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A female piping plover stands amid shells on a beach. The threatened shorebirds are having a banner nesting season in Monmouth County, with at least 20 chicks fledging in Sea Bright. Photo: Don Riepe/American Littoral Society
By Liz Sheehan |
SEA BRIGHT – Piping plovers, the federally threatened and endangered shorebirds, are enjoying their summer on the borough beachfront.
According to Christina Davis, an environmental specialist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Fish and Wildlife, 55 pairs of plovers have been tabulated in the area: 42 at Sandy Hook, 10 in Sea Bright and four in Monmouth Beach.
Davis said that the borough has the highest number of plovers among the municipalities in the state. The town “is off the charts,” she said.
Piping plovers breed only in North America and have been listed as threatened or endangered around the country since December 1985, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website. The plovers are small shorebirds, about seven inches long, with sand-colored plumage on top and white underneath, sporting black bands around the breast and black markings on the head.
Davis said the male plovers usually arrive first in the area in March and tend to return to the same places yearly if that habitat has not been damaged. More of the birds arrive in late April or May, she said.
The birds remain at their coastal breeding grounds for three to four months a year, laying three to four eggs “in shallow scraped depressions lined with light colored pebbles and shell fragments,” according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website. The eggs are “well camouflaged and blend extremely well with their surroundings.”
To protect the birds, the plovers’ nesting areas are fenced off from the rest of the beach.
Jeff Dement, chief naturalist for the American Littoral Society at Sandy Hook, said the biggest dangers to the survival of the plovers are foxes and humans. He said some of the fences surrounding the birds’ nesting areas have been electrified, but foxes have been observed teaching other foxes how to dig under the electrified fences.
Davis said she did not have an update on how many plovers remained in the area, but a report from the DEP to Sea Bright which was posted on the borough’s web site said four chicks and two adults remained in the fenced area of the Sea Bright beach on July 28, north of Shrewsbury Avenue.
Two of the chicks were estimated to fledge – having the feathers necessary for flight and being capable of flying short distances – by July 31, the report said. According to the report, 20 chicks fledged in Sea Bright this year, making the borough a “bright light for the season.”
The plovers leave for their winter quarters any time from mid-July to October, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website.
Davis said that as the plovers depart, the fences around their nesting areas are rearranged. The plovers from this area fly south to North Carolina to as far south as Florida, the Bahamas or the gulf coast for the winter, she said.
This article was first published in the Aug. 17-24, 2017 print edition of The Two River Times. | |
Hello can you check my essay please:
The first chart describe why some people cycling to work, the second one describe why others prefer driving to work.
Therese 2 main reason for way people prefer ride bicycle for 30%, first is health and fitness the second is that a bicycle is less pollution than a car, while 15% of theme prefer bicycle for it parking facility, the other 13% said that bicycle doesn’t need any cost and surprisingly the last 12% considered that cycling is faster than driving.
In the other hand, the major reason for driving to work is the comfort for 40%, while 21% of people said that they prefer driving to work because of long distance, the other reason is that a car is faster than a bicycle to 14%, a similar percent said that they need to carry things to work, and lastly 11% considered the driving safer than cycling.
In general the major people prefer driving a car to work its comfort, while the main reason for cycling to work is healthy and environmental. | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/hello-can-you-check-my-essay-please.252294/ |
Bodleian Library’s new £26M storage facility in Swindon, Wiltshire, recently unveiled to the national media, will ultimately store over eight million volumes of books and maps for Oxford University’s world-renowned library. Built to the British Standard for Storage of the Archival Document – BS 5454:2000, the 127,900 sq ft warehouse has 31 aisles of shelving providing over 153 miles of storage capacity. Over the next year, nearly six million books and more than 1.2 million maps will be transferred from Oxford to the storage facility.
SSI Schaefer worked with other members of the design team led by Scott Brownrigg architects, logistics consultants Total Logistics and building contractor MACE. Once the internal racking structure layout, specified by SSI Schaefer, was agreed, the building was then designed around it.
Background
The Bodleian Library in Oxford, used by students and scholars around the globe, first opened to scholars in 1602 following financial rescue by Sir Thomas Bodley around 1598. It incorporates an earlier library erected by the University in the fifteenth century to house books donated by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester.
Following an agreement in 1610 with the Stationers’ Company of London under which a copy of every book published in England and registered at Stationers’ Hall would be deposited in the new library the library’s collections began to expand and the additional books immediately imposed an extra strain on space. The first extension to the medieval building was planned and financed in 1610-12, known as Arts End. The Bodleian’s comprehensive collection of books, papers and maps has continued to expand with increasing momentum over the last 150 years.
This was the start of Bodleian’s continued journey to effectively manage and maintain its on-going storage demands – with currently 40 libraries associated with Bodleian receiving over 1,000 books in total each day, here is the response to today’s Bodleian space requirements to see through the next 20 years.
Challenge
The Bodleian Library needed to develop a new storage strategy to move and safely store over eight million items including the special storage of hand-drawn maps dating back to the 14th and 15th Century. This became more urgent with the decision to renovate and redevelop the New Bodleian, which had previously been the major book storage building, as a Special Collections Research Library with rooms for public exhibitions. The £78M project, currently underway, will be completed by 2015 when it will reopen as the Weston Library.
The scale of the challenge being to store material away in a location easily accessible by road networks in order to retrieve material as and when needed within 24 hours following publication requests from Scholars and students all over the world to be viewed within Bodleian’s famous Reading Rooms.
Response
With preferred storage solutions provider SSI Schaefer on board together with Total Logistics, appointed to consult on the project, a new site in Swindon was found, 28 miles away, and work began to come up with a brand new purpose built storage facility.
Solution
In just under 25 weeks SSI Schaefer designed, supplied and installed a bespoke High Rise, High Density Narrow Aisle Shelving Structure standing at 11.4 metres high providing 3,224 bays and 247,000 linear metres of shelving.
The 15 metres high building, of which 90% of the total capacity cube is utilised, also houses a four-level multi-tier walk-on racking structure supporting 600 new tailor-made steel cabinets that will hold over 1.2 million maps and large format items.
With 38 shelf levels from the ground up, the system provides over 690,404 storage tray locations, all items transferred to the site will be individually bar-coded and put into five different sized cardboard trays, double and triple deep, that fit well within the standard 1283mm wide shelf locations.
The ventilation system is designed to push and pull airflow – the design temperature, humidity and air filtration is automatically controlled in order to protect the books from sudden changes in temperature.
Timeline
The new facility has now been completed on time allowing the book move task to start. From November 2010 throughout 2011, 6.5 million books, manuscripts and periodicals will be moved from Oxford to the new site in Swindon. | https://mhwmagazine.co.uk/ssi-schaefer-develop-new-storage-facility-for-bodleian-library.html |
Our bodies, brains included, are designed to respond without thinking. Primed to protect our personhood via reactionary behaviors, the reliance of our brain on pre-patterned programming impacts how we interpret what we perceive and how we react behaviorally. Yet, if we slow down the automaticity, if we read our environment from a state of openness and conscious awareness and override our internalized, evolutionarily-organized, knee-jerk response, our lives change.
To save time, unconsciously of course, our brains learned to scan and capture parts of experiences real and written, a glimpse or two, a syllable or so, and fill in the rest, for better or worse, right or wrong. And in that instant we determine the situation, assign meaning, and respond.
With this in mind, I offer two words bandied about in psychological literature today and invite you to notice what comes to mind the instant you read attachment theory ? …
Next I offer the term social engagement. Then I add the name Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D.
The words social and engagement most likely moved from a general concept based on different perspectives to a specific argued position and theory, namely the Polyvagal Theory which Dr Porges originated, which spawned a plethora of clinical applications in a multitude of science based and educational focused fields.
The problem, however, with terms like attachment and social engagement is that they are definitively linked to theories. When we hear the word attachment we intuitively interpret it and limit it to the theory. Intellectual expansion, clinical application is stalled unless someone can stop the thought process for a moment, confound the known, and intrigue the listener/reader to look with the eye of the mind.
Porges does just that. Building on a lifetime of research, he spreads his viewpoint beyond current theory, including his own, to build new constructs that positively impact peoples lives. Take for instance the term social bonding It presents a larger concept; there is no specific theory in the mainstream lexicon to address the question, what facilitates social bonding?
The answer, according to Porges, resides in the concept of safety. Without safety there is no social engagement which is the precursor for healthy social bonding. The real issue in therapeutic modeling and relationships is whether the individual is safe in the presence of the other, he said. If safe, then you (the therapist) have created a neural platform, a biobehavioral platform appropriate for attachment and social bonding. If the platform is not safe, if it is chaotic with unpredictable relationships, it will fail.
Safety, it seems, is tied to predictability. If we are in a predictable environment (geographically as well as relationally) people may experience a sense of inner peace and connection; unpredictability triggers the physiological states of flight/fight associated with the sympathetic nervous system. The degree of predictability colors our experiences, Porges said.
To feel safe in a defined environment and to turn off our adaptive defensive systems is the goal of civilization; the underlying strategy to optimize attachment is to negate evolution, Porges said. We have wonderful defense systems, but we cannot create relationships, cannot access wisdom and creativity unless we can turn off our evolutionarily programmed defense systems.
When we are mobilized for defense we give up access to social engagement components: benevolence, care, compassion, shared experiences, he continued. Being mobilized for defensive states results in biological rudeness and the whole aspect of what is gained by being interactive with another cannot play out because we are in survival mode. The parts of the prefrontal cortex that give us the ability to be relational go offline, we cannot separate beyond good and bad. Our expansiveness, creativity and social relationships are hampered.
Addressing our current educational system, Porges noted that current theory assumes humans are learning machines which conflicts with the reality that we are mammals trying to survive. Because adaptations to survive perceived dangers limit our processing systems, children who do not feel safe in the classroom setting cannot process language. There goes following verbal instructions. Children who do not feel safe in their classroom cannot remain calm. Their bodies are primed for defensive maneuvers. Despite the reality of physiological impacts on learning and engagement, the predominant features of learning theory minimize the importance of individual differences and developmental differences. Colleges of education base their curriculums on a behavioral level learning model with no respect for individual development and state (affective state), Porges said. By understanding features of the environment that trigger sympathetic nervous system responses, we can change where and how we learn (and work), such as focusing on low frequency noises and predictable environments to create states of safety that promote proximity.
To balance our needs for social interaction with our needs for safety, we must know when to turn the defenses off and when to turn the defenses back on, said Porges. This is a major issue in our society. When are we safe to be in the arms of another? When are we safe to go to school? When are we safe to go to sleep? People often say they do not feel safe, and because they have difficulties turning off their defense systems, they cannot truly experience safety. We do not want our clients to live their lives tightly wrapped, anxious, and defensive. If they are tightly wrapped with tense muscles and a highly activated sympathetic nervous system they convey a state of defensiveness to others that signals it is not safe to be in close proximity with this person. Social interactions are characterized by continuously transmitting cues of danger and/or safety to one another and whether it is safe to be held in the arms of another or retreat and protect ourselves. I have used the term neuroception to explain this dynamic interactive process.
From a therapeutic perspective, we look at people as being capable of using another human being to regulate their (affect) state, can they use someone to calm, to feel comfort, or are they better off isolated from other people and using objects to regulate? he continued. Sure there are individual differences and state variations in the ability and propensity to regulate with others or alone; yet, society has mandated that we need to always use other people. In the clinical world, we focus regulation on the interpersonal interaction restricting the individual to interact with the other. Face-to- face or hands-on-the-body, the recipient is required to feel safe with features of the environment whether he/she feels safe or not.
If we are not safe, we are chronically in a state of evaluation and defensiveness, Porges added. However if we can engage the circuits that support social engagement, we can regulate the neural platform that enables social engagement behaviors to spontaneously emerge. From a Polyvagal Perspective, this is the objective of therapy.
Our nervous system is bombarded with cues to be on the alert, to be prepared to protect and defend. Yet, safe environments are important for everything we do, especially psychotherapy. Thinking about various therapeutic approaches such as Sensorimotor, Somatic Experiencing, and Mindfulness Meditation, Porges realized that even these exercises need to be conducted in a safe environment. Mindfulness meditation, for example, involves experiencing a state of non-judgment existence while our defensive system associated with the sympathetic nervous system is all about judgment and evaluation. Furthermore, if someone is practiced in the art of self regulation during a meditative state, he often loses that regulatory ability when he returns to the outside world (and interacts with others).One goal of therapy, then, might be to help clients regulate their visceral state both together and then in varying degrees alone in order to engage and enjoy interactions with others. Perception, Porges said, involves a degree of awareness and cognition, while neuroception emphasizes that the process also occurs on a neural basis.
Safety is an embodied experience, sensed first within the pulse of our blood, the beat of our heart, the rate of our respiration, even the sweat on our skin. Our bodies offer subtle cues, a slight sense of dis- ease, as well as overt reactions. In social interactions our bodies function very much like a polygraph, Porges explained, and we need to learn more about how to read and to respect the responses of our body. We have to know that when we feel uncomfortable there is a reason our body is feeling uncomfortable; rather than dismissing or denying this bodily feeling, we need to adapt and adjust to it.
People are often pushed to evaluate behavior as good or bad rather than being supported to see the adaptive function of their behaviors as regulating physiological and behavioral states.Learn more When we can view our adaptations as a means to secure survival and respect how our body and nervous system put us into a physiological state to survive, Porges said, we can also acknowledge that those same adaptations now hamper our ability to live fully and creatively and engaged.
Bio: Stephen W. Porges, PhD was the Professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the Principal Researcher for Behavioral Neuroscience at Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International in North Carolina. He is a former president of the Society for Psychological Research and also the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. He is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic system to the emergence of social behavior. The theory provides a theoretical perspective to study and treat stress and trauma.
Professor Porges is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (Norton, 2011).
Stanley Rosenberg – Polyvagal theory – Social Engagement protocol
Application of Craniosacral Therapy to the Polyvagal Theory – developed by Stanley Rosenberg at the SR Institute in Denmark –
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What is the social engagement protocol (craniosacral therapy) good for?
Traditionally, cranio-sacral therapy has been known to help with functions of the autonomic nervous system (stress/relaxation) and the central nervous system (by improving circulation to the brain, brain stem and the spinal cord), hormone balance, orthodontics, and muscular-skeletal problems.
Over the last two and a half years, the Stanley Rosenberg Institute has developed a special protocol of selected techniques taught by Osteopath Alain Gehin, We call this unique form of cranio-sacral therapy “The Social Engagement Protocol” in order to underline that this is not the usual, popular form of cranio-sacral therapy, but rather a new and effective combination of techniques from the French tradition. In addition to providing the same benefits that are often ascribed to treatment with cranio-sacral therapy as listed above, this new protocol is unique in its effectiveness in lifting people from chronic states of stress (fight/flight) and depression. contact me
(introverted apathy) to a state of clarity, peace and openness, where they enjoy being together with other people.
Inspiration for developing the Social Engagement protocol comes from Dr. Stephen Porges (Brain-Body Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago). In 1996, Dr. Porges published a paper presenting the “Polyvagal Theory”. This is a new understanding of the function of the autonomic nervous system. | https://encinitascenterforhealing.com/polyvagal-theory-and-social-engagement.html |
The Coding Quality Coordinator will act as part of the broader coding audit and coder-clinician liaison team to ensure the highest possible level of coding accuracy at the RBWH, including close liaison with medical officers and other relevant staff regarding required clinical documentation for clinical coding and Activity Based Funding purposes. The Coding Quality Coordinator position will contribute to the improvement of coding quality outcomes within the areas of Women’s and Newborn Services, Cancer Care Services, Critical Care, Internal Medicine and Surgical and Peri-operative Services at RBWH.
Context
▪ This role reports directly to the Assistant Director, Coding Quality and Assurance.
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to:
▪ Actively participate in the clinical coding quality assurance program including individual, departmental and targeted coding audits, and provision of audit feedback and education to relevant staff, to ensure a high standard of coding accuracy, consistency and timeliness.
▪ Contribute to and expand the coder clinician liaison program to improve the quality of clinical documentation for accurate and optimal assignment of DRGs within an ABF environment.
Key Accountabilities
This successful applicant will carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North values and the corresponding Lominger™ competencies shown above in this role description:
Coding Audit
▪ Actively participate in and undertake audits outlined in the clinical coding quality assurance program to ensure departmental objectives are met including development of schedules for individual, departmental and targeted coding audits.
▪ Develop and perform coding quality improvement activities suitable to an Activity Based Funding environment including coder audits, Diagnosis Related Group targeted audits, service-wide coding audits, audits relating to QLD Health KPI’s such as VLADs (Variable life Adjusted Displays).
▪ Participate in the analysis, validation and reconciliation of coded data using appropriate information management tools to ensure coded data integrity.
▪ Collate audit results and develop coding quality reports for distribution to HIS management.
Coder Clinician Liaison
▪ Expand and contribute to the RBWH Coder-Clinician Liaison program to improve quality of clinical documentation and provide education to clinicians regarding ABF, SNAP and clinical documentation for coding.
▪ Facilitate close liaison with medical officers with regards to documentation queries and requirements for accurate DRG assignment, while providing education regarding ABF, SNAP and clinical documentation for coding.
▪ Development and review of tools and procedures to improve documentation for coding.
Coder Education
▪ Contribute to coding education meetings (agenda, items for discussion, follow-up actions etc.).
▪ Identify training needs, develop and deliver education and training sessions for Coding and Clinical staff.
▪ Provide regular feedback on coding audit results to the coding team (including at monthly coding communication and education meetings).
Management Support
▪ Provide expert advice to HIS management on key coding classification issues that impact on ABF and other areas including performance reporting and benchmarking initiatives related to coded data.
▪ Provision of support to the Coding Manager with regards to improvements and strategic initiatives for the Coding Service.
▪ Initiate, manage and participate in quality improvement activities and initiatives.
▪ Act as a resource for coding advice and expertise to all members of the Clinical Coding Team.
▪ Represent RBWH on relevant external committees and report outcomes, changes and relevant directives.
▪ Manage own continuous learning in knowledge of clinical coding, ABF, and performance monitoring including new developments, legislation, and industry standards. | https://himaa.org.au/job/coding-quality-coordinator-2/ |
Rediscovering Beauty: Poems to Inspire Prayer and Contemplation During Lent
During this Lenten series we are focusing on the call to beauty in our lives and how paying more attention to those things that take our breath away might bring us closer to God and one another. Session II focuses on the second major type of Psalm, the Song of Thanksgiving. Along with a Psalm, we will look at poems from secular and spiritual writers with the understanding that in all language, in all poems, we might listen for and hear in their beauty, the presence of the divine. In these poems I have selected, I sense the speaker addressing in some way the human experience of lamentation but instructing us toward Beauty, Hope, Love & Connection in the presence of the Divine. We respond to this presence with wonder, awe, and gratitude.
Find a quiet place, make yourself comfortable, and as you read through the psalms, poems, and passages, reflect on the images that stir something within you. In the silence of your comfortable space, allow these words to speak to you. Where can you hear thanksgiving? For who or for what in your own life are you feeling grateful? Even in the secular poems, can you detect imagery or dialog that might symbolize the divine presence among us? If you like, share with us your thoughts by leaving a comment so we can connect with you.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
~ Rumi
The wonder of the Beautiful is its ability to surprise us. With swift, sheer grace, it is like a divine breath that blows the heart open.
~ John O’Donohue
Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? ~ Matt. 6:26
Featured Poems for Session II: Songs of Thanksgiving
Psalm 40 “I Waited Patiently for the Lord”
“Consumed in Grace” and “That Skill” by St. Catherine of Siena
“How Did the Rose” by Hafiz
“What Was Told, That” by Rumi
“Beannacht” by John O’Donohue (audio recording by poet)
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
“A Man Married to a Blind Woman” by Hafiz
“Guardian Angel” by Rolf Jacobson
May you experience each day as a sacred gift
woven around the heart of wonder. | http://www.theprovinceofjoy.com/?page_id=472 |
Centuries ago, before the printing press, books and other documents were painstakingly hand-crafted. Over their lifetime, these ‘manuscripts’ were edited, reused, cherished, and neglected. Imaging science can shed light on these documents’ secret pasts. Though invisible to the naked eye, scientists are able to recover faded and damaged writing that was considered lost to time. Focussing on European manuscripts, this talk will include a brief introduction to the history and creation of medieval manuscripts before discussing how imaging science is used to study them. Finally, I will bring together what we have learned with some amazing examples. Come learn about the exciting world of medieval manuscripts and discover how science can help tell the stories hidden within their pages. | https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/seminars/2021/april-28-more-than-meets-the-eye-shedding-light-on-medieval-manuscripts-with-imaging-science/ |
The Walleye Reuben
This walleye reuben is a spin on the traditional reuben sandwich, trading corned beef for walleye fillets that have been poached in spiced butter.
From what I could find, this variation on the original started somewhere in Minnesota, but I couldn’t find much information on it, so I made up my own recipe for it!
- Cook Time1 hr
- Yield2 large sandwiches
- Serving Size2-4 servings
- 1 lb (454g) butter
- 1 teaspoon (2g) coriander seeds
- 1 teaspoon (2g) black peppercorns
- 2 teaspoons (6g) mustard seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon (1g) fennel seeds
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon (1g) chili flakes
- 4 walleye fillets, skinless (save the scaled skin if they come with it on)
- 1/4 cup (60ml) mayonnaise
- 4 teaspoons (20ml) ketchup
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) prepared horseradish
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml) white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml) Worcestershire sauce
- 4 slices marbled rye bread
- 4 slices Swiss cheese
- 1 cup (250ml) sauerkraut, drained and squeezed (at room temperature)
Preparation
Add all of the butter to a deep skillet. Add the spices, turn the heat to low and melt the butter.
Let the spices steep in the butter on low for 15-30 minutes.
Slide the fish fillets into the butter. You may need to do this in two batches.
Turn the heat up slightly. If the butter starts spitting and bubbling, then the heat is too high. You want this to cook low and slow.
Meanwhile, mix the mayo, ketchup, horseradish, vinegar, and Worcestershire in a bowl. Set aside.
After about 10-15 minutes (depending on the size and thickness of the fillets) the fish should be done. Check by pressing a fork onto the thickest part of the fish. If it flakes easily, then it is done.
Remove the fillets to a plate and season them lightly with salt and pepper. If some of the spices came up with the fillets, you can either brush them off, or leave them. I left them on and thought it was nice to get a bite of them every once in a while.
You’ll be breaking them to fit onto the sandwiches, so don’t worry if they break while transferring them to the plate.
If you saved the skin, sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Spoon a tablespoon (15ml) or so of the poaching butter into another skillet.
Lay the skins down into the skillet and cook over medium high heat, flipping once, until crispy like a potato chip.
You can use this as a chef’s treat, a garnish for the sandwiches, or mix it into potato chips as a tasty side for the sandwich like I did.
Add another spoonful of the poaching butter to the frying pan. Add the bread slices (work in batches if they don’t all fit) and fry them until browned on one side only.
Take them out and turn the toasted side upwards. Add 2 slices of the cheese onto one of the slices. Add half of the fish, breaking it up to fit onto the sandwich, stacking it high. Add a drizzle of the sauce, then add half of the sauerkraut.
Add more sauce generously to another slice of bread (on the toasted side), then top the sandwich with it. Repeat for the other sandwich.
Add another spoonful of the poaching butter to the skillet and fry the sandwiches like you would grilled cheese, over medium heat. Make sure they’re nice and browned, about 3-5 minutes per side.
The butter can be strained and stored in the fridge to be used to poach more fish for a month or so.
To serve, cut the sandwiches in half and serve either half, or a whole sandwich immediately, along with a side of pickles and potato chips or salad. Enjoy! | https://theintrepideater.com/the-walleye-reuben/ |
We’ll take a gander at the phrase learn today in…
We’ll take a gander at the phrase learn today in the dictionary and thesaurus section. This is an expression that is scarcely used in everyday conversation. To use it properly, you must fully understand its meaning and applications. We’ll also look at synonyms of learn, antonyms, and examples of sentences.
We’ll begin with its definition before moving on to synonyms and antonyms. So, without giving too much away, let us start a detailed examination of this word.
Definition of Learn
Learn is a verb that comes from the Old High German word lernen. Its noun form is learning. Learn has the following meanings:
- Study, instruction, or experience are used to obtain knowledge, insight, or expertise in something.
- Being able to do something.
- Realizing or hearing about something previously unknown.
- To acquire information, expertise, or a behavioral inclination.
Definitions, by themselves, can confuse learners. That’s why we decided to follow this up with some example sentences below.
- He is learning to play the guitar.
- We just learned that he was terminally ill.
- As a student, you should read a lot to learn new words every day.
- I hope you learned your lesson after this.
Synonyms of Learn — Exploring Words With Similar Meanings
Master
Originates from Latin, magister. It meant large in Latin, and while this meaning is still applicable (for example — master bedroom), it isn’t suitable as a synonym of the word learn.
- Through sheer hard work and commitment, he mastered the English language.
- She mastered playing the violin when she was only 16.
- If you haven’t mastered this before graduating, your diploma is worthless.
Pick Up
This phrase can mean many things, such as the act of lifting something off the ground, i.e., picking up. However, its application as a synonym for learn is relatively new.
- He picked up many things by living on the streets, like pickpocketing.
- There are so many tourists here; I picked up English just by listening to them.
- My father picked up driving stick from my grandfather.
Discover
Comes from the old French expression descoverir.
- I just discovered a massive conspiracy within the company.
- He discovered that ruling a group of people wasn’t that easy.
- He thought he had landed in India, but he discovered an entirely new continent.
Antonyms of Learn
Learn doesn’t have any antonyms.
Conclusion
We hope that after reading this piece, you have a clearer understanding of the term learn. We searched up similar terms, antonyms, and, of course, the definition of the word. Please let us know if you have any additional words you’d want us to write!
Frequently asked questions
What grade do you learn synonyms and antonyms?
First graders can expand their vocabulary by learning about synonyms and antonyms. 1st grade grammar lessons introduce unfamiliar vocabulary words or teach how to find the opposite of words.
Is there another word for learn?
Learn is commonly defined as ascertain, determine, discover, and unearth. This may mean finding out what one did not previously know. Learn may represent acquiring knowledge with little effort or conscious intention (as by simply being told) or it may mean studying and practice.
How do you say learn?
What are synonyms?
|anything||all|
|everything||whatever|
|as||whatsoever|
|anything that||whatnot|
|all that||all the things|
What is a synonym for learning experience?
|life lesson||lesson|
|knowledge gained||lesson drawn|
|aha moment||learning moment|
|valuable experience||valuable lesson|
|lesson learnedUS||enlightenment|
What is the opposite of rate learning?
Repeating repeated material makes the recall process faster. Alternatives to rote learning include meaningful learning, associative learning, spaced repetition and active learning.
How do you learn synonyms and antonyms for competitive exams?
- It’s Not a Cram, but Read & Understand.
- Analyze the previous year’s papers.
- Keep reviewing difficult words.
- Synonyms/antonyms can be used in sentences.
- Let yourself guess in the exam.
- Method of elimination:
What is the past form of learn?
We use learned and learned as participles and past tenses of the verb to learn. That is the most common way of spelling it in the United States and Canada, but the rest of the world has preferred learning now.
What’s a word for learning new things?
|research||learning|
|swotting||academic work|
|acquiring new skills||developing new skills|
|mastering new skills||acquiring new information|
|acquiring new knowledge||learning new facts|
What is the antonyms of learn?
Antonyms. Disapproval of praise and refrain penalty weaken.
What is a synonym to learn?
Acquire knowledge of, gain an understanding of, acquire skill in, become competent in, becoming proficient in, grasp, master, take in, absorb, assimilate, pick up, digest, familiarize oneself with. You become expert in, know inside out, know backwards, understand.
What is the best synonym for learned?
- cultivated
- studied
- scientific
- scholarly
- cultured
- well-educated
- educated
- accomplished
What’s another word for always learning?
A scholar (/f*l*m*/) is a lover of learning and studying.
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How does Oaktree monitor its international development projects?
At Oaktree, transparency is important. If you donate money to our projects or join our campaigns, you want to know that your sweet cash money is being used effectively.
We have two international partnerships. In Timor-Leste we partner with Ba Futuru (translation: ‘For the Future’), a local NGO that improves school education through teacher training programs. In Cambodia we partner with ‘Kampuchean Action for Primary Education’ (KAPE), another local NGO providing education resources inside the classroom (such as books, pens and uniforms) and outside the classroom (by funding extracurricular activities).
Our partners follow particular guidelines that maintain transparency and promote open communication so that all projects continue to empower students through quality education.
Three ways Oaktree monitors projects:
1. Quarterly reports
Every 3 months, our partners in Timor (Ba Futuru) and Cambodia (KAPE) send us formal reports on how their funded projects are going. These reports include:
- Key successes including a breakdown of how many people our projects have reached and interviews with students who have benefitted from education programs
- General achievements and evidence of their positive impact (such as interviews with participants and descriptions of activities, workshop attendance numbers, a pre- and post-evaluations of participant learning)
- Potential program risks (any issues that may prevent our programs from running eg. absenteeism, scheduling hold-ups, difficulties reaching people due to regional areas, bad weather conditions)
- Overall financial breakdowns
2. Annual reports
Our annual reports are similar to our quarterly reports, but contain more in-depth reflections about the progress of projects overall. They include executive summaries and key recommendations.
3. Annual monitoring and evaluation trips from Oaktree
Once a year, one or two Oaktree volunteers and our Head of International Engagement travel to Cambodia and Timor-Leste to evaluate our projects. Oaktree staff conduct their own analysis of the projects with beneficiaries, including students and teachers at the schools, and staff at our respective partner organisations.
During the 2018 Monitoring and Evaluation trip, Oaktree staff facilitated student-led evaluation workshops. These workshops encouraged the students who had participated in our projects to evaluate their overall success. Students presented their findings to the staff and students in their schools.
Our projects are improving and changing all the time to fulfill our mission: to lead, demand, and create a more just world for young people.
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This is an advanced, specialist course in the rapidly expanding area of renewable energy engineering with a clear Mechanical Engineering focus. The course is aimed at students wishing to develop critical understanding of the significant changes afoot in the energy system due to the development and integration of wind, marine, biomass and solar technologies. The course will enable graduates to develop and implement creative solutions to the problems encountered in renewable energy capture, conversion, storage and management.
Students will gain the knowledge and skills to assess renewable energy resources, design appropriate renewable energy systems, evaluate the performance of these systems and assess the wider impacts of renewable energy development. The course provides introductory courses to fundamental energy science and current energy issues, while the project-led courses focus on the design of renewable energy systems. The course concludes with a research-led dissertation in the summer.
Renewable energy research focuses on six main areas:
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- communicate and work effectively with peers and academic staff in a variety of tasks, demonstrating appropriate levels of autonomy and responsibility, and
- plan and execute a significant project of research, investigation or development in a specialist area within the renewable energy arena, demonstrating extensive, detailed and critical understanding of that specialism.
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Core Modules
- Foundations of Energy
- Economics of Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Advanced Renewable Energy Engineering
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Demand Management and Energy Storage
- Critical Analysis and Research Preparation
- Masters Dissertation
Optional Modules
- Electrical Power Systems
- Heat Transfers and Heat Exchangers
- Computational Fluid Dynamics with Heat Transfer
Entry requirements
A first or second class honours degree in a suitable subject with a numerate background. Equivalent overseas qualifications will also be considered.
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If your first language is not English, or your first degree was not taught in English, we’ll need to see evidence of your English language ability. The minimum requirement for English language is IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
We offer a range of English language courses to help you meet the English language requirement prior to starting your masters programme:
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We aim to encourage well-qualified, ambitious students to study with us and we offer a wide variety of scholarships and bursaries to achieve this. Over £6 million worth of opportunities are available in fee and stipend scholarships, and more than 400 students benefit from this support.
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Acid Dissociation ConstantA quantitative measure of an acid’s strength, which corresponds to an equilibrium constant for the dissociation of a weak acid [A-] into [H+] and conjugate base in an aqueous solution.
ADC = [H+][A-]/[HA]
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Take entertaining to the next level with this easy and impressive entrée. Serve pork medallions on top of rosemary applesauce.
Chilling Time: 1 hour, Roasting Time: 15 minutes
Preparation Time:
Cooking Time:
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 2 Ontario Pork Tenderloins (375 g each), trimmed and cut into 8 medallions 2-inch (5 cm) thick
- Salt and pepper
- 8 slices Ontario Applewood Smoked Bacon
- 8 large Ontario Rosemary Sprigs, for skewers
- 1/4 cup (50 mL) vegetable oil
Applesauce:
- 4 large Ontario Honeycrisp Apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) Ontario Honey
- 1 tsp (5 mL) cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) fresh Ontario Rosemary Leaves, chopped
- 2 tbsp (25 mL) Ontario Icewine
- 2 tsp (10 mL) cold butter
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
Season pork with salt and pepper. Wrap 1 slice of bacon tightly around non cut side of each medallion; secure with rosemary sprig, pushing sprig through to the other side of the medallion. Repeat with remaining medallions, bacon and sprigs. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
In large ovenproof skillet, heat oil, over medium-high heat. Sear medallions on all sides to brown. Place skillet in 425°F (220°C) oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until meat thermometer inserted in centre reads 155°F (68°C).
Applesauce: In medium saucepan, combine apples, honey, vinegar and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, for 10 to 15 minutes, or until apples are soft. Stir in rosemary. Remove from heat and stir in icewine and butter until combined. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
To serve, spoon applesauce on plates. Top with medallions.
(Makes about 2 cups/500 mL applesauce)
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Research is illuminating the molecular mechanisms that can cascade into debilitating heart disease.
After the end of the Second World War, the number of deaths related to heart disease in the United States skyrocketed. At that time, the causes of heart disease weren't well understood. So in 1948, the US Public Health Service launched a landmark study in Framingham, Massachusetts, and recruited more than 5,000 of its townspeople. The Framingham Heart Study helped identify many of the major risk factors: smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and lack of exercise. They also identified factors that reduce the risk of heart disease.
In recent decades, researchers have begun untangling the molecular pathways that underlie these risk factors. Even seemingly straightforward relationships, such as the link between high cholesterol and heart disease, are turning out to be more complex than previously believed, which has researchers questioning even the most basic assumptions.
Heart disease is an umbrella term that includes a wide variety of ailments. By far the most common, however, is coronary heart disease, which occurs when fatty plaque builds up in the arteries that feed the heart — a process called atherosclerosis. Plaque can restrict blood flow, but the bigger problem occurs when a plaque ruptures, spilling its contents into the bloodstream and causing a clot to form. A clot that cuts off blood flow to the heart will cause a heart attack. If the clot blocks flow to the brain, the result is a stroke.
Cholesterol is a major component of plaque. “The body itself cannot break down cholesterol. It has to store it or export it, or turn it into something else, like a hormone,” says Frank Sacks, a specialist in cardiovascular disease prevention at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. “So if cholesterol goes into an artery, it's stuck there.” Lipoproteins (conglomerations of lipids and proteins) shuttle cholesterol through the body. A surplus of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), often called 'bad cholesterol', can lodge in artery walls, promoting the formation of plaque and increasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
The complex role of HDL
High-density lipoprotein (HDL), a larger molecule, clears away cholesterol-laden plaque from the artery walls and carries it to the liver for disposal. Epidemiological studies consistently show that people who have high levels of HDL cholesterol in their blood have fewer heart attacks. More recent studies, however, suggest that HDL might not be universally protective. “You lower LDL, you reduce heart disease any way you do it,” Sacks says. But raising HDL is not always beneficial. “We know there's something protective about HDL,” Sacks says. “We cannot really identify what it is.”
Part of the problem is that HDL is a mix of molecules that differ in size and composition. Sacks and his colleagues speculated that some types of HDL might be more protective than others. Their previous work pointed them to a small protein found on the surface of some lipoproteins called apolipoprotein (apo) C-III (ref. 1). Studies show that LDL bearing apoC-III promotes plaque build-up in the arteries. Sacks wondered what effect the protein might have on the function of HDL.
So Sacks and his colleagues examined blood samples collected as part of two large epidemiological studies: the Nurses' Health Study, which included about 122,000 female nurses, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, which included about 52,000 men. Not surprisingly, Sacks found that HDL was protective; individuals who had higher levels had fewer heart attacks2. However, when he focused on HDL with apoC-III, which made up about 10–15% of total HDL, he uncovered an adverse effect in both study groups. When they pooled the two studies, evidence for the adverse effect grew even stronger. HDL with apoC-III “actually predicted a higher, not a lower, rate of heart disease”, Sacks says. When the team excluded this harmful HDL, the protective effect of the remaining HDL grew even stronger.
If HDL were directly involved in protecting against heart disease, then individuals who have genetic variants associated with increased HDL production should have fewer heart attacks. Indeed, variants that lower LDL are consistently associated with a reduced risk of heart attacks. But the reverse doesn't seem to hold true for HDL. A group of researchers examined the effect of a genetic variant that boosts HDL cholesterol levels, but individuals with this variant did not have fewer heart attacks3.
These and other studies suggests that “we still need to learn more about HDL biology and recognize that it's a complex molecule in order to be sure that we develop the best therapeutic strategy,” says Gary Gibbons, director of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
An inflamed heart
The mechanisms that lead to atherosclerosis are just as complex as the mechanisms that protect against it. For example, research over the past three decades suggests that inflammation plays an intermediary role.
In the 1980s, scientists found that plaque contains macrophages — immune cells that play a role in inflammation. Researchers now suspect that the presence of macrophages results from a cascade of events. The LDL in artery walls prompts endothelial cells, which line the vessels, to produce sticky molecules that snag macrophage precursor cells, monocytes, from the blood. At the same time, endothelial and smooth muscle cells begin to pump out chemicals that attract monocytes. These newly recruited monocytes enter the arterial wall and mature into macrophages, which gorge on LDL cholesterol and balloon in size. “You can't have atherosclerotic plaque without having cholesterol-laden macrophages in your artery wall. That's the major cell type that accumulates,” explains Stanley Hazen, an endocrinologist who is head of preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Because their interior is dotted with fatty globs of cholesterol, pathologists call them foam cells. These foam cells are the hallmark of atherosclerotic plaque; they and other immune cells produce chemical signals that prompt smooth muscle cells to migrate to the top of the plaque and form a tough cap. As foam cells accumulate, some die. The cap keeps this pool of living and dead foam cells safely walled off from the blood stream.
Inflammation seems to increase the likelihood of plaque rupture, which sparks the formation of potentially lethal clots. Collagen and other materials make the cap strong. But inflammatory mediators in the plaque can inhibit collagen synthesis and ramp up the production of enzymes that break down collagen, leading to a thin and weakened fibrous cap, says Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Libby's lab and other research groups have also shown that inflammatory mediators can prompt macrophages in the plaque to churn out tissue factor, a protein that promotes clotting. “So not only is inflammation involved in the very first steps of atherosclerosis, but also in the ultimate complications,” Libby says.
Libby recently added another subplot to this story4. Using mice genetically predisposed to develop plaque in their arteries, he and his colleagues showed that a heart attack worsens atherosclerosis by boosting the release of stem cells from the bone marrow. These cells travel to the spleen and become monocytes. The researchers propose that the anxiety and pain associated with a heart attack triggers the sympathetic nervous system to boost stem-cell release and that interrupting this chain might help to prevent future heart attacks. The team also found high numbers of stem cells in the spleens of patients who had died of a heart attack, which suggests the process might work in a similar way in humans5.
Microbial influences
Some of the factors involved in the development of atherosclerosis are entirely new and unexpected. Hazen stumbled across one of these surprising mechanistic pathways a few years ago while looking for metabolites linked to atherosclerosis. Hazen identified a group of compounds “strikingly associated with cardiovascular risk”, he says. Some were metabolites that could only be produced by bacteria. “Once we saw that bacteria were likely involved in the pathway, we started looking to the gut,” Hazen says. His focus turned to one compound: trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO).
Gut microbes do not produce TMAO directly. They convert phosphatidylcholine (a common component of animal products such as meat and eggs) into a foul-smelling gas called trimethylamine; the liver then converts this gas into TMAO. When Hazen's team gave the mice TMAO, “that alone was sufficient to accelerate atherosclerosis”, Hazen says. Even the trimethylamine precursor promoted atherosclerosis when the TMAO-producing microbes were present. But the researchers found they could protect against this by killing the mice's gut bacteria with antibiotics.
There are various reasons why TMAO might promote atherosclerosis. Hazen and colleagues found that the metabolite increases the number of receptors on the surface of macrophages that bind to LDL, which makes the cells more prone to gobble up cholesterol6. “This pathway sits right at the junction between cholesterol metabolism and inflammation,” Hazen says. “It's influencing both in the artery wall.”
If microbes are part of the problem, could antibiotics be part of the solution? Hazen points out that a number of randomized controlled trials have tested whether antibiotics can prevent heart disease, but none proved fruitful. The problem might have been that the drugs tested failed to wipe out the TMAO-producing organisms. Microbes can quickly develop resistance. “We do all our mouse studies now not with a single antibiotic, but with a big gorilla cocktail of five different antibiotics,” Hazen says. But he doesn't advocate antibiotic cocktails for the prevention of heart disease. Instead he envisages using probiotics — beneficialmicroorganisms — to promote healthy microflora, or drugs to interrupt the pathway without killing the bacteria.
Much has changed since the launch of the Framingham Heart Study back in the 1940s. Scientists have a far better understanding of the causes of heart disease, and death rates have plummeted. “There has been nothing short of a cardiac revolution,” says Michael Lauer, director of the division of cardiovascular sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. “It's one of the great triumphs of modern medical science.” But the precise manner in which our hearts can betray us has not yet been fully revealed.
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The Department of Theatre & Dance offers the following graduate degrees:
MFA in Design and Technology
This is a professional training program for scenic, lighting, costume, audio and media, design, and technology. Students benefit from a rigorous core curriculum, challenging production experiences, and the mentorship of our faculty of award-winning artists and technicians. We train students to be expert collaborators and thoughtful, original, inspired, and versatile artists. The University’s location in the Twin Cities’ vibrant theatre scene offers opportunities to work with a myriad of professional companies including the Guthrie Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Historical Society, and the Cowles Center for Dance.
PhD in Theatre Historiography
This a unique graduate program committed to the study of theatre and performance as practices of social, cultural, and political consequence. Our students’ work in theatre historiography and performance criticism examines the stakes of representational acts, movement, and meaning-production both within and outside the discipline of theatre. Our program teaches theatre and performance studies with a global perspective, specializing in historiographic and experimental ethnographic approaches. We train students to be field-shapers and innovative teachers, adept at translating between the diverse methodologies employed in our discipline. The close mentorship of faculty and our rigorous core curriculum helps our students develop theoretical fluency, ethical reflexivity, and the skills necessary for interdisciplinary inquiry.
For students in other University graduate programs, a minor in theatre arts is offered. | https://cla.umn.edu/theatre/degrees |
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- A system of classification, published by the American Psychiatric Association, that divides recognized mental disorders into clearly defined categories based on sets of objective criteria. Representing a majority view (rather than a consensus) of hundreds of contributors and consultants, DSM is widely recognized as a diagnostic standard and widely used for reporting, coding, and statistical purposes.The first edition (1952), based on the sixth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-6), was intended to promote uniformity in the naming and reporting of psychiatric disorders. It contained definitions of all named disorders, but no sets of diagnostic criteria. While its classification of mental disorders showed the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis, its nomenclature (e.g., depressive reaction, anxiety reaction, schizophrenic reaction) reflected the theories of Adolf Meyer (1866–1950). The second edition (DSM-II, 1968) preserved the psychoanalytic orientation but dropped the “reaction” terminology. The third edition (DSM-III, 1980) abandoned much of the rigidly psychodynamic thinking of the earlier editions and, for the first time, provided explicit diagnostic criteria and introduced a multiaxial system whereby different aspects of a patient's condition could be separately assessed. Briefly stated, the axes are I, clinical disorders; II, personality disorders and mental retardation; III, general medical disorders; IV, psychosocial and environmental stressors; and V, overall level of functioning. A revised version of the third edition (DSM-IIIR, 1987) incorporated a number of improvements and clarifications. The fourth edition (DSM-IV) appeared in May, 1994. It follows its two predecessors closely in general outline, and like them is coordinated with and partly derived from ICD-9. For many observers, the most significant change in DSM-IV is the renaming of the category formerly called “Organic Mental Syndromes and Disorders” as “Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders,” a shift in terminology intended to avoid the implication that mental disorders in other categories are not organic.
* * *Di·ag·nos·tic and Sta·tis·ti·cal Man·u·al of Men·tal Dis·or·ders (DSM) a system of classification of mental disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, that delineates objective criteria to be used in diagnosis. It is a categorical classification system, dividing the disorders into types on the basis of criteria sets, without assuming the disorders are completely discrete entities with absolute boundaries.
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INTERVIEWS
Interview: Richie Furay
Richie Furay is best known for co-founding two notable bands: Buffalo Springfield, which is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and for which Furay was one of the primary songwriters along with Neil Young and Stephen Stills, and Poco, which is regarded as one of the pioneering bands of the country-rock genre. After leaving Poco in the early 1970’s, Furay was in the short-lived supergroup Souther-Hillman-Furay, and has since released several solo records. His song credits include “Kind Woman”, “A Child’s Claim To Fame”, “Hurry Up”, “Keep On Believin'”, “You Are The One”, and “Let’s Dance Tonight”. Furay answered these questions by email on 1/5/12, and this interview formed the basis of a preview article for his 2/1/12 performance at the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez, California.
The photo (by L. Paul Mann, all rights reserved) is from when Furay passed through Santa Barbara last summer as part of the Buffalo Springfield reunion tour, as reviewed here.
Jeff Moehlis: What can we look forward to at your upcoming concert at the Maverick Saloon?
Richie Furay: I will be playing songs that span 40+ years of my career – something old, something new. We include songs from each phase of my career – Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Souther-Hillman-Furay and my more recent solo musical projects that include “Heartbeat Of Love” with many of my friends guest appearing (Neil Young and Stephen Stills, Timothy B. Schmit and Jeff Hanna, Rusty Young and Paul Cotton, Mark Volman and Kenny Loggins and many more); The Richie Furay Band Alive – and two devotional CD’s In My Father’s House and I Am Sure. Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to play and what not to play because we’re always writing new songs to keep us inspired as well. Also featured in my set are several songs my daughter Jesse sings.
JM: Can you tell me about the band which will be joining you for this show?
RF: I like to describe my band as a multi-generational, family band. It includes Scott Sellen (guitar, banjo, lap steel, piano and vocals), his son Aaron (bass), Alan Lemke (drums) and my daughter Jesse Lynch (vocals). I am very proud of my band, obviously the “kids” keep us “old folks” young and it so awesome to hear them play the music with such a fresh approach.
JM: We’re very happy that the Buffalo Springfield reunion tour stopped in Santa Barbara in 2011. Great show! How did it feel to be playing with Stephen and Neil again after all these years?
RF: It was a lot of fun for all of us. I believe the fact that there was no “agenda” made it all the more enjoyable – we just got together and played the music. Of course it came as a surprise to me that it would ever happen – but I’ve learned – “never say never”. When the phone call came to do the Bridge School benefit it was the furthest thing from my mind that we would ever perform together again. It was nowhere on my radar, not even a “blip” on the screen. It was from those two nights that prompted the seven shows last summer. It was so nice to renew our friendship after all these years.
JM: One of your songs played at the 2011 Santa Barbara concert was “My Kind Of Love”, which wasn’t on any of Buffalo Springfield’s three albums. Can you tell me about the history of this song?
RF: Obviously that song is very old – I think you will find it on Buffalo Springfield’s Box Set and on Poco’s Forgotten Trail – both unreleased on any other recording. As I look over the lyrics it’s obviously about a relationship struggling.
JM: Sorry, but I have to ask – what is the status of the Buffalo Springfield tour plans for 2012?
RF: There are no current plans.
JM: Going way back, Buffalo Springfield played many shows at the Whisky A Go Go in 1966, along with acts like The Doors and Love. What are some of your memories of that scene?
RF: It was sure a fun time to be a part of the music scene of the 60’s which had such an impact on American music and culture. If it would have been something we tried to plan – it would have never happened. We were just five young guys (well except for Dewey – just kidding) excited to have the opportunity to play music and have people pay to come hear us.
JM: A curiosity on the third Buffalo Springfield album is the song “In The Hour of Not Quite Rain”, with music by you but lyrics by Micki Callen. What’s the story behind this song?
RF: A radio station in Los Angeles, KHJ had a contest – some listener would provide the lyrics and someone in Buffalo Springfield would write the music. As it turned out when the lyrics were submitted we were going through one of our more difficult times and there wasn’t a lot of time and effort put into the lyrical content (I’m not passing judgment on Micki’s lyrics). I’m only saying everyone in the band was pretty much off and into their own thing and there wasn’t a lot of interest on our part to evaluate the submitted lyrics. The decision came down to Bruce (Palmer) – he picked the song and I was elected to write the music. I think KHJ was expecting something more along the line of “For What It’s Worth” or “Rock And Roll Woman” – something geared more to the AM radio format; but that’s what I came up with.
JM: After Buffalo Springfield broke up, you and Jim Messina formed Poco. What were your goals for this band?
RF: We were interested in exploring how to bridge the gap between country and pop – rock and roll. We both had country influences and along with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers we pioneered a sound that would be significant for many years to come. Certainly the Eagles (Glenn Frey sat in my living room for many Poco rehearsals) perfected it from the R&R side and today, you can still hear the influence we had in the current country music. Poco, along with the above mentioned, was certainly the pioneer of the “country-rock” sound.
JM: At the time, Poco was sometimes called “too country for rock, too rock for country”. What is your take on that description?
RF: When you’re a pioneer, you’re breaking the ground for those who’ll follow. Because of that many times you go unnoticed and find that others are not yet ready to come along on the journey. We were doing what was natural to us – it wasn’t that we were ahead of our time as far as we were concerned, but to many we were and so we were told we were “too country for rock and too rock for country”. I guess that’s our legacy for the time.
JM: The third Poco album, From the Inside, was produced by Steve Cropper. What was it like working with him?
RF: Steve Cropper is one awesome musician and a wonderful person. I’m not sure our “marriage” was the right one for us at that time, but I’m probably not the best one to evaluate our time together. My life was a mess at that time and it’s very difficult for me to reflect, objectively, upon the project we did together. If I remember right it was the record label’s decision for us to work with Steve. As far as “working” with him – there was no problem; Steve is a class act!
JM: Besides you, one of the pioneers of country rock was your friend Gram Parsons. Could you describe the Gram Parsons that you knew?
RF: Gram was a self-destructive guy. He was very talented but could not control his destructive passions and it led to his death. He introduced me to the music of George Jones for which I am forever grateful. My country influences were more of the rock-a-billy type – Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent etc. and to hear George Jones sing, well it just added another dimension to what I was doing.
JM: What advice would you give to an aspiring musician?
RF: Enjoy the gift; be serious about it but don’t take yourself too seriously.
JM: Do you want to set the record straight on anything about your music or career?
RF: I believe Poco has been slighted in regard to their contribution to popular music. Their influence goes without question yet, for whatever reason (there’s not enough dirt to dig up on ‘em; they weren’t controversial enough or they didn’t have the hit records – what ever excuse) they have not been given their proper recognition as far as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is concerned. I know there are a lot of bands worthy of this honor for their contributions (i.e. the Turtles, the Moody Blues) but Poco influenced popular music for decades through those who perfected and carried out what they pioneered – the country-rock sound.
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Yesterday, March 4th, President Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress. The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) has published their analysis of the budget as has the Education Policy Program at New America.
TICAS states that the President’s proposal “takes important steps towards making college affordable for Americans by reducing the need to borrow and making federal student loan payments more manageable.” Specifically, his budget:
- Invests in Pell Grants and prevents them from being taxed. The budget provides funds to cover the scheduled $100 increase in the maximum Pell award, raising it from $5,730 in 2014-15 to $5,830 in 2015-16. TICAS notes that although this increase will help nearly 9 million students, “the maximum Pell Grant is expected to cover the smallest share of the cost of attending a four-year public college since the program started in the 1970s.”
- Makes the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) permanent. TICAS supports making the AOTC permanent as they note research suggests the AOTC is the most likely of the current tax benefits to increase college access and success. New America, however, recommends the administration convert the tax credit to a grant program as they state researchers have found grants to be a more effective way to deliver aid to low-income families.
- Improves and streamlines income-based repayment (IBR) programs. Under the President’s budget, more borrowers would be eligible to cap their monthly payments at 10 percent of their discretionary income and have their remaining debt forgiven without taxation after 20 years. The budget also adjusts the IBR programs to prevent debts forgiveness for high-income borrowers who can afford to pay their loans.
- Requests funding for the College Opportunity and Graduation Bonuses. The budget proposes establishing College Opportunity and Graduation Bonuses, which would reward schools that enroll and graduate low-income students on time. Both TICAS and New America note that, unless this proposal is thoughtfully designed, it could incentivize schools to lower their academic standards in order to make it easier for Pell students to graduate. Further, as this proposal is one of several different efforts to reward colleges that provide affordable, quality educations, it is unclear how its goals and formulas would interact with those of initiatives like the Postsecondary Education Ratings System.
The UW’s Federal Relations blog notes that the budget also proposes $56 billion for an “Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative,” which “aims to effectively replace the remaining FY2015 sequestration cuts for nondefense discretionary programs – the programs we care about the most.” Please stay tuned to their blog for more information and updates. | https://www.washington.edu/opb/2014/03/05/president-obama-releases-fy2015-budget/ |
The ABPI has brought pharma transparency into the broader healthcare mix and HCP relationships are at its heart
The 7th annual publication of Disclosure UK data by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) was an important event overlooked, ignored and missed by many.
This, in itself, serves as a reminder that, while disclosure and transparency around financial arrangements between pharma companies, HCPs and healthcare organisations is a good thing, the disclosure process is still not good enough to be properly meaningful for its stakeholders – the industry, HCP peers, HCOs or the general public. But it could be.
Within Government, it is a legal requirement for MPs to disclose financial benefits made to them outside their salaries. Similarly, under the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) Code, the pharmaceutical industry has a requirement to disclose payments and transfers of value (ToVs) made to healthcare professionals and organisations. | https://www.pharmatimes.com/magazine/2022/november_2022/we_can_see_clearly_now |
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Discrepancies between type-approval and real-world fuel consumption and CO2 values in 2001-2011 European passenger cars
Published Wed, 2012.04.04 | By
Peter Mock, John German, Anup Bandivadekar, Iddo Riemersma
Summary
This paper compares fuel consumption / CO2 values of passenger cars from different sources and aims at quantifying the discrepancy between laboratory type-approval values and real-world values, including a retrospective analysis for the years 2001-2011 to determine if the gap between the two datasets has increased over time. Potential explanations for the discrepancies found are discussed and possible practical solutions for the future outlined.
In order to limit the negative effects of climate change and to reduce dependency on oil imports, the European Union (EU) needs to reduce its GHG emissions by 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050. A reduction of at least 60% by 2050 with respect to 1990 (70% with respect to 2008) is required from the transport sector, the only sector in which GHG emissions have increased since 2005 (+30% compared to -7% for all sectors).
For passenger cars, accounting for two thirds of the GHG emissions from the EU’s transport sector, a voluntary self-commitment by the automotive industry to reduce the level of emissions for new vehicles was reached in 1998/99. However, the annual rate of reduction between 1998 and 2006, as measured by the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), was only between 0.6% and 2.2% and the target of 140 grams of CO2 per kilometer (g/km) for 2008 was missed. In 2007 a decision was taken to introduce mandatory regulatory measures and in early 2009 the first mandatory CO2 performance standards for passenger cars in the EU were adopted, setting a target of 130 g/km for 2015 and 95 g/km for 2020. In the course of setting mandatory standards, the annual rate of reduction of the average level of CO2 emissions from new passenger cars has increased from a rate of 1.7% in 2007 to 5.1% in 2011. The European average CO2 emission level in 2011 was 140.3 g/km compared to 158.7 g/km in 2007.
Given the success of the EU CO2 performance standards for passenger cars it is evident that the existing 2015 and 2020 targets have to be affirmed and additional post-2020 targets have to be set in order to put the EU road transport on a pathway to meet the long-term (2050) target, while allowing manufacturers sufficient lead-time to develop the required technologies for meeting the targets. However, the performance standards only affect the type approval value for individual vehicles. Therefore, it is of great importance to ensure that reductions in the level of CO2 emissions measured in the laboratory during the type approval test are also realized under real-world conditions.
From a consumer perspective, most drivers are aware that there exists a gap between the fuel consumption they experience during everyday driving and the corresponding values that are listed in information brochures they obtain from their local car dealer, the internet, or other media sources. As this gap increases, a part of the CO2 and fuel consumption reductions achieved on paper do not pay back to consumers in fuel cost savings. This could lead to a situation where official type approval values provided by the vehicle manufacturers would lose credibility among consumers and where the willingness to invest into new vehicle technologies to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions is reduced.
This paper compares fuel consumption / CO2 values of passenger cars from different sources and aims at quantifying the discrepancy between laboratory type-approval values and real-world values, including a retrospective analysis for the years 2001-2011 to determine if the gap between the two datasets has increased over time. Potential explanations for the discrepancies found are discussed and possible practical solutions for the future outlined.
Based upon analyses of more than 28,000 user entries of the German fuel consumption database spritmonitor.de and more than 1,200 vehicle models tested by Europe’s largest automobile club ADAC, the ICCT found that the gap between type-approval and “real-world” fuel consumption / CO2 values increased from about 8% in 2001 to 21% today, with a particularly strong increase since 2007. Potential reasons for this development include: (i) increasing use of existing tolerances and loopholes in the determination of road load, vehicle weight, laboratory test temperatures, and transmission shifting schedules for type-approval; (ii) inability of the current test cycle, the NEDC, to represent real-world driving conditions; and (iii) increasing market share of vehicles equipped with air conditioning systems. In order to eliminate existing discrepancies as much as possible and to ensure that future improvements in vehicle technology result in real-world reductions of CO2 and fuel consumption, a number of changes to the existing test cycle, test procedure and compliance testing are recommended.
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I would like to respond to this conversation regarding the Nemeth certification exam and the professional expectations of a transcriber seeking certification. First, I will summarize braille training and certification options available to us.
The Literary Braille course published by the Library of Congress prepares one to take the Literary Braille certification exam which is the baseline certification for a transcriber. The literary braille certificate attests to the transcriber's ability to braille a library book, observing all the fundamental rules of the EBAE code. Library book formatting is taught as part of the literary course.
Many transcribers continue their training in order to produce braille textbooks and to produce work that falls beyond the scope of the literary code--math, foreign language, music, computer, chemistry, tactile graphics. The Library of Congress offers certification for music and math; textbook formatting certification is available through NBA. These are advanced exams for advanced certificates.
After passing the Braille Formats certification exam, a person has the tools to transcribe any kind of textbook at any level in any subject other than those covered by their own specific codes or guidelines (math, foreign language, music, computer, chemistry, tactile graphics). The rules of Braille Formats affect the transcription of textbooks brailled in any code, so long as there is not a specific contradictory rule in that other code . For example, Nemeth code has no specific rules for front matter, for headings, for literary lists, for boxed materials, or for tables. In these areas, as in certain others, the Braille Formats rules must be followed. When the Nemeth Code has a specific rule that contradicts Braille Formats, the Nemeth code rule must be followed. Examples of this include the formatting of itemized material, for displayed expressions, or for keying items in a table.
"An Introduction to Braille Mathematics" is an advanced course, appropriate only for an experienced transcriber. Perhaps there should be a prerequisite of a Braille Formats certification before a student is allowed into the Nemeth course, but that is as highly impractical as it is unlikely. At one point in history, a Nemeth student had to prove two years of textbook experience before being allowed to begin the course. Time and situations changed that, but still there is an expectation that a student taking the Nemeth course knows Braille Formats. Only the formats specific to the Nemeth code are covered in the Nemeth course. If a student passes all sixteen lessons but does not know Braille Formats, he is unlikely to pass the exam--nor should he, since all math material is textbook in nature.
Another point to understand is that a certification exam is not designed to be a teaching tool. The exam is testing the transcriber's ability to interpret and apply the braille codes and to understand the nature of the text in order to make logical formatting decisions. Errors are not specifically noted in the final report. When the code citations listed in the report are studied, the transcriber's problem-solving skills should lead her to understand and locate the infraction.
Nemeth certification attests that the transcriber can transcribe any math and science textbook at any level. Because Nemeth certification is a green light for a transcriber to take on advanced textbook work in math, physics, chemistry and science, failure to understand the basics of textbook formatting is a good reason not to be certified. I am sure you will agree that it is most important that people who don't know how are not given a certificate that says that they do. | https://www.nationalbraille.org/forums/reply/21217/ |
Mindfulness helps us to see ourselves with greater clarity. We are not just experiencing something, a part of us watches as we experience. It is as if we have a compassionate witness to observe our thoughts, feelings and actions. Mindfulness helps us gain awareness in the moment, so that we can see ourselves and thus know ourselves better.
Mindfulness teaches us to focus on the present moment, rather than reliving the past or pre-living the future.Mindfulness helps to halt the escalation of negative thoughts.With mindfulness we learn to watch ourselves without judgment or impatience, with compassion and perspective much as the ‘good mother’ would watch her child.
Mindful awareness helps us face difficulties in ways that lead to inner peace and harmony. We learn to stay present with our feelings without shutting down, running away or acting out by riding the rough waves of emotion; on the surfboard of mindful awareness.
With mindfulness we observe what is and watch it as it changes.
We learn to feel without judgment things just are rather than good or bad.
We listen to our heart with acceptance and mercy.
Mindfulness helps us accept our grief and therefore learn to live with grief. | http://thegriefchannel.com/mindfulness-meditation/ |
Davisson and Germer Experiment
The Davisson and Germer experiment was a 1923-27 experiment performed by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer to establish the wave nature of slow moving electrons. This confirmed the de-Broglie hypothesis of wave-particle duality.
Experimental setup of Davisson and Germer Experiment
The Davisson and Germer experiment is contained in a vacuum chamber so that electron deflection and scattering by the medium are avoided. The major components of the experimental setup are following:
Electron gun: An electron gun is a Tungsten filament(F) coated with barium oxide(barium oxide and other alkali oxides helps in decreasing the work function of the tungsten cathode. Work function of uncoated tungsten is 4.5 eV and of coated tungsten is 1.5 eV. Thus the cathode can emit electrons at a relatively low temperature which is highly economical) that produces electrons by thermionic emission.
Electrostatic particle accelerator: To accelerate electrons at a known potential, two oppositely charged plates (positive and negative plate) are employed.
Collimator: The accelerator is housed within a cylinder C with a restricted path for electrons running along its axis. Its purpose is to prepare a narrow and straight beam of electrons.
Target: N is a nickel crystal cut along cubical diagonal. The nickel crystal is positioned in such a way that it may be rotated around a fixed axis.
Detector: D is an electron detector which is used to collect dispersed electrons from the Ni crystal. It is connected to a sensitive galvanometer. As illustrated in the picture below, the detector may be rotated on a semicircular arc.
Working of Davisson and Germer Experiment
- A fine beam of accelerated electrons obtained from the electron gun is made to fall normally on the surface of Ni crystal.
- The experiment was performed by varying the accelerating voltage from 44 V to 68 V.
- These accelerated electrons are scattered in different directions by the atoms of the Ni crystal.
- The intensity (I) of the scattered electron beam is recorded by the electron detector D by moving it on circular scale at different values of scattering angle ϕ (angle between the incident and scattered electron beams).
Observation of Davisson and Germer Experiment
- The intensity (I) of the electronic current received by the detector, as well as the scattering angle ϕ, were investigated for different accelerating voltage.
- The accelerated electrons intensity was not constant. It displayed a maximum and a lowest value.
- It was noticed that at an accelerating voltage of 54 V and at scattering angle ϕ = 50º the intensity I was maximum.
- The appearance of peak in intensity in a particular direction is due to constructive interference of scattered electrons from different layers of regularly spaced atoms of the Ni crystal, i.e., the differentiation of electrons takes place.
Davisson and Germer Experiment Results
In the above figure θ is called the glancing angle and ϕ is scattering angle. For ϕ = 50º :-
θ + ϕ + θ = 180º
Or
θ = (180º – ϕ)/2 = 65º
From X-ray scattering, the value of lattice spacing is d = 0.91 Å.
According to Bragg’s law, for first order diffraction maxima (n = 1), we get
2 d sinθ = 1 × λ
⇒ 2 × 0.91 sin 65º = 1 × λ
⇒ λ = 1.65 Å
According to de-Broglie’s wave-particle duality, the wavelength of the wave associated with electron is given by
⇒ λ = 1.66 Å
As a result, the experimental results correspond well with the theoretical values obtained from the de Broglie equation.
This proves the existence of the de-Broglie waves for the slow moving electrons. | https://curiophysics.com/davisson-and-germer-experiment/ |
UVA HAND 250
UVA Hand 250 is a high intensity hand-held UV lamp, used for curing of UV-reactive coatings, adhesives and compounds as well as for fluorescent purposes. It is easy to transport, ergonomically designed and ideal for mobile use. Its intensive radiation ensure reliable production results within seconds. A homogeneous intensity distribution is ensured by its optimized reflector surface.
- Hand-held unit in modular design for mobile and stationary use
- GS mark – approved safety label
- Operable with 110 V Power Supply
- Max Intensity 250 mW/cm2 UVA
- Uniform intensity distribution
- Different emission spectra by means of lamp-/filter-combinations
- Hours counter integrated in the ballast box
- Robust lamp housing
- New U-shaped space bars provide improved temperature management
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- Rigid case with fitting foam inlay
- Black light filter for fluorescent purposes
Hand held uv curing device UVA Hand 250 from Honle
Download: | https://www.panacol-usa.com/uv-curing-systems/uv-handheld-equipment/uva-hand-250 |
Sudan coup 2021: Ambassadors unite to denounce takeover and back protests
A growing number of Sudanese diplomats have united to reject Monday's coup, declaring their embassies safe havens “for the Sudanese people” as a coordinated civil disobedience campaign continues across the country.
In response to the power grab, a group of 41 current and former Sudanese ambassadors and diplomats, in countries including the US, Belgium, France, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Canada and at home in Sudan, signed a letter addressed to “our heroic people” on Wednesday.
'We condemn in the strongest terms the brutal military coup against your glorious revolution'
- statement from Sudanese diplomats
“We condemn in the strongest terms the brutal military coup against your glorious revolution,” the statement read, adding that they declared their "complete alignment with your heroic resistance”.
Footage shared online showed Sudanese armed forces fanning out across the capital on Tuesday, with protesters waving flags, chanting slogans and blocking roads leading to Khartoum.
The protests, which have seen at least nine people killed and more than 150 wounded at the hands of the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were sparked after the army placed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest in the early hours of Monday morning. He was allowed to return home on Tuesday.
Protesters have remained in the streets despite some sustaining horrific injuries, as captured in videos shared online.
“If the situation doesn’t improve, I'll quit,” Abdelrahim Ahmed Khalil, Sudan’s ambassador to Belgium and the European Union, who has been a civil servant for over four decades, told Middle East Eye.
“I’ll quit and go back to my country and live like normal people...we are not going to serve another military dictatorship in Sudan.”
He added that his fellow signatories, which started as a group of just four ambassadors, shared this conviction.
"Yes, I think that if the situation doesn't change they will sack us, or we will leave by ourselves," Usama Nuddallah, Sudan's ambassador to South Africa, told MEE.
Sudan's ambassadors have "a tough job", Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told MEE.
"They are in the difficult position of sometimes having to explain why the military is doing what it is doing and explaining Sudanese politics to foreign audiences," he said.
"That can be a very fine line - so I think it's important that they put themselves on one side of that line now."
'Civil war averted'
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese army, announced on Monday that he had disbanded the government and declared a state of emergency.
Addressing the country on Tuesday, Burhan defended his actions, insisting that the seizure of state power was meant to fulfil the people's demands and revive the 2019 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir.
He said the army had no choice but to sideline politicians who were inciting against the armed forces and claimed the military's action did not amount to a coup.
"The dangers we witnessed last week could have led the country into civil war," he said, an apparent reference to demonstrations against the prospect of a coup.
The army had been due to hand over the leadership of the Sovereign Council, a powerful body that controls the sub-Saharan nation, to civilians in the coming weeks, but the country's democratic transition appears to be unravelling fast.
Monday's coup has been condemned internationally, with western and regional powers, including the US, calling on the military to release all captured political leaders.
On Wednesday, the European Union delegation in Khartoum condemned the coup on behalf of the EU, UK, USA and other Western embassies, writing, “we…urgently request to be able to meet with the prime minister.”
“The attempt to disturb the democratic transition is unacceptable, totally,” another signatory to Tuesday’s statement, Ali Ibn Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud, the ambassador of Sudan to the United Nations and Switzerland, told MEE.
“We stand in solidarity with the brave people of Sudan.”
Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. To learn more about republishing this content and the associated fees, please fill out this form. More about MEE can be found here. | https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-coup-ambassadors-denounce-takeover-support-protests |
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 — A heavy mist has only begun to dissipate, the sun hasn’t yet peeked over the nearby hill tops and a sliver of new moon still hangs overhead as Ted Huber begins moving bins and other equipment around in the winery. He, AJ Huber, David Greenwell (another of the farm managers) and a field crew of 11 then head to the vineyard to pick Pinot Gris. The crew members are second generation members of two Mexican families. More than half of them live on the estate year-round.
As the harvesting begins a stream of cars enter the estate. Cousin Debbie Adams, general manager of events, says 160 persons are coming from Clark Memorial Hospital for a leadership institute. Cousin Julie Coots, executive chef of the banquet kitchen, will be serving them breakfast, lunch and cobbler for their afternoon snack.
Grape harvest this year started July 25, weeks earlier than usual and, by eight days, the earliest in the farm’s entire history, Ted says.
Huber has two blocks of Pinot Gris. One block is young, only third leaf, which Ted does not expect will produce the tonnage of the mature block. He uses Pinot Gris to produce a ‘bone dry” wine which sells quickly, mostly grabbed up by Huber’s 1200 wine club members.
Greenwell, who isn’t a blood relative but has been with the family business for 39 years, moves the baskets of picked grapes between the rows of vines with a forklift and loads them onto two trucks. Ted’s father, Gerald, and father-in-law, Bob Temple, drive the grapes to the winery where a team sorts through the grapes before they drop into a destemmer. Gerald and Bob are officially retired, Ted says, but frequently ‘help out.”
‘We hand pick and hand sort all our grapes,” Ted explains. “It produces better wines.”
Among the winery team is Sophie Archinard, a foreign exchange student from France who is spending three months at Huber, studying winemaking. Huber sponsors several educational tours and programs. A guided tour around the estate in the ‘Grain Train,” gives young visitors an introduction to life on the farm.
By midday, Ted learns the tonnage from the Pinot Gris is at the top of his estimate, confirming what he said earlier that the warm and dry weather had not significantly reduced production or damaged quality. Early harvest, however, has meant some ‘mental adjustments.” He says he normally takes a vacation in July.
The warmer climate has also led to a change in winery operations. From destemmer the Pinot Gris is piped through a chiller, the newest piece of equipment at the winery. The chiller lets Ted reduce the temperature of the grapes by 20 degrees or more which, in turn, lets the field crew pick all day. Without the chiller Huber stopped picking whenever temperatures reached 80 degrees for fear of spoilage. With the warming climate, ‘we almost had to have it,” Ted says.
After picking grapes, the field crew joins Greg to pick peaches from step ladders. They pick only the highest hanging fruit. Lower hanging fruit is reserved for U-Pick customers, Greg explains.
Many Midwest wineries are planting hybrid varieties that have been developed specifically to survive Midwest weather. Not Huber.
‘We’re going the other way,” Ted says. He’s planting more viniferas, varieties that wine makers only a few years ago believed would not survive Midwest winters. Huber is already growing many of the famous French grapes–such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot and a not so famous Tannat.
See related story: Offbeat European Grapes Growing Across the Midwest
Huber does not grow one famous French grape — Merlot. Ted says it doesn’t do well in the Huber vineyard, though a neighbor, who is Huber’s only contract supplier, is growing it. Thus Merlot wine may or may not be in Huber’s future.
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Aurora
Petit Verdot
Chancellor
Traminette
Cayuga
Concord
Pinot Gris
Blaufrankisch
Vignoles
Cabernet Sauvignon
Seyval Blanc
Cabernet Franc
Chardonel
Chambourcin
Vidal
Valvin Muscat
Niagara
Villard
Catawba
Malbec
Tannat
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Another famous grape that does not impress Ted when grown at Huber is Chardonnay. ‘We can grow it, but our Chardonel makes a better wine.” Huber’s ‘tank” Chardonel is a popular summertime patio wine while the complex barrel-fermented version is a wine enthusiast’s delight.
Another reason Ted is producing more dry red wine is the change he sees in his customers. ‘Louisville area wine drinkers more and more want dry red.” So Ted happily produces it and has converted an entire room in Huber’s underground wine cellar to nothing but dry red — more than 230 barrels of it.
‘Six or eight barrels went a long way in 1988. Some would be setting on the shelf.” In the 80s one had to search for a dry red on Huber’s tasting list. Today, there are often four or more.
Ted says the tasting list at Huber is frequently changed because customers’ tasting habits have changed. They used to taste beofre deciding what wine they wanted to buy. Now, he says, customers are more likely tasting to compare one wine to another and ‘to have a good time.”
Huber Orchard and Winery is accustomed to bringing home wine awards. Ted was named Indiana’s 2011 Winemaker of the Year. This year at the Indy International Wine Competition the winery won Double Gold for its 2010 Heritage, a hefty Bordeaux-like blend of Cabernet franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. Also winning Double Gold at Indy were a sparkling Valvin Muscat, two Brandies and a port-style Chambourcin. The winery was also awarded two single gold medals and a host of silver and bronze ones. | https://www.midwestwinepress.com/2012/10/10/huber-part-ii/ |
Faculty development for hospitalists: Structured peer observation of teaching.
J Hosp Med. 2014 Jan 20;
Authors: Mookherjee S, Monash B, Wentworth KL, Sharpe BA
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Hospitalists provide much of the clinical teaching in internal medicine, yet formative feedback to improve their teaching is rare.
METHODS: We developed a peer observation, assessment, and feedback program to improve attending hospitalist teaching. Participants were trained to identify 10 optimal teaching behaviors using a structured observation tool that was developed from the validated Stanford Faculty Development Program clinical teaching framework. Participants joined year-long feedback dyads and engaged in peer observation and feedback on teaching. Pre- and post-program surveys assessed confidence in teaching, performance of teaching behaviors, confidence in giving and receiving feedback, attitudes toward peer observation, and overall satisfaction with the program.
RESULTS: Twenty-two attending hospitalists participated, averaging 2.2 years (± 2.1 years standard deviation [SD]) experience; 15 (68%) completed pre- and post-program surveys. Confidence in giving feedback, receiving feedback, and teaching efficacy increased (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree, mean ± SD): "I can accurately assess my colleagues' teaching skills," (pre = 3.2 ± 0.9 vs post = 4.1 ± 0.6, P < 0.01), "I can give accurate feedback to my colleagues" (pre = 3.4 ± 0.6 vs post = 4.2 ± 0.6, P < 0.01), and "I am confident in my ability to teach students and residents" (pre = 3.2 ± 0.9 vs post = 3.7 ± 0.8, P = 0.026).
CONCLUSIONS: Peer observation and feedback of teaching increases hospitalist confidence in several domains that are essential for optimizing teaching. Further studies are needed to examine if educational outcomes are improved by this program. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2014;. © 2014 Society of Hospital Medicine. | https://journalclub.wustl.edu/2014/01/22/faculty-development-for-hospitalists-structured-peer-observation-of-teaching/ |
and its significance in our world.
Who We Are
The GW Africana Studies Program uses a global, cross-disciplinary approach to examine the historical, cultural, economic and political legacies of the largest forced migration in human history: the Atlantic slave trade. Through major and minor programs, undergraduate students study how this massive upheaval of African populations altered civilizations, transformed the globe and changed the course of modern history.
The program is committed to expanding research paradigms that have traditionally placed the West at the center of knowledge production and cultural analysis. From the Caribbean to the Middle East, our broad geographical scope prepares students for the challenges of an increasingly interconnected world.
What Is Africana Studies?
The word “Africana” is used to describe the cross-pollination of several fields that have often been treated as separate academic endeavors: African American, African, Latino and Caribbean studies. Scholars examine race, ethnicity, culture and political and social structures of diasporic communities, from the United States to Africa itself. | https://africanastudies.columbian.gwu.edu/ |
Where Did We Come From?
About the book, The Prism of Lyra: An Exploration of Human Galactic Heritage, by Lyssa Royal and Keith Priest. The book is the result of insights, deductive reasoning and channeling by Lyssa Royal. The authors state in the preface that Lyssa Royal channels a few entities, and these have been cross referenced with other channels. The authors also state that they have consulted a number of respected anthropological and metaphysical works.
"The first life in this universe and the first humanoids (creatures with two arms, two legs, a torso, and a head) were created and evolved in the Lyran system. Most, if not all of the original humanoids of the Lyran system were primates or of primate stock, and to this day many of the ET's are primates, or have some primate genes. Over the long creation/evolution of life, many non-primate humanoids were also developed.
As civilizations developed on the planets of the Lyran Ring Nebula, as the earth astronomers call it, and the humanoids there advanced technologically, the capability of space travel was developed. Many wars were fought using nuclear weapons and other forms of advanced technology that are even more deadly than what we Earth humans currently have developed. The various civilizations developed different philosophies reflecting the polarities of creation, which we would call negative to positive. Civilizations rose and fell; some were destroyed by others in what appears to be a dreary succession of wars, as the humanoids evolved exploring different polarities of their existence.
Some wanting to escape the conflicts of the Lyran civilizations, or perhaps simply wanting to establish their own cultures in relative isolation, emigrated from the Lyran system and looked for suitable planets in other star systems. Planets of the star system we know as Sirius, were the first to be settled outside of Lyra. Sirius is 8.7 light years distant from our Sun, and may Sirians of both positive and negative orientation have had many important interactions with the developing primitive primate species developing here on earth.
Next, planets of Orion Star Constellation were settled. As with all groups of civilizations, both positively oriented and negatively oriented civilizations developed near Orion, but Orion civilizations have both negativ in the lower stars - and the positiv in the upper. By negative orientation, I mean that most of the individuals and civilizations of Orion sought after service of self, primarily through conquering, dominating and controlling others, rather than loving service to others and the recognition of the unity of all. According to The Prism Of Lyra, the Orions have been responsible for spreading war and suffering throughout the universe in their attempt to conquer and dominate.
The next group of ETs to be considered in this drama, are civilizations from planets of a cluster of seven blue stars known as the Seven Sisters of Pleiades. In the not too distant past - within the last sixty million years - a group of Lyrans decided that they wanted to develop their civilization in isolation, so they came to this earth to live. While here, they mixed some of the genes of earth primates with their own in order to become better adapted to environmental conditions here on earth. Soon other Lyans came to earth, producing some of the same conflicts that the "Earth-Lyrans" had left the Lyran system in the first place. So the "Earth- Lyrans" left the earth and decided to settle in the Pleiades.
With regard to the earth itself, The Founders were the overseers of the Earth Inception Project, and facilitated the nonphysical aspects of it. The physical aspects of the Earth Inception Project was orchestrated by various Lyran races of ETs. The Lyran group had instinctive drives for genetic seeding and genetic manipulations derived from their creators, their Founders. They also employed a Sirian group to assist them. Royal and Priest suggest that the conscious or unconscious motivation of the Lyran Inception Group, aside from the pure joy of creating, might have been to accelerate their own consciousness evolution.
In the latter stages of the creation/evolution of life on earth, the Lyran directors of the inception project, needed some extraterrestrial genes that might blend with the genes of the most advanced earth primate, Royal and Prienst report. The Pleiadeans whose ancestors had been "Earth-Lyrans" were most suitable, since they already had some earth primate genes in their genetic make-up.
The Lyran directors of our inception here on earth needed certain aspects of Pleiadian DNA for the earth primate. Further, the Lyran directors of our inception induced the Pleiadeans to become involved with the developing earth species in order that the Pleiadeans might face their own negativity, which they had suppressed for generations in the Pleiades. And so, somewhat reluctantly at first, the Pleiadeans agreed to interact with the developing primitive primate species here on earth, and provided most of the genes that made modern man, by combining Pleiadian genes with primitive humanoids that had developed here on Earth.
Source of Information: Humanity's Extraterrestrial Origins, by Dr. Arthur David Horn, P.O. Box 1632 - Mount Shasta, CA 96067. ISBN 0-9641849-1-5. | https://galactic-server.net/rune/galafam2.html |
This qualification does not replace any other qualification and is not replaced by any other qualification.
|PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION|
|Purpose:
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The qualification is aimed at developing and strengthening the learners' knowledge in teaching and learning in Higher Education, and at enabling academics to undertake advanced reflection and development by means of a systematic survey of current thinking, practice and research methods in teaching and learning in Higher Education.
The qualification will enhance students' knowledge of and practice in university teaching by enabling them to:
Rationale:
There is an acknowledged and increased need for the professionalisation of the teaching role of academics in Higher Education in South Africa. The proposed Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education offers learners (university teachers) an opportunity to enhance their teaching practice by adopting a more scholarly approach towards curriculum development, teaching and learning and assessment.
Enhanced teaching practice in these domains will contribute towards the improvement of the present throughput rates and graduate success in Higher Education. In addition, for academics who have qualified in their own disciplines, a postgraduate diploma in Higher Education offers an opportunity to make the transition into the discipline and discourse of education as a site of study and, if they would wish, to further their studies in this area, to articulate with Master's degrees in Higher Education (both general and specialised), regionally and nationally. Internationally and within South Africa, this is recognised practice.
|LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING|
|It is assumed that learners accessing this qualification are able to critically read, analyse and reflect on study material and relevant literature at NQF level 8.
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Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL):
Admission to this qualification may be obtained through the Recognition of Prior Learning. Candidates who do not qualify for admission in terms of the minimum admission criteria may be considered for admission through a process of RPL in keeping with the Cape Peninsula University of Technology RPL policy.
Access to Qualification:
Applicants will be admitted to this qualification on the basis of the following requirements:
|RECOGNISE PREVIOUS LEARNING?|
|Y|
|QUALIFICATION RULES|
|The qualification consists of compulsory and elective modules at NQF level 8 each worth 30 credits.
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Compulsory Modules:
Elective Modules:
Learners are to choose 1 of the following Elective Modules:
|EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES|
|1. Demonstrate a comprehensive, systematic and integrated knowledge of teaching and learning in higher education and a depth of knowledge in related areas of specialisation.
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2. Demonstrate a coherent and critical understanding of the principles, scope, theories and epistemologies of teaching and learning in higher education.
3. Critique current research and advanced scholarship in teaching and learning and make sound theoretical judgments based on evidence.
4. Understand a range of research methodologies and methods/techniques and select these appropriately for research problem/s in teaching and learning.
5. Identify, analyse and address complex problems in teaching and learning, using a range of routine and advanced skills, conceptual and/or evidence-based solutions and theory-driven arguments.
6. Use efficient and effective information retrieval and processing skills in using appropriate ICTs for teaching and learning in higher education.
7. Identify, analyse, synthesise and undertake independent evaluation of quantitative and/or qualitative data, and engage with and evaluate current research and scholarly or professional literature in teaching and learning in higher education.
8. Present and communicate academic/professional ideas and texts effectively to a range of audiences, offering professional insights, interpretations and solutions to problems and issues appropriate to teaching and learning in higher education.
Critical Cross-Field Outcomes:
The qualification develops all the Critical Cross Field Outcomes.
|ASSOCIATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA|
|The following Assessment Criteria are applied in an integrated way to modules and specialised learning areas, where applicable, to determine competence in the Exit Level Outcomes:
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Integrated Assessment:
Formative assessment:
Summative assessment:
Learners should achieve a minimum of 50% for each module in order to graduate.
|INTERNATIONAL COMPARABILITY|
|Postgraduate Diplomas (or Certificates, in some countries) are offered as an academic staff development qualification; some of these specialize in different areas (e.g., higher education policy studies, or higher education management), but most provide a teaching qualification for university academic staff.
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Some examples are:
The following two qualifications align well with this Postgraduate Diploma:
The Oxford Learning Institute of the University of Oxford: Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Part-time).
The qualification offers experienced academics an opportunity to take fresh perspectives on their teaching and their students' learning. The primary aim of the qualification is to enhance teaching, course design and the learning environment at Oxford by building a cadre of educational leaders able to provide educational advice and guidance within their departments or colleges.
Upon the successful completion of the qualification, it is expected that learners will be able to:
The qualification consists of the following 8 compulsory modules:
The Asia University: Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education.
Teaching is specially designed for the professional development of university and college teachers to enhance their knowledge and skills in higher education teaching and learning.
This part-time qualification is fully accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency.
Qualifying learners will be able to:
The qualification comprises 8 compulsory modules, namely:
Conclusion:
This qualification, similar to those offered by the institutions mentioned above and by other universities globally, aims to promote improvement of teaching and learning. It is further evident that the content and scope of the qualification relates to international standards and will prepare learners to acquire the intrinsic knowledge and skills to focus on applied specialisation within the Higher Education field. The Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education therefore compares favourably with the international qualifications on offer.
|ARTICULATION OPTIONS|
|Horizontally, this qualification articulates with similar qualifications such as:
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Vertically, this qualification articulates with the following qualifications:
|MODERATION OPTIONS|
|CRITERIA FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ASSESSORS|
|NOTES|
|N/A|
|LEARNING PROGRAMMES RECORDED AGAINST THIS QUALIFICATION:|
|NONE|
|PROVIDERS CURRENTLY ACCREDITED TO OFFER THIS QUALIFICATION:|
|This information shows the current accreditations (i.e. those not past their accreditation end dates), and is the most complete record available to SAQA as of today. Some Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionaries have a lag in their recording systems for provider accreditation, in turn leading to a lag in notifying SAQA of all the providers that they have accredited to offer qualifications and unit standards, as well as any extensions to accreditation end dates. The relevant Primary or Delegated Quality Assurance Functionary should be notified if a record appears to be missing from here. | https://pcqs.saqa.org.za/viewQualification.php?id=90679 |
From time I spent teaching agriculture classes for girls in southern Africa and the experiences that led to, I developed an interest in how women gain access to land, especially in settings where land is communally owned. This land is often used as rangeland, so I’m also interested in rangeland management practices that protect the soil and prevent erosion.
I’m a veterinarian in the U.S. army. I love connecting with other cultures and have worked in several Middle Eastern countries. My primary interests are global herd health and improving livelihoods in developing countries through improving livestock health and husbandry.
I’m currently participating in the Master’s International program through the International Agricultural Development graduate group. I am particularly interested in how people utilize available data regarding agricultural and ecological systems and how this data is used to develop systems.
My focus is on nomadic pastoralism (groups of people who herd animals over long distances in marginal lands) and grassland ecology. I am especially interested in the drier regions of West Africa. I hope to help make food systems there more secure, environmentally friendly and just.
I’m a livestock veterinarian and I work in developing countries to help people produce food. I’ve been focusing on camel dairy for the last few years. Believe it or not camels are the #1 dairy production animals in many regions of the world. The UN/FAO has predicted a $10 billion USD worldwide market for dairy products, but production is not even close to that right now because of gaps in knowledge on camel dairy, camel diseases and mild hygiene problems.
I’m a livestock guys who doesn’t own any livestock. I’m pursuing my Master’s at UC Davis and figuring out how I can raise meat in a way that I find ethical in terms of the humans, the animals, and the ecosystem the animals live in. I’ve traveled to more than a dozed countries and lived for a year and a half in Malysia, working with the Fulbright program. My experience ranges from my youth on deer and cattle ranches to teaching Malaysian and Chinese students. I want to find a way to use my experience with GIS and environmental analysis to improve small livestock operations in Southeast Asia.
I grew up in West Africa and have 5 years of experience working in pesticide research. I also worked for 6 years in China. While there I worked with World Vision both in English teacher training and on an agricultural project to teach Chinese farmers to make organic compost for their field. I am very interested in working with farmers to increase their productivity and the quality of their lives.
I am a sustainable cropping systems specialist. There are many changes facing agriculture and ecosystems and I work with stakeholders and managers to address these issues. My topics of focus are nutrient management, pest management and cultivar selection. All of these foci are analyzed through a social and ecological lens as the links between people and the environment are inextricably related to agricultural systems.
I’ve always had a strong interest in agricultural development. After my Peace Corps service in West Africa, I have refined a focus on the ecology of agricultural production systems. I am currently studying how our food production systems affect their respective environments and how development in this field can be adopted by developing countries.
I specialize in microfinance and helping farmers gain access to credit to build their businesses. Many rural farmers or small business owners in developing countries lack access to loans and capital from traditional banks. I am also interested in developing value chains and helping people recognize and capitalize on opportunities for growth.
I’ve worked in project management and monitoring and evaluation in international and domestic community agricultural development projects. I’m interested in helping international agriculture projects develop participatory monitoring and evaluation systems.
I work on design and dissemination of appropriate technologies with a focus on East Africa. I worked for two and a half years at a bicycle technology start-up in Tanzania. For the last six years, I've helped run month long summits to teach the design process to people from around the world. I am also working to establish a local innovation center in Arusha, Tanzania for rural innovators to come together and collaborate with entrepreneurs.
I am especially interested in aquaculture with a focus on developing methods of raising fish in simple enclosed systems, which are more accessible for small-scale farmers in developing countries. Aquaculture has the power to build nutrition and income in many countries around the world, and I am convinced that it will become more and more important in the future. I want to help smallholders become a part of this growing industry.
I am interested in participatory action research in the field of agroforestry. I’d like to work with smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia to reduce soil erosion, improve crop production and promote biodiversity in their ecosystems. I am also very interested in integrating indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices into sustainable methods.
I am interested in studying how different fertility management and agronomic systems affect water availability to crops and water use efficiency. Agriculture uses approximately 70% of fresh water and climate change may increase the need for sound agricultural management. Farmers in in developing countries are particularly susceptible to water stress due to climate change. | http://iad.ucdavis.edu/people/students/ |
Trimethylaminuria is a disorder in which the body is unable to break down trimethylamine, a pungent-smelling chemical compound described as smelling like fish, rotten eggs, spoiled fish, garbage, or urine. This compound accumulates in the body, causing those affected to give off a strong smell of sweat, urine and breath. Odor intensity may vary over time. Odor can interfere with many aspects of daily life, affecting personal and professional relationships. Some people develop depression and social isolation as a result of this condition.
This process is due to mutations in the FMO3 gene, located on the long arm of chromosome 1 (1q24.3), which encodes the family of flavin monooxygenases (FMO) that break down nitrogenous compounds in the diet, including trimethylamine, which It is the molecule that imparts the odour. of fish This compound is produced by intestinal bacteria for the digestion of proteins from eggs, liver, legumes (such as soybeans and peas), certain types of fish and other foods. Typically, the enzyme converts the strong-smelling trimethylamine into another molecule that has no odor (trimethylamine-N-oxide), which is thus eliminated from the body. If the enzyme is absent or its activity is reduced due to a mutation in the FMO3 gene, trimethylamine is not processed correctly and can accumulate in the body. This enzyme also breaks down some drugs, such as anticancer drugs (tamoxifen), codeine, ketoconazole, some antidepressants, or nicotine tobacco.
More than 25 mutations in the FMO3 gene have been described in individuals affected by trimethylaminuria, giving rise to a small non-functional version of the enzyme. Some mutations result in amino acid changes in the enzyme, which change its shape and alter its function. Although FMO3 gene mutations account for the majority of cases of trimethylaminuria, the condition can also be caused by other factors. Strong body odor can result from an excess of certain dietary proteins or an abnormal increase in trimethylamine-producing bacteria in the digestive tract. Some cases of this disease have been found in adults with liver or kidney disease.
The R51G mutation was first described in Spain in 2003 (Ramos et al Mazón Primary trimethylaminuria or fish odor syndrome A new mutation in the first documented case in Spain Clin Med, 2003:.... 120: 219-217) , interacting with trimethylulaminuria .
There are also single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), such as V257M, E158K and E308G, among others that appear in multiple publications. These polymorphisms can be found in individuals without symptoms of trimethylaminuria, but enzyme activity can be reduced and become more evident when dietary precursors that generate higher amounts of trimethylamine (TMA) are ingested, such as products rich in choline or some vegetables (Brassica spp. : kale, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.), which inhibit the action of ingested FMO3. Likewise, it can occur under certain physiological conditions (eg, menstruation), or in individuals who have a copper deficiency or who have already had the activity of the FMO3 enzyme partially inhibited by certain adverse drug interactions or alcohol intake. However, when individuals are homozygous for E158K E308G and/or have these two associated polymorphisms, symptomatic FMO3 deficiency may manifest. Likewise, the E158K/E308G haplotype has been associated with transient symptoms of trimethylaminuria.
This disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, that is, both copies of the gene in each cell must have mutations for the alteration to be expressed. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive disease have one copy of the mutated gene, but usually show no signs or symptoms of the disease.
Tests at IVAMI: at IVAMI we perform detection of mutations associated with Trimethylaminuria, by means of complete PCR amplification of exons of the FMO3 gene, and subsequent sequencing.
Recommended samples: EDTA blood collected for separation of blood leukocytes, or sample card impregnated with dried blood (IVAMI can send the card to deposit the blood sample). | https://genetaq.com/en/catalogue/test/trimethylaminuria-fmo3-gene-mutation-analysis-r51g |
Lucknow, July 14: Taj Mahal, one the seven wonders of the world, has not been included in the list of heritages that will be preserved by the Uttar Pradesh government. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government is facing flak for not including Taj Mahal in the list of cultural heritage. According to the Yogi Adityanath government’s first state budget presented on Tuesday, Taj Mahal – a Unesco World Heritage Site – isn’t part of Uttar Pradesh’s cultural heritage.
Taj Mahal, recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site, found no place in the special section titled “Hamari Sanskritik Virasat” (Our Cultural Heritage). While a number of schemes were announced for Hindu pilgrimage towns of Ayodhya, Varanasi, Mathura and Chitrakoot in the budget, the structure, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was left out of the budget. The move has invited criticism as CM Yogi Adityanath has often pointed out that the Taj Mahal did not reflect India’s ancient culture. | https://tennews.in/tajmahal-not-included-budget-heritage-plan/ |
Tis the season for sparkling lights and merriment. The latest holiday attraction to hit Atlanta is the Global Winter Wonderland at Turner Field running now through January 5. It's a multicultural holiday celebration that lets guests travel the world without leaving town through larger-than-life lanterns featuring landmarks from around the globe like the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower. And there's circus performances, live music, international food and carnival rides.
Global Village:
http://www.globalwonderland.com/public/atlanta/attractions/global_village/index.cfm
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal in India is one of the most recognizable structures in the world and considered one of its greatest and most admired architectural achievements. It is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, it is now a symbol of eternal love. | https://www.khabar.com/events-calendar/Global_Winter_Wonderland_in_Atlanta |
Ashtapad carries plenty of spiritual prominence along with it which make it majorly renowned amongst varied devotees all around the globe especially those belonging to Jainism. Jains typically believe in visiting this mountain with an intention of attaining the utmost salvation from the continue cycle of birth and death. But why is it so significant amongst the Jains? The answer to this question lies in the story associated with this peak. Ashtapad means eight steps informing that one can descend from this mountain on taking the eight giant steps or because there are eight mountains in a row and lastly also because the eight giant steps here might lead to a palace. However, there exist a good number of myths connected with this name.
Sanya Kalra
Dec, 05-2018
Teaching every Indian on how to pave the way for utmost liberation and bliss, Jainism is a religion hailing from a highly ancient era. A religion of self-help ardently following the three guiding principles i.e. right conduct, right knowledge as well as the right belief. Jains have a dire faith in the concept of rebirth and thus, they passionately follow Mount Kailash with the same reason. According to them, the ultimate liberation or moksha can be perceived by our soul when it leaves the human body and thus, this can be attained by them at the Ashtapad Mountain located near Mount Kailash.
It is said that Bhagwan Rushabhdev also known as Rishabhanatha who was the first Tirthankara believed to have lived millions of years ago attained salvation at Ashtapad. He is known as the ultimate founder of Jainism and is assumed to be the one who has lived for approximately 8,400,000 years with a height of 1200 feet. These features were truly ‘non-human’ and also these were carried on for the next 21 Tirthankaras. Also, it has been notified that a palace beautifully decorated with gems was established by Bhagwan Rushabhdev’s son Chakravati Bharat on the Ashtapad Mountain. Due to this reason, the Ashtapad peak holds a special place in every Jain’s heart.
However, no person till date is successful in figuring out the exact location of this mountain and as a result, this is majorly called as a ‘Lost Tirth’. On the other hand, Ashtapad is counted amongst Shvetambara Jainism’s five holy mountains and having an access to it is quite difficult as compared to the other four peaks i.e. Abu, Girnar, Shatrunjaya and Sammeta.
Just like there are different pilgrimage hubs for different religions, Jainism also comprises of many important spiritual journeys (known as the Maha Tirth) and one of them is the very significant the Ashtapad Tirth. According to some sources, it is assumed that the first saint of the Jains Shri Adinath Bhagwan meditated on Ashtapad that is known to be situated about 5 km north of Darchen. Thus, they reach this spot in order to pay homage to their saint Adinath along with the Southern view of holy Mount Kailash.
In order to explore the Ashtapad Mountain, one needs to seek permissions from the Tibetan authorities and being there, you are going to witness a unique environment. Thus, get ready to be a part of the tranquillity that lies here! Surely, you are going to have an experience like never before. | https://www.kailash-yatra.org/blog/importance-of-ashtapad-in-jain-religion.html |
Business Research Method, in short, BRM is an important subject in management study and courses like PGDM, MBA, B.com, M.com, BBA, ..etc. Here we have shared all the topics that are in the syllabus of Business Research Method in the second semester of MBA (Master of Business Administration).
► What is Business Research Method?
It can be defined as an organized, systematic, data-based, critical, objective, scientific inquiry or investigation into a specific problem, undertaken with the purpose of finding answers or solutions to it.
BRM Definition
Business research is a systematic investigation and process of gathering, recording, and analyzing data for making good business decisions.
Business Research Method is a field of study in which management students learn various research methods. All the topics in the syllabus of the Business Research Method are shared in this article.
Why we study Business Research Method?
- To understand the purpose of research.
- To identify and understand unrealized empirical and analytical problems plaguing the research process and ways to overcome them.
- To identify the business problems and translate them into a research question, and design an appropriate way.
- To develop an understanding of various kinds of research, objectives of doing research, research process, research designs, and sampling.
- To have adequate knowledge of measurement & scaling techniques as well as the quantitative data analysis and hypothesis testing procedures.
► Business Research Method Syllabus
Syllabus of Business Research Method in MBA.
Subject Name: Business Research Method
Subject Code: MBAT 208
Course: MBA II Semester 2020-22
University: Uttarakhand Technical University (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)
Total Credit: 3
Internal Marks: 30
External Marks: 70
Total Marks: 100
Business Research Method in MBA (UTU Syllabus)
Note: This BRM Syllabus is as per MBA Academic Session 2020-21 of Uttarakhand Technical University, UTU Dehradun. The syllabus is according to the Scheme of Examination as per AICTE Flexible Curricula.
Unit 1: Introduction to Business Research Method
Concept of BRM,
Nature of BRM,
Scope BRM,
Need and Role of Business Research,
Characteristic of Research,
Types of Research,
the Research Process: An overview.
Unit 2: Research Design
Concept of Research Design,
Types of Research Design,
Including Exploratory,
Descriptive and Experimental,
Research Design Process.
Unit 3: Questionnaire Design and Schedule
Concept of Questionnaire and Schedule,
Principles of Designing Questionnaire and Schedule,
Limitations of Questionnaire,
Reliability Validity of Questionnaire.
Unit 4: Sampling Theory
Concept,
Need and Importance of Sampling,
Types of Sampling Methods,
Sampling and Non-Sampling Errors,
Sample Design,
Determinants of Sample Size,
Steps in Designing the Sample.
Unit 5: Data Analysis
Tabulation and Processing of Data,
Basic Aspects of Statistical Inference Theory and Hypothesis Testing,
Type I and Type II Errors,
Applications of T-Test,
Z-Test,
F-Test,
Chi-square Test and ANOVA,
Introduction to Computerized Statistical Packages.
► Suggested Books & Readings
- William G. Zikmund: Business Research Methods, 2011-12
- Cooper and Schindler: Business Research Methods, Tata Mc Graw-Hill, 2011
- Mark Saunders: Research Methods for Business: Pearson Education, 2010
- Cooper and Schindler: Business Research Methods, 10th edition, New Delhi
- C.R. Kothari, (2004): Research Methodology – Methods, 2nd edition. New Age Publications.
- Anil K. Mishra (2012). A Hand-Book of Research in SPSS, 1st edition. Himalayan Publishing, House, Mumbai
- Field, A. (2013). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS. 4th edition, Sage Publications London. | https://edukedar.com/business-research-method-syllabus/ |
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Q:
Removing stopwords from a user-defined corpus in R
I have a set of documents:
documents = c("She had toast for breakfast",
"The coffee this morning was excellent",
"For lunch let's all have pancakes",
"Later in the day, there will be more talks",
"The talks on the first day were great",
"The second day should have good presentations too")
In this set of documents, I would like to remove the stopwords. I have already removed punctuation and converted to lower case, using:
documents = tolower(documents) #make it lower case
documents = gsub('[[:punct:]]', '', documents) #remove punctuation
First I convert to a Corpus object:
documents <- Corpus(VectorSource(documents))
Then I try to remove the stopwords:
documents = tm_map(documents, removeWords, stopwords('english')) #remove stopwords
But this last line results in the following error:
THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC() to debug.
This has already been asked here but an answer was not given. What does this error mean?
EDIT
Yes, I am using the tm package.
Here is the output of sessionInfo():
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
A:
When I run into tm problems I often end up just editing the original text.
For removing words it's a little awkward, but you can paste together a regex from tm's stopword list.
stopwords_regex = paste(stopwords('en'), collapse = '\\b|\\b')
stopwords_regex = paste0('\\b', stopwords_regex, '\\b')
documents = stringr::str_replace_all(documents, stopwords_regex, '')
> documents
[1] " toast breakfast" " coffee morning excellent"
[3] " lunch lets pancakes" "later day will talks"
[5] " talks first day great" " second day good presentations "
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A statewide endangered child advisory has been issued for four children taken out of Ohio and possbily heading to Florida.
Police say Patience Wilson, Damara Raziel Croley, Benjamin Karl-Leland Croley, and Damien Wilson was last seen on North Main Street in Lima Tuesday morning at 1:30 a.m. when she was taken by her non-custodial mother, Marianne Merritt.
Patience is described as a white girl, approximately 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 80 pounds. She has blonde or strawberry-colored hair with blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a white top with dark blue or black leggings.
Damara is a 13-year-old white girl who is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a red Ohio State University shirt with Spiderman web pants.
Benjamin is a 12-year-old white boy who is 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 120 pounds. He has blonde, strawberry-colored hair with blue eyes. He was wearing yellow smile emoji pants at the time of the incident.
Damien is an 8-year-old boy with blond hair and blue eyes. He is 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 111 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt and red and black shorts.
Merritt is a 40-year-old white female. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 210 pounds. She has red hair and green eyes.
She may be with her 39-year-old boyfriend, Charles Perkins. He is a 5-foot 5-inch white male who weighs approximately 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. | |
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 348 pp.
According to George Slusser, science fiction is “the sole literary form that examines the ways in which science penetrates, alters, and transforms the themes, forms, and worldview of fiction” (Slusser, 2005: 28). This cross-pollination of fiction and science (or technology) is a salient topic found in Hugo Gernsback’s writings. In The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction (2016), edited by Grant Wythoff, it is not surprising to find instructions on how to assemble a diverse number of appliances followed by guidelines for writing scientifiction (a term coined by Gernsback). What is more, due to the impressive amount of materials gathered by Wythoff, this book allows the reader to understand how Howard V. Brown and Frank R. Paul’s illustrations sparkled readers’ imaginations, and thus, collaborated for the speculative tone of the texts edited or written by Gernsback. This Luxembourgish-American tinkerer regarded science fiction not merely as a literary form, but also, according to Wythoff, a specific way to interact with and reflect on media. As it becomes clear after reading The Perversity of Things, fiction was considered a lab where the impact of inventions (or opportunities afforded by media) could be accessed.
Gernsback believed that a science fiction story “must be reasonable and logical and must be based upon known scientific principles” (Gernsback, 2016b: 337). Living in a wondrous age of accentuated technological progress, Gernsback benefited from exceptionally favourable conditions to develop his scientific, editorial and literary work. This inventor, who lent his name to one of the most prestigious awards in the field of science fiction, began his research at a time particularly ripe for a community of self-taught tinkerers to emerge. Scientific periodicals aimed at a non-academic public had started proliferating and radio and television were at the dawn of their development. Before being regulated, wireless technology offered an unlimited horizon of possibilities, and therefore, an inexhaustible source of raw materials to build fictional worlds. It also served to gather a group of experimenters whose interaction was based on the use of technology for the common good. Furthermore, Gernsback’s scientific descriptions, associated with an unquenchable technological optimism, made it seem possible to find any appliance available in stores (or tinkerers’ home) on the very next day. Science and fiction were unavoidably intermingled and both formed a unique ensemble dedicated to future achievements and the improvement of human life.
The Perversity of Things is comprised of over seventy titles written by Hugo Gernsback. First published between 1905 and 1932, these texts preceded the creation of Amazing Stories, and hence, belong to an era when science fiction stories were so burdened with technical details as to be titled, according to Wythoff, “gadget stories”(5). This beautifully designed 384-page book offers a chronological and thematic table of contents to help the reader traverse the text. An electronic edition of The Perversity of Things was released in 2017 and can be accessed at Manifold publications page. Even though pagination is absent from this version, the electronic edition allows readers to search through the book and rapidly toggle between the texts and the extensive footnotes added by Wythoff. The book is divided into eight parts, each of them focusing on a facet of Gernsback’s work. Besides making the complete book available, thus promoting open knowledge, the online version also provides the complete magazine issues in which these materials were originally published. Both editions cover thirty years of Hugo Gernsback’s work and offer a vast array of information in the shape of side notes for the print edition, and hyperlinked footnotes for the electronic edition. These invaluable resources often suggest further readings and, not unlike Gernsback’s tinkerers, readers are furnished with tools to gather knowledge on their own.
Wythoff’s edition shares the story behind the foundation of Electro Importing Company, “the first mail-order radio retailers,” and offers an account of Modern Electrics catalogue evolution into a monthly magazine. The Perversity of Things also suggests that the launch of Amazing Stories may not have been the only contribution made by Hugo Gernsback to science fiction. Even though many have praised Gernsback’s editorial work—Sam Moskowitz, for instance, considered him the “father of science fiction” (Roberts, 75)—others believed that the so-called Gernsback’s Era exerted a pernicious influence on the field of science fiction. According to Adam Roberts, Gernsback is believed to be “responsible for the deplorable juvenilisation of a genre that ought to have grown into a profound, philosophical and above all adult mode of art” (177). Brian Aldiss, for instance, considered the stories published in Amazing Stories andWonder Stories, “unutterably poor” (19). According to an article published in LIFE magazine when Gernsback was 78 years old, a “stiff-necked insistence on scientific validity (…) known among dissenters in the trade as the ‘Gernsback delusion’” (O’Neil, 1963: 66) was attributed to Gernsback. As Fred Lerner later wrote, “the idea that science fiction stories could serve as a force for science education, and a means of interesting people in science, did not catch on” because “[l]ike many of Gernsback’s ideas, the notion that science fiction could be used as a teaching aid was substantially ahead of his time” (Lerner, 1985: 38). Though this matter is not absent from Wythoff’s thorough introduction, an alternate perspective is rather emphasized by this edition of Gernsback work. In The Perversity of Things, Gernsback is portrayed as the main figure around which gravitates a community of tinkerers (or experimenters) focused on interchanging ideas, creating knowledge together and learning by doing.
The Perversity of Things splendidly presents a panoramic perspective over the work of Hugo Gernsback and, at the same time, succeeds in drawing readers’ attention to a media theory in progress. Since Gernsback is commonly depicted as an amateur scientist, editor of Amazing Stories or science fiction author, his role as a media theorist has remained largely overshadowed by his other contributions. The pressure to publish, the enormous amount of themes addressed, and the effects of a rapid technological evolution, prevented Gernsback from anchoring his writings in a solid media theory. Nevertheless, this set of drawbacks also encouraged Gernsback to create and explore a variety of scenarios or reflect upon possible applications of devices that had not been invented yet. In this sense, The Perversity of Things might be specially revealing for electronic literature scholars and digital media theorists, since it depicts a theory in progress, struggling to keep pace with technological advancements, while taking into account future possibilities. Gernsback’s writings precede the work of a growing number of artists who tinker with code or hardware to create art. These digital tinkerers experiment with medium affordances and, like Gernsback (although often extrapolating and diverting from a tool’s or medium’s original purpose) they too aim to see beyond the conventional and familiar. They also speculate about possibilities while considering media constraints as chances to explore the unknown. In a similar way to Gernsback’s followers, they expose the layered materiality of their devices by tinkering with digits, wires, screens and metaphors.
The Perversity of Things successfully examines different aspects of Gernsback’s work and offers a neutral ground where his contribution—as an inventor, technocrat, entrepreneur, editor, writer, prophet and “the voice” of a growing community of tinkers—can be overtly examined. A connection between Gernsback’s hands-on approach to technology and Ted Nelson’s manifesto Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)—where readers are invited to learn how to use computers (“You can and you must use computers NOW”)—emerges while reading The Perversity of Things. The group of tinkerers gathered around Gernsback’s publications finds its parallel in nowadays hacker communities or the open-source software movement. As a matter of fact, in light of our current knowledge, the urgency to make a responsible and conscious use of technology seems to be insistently emphasized in Gernsback’s texts.
To Gernsback, only by experimenting with media will it be possible to fully understand objects, and thus forestall their perversity. To make his argument clear, he offers the example of a screwdriver that slips and injures the carpenter’s left hand. As Gernsback explains, this unfortunate event was not caused by the inanimate screwdriver, but by the carpenter’s impatience and lack of planning. Therefore, according to Gernsback, “[i]t is not the things that are perverse, it is ourselves who make them seem perverse” (Gernsback, 2016a: 166). In his footnote to this claim, Wythoff prefers to focus his attention on materiality and the objective/subjective perception of things. However, there is yet another layer of argument here. Even when machines become self-aware in science fiction stories, and they do turn against human, this rebellious act cannot be attributed to devices (after all, humans do hold the power to choose and to determine the purpose of their tools). What Gernsback seems to point out is that, any deviation from original course is caused, not by supposedly perverse devices, but by irresponsible or nefarious use of science. By understanding devices and the implications of its employment, practitioners were in reality, albeit unaware of this at the time, taking responsibility for their creations, as well as learning how to participate in decision-making.
Overall, the reader is introduced to a collection of writings focused on media materiality and specificity, as well on the defiance of the boundary between fact and fiction. This book sheds light on seldom examined aspects (such as the importance of the “Babel of Voices” channelled by Gernsback’s magazines or the transition between amateurism and corporate research) and therefore, makes an invaluable contribution to better understand the work of Hugo Gernsback. His didactic tone was often considered unimaginative and prescriptive (Clute apud Roberts, 177). This book, however, invites readers to consider the hypothesis that, instead of stubbornly and clumsily pursuing an idea of science fiction—a field still in its infancy—Gernsback’s was in fact conveying a very different message. He believed that fiction was “a means for the effective dissemination of science” (Brake and Hook, 2008: 90) and urged his readers to understand how their devices work, thus laying the foundations of a media theory. While doing so, he prevented devices from becoming ready-made impenetrable black boxes and, under our current understanding of technology, encouraged people to participate in the generation and distribution of knowledge.
Aldiss, Brian (1986). Trillion Year Spree. The History of Science Fiction. London: Gollancz.
Brake, Mark L. and Neil Hook (2008). Different Engines. How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science. London and New York: Macmillan.
Gernsback, Hugo (2016a). “The Perversity of Things” , in The Perversity of Things. Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, edited by Grant Wythoff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 337-341.
Gernsback, Hugo (2016b). “How to Write ‘Science’ Stories” , in The Perversity of Things. Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, edited by Grant Wythoff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 165-167.
Lerner, Fred (1985). “Science Fiction versus Science Fact,” in New Scientist, No. 1454 (May), p. 37.
Nelson, Ted (1974). Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Self-published.
O’Neil, Paul (1963). “The Amazing Hugo Gernsback, Prophet of Science, Barnum of the Space Age,” in LIFE Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 4 (July), pp. 62-68.
Roberts, Adam (2006). History of Science Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Slusser, George (2005). “The Origins of Science Fiction,” in A Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Wythoff, Grant (2016). “Introduction,” in The Perversity of Things. Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction, edited by Grant Wythoff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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The North Eastern region originally comprised the states of Assam, Manipur and Tripura. The states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram were subsequently carved out of Greater Assam with the North East Frontier Agency being amalgamated into the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The region, with differences in culture and identity, was earlier amalgamated into one major state which led to a conflict among the various communities and tribes. The ‘balkanisation’ of Assamand thereafter led to the formation of three major states that is Nagaland (1963), Meghalaya and Mizoram(1972) was essential.
However, a conflict between the states due to incorrect boundary demarcation escalated an already tenuous history of conflict amongst the communities that populate this land and as a result, this conflict spread outside Assam, and ‘radically redefined’ the political balance between all the local communities and tribes.This conflict is not only because to the growing need for an ethnic identity fanned and fuelled by political aspirations but also the need for the suppression of one ethnic identity over another, by trying to increase tribal territorial and resource aspirations.
Baggage of the Past
Formerly known as Lushai Hills, Mizoram is located on the southern fringes of Northeast India. The state shares borders with three north-eastern states of Tripura, Assam and Manipur, and a 722-km border with the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The two documents that are at the heart of this ongoing boundary conflict are a 1875 notification which differentiates between the Cachar Hills and Lushai Hills and a 1933 notification which demarcates the Lushai Hills (from where Mizoram has been carved out) and Manipur, are the major reasons of conflict between the two states. The state of Mizoram does not follow the notification of 1933, since the boundary was demarcated before the formation of the Mizo state.
Assam has been the common strand that connects all these North Eastern border disputes. The root cause of all these inter-state border disputes are the result of a decision to carve out new political states out of Assam which was necessitated by compelling circumstances based on the prevailing external and internal situation in the region during the 1960s highlighted the urgent need to effectively integrate this sensitive area with mainland India.
The 1962 border conflict with China and numerous ethnic insurgencies that spawned in the region threatened the unity and integrity of the country. In this context, the Government of India decided to carve out new political entities, with the dual aim of integrating this remote region as well as to fulfil the aspirations of various ethnic communities which were involved in these insurgent movements.
A case in point was the reorganisation of Arunachal Pradesh into a Union Territory in 1972 and its subsequent upgradation to full-fledged state in 1987 was a strategy of the Indian government to consolidate its position vis-à-vis China in the border negotiations. Similarly, the granting of the status of a state to Nagaland in 1963, Meghalaya in 1972 and Mizoram in 1987 were steps to accommodate the territorial aspirations of the Nagas tribes, the Khasis, the Garos, and the Mizos.
Granting statehood definitely addressed their demand for a separate political identity but had a negative fallout in the form of these continuing border disputes between the mother Assam state and these newly created states. It is important to note that these states were hurriedly carved out of Assam without paying much attention to the tribal realities on the ground and because these freshly created state boundaries did not strictly conform to the ethnic boundaries of the region. Especially since there continue to be sizable populations of Mizos and Nagas in the Cachar Hills, making it possible for both Mizoram and Nagaland to claim these territories in Assam. The Central government had transferred areas that were a part of Assam, thus creating reasons for potential tensions. A case in point is the example of Dimapur which was given to Nagaland to provide it with a railhead. This decision caused heartburn among the Dimasas of North Cachar Hills, as historically Dimapur was their capital.
Unfortunately, the Central government did not create any mechanism that allowed these states to jointly address these disputes and left these boundary issues for a resolution at a later date. Later, these concerned states tried to resolve these boundary disputes amongst each other by holding negotiations between each other, which unfortunately failed and third party intervention was sought to resolve the matter. For instance, in 2005, the Supreme Court had directed the Central government to constitute a boundary commission to resolve various inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast. The Centre had earlier constituted two commissions, the Sundaram Commission (1971) and the Shastri Commission (1985), to settle the Assam-Nagaland border dispute. These commissions failed to resolve the matter as the concerned states did not accept their recommendations. In a significant move, Nagaland, Assam and Meghalaya decided to co-operate with each other to solve their respective border disputes with Assam. They strongly favoured negotiations with Assam and opposed any third party intervention. Though the Assam government has so far been reluctant to hold talks, its dialogue with the Meghalaya government to resolve the Langpih and related issues marked a welcome change in this attitude and gave reason to hope for similar resolutions with other states.
It is time that the Centre took the initiative to facilitate a fair settlement of this festering border problem in the Northeast. It can do so by either persuading the concerned states to come to the negotiating table and seek a solution or by constituting a boundary commission whose recommendations would be binding on the parties involved. Needless to say, a quick and speedy resolution of these border issues has become necessary given the Central government’s renewed emphasis on the overall development of the Northeast. This goal can only be achieved by purging strife and promoting greater co-operation among these states to usher in an era of peace and prosperity in the region.
Recent Incidents
On July 11, 2021, two grenade explosions jolted Dholakhal in Assam’s Cachar district. The Dholakhal village is located along the inter-state border of Assam and Mizoram.This latest clash along the Assam- Mizoram border reignited tensions and created instability and insecurity along the border villages. The main reason for this escalation is believed to be timed with visits of several senior officials, including the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police (Cachar).
This attack was followed by counter attack from the members of the villages.The main reason for the clash is related to the border demarcation which has been a thorn in the relations between the two states and thus a permanent solution to the conflict is a must for peace and stability. Although the main reason for the clash were these miscreants, their underlying sentiments could be traced to the border dispute which ‘still acts as a thorn’ in the relations between the two states.
Earlier Incidents. Minor violent clashes took place in the region during the 1972 demarcation of the border alongside the districts of Cachar, Hailakandi, and Karimganj border. However, in 2020, a major incident occurred on the border where members of both communities clashed with each other. This led to the loss of property on both sides. However, with the intervention of the Centre, the situation was brought under control and peace was restored.
Steps Undertaken to Solve the Conflict. There was a meeting in Meghalaya consisting of officials of both the states of Assam and Mizoram with the sole purpose of finding a solution to this boundary issue wherein they agreed to maintain status quo along their respective interstate boundaries. However, owing to the dynamic nature of the situation, there is a need for a permanent negotiated mutually accepted solution to this problem between the states.
Reasons for these continued Boundary Incidents
Resources. The presence of important natural resources plays an important role in these boundary incidents. To occupy a resource-rich land, is beneficial for trade and economic purposes of any state.
Ethnic Identity. One of the main reasons for the border conflict is the presence of different ethnicities near the border region. Groups mainly clash in order to suppress the minority ethnic group. At times two ethnic tribal identities clash in order to dominate the region.
Lack of Effective Boundary Demarcation. A common factor among the major border clashes, in the North East, has been Assam, especially since the three states involved in these incidents, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Meghalaya were carved out of Assam. Border demarcation has been improper and the borders have been demarcated as per convenience of the involved parties, therefore, leading to many undefined and complicated local boundary disputes. The single most important factor was that the local tribes residing in the area were not consulted upon before demarcating these interstate borders.
Historical Evidence. Another important reason for clashes is played by history. All the states involved seem to have connected historical evidence and all of them tend to quote these historical evidences in order to justify their land/border claims.
Ongoing Insurgency. The presence of insurgent groups in this region further complicates the situation. The Insurgents further restrict free movement of people across the border thereby creating a safety issue which diverts the attention of the states towards defending their own territorial integrity, thereby, leaving less time to focus on finding a solution to the conflict.
Legal Delays. There has been limited or negligible progress, in cases with respect to border conflicts. Such delays lead to exhaustion of economic means in the region, thereby contributing to instability in the same.
Recommended Steps for Conflict/Boundary Resolution
Proper Demarcation of Borders. There is a need for a legitimate ‘Centre led’ initiative to resolve the border issues. The Centre can decide to maintain the status quo in the region or find a ‘common rationale’ to demarcate the border.
People to People Engagement. All ethnic majority and minority tribes residing in the region, must be respected and developed. The concept of a ‘shared’ North East Identity could bring the people together. Education can be an effective tool to facilitate people-to-people connect.
Involvement of the Supreme Court. The active involvement of the Supreme Court in matters pertaining to legal issues could fast-track the decision-making process and thereafter the implementation process. Establishment of a ‘court monitored boundary commission’ to look into the demands of all the conflicting parties involved, and thereafter, suggest a solution, is essential.
Political Solution. With the NDA in power in all these states and at the centre, a political solution to these vexed boundary disputes seems relatively easy to push through. The presence of common leadership in most states can lead to an agreement on border issues as well as the presence of the centre leadership would lead to faster implementation of the solution in the region.
The Act East Factor. Maintaining a peaceful North East is vital for India’s ‘Act East Policy’ as the NorthEast Region is the doorway to the ASEAN regions. All the states gain by being connected to one another and for this peaceful borders to ensure ‘free’ movement of people and trade are essential.
Conclusion
It is time to find a permanent solution to the border conflict in North East, as it would not only lead to peaceful relations between the various states involved but, in the long run, will act as an important juncture for India’s ‘Act East Policy’ owing to its proximity to the ASEAN countries. Moreover, the presence of China via its BRI near India’s North- East makes it all the more important to solve the North East ‘internal border conflicts’ as soon as possible.
(The author, a veteran soldier, is a second generation officer of the 11th Gorkha Rifles, and has served in the Indian Army for almost 40 years. He was later appointed the Chairman of the Cease Fire Monitoring Group located in Kohima where he was chartered to bring the various insurgent groups to accept an ongoing Ceasefire with the GOI. He also had the distinction of serving as the Indian Defence Attache at the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Views expressed are personal and do not reflect the official position or policy of the Financial Express Online.)
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Books that Sing -- Stories that Dance!
When
February 16, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
Location
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Greater Atlanta Chapter
Presents
Books that Sing – Stories that Dance!
Incorporating Music, Movement, and Imagination with Books & Literature
in your Preschool classroom!
Presented by Lara Davis, B.M.E.
Founder of Kidstunes
Saturday, February 16, 2013
10:00-12:00
Room 114 Wilson Building
Kennesaw State University*
Designed for music specialists and “regular classroom” early childhood teachers alike, this workshop will be very active. We will enhance our dramatic skills through interactive participation as we:
Explore techniques for integrating music & movement with books and storytelling to promote music fundamental skills & concepts, creativity, cross-curricular connections, and literacy with our young students.
Outline five general book formats that lend themselves easily to music and movement and then fully engage in at least one example from each of these categories.
Engage in activities ranging from expanding rhythmic text into a simple song and non-loco motor finger plays - to full dramatization including instruments, props, classical listening selections, and more!
Learn how several of these examples can easily be transformed into musical programs as well.
Gain confidence in participatory storytelling from hands-on experience with specific texts and musical excerpts presented throughout this active session!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LARA DAVIS, B.M.E. is the founder and owner of Kidstunes (www.kidstunes.org) providing developmentally appropriate music & movement education programs to preschools, daycares, and private school settings across North Carolina, and has worked with young children now for over 25 years! Her background also includes teaching as a music specialist at the elementary level, a choir and musical theater director, working with special needs populations, and ongoing work as a private piano instructor and accompanist. Beginning her company in 1995, she incorporated her experience and vast research into the very heart of the Kidstunes program, composing original age-appropriate music, continually exploring and updating the curriculum through work with the most relevant leaders in the field, and personally mentoring each Instructor licensed through her program. For much more information see the Kidstunes website!
Workshop fees: $10 for local Chapter members, $15.00 for non-members
Please RSVP by Monday, February 11 to Louise Betsch [email protected] 404-455-3606
*Kennesaw State University is located in Cobb County, 20 minutes north of Atlanta on I-75, one exit north of Town Center Mall. Take the Chastain Road Exit number 271 and turn left if northbound on I-75 (turn right if southbound.)
Go to the second light if northbound (first if southbound) and turn right on to Frey Road. Turn left at the light on Campus Loop Road by the dorms. Turn at the first left on Owl Drive. Pass the new large central parking deck on your left, then Lot D on the right and turn right onto Bartow Ave. to park in Lot C on the left, which is across the street from the Wilson Building. You will need to go up the curved sidewalk to the right to enter through the side door of the building. Room 114 is located on the first floor. | https://ecmma.wildapricot.org/event-632906 |
The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) describes the number of times a person’s breathing slows or stops during an average hour of sleep. The AHI is one of several measures provided by a sleep study, an overnight test typically conducted in a hospital or sleep clinic or at home.
Sleep studies are used to diagnose sleep disorders. The AHI is particularly useful in diagnosing and determining the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep disorder in which the throat repeatedly narrows or closes during sleep, causing problematic breathing disruptions.
If you are one of the nearly 30 million adults in the United States who have OSA, knowing the basics about the AHI—including how it’s calculated and why it can change—can help you understand what your AHI score means for your sleep, your breathing, and your health.
What Is the Apnea-Hypopnea Index?
The AHI is a diagnostic tool that tells you the average number of times your breathing either partially or fully stops per hour of sleep.
Three key pieces of information inform the AHI score.
- Number of apneas: An apnea is a total or near total lapse in breathing, indicated by a reduction in airflow of 90% for at least 10 seconds.
- Number of hypopneas: A hypopnea is a partial reduction in breathing. While there are variations in how sleep labs define hypopneas, they typically last for at least 10 seconds and involve at least a 30% drop in airflow.
- Total sleep time: Total sleep time reflects the amount of time spent in a state of low responsiveness, minimal movement, and limited metabolic activity.
The AHI is calculated by adding the total amount of apneas and hypopneas during the study and dividing that number by total sleep time. This produces a single number that shows how frequently, on average, you experience breathing disruptions during sleep. For example, a person who experiences 15 apneas and 27 hypopneas over the course of seven hours of sleep would have an AHI score of 6.
What Do AHI Readings Mean?
After undergoing a sleep study, you and your doctor should receive a report that summarizes the study’s findings. Sleep study reports include tables, graphs, and measurements—including the AHI score—that your doctor can use to make a diagnosis or to inform treatment recommendations.
An AHI score lower than 5 indicates normal, healthy breathing. Occasional reductions in airflow during sleep are not an indication of obstructive sleep apnea, which involves more frequent lapses in breathing.
If your AHI score is between 5 and 14, and you also have identifiable symptoms of OSA, then your doctor is likely to diagnose you with OSA. You may also be diagnosed with OSA if your AHI is 15 or more, whether or not you have any recognizable symptoms of the condition.
If you are diagnosed with OSA, your doctor may classify the condition as mild, moderate, or severe. Although multiple factors are considered in this process, the AHI score serves as a valuable tool in determining the severity of OSA.riods of shallow breathing) occurring, on average, each hour.
|AHI Score in Adults||Severity Level of OSA|
|5-14||Mild|
|15-30||Moderate|
|30 or higher||Severe|
Some sleep labs may also divide the AHI score into two different scores—the apnea index (AI) and hypopnea index (HI)—each of which reflects the average hourly incidence of that breathing issue during sleep.
While the AHI can help diagnose and assess obstructive sleep apnea, it cannot do so on its own. Your doctor or a sleep specialist will interpret your AHI score alongside other data from your sleep study, your symptoms, and your health history. This is why it is important to review your sleep study report and to discuss the meaning of your AHI score with a health professional.
Using the AHI With Children
The apnea-hypopneas index is also an important metric for measuring sleep apnea in children. However, the criteria for measuring apneas and hypopneas are different in children than in adults.
Moreover, a different scale is applied to AHI scores to determine the severity of OSA children.
|AHI Score in Children||Severity Level of OSA|
|1-4.9||Mild|
|5-9.9||Moderate|
|10 or higher||Severe|
Based on a doctor’s judgment, either the adult or pediatric measurement of AHI may be used for adolescents.
Other Ways to Measure Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The apnea-hypopnea index is just one of several sleep study measurements that health care providers can use to diagnose or determine the severity of sleep apnea. Every approach has benefits and downsides, and it is normal for doctors to consider multiple sources of information when diagnosing and assessing obstructive sleep apnea.
Respiratory Disturbance Index
The respiratory disturbance index (RDI) is another metric that tracks the number of breathing disruptions per hour during sleep. In addition to apneas and hypopneas, the RDI includes respiratory effort-related arousals (RERAs). RERAs involve a reduction in airflow or an increase in breathing effort but aren’t severe enough to be classified as apneas or hypopneas.
Some sleep labs include both the AHI and RDI on their test reports. Because the RDI includes an additional type of breathing disruption, it is always at least as high as the AHI. More research is necessary to determine whether the AHI or RDI is more accurate in diagnosing and assessing the severity of OSA.
Oxygen Levels
The pauses and decreases in airflow that characterize OSA often lead to decreased oxygen levels in the blood. There are a number of metrics related to the amount of oxygen in the blood that sleep studies commonly report.
For example, the oxygen desaturation index (ODI) shows the average number of times per hour that a sleeper experiences an oxygen desaturation, which is a 3-4% drop in blood oxygen levels.
Sleep studies also sometimes measure minimum and average oxygen saturation levels, as well as the amount of time a sleeper spends with below-normal levels of oxygen in their blood—a state known as “hypoxemia.”
Sleep Quality
In addition to documenting breathing disturbances, sleep study technicians also provide information about sleep quality. The breathing problems associated with OSA can cause a person to wake up, leading to fragmented sleep. Additionally breathing disruptions tend to be worse during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.
As a result, sleep study reports often include information about how often a sleeper wakes up and how much time they spend in different sleep stages.
Is A Sleep Study the Only Way to Get an AHI Score?
It is possible to get an AHI score from some at-home sleep apnea tests. While sleep studies conducted in a laboratory setting are the most thorough and accurate way to assess obstructive sleep apnea, there are a number of portable sleep monitoring devices that can provide useful data from the comfort of your own home.
If you have moderate to severe symptoms of OSA and do not have other medical conditions that affect breathing, your doctor might be able to use data from an at-home test to diagnose OSA. This will allow you to undergo testing in a familiar environment and to generate data over the course of multiple nights, likely at a lower cost than a sleep study.
One such device is the “WatchPAT,” which uses a monitor attached to your index finger to record body position, oxygen levels, snoring, heart rate, breathing disturbances, and other data. Following testing, this device generates scores for the AHI, as well as for the respiratory disturbance index and the oxygen desaturation index.
Another option for home AHI testing is to use a specific type of CPAP device called auto-CPAP or APAP. APAP can calculate an estimated AHI based on changes in a person’s airflow while using the device. Though not as precise as the AHI measured during a sleep study, this data may allow your doctor to help you use your CPAP machine more effectively.
It is important to note that at-home tests may not always reliably measure the AHI. A sleep study is the best way to measure breathing disruptions and total time spent sleeping—the key data points used to determine the AHI.
Moreover, because sleep studies assess more variables, they can provide a richer understanding of the relationship between breathing disruptions and other factors, like sleep stages.
Why Does Your AHI Change?
Your AHI score is not a static number. It typically changes throughout the night, as frequency of breathing disruptions can shift based on factors like body position and sleep stage. AHI can also change over a longer period of time—for instance, when treatment for OSA leads to fewer breathing disruptions over the course of a night.
There are multiple reasons why your AHI score can go up or down. However, determining AHI requires careful monitoring during a sleep study or with a validated portable device, so you most likely won’t be aware of short-term increases or decreases in your AHI score.
Causes of AHI Increases
A rising AHI score may be related to one or more factors that are associated with OSA, including:
- Sleeping on your back
- Using alcohol or sedative drugs
- Gaining weight
- Beginning testosterone replacement therapy
If you are concerned that your breathing disruptions at night are getting worse, then you should consult with a medical provider. Your doctor can suggest appropriate testing to assess any potential causes of breathing disruptions.
Causes of AHI Decreases
Many treatments for OSA are designed to reduce your AHI score. Examples of treatments that may reduce AHI scores include:
- Using a CPAP machines, or other type of PAP device
- Making lifestyle changes, such as losing weight or limiting alcohol consumption
- Sleeping on your side instead of your back
- Wearing an oral appliance that repositions the tongue or jaw
- Having surgery to remove tissue that blocks the airway
A doctor or sleep specialist can describe the pros and cons of different OSA treatments and which may work best for you.
Drawbacks of the AHI
The AHI provides a way to quantify breathing disruptions in people with sleep apnea, but it does have drawbacks. Although it is a key tool for doctors and sleep specialists, it must be used as part of a comprehensive evaluation of a person’s symptoms, overall health, and sleep patterns.
AHI Data May Not Be Standardized
While there are criteria for identifying apneas and hypopneas during a sleep study, definitions of these events have changed over the last decade. Because sleep labs may use different definitions of apnea and hypopnea, AHI scores between labs may vary.
AHI Does Not Perfectly Correspond With Symptoms
Although a higher AHI score tends to reflect more severe obstructive sleep apnea, it does not always correspond with a person’s actual symptoms. In some situations, a person can have a high AHI without having any symptoms at all.
AHI and Central Sleep Apnea
In addition to serving as a diagnostic tool for OSA, the apnea-hypopnea index can be used to measure breathing disruptions in central sleep apnea (CSA). The reduced breathing in CSA occurs because of a decrease in the drive to breathe, as opposed to a narrowing or collapse of the airway.
During a sleep study, sensors can detect whether lapses in breathing are likely to be caused by an obstructed airway, a reduced drive to breathe, or a combination of the two. Using this data, separate AHI scores can be calculated for OSA and CSA. | https://www.sleepapnea.org/diagnosis/ahi-apnea-hypopnea-index/ |
Can An Agent Use Principal’s Money to Purchase Real Estate for Herself?
Last week, I received a note from someone who was serving as her 97 year old mother’s attorney in fact. She wanted to cash out some of her mother’s stock and use the proceeds to purchase real estate. She asked whether it would be okay to list herself on the title of the property she purchased with her mother’s money.
The short answer is no.
An agent is a fiduciary who has a duty to act in the principal’s best interest. The fact that this individual has complete control over her mother’s finances does not entitle her to enter into financial transactions for her own benefit. As a fiduciary, she must keep all money and property separate. Title to her mother’s money and property should be kept only in her mother’s name.
You can learn more about your duties as an agent by reading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Guide to Managing Someone Else’s Money for agents under a power of attorney (pdf). | https://raniacombslaw.com/resources/can-an-agent-use-principals-money-to-purchase-real-estate-for-herself |
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Key checks for Flip Turns
When working on flip turns with junior swimmers it is important that we do not make the turn too complicated to begin with, so that the basic movement patterns are in place and the swimmers can get a good push off. I break the turn down into 3 distinct phases:
- Entry to the turn – the final arms stroke commences the turn, so that the swimmer’s head follows the arm over into the turn. The head the comes through in a tight turn by looking towards the belly button.
- Foot plant – we want swimmers to have their knees at a 90 degree angle for the best possible push-off. Less than 90, the swimmer is too close and will waste unnecessary time on the wall, slowing them down overall. Beyond 90 degrees, the swimmer cannot maximise the force needed for propulsion off the wall. The better the push-off the more speed the swimmer has to commence the stroke.
- Exit from the turn – swimmers need to have their arms in the extended streamline position before pushing off if they wish to maximise speed. Try to not breathe on the first stroke.
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Richard is currently Secondary School Principal of Suzhou Singapore International School, one of China's leading international schools. He leads workshops across the Asia-Pacific region for the International Baccalaureate in the areas of pedagogical leadership and approaches to teaching and learning. Richard consults with schools on the topics of school improvement and effective implementation and use of technology.
With a background in public and independent school education in the UK and Australia, Richard is enjoying his international school adventure in China. He is passionate about developing and supporting educational leaders, as it is essential to improving all schools.
Richard is a proud family man and feels lucky to be married to Kim and father of their son Austin. | https://allfourstrokes.com/2018/10/06/key-checks-for-flip-turns/ |
I was reflecting on the books I have read that really stick. What I mean is books that the ideas have some lasting effect on you and your life.
I would like to say that Steven Covey’s books about highly effective people stuck but it really did not. I think his ideas on principle and time management are really great. I guess his thing about important versus urgent really stuck.
Built to Last, a book about visionary companies that survive and thrive, was one that I quote often and really like many of the ideas. I think if I had invest in his visionary companies when I first read that book I would be have done very well in the market. The big, hairy audacious goal is an idea that really stuck.
Of course, The Fifth Discipline by Senge has really stuck with me. His ideas of a learning organization are really first class. I think it is very difficult to implement in an organization but as I apply the ideas to myself and organizations I help, they really seem to be good principles. I also like his learning disabilities of organizations. I expect I identify with those more than the five disciplines. They are quite profound concepts. His systems thinking concept is really something.
I have read "Conversations with God" by Walsh and found it very thought provoking and helpful in my search for spiritual enlightenment. They are a series of book and quite challenging of old religious concepts of God.
Of course The Power of Now and The Presence Process are two books that really changed my thinking about time, the universe and everything. Have not really traveled very far down that road yet but I am patient.
In fiction, I have not read much lately but really liked Asimov’s science fiction. I really found a book called "The End Of Time" by him a great read. The Dune series started out well but got lost I think.
Recently I read "The Tipping Point" and I find I am quoting examples from it often. I am not sure if it influences my behavior but certainly is a great conversation piece. They had some examples of how things take on a life of their own, like teenage suicides, that changes my interpretation of events in the news. They had quite an analysis of teenage smoking and smoking in general which was very interesting.
I also read "Chasing Daylight", the story of a senior executives last days after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It inspired one of the best discussions at our Senge Group in a ling time. A very thought provoking book.
What are books for you that stuck? | http://www.pxltd.ca/2007/05/17/books_that_real/ |
Organic peroxyacid bleaches are well known in the art. At moderate washing temperatures (e.g., 15.degree.-52.degree. C.) they are generally more effective in removing stains from fabrics than are the inorganic peroxide bleaches such as sodium perborate, sodium percarbonate, etc., and they are generally more safe to delicate fabrics and to fabric dyes than hypochlorite bleaches such as sodium hypochlorite and sodium dichlorocyanurate.
Among the organic peroxyacid bleaches, it has been found that those which have a long hydrocarbyl chain with the percarboxylate group at one end (e.g., perlauric acid) tend to be more effective (on an equal available oxygen basis) in bleaching of hydrophobic stains from fabrics than those which are not structured in this way, e.g., peroxybenzoic acid and diperoxydodecanedioic acid.
The long chain peroxyacids with the percarboxylate groups at one end have a structure similar to surface active agents (surfactants). It is believed that in a washing solution, their hydrophobic "tail" tends to be attached to the hydrophobic stains on the fabrics, thereby causing a localized increase in bleach concentration around the stain and thus resulting in increased efficiency in bleaching for a given concentration of active oxygen in the bleaching solution.
Peroxyacids having a long hydrocarbyl chain (C.sub.8 to C.sub.22) with the percarboxyl group at one end will be referred to herein as "surface active" peroxyacid bleaches. By contrast, peroxyacids which have a long hydroxycarbyl chain and a peroxyacid group at each end (e.g., diperoxydodecanedioic acid) are not considered to be surface active.
When peroxyacid bleaches are dissolved in a bleaching liquor in the presence of stained fabrics and hardness ions (i.e., calcium and magnesium) some of the available oxygen is lost from the bleaching process because of decomposition and/or deactivation.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide means to inhibit the decomposition and/or deactivatoion of surface active peroxyacid bleaches and thereby increase the proportion of available oxygen which can be utilized in the bleaching process.
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Care International is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to saving lives and ending poverty. We work in over 94 countries around the world to provide over 1000 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects.We are recruiting to fill the position below:Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) OfficerLocations: Damaturu, Yobe State & Maiduguri, Borno Position Type: RegularSlot: 2 OpeningsDuration: 4 months (extendable)Job SummaryResponsible for Food Livelihood and Nutrition Security (FLNS) Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL).The MEAL Officer will design implement cost effective, innovative robust MEAL system. The MEAL will continually review the practicality and effectiveness and suggest modifications as necessary of the MEAL system.Responsibilities and TasksDevelop an appropriate MEAL system in line with the FLNS Sector design and objectives:Continually examine specific FLNS Sector and project output components to be monitored and evaluated.Develop monitoring, accountability and reporting tools for the respective projects’ and programs’ outputs, suggest modifications and develop new and appropriate tools as necessary.Provide routine guidance to FLNS Sector on field testing and use of new innovative monitoring tools as they are developed and refine them for FLNS Sector use.Facilitate the implementation of FLNS Sector MEAL system and ensure accuracy of data and information collected:Take the lead in training all FLNS Sector staff in understanding and use of all monitoring and reporting tools.Review field reports to ensure that they respond to the FLNS Sector objectives and comply with sector indicators.Ensure FLNS Sector data and information collected are analyzed and made accessible to the management in a form usable for decision-making:Establish a filing system for various program activities to ensure easy retrieval of information as and when needed.Develop an appropriate project data base of the sector to facilitate processing of required information.Continually analyze FLNS Sector field data to verify status as and when necessary, and produce daily, weekly, monthly/quarterly data computation and analysis reports for use by project/project management.Verify the validity of field data by making routine field visits to check adherence to agreed data collection methods and authenticity of collected information.Documentations of lessons learnt, good practices and support the FLNS writing refereed papers for publicationSupervision, Liaison and collaboration with other projects, and agencies (e.g. UN, INGOs, State and Local Government Area (LGA):Supervise, review and coordinate contracted consultants and any other persons assigned to MEAL officerFacilitate collaboration on MEAL with other agencies in the region to ensure uniformity in tracking of FLNS Sector indicators.Promote good PR and enhance CARE’s positive image during presentationsPerform any other monitoring and evaluation duties as may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time.Perform any other tasks assigned by the Sector Manager or her/his designate. | https://www.erecnigeria.com/monitoring-evaluation-accountability-learning-meal-officer-at-care-international/ |
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Death row inmate Hank Skinner bought himself some time Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to address whether he can bring a federal civil rights lawsuit instead of making a habeas corpus claim. But legal experts say he's unlikely to escape his ultimate punishment.
Death row inmate Hank Skinner bought himself some time Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a technical issue in his case, but legal experts say he's unlikely to escape his ultimate punishment.
Skinner is asking the high court to address a procedural question on which courts across the country have split: whether he should be allowed to press a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking to have additional DNA evidence in his case tested instead of pursuing a writ of habeas corpus. The answer to what might seem to be a simple procedural question could have far-reaching implications for others like Skinner who claim innocence after they've been convicted. A habeas corpus claim requires defendants to prove they were wrongly imprisoned. Skinner's argument is different: He's asserting a constitutional right to prove he's innocent despite a jury's decision otherwise in a trial conducted without legal error.
The Supreme Court for years has avoided ruling that such a right exists, and it won't take up that core question now. A decision in Skinner's favor, rather, would merely allow him to raise that question in lower courts under a civil rights claim.
“What’s being obscured is the bigger discussion about whether knowing the truth is a right that people really ought to have,” said Jeff Blackburn, the general counsel for the Texas Innocence Project. "DNA has opened sort of a scientific door for a complete re-examination of the criminal justice system."
Skinner argues that DNA evidence that police gathered at the scene of the 1993 triple murder — a knife, a rape kit, a man’s windbreaker and other biological material — could show he is innocent. The material was never tested because other DNA evidence that was tested had helped implicate Skinner, and his original trial attorney did not want to take the chance that more testing would do the same. An earlier appeal of Skinner's based on claims his original lawyer was ineffective failed. And Texas courts have denied Skinner's requests under habeas corpus laws to test the evidence. But in March — about an hour before he was set to walk into the death chamber — the Supreme Court issued a stay, and now it will decide whether to allow him to proceed under federal civil rights law.
Skinner’s lawyers filed the civil rights lawsuit — alleging that his constitutional rights were violated by the state’s unwillingness to allow him access to the untested DNA evidence — as his options under habeas corpus were running out. The 5th Circuit Court rejected his case. The court said Skinner’s pursuit of DNA evidence is aimed at getting his sentence overturned and so it must be a habeas case, not a civil rights case. Skinner’s lawyers argue that he should be allowed to bring the case under civil rights laws because the DNA testing wouldn’t necessarily lead to a reversal of his conviction. There’s no guarantee that he would be granted testing by the lower federal courts. Even if lower courts were to order testing — and the results showed he was innocent — that doesn’t mean automatically Skinner would be taken off death row, his attorneys argue.
Gray County District Attorney Lynn Switzer, who is named in the lawsuit and is the most recent prosecutor to deal with Skinner's case, released a statement Monday expressing frustration with the case, which has dragged on for more than 15 years. In the statement, published online by KVII in Amarillo, Switzer said she remains in contact with the victims' family and friends and that they oppose allowing additional DNA testing. Skinner had a fair trial, she said, and the jury's decision should be respected. "If defendants are allowed to 'game the system,' then we will never be able to rely on the finality of the judgments entered in their cases," Switzer said.
Habeas corpus claims can lead to a defendant's sentence being overturned after proving that he was wrongfully imprisoned. Civil rights claims, on the other hand, usually allow a defendant to prove his constitutional rights were violated in some way during or after trial and don't always seek to reverse his sentence. Five circuit courts allow defendants to bring DNA testing requests under federal civil rights law, but two circuit courts — including the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal, which has jurisdiction over Texas and Skinner's case — require such claims to be filed under habeas corpus laws.
“The courts are very resistant to habeas claims,” said Christopher Slobogin, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville. “To put it bluntly, they get tired of these claims.” The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that convicts seeking to have their sentences overturned must file habeas claims. But those cases are some of the hardest to win, because they have a much higher standard of proof.
"Not likely to win"
Though getting the Court to take up Skinner’s question was a win for him and his team of lawyers, legal experts said the victory — probably his last chance to get the DNA testing done before he is executed — might be fleeting. “In the end, Skinner’s not likely to win here,” said Joseph Hoffmann, a death penalty expert and law professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
Slobogin said he expected the high court to rule against Skinner and decide that his DNA request cannot be a civil rights issue. “The Supreme Court has said that when attacking the validity of a sentence, habeas is the appropriate venue,” he said. If the court agrees with Skinner that inmates can request DNA testing under civil rights laws, he said, there could be a rush by others to file similar requests. “I think it’s fair to say there’ll be an increase in DNA-type challenges to convictions if the court holds” Skinner can seek testing under civil rights law, Slobogin said.
Even if the court agreed that Skinner can request DNA testing under federal civil rights law, Hoffmann said, it’s unlikely the courts would rule that he has a constitutional right to prove he was actually innocent. The Supreme Court has never ruled that the Constitution spells out such a right. It’s likely that Skinner’s case or a similar one would make its way back to the Supreme Court and eventually force the court to face that question. If the court were to answer it affirmatively, Hoffmann said, it could start a flood of litigation from inmates claiming innocence. That, in turn, could raise a myriad of questions about how the justice system operates and really “gum up the works,” he said. “They really don’t want to kind of bite the bullet and recognize this as a federal constitutional right.”
Allowing DNA requests under federal civil rights law would also bring the Supreme Court closer to a larger question that Blackburn and Hoffmann said the elite jurists have carefully avoided: whether inmates have a constitutional right to prove they are actually innocent. With the rise of DNA science, the question looms large in cases such as Skinner's, in which testable evidence exists that the jury never heard. Currently, federal innocence claims are primarily based on deprivation of an inmate's constitutional right to due process — things like shoddy representation or biased juries. There is no legal remedy for convicted criminals who claim the jury just got it wrong, even though their rights were properly protected at trial, Hoffmann said.
"Whether they’re actually innocent or not is kind of a legal irrelevancy once the jury has spoken its version of the truth,” Hoffmann said. “Basically, our legal system is constructed in such a way that that’s the end of it.”
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17th century map of the world. | https://fordham.libguides.com/WorldHistory |
A number of geological and engineering parameters influence and control the performance and ultimate recovery from an oil reservoir. These are commonly interlinked and the relative importance of each can be difficult to unravel. These variables include geological parameters such as depositional environment, which has long been considered to be a key factor influencing the production characteristics of fields. However, quantifying the importance of any single factor, such as depositional environment, is complicated by the impact of the other variables (geological and engineering) and their numerous interdependencies.
The main aim of this study is to unravel the impact of the depositional environment and primary facies architecture on reservoir performance using an empirical study of oilfields from the Norwegian Continental Shelf. A database of 91 fields, with a total of 7.8 Bbbl (billion barrels) of oil in place, has been built. Within this a total of 93 clastic reservoirs were classified into three gross depositional environments: continental, paralic/shallow marine and deep marine. The reservoirs were further classified into eight depositional environments in order to provide further granularity and to capture their depositional complexities. A further 28 parameters which capture other aspects that also impact production behaviour, such as reservoir depth, fluid type and structural complexity, were recorded for each reservoir. Principal component analysis (PCA) was utilized to explore the importance of sedimentological-dependent variables in the dataset, and to determine the parameters that have the strongest influence on the overall variability of the dataset. PCA revealed that parameters associated with field size and depth of burial had the most influence on recovery factor. Gross depositional environment and other stratigraphic-dependent parameters were the most significant geological factors. Fluid properties, such as API gravity and average gas/oil ratio, were unexpectedly among the less important parameters.
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Using Monte Carlo models to predict hydrocarbon column heights and to illustrate how faults influence buoyant fluid entrapmentMore Less
Faults are often assumed to play a significant role in the migration and entrapment of hydrocarbons, either offering conduits for, or barriers to, fluid flow. They may also affect fluid-phase trapping and influence phase fractionation in the subsurface. A Monte Carlo modelling approach is used to model these effects for trap analysis. The aim is to show how varying fault seal capacity, the fault orientation, the regional stress tensor and the trap geometry can all affect how both oil and gas are retained within a trap. The model reduces the problem to a 1D analysis with a structural description depth-referenced to the crest of a prospect. Both juxtaposition and membrane fault seal are modelled, together with hydrodynamic effects and fault reactivation risk. The potential of a prospect to trap hydrocarbons is evaluated in a roll-up of results with the outputs including a predicted hydrocarbon column height distribution and column height control statistics. The technique also offers an insight into the potential fluid-phase partitioning that may occur dependent on the interplay between the active leakage mechanisms and spill control, enabling gas v. oil columns to be predicted.
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Fault and top seals collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/fault-and-top-seals-2019
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The influence of inter- and intra-channel architecture on deep-water turbidite reservoir performanceAuthors Casey D. Meirovitz, Lisa Stright, Stephen M. Hubbard and Brian W. Romans
Bed-scale heterogeneity in channelized deep-water reservoirs can significantly influence reservoir performance, but reservoir simulation typically requires cell sizes much greater than the scale of intra-channel element architecture. Here, bed- to geobody-scale simulations elucidate the influence of bed-scale architecture and channel element stacking on flow and connectivity, informing full-field reservoir model development and evaluation.
Models consist of two channel element segments, each 300 m (985 ft) wide by 14 m (45 ft) thick and 550 m (1805 ft) long, stacked in 12 different stacking arrangements. Bed-scale architecture is captured in six deterministic element fills, highlighting interbedded sandstone and mudstone (thin bed) presence (homogeneous v. heterogeneous elements), position (symmetrical v. asymmetrical), and proportion (low v. high element net-to-gross). Each model is flow simulated to illuminate how element stacking and intra-element heterogeneity impacts reservoir performance.
Thin bed presence and position have the greatest impact on reservoir connectivity/performance when elements are laterally offset; impacts are minimal when elements are vertically aligned. Impacts are exacerbated when the thin-bed proportion is increased. Where bed-scale architecture is represented, complex flow behaviours generate a significant variability in production timing and the cumulative volumes produced. Simulations consisting of a homogenous element architecture fail to capture complex flow behaviours, producing comparatively optimistic results.
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Influence of host rock composition on permeability reduction in shallow fault zones – implications for fault seal analysis (Vienna Basin, Austria)
In order to calibrate equations for fault seal capacities to a specific basin, faults were analysed using core material from several Neogene hydrocarbon fields in the Vienna Basin, Austria. All studied specimens are siliciclastic rocks that were sampled from a depth interval of <2000 m, and share a similar depth at time of faulting, diagenetic conditions and maximum burial depth. Laboratory results showed a permeability reduction in all fault rocks compared to the host rocks. Both the highest and the lowest fault seal capacities were observed in the same fault rock type with a low phyllosilicate and clay content, and classifying as cataclastic deformation bands. Investigating the strong permeability variations within these fault rocks, microscopic analyses revealed that the fault seal potential is strongly linked to the detrital dolomite content in the host rock. Grain-size reduction processes occur preferably in the dolomite grains, accompanied by cementation. Our study suggests that – in addition to using standard fault seal analysis algorithms – accounting for host rock composition and grain-size reduction therein might help to further constrain fault seal behaviour in shallow depths. Fault seal mechanisms need to be understood on field, formation and micro scales before drawing conclusions for a full basin calibration.
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Fault and top seals collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/fault-and-top-seals-2019
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Ranking and selecting fault models using flow-indicator fault properties and simple streamline simulationsAuthors Paul Wilson, Stewart Smith, Danny Povey and Simon Harris
Fault zones in porous sandstones are commonly divided into two parts: a fault core and a damage zone. Both fault-zone elements could influence subsurface fluid flow and should be incorporated in a geologically realistic model. The fault core can be implemented in the model as a transmissibility multiplier (TM), while the damage zone can be implemented by modifying the grid permeability in the cells adjacent to the model faults. Each of the input parameters used in calculating the TM and damage-zone permeability modification is subject to geological uncertainty. Here an iterative workflow is employed to define probability distribution functions for each of the input parameters, with the result being many fault-model realizations. Here two methods are examined for ranking and selecting the fault-model realizations for further analysis: (i) calculating the flow-indicator fault properties (effective cross-fault transmissibility and effective cross-fault permeability) from the static model; and (ii) employing a simplified flow-based connectivity calculation, returning dynamic measures of model connectivity. The aims are to outline the methodology and workflow used, evaluate the impact of the different input parameters on the results, and examine the results of the static and dynamic approaches to understand how the ranking and selection of models compares between the two.
Our results are dependent on the structural model. In a strongly compartmentalized model based on the Gullfaks Field, North Sea, fluid-flow-indicator fault properties are weakly correlated with measures of dynamic behaviour. In particular, models with low fault transmissibility show a much greater range of dynamic behaviour, and are less predictable, than models with high fault transmissibility. In a weakly compartmentalized model with strongly channelized fluvial facies based on the Whitley Bay area in NE England, there was a strong correlation between flow-indicator fault properties and measures of dynamic behaviour. We ascribe these results to the greater complexity of flow paths expected when a highly compartmentalized model contains faults that are likely to be baffles to cross-fault flow.
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Fault and top seals collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/fault-and-top-seals-2019
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Key controls on the hydraulic properties of fault rocks in carbonates
A significant knowledge gap exists when analysing and predicting the hydraulic behaviour of faults within carbonate reservoirs. To improve this, a large database of carbonate fault rock properties has been collected from 42 exposed faults, from seven countries. Faults analysed cut a range of lithofacies, tectonic histories, burial depths and displacements. Porosity and permeability measurements from c. 400 samples have been made, with the goal of identifying key controls on the flow properties of fault rocks in carbonates. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors have been examined, such as host lithofacies, juxtaposition, host porosity and permeability, tectonic regime, displacement, and maximum burial depth, as well as the depth at the time of faulting. The results indicate which factors may have had the most significant influence on fault rock permeability, improving our ability to predict the sealing or baffle behaviour of faults in carbonate reservoirs. Intrinsic factors, such as host porosity, permeability and texture, appear to play the most important role in fault rock development. Extrinsic factors, such as displacement and kinematics, have shown lesser or, in some instances, a negligible control on fault rock development. This conclusion is, however, subject to two research limitations: lack of sufficient data from similar lithofacies at different displacements, and a low number of samples from thrust regimes.
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Fault and top seals collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/fault-and-top-seals-2019
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The effects of basaltic lava flows on the petrophysical properties and diagenesis of interbedded aeolian sandstones: an example from the Cretaceous Paraná Basin, BrazilAuthors G. Bertolini, A. J. Hartley, J. C. Marques, D. Healy and J. C. Frantz
An analysis of the petrophysical and diagenetic effects of the emplacement of Cretaceous basaltic lava flows (Serra Geral Formation) on aeolian sandstones (Botucatu Formation) has been undertaken on core samples from the Paraná Basin, Brazil. Between 0.1 and 1 m from the contact zone, acoustic wave velocities and porosities in sandstones show a significantly wider scatter than those located >1 m away from the lava contact. Higher P-wave values (average 3759.3 m s−1) occur between 0.1 and 1 m from the lava contact in contrast to those areas >1 m away (average 3376.8 m s−1), whilst the average porosity is 6.5% near the contact (0.1–1 m) and 10.7% away from the contact (>1 m). Petrographical evaluation reveals two diagenetic pathways responsible for modification of the petrophysical properties: early hydrothermal Mg-rich authigenesis (Type 1) and early chemical dissolution (Type 2). Type 3 diagenesis occurs away from the lava–sediment contact (>1 m), with the appearance of poikilitic calcite and smectite. The sandstone samples associated with Type 1 and Type 2 diagenesis display a decrease in porosity and increased acoustic velocities in relation to Type 3, while Type 3 samples show little or no variation in reservoir properties. The lava-induced diagenetic effects at the sandstone–lava contacts (0.1–1 m) may form a baffle or seal to fluids around the margins of the sandstone bodies. Therefore, whilst diagenesis associated with lava emplacement may hinder reservoir quality around the margins, the original reservoir properties are preserved within these large sandstone bodies.
Supplementary material: Petrophysical and petrographical data are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5244473
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Study on the effect of pore-scale heterogeneity and flow rate during repetitive two-phase fluid flow in microfluidic porous mediaAuthors Jingtao Zhang, Haipeng Zhang, Donghee Lee, Sangjin Ryu and Seunghee Kim
Various energy recovery, storage, conversion and environmental operations may involve repetitive fluid injection and thus, cyclic drainage–imbibition processes. We conducted an experimental study for which polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based micromodels were fabricated with three different levels of pore-space heterogeneity (coefficient of variation, where COV = 0, 0.25 and 0.5) to represent consolidated and/or partially consolidated sandstones. A total of 10 injection-withdrawal cycles were applied to each micromodel at two different flow rates (0.01 and 0.1 ml min−1). The experimental results were analysed in terms of flow morphology, sweep efficiency, residual saturation, the connection of fluids and the pressure gradient. The pattern of the invasion and displacement of the non-wetting fluid converged more readily in the homogeneous model (COV = 0) as the repetitive drainage–imbibition process continued. The overall sweep efficiency converged between 0.4 and 0.6 at all tested flow rates, regardless of different flow rates and COV in this study. In contrast, the effective sweep efficiency was observed to increase with higher COV at the lower flow rate, while that trend became reversed at the higher flow rate. Similarly, the residual saturation of the non-wetting fluid was largest at COV = 0 for the lower flow rate, but it was the opposite for the higher flow-rate case. However, the Minkowski functionals for the boundary length and connectedness of the non-wetting fluid remained quite constant during repetitive fluid flow. Implications of the study results for porous media-compressed air energy storage (PM-CAES) are discussed as a complementary analysis at the end of this paper.
Supplementary material: Figures showing the distribution of water (Fig. S1) and oil (Fig. S2) at the end of each drainage and imbibition step in different microfluidic pore-network models are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5276814
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Energy Geoscience Series available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/energy-geoscience-series
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Optimising development and production of naturally fractured reservoirs using a large empirical datasetAuthors Shaoqing Sun and David A. Pollitt
Naturally fractured reservoirs are important contributors to global petroleum reserves and production. Existing classification schemes for fractured reservoirs do not adequately differentiate between certain types of fractured reservoirs, leading to difficulty in understanding fundamental controls on reservoir performance and recovery efficiency. Three hundred naturally fractured reservoirs were examined to define a new classification scheme that is independent of the type of fracturing and describes fundamentally different matrix types, rock properties, fluid storage and flow characteristics.
This study categorises fractured reservoirs in three groups: (1) Type 1: characterized by a tight matrix where fractures and solution-enhanced fracture porosity provide both storage capacity and fluid-flow pathways; (2) Type 2: characterized by a macroporous matrix which provides the primary storage capacity where fractures and solution-enhanced fracture porosity provide essential fluid-flow pathways; and (3) Type 3: characterized by a microporous matrix which provides all storage capacity where fractures only provide essential fluid-flow pathways. Differentiation is made between controls imparted by inherent natural conditions, such as rock and fluid properties and natural drive mechanisms, and human controls, such as choice of development scheme and reservoir management practices.
The classification scheme presented here is based on reservoir and production characteristics of naturally fractured reservoirs and represents a refinement of existing schemes. This refinement allows accurate comparisons to be made between analogous fractured reservoirs, and trends and outliers in reservoir performance to be identified. Case histories provided herein demonstrate the practical application of this new classification scheme and the benefits that arise when applying it to the understanding of naturally fractured reservoirs.
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Pore-scale assessment of subsurface carbon storage potential: implications for the UK Geoenergy Observatories project
The growing importance of subsurface carbon storage for tackling anthropogenic carbon emissions requires new ideas to improve the rate and cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS) project development and implementation. We assessed sandstones from the UK Geoenergy Observatories (UKGEOS) site in Glasgow, UK and the Wilmslow Sandstone Formation (WSF) in Cumbria, UK at the pore scale to indicate suitability for further assessment as CCS reservoirs. We measured porosity, permeability and other pore geometry characteristics using digital rock physics techniques on microcomputed tomographic images of core material from each site. We found the Glasgow material to be unsuitable for CCS due to very low porosity (up to 1.65%), whereas the WSF material showed connected porosity up to 26.3% and permeabilities up to 6040 mD. Our results support the presence of a percolation threshold at 10% total porosity, introducing near full connectivity. We found total porosity varies with permeability with an exponent of 3.19. This provides a reason to assume near full connectivity in sedimentary samples showing porosities above this threshold without the need for expensive and time-consuming analyses.
Supplementary material: Information about the boreholes sampled in this study, additional well logs of boreholes and a summary of the supporting data plotted throughout this article from literature are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5260074
Thematic collection: This article is part of the Geoscience for CO2 storage collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/geoscience-for-co2-storage
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Flow modelling to quantify structural control on CO2 migration and containment, CCS South West Hub, AustraliaAuthors Laurent Langhi, Julian Strand and Ludovic Ricard
In order to reduce uncertainties around CO2 containment for the South West Hub CCS site (Western Australia), conceptual fault hydrodynamic models were defined and numerical simulations were carried out. These simulations model worst-case scenarios with a plume reaching a main compartment-bounding fault near the proposed injection depth and at the faulted interface between the primary and secondary containment interval.
The conceptual models incorporate host-rock and fault properties accounting for fault-zone lithology, cementation and cataclastic processes but with no account made for geomechanical processes as the risk of reactivation is perceived as low. Flow simulations were performed to assess cross-fault and upfault migration in the case of plume–faults interaction.
Results near the injection depth suggest that the main faults are likely to experience a significant reduction in transmissivity and impede CO2 flow. This could promote the migration of CO2 vertically or along the stratigraphic dip.
Results near the interface between the primary and secondary containment intervals show that none of the main faults would critically control CO2 flow nor would they act as primary leakage pathways. CO2 flow is predicted to be primarily controlled by the sedimentological morphology. The presence of baffles in the secondary containment interval is expected to be associated with local CO2 accumulations; additional permeability impacts introduced by faults are minor. | https://www.earthdoc.org/content/journals/pg/27/2 |
The US financial services sector is having a strong bearish June: the main ETF #XLF, or the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund, in fact decreased by almost 7% from the highs of the beginning of the month.
Even worse have done some stocks with major retracements from May highs: Allstate Corporation (#ALL) -10%, JP Morgan Chase (#JPM) -10%, Citigroup (#C) -15%, Regions Financials Corporation ( #RF) -17% and Huntingon Bancshares (#HBAN) -20% just to name a few.
Bullish opinion: this retracement is positive as it allows individual stocks to exit the overbought territory and offer investors attractive entry points at least for the short to medium term.
Bearish opinion: a strong retracement that substantially nullifies the gains of the previous month is a strong alarm bell. This could in fact lead to a reversal of the trend and further fluctuations in the short to medium term.
Both points of view are correct and as often happens the truth is positioned right in the middle: it is difficult to think that the entire financial services sector will collapse by 40% -60% as it did in March 2020 and it is equally, perhaps, too optimistic to think of explosive growth of 20-30% in the following months.
In fact, we believe that the following months and especially the month of July will offer interesting opportunities in the financial sector aiming for returns between + 10% and + 15%.
Our thesis is supported by two main studies: the seasonality of the sector and the relative strength in relation to the reference index.
Seasonality: Financial sector #XLF
Analyzing the data of the last 20 years it can be seen that the month of June has always been characterized by a strong bearish current: in fact, only 35% of the time it was possible to record a positive performance compared to the month of May.
Completely different situation in July: in the last 20 years, 75% of the time, the financial sector represented by the XLF ETF has recorded a positive performance.
Relative Rotation Graph: #XLF
The Relative Rotation Graph (RRG) shows the last 30 trading days of XLF, where it moved from leading sector to lagging sector. That is, from a sector with momentum and performance above the S & P500 (the benchmark index) to a sector with momentum and performance below the S&P.
While picturing two different time frames: that of seasonality, the last 20 years, and the RRG the last 30 days, we can see a strong correlation.
Both show a very positive end of April which then gradually lost vigor and momentum to reach the "lows" in June.
We conclude our article with the conviction that the Financial Sector, in the month of July, will be able to offer interesting opportunities: combining the relative strength of the last 30 days, together with a seasonality of the last 20 years, we will identify those stocks that are better positions for bullish upsides in the short term.
To date, we are tracking 10 stocks that could turn out to be good opportunities in the month ahead: | https://www.otbglobalinvestments.com/post/financial-sector-xlf-a-promising-seasonality |
Principles of the Charter
In signing up to Glasgow’s Volunteering Charter, your organisation is making a commitment to the following values and principles:
- Freedom and Choice – everyone should be free to choose to volunteer their time, energy and skills for the benefit of their community – without compulsion and without any unreasonable restrictions.
- Mutual benefit – Every opportunity will identify how people will benefit from their participation in volunteering, and how their role will contribute both to the organisation and to wider community social objectives.
- Volunteering and Paid Employment – We recognise that huge areas of activity in society are entirely reliant on people’s volunteering efforts. Increasing volunteering opportunities need not – and should not – detract from efforts to increase employment opportunities. In designing and developing appropriate volunteering opportunities in the context of policies such as public service reform and community empowerment, we will use a clear set of values and principles including those contained in the original 2010 joint STUC/Volunteer Scotland Charter.
The existing joint STUC/ Volunteer Scotland Charter has since been updated as of February 2019 to take account of a new context and the expressed need and demand for clear and unambiguous principles for assuring volunteer legitimacy and preventing exploitation. The key goal is to ensure good relations between workers and volunteers, and to ensure that other stakeholders achieve consensus on the validity of volunteer roles (STUC 2019).
You can view and download the STUC/ Volunteer Scotland 10 Principles for assuring legitimacy & preventing exploitation of workers & volunteers Charter by clicking on this link HERE
- Inclusion – Volunteer involving organisations will actively seek to make opportunities as accessible as possible, and will monitor the diversity of their volunteers.
- Out of pocket expenses – People should not be financially disadvantaged by volunteering.
- Collaboration – Both volunteers and paid staff should contribute to development of volunteering policies and procedures, co-designing and production of new roles and opportunities too!
- Appropriate resourcing – Organisations will plan and budget effectively for volunteers’ support, out-of-pocket expenses, training/development, inclusion, and recognition.
- Support – people volunteering will be provided with support appropriate to their role and needs.
- Quality – organisations will develop volunteer management processes and practice that support a positive, high quality experience.
- Healthy Environment – People that are volunteering have a right to a safe, secure and healthy environment, free from harassment and discrimination; and to a clear mechanism for the resolution of any concerns/disputes.
- Recognition – The contribution of people volunteering and the value they bring to communities and services will be publicly recognised and celebrated. | https://www.volunteerglasgow.org/charter/principles/ |
worry. Silent anxiety attacks can look just like this. They can come about in certain environments like school, work, grocery stores, or social gatherings. You could be sitting right next to someone that’s having a panic attack without ever knowing. When someone struggles with anxiety, they might try to keep it hidden from others. They do this because they feel deep shame and embarrassment or the fear of being judged by others.
Have you ever wondered what a silent anxiety attack looks like when you’re at work? I’ll be sharing some examples of what this could look like along with a few tips on how to manage this in the work setting!
- Your breathing can become more shallow and you can start fidgeting with your hands or your pen (if you’re holding one). This can be brought on by going to a meeting, attempting to make deadlines at work, or talking with your boss.
- Your leg can start shaking underneath your desk. You might not even be aware that you’re doing this.
- You start experiencing catastrophic thoughts. These thoughts usually start with “what if”. What if I don’t meet this deadline? What if I do terribly during the presentation today? What if my coworkers secretly don’t like me? What if my boss doesn’t think I’m doing a good job and fires me?
These thoughts can create so much anxiety at work. So here are a few tips on how to manage your anxiety attacks at work:
- Have something to fidget with at your desk. Fidget objects can be incredibly calming and when they’re easily accessible at your desk, it’s super easy to pick it up and use it whenever you start to feel anxiety coming on. Notice the texture of the object, the color, etc to help bring you back to the present moment.
- Allow yourself to take breaks if needed- even if it’s just a quick bathroom break. You can splash some cold water on your face or use a damp cloth to pat on your face which can help regulate your body temperature.
- Take a few deep breaths that start from your belly. These can be done easily at your desk or any moment you notice you’re starting to feel anxious. What helps with this is placing one hand on your belly and notice that when you inhale your belly expands and when you exhale your belly goes inward.
- Notice your thoughts without engaging with them. Work on identifying and catching the catastrophic thinking patterns before you become too absorbed in them. What evidence do you have that your boss is going to fire you? Or that your co-workers dislike you? Try not to automatically believe every thought that comes your way. | https://www.getspeks.com/blogs/speksed/silent-anxiety-attacks-at-work |
Carrot Ginger Soup
With garlic and cumin, this vegan carrot ginger soup is fragrant and full of flavor especially because I top it with an almond dukkah spice mix.
I consider carrots to be my first vegetable.
Of course I can’t remember what puree my mom served me when I was a baby, but I do recall lunches and dinners with raw carrot sticks for a side.
Veggies didn’t interest my brother and me.
Now as a parent I am suffering through that kind of picky eating with my six-year-old.
We were at a birthday party the other weekend, and another child went to the food table to help himself to broccoli and cherry tomatoes. He proceeded to devour everything on his plate.
What???
When I asked his mother how she got him to be such an enthusiastic vegetable eater. She shrugged and said it was absolutely nothing she had done.
Is it good genes? Maybe just luck?
I don’t know, but I am not spending much time worrying about my son’s lack of vegetable consumption.
Despite my limited palette when I was a kid, as an adult I absolutely adore veggies. They are the core of my diet.
I’ve been snacking a lot on raw carrot sticks for the past month or so.
Yes, I am enjoying them more than when my mom tried to get me to eat carrots back in the day.
Dipping carrots in peanut butter is one of my favorite snacks.
Going all in on carrots, I decided to revisit my recipe carrot ginger soup.
How To Make Carrot Ginger Soup
It’s a simple vegan soup with very basic, but fragrant ingredients.
To start, I sauté onions in olive oil. When they are soft, it’s time for the aromatics: plenty of fresh ginger, garlic and cumin.
Then I add roughly chopped carrots and vegetable stock. The mixture simmers giving the carrots time to turn tender and mashable.
While the soup is bubbling away, I toast chopped almonds, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, sesame seeds, salt and pepper in a skillet.
I chop this dukkah spice mix more finely once it’s finished toasting. This is the garnish for the carrot ginger soup.
Chunky or Smooth: How To Puree Soup
1) If you like your soup thicker and chunkier, just use a potato masher to smash up the carrots and everything else.
2) Use an immersion blender right in the pot for soup that’s smooth, but still retains some texture.
3) For the smoothest soup, transfer the mixture to a blender.
Once you ladle the soup into the bowls, sprinkle them generously with almond dukkah and fresh chopped parsley.Print
Carrot Ginger Soup
With garlic and cumin, this vegan carrot ginger soup is fragrant and full of flavor especially because I top it with an almond dukkah spice mix.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25-30 minutes
- Total Time: 35-40 minutes
- Yield: Serves 4 1x
Ingredients
For soup
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium white onion, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 pounds carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
Chopped fresh parsley for serving
For almond dukkah
1/4 cup roughly chopped almonds
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon sesame seeds
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onions and sauté for 5 minutes until they start to soften.
Stir in the ginger, garlic, cumin and salt and continue cooking for an additional 3 minutes. Add the carrots and vegetable broth. Bring the soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the carrots are soft.
For a chunkier soup, use a potato masher to mash it. For a smoother soup, puree the mixture with an immersion blender in the saucepan or transfer to a blender.
For the dukkah spice mix, toast the almonds, cumin seeds, sesame seeds, coriander seeds, salt and black pepper in a small skillet over medium heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a cutting board and finely chop.
Divide the soup into bowls and garnish with dukkah spice mix and parsley before serving.
Notes
Extra dukkah should be stored in an airtight container. It can be used as a seasoning to finish other dishes like vegetables and salads. | https://www.lastingredient.com/carrot-ginger-soup/ |
So, Are Vaccines Really Safe? As you have read here, there is mounting evidence that the truthful answer to this question is a resounding NO! Unfortunately, this results in what is known as ‘cognitive dissonance’, i.e, the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. | http://vaxhoax.com/safety/ |
Facts About Maternal Mental Health
Why Is Maternal Mental Health So Important?
As a new or expecting mother, you’ve probably heard about maternal mental health. You know about the wide range of illnesses, swinging from the baby blues all the way to maternal psychosis.
Maybe you are experiencing some of the symptoms of these postpartum disorders now. You’re reading this as you’re crying uncontrollably after a long and sleepless night, and you’re wondering if you’re crazy. Maybe you could hardly stand to get out of bed today, despite your baby’s cries, and you feel like something is wrong with you.
You’re wondering if you’re the only one.
Everyone told you pregnancy, birth, and motherhood are beautiful. You had this perfect image in your head of exactly the way your baby’s birth should go. You stood in the nursery and imagined peacefully rocking your baby to sleep every nap and bedtime. As you saw these moments play like a movie in your mind, you softly smiled and lovingly rubbed your pregnant belly.
Yet, here you are — your baby is wailing in the swing beside you, and you smother your face in your pillow to hide the desperate scream that you can’t hold back anymore. You haven’t showered in days, you’re exhausted, and your planned-out visions are crumbling to pieces all around you.
You feel like you can’t do it. You feel like motherhood isn’t for you.
Please know you aren’t alone. Around 80% of women experience some form of maternal mental health disorder within the first year of childbirth.
In this post, I’d like to shed some light on a few of the common maternal mental health illnesses. If you can relate to any of these, it’s time to reach out to someone you trust. Your mental health is critical in your role as a mother — for your own health and well-being and also for the well-being of your baby.
The four maternal mental health illnesses covered today are:
This is by no means an exhaustive list. You may experience something that is not included here. If you believe you are dealing with something that isn’t normal, please talk to someone you trust or contact your doctor.
Baby Blues
The baby blues, or postpartum blues, are the most common form of maternal mental health mood disturbances. Up to 85% of women experience the baby blues after giving birth, usually within 2-3 days of delivery.
The baby blues are caused by the large shift in hormones following birth as your body works to process the major event that just took place.
You may find that you can’t stop crying in the days after your baby is born. You’ll swing from sadness that your pregnancy is over, to inexplicable joy over your new little miracle.
One minute you’ll be watching in admiration as your partner snuggles your baby, and the next you’ll be furious because he didn’t change the diaper “right”.
Rest assured, these feelings are so normal in the newborn phase, and they generally disappear within the first week or two.
Here are the typical symptoms of the baby blues:
The baby blues can last a few days and up to 2 weeks. If you notice symptoms persisting past this point, it is possible you have postpartum depression.
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression can occur at any point from the time of birth up to one year. However, it typically presents itself within four weeks after birth. In some cases, women notice symptoms of depression beginning during pregnancy.
Around 10% of women experience postpartum depression within the first year of childbirth.
Some symptoms of postpartum depression include:
It’s important that you receive an official diagnosis if you believe you’re experiencing postpartum depression. There are many underlying medical conditions that can be the cause of postpartum depression — working with your doctor to discover the root of the problem is vital.
There are a few factors that play in postpartum depression. You may be more at risk if you have a:
Postpartum depression is manageable — if you are concerned that this is something you struggle with, take it to a professional who can help you work through it.
Postpartum Anxiety
Every parent of a new child experiences some worry. It’s normal to have concerned thoughts and worries about your new baby, like:
Is he sleeping safely?
Is he eating enough?
Is he warm enough?
However, if you are experiencing these symptoms:
You may be part of the 17% of women that suffers from postpartum anxiety.
Postpartum OCD
Closely tied to postpartum anxiety, postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects 2-4% of women postpartum.
If you are a new parent, it’s normal to want to make sure you’re doing everything right. You may find yourself double-checking to make sure your baby is still breathing while sleeping, or washing the bottles an extra time just to be safe.
But if these worries become so obsessive that they make daily life difficult, you may be experiencing postpartum OCD. Often, moms suffering from postpartum OCD have obsessive thoughts that cause compulsions.
Compulsions are actions used to prevent your fears from happening. For example, you may fear germs that could make your baby sick, so you obsessively clean everything over and over again.
Do you find yourself repeatedly checking on your sleeping baby? Or maybe cleaning everything constantly for fear of germs? Maybe you hardly shower or use the restroom because you’re terrified of taking your eyes off your little one.
Women dealing with postpartum OCD may experience symptoms like:
If you think you have postpartum OCD, please talk to your doctor. Often, women withhold their concerns because they’re afraid of being shamed for the thoughts they have. Remember, many women are currently going through the same struggles.
Postpartum OCD often occurs in the first few weeks after birth, though you may not recognize it until several months down the road.
Why Maternal Mental Health Matters
In summary, maternal mental health is a subject that doesn’t receive enough attention. There are too many women dealing with maternal mental health illnesses that:
Believe something is wrong with them because they’re uninformed
Keep quiet because they’re afraid of judgment and shaming
Postpartum is a sensitive time for women. We’re going through a lot emotionally, physically, and mentally. Our whole world has been turned upside down and we’re required to acclimate immediately to the new dynamic.
More grace should be given to postpartum women — remember, up to 80% of women experience a form of maternal mental health illness. That means most of us are dealing with postpartum blues, depression, anxiety, OCD, and much more!
Why then, do we so often live in silent pain? Side by side, we walk our paths of postpartum disorders — quiet, hurting, and broken.
But it doesn’t have to be this way! The road to recovery is lined with helping hands. Sharing our stories helps normalize maternal mental health illnesses. Sharing our struggles gives other women the courage to do the same.
Have you struggled with maternal mental health illness? Share how your maternal mental health journey impacted your role as a mother in the comments below! | https://www.babypanache.com/blogs/news/important-facts-about-maternal-mental-health |
Everything About Carbonates
Carbonates are one of the most important minerals common in sedimentary environments. They are defined as minerals containing an anion of carbonate (CO3(2-)) with a cation that can be any metal or amine. Carbonates are a vital part of the earth’s crust and play a role in many geological processes.
Carbonate
Carbonate often refers specifically to carbonate salts or minerals. Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), lithium carbonate (Li2CO3), and potassium carbonate (K2CO3) are the most well-known carbonates.
Calcium Carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a salt of a weak acid and a strong base due to carbonate and calcium ions. It is found within rocks as the calcite and aragonite minerals (particularly as the main component of limestone).
It is the crucial ingredient of pearls and the shells of marine organisms, snails, and eggs. In agriculture, calcium carbonate is used as lime formed after the calcium ions interact with carbonate ions in hard water. Moreover, calcium carbonate is used in many industries, including
1. Construction:
As a raw material for concrete, cement, and mortar. It is also used as a building material and as an aggregate for pavement surfaces.
2. Steelmaking:
As a flux to avoid contaminants from molten iron.
3. Glassmaking:
As a raw ingredient in glass production.
4. Papermaking:
As a filler and coating agent in paper production.
5. Plastic manufacturing:
As a raw material in producing PVC, nylon, and other plastics.
6. Paint production:
As a white pigment and extender.
7. Food industry:
As a dietary supplement or an antacid.
Sodium Carbonate
Sodium carbonate (washing soda or soda ash) is a chemical compound with the formula Na2CO3. This white, granular powder is produced by calcinating natural trona ore. It has numerous applications, including cleaning, detergent production, and water treatment. Sodium carbonate occurs naturally in arid areas.
Glass manufacturing is one of sodium carbonate’s oldest and most important applications. When soda-lime-silica glass is combined with silica sand (silicon dioxide), it develops soda-lime-silica glass, which is widely used in windows, bottles, jars, and other containers.
Sodium carbonate is also used in laundry powders as a detergent builder. It increases the cleaning power of soap by making fats and grease water-soluble. As a pH regulator, sodium carbonate is sometimes added to swimming pools and aquarium water.
Furthermore, sodium carbonate removes both temporary and permanent hardness from water. It is also used as a functional supplement in the food industry.
Lithium Carbonate
Lithium carbonate, also known as Li2CO3, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Li2CO3. It is a white salt that is used in the manufacturing of metal oxides.
As a medication, it helps treat bipolar disorder and other mental disorders. Prolonged use of this medication reduces the occurence and indications of manic episodes like exaggerated feelings of well-being and emotions.
Furthermore, lithium carbonate is one of the most critical materials used in rechargeable batteries. It is an electrolyte in high demand for lithium-ion batteries due to electric vehicles.
Potassium Carbonate
Potassium Carbonate is a white carbonate salt that is water-insoluble. It is produced by treating potassium hydroxide with carbon dioxide. This reaction produces potassium bicarbonate, which can then be calcined to produce potassium carbonate.
Potassium carbonate is the main ingredient of potash, along with the more refined pearl ash, which is widely used as a flavoring agent in a quick bread. In addition to its culinary uses, potassium carbonate has several industrial applications.
It is used in producing soaps, glass, and dishwares. Potassium carbonate is also an effective fire suppressant, animal feed component, acidity controller, and buffering agent in making mead or wine.
Practical Implications of Carbonates
Carbonates are used in a variety of industries and applications. They are an essential component of cement and concrete and are also used in manufacturing glass, ceramics, and paper. Carbonates are also used as agricultural lime to neutralize soil acidity. Other uses for carbonates include the production of detergents, security inks, and water treatment chemicals.
While many think of carbonates as primarily industrial materials, they also have several essential applications in our daily lives. For example, baking soda is a carbonate commonly used in cooking. Carbonates are also found in some over-the-counter antacids and heartburn medications.
Carbonates are found in various rocks, including limestone, dolomite, and marble. They are also a significant component of coral reefs. Finally, carbonates play an essential role in our environment. They help regulate the oceans’ pH and play a role in the global carbon cycle. | https://borates.today/carbonates-a-comprehensive-overview/ |
SEEKINGRhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboard, Other.
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I've been in the performing arts arena for decades. Since relocating to this area about 3 years ago, I've been looking for talented musicians to jam/record with. The idea is to create a 'core' of musicians that are the foundation of the jams/rehearsals - who get together perhaps once a week to share material (original/cover) in a structured fashion (i.e., charts), plus splitting time to improv as to sharpen skills and generate occasional embarrassment. I would also like to generate a 'rolodex' list of supporting musicians as well - including sit-ins. Multi-instrument players are strongly encouraged to consider this opportunity because 'switching off' makes everybody a better musician - and adds to the overall enjoyment. My forte' is bass, rhythm guitar (electric/acoustic) and engineering. The ideal playmate would probably be 35+ years old because I don't wish to deal with kids, booze and 'tudes. I'm not saying you can't light one up nor have a beer, it's just that a seasoned musician would have professional skill sets (or some resemblance thereof) and no need to get wasted over a jam session.
I can jam to anything other than rap (which is unjammable, but then again it's also not music).
OK, there you have it.
Need to get your ya-ya's out (constructively)?
Let's jam.
- Screen name:
- Trini-Tunes
- Member since:
- Dec 27 2019
- Active within 24 hours
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 45
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 6-7 nights a week
Influences
'60's pop. '60's 'progressive rock' bands. '70's hard / metal / progressive rock. '80's on - anything done with style...
Instrument experience:
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Advanced
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Advanced
- Bass Guitar:
- Advanced
- Keyboard:
- Intermediate
EQUIPMENT
Oodles of stuff acquired over the years, including guitars, a couple of keyboards, computer, outboard gear, speakers/amps, knotted cables, gremlins, and so forth...
OVER FOUR DECADES OF RECORDED: | https://www.bandmix.com/trini-tunes/ |
ICI is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Tourism. The main objective of setting up of the ICI was to institutionalize a mechanism to support efforts intended to preserve, document, promote and disseminate Indian Cuisine, meet the sectoral requirement of specialists specific to Indian Cuisine, as also of promoting Cuisine as a Niche Tourism product.
The ICI’s will offer structured regular programmes of study specific to culinary arts and culinary management leading to graduate and postgraduate level degrees, promote research and innovation, organize demand driven certificate and diploma courses, document and create database specific to Indian cuisine and commission studies and survey on cuisine.
The ICI’s will also help the local youth to get trained in these streams as well as create entrepreneurs and make them self-sufficient.
The hotel and tourism industry will also get benefitted by getting the trained and skilled manpower which in turn will enhance their business and thus generate gainful employment. | http://www.bcompetitive.in/indian-culinary-institute-ici/ |
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We are an independent practice of psychologists and professionals in related fields, and we specialize in assessment and therapy with children, adolescents, and young adults. We provide thorough information and the most helpful recommendations possible. Our goal is to help you develop a specific plan leading to academic success and healthy functioning.
EVALUATIONS
A psychological evaluation may be sought for a variety of reasons, such as to determine the presence of a learning disability or attention-related disorder, to rule in or out an Autism Spectrum Disorder, or to assist in determining eligibility for a 504 plan or IEP.
THERAPY
We primarily use a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approach, as the efficacy of CBT is supported by extensive research. CBT is typically a short-term process in which the therapist takes an instructional and active role to help the client achieve specific goals.
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KMP welcomes Dr. Swathi Krishna, an open and approachable psychiatrist who specializes in mental health and medication management services for children, adolescents, and adults. KMP also provides executive functioning support for children and families in a one-on-one format. | https://kmpatlanta.com/ |
NTC Overview:
NT Concepts is seeking an Application Developer with a desire to work on modern and creative approaches and technologies to solve our customers’ mission critical technological problems, to join our team. Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover What's Next for you.
Mission Focus: This program will provide support to maintain a responsive, flexible capability for rapid prototyping of data analytic solutions and capabilities (data integration, analysis, visualization, etc.) in support of national security mission requirements. This team will collaborate with multiple stakeholders to assure national security missions to prototype advanced data analytic capabilities continuously and rapidly to Combatant Commands, Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.), and Special Operation Force (SOF) as a service.
Clearance: Secret with ability to obtain TS/SCI
Location/Flexibility: Ft. Belvoir, VA with time spent at company HQ in Tyson’s Corner, VA. (Some telework may be an option).
Responsibilities:
The Application Developer will work within a multi-disciplined team with skillsets covering project management, software development, data science, data analytics, geospatial analysis, UI/UX, plans & operations, and training. The focus is on operationalizing disparate data sets. The teams will be divided between Ft. Belvoir and NT Concepts offices with flexible hybrid work schedules.
Specific tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Develop/maintain software applications to meet customers’ mission.
- May develop or customize existing systems that run in controlled networks with unique security classifications.
- Participate in agile scrum teams developing custom applications and components to process data from dispersed data sources in support of innovative data analytic capabilities.
- Assist with application design, development, testing, application development ranging from SharePoint-based to advanced data analytics leveraging AI/ML (future and with Data Science assistance)
- Work with stakeholders and end users to gather, develop and document requirements and manage them to execution
Required Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of experience.
- Must be a U.S. citizen with an Active Secret security clearance
- Knowledge of software engineering, testing & integration, Agile software development practices
- Experience using Git and experience managing development artifacts such as code repositories inside GitLab
- Solid understanding of data analytics and proven experience building live and intelligent dashboards
- Understanding of DoD software development practices, STIGs, and security guidelines
- Experience managing software development team(s) through a complete software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Proven experience with relational and non-relational databases
- Understanding of DevSecOps concepts and cloud environments
- Ability to travel support of the DTRA mission as required (possibly OCONUS)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be able to work with minimum direction and guidance from senior technical staff.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with the following tool sets: SharePoint, Testflight, Attack the Network Toolsuite (ANTS), ArcGIS, Analyst Notebook, CIDNE
- Experience working in cloud environments
- Understanding and experience working within the DTRA Research Directorate
- Understanding of Combatant Commands, Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.), and Special Operation Force (SOF) mission sets as they relate to countering weapons of mass destruction/ counter proliferation
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at times
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About NT Concepts
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in the Washington DC Metro area, NT Concepts is a private, mid-tier company with clients spanning the Intelligence and Defense communities. We deliver end-to-end data and technology solutions that advance the modernization, transformation, and automation of the national security mission—solutions with real impact developed in a strong engineering culture that encourages technical growth, leadership, and creative “big idea” problem-solving.
Employees are the core of NT Concepts. We understand that world-changing concepts happen in collaborative environments. We are a company where talented and diverse teams work together using innovation and expertise to solve our clients’ most critical challenges. Here, you’ll gain competitive benefits, opportunities to bolster your skills and develop new abilities, and a company culture dedicated to support and service. In addition to our Benefit and Rewards program, we encourage our employees to take part in #NTC_GivesBack, which paves the way for positive social change.
If joining a stable company with strong professional growth opportunities resonates with you, and you seek vital, mission-driven projects (for some pretty cool clients) that use your specific talents, we’d love to have you move forward with us.
Together is Better
We believe diversity and inclusion drive innovation, and that when we work together, we can accomplish anything. NT Concepts is a people-first, Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer—regardless of a person’s race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected class. If you have a disability and need accommodation, let us know. All resumes are held in confidence. NT Concepts participates in E-Verify. | https://www.ntconcepts.com/ntccareers/application-developer/ |
With rising numbers of students experiencing mental health issues and growing media attention on the subject, wellbeing support in higher education is facing increasing scrutiny.
Student services teams are under pressure to manage the growing number of students requiring support, and struggling to keep up with demand – with much of the focus spent dealing with students in crisis. Most students experience feelings such as stress, anxiety and depression at varying degrees of severity, and for many it will have a real impact on their academic success and quality of life.
Collaborate with us
We are currently inviting universities to participate in a collaboration to develop an interactive online toolkit for university students. The outcome will be a suite of flexible, bite-size modules, supporting self-insight, positive mental health, and healthy behaviours.
Providing tools and tips for maintaining a healthy body and mind, Being Well, Living Well will take a positive and holistic approach. The toolkit will focus on encouraging proactive self-management of difficulties, reducing strain on university support services to help them focus more attention on students in crisis. | https://www.epigeum.com/epigeum-insights/news/launch-of-being-well-living-well/ |
Freedom Topic Homework
Come and take a look at what we have been up to at home!
This week we presented our 'Freedom' topic homework.
Some of us opted to get creative and make model totem poles and try our hand at weaving. Others decided to get busy in the kitchen and make Scottish desserts, and some chose to research the Native Americans. | https://www.st-judes.hants.sch.uk/freedom-topic-homework/ |
I am quite a novice and lnexperienced at all this so I’m sure my question is probably quite basic. I know about reverb and EQ and making sure the original source isn’t harsh sounding, but still it appears a mix with lots of instruments as I balance the volume against each other is starting to sound harsh. Any advice for fixing this especially at the overall mixing or mastering stage would be greatly received. Are there any filters or special techniques of things I need to look for? many thanks
Some sounds need to be compressed. For example, instruments with a percussive “attack” like a piano or xylophone, when loud enough to push through the mix, the peaks become very loud to the ears. Try reducing the dynamic range with a compressor in these cases. Of course compression is useful for drums also but because they are lower frequencies they don’t typically cause as mush fatigue to the ears when the peaks are louder (although the snare certainly can have a greater effect than toms and kick).
Anyway, compression might help.
You could try a little eq. Insert eq on the master track. Use a peaking filter. First boost somewhat around 4k and sweep till the harshness is worse. Then reduce that freq. The q factor determines if it is a broad or a narrow region you are reducing. Set it is small as is still effective.
Or listen to the harshness is try to decide what instrument is causing it. Then apply the same eq trick to that instrument only. | https://forums.steinberg.net/t/making-things-sound-less-harsh/673764 |
SCORE-UBE (Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education), EDSIN (Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network), B(ui)LDS (Biological Universal and Inclusive Learning in Data Science, BLUE (Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education), iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections), and QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis), and BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium are organizing a new webinar series entitled “Inclusive Teaching Practices in STEM Education.” The purpose of this series is to initiate discussion on topics related to inclusive teaching practices while building community among a diversity of STEM disciplines interested in creating a more inclusive learning environments for undergraduate students. Our partners represent very different communities in the world of STEM, but we are all really interested in fostering more diverse and inclusive communities, so one goal of this project is to raise awareness of the existing knowledge base and resources that exist.
Title: Fixed vs Growth Mindset and Why the Biggest Challenge May be Faculty
Abstract: Many studies have documented better performance of students that have a growth mindset, believing that their intellectual abilities can improve through various strategies, compared to students with a fixed mindset, a belief that their intellectual abilities cannot increase or be developed. As a matter of fact, we created a STEM Boot Camp that emphasizes student growth mindset with strong evidence of increase student retention and performance (Lisberg and Woods 2018). However, students may continue to struggle in class, not because of their own mindset, but of the fixed mindset of the faculty. This webinar will explore how faculty can teach with a growth mindset and identify some potential areas of fixed mindset that might prove to be obstacles for many students.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Brett Woods is the Interim Dean of the Wanek School of Natural Sciences at High Point University. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. He studies marmots. His research focuses on the processes that govern fat deposition as well as behaviors that lead an organism to gain mass, specifically in preparation for hibernation. Dr. Woods has worked directly and/or indirectly with over 150 URM students in STEM fields. Dr. Woods was a 2014 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System Regents Diversity Award.
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Researchers should cite this work as follows: | https://qubeshub.org/publications/2744/about/1 |
Janet King: episode guide
A Song Of Experience
Janet King (Marta Dusseldorp) returns from a year's maternity leave determined to prove she still has her edge, but finds a very different Department of Public Prosecutions. Under growing political pressure, director Tony Gillies (Peter Kowitz) has formed an uneasy alliance with his police counterpart, Chief Superintendent Jack Rizzoli (Vince Colosimo), and Janet's pre-eminence as Senior Crown Prosecutor is threatened by rising star Owen Ramsey (Damian Walshe-Howling), a former police prosecutor, willing to cut corners to win high-profile cases.
When Janet falters in her first case against sexual predator, Alex Mareno, (Darren Gilshenan), she pulls out all stops to convict high ranking police officer, Steven Blakely (John Howard), for the assisted suicide of his terminally ill wife.
When the case against Blakely escalates into a terrible murder, Janet, her DPP solicitors and the police are propelled into a series of investigations and court actions that, week by week, reveal a complex web of corruption and conspiracy until the first two seemingly unconnected cases collide in a shocking reveal that shakes the police, judiciary and the government to their core.
Under intense scrutiny from Jack Rizzoli and his political masters and with the traditional institutions of justice compromised, prosecuting the case becomes a dangerous battle of strategy and betrayal where no one can be trusted and no tactic is off limits.
Finding the truth will threaten Janet's career, her young family, and ultimately her life.
Natural Justice
In the wake of the drive-by shooting of murder witness Zebina Petrakis, Erin finds herself emerging as a key witness herself in the case against the two bikies who committed the murder.
Erin deeply affected by the shooting, she is not sure it is safe to give evidence. Owen is keen to land the high profile brief as, with Erin's eyewitness evidence and a confession from one of the shooters, the prospect of a conviction is good.
Lurking Doubt
Janet faces humiliation when Dianne Vasilich appeals against her conviction for murder, as it becomes increasingly likely that her victim, Steven Blakely, was involved in the production of child porn. Her pursuit of corruption sees Janet facing her greatest threat.
With:
Jeanette Cronin as Tracey Samuels,
Tiriel Mora as Judge Granville Renmark,
Akos Armont as Drew Blakely,
Harriet Dyer as Maya Blakely,
Darren Gilshenan as Alex Moreno,
Jessica Napier as Caroline Martin,
Sonia Todd as Gail Jones,
Brandon Burke as Justice Jonathan MacLeod,
Zoe Carides as Gillian Warden,
Deborah Kennedy as Dianne Vaslich,
Julian Garner as Brian Vincent,
Nastassja Djalog as Karen Shaw,
Brooklyn & Amelia Flores as Emma King Larsson,
Cooper & Jake O'Brien as Liam King Larsson,
Zoe Trilsbach as Judge's Associate,
Peter Henwood as Judge Manzarelli,
John Thwaites as Judge Lane,
Justine Kacir as Moira Reilly,
Tushar Apte as Ramesh Nahar,
Danielle Ross as Ruby Moreno,
Yvette Kaleel as Female Journalist #1,
Alice Harvey as Female Journalist #2,
Marea Rayment as Female Police Officer
Overtime
In the wake of the attempted murder of her family, Janet starts to suspect that she has stumbled onto a wide-ranging conspiracy involving powerful and well-connected paedophiles, including Judge Renmark, the man who holds her fate in his hands.
The Greatest Good
Blakely's killer is finally revealed, but Janet discovers there's someone higher up pulling the strings — someone powerful and very close — the same person she finds herself in an isolated place with...
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For many patients awaiting surgery, the thought of anesthesia can bring on anxiety.
But these days, anesthesia does not always mean being “put under.” Medical experts said that knowing what types of anesthesia are available can make a difference in a patient’s recovery.
Lee Richmond said she will be walking with a cane for a while after having spinal surgery in December.
Going in to that procedure, Richmond was certain about one thing.
“I wanted local anesthesia,” she said.
Richmond stressed that she did not want general anesthesia, the type that renders a patient is unconscious during surgery. She believes having another option made her recovery easier.
“The reason I had it was not because I was afraid of the surgery, but because I really wanted to be as aware as I could be afterward,” she said.
Dr. David Maine, with Mercy Medical Center, said he understands why a patient may be apprehensive about anesthesia. He added that the side effects are generally minor.
“It truly is very safe,” Maine said.
Technology and monitoring have come a long way in terms of anesthesia options, giving patients less to worry about and more choices to select from.
“It all depends on the patient, the surgery and other medical comorbidities because ultimately you want to choose the safest anesthetic plan for each patient and it's truly an individual decision based on the circumstances,” Maine said.
Richmond said she was relieved about the options available to her.
“I'm doing pretty well now,” she said.
Also on WBALTV.com: | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/womans-doctor-anesthesia-options/9223377 |
These timber stools are the perfect compliment to an "all natural" decor vibe with their simplistic beauty and timeless design.
- Perfect for use as a stool or a small side table
- Made from Paulownia wood
- Handcrafted
- NATURAL Finish
- Measures 31cm x 32cm x 44cm
NOTE: This is a handcrafted item made from natural materials, and as such each item will have its own unique shape, variance in sizes and natural grain. In addition due to the nature of the material, the craftsmen may have used fill to patch any imperfections. Overall, these elements add to the beauty of each piece and they are not considered as an imperfections. | https://sonderandstoneboutique.com.au/collections/furniture/products/lulu-timber-stool |
"Дайте, будь ласка, червоні кросівки."
Translation:Please, give me the red sneakers.
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Submitted a report on this. "Trainers" is British English, "sneakers" should be accepted as the American English variant.
Right now the full list of accepted alternatives is: trainers, sneakers, athletic shoes, tennis shoes, gym shoes, sports shoes, runners, running shoes. If there are some other common ones missing, please notify us!
(but don't write it in the comments not to clutter the discussion, simply submit a report)
Thanks for filling the report. You are right. In American English there are a few words that might fit. In times past, I would have agreed with "tennis shoes", but now with the advent of so many different styles of shoes (basketball, workout, crossover, soccer, etc.) It seems sneakers or athletic shoes are our most generic categories. | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/21101487/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5-%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8C-%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96-%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8 |
The global Positioning System market research report provides the most comprehensive coverage of all the economic activities concerned with extraction, production, processing of raw materials, construction, or any information on enterprises’ output of a specified product or service. The study undertaken in this research ensures a holistic and in-depth analysis of the Positioning System market along with actionable insights and granular data isprovided. Based on expert analysis, the report provides key information of the biggest global Positioning System market industries by revenue and by market size in 2021. Besides, the monitoring tools help in identifying successes and problems in the business process management (BPM) lifecycle of these Positioning System industries.
Vendor Profiling: Global Positioning System Market, 2020-26:
Broadcom Inc Garmin Ltd. Hexagon AB Mio Technology Corporation MiTAC Digital Technology Corporation Qualcomm Inc Rockwell Collins Inc Texas Instruments Inc. TomTom N.V and Trimble Navigation Limited.FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Positioning System Market on the basis of Business Strategy (Business Growth Industry Coverage Financial Viability and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money Ease of Use Product Features and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets applications and geographies. The Competitive Strategic Window helps the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. During a forecast period it defines the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies geography expansion research & development and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth.Cumulative
The study analyzes the opportunities and forecasts between the years 2022 – 2026. The report offers detailed insights on the global Positioning System market elucidating various market segments in the Positioning System market. Market dynamics that influence the global price, sales quantity, supply chains, demand of goods and services, and other factors of the Positioning System are market provided in the report. Moreover, a detailed report on the business restrictions and opportunities for the market participants or the ones who want to venture into the Positioning System market is offered in the research.It covers the geographic regions and countries, business derivatives including bonds, interest rates, investment holdings, commodities, currencies, and best valued stocks in the Positioning System.
Insights on the policies for economic and technological development with its impact on the Positioning System market industries are provided in the research. Furthermore, the report studies the global Positioning System market size and segment markets based on application, customer base, geography, and companies operating in the Positioning System market.Market analysis for the most significant regional markets including Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia offered. The market size of each of these regions including the different segments is covered in the report.
The Report Offers:
• Assessment of the market share (by value, by volume) for the country and regional level segments.
• Recommendations for strategic alignments to boost the efficacy and effectiveness of the new entrants of the Positioning System market.
• The report covers market data for the years 2015 to 2021, and forecast data for the years 2022 to 2026.
• Strategic recommendations based on the market predictions.
• Mapping of the competitive landscape of the common trends including the technology trends in the Positioning System market.
• Profiles of all the major shareholding companies in the market with details on their strategies, key financials, and ongoing developments.
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If there is a connection, it will give weight to arguing for work environments and employers to shape practices that address physician burnout, he said. ... That physician explained that while he liked writing narratives, he “didn't do” meditation. | http://acpinternist.acponline.org/search/?requiredfields=keywords%3Aphysician+burnout&query=%22Physician+Burnout%22&collection=acp-internist-web&start_rank=11 |
Peeyoosh ‘PC’ Chandra is General Manager of GrowthOps’ Growth Marketing Services, and an evangelist for the power of insights gleaned from digital engagement. He’s a peer-recognised practitioner of integrated online marketing and has deep specialisation across e-commerce, CRM and Social.
PC’s passion for digital marketing was ignited by a transition from management consulting to advertising in 2007. The leadership experience he’s built across the telecommunications, banking, FMCG and automotive sectors has allowed him to develop unique insights into how customers engage with digital assets across a variety of industries.
What excites PC is how integrated digital marketing campaigns can address the growth challenges faced by brands today.
His focus at GrowthOps is on developing strategies that leverage the power of digital and social communication to drive growth for our customers through sustainable and positive changes in consumer behaviour. | https://growthops.com.au/leader/peeyoosh-chandra-pc/ |
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Buildings are a substantial energy consumer; they use approximately 30% of all energy in Canada and 40% of all energy in the US. Buildings are also a large greenhouse gas emitter, responsible for 25% of GHGs in Canada and 40% of GHGs in the US. The push to improve the performance of new buildings is more important than ever, yet often their design and construction do not employ the methodologies needed to meaningfully achieve this goal. The key challenge stems from selecting building systems independently from one another, without thorough analysis and optimization to understand their implications on the overall energy and sustainability performance targets of the project. This can result in missed opportunities for true system integration, exploration of alternatives, and cost savings. This presentation will look at how an approach to Early-Stage Building Science explicitly considers the interaction between the enclosure and mechanical systems to optimize thermal performance, carbon and cost while satisfying the architectural intent and owner’s requirements.
This presentation was delivered as part of our Building Science Live Series.
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- The current limitations of the traditional approach to selecting building systems for a project
- How to align project milestones to best support the integrated approach and to benchmark performance iteratively
- Key design considerations that have a direct impact on the energy performance of the mechanical systems and the building enclosure systems
- Why multiple variables and combinations must be considered when optimizing design to meet project and sustainability goals on budget
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- Audience: This session will be of interest to owners, developers, architects, and other professionals who are designing, building, or considering high-performance approaches.
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How to Detect or Identify SQL Database Corruption?
The article brings you information about the SQL Server database corruption identification techniques, the related causes for the corruption along with some fixes for the corruptions.
Most organizations save their crucial and huge information on Microsoft based SQL Server as they find it the reliable medium for data management. Being a relational database management system, it serves as an easy source for large as well as small business enterprises to store all the important details onto it. So, the business is highly reliable on the healthy SQL Server database.
When does issue start in SQL Server?
The most common disturbance the SQL Server user experiences is when he is working on it and stuck in the middle or unable to access the data available on SQL Server. This is an indication of the corruption issue started in SQL Server database. Beforehand knowledge of corruption unless you try to access the damaged data is not possible as earlier warning is not displayed. The screen will be displayed with error messages on executing any function on the SQL Server like fetching the data or editing the data, etc.
Causes behind SQL corruption
The credit for the main cause for corruption in SQL Server goes to hardware failure, like malfunctions in hard disk, CPU, Controller, etc. If we talk about the other reasons that contributes to the corruption issues in SQL Server database, then these are in points –
- Damaged memory disk subsystems
- Interruption due to anti-malwares and anti-spywares
- Bugs in SQL Server programs
- Improper upgrade from one SQL Server version to another
- Editing in SQL Server account
How to Identify SQL Corruption in SQL Server?
Till now, we have read about issues in SQL Server database and the reasons could be responsible for it. Now, we will be discussing on the measures that users can take to identify the corruption in SQL Server. There are 2 ways that may help the users to detect the problems in SQL Server data.
1. Detection with SQL Query:
To check any corruption in SQL Server database, run the following single line query –
If after running this query, the output results are without the rows. Then there might be a condition that no corrupt entry is available. But, one cannot fully depend on this technique as it checks only for the entries that had a corruption history. So, for new entries, detecting corruption issues is not possible this way.
2. Detection with DBCC CHECKDB:
It is the most commonly used technique by the SQL database administrators through which users can locate the damaged files. There are different commands used with the syntax DBCC CHKDB (database_name) which can check the measures like tables, quality, consistency, integrity, etc. for example - DBCC CHECKCATALOG, DBCC CHECKALLOC, and DBCC CHECKTABLE. So, after detecting corruptions issues with details as output results of these commands, the users can run the repair command as well to repair the corrupt database and can get success if the corruption is low. The repair command is as given below:
GO
DBCC CHECKDB('database_name', REPAIR_REBUILD)
GO
SQL Server database detection is sometimes tough sometimes in hand, but once detected, how to move on to the repair step. First choice would obviously be using the recent backups. But if the backups also does not work well or comes under corruption area, users can try running the DBCC CHECKDB commands. Users can fix the corruption issues with it or the chance is high of failure with big corruption issues.
In that case, the best recommendation would be start looking for such third-party software that works effortlessly to repair SQL Server database and provide satisfactory details. SQL Database Recovery software is an all set tool for any sort of corrupted SQL Server database files. It restores all items be it tables, procedures, triggers, etc. in its original structure back to the SQL Server location without any alterations. Choice of data saving is in the hands of users with select options. SQL Server users can first detect the issue and then later on head to repair with the software with tried-on experience. | https://www.datarepairtools.com/how-to/detect-sql-database-corruption-issues-in-sql-server.html |
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Perched atop the Aravalli Hills, the Mandawa Fort is one of the architectural gems of the region. Such is the grandeur of the fort that it has often been the backdrop of movies like Bajarangi Bhaijan, Love Aaj Kal, Mirzya and Jab We Met. Built in 18th century, the fort houses many rooms, featuring antique decor, beautiful paintings of Lord Krishna and other gods and goddesses and intricate mirror work. Its painted archways are also a treat to the eyes.
Founded by a chieftain named Mandu Jat, the Mandawa Fort grew under the Shekhawat Rajputs. It speaks a lot about the rich history of the region and boasts unique features of Rajasthani architecture. Visitors can shop in the local market in Mandawa, which offers magnificent brass items, colourful textiles and handicrafts. Further, the royal family has been supporting a girl's school here wherein the visitors can interact and participate by obtaining the necessary permissions. Other notable places to visit include Gulab Rai Ladia Haveli, Lakshminarayan Haveli, Mohanlal Saraf Haveli and Chowkani Haveli, which are adorned with beautiful fresco paintings. | https://www.incredibleindia.org/content/incredible-india-v2/en/destinations/shekhawati/mandawa-fort.html |
As Seoul shores up its diplomacy with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippines is fully committed to the Korean peninsula’s denuclearization efforts as the chair of ASEAN this year, said the country’s top envoy here, also highlighting flourishing defense and law enforcement cooperation between the two countries.
During the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on Saturday, the top diplomats of the 10-member bloc expressed their “grave concerns” over the escalating tension in the peninsula, and vowed to lend full support to the denuclearization initiative through diplomatic means.
In April, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that ASEAN was extremely worried about the engulfing strains between the United States and North Korea, and that one misstep would wreak “catastrophe” upon the whole world. The iconoclastic leader urged Washington to exercise restraint against Pyongyang and not play into the hands of leader Kim Jong-un, whom he said “wants to end the world.”
South Korea, for its part, has been upping its relations with ASEAN as part of its diplomatic diversification. In Manila on Sunday, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, who made her debut on the multilateral diplomatic stage, said Seoul is working to “expand its diplomatic horizons and diversify its diplomacy in earnest,” by elevating the strategic partnership with ASEAN to the level of four major powers of the US, China, Russia and Japan.
“The Philippines is concerned over the potential armed conflict in the Korean peninsula, given the destructive powers of the arsenals involved,” Philippine Ambassador to Korea Raul S. Hernandez told The Korea Herald. “We are also wary of possible impacts on Koreans, foreigners and travelers in South Korea. There are some 65,000 Philippine nationals here, including workers and those married to locals.”
In ways somewhat similar to South Korea, the Philippines has been mired in vital security and territorial quandaries over the years. Manila has been battling Maute, an Islamic State-inspired terrorist group in Marawi City on the island of Mindanao, and wrangled with Beijing over territorial sovereignty in the South China Sea, also called the West Philippine Sea.
The high public support for the president’s heavy-handed responses to fighting corruption and terrorism demonstrates the urgency of troubles, Hernandez explained, noting nearly 80 percent of people expressed being satisfied with the government in public polls. The Philippine Congress also affirmed its approval of continuing the fight against terrorists, as evidenced in an overwhelming majority vote of 261 to 18 on July 22. The parliamentary decision will extend the martial law in Mindanao through the end of this year.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to protesters in Quezon City, Philippines 24 July 2017. Duterte spoke to protesters after delivering his second State of the Nation Address. Several thousand left-wing protesters marched on 24 July 2017, to the House of Representatives to demand Duterte deliver on promises made in his first state of the nation speech in 2016. (EPA/MARK R. CRISTINO)
On the sovereignty issue in the South China Sea, the diplomat said his government is fully committed to protecting its territorial claims and maritime entitlements, but believes that the ongoing dispute should be resolved through “peaceful neighborly relations.”
Beijing’s tug of war with five other governments in the strategic waterway, laden with rich oil and gas reserves, intensified after it constructed islands in disputed waters and reportedly began installing a missile defense system on them.
Many analysts view Duterte’s diplomacy as a hedging strategy between Washington and Beijing, with the mercurial leader recently inching closer to China for economic gains, including the lure of more Chinese investments and infrastructure development in the country.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday in Manila that talks for a nonaggression pact -- called the Code of Conduct, aimed at preventing clashes from erupting in the South China Sea -- may start this year, as long as “outside parties” do not interfere. The Philippine government spokesman Robespierre Bolivar also said that ASEAN and Chinese ministers have approved a framework for the code and agreed on steps to kick-start negotiations on the maritime accord.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures as he answers questions from reporters as he attends the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its dialogue partners in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. Disagreements over North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile tests and territorial disputes in the South China Sea prevented the region's foreign ministers from promptly issuing their joint communique after an annual gathering in Manila, two Southeast Asian diplomats said Sunday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Touching on violent crimes committed against Koreans in the Philippines in recent years, Hernandez said the Philippine National Police has been vigilantly guarding the safety of all foreigners, including Koreans, with a tourism security force instituted in its apparatus. The law enforcement agency’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group is conducting a thorough investigation of pending cases involving Korean citizens, he added.
Some 1.5 million Koreans visit the Philippines every year, and around 90,000 Koreans reside there.
Manila and Seoul have strengthened defense and law enforcement cooperation in recent years. The Korea International Cooperation Agency, in collaboration with the Korea National Police Agency, announced in July they will spend some $6.6 million through next year to transfer to the Philippine police a wide range of investigation techniques, including forensics, evidence analysis, data management and suspect tracking. In addition, some 270 patrol cars and motorcycles, along with 120 scientific investigation kits, will be handed over. About 150 Philippine police officers will undergo training in Korea.
On the bilateral defense, areas of cooperation encompass information sharing, exchange of visits for personnel and experts, education and training, research and development, defense technology and production, logistics and maintenance, humanitarian assistance and international peacekeeping operation, according to the envoy. The two countries also entered into the Protection of Classified Military Information agreement in 2015.
Twelve FA-50 fighter jets developed by the Korea Aerospace Industries have been delivered to the Philippines, while a decommissioned Pohang-class corvette from the South Korean Navy is in the process of acquisition by the Philippine Navy this year.
Hernandez pointed to the growing two-way economic cooperation, highlighting his country offers a unique combination of high economic growth, a large market base and competitive manufacturing capacity.
“Our gross domestic product grew by 6.8 percent last year, making us one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, even ahead of China,” the ambassador underlined. “I want to stress that this growth rate was not just a one-year thing. We have been growing at around the same clip on average through the years before, and major financial authorities like the World Bank forecast the same level of growth will continue in the future.”
“This decade will be one of Philippines’ growth,” he added.
The market size of the Philippines is also substantial, the diplomat said, mentioning a population of some 100 million people, including rising middle classes, mostly well-schooled and fluent in English. The median age of the Philippine citizenry is 23.
“We are also very competitive in the manufacturing sector, which is why many Korean companies have invested in the Philippines with great successes, particularly in shipbuilding, electronics production, food and agricultural processing,” he argued.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha (C) links hands with ASEAN foreign ministers and their representatives as they take part in the ASEAN-Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministerial Meeting at the sideline of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings in Manila, Philippines, 06 August 2017. Top diplomats from 27 countries gather in Manila for the 50th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings from 02 to 08 August with the theme 'Partnering for Change, Engaging the World', to promote unity with and among ASEAN member states and its global partners. The ASEAN meetings is expected to result in a joint communique that will address matters related to disputed islands in the South China Sea. (EPA/NOEL CELIS)
Korean small and medium-sized enterprises have also made significant inroads into the Philippine market, he said. They are involved in television shopping and e-commerce, cosmetics, fashion, food, tourism, game development, finance, education and other services, as well as light manufacturing across the country’s numerous economic zones.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Agreement. Although the aggregate trade between the two regions has risen substantially since, Korean exports to ASEAN have expanded more sharply than ASEAN’s.
Noting the Philippines has also stacked up a trade deficit with Korea, as Filipinos purchase more Korean goods than vice versa, the trade imbalance needs to be addressed on several fronts, according to Hernandez.
“Tariffs need to be lowered in Korea for our export products like bananas, pineapples, mangos and other fresh fruits,” he said, adding they currently stand at between 24 and 30 percent. “We also need to facilitate market access for other products like duck meat and other fruits and vegetables, which are currently undergoing their import risk assessment under the Korean law.”
To help offset the trade imbalance, Korea has been providing capacity-building assistance to ASEAN SMEs, ranging from product development and technology to packaging and marketing, as well as business-to-business meetings.
“With these measures, I am confident that the next decade of ASEAN-Korea free trade will be equally, if not more, successful, and also more equitable,” he claimed.
Manila being the chair of ASEAN this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of its founding, the country’s top diplomat Alan Peter Cayetano, secretary of foreign affairs, will be a keynote speaker alongside his counterpart Kang at the International Conference on ASEAN-Korea Partnership on Aug. 30 in Seoul. The ASEAN Culture House will be inaugurated in Busan on Sept. 1, giving an additional institutional footing to the ASEAN-Korea Cultural Exchange Year celebrations.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (L) during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings in Manila, Philippines, 06 August 2017. Top diplomats from 27 countries gather in Manila for the 50th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings from 02 to 08 August with the theme 'Partnering for Change, Engaging the World', to promote unity with and among ASEAN member states and its global partners. The ASEAN meetings is expected to result in a joint communique that will address matters related to disputed islands in the South China Sea. (EPA/ROUELLE UMALI) | |
In agroecosystems, application of manure from livestock treated with antibiotics has the potential to spread antibiotic compounds, resistant bacteria, and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to soil. Although environmental transmission of antibiotic resistance is a major human health concern, few studies have looked at long-term effects on soil microbial communities from applying manure from livestock administered antibiotics. We examined the impacts of three years of repeated manure additions from cattle under different antibiotic treatments on microbial community structure and ARG abundances. While manure additions altered both soil bacterial and fungal communities, manure from cattle administered antibiotics further altered soil bacterial communities, but not fungal, compared to manure from antibiotic-free cattle. Furthermore, addition of manure from antibiotic-free cattle resulted in increased abundances of several ARGs compared to soil with no manure inputs, but manure from cattle administered antibiotics did not change overall profiles of ARG abundances compared to manure from antibiotic-free cattle. Finally, although bacterial and fungal community structure and ARG abundances varied among years, manure treatment effects on each were persistent during the full three-year period. Taken together, our results suggest that manure and antibiotic impacts on soil microbial communities can persist for long periods of repeated manure application. Furthermore, soil management strategies for addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis should consider the broader context of manure management.
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|Article number||108252|
|Journal||Soil Biology and Biochemistry|
|Volume||157|
|DOIs|
|State||Published - Jun 1 2021|
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
Funding was provided by USDA-NIFA : Award number: 2013-67019-21363 . This work was supported in part by the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) . Strickland was partially supported by a National Science Foundation grant ( 1832888 ).
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|ISBN:||1400040787 9781400040780|
|OCLC Number:||85018670|
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|Contents:||Prologue : A brief history of Banting --
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Part one. The fat-cholesterol hypothesis --
1. The Eisenhower paradox --
2. The inadequacy of lesser evidence --
3. Creation of consensus --
4. The greater good --
Part two. The carbohydrate hypothesis --
5. Diseases of civilization --
6. Diabetes and the carbohydrate hypothesis --
7. Fiber --
8. The science of the carbohydrate hypothesis --
9. Triglycerides and the complications of cholesterol --
10. The role of insulin --
11. The significance of diabetes --
12. Sugar --
13. Dementia, cancer, and aging --
Part three. Obesity and the regulation of weight --
14. The mythology of obesity --
15. Hunger --
16. Paradoxes --
17. Conservation of energy --
18. Fattening diets --
19. Reducing diets --
20. Unconventional diets --
21. The carbohydrate hypothesis, 1 : fat metabolism --
22. The carbohydrate hypothesis, 2 : insulin --
23. The fattening carbohydrate disappears --
24. The carbohydrate hypothesis, 3 : hunger and satiety --
Epilogue.
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Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, via their dramatic effect on insulin, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. He also argues that there is no compelling scientific evidence that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease. Based on the evidence, he concludes that the only healthy way to remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of carbohydrates we eat.--From publisher description.
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I am painting a series of 10 paintings to represent non-profit organizations in the St. Louis Metro Area.
I will be having a show where patrons can view the artwork, learn about the organizations, and see what volunteer opportunities are available with these great organizations.
Each painting will be sold for volunteer hours at the corresponding organization. Each painting will have a specific volunteer role assigned to it, and whoever signs up for that role and completes it will receive the painting.
In addition to supporting local non-profit organizations, I have locally sourced all of my materials for this show. The paintings are made on wood panels from Fehlig Brothers Box and Lumber Company, operating in St. Louis since 1873. I am using pigments from Huntsman Pigment Company that were made in St. Louis. I am also making pigments from copper from Shapiro Metal Supply, which has been in business in St. Louis since 1904, as well as making pigments from plants that I grow at the 13th Street Community Garden in Old North. My paints are made with Linseed, Walnut, and Safflower oils from Missouri and Illinois, and beeswax from Joy Stinger, who is over 90 years old and keeps bees in Clayton, MO.
This show is all about my love for the city of St. Louis, learning about some of the greatest non-profit organizations in the area, and promoting a culture of volunteerism through art! | https://dougweaverart.org/artforvolunteerism/ |
The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzer Prizes, American journalism's top honor, for its coverage of California's drought and for cultural criticism, Columbia University announced Monday.
Staff writer Diana Marcum won the 2015 feature writing prize for her searing portraits of farmers, fieldworkers and other Californians in drought-stricken towns in the Central Valley.
Mary McNamara, The Times' television critic and senior culture editor, won the prize for criticism.
Times Editor Davan Maharaj said the honors spoke to his staff's resiliency and commitment to excellence in the face of sweeping and often jarring changes in the news industry.
"These prizes are a tribute to two supremely talented journalists," he said. "They're also a testament to the newsroom's dedication to producing the highest-quality journalism and to serving our community."
The Times has now won 43 Pulitzer Prizes.
The Daily Breeze of Torrance won the award for local reporting for its investigation into corruption in the Centinela Valley Union High School District, including exorbitant compensation paid to the superintendent. He collected $663,000 last year, more than twice as much as his peers in larger neighboring districts, the paper reported.
It was the first Pulitzer for the Los Angeles News Group, which publishes the Breeze and eight other daily papers.
Among other winners, the New York Times was awarded three Pulitzers: for feature photography, international reporting and investigative reporting (an award it shared with the Wall Street Journal).
The Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service went to the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., for its series "Till Death Do Us Part," which explored the high rate of violence against women in South Carolina.
At the Los Angeles Times' downtown newsroom, journalists gathered at noon Monday to follow a live-streamed announcement from New York of the Pulitzer board's decisions in 14 journalism categories, plus seven prizes in letters, drama and music. The newsroom erupted in cheers and applause as the names of the paper's two winners were heard.
Marcum, who is based in Fresno, wrote piercingly of the financial and emotional toll of the drought in California's agricultural heartland. She thanked Times colleagues whose news reports on the four-year drought provided the framework for her narrative explorations and character studies.
"I'm getting to go out and write the people stories that I love to write, but they're doing all of the bedrock stuff that lets people know why this is really important," Marcum said.
In one story from her winning package, she profiled 68-year-old Fred Lujan, a "gentleman farmer" in the town of Terra Bella who "called his pistachio trees his babies, his girls, and gave them names."
As the drought stretched into its third year, the local irrigation district sealed off his water meter. "How am I supposed to just sit here and watch everything turn brown and die?" Lujan asked Marcum.
A former columnist for the Fresno Bee, Marcum became a staff writer for The Times in 2011 — an ambition she said she had harbored since elementary school. She had freelanced for the paper off and on for years.
In the criticism category, McNamara was honored for columns on the death of Joan Rivers, on Stephen Colbert's departure from Comedy Central, on the media circus attending the Sochi Olympics and myriad television shows.
The Pulitzer judges praised her use of "shrewdness, humor and an insider's view to show how both subtle and seismic shifts in the cultural landscape affect television."
She frequently ranged beyond critiques of TV shows to examine cultural controversies that included whether on-screen sexism plays a role in real-world violence.
"To argue that entertainment does not impact culture is absurd," she wrote. "Hollywood doesn't get to take credit for breaking ground with films such as 'Philadelphia' and shows like 'Will & Grace' or for that matter 'Girls,' only to wash its hands of more destructive attitudes."
In a column celebrating the diversity of such non-cable shows as Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," she wondered why "prestige" cable had not shown similar progress in "embracing the rainbow."
And in a column exploring the joys of the series "House of Cards," she noted that Netflix released Season Two on Valentine's Day, adding: "Binge-watching has become the new sex."
McNamara joined The Times in 1990 and covered the film industry for four years before becoming a television critic eight years ago. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2013 and again in 2014.
In remarks to jubilant colleagues, McNamara thanked her editor, Martin Miller, and expressed gratitude for the freedom to train her critical eye on diverse subjects.
"I've written for every section but the sports section, and I wrote for the sports section this year, so that was totally exciting," McNamara said.
Austin Beutner, publisher and chief executive officer of The Times, praised the "particular clarity" of the winners' voices and said their journalism "gives me my motivation to keep working at this" — a reference to his efforts to find new audiences and revenue sources.
In addition to the winners, Times journalists were finalists for Pulitzer prizes in two other categories.
Reporter Richard Marosi and photojournalist Don Bartletti were finalists in international reporting for their series "Product of Mexico," which explored harsh working conditions at export farms in Mexico. The stories prompted a coalition of Mexican growers and Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, to promise better treatment of laborers.
The Times was also a finalist in breaking news reporting for its staff coverage of the May 2014 Isla Vista massacre. The staff mobilized reporters in the middle of the night to cover a young man's armed rampage near the UC Santa Barbara campus that left seven dead, including the killer.
The Pulitzer board awarded the fiction prize to "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, a novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France.
The history prize went to Elizabeth A. Fenn's "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People," described by the judges as "an engrossing, original narrative" about a Native American tribe in the Dakotas.
In the biography category, the winner was "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe," by David I. Kertzer, and in general nonfiction the prize went to "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," by Elizabeth Kolbert. | http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-pulitzers-20150421-story.html |
Instructions for Use :
Depending on the size of the animal – adjust the dosage as necessary. For large animals eg horses / cattle / sheep etc – an individual dose = 3 mls administered orally via a small syringe, directly into the mouth.
Take care not to contaminate the syringe, for future use of the remedy, by allowing it to touch any part of the animal. Homeopathic remedies are easily contaminated – see care of remedies instruction leaflet.If you have accidentally contaminated the syringe, DO NOT put it back into the remedy bottle. Clean it first with boiling water only. Another option of use is to pour some of the remedy into a clean eggcup or shot glass & take this up by the syringe for dosing – just don’t return any unused remedy back into the bottle, unless you know it is uncontaminated.
For large animals in a herd situation, the easiest administration technique is to put the remedy directly into a CLEAN drinking trough of water & stop any incoming water supply for the days you need to dose the animals (so as to avoid diluting the remedy & lose it’s efficacy) For smaller animals, reduce the dosage appropriately :
large dogs = 2 mls small dogs & cats = 1 ml
If you find it difficult to give the dose orally, then place the remedy into a small bowl of CLEAN water –About the size of a cup (250mls). If dosing more than one animal at a time by the bowl of water method, then add more remedy appropriately, to a larger bowl of water. Basically it requires a little thought & commonsense in how you use the remedies for their best effective outcome. Generally, these remedies will not harm if you accidentally use too big a dose.
Animal Worming Formula
Ingredients :Ingredients : Homeopatically potentised resonances of : | https://www.healingworldltd.com/product-page/animal-worming-formula |
The Oklahoma House and Senate have both given final approval to House Bill 1037 by Rep. George Faught, R-Muskogee, Rep. Ken Walker, R-Tulsa, Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City, and Sen. Marty Quinn, R-Claremore. HB 1037 creates a framework in the Open Records Act for the handling of law enforcement videos captured by body-worn cameras. Last year, the Legislature passed legislation that made it explicitly clear that all law enforcement videos filmed by dash-mounted or body-worn cameras would be subject to the Open Records Act, with some common sense exceptions. HB 1037 updates the law to accommodate issues not contemplated before the increase in demand this past year for body-worn cameras.
“Even though it was just a year ago, when we wrote this legislation for dash cams and body cams, we were living in a dash cam world,” Holt said. “Due to very serious recent national events, including incidents here in Oklahoma, the demand for body cams has escalated, and I think we should encourage their use. Part of that is creating an appropriate open records framework. Body cams raise different issues than dash cams. They go into the homes of domestic violence victims, they tape conversations with confidential informants, and so on. With HB 1037 we’ve thoughtfully worked together with all interested parties to balance three fundamental interests implicated by body cams—the public’s expectation of privacy, law enforcement’s investigative needs, and the public interest in providing oversight to the actions of law enforcement.”
“I am pleased with the passage of HB 1037 because we are establishing a new standard of accountability and openness when it comes to open record requests and the use of body cameras,” Faught said. “This legislation enables law enforcement to move forward with confidence as they adopt their own policies. I applaud the tremendous efforts of law enforcement, the Legislature and various press associations that collaborated to ensure safeguards and public transparency are in place. I look forward to the innovations our public safety agencies will pursue as they further enhance their service to the people of our state.”
HB 1037 separates the Open Records Act provisions for dash cam videos and body cam videos into two sections and provides that all body cam videos in the public interest are an open record, subject to common sense exceptions for certain specific reasons. For body cams, these exceptions include: Deaths and severe violence and injuries, unless caused by law enforcement; nudity; the identities of minors, sex crimes victims, domestic violence victims, and informants; personal medical, mental health and detoxification information; personal information about innocent persons; the identity of officers under investigation until the completion of the investigation; and footage that would materially compromise an investigation or an accused’s right to a fair trial, although this last exception is temporary, specifically limited, and requires judicial intervention to maintain.
HB 1037 also corrects a current loophole in body cam and dash cam law that could allow law enforcement to hold back videos that depict deaths even if the death was caused by a law enforcement officer.
Following some stalled efforts earlier this session to address body cam issues, Holt and Faught brought to the table Oklahoma’s law enforcement agencies, the district attorneys, the Oklahoma Press Association, and Freedom of Information Oklahoma, with the intent of crafting a compromise. HB 1037 evolved through negotiations over the last two months and its final version passed the House 81-12 and the Senate 44-2. | https://accessible.oksenate.gov/press-releases/legislature-sends-police-body-cam-legislation-governors-desk?back=/press-releases/2015-05 |
Though life with autism can sometimes be stressful for all parties involved, there are things parents can do to help alleviate stress in their neurotypical children and make them feel loved, valued, and supported.
1. Regularly take some time devoted solely to your neurotypical child.
Naturally, autism siblings may feel that much of their parents’ attention is devoted to their brother or sister on the spectrum. As a result, they may feel lonely or jealous. A good way to handle this is to set aside special time for just you and your neurotypical child. That can look however you want it to—a special movie night on Friday evenings, a lunch date every weekend, a half-hour-long bedtime ritual of some sort, a chunk of time set aside to just talk…all that matters is that you stay consistent and give them all your attention during that time period.
2. Don’t leave them wondering.
Regardless of age, your neurotypical child may have questions or concerns about their brother or sister. Be sure to tell them about your other child’s autism—explain what it is, why their sibling requires more of your time, why you may treat your children differently, how to interact with their sibling, how to handle the reactions and opinions of others, etc. Assure your child that communication channels are totally open, and that any honest questions they have about their sibling are not “wrong” or “bad.”
3. Respect their space and time.
Many autism siblings, at their parents’ request, end up in a caretaking position at some point or another, whether it’s just for a few hours or a longer period of time. There is nothing inherently wrong with that; neurotypical siblings can and should pitch in to help, but they also need time and space to do their homework, participate in after-school activities, get together with friends, cultivate their hobbies and interests, and overall just live their own lives. If you and/or your partner need to leave the house for something and your neurotypical child is feeling overwhelmed or needs space, consider looking into respite care.
4. Celebrate the little things.
When you have a child on the spectrum, no milestone or achievement is too small to celebrate. But “normal” and expected milestones and accomplishments may be overlooked in typically-developing children. Because, you know…they were expected. Try to avoid letting this happen. Treat your neurotypical child’s milestones with the same amount of celebration and praise as you would for your child with autism. That will help boost their self-esteem, and it will also make them feel loved and appreciated.
5. Listen.
There may be times when your neurotypical child needs to express emotions, frustrations, concerns, and other experiences surrounding their sibling with autism. If and when they come to you with these things, it is vital to listen. Remember: what your child chooses to do with their emotions can be good or bad, but feelings themselves are not inherently right or wrong; they just are. And whether or not you agree with how your child feels, their emotions are valid and acceptable. Engage in active listening and do what you can to address their needs—whether that means taking some sort of lasting action, doling out advice, or just giving them a much-needed hug. | https://blog.theautismsite.greatergood.com/neurotypical-siblings/3/ |
The present technique relates generally to production of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). In particular, the present technique relates to washing PPS with a base (e.g., sodium hydroxide) to reduce the amount of off-gassing during the subsequent melt processing of the PPS.
This section is intended to introduce the reader to various aspects of art which may be related to various aspects of the present techniques that are described and/or claimed below. This discussion is believed to be helpful in providing the reader with background information to facilitate a better understanding of the various aspects of the present techniques. Accordingly, it should be understood that these statements are to be read in this light, and not as admissions of prior art.
Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), a member of a more general class of polymers known as poly(arylene) sulfide (PAS), is a high-performance engineering thermoplastic that may be heated and molded into desired shapes in a variety of manufacturing, commercial, and consumer applications. PPS may be used in the preparation of fibers, films, coatings, injection molding compounds, and fiber-reinforced composites, and is well-suited for demanding applications in appliance, automotive, and electrical/electronic industries. PPS may be incorporated as a manufacturing component either alone or in a blend with other materials, such as elastomeric materials, copolymers, resins, reinforcing agents, additives, other thermoplastics, and the like. Initially, PPS was promoted as a replacement for thermosetting materials, but has become a suitable molding material, especially with the addition of glass and carbon fibers, minerals, fillers, and so forth. In fact, PPS is one of the oldest high-performance injection molding plastics in the polymer industry, with non-filled grades commonly extruded as wire coatings.
PPS polymer is an attractive engineering plastic because, in part, it provides an excellent combination of properties. The molecular structure of PPS may readily form a thermally stable crystalline lattice, providing PPS with a semi-crystalline morphology and a high melting point, which may range from about 265° C. to about 315° C. Because of its molecular structure, PPS may char during combustion, making the material inherently flame resistant. Further, PPS is resistant to aggressive chemical environments, e.g., not dissolving in solvents of temperatures below about 200° C., and may become precision molded to tight tolerances. In summary, PPS is thermally stable, inherently non-flammable without flame retardant additives, and possesses excellent dielectric and insulating properties. Other properties include dimensional stability, high modulus, and creep resistance. The beneficial properties of PPS are due in part, to the stable chemical bonds of its molecular structure, which impart a relatively high degree of molecular stability (and therefore resistance) toward both thermal degradation and chemical reactivity.
Although the properties of PPS structures were known since the early 20th century, an industrially viable synthesis was only developed in the late 1960s. In 1967, Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Okla. disclosed a method for producing PPS through the reaction of para-dichlorobenzene and sodium sulfide, as illustrated by the reaction below.
This condensation polymerization (or step polymerization) marked the beginning of industrial-scale commercialization of PPS. In 1972, Phillips Pertroleum Company began commercial-scale production of PPS, and this PPS was soon noted for having an effective balance of thermal and chemical resistances, nonflammability, and electrical insulating properties. Today, PPS is manufactured and sold under the trade name Ryton® PPS by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP of The Woodlands, Tex. Other sources of PPS include Ticona, Toray, and Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated, among others.
PPS may be blended or compounded with various additives to provide desired properties. The PPS may be may be heated, melted, extruded, and molded into desired shapes and composites in a variety of processes, equipment, and operations. The PPS may be subjected to heat, compounding, injection molding, blow molding, precision molding, film-blowing, extrusion, and so forth, depending on the desired application.
However, off-gassing of PPS can be a problem during melt processing of the PPS resin. Such off-gassing has been observed to be more prevalent in, but not limited to, PPS produced wherein the polymerization step is terminated via flashing process solvent from the polymerization solution. A higher degree of off-gassing of PPS resins can lead to a number of undesirable processing complications, such as mold plate-out, melt bubbles, PPS product or defects, and so on. There exists a need for methods to produce lower off-gassing PPS. Presently, there exists a significant need for lower off-gassing flash resins in the marketplace.
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Tunneling projects have become increasingly attractive due to rising real estate values and advances in technology. Tunnels are rapidly becoming viable options for transportation and utility infrastructure across the country.
Construction, maintenance and operation of tunnels present unique hazards and challenging environments requiring specialized skills and training. Emergency incidents occurring in tunnels require significantly more resources than an event at grade. The increased demands of tunnel incidents tax both the physical abilities of the rescuers and the resources of even the most prepared organization.
Recently, changes to international standards and the NFPA 1670 and 1006 have been made to reflect the changing work environments these structures pose to responders.
ERTI offers state of the art training and consultation services to meet the specific needs of your organization, public or private. ERTI staff has decades of collective experience working in public – private partnerships to deliver effective tunnel rescue resources. We can leverage our institutional knowledge to help your organization develop a cost effective capability and agency-appropriate model. | https://www.erti.org/tunnel-rescue/ |
In a study to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters researchers have obtained the first direct measurement of the average acceleration of the Milky Way and its stars.
The expansion of the Universe is accelerating due to dark matter. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration, though this is due to some combination of dark matter and the stellar density.
This new study, led by Sukanya Chakrabarti at the Institute for Advanced Study with collaborators from Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, used pulsar data to clock the radial and vertical accelerations of stars within and outside of the galaxy. Based on these new high-precision measurements and the known amount of visible matter in the galaxy, researchers were then able to calculate the Milky Way’s dark matter density without making the usual assumption that the galaxy is in a steady-state.
Chakrabarti, the paper’s lead author and a current Member and IBM Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, said: “Our analysis not only gives us the first measurement of the tiny accelerations experienced by stars in the galaxy, but also opens up the possibility of extending this work to understand the nature of dark matter, and ultimately dark energy on larger scales.”
This study indicates that the change in a star’s velocities is occurring at a few centimetres per second. To detect this subtle motion the research team relied on the ultraprecise time-keeping ability of pulsars that are widely distributed throughout the galaxy and halo – a diffuse spherical region that surrounds the galaxy.
Extending outwards approximately 300,000 light years from the galactic centre, the halo may provide important clues to understanding dark matter, which accounts for 90% of the galaxy’s mass and is highly concentrated above and below the star-dense galactic plane. Stellar motion in this region can be influenced by dark matter. Utilising the local density measurements obtained through this study, researchers will now have a better understanding of how and where to look for dark matter.
The Milky Way is influenced by a turbulent history of galactic mergers and continues to be perturbed by external dwarf galaxies like the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. As a result, stars do not have flat orbits and tend to follow a path similar to that of a warped vinyl record, crossing above and below the galactic plane. One of the key factors that enabled this direct observational approach was the use of pulsar data compiled from international collaborations, including NANOGrav (North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves) that has obtained data from the Green Bank and Arecibo telescopes. | https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/acceleration-of-the-milky-way/8775/ |
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Astronauts experience dysregulated immune function in space that may be related to their microbial communities, but there is a gap in knowledge on how space impacts microbiomes. Our lab investigates the impact of space-related microgravity, or near weightlessness, on the immune response of a simplified model system: a squid and its beneficial bacteria. In this study, we will analyze the gene expression of two innate immune pathways in the squid in relation to their bacteria in microgravity.
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ABOUT CATF
Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a nonprofit organization working to safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low-carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies. This is accomplished through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector. CATF is highly respected for its deep expertise and research on energy and industrial systems and potential strategies, technologies, and policies that can radically shrink their impact on the planet’s atmosphere. Our team of 100+ experts and advocates (and global network of subject matter experts and civil society partners) put this research and knowledge into action by designing and enacting public policies that drive toward zero emissions. We also support policies and work directly with private industry to innovate in technology to make the path to zero emissions swift and affordable. CATF is headquartered in Boston, and has offices in Washington D.C. and Brussels with staff working virtually around world.
ROLE
CATF’s Clean Energy Infrastructure Program creates the policy, political, and business environment that ensures clean energy infrastructure is built at the pace, scale, and diversity required to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a fair and equitable manner. The Program Associate will support a wide range of activities related to transmission research and policy, including coalition building, advocacy, strategic communications, and collaboration across the team and with CATF partners and consultants.
Key Functions and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on or lead projects related to transmission research and policy in collaboration with colleagues, partners and/or consultants
- Write white papers, reports, blog posts, and derivative material on transmission and infrastructure-related technology and policy
- Support staff on projects related to program priorities, as needed
- Communicate responsively and clearly with a wide range of partners, including CATF colleagues, partner organizations, and consultants
- Help ensure staff follow through on key tasks by providing reminders and offering support as needed
- Track progress against key performance indicators
- Collaborate on logistics for team events, webinars, and meetings
- Participate in team meetings and support programmatic work, as needed
- Support Clean Energy Infrastructure program staff in organizing and executing effective meetings internally and externally. Assist with scheduling, agenda, and materials preparation, capturing outcomes and next steps
- Organize and maintain internal document libraries and other shared resources
- Synthesize detailed documents and meeting notes into slide presentations, fact sheets, blogs, talking points, grant reports, and other communications
Skills/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Passion for CATF’s mission
- Experience in electric power transmission policy, permitting, or related fields
- Self-starter who enjoys taking initiative and helping others
- Proven skills and experience working in a high-functioning team, contributing to projects with tight deadlines in a collaborative way
- Consistent follow-through, highly organized and committed to high-quality work
- Experience in organizing meetings with staff and stakeholders
- Strong time management skills and attention to detail
- Strong computer skills, including comfort with the Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Teams
- Excellent written and oral communications and interpersonal skills
Compensation and Location:
This is a full-time position located within Washington, D.C. CATF offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please follow this link to submit a resume, cover letter referencing the position title, and contact information for two to three professional and/or academic references.
CATF provides equal employment opportunities. | https://www.catf.us/career/program-associate-transmission/ |
Is Israel a wealthy country?
Israel was ranked 19th on the 2016 UN Human Development Index, indicating “very high” development. It is considered a high-income country by the World Bank.
How is Israel economy today?
The economy of Israel is a developed free-market economy. Israel ranks 35th on the World Bank’s ease of doing business index.
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Economy of Israel.
|Statistics|
|GDP||$387.717 billion (nominal, 2019 est.) $334.675 billion (PPP, 2020 est.)|
|GDP growth||3.4% (2018) 3.5% (2019) −6.3% (2020e) 5.0% (2021e)|
What kind of economy is Israel?
Economy – overview:
Israel has a technologically advanced free market economy. Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and pharmaceuticals are among its leading exports. Its major imports include crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment.
What is a good salary in Israel?
The average Israeli salary stood at 11,004 NIS ($3,163) per month, as of July 2019, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Sunday. The sum marked an increase of 3.4 percent over the same period last year. The number of salaried workers in the country was 3,812,000, an increase of 1.8%.
Is Israel Army Strong?
Israel is the most powerful state in West Asia. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons make it unassailable.
Is Israel a poor country?
Israel is a country known for its wide ethics and religious diversity. However, it has one of the highest rates of poverty among developed countries. In fact, about 1.8 million people in Israel live in poverty, and that number rose from 19.4% of the population in 2017 to 20.4% in 2018.
Is Nestle owned by Israel?
(Hebrew: אֹסֶם השקעות בע”מ) is one of the largest food manufacturers and distributors in Israel. The group is owned (100%) by Nestlé S.A. of Switzerland. Before it was acquired by Nestlé, the company was publicly traded and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
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Osem (company)
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How strong is Israel economy?
GDP (PPP): $354.9 billion. 3.5% growth. 3.4% 5-year compound annual growth.
How much is Israel in debt?
In 2019, the national debt of Israel amounted to around 259.88 billion U.S. dollars.
Is Israel richer than India?
India with a GDP of $2.7T ranked the 7th largest economy in the world, while Israel ranked 34th with $370.6B.
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Gross Domestic Product & Income.
|Stat||India||Israel|
|GDP per capita||$2k||$42k|
|GDP per capita growth||5.71%||1.47%|
|Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor||18.1||3.75|
What is Israel known for?
What is Israel famous for?
- #1 Jewish country.
- #2 The Israeli-Palestine conflict.
- #3 The Dead Sea.
- #4 Military Forces.
- #5 Conscription of Women.
- #6 The Start-up Nation.
- #7 Israeli Inventions.
- #8 The Holy City. | https://marilynjosephine.com/israel-landmarks/frequent-question-is-israel-financially-stable.html |
Okanagan Korean Culture & Knowledge [OKCK] is a registered nonprofit society founded in 2012, based on a grassroots effort to bring cultural diversity and creativity in the Okanagan,
by cultivating cultural heritage development, collaboration and life-long learning of Korean immigrants and descendants.
About OKCK
(a) To preserve, discover and promote Korean culture, arts and heritage in the Okanagan
(b) To facilitate community engagement of Korean immigrants
(c) To share and develop collective community information and knowledge for successful integration of Korean newcomers to the local community and life-long learning goal achievement of Korean immigrants
(d) To provide arts, cultural, language and other educational programs for youth, Korean immigrants and other residents in the Okanagan.
Our mandates are:
Recent Program and Activity Updates
Since 2012 we have participated in various community events where we developed and shared Korean cultural heritage by doing cultural displays and activities for children and families. The multicultural community events include Canada Day Folkfest, Okanagan Asian Heritage Month events, Moon Festival, Global Children’s Village and Taste of Home by Global Citizen Kelowna, West Kelowna Music Festival, etc. We have also formed and trained local performance teams such as the Kelowna Korean Traditional Fan Dance Team and Kelowna Nanta (a modern style Korean percussion performance) Drumming Team. On December 7, 2014, we opened Korean Language School where we provide Korean language classes to children and youth and story times to young children.
Our organization is currently governed by seven Board of Directors and operated by a number of dedicated volunteers under 4 main functions and more than 30 different activities. Through our fund-raising activities and sponsorship program, we were able to create some seed money to develop the various cultural programs mentioned above. | https://www.okck.ca/about-us |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to manufacturing resource planing, and more particularly to software systems for resource-constrained production planning.
2. Background Description
Software systems for resource-constrained production planning (RCPP) take as input data a description of a production planning problem. This includes a listing of the basic data objects of the problem; i.e., capacity resources, raw material resources, subassemblies, final products, and demands for the products, as well as a multi-level Bill-Of-Resources network that defines how the products can be produced from subassemblies, raw materials and capacities. It also includes various attributes on these objects such as supply volumes, demand volumes, production usage rates, and economic data or priorities. In addition, the problem data is defined with respect to a set of discrete time periods.
Given these inputs, an RCPP system computes a production plan that consists of two portions: (1) a production portion of plan that specifies of how much of each product is to be produced in each time period, and (2) a shipment portion of the plan that specifies how much of each demand is to be fulfilled in each time period. (The fulfillment of a demand in a period may be called a “shipment” to that demand.) The production plan computed by the RCPP system is normally required to be feasible, meaning it satisfies the resource constraints that are specified in the input data.
Two methods for solving the RCPP problem are described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,548,518 for “Allocation Method for Generating a Production Schedule” and U.S. Pat. No. 5,630,070 for “Optimization of Manufacturing Resource Planning”, both to Dietrich et al. More specifically, U.S. Pat. No. 5,548,518 discloses an allocation method which, in response to a specified requirement, determines what quantity of a product can be produced with a specified quantity of supply components, allocates a required quantity of supply components for filling a defined partial order and fills a remainder of the requirement at some later time. U.S. Pat. No. 5,630,070 discloses a method for constrained material requirements planning, optimal resource allocation and production planning which optimizes a manufacturing process by designating the amounts of various manufactured products to be produced, which products include both end products as well as subassemblies.
Users of RCPP systems frequently desire more information than just the production plan itself. One question that is often asked is, “For any given shipment in the production plan, which resources were utilized specifically to enable that shipment?” Generally, this information is not evident in the production plan itself. The production plan specifies which resources are used and which demands are met, but it does not provide an association between the two. This may be called “the pegging problem” for RCPP; that is, given an RCPP problem and a corresponding feasible production plan, define an association between the individual resources that are utilized in the plan and the individual shipments in the plan. Such an association is called a “pegging” of the production plan. A resource that is associated with a particular shipment is said to be “pegged” to it.
Users of RCPP systems have many uses for a pegging of a production plan, including the following: Verifying the validity of the production plan. Verifying the validity of the input data. Identifying which demands are responsible for depleting the supplies of critical (i.e., bottleneck) resources. Identifying opportunities to improve the production plan by increasing the supplies of the resources that were used by the most important demands. Generally deepening the user's understanding of the production plan.
One possible method for computing a pegging might be called “Pegging By Monitoring”. This technique would apply when the RCPP system solves the RCPP problem by an “incremental allocation” technique, as disclosed for example in U.S. Pat. No. 5,548,518. An incremental allocation technique for RCPP has the following key properties: It starts with an empty production plan. It proceeds by iterations. Each iteration creates only one new shipment. As the technique progresses, the production volume for any product in any period can be increased, but it can never be decreased.The “Pegging By Monitoring” technique would proceed by monitoring the incremental allocation technique; that is, whenever a production volume of a product is increased by the incremental technique, that increase is pegged to the shipment for the current iteration.
In some respects, “Pegging By Monitoring” is a very appealing form of pegging. It s a direct reflection of what how the production plan was built up by the incremental allocation technique. But it has the following drawbacks: It can only be applied, if the production plan is being computed by an incremental allocation technique. It must be integrated with the RCPP solver itself; it cannot be applied to a production plan that has already been computed.
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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), particularly white LEDs, have increased in size in order to provide the total light output needed for general illumination. As LED technology has advanced, the efficacy (measured in lumens/Watt) has gradually increased, such that smaller dies now produce as much light as was previously created by emission from far larger die areas. Nonetheless, the trend favoring higher light outputs has led to larger semiconductor LED die sizes, or, for convenience, arrays of smaller dies in series or series-parallel arrangements. Series arrangements are generally favored because the forward voltage of LEDs varies slightly, resulting, for parallel arrangements, in an uneven distribution of forward currents and, consequently, uneven light output.
For many applications, it is desirable to have a light source that produces a light beam whose angular distribution can be varied. Variability is needed, for example, to create a wide-angle light beam for illuminating an array of objects, or a narrow-angle beam for illuminating a single, small object. Conventionally, the angular distribution is varied by moving the light source(s) (e.g., the LED arrangement) toward or away from the focal point of a lens or parabolic mirror. As the light source is moved away from the focal point, its image is blurred, forming a wider beam. Unfortunately, in doing so, the image is degraded, becoming non-uniform; in the case of the familiar parabolic reflector used in flashlights, a dark “donut hole” is formed, which is visually undesirable and sacrifices full illumination of the scene. Furthermore, moving the lens often reduces the collection efficiency of the lens, as light that is not refracted by a lens or reflected by a reflector surface is lost.
Because of these optical artifacts and efficiency losses, most light sources use a single, fixed lens. For light bulbs such as, e.g., MR-16 halogen bulbs, several different types of optics are manufactured to create beams of various beam divergences, ranging from narrow beam angles (“spot lights”) to wide angles (“flood lights”), with various degrees in between. Unless the user maintains different light bulbs on hand to accommodate all potentially desired beam divergences, however, he will generally be limited to one or a small number of alternatives. Traveling with an assortment of bulbs for portable light sources is even less realistic. As a result, users often tolerate either a source ill-suited to changing or unexpected conditions, or the poor optical quality of light sources with variable beam optics. A need, therefore, exists for light sources that produce variable beam angles without sacrificing beam quality.
When LEDs are utilized as a light source, they are generally arranged in clusters or arrays to coincide with particular design specifications to provide a desired light output. The LED arrays combine the higher efficiency, increased lifetime, and reliability benefits of LEDs with the light output levels of many conventional light sources to serve the general lighting market, including street lights, commercial lighting and consumer applications. For example, with a proper fixture design, LED arrays can deliver a few times the energy efficiency of traditional lighting with a 30% reduction in cost. However, a single LED die in the LED array may fail during manufacture or operation due to the failure of, e.g., the LED die itself, a conductive path, a substrate or an electrical or mechanical connection of the LED to the conductive path; such LED failure can cause highly visible defects in the pattern of the luminous intensity and/or light uniformity, and in some cases can lead to failure of the entire LED array. It is therefore desirable to have individually addressable LEDs for mitigating the effects of a single LED failure. For example, upon detecting an LED failure, the LED driver circuitry may deactivate only the failed LED; the light output reduction resulting from the single LED deactivation may be on the order of 1%, which is generally unnoticeable to the observer. Additionally, the individually addressable LEDs may be selectively activated and deactivated, thereby providing flexible control over the overall illumination brightness and/or color. Conventional individually addressable LEDs, however, require electronic circuitry that typically occupies a significant surface area on the substrate upon which the LEDs are located; as a result, the LED packing efficiency is reduced.
Further, conventional LED arrays may suffer from a significant drop in lifetime due to inefficient dissipation of heat generated from the LEDs and/or electronic components associated therewith. This is because conventional LED arrays are preferably close-packed, i.e., have minimal spacing between the individual LED dies, on a printed circuit board (PCB) for reducing optical artifacts and providing beam uniformity. The PCB, however, has low thermal conductivity, and therefore, cannot quickly dissipate the waste heat generated during operation of the LED. Further, despite the desirability of LED close-packing, the spacing between conventional LED dies on the PCB can only be minimized to a certain degree because of minimum distance requirements between components on a PCB. For example, close-packed LED dies on a PCB typically have a distance of roughly 100 μm therebetween for wiring conducting line traces on the PCB.
Although it is feasible to include multiple conducting levels in a single PCB, thereby embedding the conducting traces (e.g., copper traces) below the LEDs without using “real estate” on the PCB surface alongside of the LED, the copper vias that extend through the PCB to contact the LEDs take up valuable area on the PCB surface; this, again, creates a spacing limitation between closely-packed LEDs. Such spatial resolution limitations, unfortunately, cannot easily be overcome by improving the LED package technology because it is a fundamental limitation of the predominant patterning approach used in currently available PCB fabrication technology.
Consequently, there is a need for an approach that can provide individually addressable LEDs without requiring valuable area on the substrate surface for the LED driver/support circuitry. Ideally, such an approach would provide effective close-packing of the LEDs while efficiently dissipating heat generated during LED operation.
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