitter is turned off. The double-conversion superheterodyne M3R stereo receiver can be operated in any of three modes including personal mix — in which the user can adjust the monitored mix, stereo, and mono modes. In personal-mix mode, the balance control can be rotated to the right to hear more band level and to the left to hear more vocal or instrument of choice in both ears. An advanced stereo setup using multiple audience microphones and aux outputs from the mixer can also be configured. The headphone output is 65mW at 32V, and the aux input connector is a 3.5mm TRS stereo phone jack. The unit can operate for up to eight hours on one pair of alkaline AA batteries.
The IMS 900 in-ear monitoring system from Beyerdynamic includes the SE 900 stereo transmitter, the TE 900 stereo receiver, a transmitter antenna, and DT 60 Pro earphones. In each 24MHz bandwidth, there are 16 pre-coordinated channels in which the transmitter can operate. The rear panel contains two audio-input combination balanced/unbalanced connectors, two 1/4in. loop outputs, a 50V BNC antenna connector, and the 12VDC power connector. The front panel features the central green LC display, separate left and right audio-input level meters, menu-navigation buttons, and power switch — along with headphone jack and volume control. The top LED on each meter is red and indicates clipping and distortion. There is also a rackmount kit with connections for a remotely mounted transmitter antenna. A balanced or unbalanced line level audio input signal can be applied to the XLR connectors and an unbalanced line level signal can go into the 6.35mm jack socket. The menu-navigation buttons can be used for setting the transmitter frequency, mono or stereo operation, transmitter name labeling, input sensitivity and the panel-control lock function. The TE 900 receiver has indicators for RF level and a left/right balance control, channel selector button, limiter switch, and a combination power switch and volume control.
Longtime monitor manufacturer Galaxy Audio markets the AS-1000 Any Spot wireless personal monitor to replace floor wedges and operate from the monitor out jack on a mixing console. The system has 64 selectable UHF frequencies, and the AS-1000T transmitter is selectable for either mono or stereo operation. The AS-1000R body-pack receiver operates on a diversity reception system with two antennas and has an auto-mute feature that senses any dropout and prevents any static from being heard by the user. Also intended as an assistive-listening system, the transmitter can send its signal to multiple receivers. The transmitter unit's rear panel includes RCA, XLR, and 1/4in. input connections, and it offers simultaneous use of two sources with separate line- and mic-level controls on the front panel. The front also features a power button, a frequency display with group and channel selection knobs, a headphone jack with level-control knob, and an LED peak indicator. The system's 64 channels range from 682MHz to 698MHz, and it exhibits a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 94dB at 15kHz deviation and 60dBuV antenna input. Audio frequency response to the headphone output is 100Hz to 10kHz ±3dB, and the line audio response is 40Hz to 15kHz ±3dB. The unit's dynamic range is greater than 96dB, the headphone output level is 20mW, and the line stereo output level is -10dB. The receiver operates on two AA batteries or rechargeable batteries.
Technology Showcase: Wireless In-ear Monitoring Systems
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Bennett Liles
Today's systems make performers masters of their own monitoring environments.
The Freedom Back wireless stereo in-ear system from Hear Technologies includes a transmitter, antenna, receiver, carrying case, and rackmount kit with an extension cable for mounting the antenna on the front panel. Available in UA and UB frequency bands, the system on UA band operates from 584MHz to 608MHz, while the B-band system operates from 655MHz to 679MHz with 120 channels per band. Up to 10 transmitters may be used in the same venue depending on local UHF conditions. On the front panel of the transmitter, the backlit LCD shows frequency, audio level, group, and channel. The front panel includes a 1/4in. stereo headphone jack with volume control, two menu-navigation buttons, a programming-set button, and a power button. On the rear panel is a jack for the DC power adapter, a stereo-mono selector switch, left and right audio inputs with combination 1/4in. TRS/XLR connectors, a 12dB attenuation pad switch, separate left and right channel audio input level controls, and a 50Ω antenna connector. The transmitter unit has a built-in automatic limiter, and a set of rack ears and an extension cable are included for front-mounting the antenna. The belt-pack receiver has a permanently mounted antenna, RF signal LED, 1/8in. stereo earphone jack, audio volume control and on/off knob, backlit LCD showing frequency, group, channel, battery indicator and mono/stereo operation. Also present are menu-navigation and program-set buttons.
The MI-808 wireless in-ear monitoring system from Mipro offers true diversity reception in 24MHz bandwidth on 16 selectable pre-programmed frequencies from 614MHz to 870MHz. The system delivers a signal-to-noise ratio of 90dB, and it can operate in either stereo or mono mode. The MI-808T transmitter is a 1/2RU unit in a metal case, and the front panel includes a power button, 1/4in. headphone jack with volume control, backlit LCD showing channel and frequency, and four menu-navigation buttons. The rear panel has two XLR-1/4in. combo audio-input connectors and two 1/4in. output jacks along with the antenna connector. Dynamic expander circuitry delivers a 90dB signal-to-noise ratio, and a built-in limiter prevents excessive audio levels to the user. The MI-808R receiver has an LCD showing frequency channel, and it uses an auto power saver. The unit uses two antennas for diversity reception, and it can operate up to 10 hours on two AA batteries.
The Nady Systems PEM-500 wireless personal in-ear monitor system provides 16 channels of UHF communication, and up to eight can be simultaneously used — depending on country and frequency band. The system consists of the PEM-500T transmitter and the PEM-500R receiver. Any number of receivers can be used with the same transmitter operating on a common UHF frequency. The transmitter uses a companding circuit to maximize dynamic range. The typical maximum range of operation is 300ft., and there is a foam-padded traveling case for protection. The transmitter is 1/2RU, and it can be mounted side by side with another transmitter using an optional rack kit. Along with the XLR line inputs, there is also a 1/4in. microphone input for directly cuing performers onstage. Controls also include a stereo-mono selector switch and an input-level volume control. Available channels can be stepped through with the channel-selector button until the desired channel is shown on the LCD front-panel display. Audio input levels may be adjusted while noting the level on the 10-segment LED ladder on the front panel. The input signal is monitored on the PEM-500T front-panel 1/4in. headphone jack, and the monitor level is adjusted with the monitor volume control. The PEM-500R receiver is powered by a single 9V battery, and the battery level is visible on the two-color, unit on/signal/low-battery LED. A small screwdriver adjust knob is used to select the proper frequency, and the stereo/mono switch is in the battery compartment.
The Samson UHF EarAmp system can operate in either stereo or dual mono 2-channel mode with individual channel volume controls and separate bass and treble controls to fine tune the monitoring audio frequency response. To protect the user's ears from excessive volume levels, a built-in limiter is included. Operating frequency may be selected by group and channel or individually in 25kHz increments over a range from 774MHz to 864.5MHz. A receiver-programming function allows for frequency selection at the flip of a switch and push of a button. A country selection feature allows a choice among on the frequencies legal in the chosen country. The volume control is teamed with a center-detented channel balance control and 15dB attenuation pads along with a five-segment input level VU meter and a large, backlit LCD showing the selected country, group, channel, and frequency. There are also dual 1/4in. and 1/8in. headphone outputs with a level control. The unit also features a loudness button for greater intelligibility when monitoring at low volume levels. The receiver allows stereo and dual-channel mono operation, includes a 200mW, 1/8in. headphone connector, and operates up to 4 hours on a single 9V battery. When the battery voltage drops below 7V, the receiver's battery condition LED illuminates. A built-in limiter helps protect hearing from excessive monitoring levels.
The EW 300 IEM evolution Wireless G2 monitoring system from Sennheiser is composed of the EW 300 IEM G2 rackmount transmitter and the EK 300 IEM G2 body-pack receiver. These units can share nine frequency banks with up to 12 compatible frequencies per bank, each of which can be immediately called up as a preset. When switched from stereo to dual-channel mono listening mode, the two independent channels may be balanced with separate volume controls to adjust the mix to favor the individual user's voice or instrument source in the mix to varying degrees. The operational frequencies are in various bands from 518MHz to 866MHz for a total of 1,440 possible frequencies. The system's audio frequency response is from 40kHz to 15kHz, and the HDX compander circuit extends dynamic range with a signal-to-noise ratio of 91dB. There is also a switchable pilot tone muting circuit to avoid getting noise in the monitor reception when the transmitter is turned off. The receiver has a scanning function that can scan the frequencies in one bank and can operate from 6 to 10 hours on one battery, depending on the volume setting used. The transmitter has an operating power level of 30mW into the 50V antenna. Optional accessories include the AC2 antenna combiner, AM2 antenna mount, a2003-UHF passive directional antenna, and the CC2 carrying case for the whole system.
The 3D Active Ambient in-ear monitoring system from Sensaphonics provides a unique monitoring solution for the best of both worlds between ambient sound onstage and the isolation of in-ear monitoring with custom-fitted earpieces. This is accomplished through the use of tiny microphones inside the custom 3D ambient earphones that pick up ambient sound and send it into one channel of the body-pack receiver. The other channel provides the monitor mix sent from any model in a variety of third-party in-ear monitoring transmitters. The mix between the monitor signal and ambient sound can then be adjusted to suit the performer's individual taste. The Model 3DAA for use with wireless IEM systems consists of the 3D-M body-pack mixer with a 1/8in. earpiece jack, custom-fit 3D ambient earphones, and IEM jumper cable. The Model 3DHW for use with hard-wired systems includes the 3D-L body-pack mixer using a Lemo earpiece connector, 3D-1 single driver or 3D-2 dual driver ambient earphones, and the dual XLR jumper cable. The 3D active ambient system earphones provide 26dB of broadband isolation from ambient noise. The clear silicone custom-fitted earphones contain tiny filters to provide smooth frequency response and keep debris out of the internal loudspeakers. The condenser microphones are designed to allow a natural ambient response and the binaural system provides natural sound directionality with no distortion up to 140dB SPL.
The Shure PSM 700 wireless personal-monitoring system includes the P7T transmitter and the P7R receiver, which can operate on any of 32 user-selectable UHF frequency channels for a maximum simultaneous use of up to 16 systems. The units can be operated in stereo or MixMode for individual control of the overall monitor mix and the user's source audio with the volume and balance dials. For better clarity of audio, the receiver has a high-frequency boost function. Offering a choice of voltage between 120V and 230V, the transmitter has a peak transmission modulation limiter with fixed threshold and modulation indicators. Looping audio connectors on the P7T provide the capability to daisy-chain transmitters on one line, and tone-key squelch prevents noise from entering the receivers when the transmitter is turned off or the receiver loses the transmitter's signal. The transmitter is 1/2RU, and mounting hardware is available to mount two of the units side by side in one rack space. The front panel includes an input level control, LED ladder audio level indicator, stereo/mono mode switch, 1/4in. and 1/8in. headphone jacks with volume control, channel selector, channel group switch, and power button. | <urn:uuid:d0f01aef-3f65-417e-8193-8890e03d0d70> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.svconline.com/news/signal-distribution-control/technology-showcase-wireless-ear-monitoring-systems/367681 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00539-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89748 | 3,685 | 1.5 | 2 |
What is Hemp?
Hemp is one of the oldest domesticated crops known to man. It has been used for paper, textiles, and cordage for thousands of years. In fact, the Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a scrap of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC. It’s not a stretch to say that Hemp (cannabidiol) is one of the most exciting and promising compounds currently undergoing rigorous medical and scientific research today. Hemp has made headlines in recent years with some pretty stunning results. Still, misinformation and confusion about Hemp abounds due to the relatively recent emergence and widespread awareness of this incredible compound.
Let’s take a deep dive into what cannabidiol (Hemp) is, and exactly what it does -- and doesn’t -- do. Cannabidiol, is rapidly transforming from a little-known molecule into a potential breakthrough nutritional supplement as it grows in acclaim among the health conscious. Unlike many of the 85+ cannabinoids – compounds found in cannabis – Cannabidiol occurs in significant quantities in cannabis, so it is easily extracted from the hemp plant for use in daily hemp oil supplements. Cannabidiol is the most exciting cannabinoids currently available due to its numerous potential benefits and legal status in 40 countries internationally.
Our primary goal at Pure Natures Design has always been to consistently deliver the absolute highest quality Hemp products in the industry. Though very expensive, Broad-Spectrum extraction is the only viable option when wanting to preserve and extract the valuable terpenes and other beneficial compounds of the plant. With more common extraction methods, these other cannabinoids (CBG, CBN, CBCV, etc.), terpenoids, amino acids, and essential oils are often lost despite having huge health related benefits. Having invested in the industry’s most sophisticated machinery and equipment, our pharmaceutical grade laboratory is able to produce the absolute purest Hemp products available. Using a low temperature for safe and gentle extraction, we’re able to save the other cannabinoids, terpenoids, vitamins, and various other compounds that make our Hemp oil so coveted. | <urn:uuid:6b2cc022-820a-40b4-958c-d836b5fd5150> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://welcometopure.com/what-is-hemp.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.945529 | 450 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Subtracting and getting a Date Value
Am a newbie to java .....I want to subtract 7 days from a Date(Fetched from database) and have to get that subtracted date..(eg.) if my database date is 11-03-2011., i have to subtract 7 days from it. and i hav to get as 04-03-2011 as output..i tried but couldn't get it..pls help me as am new to this field...
Thanks in advance,
if you have a Date object you can create a Calendar object from that Date.
Calendar cal = new Calendar();
Thank u very much mate...that was very helpful
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Germany’s energy regulator provides estimated that monthly heating bills could triple next year due to a significant decrease in Russian gas imports.
“ For those today receiving their heating bill, the payments are already duplicity — and that is before having into account the Ukraine war, ” Federal Network Agency chief Klaus Mü ller told Germany’s RND news outlet.
“ From 2023, clients must prepare for bills to at least triple, ” he or she said, adding that marketplace prices were increasing sevenfold in some cases.
Individuals will need to make financial provisions, the grid agency boss warned.
“ It won’t affect all customers immediately or in full, but at some point it has to be paid for, ” he said. “ That’s why it makes a lot sense to save more today. ”
Will Germany run out of gas?
Mü ller said higher procurement expenses could be met with subsidies for gas companies or even by passing the cost onto consumers while offering state assistance to those unable to pay the particular increased prices.
Germany relies heavily on imported Russian gas, items of which have dropped given that the Kremlin ordered the troops to invade Ukraine.
Nevertheless, Mü ller said private households would be protected during a power crisis under German plus European law.
“ Even in the worst-case scenario, Germany will always get gas from Norwegian and from terminals in Belgium and Holland, plus soon directly from terminals at the German coast, ” he or she stressed.
Economic climate Ministry predicts ‘ gloomier outlook’ for second half of 2022
The particular German economy has so far weathered the impact from the Ukraine war, but there are major concerns about what impact a further reduction of Russian gas deliveries will have in the coming months, the Economic climate Ministry said.
“ Uncertainties about the continuation of Russian gas products are creating a noticeably gloomier outlook for the second half of the year, ” the ministry said in its monthly statement published Thursday.
Fears grow that Nord Stream won’t be turned back again on
Energy giant Gazprom said upon Wednesday it could not ensure the functioning of the Nord Stream gas pipeline that will transports 55 billion cubic meters of gas every year from Russia to Australia under the Baltic Sea.
On Monday, Nord Stream was shut down regarding annual maintenance work. The EU and Russian gas-dependent Germany in particular are now waiting to see if the pipeline will be turned back upon. The repair work is scheduled to last ten days.
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The clash of two ideas often brings a third and even more effective idea. #coachjoe✅A problem oriented argument is not a resolution. Is the individual searching for complicity? Cut the statement and ask a question.✅Advice giver problem-solving does not work. Tell less and ask more. Don’t let answer finding dominate the conversation.4 Practicle tips:📌 Stay curious and get used to asking questions with genuine interest to understand.📌 Ask for clarity. “If this was a thing what would the challenge here, be like for you?” “ I have a sense of the overall challenge. What’s the real challenge here… for you?“📌 The aha question. “And what else?” Ask 3 or more times to make sure everything’s on the table.📌 Closure. Move on when it’s time. Is there anything else? What was most useful here for you? | <urn:uuid:c55bad29-0267-4012-80f5-b37b3b58575b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joeclementi.com/2021/08/24/the-clash-of-two-ideas-often-brings-a-third-and-even-more-effective-idea-coachjoe%E2%9C%85a-problem-oriented-argument-is-not-a-resolution-is-the-individual-searching-for-complicity-cut-the-stateme/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.936399 | 211 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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The most recent Insight Report from Mercator Advisory Group’s biannual CustomerMonitor Survey Series reveals that 29% of U.S. consumers own EMV-enabled chip cards, up from 10% who did in 2014, and 1 in 3 EMV card holders have used them in EMV readers in merchant terminals in the United States. Although many recognize they must dip the chip card in the checkout terminal rather than swiping it and are not bothered by the new process, 28% of EMV cardholders are bothered by it, consider it confusing, or try to avoid stores that force them to dip their chip card rather than swipe it. Young adults (52%) and mobile payers (58%) are especially likely to say so, suggesting some consumers may be likely to use mobile payments whenever they can to circumvent EMV cards. Mobile payments may potentially disrupt the credit card process by changing the way consumers choose “top of wallet” payment cards. Consumers must choose which payment cards to load in their mobile wallet and then choose the payment method for each purchase, a task more time-consuming, though less convenient than stuffing a few cards in a wallet.
U.S. Consumers and Credit: Potential Disruption to Issuers, the latest report from Mercator Advisory Group’s Primary Data Service, shows that there may be a wider variety of potential disruptors to credit card use for payments and borrowing on credit than just EMV and mobile payments. Marketplace lenders, usually found online, are offering consumers a way to obtain personal loans with faster turnarounds and potentially lower rates than offered by financial institutions by directly connecting investors with borrowers online through peer-to-peer lending sites.
Security issues are a concern among consumers given the frequent occurrence of data breaches. Most consumers appreciate the added security of chip-enabled payment cards. In fact, there is growing interest among consumers who do not yet have an EMV card, but want to obtain one, especially for debit cards, since more consumers have chip-enabled credit cards than debit cards. Enhanced security services such as card controls to reduce fraud are also of growing interest.
This study examines the demographic landscape of credit card use, use of co-branded credit or charge card programs by type, shift of credit card use to other payment types, 13 brands or types of financial institutions of credit or charge cards used, notice of and reaction to merchant steering practices, usage of marketplace lenders, consumer experience of changing fees, APRs, motivators to increase credit card borrowing and credit card spending, application channels used for general purpose credit cards and store credit cards, and consumers’ notice of and reaction to merchant rules for credit card use and interest in mobile-based account controls.
The report presents the findings from Mercator Advisory Group’s CustomerMonitor Survey Series online panel of 3,008 U.S. adult consumers surveyed in June 2015.
“Consumers are excited by the implied security enhancement of EMV and want to obtain EMV-enabled cards, but they don’t want to be bogged down by early implementation issues at the point of sale,” states Karen Augustine, manager of Primary Data Services including CustomerMonitor Survey Series at Mercator Advisory Group and author of the report.
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Thanks to today’s advances in orthodontic technology, Greater Houston Orthodontics can provide our patients with more options than ever before when it comes to wearing braces. While regular metal braces are still widely used, clear braces are becoming increasingly popular, as well as removable appliances that can be used for mild cases of misaligned teeth.
Traditional Metal Braces
Traditional metal braces are the most common type of braces and are smaller and more comfortable today than ever before. Made of high-grade stainless steel, metal braces straighten your teeth using metal brackets and archwires. With metal braces, you have the option of adding colored elastics (rubber bands) for a more unique and colorful smile.
Ceramic braces are made of clear materials and are therefore less visible on your teeth than metal braces. For this reason, ceramic braces are used mainly on older teenagers and adult patients who have aesthetic concerns. While they are visually less prominent, they do require more attention to oral hygiene as ceramic braces are larger than metal braces. The only drawback to ceramic brackets is that they are more fragile, and the elastic ties can discolor between orthodontic visits with certain foods and smoking.
Clear appliances, such as Invisalign, use a series of invisible, removable, and comfortable aligners to straighten your teeth. And, no one can tell you are wearing those aligners because they are invisible! Not only are the aligners invisible, they are removable, so you can eat and drink what you want while in treatment, plus brushing and flossing are less of a hassle. The aligners are comfortable and have no metal to cause mouth abrasions during treatment.
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The invisible alternative for patients who don’t want to wear braces or when invisible braces by Invisalign are not an option. Placed behind your teeth, no one will know that you are wearing braces unless you tell them.
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May 29, 2014
(++++) BEYOND THE ATMOSPHERIC
Rules of Summer. By Shaun Tan. Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic. $18.99.
Food Trucks! By Mark Todd. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $16.99.
One of the most provocatively surrealistic authors of children’s books today, Shaun Tan, triumphs again with yet another book whose highly unusual art and minimalist treatment of words combine to produce a story with considerable depth and more than a touch of the outré. Rules of Summer is, on the surface, simply about an older brother telling his younger brother what to do and not do during summertime. The rules are arbitrary and their rationale is never explained; indeed, the rules often make no sense – or rather they make perfect sense if you accept the way Tan portrays the possible results of breaking them. The very first rule, for example, is “Never leave a red sock on the clothesline.” The illustration shows just such a thing – a single red sock on an otherwise empty clothesline – and also shows the two boys cowering behind a fence, the older with his hand over the younger’s mouth to prevent any outcry, while just past the fence, a gigantic ruddy-furred rabbit is crouched, looking at the red sock with its own very red and subtly baleful eye. This is strange and scary, although not too scary – and the book proceeds in much the same way, page after page. “Never eat the last olive at a party” shows the younger boy about to do just that, from an enormous plate, while the older holds him back and all the guests at the party stare – all of them are gigantic birds, dressed in identical near-clerical costume, with hooked beaks and penetrating black eyes staring at that olive. In “never step on a snail,” the younger boy has done just that, and a gigantic tornado, topped by clouds that almost sport demonic features (but not quite), has just destroyed a house and is heading right for both boys. Even the more-humorous illustrations here are positively eerie. “Never ruin a perfect plan” is drawn entirely in shades of grey except for a bright red strawberry, which is being carried away by one of four armored and tailed creatures of some sort, one armed with a fork and another with a serrated knife. But close examination shows that the utensil wielders really are the armored tailed things, while the strawberry carrier is the older brother and the other armored creature is the younger brother, who has just stepped on and broken the tail of the older one’s armor costume (hence ruining the perfect plan to walk off with the strawberry, which is the size of the older brother himself). The weirdness of Tan’s books makes them inappropriate for really young readers: the words are simple, but the images can be the stuff of nightmares even though Tan manages not to make anything overtly horrifying. Still, “always know the way home,” with the younger brother on the handlebars of a bike pedaled by the older through a destroyed landscape that includes a ruined satellite dish, crashed airplane and gigantic animal skull, could easily keep some children up at night – some adults, too, for that matter. The final brilliant color burst as the boys march through a landscape of luscious foods helps balance everything, and the very last page, with them sitting in an ordinary room watching ordinary TV amid pictures – just pictures – of the various creatures of nightmare from the rest of the book, certainly leavens matters. But the overall effect of Rules of Summer is, as with all Tan’s books, disturbing and faintly scary. And sometimes not so faintly.
Strange in its own way, although not nearly as odd as Tan’s book, Mark Todd’s Food Trucks! manages to mix peculiar drawings, in which trucks reflect the edibles sold from them, with forthright factual information about the components of the food – all this wrapped up with bits of free verse and the occasional rhyme. A curious book in its factual emphasis combined with its distinctly anthropomorphic treatment of the trucks, Todd’s work includes a breakfast, hamburger, barbecue, falafel, salad, chowder, grilled cheese, cupcake, sushi, Indian food, taco, pretzel, waffle and ice cream truck, each drawn so amusingly appropriately that in hands other than Todd’s, the whole book could simply be a short and light overview of the food-truck world. The ice cream truck, for instance, is named Ice Queen and sports a radiator shaped like a big smile and headlights that look like eyes with long lashes. The pretzel truck is called Dutch and has huge pretzels on both sides, mirrors with pupils to represent eyes, and a big drooping mustache. The salad truck, known as Mr. Cobb, has a front license plate that reads GD 4 U and a motto on the side, “Lettuce Eat Healthy.” But the trucks’ appearance is only part of what Todd offers here. On the salad-truck pages, for instance, he includes this nibble of reality: “Green Truck in San Diego runs on vegetable oils, and all of their [sic] utensils are made out of potato starch so they are compostable.” The hamburger-truck presentation notes that “September 18 is National Cheeseburger Day.” For Bubba Q, the barbecue truck (with a bull’s horns and nose ring), Todd points out, “In Texas, barbecue means beef, particularly brisket. But for most southerners, barbecue means pork.” The falafel-truck pages define falafel, couscous, pita and chickpeas – and note that the world’s biggest falafel weighed 155 pounds and was created in 2012. The presentation of Charley Chowda, a truck with buck teeth and eyeglasses, explains that “the word clam is derived from the same Scottish word that means ‘vise’ or ‘clamp.’” And although that truck looks far-fetched, Todd mentions a real one in Boston: a truck called Lobsta Love. There are a few unfortunate grammatical errors here, and some spelling mistakes that point to poor editing: “cardamon” instead of “cardamom,” for example, and “tumeric” instead of “turmeric.” The poetry is only so-so, not scanning particularly well and sometimes reaching too far for a rhyme, as when describing a California roll: “Seaweed-wrapped crab, rice, cucumber, and avocado,/ Made by a master chef aficionado.” The cleverness of Todd’s concept, and his attempt to do more than create a standard picture book despite using fairly standard picture-book elements, are strengths; the somewhat sloppy writing and editing are minuses. As a result, Food Trucks! gets a (+++) rating: it is certainly tasty but falls short of being delectable. | <urn:uuid:90440d07-5a8e-49d2-9800-33e08ba65e2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://transcentury.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-atmospheric.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948582 | 1,501 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Apprenticeships have helped turn the life around of 19-year-old, Steven Flowers, who is loving his job as a successful bricklaying apprentice with K Scott Construction Ltd.
Steven from Biddulph found the classroom environment at school hard. He says: " I did struggle to concentrate. Not all young people work well in the classroom environment. I wanted to be outside, doing something I enjoyed."
After finishing school, Steven went to college for a short while and then found apprenticeship provider, PM Training, starting on the pre-apprenticeship programme learning a variety of trades before gaining an apprenticeship.
Steven says: "The staff are what makes PM Training for me. Brian Pepper and Pete Williamson are so great. You can have a laugh with them, but they keep you grounded and focus on your work. I've learnt so much from the staff here. I used to suffer from my anger management, but the staff have helped me to manage it, and they care about you as an individual."
What kind of things have you learnt since being at PM Training?
"I picked up loads of skills when working on the Homeworks vans. I was painting and decorating and quickly learned the basics and can even wallpaper now, which I never thought I would be able to do".
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"I'm working at K Scott Construction Ltd, as an apprentice bricklayer and enjoy it. I feel like I've succeeded, and I'm proud of myself. The days go fast, and it's always great to see what you have built at the end. You feel like you have achieved something. I'm picking up new skills on the job too and love being able to have good banter with work colleagues.
I've recently been going to Jujitsu, and it's helped me focus on my apprenticeship. Sometimes you need to clear your head, and it makes a difference."
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On Monday, a dead whale floated ashore in eastern Indonesia with its stomach full of plastic junk, including 115 plastic cups and two pairs of flip-flops.
World Wildlife Fund researchers found roughly 6kg of plastic in the 9.45m long sperm whale, reports the Associated Press. The whale landed near the Wakatobi National Park known for coral reefs and marine wildlife. Unfortunately, visitors and locals were in for a sight when this big guy washed up. Community members had begun to butcher the carcass when rescuers found it, according to the AP.
The team still has not determined a cause of death and may not be able to due to the whale’s level of decay, but the plastic waste found in its belly — reportedly more than 1,000 pieces all told — was cause for concern. A plastic bag and a nylon sack were among the rubbish.
A pilot whale died under similar circumstances earlier this year in Thailand. Black plastic bags crowded its stomach, which marine biologists speculated had caused the animal to starve to death.
The waters along Southeast Asia suffer from an inordinate amount of plastic pollution as the world’s top plastic polluters are concentrated in this area: China, Indonesia, the Phillippines, and Vietnam. Between 55 to 60 per cent of the plastics that enter our oceans come from this rapidly developing region, according to a 2017 report from Ocean Conservancy.
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Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Throughout history, activists have proven that true patriotism demands a vigilant confrontation with government infamy.
Relinquishing privacy and transparency has stifled genuine public debate about the goals of our policy and left us both stupid and weak.
A bipartisan bill would end the NSA’s bulk data collection as we know it.
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China's current leader, Hu Jintao, and his heir apparent, Xi Jinping, are pushing the ruling communist party to adopt an internal election system for determining new leadership, according to reports in Reuters.
If accurate, the plan would be the most extensive democratic reform to hit China adopted since the Communist Party took power in 1949.
According to the report, Hu and Xi have proposed that the party's 18th Congress — which will open on Thursday — should offer more candidates for the highest level of government than there are seats and then hold internal elections in order to determine the next government, three sources with ties to the party leadership told Reuters.
The proposal would call for elections in order to determine the makeup of the Politburo, the second highest governing authority in China. The Politburo chooses the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), the highest decision-making body. Currently, it is made up of nine individuals — but it will be restricted to seven members during the next government's reign.
The Politburo is chosen by the 200-member Central Committee, which is itself chosen by over 2,000 delegates — all of which will gather at the 18th Party Congress this week.
Reuters says that elections under the new proposal, the party will field up to 20 percent more candidates than there are seats in an election to determine the new Politburo. So, "a Politburo with, say, 25 seats would be contested by a maximum of 30 candidates, leaving five of the candidates put forward by party power-brokers at risk of defeat." Reuters did not confirm whether or not the elections would be extended to the PSC.
Because the PSC is chosen by the Politburo, Reuters notes " such a reform could also lead to surprises at the most elite level of the party, which is normally decided by painstaking consensus in a series of back-room negotiations.
The report would seem to confirm rumors that have pegged Xi as a more reformist candidate than the hard-line, communist conservatives which make up a sizeable portion of Chinese leadership. Bloomberg reports today that Xi's leadership has been marked by a balance of capitalist and communist elements.
After speaking with Xi in October, former Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger speculated that "it’s unlikely that in 10 years [ after Xi's government leaves power] the next generation will come into office with exactly the same institutions that exist today. Many economic leaders around the globe are particularly excited about the new government. Former U.S. ambassador to China and Republican presidential candidate John Huntsman told Bloomberg that he thinks Xi has “reform in his DNA.”
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ISSAQUAH, Wash., June 26, 2015 — EarthDefine, a provider of high-resolution spatial data products, has created a seamless 1 meter resolution tree cover dataset for California.
This dataset updates its previous tree map for California using the newest 2014 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery. The source aerial imagery was flown between May and October 2014.
The California SpatialCover Tree Canopy dataset is derived from a 6 class land cover classification for California that maps trees, impervious surfaces, bare land, water, herbaceous cover and shrubs at over 30 times the resolution of existing state level datasets for California. EarthDefine’s Tree Canopy data allows users to accurately measure and understand tree cover at regional and local levels, especially in mixed urban and agricultural landscapes. The tree map can help planners assess urban tree canopy for any city in the state and also support other applications like biomass estimation, wildfire risk monitoring, studying interactions between public health and tree cover, quantification of ecosystem services and improved modeling of stormwater flows.
EarthDefine also provides the most accurate available data source for mapping impervious surfaces across California. This dataset improves on currently available data at 30 meter resolution that can significantly underestimate built up ground cover in less developed areas. The impervious surface data can help improve current estimates of stormwater pollutant loads and reductions.
Processing high resolution aerial imagery over large areas has not been a cost effective proposition in the past due to the large volumes of data involved and the challenges in managing source image variability arising from multiple acquisition dates. EarthDefine has addressed these big data challenges by developing a high throughput Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) platform. This platform can process multiple terabytes of geospatial data while applying sophisticated rules that can take the spectral properties and contextual information of a ground object into account while assigning its most likely land cover type. The GEOBIA platform integrates multiple data sources including the base 4 band color infrared imagery, demographic data, cadastral and transportation vectors to produce the California tree map and other land cover classes.
EarthDefine has created similar products for Indiana and will continue to grow its tree mapping database to cover more states over the next year by building on the best available orthoimagery and LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data. For more information on EarthDefine products, please visit www.earthdefine.com. | <urn:uuid:5c592f4e-a2be-4dbb-b1d1-227797907cc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eijournal.com/news/business-2/earthdefine-releases-high-resolution-tree-map-for-california | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.897171 | 496 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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