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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chief consumer finance watchdog Rohit Chopra told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday his agency will investigate Big Tech’s impact on the flow of money in the economy as leading technology firms use real-time consumer payments systems that collect huge amounts of personal data.
Chopra said Big Tech’s entrance into the payment sector raises questions including: “How will these firms harvest and monetize data they collect on our transactions? What criteria will they use to decide who is removed from the platform? How will they ensure that payment systems adhere to consumer protections?”
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will also aim to minimize foreclosures on struggling American homeowners and make consumer lending more competitive, he said.
And, it will sharpen its enforcement focus on companies that repeatedly violate consumer finance laws.
Chopra, a longtime consumer advocate tapped by Democratic President Joe Biden, outlined an ambitious agenda during his first hearing as CFPB director before members of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee.
“Many families continue to struggle to afford their mortgage and rent payments. Many small businesses are facing severe challenges to make ends meet,” Chopra told the panel on Wednesday.
Chopra’s hearing will likely reinvigorate the CFPB’s status as a political lightning rod. Republicans have sought to handcuff the agency since its creation, calling it overpowerful and unaccountable.
Sworn in as the CFPB’s full-time director earlier this month, Chopra built his name as a fierce consumer advocate at the Federal Trade Commission, and previously helped Senator Elizabeth Warren set up the CFPB after it was created in 2010.
“This hearing should serve as a reminder of both the bureau’s broad authority and Director Chopra’s capacity to effectively use the bureau’s toolbox,” said Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research for financial firm BTIG.
Republican lawmakers on the panel applauded Chopra’s decision to promote marketplace competition, but added they were against a “heavy handed” approach to enforcement.
Just a few weeks into the job, Chopra made his mark when the CFPB ordered https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-consumer-watchdog-orders-tech-giants-turn-over-information-payment-systems-2021-10-21 Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc to hand over information about how they gather and use consumer payment data.
He told lawmakers that regulators will look into practices that might impede competition.
“There are many places where regulators should be promoting competition and innovation in ways that are good for small businesses and families — and not in a way that allows dominant firms to control more and more about our lives through our data,” Chopra said.
That push for clarity is part of a growing interest among regulators and lawmakers about the rapid adoption of technology in various financial products, ranging from cryptocurrency to new “buy now, pay later” lending products.
‘OPEN BANKING’
Democrats’ top policy priorities include boosting competition in the consumer finance sector by requiring financial companies to give consumers more control over their financial data — a concept known as “open banking https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-white-house-target-bank-mergers-financial-data-with-competition-order-2021-07-09.”
Chopra says he is studying open banking regulations in other countries, particularly the U.K., and is eager to review the agency’s comments. Analysts said they expected the CFPB to move ahead with an open-banking rule first proposed by the agency under the former Trump administration in coming months.
“At the same time, we’re going to need to make sure we’re protecting privacy, security and other things that are critical,” he added.
He said that while he wants to ensure payments platforms operate fairly, transparently and competitively, he does not intend to ban or limit the use of cryptocurrency or blockchain technology that also lean on payment systems.
Chopra’s expansive agenda at the CFPB will also include revisiting https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/how-bidens-agencies-are-picking-apart-trumps-wall-street-friendly-measures-2021-04-12 several major rule easings ushered through under Republican leadership, particularly around debt collection and payday lending.
Consumer advocates are eager to see Chopra erase industry-friendly changes ushered in under Republican leadership and impose tough new rules on the marketplace.
“We hope he will explain how he plans to supercharge the CFPB’s efforts to protect consumers from credit reporting mistakes, forced arbitration, overdraft fees and predatory loans,” said Michael Litt, a director at Washington-based U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group. | https://breaking-news-today.com/world/u-s-consumer-watchdog-lays-out-ambitious-agenda-on-big-tech-lending-competition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breaking-news-today%2Fowce+%28Breaking+News+Today%29 |
Abstract Can interactive Augmented Reality (AR) experiences induce involuntary sensations through additional modalities? In this paper we report on our AR experience that enables users to see and hear their own hands burning while looking through a Video See-Through Head-Mounted Display (VST-HMD). In an exploratory study (n=12, within-subject design), we investigated whether this will lead to an involuntary heat sensation based on visual and auditory stimuli. A think-aloud-protocol and an AR presence questionnaire indicated that six out of twelve participants experienced an involuntary heat sensation on their hands.
Exploring Perceptual and Cognitive Effects of Extreme Augmented Reality Experiences
We will investigate perceptual and cognitive responses of users of several extreme Augmented Reality experiences on an Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Display (a). They will see their hands: on fire (b), being covered by dirt ©, affected by arthritis (d), a wound (e), and applied with virtual bandage. Abstract In this proposed Ph.D. research, we are aiming to create several extreme Augmented Reality (AR) that evoke measurable physiological and neurological responses in the human brain. | https://ar-lab.org/tags/xrl/ |
From November 16-18, 2017, UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair on the Interplay of Tradition and Innovation in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at Daugavpils University in cooperation by partnership with Baltic and Black Sea Consortium in Educational Research (BBCC) Network Universities, the Editorial Boards of JTES and DCSE journals, UNESCO Chair in Toronto in Reorienting Teacher Education Towards Sustainability and the Network on Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, the UNESCO Latvian National Commission, Riga Technical University, Urmia University in Iran, Japanese Society of ESD (JSESD), and Miyagi University of Education have organized the 15th BBCC/JTES International Conference on “Sustainable Development, Culture, and Education: Interplay of Tradition and Innovation for ESD” that took place at the Faculty of E-learning, Technologies, and Humanities, Riga Technical University.
Held at Daugavpils University in 2003, the first conference on this theme focused on reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. During its first decade, the responsibility for organizing the conference was shared among JTES Editorial board members and BBCC members from Tallinn Pedagogical University (Estonia), Vechta University (Germany), University of Helsinki (Finland), University of Debrecen (Hungary), Anadolu University (Turkey), Daugavpils University (Latvia), UNESCO (France), Siauliai University (Lithuania), and University of Eastern Finland (Finland), Chelm (Poland), Riga (Latvia), and Konya in Turkey.
The aims of the BBCC/JTES International Conference “Sustainable Development, Culture, and Education: Interplay of Tradition and Innovation for ESD” was on deepening participants’ understanding and interpretation of methodology from transdisciplinary perspectives and stakeholders’ approach for transformations to sustainability and investigations of social innovations for ESD.
Identification of transdisciplinary issues and development strategies for the creation of social innovations for ESD in education, transdisciplinary research for ESD, and organization of transformations to sustainability in institutions were among the key expected outcomes of this conference.
The conference has opened the forum for addressing the challenges raised by UNESCO as stipulated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Global Action Programme (GAP).
The themes of the conference featured plenary presentations, paper sessions, workshops, and posters on ESD. The following themes covered a wide spectrum of research areas as well as practices related to sustainable development are suggested and expected to be addressed throughout this event such as:
(1) Exploration of transdisciplinarity in the context of sustainability and sustainable education;
(2) The influence of transdisciplinarity on a quality development in institutions;
(3) The development of social and culture innovations to support and promote sustainable education, teacher education, higher education, and sustainable science development.
There were participants from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Japan, Jordan and Iran. We express our gratitude to all the participants who took part at this international event. | http://ise-lv.eu/index.php?show=44&text=291 |
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Canada's Premier Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Ski Club
Just like the Olympic Motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius", the Altius Nordic Ski Club strives for its athletes to be "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
The Nordic Ski Hoppers program is geared towards “FUN and FUNDAMENTALS”. Participants are exposed to a broad range of sports and activities and cross training, including each of the Nordic disciplines. A supportive and positive environment is provided for all participants, with an emphasis on participation.
The Altius focus highlights overall physical development, enhances healthy lifestyles and leadership abilities in each participant. It also provides the base and introduces an opportunity for long-term athlete development in the sports of Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined skiing.
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TEAM ALTIUS DELIVERS IN THE GRIZZLY ULTRA MARATHON
posted Oct 10, 2017, 2:01 PM
Team Altius Delivers In the Grizzly Ultra Marathon
A group of Altius athletes hit the trails at the Canmore 50K Grizzly Ultra Marathon this weekend. The youngest team in the competition managed a 4th place finish in the grueling mountain run with a respectable time of 4 hours 37 minutes in the Men's division. Well done Max Stretch, Stephane Tremblay, Sam Duncalf, Gavin Head & Ben Brunton. | https://altius.uplifterinc.com/news/?month=10&year=2017 |
Our Arts & Culture Editor Janie Smith writes about The Dons Local Action Group’s request for laptops to help local children with their at-home learning.
The Dons Local Action Group (DLAG) – the charitable arm of AFC Wimbledon, are working relentlessly to support children in south west London who need a laptop or a tablet to help them keep up with their lessons during these difficult times.
Many families in the borough don’t have access to digital services so they are struggling with school work and keeping in touch with family and friends. Your help could change the lives of these children.
So far, the Dons have delivered devices to ten schools in the area who have identified children without a device. Sadly however, the demand is greater than the number of devices currently available.
Do you have a spare laptop or tablet that you could donate? Are you able to fund the purchase of a device? Your unused digital device could make a hugely positive difference to a child.
If you are able to support this important, local initiative please contact Dom Kelly by email at [email protected] or give him a call on 07894488370. | https://ladywimbledon.com/2020/05/dons-local-action-group-call-for-laptops-to-help-local-children-learn-athome/ |
The combination of our long history so deeply-rooted in the local area and the tenacity and determination of Paolo Bisol to seek out the best-quality grapes means the winery has cemented relationships with over a hundred local producers. Oftentimes these are relatives or neighbours – many of them third-generation wine growers – who own vineyards throughout the Valdobbiadene region and neighbouring municipalities.
The deep sense of community, mutual respect and trust that connects the winery to local winemakers means Ruggeri reaps the benefits of an intimate partnership with local producers. This translates into an approach to pruning which demonstrates the utmost respect for the vine and a commitment to disease prevention. Harvesting is carried out by hand, a truly heroic task on these vineyards situated on such steep hillsides. All of this is fostered through a close and ongoing partnership with our team of agronomists.
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Specialization: Power Systems
Among the different specialization in electrical engineering, Power system is one of the leading specialization. This deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. Broadly the activities of power system include load flow analysis, reactive power compensation, stability analysis; protection of equipment’s and regulated distribution. Since the inception of distributed generation and transmission, a spurred growth is observed in field of power system. The specialization is providing the platform for high quality research and producing quality outputs.
Major Research activities currently on-going in this thrust area are:
- Planning and Design of FACTS Controllers in an Integrated Power Network
- Distribution System Planning for EV Charging Infrastructure
- Integrated Large power System Operation and Smart Control Architecture Design and Development, Intelligent Grid Control Architecture, VSC for Renewable Energy Grid Interface Connectivity, Electricity Policy and Planning, Distribution System Planning and Automation, Distributed Energy Resources & Management
- Numerical Protection of Power Apparatus and Systems
- HVDC Control Technology and High Voltage Engineering.
- Load flow contingency analysis, state estimation and optimal operation.
- Phase Re-phasing
- Distribution Systems: Modelling, Operation, Control and Automation
- Power Quality
- Power System Protection
- Applications of Computational Intelligence
- Energy Management
- Insulation Coordination and Pollution Studies. | https://www.iitbhu.ac.in/dept/eee/research/specialization-2 |
Our client, Safran Aerosystems Services Americas is an aftermarket organization supporting Repair, Customer Service Department & Spare Parts Distribution of Safran Group’s aerospace companies. The focus is on customer support via strategically located FAA approved repair stations, and an Atlanta based central inventory.
Safran Aerosystems Services Americas is a Drug-Free Workplace employer – requires a drug/alcohol screening and a criminal background screening. Safran Aerosystems Services Americas is an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
Position’s Primary Responsibilities
While observing the applicable Safran Aerosystems Services Americas business rules and constraints, the Manager of the Supply Chain Planning is responsible to ensure customer satisfaction, inventory level and budget requirement. He/she will play a key role in supply chain vision and mission.
The manager of supply chain planning can work on his/her own independently and under pressured as well as a team player who keeps an open communication with the OEM and within the Safran Aerosystems Services Americas organization in order to optimize information flow and drive continuous improvement into the forecast process.
As a subject matter expert and a leader, the planning manager is familiar with the standard and processes within the organization. It is his responsibilities that supply chain planner follows the standards and if necessary, review and evolve the processes.
Duties & Responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time. Additionally, these responsibilities are applicable to the Manager of Supply Chain Planning and are not limited to his/her area of responsibility (i.e. assigned OEM’s, etc.).
- Advanced technical knowledge and extensive experience in supply chain. As such, the manager has a keen understanding of:
- Material forecasting and stock plan establishment based on historical data and business intelligence.
- S&OP processes
- Defines and utilizes metrics that facilitate continuous improvements to planning processes and business results
- Troubleshoot, resolve and optimize the supply chain process. This include:
- Introduce and champion new ideas or concepts intended to improve the supply chain and its’ processes.
- Take on supply chain project and manage it from beginning to end.
- Maintain multiple communications channels to optimize product flow through the Safran Aerosystems supply chain
- Identify supply chain risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities
- Work with our Repair Centers, Sales, Marketing, Reliability, and Customer Support teams to open and maintain productive communication with our customers and improve customer service
- Ensure all Safran Aerosystems functional groups communications
- Act as Subject Matter Expert for S&OP process
- Coordinate efforts between different departments in order to resolve and streamline process
- Lend guidance to other planners for relationship and collaboration efforts with OEM’s and other Safran Aerosystems functional groups.
- Supervisory Responsibilities
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in compliance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
- This included but not limited to training, assigning tasks, direct work, appraising performance, disciplining employee, addressing complaints and resolving issues.
- Comply with and ensure that direct reports adhere to policies/procedures and regulations, i.e., handbook, training requirements, state and federal regulations, etc.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain related field, Business Administration, Aerospace or Engineering preferred
- Industry certification such as APICS, CPIM, CPM, or ISM is strongly preferred
- 10 years material planning experience or relevant supply chain experience
- Must have a strong work ethic and be self-motivated
- Must have ability to work independently
Skills Requirements
- Communication Skills
- Must have the ability to generate written communication and must have strong oral communication abilities, including presentation skills
- Must have the ability to read and understand written communication of a technical nature
- Must have the skills necessary to mentor/train other planners and guide them through process or technical issues as needed.
- Ability to speak French is a plus
- Technical Knowledge and Skills
- 10 years of aviation Supply Chain or Engineering experience is strongly preferred. Related aviation experience of a technical nature will be considered
- A strong understanding of statistical forecasting methodology is preferred
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Words, Access, MS Projects, etc.
- Ability to learn and adapt fast to new technologies
- Advanced level of knowledge of MCA Solutions software and M3.
Abilities Requirements
- Physical Demands
- Ability to independently travel both domestically and internationally
- Competencies
- Project Management
- Performance Management
- Communication Proficiency
- Technical Capacity
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Initiative
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving/Analysis
Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement
It is the policy of Safran Aerosystems Services Americas to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.
More about the Company
Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aircraft propulsion and equipment, space and defense markets. Safran has a global presence, with more than 92,000 employees and sales of 21 billion euros in 2018. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes Research & Development programs to meet fast-changing market requirements, with total R&D expenditures of around 1.5 billion euros in 2018. Safran is ranked among the Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters and is featured on the “Happy at work” rankings.
Safran Aerosystems is a world leader in aircraft electrical distribution, inflatable safety and water and waste management systems. It is also a major supplier of oxygen systems, telemetry and communication solutions, in-flight entertainment systems or fuel systems. | https://yer-usa.com/vacancies/supply-chain-planning-manager/ |
Reading from Exodus 31:1-5, Isaiah 11:1-3, and Daniel 12:1-4, Pastor Chris explained that God is set to increase knowledge in these last days through the Spirit of Knowledge. He further clarified that every child of God has received the Holy Spirit, and consequently has the 7 spirits of God, the spirit of knowledge inclusive. In this month of March, there is going to be a greater manifestation and operation of the spirit of Knowledge he posited. Pastor Chris, admonished the congregation to develop a strong desire and open up their minds to new knowledge.
Furthermore, Pastor Chris emphasized the importance of knowledge over the pursuit of money. This he stated reading from Proverbs 8:10, Proverbs 10:14, Proverbs 18:15 and other scriptures. In order to gain deeper understanding and better appropriate the Word of the Month in their lives, Pastor Chris encouraged the congregation to download the message ‘3 Kinds of Knowledge’ from the Pastor Chris Digital Library (PCDL) and also read the book titled ‘The Seven Spirits of God’ written by Pastor Chris.
Congratulations to all members of the LoveWorld Nation as they shall increase in new and relevant knowledge concerning every subject of life in this ‘Month of Knowledge’. | https://christembassyukz1.org/pastor-chris-declares-march-to-be-the-month-of-knowledge-at-global-service/ |
Giamas, Georgios, Man, Yik L, Hirner, Heidrun, Bischof, Joachim, Kramer, Klaus, Khan, Kalimullah, Ahmed, Sharmeen S Lavina, Stebbing, Justin and Knippschild, Uwe (2010) Kinases as targets in the treatment of solid tumors. Cellular Signalling, 22 (7). pp. 984-1002. ISSN 0898-6568Full text not available from this repository.
Abstract
The protein kinase family, one of the largest gene families in eukaryotes, plays an important role in regulating various cellular processes such as cell proliferation, cell death, cell cycle progression, differentiation and cell survival. Therefore, it is not surprising that the deregulation of many kinases is usually directly linked to cancer development. In all solid tumors, changes in protein kinase expression levels and activities, as well as alterations in the degree of posttranslational modifications can contribute to cancer development. Consequently, the identification of molecular targets and signaling pathways specific to cancer cells is becoming more and more important for cancer drug development and cancer therapies. Inhibition of various protein kinases has already been investigated in many pre-clinical and clinical trials targeting all stages of signal transduction, demonstrating promising results in cancer therapy. Conventional chemotherapeutics are often ineffective as well as harmful; hence a combination of both chemotherapeutics and protein kinase inhibitors may result in new and more successful therapeutic approaches. In this review we focus on protein kinases involved in different signaling pathways and their alterations in solid tumors. | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/55190/ |
After experiencing a injury-causing accident, an injured person and his or her family will almost certainly wish to get every dollar available to help pay for medical expenses and cover the gap left by lost wages. Florida law allows successful parties to move to receive compensation for taxable cost items if they can show that they served a “useful purpose” in litigation. No party is entitled to these awards, but the trial court is granted discretion to consider the need of the expense and the reasonableness of the amount. Specific cost items include depositions, expert witnesses, medical records, mediation, demonstrative aids, and travel expenses of witnesses. An award of taxable costs can help increase the amount of money available to the injured person from the judgment.
In New Hampshire Indemnity Co. v. Gray (Case No. 1D14-3348), the First District Court of Appeals considered an award of taxable costs and ruled in favor of the injured man. In this case, the injured man was awarded $2.3 million in damages after suffering catastrophic injuries. The at-fault driver’s insurance company provided his defense, as agreed upon in the insurance contract. The injured man also sought to obtain taxable costs, serving the attorneys representing the at-fault driver, and was eventually awarded an additional $135,000. The insurance company appealed the award of costs, arguing that the motion for a final judgment was served on the attorneys representing the at-fault driver but not the insurance company, in violation of Florida Statutes 627.4136(4). The insurance company also argued that they were not responsible for taxable costs per the insurance policy.
The appellate court pointed to a recent case from the Fourth District, Geico General Ins. Co. v. Williams, 111 So. 3d 240, (Fla. 4th DCA 2013), which concluded that the appropriate time to add a carrier under Florida Statute 627.4126(4) is at the time the final judgment for fees and costs is entered, even though it’s not appropriate to determine the merits of those costs until a special hearing is held regarding the collateral issues of attorney fees and litigation costs.
The appellate court looked to other district opinions and the state Supreme Court as part of its analysis, concluding that litigation expenses both fell under most insurance policies and were reasonable expenses for the trial court to consider. The appellate court concluded that the insurance company, as the entity pursuing the litigation, is determining whether or not to go to trial, so it is is fair for associated costs incurred because of trial to be assessed.
The Florida car accident attorneys at Donaldson & Weston have the experience you need to pursue your personal injury claim. Our lawyers will tirelessly pursue all remedies available under the law to maximize the damages you deserve. For a free, confidential consultation, call 772-266-5555 or 561-299-3999. | https://www.southfloridainjurylawyer.net/florida-first-district-court-of-appeals-affirms-judgment-for-costs-imposed-jointly-and-severally-against-the-at-fault-driver-and-insurer/ |
Robber points gun at Henrico jewelry clerk
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- Police are looking for a man and woman who robbed a Henrico jewelry store.
When the couple entered the store along the 8000 block of Brook Road on Friday afternoon, the man pointed a gun at the clerk, according to police.
"Both suspects stole jewelry items from the store," Henrico Police spokesperson Lt. Matt Pecka wrote in an email. "The clear photo (male wearing grey) of the two was from when the two had entered the store on a different day."
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Just like Texas, there are heaps of ‘big’ things here in the Land Down Under.
Take Uluru or, Ayres Rock as it used to be known. Uluru is in the Northern Territory, 335km or 208 miles south west of Alice Springs. It’s pretty big and I thought it would be ideal for todays subject.
Firstly though a little bit of history.
On July the 19th, 1873 William Goss, a surveyor became the first white man to see the ‘The Rock’ as we Aussies generally call it. Goss named it Ayres Rock after the then Chief Secretary of South Australia.
To local Pitjantjatjara people it was Uluru, a place of great spiritual significance and eventually the name was changed from Ayres Rock to Uluru.
Uluru is a sandstone monolith, 384 metres (1142 feet) high with a total circumference of 9.4 kms (5.8 miles). Most of its bulk is underground.
Uluru appears to change colour at different times of the year and often glows red at dawn or dusk, the most popular viewing times for tourists.
So, it is a great subject for today.
Just one problem though, Uluru is 2,818 km or 1,751 and a bit miles each way from my place. Just a tad too far to do today.
Fortunately I’ve been there on a number of occasions, most recently just last year and here is how Uluru appeared at 10.42am on May the 15th, 2014:
Some years earlier I was at The Rock on the bike and the following image was taken from a different viewpoint to the one above:
As you can gather from these two images, Uluru is situate in an arid area of Australia. It rains at Uluru on average for only 30 days per annum and these falls give an average of 217 mm( 8.555 inches) of rain per annum.
That means you are very very fortunate indeed to see rain on The Rock. I’m one of the lucky ones as these two following images show:
It’s purely coincidental that I was at Ayres Rock as it was then called almost 100 years to the day from when Goss first saw it. According to history it was raining then too.
Why was I at the Rock way back in1973? Well that too is a story for another day.
Anyway, these are images of something big taken from four different viewpoints. I scanned the final two from my slide collection.
Seeing these images again has given me itchy feet. | https://creakingbones.com/2015/03/09/photo101-day-7-big-and-point-of-view/ |
Why does Japan have such a flag?
The national flag of Japan is a white cloth with a large scarlet circle in the center, symbolizing the solar disk.
It has been used as an official symbol of the state since 1854, when Japan’s rapid exit from centuries of self-isolation began.
In Japan, along with Buddhism, the original ancient religion is widely spread – Shintoism, the cult of worship of the sun goddess Amaterasu. White color in Shintoism symbolizes purity, scarlet-the cleansing and life-giving energy of the sun.
Thus, the flag represents an unblemished and happy life in the land of the Rising Sun, as Japan is poetically called. | http://phuket-holidaycenter.com/post72 |
Thisamericanlife.org has uncovered a newspaper article from 1979 which depicts someone holding the exact recipe, penned by John Pemberton back in 1886.
For years, Coca Cola have kept their secret ingredient, Merchandise 7X, under wraps but this recipe supposedly details exactly what you need to recreate the famous beverage.
Rumour has it that the original recipe is guarded 24-hours a day in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia but here we have it for all to see, with the inclusion of the secret 7x formula.
The 'secret recipe'
Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP
Citric acid 3 oz
Caffeine 1oz
Sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required)
Water 2.5 gal
Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt
Vanilla 1oz
Caramel 1.5oz or more to colour
7X flavour (use 2oz of flavour to 5 gals syrup): | https://www.redonline.co.uk/red-women/blogs/a507609/coca-cola-s-secret-recipe-revealed/ |
How do new technological developments in the Digital Humanities alter our understanding of Literary Studies? And: Which perspectives do models and practices from the field of Literary Studies offer on digital methods? The interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue examine the complex and promising interplay of Literary Studies and Digital Humanities from different theoretical as well as practical angles.
The relation between Literary Studies and Digital Humanities is not only characterized by the fact that Digital (or Computational) Literary Studies have become a subdiscipline that draws epistemologically from both supradisciplines. Literary Studies itself has become so digital that related methods enrich its existing methodological base in the long term. From the perspective of the Digital Humanities, its internal differentiation into the varieties ›digitized humanities‹, ›numerical humanities‹ and ›humanities of the digital‹ appears instructive and can be assigned to the areas Digital Edition, Computational Methods, and Digital Reading/Social Media, which structure this special volume.
This article discusses some of the problems and solutions within the scope of Digital Philology raised by the edition of the Romanceiro – the first Iberian modern folk balladry collection – by the Portuguese writer Almeida Garrett (Oporto, 1799 – Lisbon, 1854). We analyse, throughout this study, in what extent it is appropriate to skip into a digital scholarship environment in order to fulfil our editorial requirements. Moreover, we examine methodological and workflow driven aspects we have been discussing alongside the Garrettonline project development, regarding the relationship between an archive and a scholarly edition.
This article shows how digital approaches can be used to explore an expansive corpus of letters in order to create a praxeological approach to literary history at the nexus of quantitative recording and qualitative contextualisation. With the help of computational methods, it becomes possible to overcome the focus on canonical authors and to highlight the diversity of perspectives of artistic and cultural working contexts as polyphonic networks instead. This contributes to a readjustment of literary and cultural historiography in the course of the digitisation of cultural artefacts.
›Distant reading‹ approaches to investigating literary genre are relatively new but flourishing. Not only are new methods being explored but it is also assumed that problems which have engaged literary studies for some time can be fruitfully tackled with these new methods. In this paper, we take a closer look at two influential studies that employ DH methods (›distant reading‹) on genre theory: Andrew Piper’s »Fictionality« (2016) and Ted Underwood’s »The Life Cycles of Genres« (2016). We scrutinize the objectives and results of these studies by asking the following questions: (1) What is the traditional research topic that is addressed, and what are the explanatory targets? (2) How are the explanatory targets addressed, and what results are generated? And finally, (3) do these studies really answer the traditional questions they (explicitly) set out to answer, and are they successful in doing so? In asking these questions, we hope to work out something more general about the potentials of DH methods when it comes to (traditional) genre theory.
The field of multilingual literature uses a broad variety of methods; however, (digital) methods used to conduct case studies or corpus analyses are rarely discussed in detail. Using a corpus of 138 lyrical texts from the literary region of South Tyrol, this article presents a corpus analysis that was conducted using the software ATLAS.ti developed for qualitative data analysis in social sciences. This article aims to give insight into the decisions taking place when assembling and annotating the corpus as well as the possibilities of analysis.
The use of the computer in literary studies may be seen as a link between the two main intellectual traditions devoted to the study of literary texts: philology and close reading on the one hand, and literary theory on the other. However, forging this link is not easy. In this paper, we describe an experimental approach to computer-based literary research, based on a combination of several models and focusing on the discrepancies between them. The computer is fed with literary texts, processes them in various ways, then returns to the researcher a graphic product that points out where the models do not agree with one another, assuming that such places may be hermeneutically interesting for human scholars.
The analysis of spatial theories in literary studies has become a growing field of research, not least since the ›spatial turn.‹ Narratological concepts in particular provide the foundation for the operationalisation and computational modelling of spatial concepts. Against this background, relevant publications by Katrin Dennerlein and Barbara Piatti serve to develop annotatable categories for the concept of spatial entity as well as their classification concerning its status as a place of action (setting). Within a pilot annotation, these categories are evaluated qualitatively and by using ›inter-annotator agreement.‹ Furthermore, we highlight textual markers for the classification of settings, which are used as features in a machine learning ›classifier‹.
This article examines digital practices of literary (studies) communication in social media. Social media not only digitally transmit the offline offers of literary communication institutions. In fact, social media develop specific cultural practices of communication of, with, and about literature. Using the social network Twitter as an example, this article characterizes these digital practices of literary communication in social media and typologizes how literary studies and literature didactics implement these practices methodically and systematically in academic teaching. In conclusion, social media are becoming literarily and epistemically relevant networks for science communication.
The article asks about the influence of digital media on the practice of reading. The methodological challenge of examining digital reading is met with the draft of a literary- and media theory- informed reading praxeology. This emerges from theoretical considerations, which are based on, among other things, materiality research, Wolfgang Iser’s phenomenology of reading and the catalog of digital reading media attributes by Kuhn & Hagenhoff. Two literary examples illustrate how reading on digital media is accompanied by affordances that require stable reading strategies.
The debate surrounding #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan has been continuously surging for over a year. It is time for a Textpraxis podcast: In this episode, we talk with Iuditha Balint (Fritz-Hüser-Institut für Literatur and Kultur der Arbeitswelt in Dortmund), Kristin Eichhorn (Universität Stuttgart), and Mahshid Mayar (Universität Bielefeld) about the hashtag campaign, the WissenschaftsZeitVertragsGesetz, and working conditions in German academia. | https://www.textpraxis.net/en/special-issue-6 |
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Three physicians are in practice together. Their corporation was formed 15 years ago, at which time articles of incorporation were filed, a buy-sell agreement was signed, stock certificates were issued, and all basic corporate formalities were followed.
The buy-sell agreement provides a cross-purchase arrangement, which stipulates that, in the event of the death of one of the parties, the remaining physicians will purchase from the deceased’s estate that party’s interest in the practice. The agreement provides that the purchase price will be $40 per share and that the price will be reviewed every three years. Since the initial incorporation, the physicians have not reviewed the buy-sell agreement or revisited the $40 per share price, and they have failed to hold annual meetings. No provision has been made for disability or retirement.
One of the physicians now has cancer and has spent much of the past year in treatment that has left him incapacitated and unable to practice medicine. The physician has stopped receiving his salary from the corporation, and his wife, acting as his agent under a general durable power of attorney, has decided that he should exit the practice.
She approaches the other physicians to attempt to withdraw her husband from the corporation. The cross-purchase agreement does not apply to cases of disability. The two remaining physicians agree to buy the third physician out at $40 per share, even though, at the time of the physician’s incapacity, the corporation’s net worth is about $200 per share.
Since the cross-purchase agreement fails to adequately provide for the terms of the buyout, litigation is required to resolve the dispute.
Over the years, Frank grows into a very competent manager, expands the business to a second location, and insists that a corporation be formed to operate the business. Although Jim is very proud of the job that Frank has done, he refuses to relinquish control of the business. Jim has not executed a will, a power of attorney, or an advance medical directive, nor has he made any plan providing for his exit from the business. Jim has no other assets except for the home in which he and his wife Mary have lived.
Jim develops mild cognitive impairment that worsens over a period of years. In the past six months, he has become completely incapacitated and has been moved to a locked Alzheimer’s unit in a local nursing home. Mary is still competent, but she is elderly.
Tired of caring for her husband, she has moved into an assisted living facility. The business may have to be sold to pay for Jim’s care. Frank wants to inherit the business that he has spent his adult life working for and improving. He also wants to ensure that the business will provide for his mother. Susan has completed her education and lives in New York. She now claims that she wants half of the business since it is the only asset for her to inherit. The company’s shareholders have seldom held annual meetings, stock certificates have never been issued, and minutes have not been kept up to date.
CASE STUDY 2
LACK OF PLANNING LEADS TO FAMILY DISCORD AND LITIGATION
Jim is married to Mary. They have two children, Frank and Susan. Jim has spent his entire work life running a small tool store he inherited from his father. When Frank finishes his education, he begins working in the business.
Jim’s failure to properly plan has resulted in discord among the family members. Frank is considering opening his own business. Susan is considering litigation.
What Types of Planning Are Critical When Forming a Business?
When starting any business, it is important to plan for both the management of that enterprise and its eventual transfer to a successor. With the guidance of an attorney and other professional advisors, business owners need to:
- Choose an appropriate business entity.
- Choose employee benefits.
- Develop a succession plan.
- Coordinate that succession plan with their personal estate plans.
Planning for the Management of the Business
What Type of Business Entity is Best for the Business?
One of the first steps a business owner must take is to decide on a suitable business entity. Each type of entity has advantages and disadvantages, and the right choice for a particular business will depend on a variety of factors. In particular, a business owner should ensure that the chosen entity will allow for adequate management and control, both today and in the future. The entity selected should enable the business owner to maintain control for as long as desired and to transfer the business at the chosen time, according to his or her wishes.
An attorney can assist the business owner in choosing an appropriate entity and in considering its impact on estate, gift, and income taxes. Business entity choices include the following:
Sole Proprietorship
Advantages: Simplicity and control
Disadvantage: Liability
Corporation
Advantages: Limited liability; potential tax benefits; ability to retain or transfer control
Disadvantages: Filings required; possibility of double taxation with an ordinary corporation
Limited Liability Corporation
Advantages: Limited liability; potential tax benefits; ability to retain or transfer control
Disadvantage: Filings required
Partnership
Advantages: Limited liability; potential tax benefits; ability to retain or transfer control
Disadvantage: Filings required
Limited Liability Partnership
Advantages: Limited liability; potential tax benefits; ability to retain or transfer control
Disadvantage: Filings required
What Documentation is Required for a Business Entity?
Certain documentation is required for most business entities.
Entity Selection
After a business entity has been selected, appropriate documentation must be filed with the state office having jurisdiction over the enterprise. A sole proprietorship is not required to do this, but should consider filing a fictitious name certificate.
Internal Documentation
Depending on the type of entity chosen, a business must have internal documentation, such as an operating agreement, a partnership agreement, or by-laws. These documents should not only provide for the day-to-day management of the business, but also include a succession plan with provisions such as a buy-sell agreement.
Medical Reimbursement
If the business entity adopts a medical reimbursement plan, an agreement to that effect should be prepared.
A Written Succession Plan
A business plan should include a succession plan that provides for how the owner will leave the business either at retirement or upon his or her death or disability.
A Buy-Sell Agreement
This is an agreement between or among business owners as to how the business will be valued and what will happen in the event of the death, disability, or retirement of one of the owners. A buy-sell agreement should address:
- Issuance and endorsement of shares, membership certificates, or partnership units.
- Restrictions on transfers.
- Determination of valuation.
- Mandatory purchase at the death of the shareholders.
- Optional purchase upon termination of employment for reasons other than death.
- Stock pledges.
- Personal guarantees of corporate obligations.
- Modification and termination of the agreement.
- S corporation status.
- Miscellaneous provisions.
- Provisions relating to life insurance.
An Employment Agreement
This stipulates the compensation and duties of a business owner employed by the business entity. The agreement also should address:
- Vacations
- Termination
- Employer’s authority
- Records
- Expenses
- Reimbursement of disallowed compensation and expenses
- Military service and disability
- Term
What Team Should a Business Owner Develop?
From the onset, a business owner should develop a team of professional advisors to assist in business plan development and maintenance. This team should consist of the following:
- An attorney.
- A CPA.
- A financial advisor.
- A family business consultant (if the business is large and the emotional issues are complex).
What Employee Benefits Should Be Offered?
A new business should make it a priority to choose the basic benefits that will be offered to employees. These benefits may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Life insurance (in particular, life insurance to fund a buy-sell agreement).
- Disability insurance.
- Medical insurance.
- A retirement plan.
What Issues Are Unique to Family-Owned Businesses?
Family-owned businesses have unique issues and considerations. Family business owners rank the issues that confront them in the following descending order of importance:
- Organizational structure of the business.
- Capable and supportive key management.
- Motivation of successors and management.
- Accommodation of family members.
- Estate planning.
- Retirement planning for current management.
- Retaining competent professional advisors.
- Operating with a board of outside directors.
SUCCESSION PLANNING
What is the Role of Business Succession Planning?
What is the Role of Business Succession Planning?
Succession planning should be considered at the time a business is formed, and provisions for executing that plan should be included in the original business entity documents. As illustrated in Case Study 1, it is also critical for the succession plan to be reviewed and updated annually. This can help avoid negative consequences, such as failing to plan for disability or retirement, or leaving shareholders vulnerable to a poor valuation, with litigation as the only recourse.
A properly executed succession plan defines certain events, such as death, disability or retirement, that will trigger the sale of a business interest. The succession plan and related documents provide a mechanism for the purchase of the business interest of an owner when such events occur. The succession plan can stipulate that the business interest may be purchased by the business entity or by other owners. If there are no other owners, the plan can outline what efforts will be taken to find a buyer for the business.
Succession Planning
Business succession planning enables a business owner to decide how an enterprise will be transferred upon his or her death, disability, or retirement.
Succession Planning Considerations
What Needs to be Considered When Developing a Succession Plan?
The first step in developing a succession plan is to envision the entity’s future. Will the business grow or stay the same size? Will children or other owners or employees take over, or will the business be sold to a third party? Will the business continue into the future, or will it end upon the death, disability, or retirement of the owner?
Equally important is an understanding of how business income fits into the business owner’s personal financial plan. Is it a significant source of retirement income for the business owner and his or her spouse? Is it the sole asset in the business owner’s estate?
What is the Nexus Between Business Succession Planning and Estate Planning?
Succession Planning and Estate Planning
Since a succession plan is a key aspect of a business owner’s estate plan, it is very important to ensure that one is properly coordinated with the other. Failure to do so can result in an unsatisfactory disposition of assets, or expensive litigation and fractured family relationships.
As illustrated in Case Study 2, a succession plan must answer such business and estate planning questions as: If a son takes over the business during his lifetime, how will the owner’s wife be taken care of? If the father dies and leaves all his assets to the wife, how will the son’s place in the business be preserved? How will the father provide for his daughter if he leaves the business to his son?
Business owners should review both their succession plans and estate plans on a regular basis to ensure they remain up to date. This is particularly important as business owners near retirement or become aware of an impending disability.
How Can Succession Planning be Accomplished When a Business is the Main Source of Income for a Business Owner and Spouse?
How Can Succession Planning be Accomplished When the Business Has Multiple Owners?
There are a number of alternatives:
A Salary Continuation Plan. In this arrangement, the business agrees to pay some of the owner’s salary in the future. When this is done over a number of years, it can provide the owner with a reasonable salary during retirement. The agreement is an enforceable contract, but may be evidenced with an unsecured promissory note.
A Retirement Plan. A qualified pension, profit-sharing plan, SIMPLE, SEP IRA, or KEOGH can provide a business owner with reasonable retirement compensation at a favorable tax basis, while allowing the company to take a tax deduction for the contributions it made when the plan was established. Since the plan is not a taxpayer, income on contributions is earned tax free and is taxed only upon distribution.
A Structured Payout. A business owner who plans to sell his or her business may consider a structured payout over a period of years.
Separate Business Entities. In this arrangement, one business entity holds the business, and the other holds the real estate and leases it back to the business. This allows a business owner to retire from the business, but keep the entity with the real estate to help fund his or her retirement.
Options include:
A Buy-Sell Agreement. The best way to plan for a business owner’s death, disability, or retirement when there are multiple owners is a buy-sell agreement. Three common types exist:
1. A Redemption Agreement. This is a contract between all of the owners and the business, in which the owners agree to sell their interests back to the company at an agreed-upon price, usually based on a formula. If an owner wishes to sell to a third party, the redemption agreement generally requires that he or she first offer the interest to the company. If the company does not buy, the interest can be sold to a third party.
2. A Cross-Purchase Agreement. This generally is a contract between owners in which the exiting owner offers to sell his or her interest to the remaining owners at a specified price (again, typically based on a predetermined formula).
3. A Hybrid Agreement. This agreement is usually between the entity and the owners, and it provides for either of them to purchase the exiting owner’s interest. In many cases, the agreement requires that the owner first offer the interest to the company. If the company refuses the purchase, then the other owners may purchase the interest.
Life Insurance. If the company or the owners have illiquid assets, life insurance may be used to fund the agreement.
Installment Sale. Life insurance may not be a satisfactory way of purchasing the business interest from a disabled or retiring business owner. In such cases, an installment sale may be required. In an installment sale, the remaining business owners pay a lump sum to the exiting owner shortly after the disability or retirement, with periodic payments thereafter.
How is a Succession Owner/Manager Selected?
If the business owner has a specific individual in mind to take over the business, whether a child, other relative, or extraordinary employee, it is important to begin planning and grooming that person for succession immediately. The business owner should consider transferring control of the business to the desired successor during his or her lifetime and assuming an advisory position for himself/herself. This can help the chosen successor become accustomed to running the business while benefiting from access to the founder’s knowledge and experience.
The business owner may need to consider these two roles separately and decide on the best choice for each.
The individual chosen to assume ownership of the business may not be the best choice to manage the business.
What Happens When Some Children Participate in the Business and Others Do Not?
As illustrated in Case Study 2, this is a significant issue for both succession planning and estate planning. Often, a business is the primary asset in a family. One child may have worked for years in that business and expects to inherit it and take over at some point in the future. Other children who haven’t worked in the business may feel they are owed a portion of it since the family lacks other assets to pass on.
One solution is to purchase a survivorship, or “second-to-die,” life insurance policy that pays out at the death of the second parent. This type of policy rewards the child who has worked in the business for his or her “sweat equity,” while still providing equal amounts to other children in the family.
Specifically, a business entity should:
- Hold annual meetings of shareholders, members, or partners.
- Take minutes of these annual meetings.
- Hold Board of Directors’ or Managers’ meetings.
- Take minutes of these Board of Directors’ or Managers’ meetings.
- Adjust any valuation agreement, if the buy-sell agreement so provides.
Failure to perform corporate formalities may be considered evidence that there is not a formal business, which calls into question such issues as the valuation of the business or any favorable tax positions. It may also leave business assets open to individual creditors. As shown in Case Study 1, failure to update a succession plan periodically can leave the business owner and his or her family in a precarious position.
HOUSEKEEPING
To help ensure that a succession plan will be upheld and properly carried out, it is critical for business owners to follow all business formalities. This includes filing annual reports with the State Corporation Commission, paying annual dues, filing a tax return, and holding annual meetings to ensure that the original plan is reviewed and updated as required. | https://www.begleylawgroup.com/library/how-to-plan-for-your-business/ |
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Abstract NAC transcription factors have been validated as important regulators in stress responses, but their molecular mechanisms in plant disease resistance are still largely unknown. Here we report that the NAC gene ONAC066 (LOC_Os01g09550) is significantly activated by rice blast infection.ONAC066is ubiquitously expressed and this protein is localized in the nucleus. Overexpression of ONAC066 quantitatively enhances resistance to blast disease and bacterial blight in rice. The transcript levels of PR genes are also dramatically induced inONAC066 overexpressing plants. Exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) strongly activates the transcription of ONAC066 in rice. Further analysis shows that overexpression of ONAC066 remarkably suppresses the expression of ABA-related genes, whereas there are no obvious differences for salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA)-related genes between wild-type and ONAC066overexpressing plants. Consistently, lower endogenous ABA levels are identified in ONAC066 overexpressing plants compared with wild-type plants before and after blast inoculation, while no significant differences are observed for the SA and JA levels. Yeast one-hybrid assays demonstrate that ONAC066 directly binds to the promoters of LIP9andNCED4to modulate their expression. Moreover, the metabolomics study reveals that the ONAC066 overexpressing plants accumulated higher contents of soluble sugars and amino acids both before and after pathogen attack, when compared to wild-type plants. Taken together, our results suggest that ONAC066 positively regulates rice resistance to blast and bacterial blight, and ONAC066exerts its functions on disease resistance by modulating of ABA signaling pathway, sugars and amino acids accumulation in rice. | http://51huasheng.net/lunwen_view-54.html |
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced the launch of auction of coal mines for commercial purposes thus, inviting private companies to participate in the coal mining sector, which has been dominated by the State-owned Coal India Limited until now.
The auction process is for 41 coal blocks across Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Orissa. The Prime Minister further added that this move was a step towards the goal of “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” (‘self-reliant’ India). However, the very next day Jharkhand Government approached the Apex Court in a challenge against the Centre’s decision on various grounds including, inadequate assessment of impact on people who are likely to be affected by such mining, destruction of forests and distortion of lives of adivasis and tribals who live and depend upon such forests. Following Jharkhand, the Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh Governments too moved the Supreme Court three days later opposing the auction on grounds of prevention of destruction of the abundant wildlife and biodiversity which is charatceristic of the locations of most of these coal blocks. The Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre against the Jharkhand Government’s plea challenging the auction and listed the matter after four weeks for further consideration.
Facts of the Issue
The Central Government launched the auction process of 41 coal blocks out of which 11 are located in Madhya Pradesh, 9 each in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha and the remaining 3 in Maharashtra. This step by the Prime Minister ends the State monopoly in the coal mining sector and also allows commercial mining for the first time. The decision has been justified by the Prime Minister on the grounds of potential investment, as well as employment generation for more than 2.8 lakh people both directly and indirectly, and upto Rs. 20,000 crores in revenue to State Governments annually. However, these incentives did not appease the State Governments, who instead, opposed the decision by pleading that the negative effect on the value of scarce natural resources outweighs the reasonable returns expected from the projects. Maharashtra’s Environment Minister Aaditya Thackrey strongly opposed the Centre’s proposed auction of mine sites located near Tadoba- Andhari tiger reserve located in Chandrapur District, and also cited the survey by ex- environment Minister Jairam Ramesh that led to scrapping of 2011 auction of the same mine site, for the reason that the site is unsuitable for mining. He further questioned the auction of the mentioned mine site on the ground that it can potentially destroy the wildlife corridor of Tadoba- Andhari. Chhattisgarh Environment Minister approached the Supreme Court seeking removal of 5 out of the 9 coal blocks citing rising human- elephant conflicts in these areas, which was identified as a ‘no-go’ zone in the past to preserve its biodiversity. The States also expressed concern over the displacement of tribals and destruction of their livelihood as reasons for opposition.
Legal Provisions Involved
Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 deals with development and regulation of mines under the Union’s control. It provides that the union should take in its control, the regulation of mines if it is expedient in the public interest.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) issued the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification of 2006, to assess the impact of any mining project on the environment. The Rules are issued in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 was passed for the purpose of protection of forests from rampant deforestation. The Act prohibits deforestation by the States and other authorities, unless with the prior permission of the Central Government.
Critical Analysis
The Central Government’s ambitious decision has faced recurrent backlash from most of the States where the proposed auction sites are located. Besides, the former Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh and the Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha have criticized the decision.
India’s pledge under the Paris Agreement in 2015 to create a cumulative sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 and its goal of bringing the forest cover to 33% from the current 24% seems incompatible with the auction of sites, which comprises the densest forests of Hasdeo forest, known as the lungs of Chhattisgarh, spread over 1.7 lakh hectares. Similarly, 50% of the Chakla and Pilatund Tilaiya coal block in Jharkhand is forest area. The Chattisgarh Bachao Andolan has opposed the auction and 20 Gram sabhas in Chhattisgarh alone have written to the Prime Minister regarding the same.
Coal India has estimated that the number of mines that it has, with the current growth rate, is capable of meeting India’s energy requirement for a decade according to its Coal Vision Report. The monetisation of natural resources by the Prime Minister for an ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ does not justify the negative impact that it would have on the environment and people who live and depend upon these forests. The decision is also violative of the Supreme Court’s decision in Samatha vs. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors wherein it was held that all entities including the State are ‘non-Adivasis’, and Adivasi co-operatives alone have the right to undertake mining in their land, if they so wish. Later, in Orissa Mining Corporation Ltd vs. Ministry of Environment & Forest, the Apex Court upheld the constitutional right of Gram Sabhas to consider whether mining in their areas can be undertaken or not. Thus, the decision disregarding various judicial pronouncements, fifth schedule areas and environment protection laws has had the effect of negatively impacting the climate, forests, and people subsisting with it.
Conclusion
With the increasing importance of sustainable growth by nations and international organizations and the negative impact of climate change caused due to burning of fossil fuels, there is a need to reduce the dependence on such fuels and to increase the use and development of renewable sources of energy for meeting the growing energy requirements. However, the Centre’s decision to auction mining sites at the cost of destruction of forest cover and displacement of tribals, even when the energy demands can easily be met with current mines and other renewable resources, doesn’t seem to be in the general public interest. To capitalise the destruction of biodiverse areas should not be the stepping-stone for a ‘self-reliant’ India; rather the focus should be on growth and development of renewable sources of energy to shift towards a sustainable development policy.
Author: Ashray Singh from School of law, NMIMS Mumbai. | https://lexlife.in/2020/08/14/centres-coal-block-auction-legal-angle/ |
Recent research carried out by organizations such as the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations and many other bilateral donors has drawn a clear link between the incidence of conflict, high levels of poverty, and underdevelop- ment. When crises occur, military and security forces will often be tempted to move into the power vacuum created by the collapse of state structures, operating outside the control of demo- cratic institutions. As a result, states become unable to guarantee the security of their citizens and state structures lose their legitimacy.
The relationship between conflict prevention and sustainable development has forced policy- makers and practitioners to develop ways and means of reforming a country’s security sector at the earliest possible stages of intervention. Security sector reform (SSR) has, in the past, been conventionally addressed by development departments. However, there is now clear evi- dence that SSR strategies must be factored into pre-conflict, conflict and postconflict planning; they are not an issue for consideration just dur- ing postconflict reconstruction. This has impli- cations for joint consultation and planning between all relevant ministries of donor coun- tries, requiring policy provisions to be made dur- ing each stage of intervention. Lessons learned from Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Sierra Leone provide just a few examples of where the mismanaged sequencing of activities led to fur- ther problems. More immediately, this is rele- vant to postconflict challenges in Iraq.
Undoubtedly, the core business of the military is security. However, at the highest strategic lev- els, the mandates and desired endstates of inter- vention forces must reflect the needs of the wider development agenda for the host country and region. Before military troops hand over pri- macy to other external actors such as interna- tional police forces; authorities responsible for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs; or local newly trained military forces and democratic civilian oversight mecha- nisms, they must have a clear idea of the longer- term agenda to which their short-term intervention strategy contributes – particularly if the intervention continues but shifts into a sup- porting role only, during which local authorities gain primacy.
This paper discusses the importance of joined- up government planning to support military intervention in countries that require complete reform, or perhaps partial transformation, of their security sectors. It outlines the key actors and activities involved in wider security sector issues, and it examines the linkages between SSR and peace support operations, small arms and light weapons, DDR programs, and civil society. Further, it discusses the importance of building these issues into the doctrine and the policy and planning capacity of international military forces.
Security sector reform (SSR) is a subject that has garnered significant attention from the development community and has crystallized into a debate that has been tack- led holistically by the national governments, as well as by many multilateral and nongovernment actors.1 While efforts to generate and build on the theory and concepts have encouraged the devel- opment of wider approaches and mindsets, the way in which these concepts have been translated into practice remains unclear at worst, and dis- parate at best.
It is necessary to acknowledge the wide spec- trum of activities and actors involved in SSR issues, and the institutional co-operation this implies both at the international and local levels. For example, it is impossible to initiate a com- prehensive military reform program without addressing legal and constitutional frameworks that ensure an acceptable degree of accountabili- ty from and transparency of the armed forces. Similarly, a country’s defence sector cannot undergo a completely successful transformation without equal efforts being extended to the reform of the internal security forces and their civilian oversight mechanisms, such as the police and judicial systems. The plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq will result in an extensive agenda for the international communi- ty to take on, particularly with regard to Iraq’s security structures — a potential vacuum which, if left unaddressed, will have a further fractious effect on the region.
While a plethora of additional humanitarian and civil protection responsibilities (which have come in the early stages of many recent military interventions) has triggered cries of “mission creep” from national military contributors, today’s interventionists must be cognizant of the wider security needs of the transitioning soci- eties to which they are deployed. This notion bridges the gap between the emergency response phases of a conflict and the wider development agenda — a gap which, if left, can have a enor- mous destabilizing effect on a society, and re- ignite the roots of the conflict quite quickly.
This paper examines security in its broader context and identifies the key actors and activi- ties of the wider security sector. It gives an overview of the main program and policy areas for SSR and discusses the potential contribution of international military forces to each of these areas. Lastly, this paper looks at the current state of doctrine for peace support operations, and the operational training that supports contemporary approaches to peace operations, and makes rec- ommendations as to how SSR concepts can be blended into strategic planning and policy to account for the evolving developmentalization of security.
The agenda for international military forces has always included elements of broader security concerns, many of which are addressed in the later stages of a con- flict intervention, also known as the “postconflict development” or “postconflict reconstruction” phases. For example, international military forces serving under the NATO Stabilisation Force (SFOR) mandate in Bosnia now find themselves responsible for operations such as minority returns, the settlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the support of mine action pro- grams and the collection of small arms and light weapons (SALW) caches from an array of differ- ent areas in the country. More recently, in Afghanistan, British forces serving in Kabul have focused on garnering local support through the implementation of “quick impact programs,” which have included community rebuilding and local integration programs.2
Even in different types of interventions, such as NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) and the British Army’s ongoing operations in Northern Ireland, a focus on the need for civil protection for minor- ity groups dominates the agenda. Both cases have parallels with experiences in Haiti, El Salvador and other internal crises where internal policing became the priority, and the international mili- tary forces strove to reach an endstate where the police could regain primacy. This will be impor- tant in Iraq. Although events in Northern Ireland have progressed to a level where the Royal Ulster Constabulary has held primacy since the early 1990s, the military still plays a support role to boost the effectiveness of the overall security sec- tor and works toward achieving wider develop- ment goals.
Due to the complex and multidisciplinary nature of the subject, SSR has recently been iden- tified as one of the most important challenges facing a range of government ministries and agencies. Chris Smith, of King’s College, London University, suggests that the academic history behind the evolution of SSR is one of fits and starts, lacking continuity and lucidity.3 It has emerged with the wider examination of military institutions in the Third World and with the study of defence diplomacy or the development of democratic market-based defence forces. Important linkages have also been drawn between defence expenditures and economic development in these countries, which is often seen in bloated defence budgets and the absence of any civilian oversight governing the activity of the military.
The subject further evolved when the relation- ship between defence forces and internal securi- ty forces was examined, and it was recognized that in many countries there was little difference between the military, what constituted internal police forces, and systems underpinning justice and the rule of law. A wider security community became identified, which — in addition to the police, the armed forces and the judiciary — included border guards, civil defence forces, intelligence services and paramilitaries. Professor Robin Luckham, from the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex University, describes SSR as
the quintessential governance issue. This is so both in the sense that there is enor- mous potential for the misallocation of resources and also because a security sec- tor out of control can have an enormous impact on governance — indeed, be a source of malgovernance.4
Other academics and practitioners typologize the actors involved in the wider security sector, which include those statutory and nonstatutory security services authorized to use force, civil society actors and oversight mechanisms, and nonstatutory forces that are not authorized to use force on any occasion. Nicole Ball describes the “wider security family” as including
Because this paper will focus on the contribu- tion of the military to SSR activities, a framework will be developed that is slightly more focused than Ball’s list of actors and draws a distinction between the players — the enablers/disablers and the activities/programs — which, collectively, draw on most of Ball’s descriptors listed above.
Figure 1 outlines a framework that describes the central players within a country’s security sector along the horizontal axis. These include the intelligence services, the armed forces, the police, the judiciary, paramilitaries, and border and customs officials. A number of policy imperatives, which can serve as “enablers” or “dis- ablers,” are listed along the vertical axis, all of which taken together should underpin the activi- ties of each of the security-related agencies listed below. These include accountable and transpar- ent legislative frameworks, civilian oversight, capacity, structure and capability, and policy and budgetary planning. The application of profes- sional competencies to some of these combined areas results in bilateral and multilateral policy being developed to address the more prominent problems inherent in some of these categories. Examples of this may include the development of programs and policies on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), Democratic Governance and Civilian Policing.
It is important to note that these program areas can respond to the needs of a number of security agencies and their respective enablers/disablers, simultaneously, depending on the program and the way in which it is imple- mented. It is these program areas that this paper will focus on, and not the elements characteriz- ing the vertical and horizontal axes of the model. Moreover, the analyses will draw linkages between each program area and study the impli- cations for international military forces.
The realization that UN peacekeeping spanned a number of undefined modes of military intervention — some of which did not necessarily require a specific “peace” agreement to be in place prior to the deployment of international military forces — brought about a number of new definitions for what constituted peacekeeping in its broader sense. While the United States popularized the term “military operations other than war” (MOOTW),7 the UK crafted the term “peace sup- port operations” (PSO),8 which would serve to embrace all the UN-bespoke “tools of peace” such as peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace enforce- ment and peacebuilding (the details for each can be found in the UN’s 1995 Supplement to the Agenda for Peace).9
Over the last decade, the UK Armed Forces have further developed doctrine and concepts dealing with the broader notion of PSO. As a result, the UK has earned itself the position of custodian for the development of NATO doctrine on PSO, and has served as an influential lead nation on these issues at UN headquarters in New York. Moreover, it has projected these ideas fur- ther afield and has played a role in doctrine development and training in African, Latin American and Southeast Asian countries.
There are essentially three types of military responses to regional war, intra-state war or inter- nal civil strife: 1) a UN-led, UN-endorsed inter- vention, such as the 1992 UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia and the UN Mission in Haiti (UNMIH); 2) a regional-organization-led, UN-endorsed intervention, such as NATO’s Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia or the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s initial intervention in Kosovo; or 3) an “executive agent” or coalition-of-the-willing-led, UN-endorsed intervention (the type of interven- tion that the international community is seeing more of due to bureaucratic constraints to rapid reaction, mobility and the high readiness of multinational troops).
The common element to all of these interven- tions is the endorsement of the UN Security Council or, in the case where the Council has, in the past, been gridlocked by the veto of any of the five permanent members, resolutions have still been passed in the UN General Assembly to sanc- tion the efforts of others. Thus, the evolution of programs and policy on United Nations PSO requires continuous support. This will undoubt- edly be facilitated by the UN’s commitment to implementing recommendations for improving UN peacekeeping as articulated in the Brahimi report.10
Recent debate over the situation in Iraq has also prompted the UK government as well as most other European heads of state and interna- tional diplomats to reiterate the importance of international responses to international crises, which implies the need for the response to Iraq to be supported by a UN resolution if possible. Security Council failure to respond only compli- cates the postconflict peace support issues. However, strengthening the expediency of politi- cal decision-making mechanisms must run par- allel to a more robust capacity to respond mili- tarily, even if this capacity is outsourced.
The concept of PSO continues to be defined in terms of level of consent and degree of impartial- ity of the intervening forces. When both these factors are low, the environment tends to be quite volatile, with fighting continuing and little prospect of peace in sight. This is normally char- acterized as a peace enforcement intervention, in which troops are sent into theatre under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, where consent and some- times even a stable government are nonexistent. As the levels of consent and impartiality increase, international military forces often find themselves in a peacekeeping environment, which is typically supported by some sort of interim peace agreement. Figure 2 illustrates this argument.
However, there is often a blurred distinction about what constitutes a pure peacekeeping envi- ronment, as peace agreements can remain quite fragile and often exclude many nonstate actors that perpetuate the violence in the first place. Lastly, a state of peacebuilding comes when the peace agreement has gained wide acceptance, when the international community has secured a degree of local trust and confidence, and when the international military forces take a backseat to the primacy of local actors who develop new democratic roles in an effort to sustain peace.
Not surprisingly, the primary problem with this military model is that it presumes that these states exist on a continuum and that one always precedes the other. All too often we have wit- nessed the case where this continuum works backwards and peace processes disintegrate overnight, as was the case in Sierra Leone in May 2000 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attacked Freetown and caused havoc to ongoing development activities and reform programs. The continuum-based approach therefore does not give the attention it should to backward transi- tional management, or forward, as the state of the security environment regresses. As SSR has tradi- tionally been associated with the last phase on this continuum, and one that is often not reached due to the backward swings characteristic of a regressive peace or flawed intervention, a lack of attention to the wider security issues often serves to impede progress.
It is essential that doctrine and concepts on PSO further evolve to reflect the wider security challenges that can be encountered in a theatre of operations, challenges that should not neces- sarily be left to the peacebuilding, or postcon- flict reconstruction phase of the operation. Intervening military forces should be fully aware of how their activities may impact the development of a new national police force or the rebuilding of a national justice system. Similarly, knowledge acquired on small arms, light weapons, paramilitary groups and excom- batants might usefully feed into the information repositories developed for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and SALW programs, which may be more formalized following an interim peace agreement. If a gov- ernment already exists, and the level of consent for the international intervention is high, the role of the peacekeepers should also contribute to strengthening civil society and educating par- liamentarians, journalists and NGOs on the democratic role of the military, something which still undermines levels of public confi- dence in Belgrade, where a relatively stable gov- ernment has now been in place for some time. These local actors play an important role in feeding government policy, advocacy, agenda- setting, educating young opinion formers and in communicating these issues to the greater public.
Efforts to build SSR into PSO doctrine and training should extend to both NATO and UN peacekeeping countries, due to the influence both organizations exert on the policy and proce- dures of troops deployed under their respective organizational mandates. At the moment, large disparities exist in the approaches of different countries in implementing effective peace sup- port activities.11 Different levels of commitment to local dynamics become apparent, particularly in the postconflict phase of an intervention when the more professional national military contrib- utors, normally earmarked for the more intense phases of military activity, are replaced by forces from countries that are more suited to contribut- ing once some degree of peace and stability has been achieved and more of a monitoring and confidence-building role is required by the inter- national military forces. All too often, many peacekeeping contributors in this “second tranche” are quite removed from the current debate on PSO doctrine and training and, as a result, are less committed during this critical stage of SSR programs. The Nigerian-led UN Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) serves as a good example of where a lead military contributor was ill-prepared for the deterioration of a conflict and failed to respond to the wider security needs that could have prevented the resurgence of violence. For example, despite the initiation of a large-scale DDR program called for in the framework of the 1999 Lomé peace agree- ment,12 Nigerian troops were unsuccessful in deterring further attacks by the RUF on Freetown, a series of which culminated in the hostage- taking of 500 UN peacekeepers. The UN and the British government immediately called for the deployment of troops to solve the hostage crisis, secure the airport and assist the Sierra Leone Army in more credibly deterring further rebel attacks.
Once again, this underlines the danger in using the continuum model, which is still imbued in the mindset of many national mili- taries and aid organizations, and which comes across quite vividly in the illustrations of doc- trine on peace support operations. SSR has been misplaced as an activity in the postconflict- reconstruction or peace-building phases of a con- flict, and is often left to the authority of develop- ment agencies and international peacekeepers, which play only a marginal, and often disinter- ested, support role. Military and civilian inter- ventionists who ignore requirements to reform security sectors in the earlier phases of interven- tion do so at their peril, and they fail to provide more comprehensive solutions to wider security needs. Broadening their stakeholder base and awareness of interrelated activities does not sug- gest a shift toward “mission creep” — security is the core business of the military and SSR issues must be incorporated into their mindset, man- date and operational planning.
The following sections will examine some of the SSR program areas and the potential contri- bution that international military forces could make to these activities. While it is beyond the scope of this paper to address all program areas, the linkages between PSO and police reform, DDR, SALW and civil society will be discussed, albeit each in modest detail only.
As described in earlier sections, the tran- sition from military to civilian polic- ing has been a common element of many complex emergencies and military inter- ventions, particularly in countries where there is a breakdown in the rule of law and civil protec- tion. Generally speaking, there are three circum- stances in which there is need for police reform:
Police reform normally involves a tripartite process, whereby international military forces are initially responsible for securing and stabiliz- ing an environment before handing over to civil authorities. An international civilian police force, such as UNCIVPOL,13 then assumes police primacy as a newly developed or newly reformed force trains under international authorities and prepares for an eventual handover of the civil protection function. Figure 3 illustrates this need for supporting mechanisms to underpin each end of the “military/police primacy spectrum” (see p. 10). If overlooked, the resulting vacuums (shown in black) must be filled for a co-operative and amicable relationship to develop in the future.
During this process it is absolutely critical that the initial military mandate includes an element of civil protection and does not convey the impression that the presence of international peacekeeping forces is merely to offer protection to politicians and international personnel. As a result, peacekeepers must be perceived to be offering credible security guarantees to the majority of the civilian population, or individu- als and groups will go in search of security by other means. Paramilitary groups and warlords who do not have an interest in disarming and demobilizing garner the support of these local groups, who then serve as a prime target market that justifies their continued existence. This sub- sequently makes the job of the international police forces even more difficult, as they lack the local confidence necessary to rebuild a national police force in an environment where local acceptance provides a more promising founda- tion for sustainability.
As outlined in figure 3, in many cases there is a limited distinction between a country’s military force and police force, and the former is usually the dominant ruler of both internal and external security. As a result, the separation of these pow- ers becomes hugely challenging, let alone efforts to encourage the forces to work in concert with each other, as opposed to in competition with each other. Thus, it is difficult to directly draw on the templates used in Northern Ireland and Bosnia for police intervention in Africa, Southeast Asia and Iraq.14 The former cases assume a degree of transparency between the two forces and the willingness to offer mutual support regardless of which party maintains primacy. Other entry points or, perhaps, supporting strate- gies, would have to be developed for different glob- al regions where issues such as primacy and “aid to the civil power” remain unfamiliar terms.
It is therefore essential that issues concerning the rule of law and civil protection be factored into a robust international peacekeeping man- date at the earliest stages of a military interven- tion. This does not mean that the military should take on civilian policing activities, but it should acknowledge the endstate required for both a successful withdrawal of military forces and a well-managed transition to civilian protec- tion for internal security. As a result, a more comprehensive approach to rebuilding the secu- rity sector can be undertaken by both internal and external actors. This underlines the impor- tance of understanding the full security develop- ment spectrum at the earliest stages of interna- tional involvement.
As civil wars and regional conflicts con- tinue to be fuelled by the proliferation of rebel forces, paramilitaries and breakaway armies, the need for effective and com- prehensive Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programs remains critical for postconflict peace. DDR programs come with enormous social, economic and political implica- tions and, as a result, must be integrated into the wider institutional development strategy.
Questions have been asked as to whether or not a peace agreement must be in place in order to ini- tiate a successful DDR program.15 In most cases, this would be a necessary prerequisite for the wider buy-in of the national government and the neces- sary support for local structures needed to sustain an effective DDR program, such as a national com- mission for DDR. Arguably, much of the relative success of the DDR program in Mozambique could be attributed to the fact that it was strongly sup- ported and subsidized by the Mozambican govern- ment, as well as supported regionally by the South African government. As the successful transition of postapartheid events in South Africa preceded the disarming of RENAMO rebels in Mozambique, bor- der security interests represented one of the many mutual interests between the two countries in sta- bilizing the region. This encouraged South Africa to provide a proactive contribution to Mozam- bique’s DDR process.
The case of the DDR program in Mozambique also opens the debate for more regional solutions to DDR. Small arms and excombatants do not become obsolete easily, are not easily traceable and can continue to operate in vigilant and crim- inal networks beyond the immediate borders of their countries. For example, despite the relative success enjoyed by the National Commission for DDR in Sierra Leone, many RUF fighters are con- tinuing their aggressive action in Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. Thus, national DDR pro- grams must engage the many existing regional and subregional structures, such as the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), the G-8 countries, the Organization for African Unity (OAU), and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and encourage them to be instrumental to the wider SSR agenda for the region.
For example, the 1998 deployment of the Nigerian-led ECOMOG force (ECOWAS set up the armed monitoring group, ECOMOG) and the sub- sequent contribution the Nigerian government made to the UNAMSIL force serves as an example of regional solutions to regional problems. Bilateral discussions between the governments of Sierra Leone and Guinea prepared Guinean forces to meet rebel groups attempting to pene- trate the Guinean border, which sent a powerful message to the RUF concerning the support to the international community offered by Sierra Leone’s neighbours. Similarly, immediate efforts to implement UN sanctions on Liberia also sent out an important message and served as an effort to break ties between Liberian leader Charles Taylor and the RUF. The creation of an International Contact Group (ICG) on Liberia (which included France, Monrovia, Senegal, Britain, Nigeria, the UN and ECOWAS) also sought to create stability in the subregion and find a resolution between Liberia’s government forces and the rebel groups.
Beyond the regional level were the consistent efforts at the international level to keep the con- flict in Sierra Leone high on the agenda of the UN Security Council (UNSC). The problem with dia- monds providing an incentive for violence, pay- ing for weapons and fuelling the war was also mitigated by the US-government-led Kimberly Process, which sought to combat the conflict dia- mond trade through the implementation of a global rough diamond certification system.
A more recent trend that has surfaced from ongoing DDR programs is the tendency to con- centrate on the disarmament and demobiliza- tion parts of DDR, but not as much on the rein- tegration aspect. Due to the chronological nature of this equation, donor fatigue tends to have an eroding effect on the DDR programs, creating a reluctance to accept the wider com- munity needs for successful reintegration.16 These difficulties arise from the tendency to dis- aggregate the terms in DDR when, ironically, the emphasis should be on reintegration, with disarmament and demobilization seen as neces- sary prerequisites. Besides a loss of interest and lack of resources, funds are often borrowed from the reintegration budget for stop-gap measures during disarmament and demobilization. Lastly, DDR straddles parts of both the emergency relief and the development domains. As bilateral and multilateral donors and operational agencies increasingly pursue more coherent strategies that place them in only one of these camps, more divisions are created between what may be considered as the more emergency-related phas- es of the DDR program and the longer-term development activities.
Furthermore, the international community often underestimates the economic challenges for the successful reintegration of excombatants when poverty levels characteristic of postwar economies present limited opportunities for civil society. Because of the public disdain for and lack of confidence toward armed forces, there is a reluctance to consider the possibility of reinte- grating excombatants into a democratic armed force as a viable source of employment. The post- war emphasis on downsizing often rules out areas of employment most compatible with the train- ing and core competencies of the excombatants. Should the US-led military intervention in Iraq result in provisional governance by an interna- tional administration, as in Kosovo, the restruc- turing of the security forces, complemented by a well-orchestrated public information campaign, will be quintessential elements for consideration.
Beyond this, however, is the need to focus on the reintegration of the wider community, and not just the excombatants. More effective research, and demographic and market analyses, must underpin DDR programs in order to pro- duce skill sets to support a country’s wider devel- opment needs. For example, the infrastructural rebuilding of roads and bridges to stimulate inter- nal economic activity and improve logistics to attract foreign investors requires engineers and labourers accustomed to working in team envi- ronments. Institutional rebuilding requirements could also produce skill set profiles that could directly influence national DDR objectives.
The wider community may also be affected by large groups of refugees who have either been internally displaced or who have no home to return to. Reintegration strategies must consider these other groups that do not form part of the pool of excombatants but face similar problems with regards to community reintegration. Families of excombatants will also require sup- port, as will former female soldiers who often represent a significant part of a rebel force, as was the case in Eritrea and El Salvador.
Most importantly, DDR programs must be inte- gral to the national plan and link with economic, social and political imperatives. This has impor- tant implications for strategic planning with regards to other strands of the wider security sec- tor and the linkages between programs such as DDR and the development and training of demo- cratic armed forces and a transparent and accountable internal security system. From the highest foreign policy objectives — which are a function of national interests and core values — should be drawn the broader implications for security planning. It is important to note that national interests of many countries will differ from most Western templates, as other societies are built upon different sets of values. Consequently, different objectives to support a national security strategy will be developed.
A national security strategy should therefore embrace all strands of the wider security sector and should clearly articulate objectives and pri- orities for each strand. At the operational level that follows, implementation imperatives for each area should be specified, such as details on national DDR programs, which may then be linked back to the highest levels of a country’s national strategic plan. The same is true for other SSR program areas, such as the requirement for a strategic defence review, a review of national defence expenditure, boosting the degree of civil- ian oversight for security agencies, and perhaps preventive measures like weapons stockpile man- agement and legislation on arms exports. This encourages wider buy-in at all levels of govern- ment, as well as codes of transparency and accountability, which underpin how these objec- tives should be achieved.
The above merely touches on the extent to which PSO, strategic planning for a country’s defence sector and DDR programs are so tightly linked to more comprehensive SSR strategies. The linkages create opportunities for military intervention at the strategic level as well as the operational level. For example, force comman- ders negotiating with local governments must be aware of how the international military interven- tion will support other strategic priorities in the national plan, particularly if the international military force is still the dominant actor in the transitioning society.
At the operational level, international mili- taries can contribute information on excombat- ants to local government authorities as well as the appropriate international and local commis- sions tasked with addressing DDR requirements. In addition, they could advise on the type of weapons the commissions could expect to collect prior to encampment and what may be required before rebel soldiers are able to renounce their combatant status. Lastly, the international mili- tary force could contribute to the security of the demobilization camps and advise on the skill sets of excombatants and their applicability in civil- ian employment.
The linkages between SSR and Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) relate to much of what has already been discussed in earlier sections. It is important to acknowledge the relationship between the demand for arms and the perception of a threat and, therefore, the associations between SALW and areas such as policing, international peacekeeping, judicial reform and the role of civil society.
Once again, the common denominator for all of these areas is the place of SALW in the nation- al strategic plan. Implementation objectives and priority areas for security planning across the sectors have wide-reaching implications for SALW programs. For example, the need for legis- lation on central procurement can serve to speci- fy procurement needs for national defence and internal security purposes. Similarly, require- ments for weapons stockpiling and inventory management should also underpin the objectives of all the security service portfolios and be a pri- ority for external actors tasked with assisting in military training and DDR programs.
International military forces can also con- tribute to the planning of SALW programs. As mentioned in earlier sections, UN peacekeepers are often on the ground before any thought has been given to SSR. With a broader understanding of comprehensive SSR requirements and the activities scheduled to ensue following the depar- ture of these forces, peacekeeping troops should be able to provide critical knowledge to other incoming external actors, particularly on excom- batants and armaments. One often assumes that lists documenting the location and details of arms, landmines and rebel forces are readily available. While this has been the case in a very small number of postwar societies, it is certainly not the case for most countries.
Due to the earlier interventions of NATO forces in Bosnia, as well as improved relations between the Bosnian entity armed forces and the interna- tional military forces, SFOR now plays a vital role in mine action programs. The same logic could be used to increase the contribution internation- al peacekeeping forces could make to SSR pro- grams, simply by sharing information on rebel and paramilitary forces, as well as the location of arms caches, types of weapons used, weapons trafficking channels, etc.
In their role as postconflict military training advisers (as with the International Military Assistance Training Teams, which operate in dif- ferent African and Central and Eastern European countries), knowledge of the military’s contribu- tion to SSR and wider development strategies could be communicated to the newly trained forces. This information should also be channelled toward civil society groups in order to boost confidence in the newly formed military force.
As described in the framework outlined in figure 1, as well as in Nicole Ball’s list of members of the wider security family, civil society plays an enormously impor- tant role in the development of democratic secu- rity forces and SSR. Following the end of a civil conflict, particularly when it involves serious human rights abuses by the country’s military and internal security forces, the public percep- tion toward security forces in general is quite negative. The long-lived nature of these forces in many countries prevents civil society from understanding or accepting any other use for the military.
In societies where remnants of elitist and oppressive military regimes still haunt postwar ministries of defence and headquarters of general staffs, parliamentary oversight becomes key to ensuring an acceptable degree of transparency and democracy within military politics. Such is currently the case in Serbia, where civil servants and former generals of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime still hold prominent positions within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s Ministry of Defence. It is essential that these government rep- resentatives be presented with well-informed debates by parliamentarians to ensure political accountability to the wider electorate. Unfor- tunately, newly elected members of Parliament are often ill informed on the essentials of democ- ratic security forces and lack the ability to pose challenging debates. In Belgrade, the fact that the perceived status of a member of Parliament is directly proportional to one’s role in the corporate world precludes any commitment to current debates, particularly in more remote portfolios such as defence and security.17 Similarly, news reporters and editors formally controlled by infor- mation monopolies of the oppressive regimes lack the skills required to conduct investigative, as opposed to sensationalized, journalism.
These problems open opportunities for inter- national nongovernmental agencies (NGOs) to provide support to local actors to strengthen their knowledge and skills and provide a more informed level of oversight to the elected officials. While the role for international military forces here is more marginal than in other SSR-related program areas, the forces can certainly help to inform NGOs and media groups on the activities of newly trained forces, newsworthy information, and areas requiring further research and empiri- cal studies that could be fed into parliamentary questioning. Furthermore, they could engage their own defence ministries to fund capacity- building programs in-country and advise on the democratic control of armed forces and the man- agement of defence resources in market-based environments.
Earlier sections highlighted the need to engage existing regional mechanisms to provide regional solutions for postcon- flict and transitioning states. Also identified was the need for local constituents to develop nation- al plans, in order to secure wider local buy-in to the solutions proposed.
It is essential to underpin both of these imper- atives with clear direction from the international community, or the particular bilateral donors who wish to see themselves engaged in a specific area. More explicitly, a country supporting the postconflict rebuilding of another country must be able to state, categorically, why it has a nation- al interest to do so. All too often national mili- taries and development agencies are deployed overseas with no clear idea of the strategic inter- est supporting their mandate. It is just as impor- tant for the private soldier on the ground as it is for a Western nation’s head of state to fully under- stand why their country is assisting in the effort. If it is simply to fill a widespread humanitari- an/security vacuum, intervention agents should still understand the longer-term objectives and wider development agenda.
This theory must also be applied to supple- mentary support given to these countries, which often falls under the well-known label of “out- reach programs.” For a long time now, many dif- ferent bilateral and multilateral programs have come to the assistance of postconflict and transi- tioning countries by offering foreign military training and courses on peacekeeping. One must sometimes question whether or not this is indeed what these countries are really in need of, and whether or not courses and training on the pro- fessionalization of armed forces might better serve their requirements. More blatantly, what some countries might really desire is training on how to be a professional platoon or company commander, or on how to run an accountable and transparent ministry of defence. After all, what good is the most effectively trained army if it cannot be controlled?
International and national military forces intervening in civil wars, collapsed states and transitioning societies must consider the wider security agenda in their overall mandate, campaign planning, doctrine and training curriculum. SSR requires comprehensive solu- tions and the joined-up government18 efforts of bilateral donors that respond to these problems. In addition, what was traditionally an issue for the postconflict reconstruction group of players must now be seen as an issue for the conflict pre- vention and conflict phases of an intervention. For example, international development agencies and embassy staff should concentrate on preven- tive mechanisms such as better arms export con- trol, legislation on customs and excise, the state of a country’s armed forces and other vulnerabil- ities that could trigger the collapse of the securi- ty sector.
During the conflict phases of an intervention, when international military forces occupy the most prominent position on the ground, mea- sures must be put in place to consider existing security structures and information gathered on the wider security sector, to ensure both better transitional management from military to civil- ian primacy and a sustainable development agen- da. This paper has taken a cursory look at certain SSR program areas such as police reform, DDR, SALW and civil society, and discussed how the work of international military forces can useful- ly contribute to these program areas.
As we live in the shadow of an American-led war on Iraq, the requirement for postconflict peace and support to the security sector remains large and looming questions must be addressed and married with any proposed strategy to install an interim government or an international cus- todial administration. Even in Kosovo, which seems now to have become a long forgotten land for which no one is interested in taking on responsibility (including Serbia), internal securi- ty and civil protection of minority groups, as well as democratic governance, still remain the biggest obstacles to a sustainable peace. Weighed against the postconflict security challenges following a military engagement in Iraq, Kosovo’s problems seem negligible.
The following section will outline specific rec- ommendations to enhance the military’s contribu- tion to SSR at the multilateral and bilateral levels.
“Joined-up” government – It is essential that for- mal mechanisms be developed within states (par- ticularly donor countries) for joined-up decision- making between the relevant ministries that have an interest in SSR issues. This would clearly involve the participation of the ministries of defence, international development, foreign affairs, the interior, and the intelligence services or intelligence and critical infrastructure. SSR steering committees also should be created across these ministries, as should a common pool of funding to which each of the ministries con- tributes. The funding should be used to support policy development on wider security issues and capacity-building initiatives like in-country train- ing and education in regions where the govern- ment has a national interest.
The development of in-depth assessment tools and methodologies – To improve information and knowledge management throughout the relevant ministries, in-depth assessment/analytical tools and methodologies should be produced for coun- try/regional surveys and scoping studies. Other subject experts such as historians and social anthropologists should be brought in to add to these studies to ensure that there is a well- developed information repository for all areas to which the country may be asked to respond.
National defence ministries should be encour- aged to build SSR concepts into their respective doctrine on peace support operations to recog- nize the wider spectrum of security-related activ- ities and the linkages to international military mandates. The concepts should also be factored into campaign planning and into identifying lines of activity that in the past have included issues like humanitarian assistance and support for refugee programs.
National defence ministries should build SSR concepts into their operational training courses and modules, particularly those that prepare new units for rotational deployments to different operational theatres. These courses should include briefings on the relationships and link- ages between PSO and other SSR program activi- ties, as well as the notion of “security develop- ment” beyond military endstates.
National defence ministries should ensure that the concepts of transitional management and change management become integral parts of man- agement modules at the armed forces command and staff colleges. Module managers should spend time applying these concepts to a more compre- hensive understanding of SSR imperatives in PSO.
UN military advisers to permanent diplomatic missions at the UN headquarters in New York should help stimulate the awareness of the rela- tionship between SSR concepts and UN peace- keeping doctrine, particularly within the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
More detailed scoping studies and research should be undertaken, as a follow-up to this paper, on the role of international peacekeeping forces in SSR programs and the contribution these forces can make to DDR and SALW programs.
As well, research should be undertaken that looks at the development of national strategic planning tools that work to the benefit of the inter- vention agencies and donor governments, as well as to the benefit of the local government. This will encourage the wider buy-in of local governments to SSR programs and articulate separate and inter- related objectives for each of the security portfo- lios. For external actors, a national strategy will encourage their efforts to work toward a wider development agenda that has already garnered the support of local constituencies.
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DDR Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
ECOMOG ECOWAS Monitoring Group
ECOWAS Economic Community for West African States
IFOR Implementation Force (NATO)
PSO Peace Support Operations
RENAMO Mozambican National Resistance
RUF Revolutionary United Front (Sierra Leone)
SALW Small Arms and Light Weapons
SFOR Stabilization Force
SSR Security Sector Reform
UNAMSIL UN Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone
UNCIVPOL UN Civilian Police
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Montreal – With Iraq in mind, the emphasis should be on reintegration, with disarmament and demobilization seen as necessary prerequisites. A new study released today by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) argues that countries intervening militarily in civil wars, collapsed states and transitional societies need to follow up their war planning with peace planning, giving priority to re-establishing security after the shooting is over. And they must consider the wider security agenda in their overall mandate, campaign planning and training curriculum.
The paper, entitled “Military and Postconflict Security: Implications for American, British and other Allied Force Planning and for Postconflict Iraq,” by Dr. Ann M. Fitz-Gerald of the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Defence Academy, was written before the US military operations in Iraq began but anticipates it and other military interventions in the future.
“Security is the core business of the military and security sector reform must be incorporated into their mindset, mandate and operational planning,” argues Fitz-Gerald. Referring to the American-led war on Iraq, she says: “the requirement for postconflict peace and support to the security sector remains large and looming questions must be addressed and married with any proposed strategy to install an interim government or an international custodial administration.”
She stresses that overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s regime “will result in an extensive agenda for the international community to take on, particularly with regard to Iraq’s security structures — a potential vacuum which, if left unaddressed, will have a further fractious effect on the region.”
“Military and Postconflict Security” is the latest Choices study to be released as part of IRPP’s National Security and Interoperability series. It is now available on-line in Adobe (.pdf) format on the Institute’s Web site (www.irpp.org).
Please find the summary attached.
Dr. Fitz-Gerald, a Canadian, is also the author of “Multinational Land Force Interoperability: Meeting the Challenge of Different Cultural Backgrounds in Chapter VI Peace Support Operations” (Choices, August 2002), and the co-author of “A National Security Framework for Canada” (Policy Matters, October 2002). These two papers are available free of charge on the Institute’s Web site.
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Eurozone officials have declared that a decision on a new Greek bailout could be reached by its creditors on Friday, with many being optimistic regarding a favorable ruling after the Greek government decided to give in to many of their demands in the latest negotiated proposal.
Three institutions are overseeing the new Greek bailout proposal – the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. The three creditors might offer an assessment of the Greek request for another bailout on Friday – which, if favorable, would avoid total economic collapse in the country and its exit from the Eurozone.
The situation is certainly looking better than at the beginning of the week, after a national referendum which rejected creditor demands offered the distinct impression that the country and its creditors would fail to reach middle ground in time. However, a new proposal sent by the Greek government Thursday night accepted or came close to many of the initial demands, including a controversial VAT increase and several budget cuts.
The deadline for the bailout agreement has been set for Sunday, when the Eurozone leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels. If no agreement is reached until then, Greece could default on its European Central Bank debt and be excluded from the euro currency, returning to its old drahma-based system. However, if the assessment does come out on Friday and is positive, the bailout could be approved as early as Saturday, when another Eurogroup meeting is scheduled, which would make Sunday’s summit obsolete.
Many European leaders have stated their optimism with regards to the latest Greek proposals, with French president Francois Hollande considering the program “serious and credible” and also respectful of European rules. Matteo Renzi, Italy’s Prime Minister, also said that there is certainly more optimism regarding a deal with Greece at this moment than in the past.
The news comes as the situation in Greece is expected to clarify itself one way or another until the start of next week, as the Athens government extended closures of Greek banks and a $66 personal daily withdrawal limit on ATMs until next week. The measure cannot be prolonged anymore as Greek banks, already closed for two weeks now, will run out of liquidity in the next couple of days, driving them out of business and probably sending the country on the path to full economic collapse. | https://www.americaherald.com/greek-bailout-proposal-could-be-assessed-by-friday/24432/ |
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s central bank raised its key interest rate by another half-percentage point Thursday, avoiding more aggressive steps to tame inflation that the U.S. Federal Reserve and other banks have taken.
The Bank of England raised its benchmark rate to 2.25%, matching its half-point increase last month — the biggest hike in 27 years. The decision was delayed a week as the United Kingdom mourned Queen Elizabeth II and follows economic relief measures announced by new Prime Minister Liz Truss’ government that are expected to ease inflation short term.
It is the bank’s seventh straight move to increase borrowing costs as rising food and energy prices fuel a cost-of-living crisis that is considered the worst in a generation. Despite facing a slumping currency, tight labor market and inflation near its highest in four decades, officials decided against acting more boldly as large hikes threaten to tip the economy into recession.
The U.K. decision comes during a busy week for central bank action. A day earlier, the U.S. Federal Reserve hiked rates by three-quarters of a point for the third consecutive time and forecast that more large increases were ahead.
Also Thursday, the Swiss central bank enacted its biggest-ever hike to its key interest rate.
The meeting will “tell us not only how worried policymakers are about the slide in sterling and other UK markets, but also how the government’s decision to cap household/business energy prices will translate into monetary policy,” said James Smith, developed markets economist with ING bank.
Surging inflation is a worry for the bank because it eats away at consumers’ purchasing power. The traditional tool to combat inflation is raising interest rates, which reduces demand and therefore prices, by making it more expensive to borrow money.
Inflation in the United Kingdom is running at 9.9%, close to it’s highest level since 1982 and five times higher than the Bank of England’s 2% target. The British pound is at its weakest against the dollar in 37 years, contributing to imported inflation.
The central bank warned last month that U.K. inflation would peak at 13.1% by the end of this year and trigger a prolonged recession.
Since then, Truss’ government has unveiled a massive relief program that caps spiraling energy bills for households and businesses. Economists say the measures mean inflation will peak at a lower level and then fall faster next year.
The Bank of England avoided pressure to go bigger even as other banks around the world take aggressive action against inflation fueled by the global economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and then Russia’s war in Ukraine.
This month, Sweden’s central bank raised its key interest rate by a full percentage point, while the European Central Bank delivered its largest-ever rate increase with a three-quarter point hike for the 19 countries that use the euro currency.
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How do you foil #(4x+5) (x+1)#?
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Aug 8, 2015
Answer:
Explanation:
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Born in Fallbrook and raised in Temecula and Murrieta, Courtney Lypps has grown up in an agricultural family and is an avid fan of all things green and growing. She has taken part in her family’s agricultural business from a young age. This has given her early insight into running a business and has imparted great knowledge of avocados, citrus, and wine grapes. She holds a deep respect for the land, and has vast insights to the local area and industry.
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One of Covington County's key agencies for combating crime has received a bit of additional funding to maintain those efforts.
The continued prosecution of misdemeanor and felony crimes in Covington County is assured thanks to two state grants awarded to assist local officials in meeting operational expenses.
House Speaker Seth Hammett and State Senator Jimmy Holley announced Mon-day that the 22nd Judicial District headquartered in Andalusia will re-ceive two $25,000 grants to assist local prosecutors in managing an increased caseload.
Funding for the grants comes from the Office of Prosecution Services and the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA).
"The need for this grant was apparent when one considers the vast increase in the DA's caseload," said Hammett. "I support any effort that removes the criminal element from our streets."
Holley agreed that the added funding will ensure safety of citizens in Covington County.
"Covington County residents can rest assured that those who run afoul of the law will continue to have their day in court," said Holley.
District Attorney Eugenia Loggins said one unanticipated consequence of the county's Drug Task Force has been a sharp increase in the number of cases referred to the DA's office.
"The number of methamphetamine labs busted by the Task Force and the increase of crimes associated with the drug trade has increased our caseload, but funding has not kept pace," said Loggins. "If we had not received this funding, I was going to have to cut the hours of some of our prosecutors. As it is, I had to let a secretary go because we could not afford to keep her."
Loggins said there has been an increase in crimes related to the drug trade, including domestic violence, burglary, assault and murder.
"We're seeing more crime and more violent crime than at any time since I've been DA, but this grant will help us hang on until more help comes," said Loggins. "Seth Hammett has always been a friend of law enforcement and we certainly appreciate his help." | https://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2003/03/03/da039s-office-gets-03650k/ |
Congratulations to Brighton & Hove AC athlete Amber Anning, who has been selected for the British Athletics Futures Academy programme. Futures aims to confirm an athlete’s potential to transition onto the World Class Programme (WCP) in the next cycle and support those who have highlighted the potential to win medals at future Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Amber, who has been a member of the club since she was nine years old, broke the 49-year-old British indoor Junior 400m record this year, was the youngest member of Team GB at the European Indoor Championships, where she won a silver medal in the relay. In June at Bedford she became national under 20 champion over 400m and secured her seat on the plane to the European Junior Championships in Boras, Sweden, where she ran 52.18s – the fastest time by a British Junior woman since 1982 – en route to an individual silver medal in the one-lap and a gold medal anchoring the 4x400m relay team.
Former Brighton & Hove AC athlete, 110m hurdler Cameron Fillery, from Saltdean, has also been selected for the programme. Loughborough University student Cameron had an amazing season culminating in his bronze medal at the European under 23 Championships and a silver medal at the British Championships. | https://brightonandhoveac.com/future-olympian/ |
[Research progress on the modification of guided bone regeneration membranes].
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As our Sales and Events Manager, you are responsible for leading the Events team and ensuring the department's success. Utilizing your experience and knowledge of current industry trends, you'll lead and support revenue generating strategies in each deployed market segment, rapidly adapting to evolving business needs.
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Work tactically with senior management team to develop strategies that align with Ravine Vineyard's brand standards and vision
Implement and supervise the execution of a Strategic Sales and Marketing Plan
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Responsible for weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
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Grow current account base, develop new business, explore new markets, and create additional revenue generating offerings
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Sr. Director,
What makes you a Culturati?
I enjoy learning about new cultures and understanding their similarities and differences. It’s interesting to understand and experience different cultures and how culture can impact consumer behavior.
How did you discover your Culturati nature?
Growing up many of my close friends were from other cultures. This allowed me to experience and appreciate different aspects of their cultures such as traditions, food, beliefs and language on a very personal level. As I moved into Multicultural research, this cultural appreciation grew as I saw how cultural differences can impact consumer behavior and attitudes.
What type of Culturati are you?
I’m an inquisitive Culturati. I like looking for the reason or insight behind attitudes and behaviors which are often culturally driven. Understanding how all of the research findings fit together and uncovering cultural motivations is something I truly enjoy.
What makes you a strong Culturati leader?
I have nearly 20 years of multicultural market research experience. I have managed and consulted on numerous multicultural research studies for Fortune 500 companies. I have a Bachelor of Science in business administration management with a minor in psychology from San Diego State University, as well as an MSBA, with an emphasis in Marketing. | http://culturatiresearch.com/us/meet-the-culturati/suzanne-praught/ |
- Prepare Operation breakdown.
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Working in Intellectual Property field since Feb. 2007, I have chances to assist numerous clients, including local companies/authorities, leading international companies and foreign clients in establishing, protecting and exploring their IP rights in Vietnam and in over the world.
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An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is a device that measures the three-axis attitude angle and acceleration of an object. Normally, an IMU contains three single-axis gyroscopes and three single-axis accelerometers. The accelerometer detects the acceleration signal of the object in the independent three-axis coordinate system of the carrier, while the gyroscope detects the angular velocity signal of the carrier relative to the navigation coordinate system. , To measure the angular velocity and acceleration of the object in three-dimensional space, and to calculate the posture of the object. It has very important application value in navigation.
Theoretical mechanics tells us that all motion can be decomposed into a linear motion and a rotational motion, and this inertial measurement unit is used to measure these two motions. The linear motion can be measured by the accelerometer, and the rotary motion can be measured by the gyroscope. The wonderful combination of the two makes the inertial measurement unit come into being.
Equipping more sensors for each axis in the IMU can improve its reliability. Generally speaking, the IMU should be installed on the center of gravity of the object to be measured. IMUs are mostly used in equipment that requires motion control, such as cars and robots. It is also often used in occasions that require precise displacement estimation with attitude, such as inertial navigation equipment for submarines, airplanes, missiles and spacecraft. | https://www.ericcointernational.com/info/what-is-an-inertial-measurement-unit-49520037.html |
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This course is designed help you understand the roles, functions and application of Human Resource Management within contemporary New Zealand organisations.
Students will understand the roles, functions and application of human resources management within contemporary New Zealand organisations.
Students will evaluate the interrelationship between human resource management, organisations and their environment.
Students will develop job documentation for organisational and employment purposes in a given situation.
Students will evaluate and select recruitment and selection options for a given situation.
Students will understand the role of performance management and its contribution to organisational effectiveness, retention and motivation of employees.
Students will apply principles of workplace learning to develop a training programme to meet individual and organisational needs.
Students will understand how to develop equitable reward structures from a given set of data and develop a base pay structure.
Students will apply an understanding of current legislative requirements for health and safety in the workplace to a given situation.
LO2 Apply the principles of job design to organisational effectiveness through collection of appropriate data and in creating a job profile.
LO4 Demonstrate understanding of performance management process related to organisational effectiveness, within current legislative requirements.
LO6 Develop an effective, equitable rewards structure.
LO7 dentify and apply health and safety responses that ensure legal compliance.
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Initially you should raise concerns informally with the appropriate staff member. For example if you have a concern about your course, the appropriate person might be your course lecturer, then your programme leader.
Incidents of misconduct will be addressed to ensure that maintains the highest academic standards and provides and safe and effective learning environment. Please refer to pages 31-36 of the student regulations for information about student misconduct, and to pages 51-53 for definitions of misconduct, misconduct during assessment and examples of behaviours that constitute misconduct. | https://www.ozassignments.com/assignment/342612-human-resource-management-assignment-brief |
Olivier Martelly is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and successful music producer.
Graduating from Florida International University with a degree in business management, Olivier has been involved in multiple business ventures and philanthropic projects in his home country of Haiti. In 2007, Martelly founded a music production company, Big O Productions. As the founder and director, Olivier has successfully organized concerts featuring Sean Kingston, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, and Swizz Beatz. Big O Productions specializes in writing and producing a wide variety of musical genres, including zouk, techno, compas, R&B, reggae and dance.
Olivier’s passion for music began at an early age. Born into a musically talented family, Olivier inherited his love and passion for music from his father, Michel. Olivier quickly became obsessed with music and the emotions and positive experiences he could create for others during his concerts. Today, Olivier has expanded his impact by working with other talented artists during the production, concerts, and event management aspects.
Outside of the music industry and working with artists, Olivier is also involved in community projects and is committed to helping others through his philanthropic work. In 2012, Olivier was involved in the Soccer for Change campaign, a project managed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, dedicated to building soccer fields to have a positive impact on children. From helping create safe soccer fields for the youth of Haiti, to helping up-and-coming musicians, Olivier enjoys the opportunity to give back and work with others.
Oliver is a devoted husband and father, and enjoys traveling with his family and exploring the outdoors. Many of the same childhood memories that Olivier had growing up, he is able to recreate for his children. | http://oliviermartellymiami.com/ |
Magamba Network, Zimbabwe’s trailblazing creative and digital media organisation, is looking for a young, dynamic Project Officer. The individual would be joining Magamba TV, one of the country’s leading production houses for political satire and comedy shows. Magamba TV is an exciting digital media project focused on creating cutting edge online video content to reach young people with progressive and humorous information. The content will be news on social, political and cultural issues packaged in a creative, satirical way to reach young viewers online and on social media.
We are looking for a talented Project Officer who would run the project on a day-to-day basis, oversee personnel, plan productions and provide creative input to this vibrant digital media project. The individual would need to be skilled in project management, have good interpersonal skills and be passionate about media. A background in satire, content creation and script-writing/and or acting is a bonus.
- The successful candidate will be a creative and experienced media professional with a background in film, journalism and/or digital media, as well as competencies in project management.
- It is key that the individual is a team player and works well in a collaborative environment.
- The candidate should be methodical, well organised and have the ability to manage multiple priorities. This post is being offered on a fixed term contract basis.
Show Production
- Conceptualising and planning all TV & film productions and projects; Coordinating the production of Magamba TV shows with crew and cast;
- Assisting with script writing; Acting in episodes where possible
Project Management
- Coordinating the Magamba TV project;
- Organizing the launches of new seasons;
- Organizing the marketing of all productions;
- Liaising with project partners and funders;
- Drafting proposals for fundraising;
- Providing narrative and progress reports to project partners;
- Participating in mid-term and final project evaluations;
- Creating and implementing project monitoring frameworks, indicators, targets, data collection tools, M&E plans;
- Timeously provide monthly and quarterly reports on all activities, outputs and relevant outcome indicators;
- Ensuring that project runs within budget;
- Work as part of Magamba Network team in contributing towards meeting the organisation’s objectives;
- Manage any staff assigned to work for the project;
- Any other duties assigned by the Operations Manager
Press, Marketing & Social Media
- Devise and manage a social media strategy that enhances the profile of the project and utilise all digital platforms;
- Running social media for Magamba TV and other related accounts;
- Managing all Magamba TV online platforms including the website;
- Assist in designing graphics and publicity materials;
- Increase online audiences via all social media platforms.
The above list is not exhaustive and any other duties may be included.
The person
- BS degree in Film studies, Cinematography, Media, Film, Communication or related field;
- Creative and artistic;
- Proven work experience as a Project Officer;
- Solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages;
- Good report writing and proposal writing skills;
- Command of written and spoken English;
- Good computer skills;
- Tech savvy and experience in social media management;
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal skills, must have self-confidence;
- Passionate about satire, comedy and using arts for social change
Recruitment Timeline: | https://www.newjobs263.co.zw/jobs/magamba-tv-project-officer/ |
By the time five paintings by Leon Golub were included in the exhibition New Images of Man at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1959, Golub had already begun to conceive of representation as a form of political engagement. He painted L’homme de Palmyre (1962) in Paris, where he lived with his family from 1959 to 1964. The figure was inspired by reclining figures, representing spirits of the deceased, carved on tombs outside the ancient Semitic city of Palmyra in the region of Homs, Syria. In contrast, Golub’s figure achieves no repose. Instead, scabbed paint encrusts the enormous body like so many scars. The layers of pigment accreted and removed imply the violence of the palette knives and caustic solvents he used to add and scrape away thick layers of paint.
By disordering an ancient classical form, L’homme de Palmyre shows the figure as a ruin, both scarred and eroded, yet enduring. For viewers who had lived through World War II and still struggled to reconcile their understanding of humanity with the horrors of the Holocaust, L’homme de Palmyre – like the tomb figures on which it was based – can be considered an elegy for the lost possibility of a timeless and venerable human tradition. Isolated on the canvas, simultaneously coherent and dissolving, Golub harnesses the materiality of paint, the monumentality of the figure, and the stillness of the painting to stage a confrontation between the human viewer and a crumbling human ideal.
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American painter Leon Golub first studied art history at the University of Chicago, and earned an MFA degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1950. During World War II he served as a cartographer in the U.S. Army, mostly stationed in Europe. After the war he worked as a teacher and received some attention for his early artistic work. From 1959 to 1964 he lived in Paris and later moved to New York. In 1959 his work was featured in the New Images of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among such artists as Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Francis Bacon (1909–1992), and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). As an active part of the Vietnam-era peace movement, Golub’s paintings were always engaged with themes of war, human brutality, and power. His large-scale paintings depict human figures and their brutal actions in an expressionistic style. He would scrape paint from the canvas to create a rough, blistered surface. Golub is also known for his portraits, based on photographs of powerful public figures. In 2000 the Dublin Museum of Modern Art honored him with a major retrospective. | https://postwar.hausderkunst.de/en/artworks-artists/artworks/lhomme-de-palmyre-der-mensch-aus-palmyra |
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, industry, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and more in general to the public and private sector.
Task Force: (nano) TiO2 safety communication
The Task Force aims to adequately and accurate cover the scientific findings regarding TiO2 and TiO2 nano safety and to provide independent and transparent scientific opinion and advice to stakeholders. The selection criteria for available studies will be applied to find the best available in vivo and in vitro evidence; the later might serve to understand underlying mechanisms.
The deliverables will include a report to be published in a scientific journal on recent evidence on genotoxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicityof TiO2 considering inhalation, as well as oral and dermal route of exposure. Information will be collected from NSC/ EU funded projects as well as from recent publications in the scientific literature and recent publically available reports. An opinion on the CLH for TiO2 dossier to ECHA, EFSA, NIA, CEPE, TDMA will also be delivered and (generic) guidelines for nano-safty state of the art to be used by regulators (REACH and CLH regulation). The Task Force will also try to propose a scheme for communicating scientific evidence regarding nanomaterial safety findings in the most efficient and transparent way.
The Task Foce launched in January 2018 and further details can be found here. | https://www.nanosafetycluster.eu/task-forces/active-task-forces/proposed-task-force-on-tio2.html |
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No one should have to conform or assimilate in order to participate in the design and creation of technology; however, this is the reality facing many students today. Prior research suggests that the issues surrounding lack of participation in computing and engineering education among underrepresented minorities goes beyond simply access or obtaining “critical mass”. Instead, it points to an exclusive, dominant culture that is often toxic for students outside the stereotypical mold. From being obligated to participate in activities and projects that do not speak to their values, to unspoken and unknown requirements of prior experience; non-dominant students are marginalized in ways that span the socio-technical learning environment. My dissertation investigates the design of learning activities and educational technology for physical computing in order to support inclusivity and equity. The work provides a way to conceptualize and frame the design and analysis of the learning environment from the perspective of values. The analysis of the learning environments in these studies provided an understanding of what aspects of the learning environment supported and hindered students in shaping the experience around their values. The studies captured real-world and laboratory experiences of novice learners working with physical computing tools. The investigations offered insights into the types of obstacles, breakdowns and barriers they are faced with, along with an understanding of how the tools contributed to this. By continued exploration of the learning activities and tools to support students’ values we will build our understanding for how to support a diversity of students to learn about and use computing in ways that are personally meaningful.
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From Berlioz, as from Wagner in Germany, the whole modern French musical movement derives. This great artist, still not sufficiently appreciated, broke the conventions of classicism by opening all the ways in which his successors set out. In 1829, with the Symphonie fantastique, he inaugurates new processes of development (especially the system of the conductor motif), creates the symphonic poem and renews the art of orchestration. He claims the rights of symphonic music in France when it seemed there was no place other than the theater. C. Saint-Saens and E. Lalo, initiators of the rebirth that occurs after 1870, are to a large extent his disciples and spiritual heirs.
Franck played a large part in this renewal of French music, especially for chamber music and organ music: while Lalo and Saint-Saens were above all brilliant harmonists, he maintained the tradition of contrapuntal writing. His disciples, V. d’Indy, E. Chausson, A. Magnard, G.-M. Witkowsky, J. Guy Ropartz, continued in the path he traced, saving polyphonic traditions and thus facilitating the resumption of counterpoint practices we are witnessing today.
Lalo with his orchestral and harmonic researches (especially in Namouna), and E. Chabrier with his exquisite sense of harmony, and with his subtle combinations of timbres, paved the way for Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy and Paul Dukas.
According to ehealthfacts.org, the opera house is now reopening to the French. Succeeding Gounod, who appears as a leader, G. Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Massenet create works such as Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Manon and Werther, which exerted great influence throughout Europe. Gustave Charpentier (Louise, 1900), Alfred Bruneau, Georges Hüe, Gabriel Pierné, Raoul Laparra, Henri Rabaud, Gabriel Dupont, Samuel Rousseau, Henry Février, etc. In light music, Léo Delibes and Emmanuel Chabrier stood out, and operetta, with J. Offenbach, France Hervé, A.-Ch. Lecocq, Claude Terrasse, André Messager, continued the brilliant tradition, still illustrated today by the scores of Reynaldo Hahn and M. Yvain. However, the great operas that renewed the conception of opera in France were not by opera specialists, but by composers who dedicated themselves to it incidentally: C. Debussy (Pelleas et Mélisande, 1902), P. Dukas (Ariane et Barbe – Bleue), M. Ravel (L’heure espagnole, L’Enfant et les sortilèges), A. Roussel, A. Honegger (Judith, Antigone), D. Milhaud, etc.
Around 1890, many French artists made themselves completely free from the Wagnerian influence, instinctively going back to the abandoned tradition of the masters of the century. XVII and XVIII. Chopin’s anti-Germanic influence also contributed to this. Gabriel Fauré, in his lyrics and his piano pieces, of refined writing, obtains special coloring effects with a singular technique of modulation; Eric Satie in the piano pieces finds a little groping aggregations of notes that will soon become commonplace; finally Debussy writes his admirable melodies on Verlaine’s poems, his quartet, the Prélude à l’Après – midi d’un Faune, and renews the genre of vocal lyric, the technique of the quartet, the form of the symphonic poem and the art of orchestration. He imposes a conception of music as new as his technical procedures and renews the language of music. He rejects the laborious classical development, seeking a more immediate lyrical expression. With a few notes, with a few chords he expresses the subtlest feelings, the most fleeting impressions; and shunning the outward manifestations of force, he is able to discreetly express the most intense feelings. With him the ranges and modes of antiquity and the East re-enter music.
Meanwhile also M. Ravel, a revolutionary who relied on the past to innovate, like his teacher G. Fauré also created new means of expression. The so-called “impressionist” school, however, reduced Debussy’s marvelous intuitions into formulas while drawing every possible bias from the compositions of Fauré and Ravel; and he sacrificed too much to nuance, he was too pleased with hues and grace. Igor Stravinsky came to free the French musicians from the magic circle, who still ignored the experience of A. Schönberg and Bela Bartók, showing them the possibility of new effects obtained with polytonality, with the use of a singular polyphony opposite to vertical style of the Impressionists, but far from the horizontal style of the Franckian school, finally with the adoption of a metric dynamism that radically transformed the conception of rhythm then dominant. Stravinsky, honored the brutal expression of force.
It should be noted that the Impressionist school did not represent all French music. P. Dukas built his robust work on the sidelines, France Schmitt built colossal architectures, while V. d’Indy built powerful lyric dramas. M. Ravel himself in the Valses nobles et sentimentales used a harmonic style that announced Stravinsky, and Debussy reacted to the disciples seeking but more naked, less congested music.
After the World War we see A. Honegger and D. Milhaud, reacting against impressionism by making use of a vigorous polyphony; the first applies atonality without rigor, the second polytonality, reducing the procedures of Bela Bartók and Stravinsky to a system. A new romanticism is manifested in their works and they are not afraid to build oratories of colossal proportions.
Other young people, including France Poulenc and G. Auric, with less ambitions, tend to like (following the directions of the old Eric Satie) attracted by popular music and jazz.
Meanwhile Maurice Ravel, by taking over the new means offered by polytonality and the new counterpoint, keeps himself at the head of the French school, while A. Roussel acquires unexpected importance with vigorous and original works in which he shows the double aspect of his ingenuity, made of energy and of grace.
If we now consider the vast historical framework of French music as a whole, we can easily observe how different and sometimes apparently opposing elements contribute to it, born especially from two great trends: one aimed at simplicity and the strength of the popular soul. (Jannequin, Lulli, Méhul, Auber, Berlioz, Bizet, Charpentier, Honegger, Milhaud), the other to the most refined taste and sensitivity (Costeley, Couperin, Rameau, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel). And, to understand the spirit of the French musical tradition, both these historical currents must be taken into account. | https://www.cheeroutdoor.com/france-music-berlioz-and-the-modern-school.html |
When an offence is committed and investigation starts, the police have two objects in view. The first is the collection of information, and the second is the finding of the offender.
In this process, the police question a number of persons, some of whom may be only witnesses and some who may later figure as the person or persons charged. While questioning such persons, the police may not caution them and the police must leave the persons free to make whatever statements they wish to make.
There are two checks at this stage–
- What the witnesses or the suspects say is not be used at the trial, and
- a person cannot be compelled to answer a question, which answer may incriminate him.
It is to be noticed that at that stage though the police may have suspicion against the offender, there is no difference between him and other witnesses, who are questioned. Those who turn out to be witnesses and not accused are expected to give evidence at the trial and their former statements are not evidence.
In so far as those ultimately charged are concerned, they cannot be witnesses, save exceptionally, and their statements are barred under s. 162 of the Code and their confessions, under s. 24 of the Indian Evidence Act.
Section 162 of the Code makes statements reduced into writing inadmissible for any purpose except those indicated, but leaves the door open for the operation of s. 27 of the Indian Evidence Act.
Section 27 states “Provided that, when any fact is deposed to as discovered in consequence of information received from a person accused of any offence, in the custody of a police officer, so much of such information, whether it amounts to a confession or not, as relates distinctly to the fact thereby discovered, may be proved.
Their confessions are only relevant and admissible, if they are recorded as laid down in s. 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure after due caution by the Magistrate and it is made clear that they are voluntary.
Section 164 confers the power of record confessions, on Magistrates of stated rank during investigation or at any time afterwards before the commencement of the enquiry or trial. Such confessions are to be recorded after due caution to the person making the confession and only if there is reason to believe that they are voluntary.
Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum
These rules are based upon the maxim: Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum (no one should be compelled to incriminate himself). In an address to Police Constables on their duties, Hawkins, J., (later, Lord Brampton), observed:
“Neither Judge, magistrate nor juryman, can interrogate an accused person ……….. or require him to answer the questions tending to incriminate himself. Much less, then ought a constable to do so, whose duty as regards that person is simply to arrest and detain him in safe custody.”
Rules of common law relating to confessions
In Ibrahim v. Emperor , Lord Sumner gave the history of rules of common law relating to confessions, and pointed out that they were “as old as Lord Hale“.
Lord Sumner observed that in Reg. v. Thompson and earlier in The King v. Jane Warrickshall (1783); it was ruled (to quote from the second case) :
“A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it.”
Lord Sumner added:
“It is not that the law presumes such statements to be untrue but from the danger of receiving such evidence Judges have thought it better to reject it for the due administration of justice:. Accordingly, when hope or fear were not in question, such statements were long regularly admitted as relevant, though with some reluctance, and subject to strong warnings as to their weight.”
Even so, in the judgment referred to by Lord Sumner, Parke, B., bewailed that the rule had been carried too far out of “too much tenderness towards prisoners in this matter”, and observed:
“I confess that I cannot look at the decisions without some shame, when I consider what objections have prevailed to prevent the reception of confessions in evidence ……… Justice and common-sense have too frequently been sacrificed at the shrine of mercy.”
Whatever the views of Parke, B., Lord Sumner points out that “when Judges excluded such evidence, it was rather explained by their observations on the duties of policemen than justified by their reliance on rules of law.”
Lord Sumner has then traced the history of the law in subsequent years. In 1905, Channel, J., in Reg v. Knight and Thavre ((1905) 20 Cox C.C. 711) referred to the position of an accused in custody thus:
“When he has taken any one into custody ………. he ought not to question the prisoner ……. I am not aware of any distinct rule of evidence that, if such improper questions are asked, the answers to them are inadmissible, but there is clear authority for saying that the Judge at the trial may in his discretion refuse to allow the answers to be given in evidence.”
Five years later, the same learned Judge in Rex v. Booth and Jones ((1910) 5 Cr. App. Rep. 177) observed:
“The moment you have decided to charge him and practically got him into custody, then, inasmuch as a Judge cannot ask a question or a Magistrate, it is ridiculous to suppose that a policeman can. But there is no actual authority yet, that if a policeman does ask a question it is inadmissible; what happens is that the Judge says it is not advisable to press the matter.”
It is to be noticed that Lord Sumner noted the difference of approach to the question by different Judges, and observed that:
“Logically these objections all go to the weight and not to the admissibility of the evidence. What a person having knowledge about the matter in issue says of it is itself relevant to the issue as evidence against him. That he made the statement under circumstances of hope, fear, interest or otherwise strictly goes only to its weight ……. Even the rule which excludes evidence of statements made by a prisoner, when they are induced by hope in authority, is a rule of policy.”
The Judicial Committee did not express any opinion as to what the law should be. The state of English law in 1861 when these rules became a part of the Indian law in a statutory form was thus that the police could question any person including a suspect. The statements of persons who turned out to be mere witnesses were entirely inadmissible, they being supposed to say what they could, on oath, in Court. Statements of suspects after caution were admissible but not before the caution was administered or they were taken in custody; but confessions were, as a rule, excluded if they were induced by hope, fear, threat, etc.
The effect of not giving the caution
When the Indian law was enacted in 1861, it is commonplace that the statute was drafted in England. Two departures were made, and they were,
(1) that no statement made to a police officer by any person was provable at the trial which included the accused person, and
(2) that no caution was to be given to a person making a statement.
In so far as the accused was concerned, he was protected from his own folly in confessing to a charge both after and before his custody unless he respectively did so in the immediate presence of a Magistrate, or his confession was recorded by a Magistrate. In either event, the confession had to be voluntary and free from taint of threat, promise, fear, etc.
The law was framed to protect a suspect against too much garrulity before he knew that he was in danger which sense would dawn on his when arrested and yet left the door open to voluntary statements which might clear him if made but which might not be made if a caution was administered. Without the caution an innocent suspect is not a position to know his danger, while a person arrested knows his position only too well. Without the caution, the line of distinction ceased, and the law very sensibly left out the statements altogether.
English Law under Indian Evidence Act
The English law then was taken as a model for accused in custody. Section 27 of Indian Evidene act, which is framed as an exception has rightly been held as an exception to ss. 24 to 26 and not only to s. 26. The words of the section were taken bodily from The King v. Lockhart (1785), where it was said :
“But it should seem that so much of the confession as relates strictly to the fact discovered by it may be given in evidence, for the reason of rejecting extorted confessions is the apprehension that the prisoner may have been thereby induced to say what is false; but the fact discovered shows that so much of the confession as immediately relates to it is true.”
That case followed immediately after Warrickshall’s case (1783), and summarised the law laid down in the earlier case. The accused in that case had made a confession which was not receivable, as it was due to promise of favour. As a result of the confession, the goods stolen were found concealed in a mattress. It was contended that the evidence of the finding of the articles should not be admitted.
Nares. J., with Mr. Baron Eyre observed:
“It is a mistaken notion, that the evidence of confessions and facts which have been obtained from prisoners by promises or threats, is to be rejected from a regard to public faith; no such rule ever prevailed. The idea is novel in theory, and would be as dangerous in practice as it is repugnant to the general principles of criminal law. Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are or are not entitled to credit …….
This principle respecting confessions has no application whatever as to the admission or rejection of facts, whether the knowledge of them be obtained in consequence of an extorted confession, or whether arises from any other source; for a fact, if it exists at all, must exist invariably in the same manner, whether the confession from which it is derived be in other respects true of false.”
Another case is noted in the footnote in the English Report Series. In February Session, 1784, Dorothy Mosey was tried for shop-lifting and a confession had been made by her and goods found in consequence of it, as in the above case. Buller, J., (present Mr. Baron Perryn, who agreed), said:
“A prisoner was tried before me (Buller, J.) where the evidence was just as it is here. I stopped all the witnesses when they came to the confession. The prisoner was acquitted. There were two learned Judges on the bench, who told me, that although what the prisoner said was not evidence, yet that any facts arising afterwards may be given in evidence, though they were done in consequence of the confession.
This point, though it did not affect the prisoner at the bar, was stated to all the Judges; and the line drawn was, that although confessions improperly obtained cannot be received in evidence, yet that the acts done afterwards may be given in evidence, though they were done in consequence of the confession.”
Where, however, no fact was discovered, the statement was not held admissible.
In Rex v. David Jenkins ((1822) Russ. & Ry. 492 : 168 E.R. 914), the prisoner was convicted before Bayley, J., (present Park, J.), of stealing certain gowns and other articles. He was induced by a promise from the prosecutor to confess his guilt, and after that confession, he carried the officer to a particular house, but the property was not found. The evidence of the confession was not received; the evidence of his carrying the officer to the house as abovementioned was.
But Bayley, J., referred the point for consideration of the Judges. The Judges were of opinion that,
“the evidence was not admissible and the conviction was therefore wrong. The confession was excluded, being made under the influence of a promise it could not be relied upon, and the acts of the prisoner, under the same influence, not being confirmed by the finding of the property, were open to the same objection. The influence which might produce a groundless confession might also produce a groundless conduct.”
It would appear from this that s. 27 of the Indian Evidence Act has been taken bodily from the English law. In both the laws there is greater solicitude for a person who makes a statement at a stage when the danger in which he stands has not been brought home to him than for one who knows of the danger.
In English law, the caution gives him the necessary warning, and in India the fact of his being in custody takes the place of caution which is not to be given. There is, thus, a clear distinction made between a person not accused of an offence nor in the custody of a police officer and one who is.
Categorization of persons for the admissibility of confession
The law has thus made a classification of accused persons into two:
(1) those who have the danger brought home to them by detention on a charge; and
(2) those who are yet free.
In the former category are also those persons who surrender to the custody by words or action. The protection given to these two classes is different. In the case of persons belonging to the second category the law has ruled that their statements are not admissible, and in the case of the first category, only that portion of the statement is admissible as is guaranteed by the discovery of a relevant fact unknown before the statement to the investigating authority.
That statement may even be confessional in nature, as when the person in custody says; “I pushed him down such and such mineshaft”, and the body of the victim is found as a result, and it can be proved that his death was due to injuries received by a fall down the mineshaft.
Reference
State of U.P v. Deoman Updhyaya, AIR 1960 SC 1125
( A.C. 599)
( 2 Q.B. 12)
((1783) 1 Leach 263; 168 E.R. 234)
Reg. v. Baldry ((1852) 5 Cox C.C. 523)
((1785) 1 Leach 386: 168 E.R. 295 and footnote to (1783) I Leach 263)
((1783) I Leach 263: 168 E.R. 234)
See Rex v. Richard Griffin ((1809) Russ. & Ry. 151: 168 E.R. 732) and Rex v. Francis Jones ((1809) Russ. & Ry. 152).
((1822) Russ. & Ry. 492: 168 E.R. 914), | https://thelawmatics.in/confession-how-law-was-originated-and-developed/ |
It is interesting that some of the greatest leaders of all time did not become influential after they were given a position. They were leaders who changed their world and left legacies of impact that are being felt even today.
Some of these would be people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus Christ, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and many others. The majority of these leaders did not have any formal position or authority. The lives of these leaders were not defined by their position. Yet, these leaders changed the course of history. Their leadership was defined by the impact they had on the lives of others. Leadership then is about what you do, not where you’re seated. Because, many sit in the place of position but do nothing. Leadership means a person is leading or functioning out in front, leaving a wake of influence in those behind them.
Depositing the vision, and winning the hearts of people, along with structuring a system of reproduction to carry the legacy becomes a lasting indomitable force in any movement.
Titles are simply the sign that define the function and responsibility of the individual occupying that position. However, we do not need a title or wait on a formal position to get something done. Start where you are! People are leading long before they possess a sacred chair of leadership. Leading doesn’t start in the position, it is a lifestyle of the individual.
Many wait a lifetime for a onetime experience to kick off their lives and miss the process of each day. A journey of thousand steps begins with one. Start where you are. | https://leadingnations.com/2016/12/06/its-about-what-you-do/ |
Over 150 environmental and social justice organizations worldwide on Thursday called upon the Biden Administration to fully ratify the 1989 Basel Convention on global waste management as a matter of urgency in alignment with the Administration’s new emphasis on environmental justice. In a letter to the President, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, and Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Brenda Mallory, the groups called out the glaring contradiction between the Administration’s strong stated emphasis on environmental justice domestically and the poor record of the United States on those issues internationally.
“The US is the only developed country in the world that fails to control global dumping of its toxic and nuisance waste,” said Jim Puckett of the Basel Action Network. “Every day we send hundreds of container loads of dirty and mixed plastics, and hazardous electronic wastes to developing countries — all in violation of international law and the principles of environmental justice.”
Thursday, BAN published new monthly data showing that the March exports of US plastic wastes to non-OECD countries surged to 27,600 metric tonnes per month, with much of the increase going to India. Wastes exported to developing countries are often poorly or incompletely recycled, with much of the plastic scrap dumped and burned on open land. Such burning and the failure to properly recycle such wastes also exacerbates the current climate crisis, that the Biden Administration has placed as another environmental priority.
Environmental justice policies aim to ensure that poorer or disenfranchised communities do not bear a disproportionate cost of environmental impacts and harm, but rather that all peoples are equally provided with opportunities to live in a pollution-free environment. In place for 32 years, the Basel Convention is an instrument to achieve this goal. It is designed to prevent developing countries from being harmed by traders wishing to export plastic and hazardous wastes and avoid the true costs of responsible and complete disposal and recycling at home. The United States, one of the world’s most wasteful countries per capita, remains one of but eight countries in the world that has not ratified the 188-member accord. Meanwhile, every day US actors continue to export unwanted, toxic, and highly polluting wastes with impunity to developing countries, which are ill-equipped to deal with them.
“If the Biden Administration is serious about solving the pollution and climate crises and fighting for environmental justice for frontline communities wherever they may be, they will not delay another minute in pushing for ratification of the Basel Convention this year,” said Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar.
In the letter, the Biden Administration is asked to reverse years of US waste opportunism and align itself with the European Union and the other developed countries that have ratified the Basel Convention and have agreed to prohibit all hazardous waste exports to developing countries.
Full ratification of the Basel Convention by the US would go a long way towards preventing marine and terrestrial pollution from plastic wastes, as well as global pollution from the informal smelting of plastics and electronic waste, conducted at a massive scale in many parts of the world. | |
This knowledge area focuses on enabling an individual to perform SE, and addresses the roles of individuals in the SE profession, how individuals are developed for and assessed in these roles, and what ethical behavior is expected of them. Once an individual is enabled to perform SE using the techniques described here, the individual can apply the knowledge found in Part 3, Systems Engineering and Management, about how to perform SE.
Part 5, Enabling Systems Engineering, to which this knowledge area belongs, explores how systems engineering (SE) is enabled at three levels of organization: the business or enterprise, the team, and the individual. Ultimately, individuals perform SE tasks within a team or business.
To download a PDF of all of Part 5 (including this knowledge area), please click here.
For the sake of brevity, the term “business” is used to mean “business or enterprise” throughout most of this knowledge area. For a nuanced explanation of what distinguishes a business from a enterprise, see Enabling Systems Engineering.
Topics
Each part of the SEBoK is composed of knowledge areas (KAs). Each KA groups topics together around a theme related to the overall subject of the part. This KA contains four topics:
- Roles and Competencies discusses allocation of SE roles, which sets of competencies correspond to particular roles, and what competency models are current in the SE world.
- Assessing Individuals discusses how to determine the level of individual proficiency and quality of performance.
- Developing Individuals explains how SE competency is acquired.
- Ethical Behavior describes the ethical standards that apply to individuals and organizations.
Context
The following brief review of terms and concepts provides context for the topics in this knowledge area.
Individuals, Teams, Businesses, and Enterprises
The ability to perform SE resides in individuals, teams, and businesses. An expert systems engineer possesses many competencies at a high level of proficiency, but no one can be highly proficient in all possible competencies. Collectively, a team and a business might possess all needed competencies at a high level of proficiency. A business performs the full range of SE roles, may have dedicated functions to perform specific SE roles, and may have a strategy for combining individual, team, and business abilities to execute SE on a complex activity. Individuals within the business may be responsible for performing one or more roles.
For descriptions of SE roles and competencies from the literature, see Roles and Competencies).
Competency, Capability, Capacity, and Performance
The final execution and performance of SE is a function of competency, capability, and capacity. This knowledge area focuses on individual competency.
The discussion of SE competency, capability, capacity, and performance is complex. For example:
- There is disagreement in the literature about whether the term competency applies to the individual level only or can be correctly used at the team, project, and enterprise levels as well.
- Capability encompasses not just human capital, but processes, machines, tools, and equipment as well. Even if an individual has an outstanding level of competency, having to perform within a limited timeframe might degrade the results. Capacity accounts for this.
Systems Engineering Competency
Competency is built from knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes (KSAA). What is inherent in an individual may be subsequently developed through education, training, and experience. Traditionally, SE competencies have been developed primarily through experience, but recently, education and training have taken on a much greater role.
SE competency must be viewed through its relationships to the systems life cycle, the SE discipline, and the domain in which the engineer practices SE.
Competency Models
SE competency models can be used to explicitly state and actively manage the SE competencies within in an organization.
Competency models for SE typically include
- technical KSAAs;
- “soft” KSAAs such as leadership and communications;
- KSAAs that focus on the domains within which SE is to be practiced;
- a set of applicable competencies; and
- a scale for assessing the level of individual proficiency in each competency (often subjective, since proficiency is not easily measured).
Contexts in which individual competency models are typically used include:
- Recruitment and Selection: Competencies define categories for behavioral event interviewing (BEI), increasing the validity and reliability of selection and promotion decisions.
- Human Resources Planning and Placements: Competencies are used to identify individuals to fill specific positions and/or identify gaps in key competency areas.
- Education, Training, and Development: Explicit competency models let employees know which competencies are valued within their organization. Curriculum and interventions can be designed around desired competencies.
See Roles and Competencies for descriptions of publicly available SE competency models.
References
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The U of M’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) has a network of Research and Outreach Centers throughout Minnesota. One of them is the West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) in Morris. Researchers there are involved in a number of projects with the ultimate goal of reducing fossil fuel consumption in production agriculture.
For instance, the GHGs carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are produced during the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer, which is widely used in agriculture. But by using renewable energy sources, “we could replace 100 percent of the fertilizer made with fossil fuels,” says Mike Reese, WCROC director of renewable energy. WCROC’s Renewable Hydrogen and Ammonia Pilot Plant uses a portion of the wind energy generated from a nearby turbine to produce fertilizer. The University is also leading a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Proton OnSite, a Connecticut-based firm, to develop a small-scale ammonia synthesis system using water and air, powered by wind energy.
Read the entire article at Minnesota Alumni. | https://wcroc.cfans.umn.edu/news/greener-farms |
Drag 2 updates the box mod form factor of the original Drag and infuses it with performance improvements. Made by Voopoo, Drag 2 uses the updated GENE Fit Chip for elite performance in both wattage and temperature control modes.
Its power efficiency is an excellent 95%, and now draws up to 177W from dual 18650 batteries in series (batteries sold separately). Drag's performance can also be fine-tuned using Voopoo's PC application.
Three power modes are available to use in just a few button presses, with the user able to select from Battery Mod (battery-saving mode), Flavor Mode, and Cloud Mode (high power mode). | https://www.mistwoodvape.com/products/voopoo-drag-2-tc-mod |
If you receive a phone call from an IRS employee who needs your Social Security or bank-account number to process your “stimulus” payment, hang up. The caller doesn’t actually work for the federal tax agency.
“The IRS is never going to call you and ask for your personal information,” says Tom Murdock, an assistant special agent in the Internal Revenue Service’s Seattle field office, which also oversees Oregon.
A lot of us think we can identify scams like this, that we’re savvy and won’t be fooled. But with the coronavirus pandemic both overwhelming hospitals and upending the economy, we’re all unnerved and looking for answers. And things are moving fast.
That’s why a popular scam right now heralds in-home test kits for COVID-19, the deadly respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. There are no such FDA-approved tests, “but that could change tomorrow,” says Marc Rose, an investigator at the Multnomah County Auditor’s office. “We don’t know. That’s why people are falling prey to this.”
The auditor’s office is warning people to “watch out for emails or texts that purport to be from the Centers for Disease Control or another authority” and to avoid clicking on links embedded in emails or texts. “Links are often used to embed malware or, in ‘phishing’ scams, to lure you into providing confidential information.”
The point is: You shouldn’t take unsolicited emails, texts or phone calls at face value. The more encouraging the message -- such as claims of “cures” or commercial treatments for COVID-19, or claims about speeding up the disbursement of a check from the government -- the more wary you should be.
And, again, don’t assume you can always tell the difference between what’s legit and what’s not. The con artists who impersonate IRS employees, for example, are practiced at manipulating people.
“They can be very convincing,” Murdock says. “Even threatening at times.”
Keep in mind that you will not have to verify or provide information to receive a stimulus -- or to use the official language for it, “Economic Impact” -- check. The payments that are part of the $2-trillion federal law aimed at keeping the economy afloat will go out automatically, with most of them direct-deposited into bank accounts. If you file a tax return, the feds have all the information they need to provide you with your benefit.
So do not, under any circumstance, give out your bank account, debit account or PayPal account information to anyone who calls you up.
The best way to get accurate information about the federal payments -- and to report potential scams about them -- is to go to IRS.gov.
And, to reiterate, probably the worst way to get information about the payments -- or about the coronavirus outbreak -- is through unsolicited phone calls, emails or texts.
“This is such an unprecedented time,” points out Rose, the auditor’s office investigator. “Our guard is down. That’s exactly what fraudsters are counting on.”
Law enforcement is actively pursuing these scammers, adds Murdock, the IRS agent. And they’re seeing some success.
“We’ve taken down large organizations involved in phone scams,” he says. “We’re good at investigating and prosecuting these crimes, and we’re getting better.”
But the con artists are often smart, and they evolve in response to enforcement efforts.
“People have to be vigilant,” Murdock says. “They have to protect themselves.”
-- Douglas Perry
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Beginning of the Semester: Instruction should start the first day of class - distribution of paperwork, uniforms, and locks will take part of the class; the remainder of the class can include worksheets, use of technology (heart rate monitors, digi-walkers), instructional videos, Fit For Life textbook, teaching concepts and principles of movement, body mechanics, critical elements of skills, walking, low intensity activity (table tennis, bowling).
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Instant Activity: Teachers should offer several different activities to accommodate the interests of all students -- not just basketball; a maximum of 15 minutes; should not take priority over instructional time.
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Warm-up Activity: Should have physical or health related objectives--relevant, meaningful, challenging; variety to stimulate interest and challenge the students (aerobics/step/kickboxing/dyna-bands); a maximum of 15 minutes; should not take priority over instructional time; group/station activity or walk/run laps - not both.
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Skill Activity: Instructional methods should be based on the philosophy of all students active and engaged in learning; the skills should be practiced individually, with a partner, and/or in small groups; we have adequate equipment for each student in a class to have their own piece of equipment to promote maximum time on task; one class per activity to facilitate best use of space and equipment.
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Planning: Meet frequently to collaborate as a department for designing lessons and discussing utilization of space and equipment; review the new Health and Physical Education Standards of Learning to align activities with standards.
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Modifications: The skill levels of all students should be assessed during skill practice; modification of rules, equipment, boundaries, number of players on teams, etc. should be considered to promote the successful participation of every student; teams should be formed with the skill levels of students taken into consideration; whenever possible, just as in all organized recreational activities, opposing teams should be formed that are at comparable skill levels to make the games challenging; one whole class playing against another whole class is not an acceptable teaching strategy or learning environment.
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Challenges: Provide the students with goals; design rubrics to challenge all students - allow for success; make activities relevant and meaningful; communicate expectations of performance to students
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Assessment: 20% safety, 40% skill development & active movement, 20% skill assessment and 20% written/project work: use of digital cameras, camcorders, flip cameras; peer and teacher evaluation of critical elements of fundamental skills; design of rubrics and communication of expectations to all students
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Teaching considerations: All students active and engaged in learning; continuous teacher reinforcement of the learning; ongoing assessment both subjective and objective; development of skills for lifetime participation in physical activity
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION--YOUR BEST HEALTH INSURANCE! | http://sbo.nn.k12.va.us/pe/curriculum.html |
The colour of one's eye may be the key to success.
American scientists who conducted some tests concluded that brown-eyed people performed better at reaction time, but those with lighter or blue eyes appeared to be better strategic thinkers, the Daily Mail reported.
Brown-eyed people succeeded in activities such as football and hockey, but lighter-eyed particpants proved to be more successful in activities that required skills in time structuring and planning such as golf, cross-country running and studying for exams, the scientists said.
Louisville University professor Joanna Rowe, who conducted the tests, said the results suggested an unexplored link bet-ween eye colour and academic achievement.
"It is just observed, rather than explained," she said. "There's no scientific answer yet."
Bedfordshire University senior psychology lecturer Dr Tony Fal-lone, who has also studied eye colour, believed it should be taken more seriously as an indicator of personality and ability.
Among the bright minds who have blue eyes are Stephen Hawking, Alexander Fleming, Marie Curie, Stephen Fry and Lily Cole.
Stephen Hawking, the author of A Brief History Of Time, is Britain's most eminent physicist.
Biologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and Marie Curie was the first twice-honoured Nobel laureate for her pioneering work on radioactivity.
Writer and actor Stephen Fry is notoriously brainy, gaining a scholarship at Cambridge, and model Lily Cole recently secured a slot at King's College in Cambridge after achieving five As in class. | https://gulfnews.com/world/europe/high-iq-bright-blue-eyes-1.467921 |
I’m Scott Schecter, founder and principal engineer at Schecter & Co.
I have been bringing high quality custom software solutions to market for customers in the governmental and private sectors for over 20 years.
I prefer open source software that the owner can freely modify and believe proprietary software should be avoided if at all possible. I also believe simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the wheel in the sky keeps on turning.
When not working I enjoy practicing bonsai, reading books, listening to music, and general tomfoolery.
I am a software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high quality software on time and on budget. I create custom software solutions and modernize legacy software systems to solve my customers’ unique problems quickly and efficiently. I work with my customers and ask them questions about their current situation and future goals to ensure they get the optimal software solution to their problems. I enjoy providing elegant simplistic solutions to complex problems with ambiguous requirements.
Provide consulting, software engineering, and application development services. Design, develop, maintain, and support custom software applications and platforms for my customers. I talk to my customers and listen to their needs and goals and translate those needs into actionable application requirements and engineering specifications with accurate implementation estimates. I ensure the solution delivered will solve the problem presented.
Led the company to successful sale in 2021. Oversaw and administered all technical matters for the organization. This included platform engineering, product development, operations, management, and support. Led engineering for all platform integrations as well as our custom optical character recognition stack that facilitated automated insurance document processing. Interfaced with customers directly to determine product requirements and create engineering specifications for the engineering department to execute. | https://scottschecter.com/ |
Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who enjoys or is an expert at archery is sometimes called a toxophilite.
History
The earliest evidence of archery dates back more than 5,000 years. The bow probably was used in hunting first and was then adopted as a tool of warfare. It was one of the earliest forms of artillery.
Classical civilizations, notably the Persians, Macedonians, Nubians, Greeks, Parthians, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans, had large numbers of archers in their armies. Arrows were very destructive against massed formations, and the use of archers helped win battles.
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Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state’s protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past are relentlessly chipping away at Leah’s protected hideaway.
Meanwhile, in the wake of their father’s untimely death, Leah’s children are sent to stay with her, though they are desperate to return back home. They embark on a cross country homeward journey but before they reach their destination, danger finds them and it is Leah who must come out of her seclusion to search for and protect her children.
Told with the deft plotting and enthralling storytelling of a genre master, these two captivating chase narratives will converge along the rugged Allagash River, in the wilds of Maine, where the wills, morals, and ingenuity of a broken family will be tested against all odds. | https://ibookpile.net/never-far-away-by-michael-koryta/ |
The Wild Side
Back in May my backyard pulsed with the songs of more than a dozen species of birds defending their newly established territories. Now mornings are quiet and still. Except for house wrens and American goldfinches.
My house wrens are now working on their third nest. They start singing about 5:30 every morning.
House wrens are extremely loud, territorial, and aggressive. While most birds limit their aggression to members of their own species, house wrens are simply antisocial. Within their small territory of an acre or so, they don't like any other birds nesting nearby.
In fact, if they find another nest too close to their own, they often visit the nest while it's unoccupied and puncture the eggs. This kills the developing embryos and forces the "intruders" to find another nest site.
House wrens usually confine this nasty behavior to other cavity-nesters. It's a way to "own" all the cavities within their territory. But sometimes they even puncture eggs in nests of open, cup nesting species. Over the years, I've found punctured eggs of bluebirds, robins, phoebes, towhees, cardinals, and song sparrows similarly destroyed. I don't know that other species avoid building nests near active house wren cavities, but perhaps they should.
Destroying eggs is just one of many tactics house wrens use to gain an advantage in the intense competition for the relatively few nesting cavities available. From an ecological standpoint, their competitive nature is to be admired.
Tiny and drab, house wrens are little brown birds, but their loud, explosive, bubbly song is distinctive.
House wren nests are easy to recognize in a nest box. At first it seems the nest is simply a jumble of twigs. But deep in a back corner rests a tiny cup lined with rootlets, grass, leaves, animal fur, and a feather or two. Here the female lays five to eight eggs and incubates them for 13 days.
After the eggs hatch, both parents feed the nestlings for about 17 days until they are ready to fledge. Two broods per season are typical, and some females raise three.
The other late nester that's just getting started is more familiar as a feeder bird. In winter, goldfinches often escape notice thanks to their drab olive plumage. But in April and May, males molt into the vivid yellow, black, and white birds many call wild canaries.
Throughout late spring and early summer, goldfinches appear as undulating lemon drops crossing the landscape. Their distinctive up-and-down flight pattern is easy to recognize.
Compared to most other songbirds, goldfinches nest late in the season. They usually don't begin until early July, and if they raise two broods, they may not finish until September. The timing of the nesting season is tied, at least in part, to the blooming of wild thistles and milkweeds. Goldfinches feast on true thistle seeds and use thistle down and milkweed silk to line their nests.
Goldfinches typically nest in forks of small trees and shrubs. If you spot a small drab olive bird in mid summer with a bill full of fluff, you're probably watching a female goldfinch carrying nesting material. She spends several days building the nest while her mate defends the territory by singing and occasionally chasing away intruding males.
A few days after completing the nest, the female lays the first of five white eggs. For 12 days, the female incubates her clutch faithfully. When it rains, she uses her wings as a feathered umbrella to keep the nest dry.
The male visits regularly and feeds his mate mouthfuls of partly digested seeds. Unlike many birds, which switch to insect foods during the breeding season, goldfinches stick almost exclusively to a granivorous diet. They even feed their nestlings regurgitated seeds.
About ten days after hatching, the nestlings are recognizable as goldfinches. By the time the nestlings fledge a day or two later, a crust of whitewash rims the abandoned nest. The male continues to feed the fledglings until they can fend for themselves.
Other birds that sometimes nest into July and August include Carolina wrens, bluebirds, robins, and mourning doves. It's usually September when nesting ends completely.
Dr. Shalaway can be heard on Birds & Nature from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday afternoons on 620 KHB Radio, Pittsburgh or live online anywhere at www.khbradio.com. Visit Scott's web site www.drshalaway.com or contact him directly at [email protected] or 2222 Fish Ridge Road, Cameron, WV 26033. | https://www.daily-jeff.com/story/news/2016/08/04/the-wild-side/18918013007/ |
When Michial and I read Being and Time back in 2009, the best thing about that book was that, through careful phenomenological examination, Heidegger gave me occasion to think carefully about the everyday, the acts that I undertake unreflectively, and to try out some actual philosophical theories on them. This section of Truth and Method does the same with some objects that are so close to given that they’re nearly transparent. Any given picture or copy or symbol might deserve some attention, but what makes a picture a picture is not something that usually occurs to me.
Thus phenomenology.
Copy, Presentation, and Pictures
It’s the frame that makes the picture.
That seems counter-intuitive at first. After all, there’s something a bit off about the person who, beholding a Baroque masterpiece or even an Impressionist study (you can see where my preferences lie), focuses not on the paint but on the rectangle that sets off the “work” from the “wall,” but nonetheless Gadamer’s point stands. To be a picture does not always entail a wooden or metal rectangle, but it always involves certain boundaries, and the ontology of a picture is thus: it starts here and ends there (135). Just in case someone wants to contest this early point, even a post-Gadmerian and post-modern example like Christo’s city-sized conceptual art fits here: the times that such a piece begins and ends mark a frame of sorts, and just about anyone could note the boundaries of the piece, even if they’re city blocks rather than meters apart.
Gadamer sets up the bounded picture, and more specifically the portrait, as his test case to examine a related but not identical phenomenon, the copy. A copy, for Gadamer, differs from the picture because the copy’s existence is by definition self-effacing, whereas the picture has being of its own (138). So a passport photograph exists only to point away from itself, for the purposes of verifying the identity of the passport holder, and a copy of a birth certificate is not presented for the purposes of beholding the copy or for illuminating the world but simply so that the information on the original can be in more than one place at once.
By contrast, the picture actually makes the world what it is through mimesis (137). Invoking the neo-Platonic doctrine of emanation of being, Gadamer notes that the reality of the framed picture is other than the thing-being-pictured, but the thing itself gains a new reality, one not prior to the picture, when the picture presents the thing artistically (140). Such a relationship, Gadamer argues, is behind the Orthodox church’s innovations in iconography, a practice unintelligible in Judaism but brought to its artistic and intellectual moment precisely as neo-Platonic Christian theologians develop the doctrine of Christ as the image of God and thus the icon of Christ or of a saint not as a substitute for the “real” body but as an overflow of the body’s reality (141). Thus the image is not a secondary and inferior reality, as Plato suspected, but the generous and joyful overflow of being: “…the original acquires an image only by being imaged, and yet the image is nothing but the appearance of the original” (142).
This ontology departs both from the Platonic metaphysics, with its suspicion of visual arts, and from Enlightenment epistemology, with its Baconian suspicion of rhetoric. The ontological relationship that Gadamer suggests is one in which the hierarchy of primary “reality” and secondary “appearance” give way to a dialectic, a relationship in which each simultaneously defines the other: “Word and image are not mere imitative illustrations, but allow what they present to be for the first time fully what it is” (143). The Hegelian flavor of Gadamer’s project once more surfaces here: the world of causes and effects, of mechanical and technologic manipulation of nature, does not lose its existence, but the pragmatic relationships between idea and act invert so that the useful exists for the sake of the true, and not vice versa.
Hermeneutics and Visual Arts
Gadamer notes early on that the way one approaches artistic works will yield different sorts of truth. To approach a picture as inherently allusive is to make a claim about its inherent meaning, to judge the work as a moment in philosophical history. Such is not the same as historical mining, in which the interpreter, disregarding the big-picture meaning of the piece, simply interrogates the artifact to discern any echoes of historical phenomena, whether they be incidental to or inherent in the picture’s meaning (146). Such a move, in terms of hermeneutics, is not insignificant: for Gadamer, the historian’s interrogation is neither absolutely right nor absolutely wrong but simply different. And the difference between inherent allusiveness and incidental allusion is also not to be ignored. In other words, a commissioned portrait’s reference is not accidental to the art but inherent (147).
For that reason, when a viewer approaches a work separated from its world and network of reference, that latter-day viewer is doing something different in kind from what a contemporary of the work’s composition is doing: “The viewer of today not only sees things in a different way, he sees different things” (148). On the other hand, even when a picture (or a literary text) depicts events that are common knowledge, part of the being of a work of art is that it goes beyond the common accounts of the event or person (149). That going-beyond is what differentiates the picture from the second category of being, namely the memento or the sign. The memento only makes sense to someone who was at one point present to the reality remembered, and the sign does not exist for its own sake but only to direct the viewer’s eyes away from itself and towards the object to which it points (153). But a picture has its own presence, something whose existence is for-the-sake-of-seeing. These fine distinctions, though on their own esoteric, contribute to a philosophical environment where literature will come to make sense on its own terms, as its own sort of being.
Taking a step back for a moment, all of these distinctions also help to illuminate the inadequacy of aesthetic theories that too readily simplify the category “art,” whether to make it too narrow a phenomenon (only those artifacts which reflect “experience”) or too broad (any artifact which is made, not found). This sort of careful thought reminds me why Gadamer remains important not only for philosophers and literary critics but for Biblical scholars as well. Treating the actual narrative of David and Goliath, or of Elijah at Mount Carmel, or even Pentecost, as allusive but not merely referential, opens up the sort of literary-critical Bible reading that I’ve found so helpful in my own studies and teaching.
Architecture and Literature
Architecture, for Gadamer, is the supreme argument against an aesthetics that defines art too narrowly as that-which-expresses-individual-experience. Architecture, in fact, presents the spaces inside of which Erlebnis is even intelligible (156). In the cases of homes and civic structures and churches and museums, architecture is the art form that frames other art forms, be they painting or sculpture or public recitations of literary texts (157). Given these things, Gadamer argues, the Romantic disdain for the “merely decorative” loses some of its punch: because the ontology of art encompasses more than the museum piece, because aesthetics extends to the architecture of the museum itself, the Erlebnis-piece is merely one manifestation of the much larger (but bounded) category (159). Architecture thus sets up a context within which literary art, in both its cultic and its individualistic forms, comes into its own.
“World literature,” Gadamer insists, only becomes so in certain historical moments, those in which editors and compilers realize that the self is to be found in a broad range of textual “others” (162). Historicism, in other words, makes possible the category “world literature.” Before a culture develops an awareness that consciousness shifts with historical change, literature is simply literature because everyone who produces literary text is basically the same sort of soul. When philosophy comes to grasp the reality of radical difference across temporal spans, then the science of interpretation takes on a central importance (165). Thus two basic approaches to hermeneutics develop in the early nineteenth century, as historicism comes into its own. For the tradition rooted in Schleirmacher’s philosophy of religion, the hermeneutic task is to reconstruct the past so that the modern reader can project the self into an alien moment, visiting a foreign country by means of historical imagination (166). For the Hegelian, on the other hand, reconstruction is also always a negation, an attempt at reconstruction always done in the knowledge that reconstruction is always done in terms of not-us and not-now, never positing but always differing (168).
In the next section of the book, which Michial will treat, Gadamer will expand on that sense of history in Biblical hermeneutics specifically. | http://www.christianhumanist.org/2013/06/blogging-through-truth-and-method-post-5-aesthetic-and-hermeneutic-consequences-134-169/ |
Use the filter menu and interactive map to explore the past competitions offered and grants awarded through the Environmental Literacy Program.
To learn more about project findings and outcomes, view the summaries of our grantees’ summative evaluation reports.
- (-) Ocean Foundation / The Ocean Project (1)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS) (1)
- Bishop Museum (3)
- Earth & Sky (1)
- Eastern Michigan University (1)
- Hampton University (2)
- Lawrence Hall of Science (1)
- Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (1)
- Maryland Science Center (2)
- National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) (1)
- North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) (2)
- Science Museum of Minnesota (2)
- Tech Museum of Innovation (2)
- Technical Education Research Centers / TERC (1)
- Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York / Columbia University (1)
- University of Colorado Boulder / Fiske Planetarium (1)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison / Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) (1)
Applying Social Research to Build Environmental Literacy and Public Engagement in Protecting Ocean Resources
This project will expand and enhance an initiative that offers zoos, aquariums, and science museums the market research they need to engage and motivate the public on issues related to the ocean and climate change. The three-year project will measure changes in public awareness and action on ocean and climate-related issues. It will integrate these research findings into recommendations offered to staff working at zoos, aquariums, and science museums as well as to the ocean conservation community and provide professional development for staff members at these institutions in order to support and shape public outreach efforts that connect climate change, the ocean and individual actions, especially among our nation's youth. | https://www.noaa.gov/office-education/elp/grants/awards?f%5B0%5D=field_competition_%3A2005%3A%20Environmental%20Literacy&f%5B1%5D=field_competition_%3A2007%3A%20ELG%20for%20Formal%20K-12%20Education&f%5B2%5D=field_competition_%3A2008%3A%20National%20Environmental%20Literacy%20Assessment&f%5B3%5D=field_competition_%3A2009%3A%20ELG%20for%20Science%20On%20a%20Sphere%20Network%20Capacity%20Building&f%5B4%5D=field_competition_%3A2010%3A%20NOAA%20Broad%20Agency%20Announcement%20for%20FY%202010%20-%202011&f%5B5%5D=field_competition_%3A2010%3A%20NOAA%20Broad%20Agency%20Announcement%20for%20FY%202010%E2%80%942011&f%5B6%5D=field_recipient%3AOcean%20Foundation%20/%20The%20Ocean%20Project&f%5B7%5D=field_status%3AClosed |
In 2020 the Convention on Biological Diversity will deliver the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
The promotion of conservation and biodiversity knowledge will form at least one of the targets set
out in this framework. According to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) zoos and
aquariums receive around 700 million annual visits, making them well placed to contribute towards
these targets. The scope of the field of zoo and aquarium education research has greatly increased
over recent years demonstrating the educational value of visits. This study evaluated the impact of
an in-school repeat-engagement zoo education programme provided by the Safari Rangers of Chester
Zoo, UK. A pre- and post-programme survey design was used to measure conservation understanding,
knowledge of pro-conservation behaviours and conservation attitudes. In total, 445 students from seven
participating schools were surveyed. The results show an increase in both conservation understanding
and in knowledge of pro-conservation behaviour between the pre- and post-programme surveys.
Participating students showed an aggregate increase of 60.5% in their conservation understanding, and
a 24% increase in their knowledge of pro-conservation behaviours. Those surveyed also demonstrated
a positive change in attitude towards conservation self-efficacy. This study demonstrates that repeat-
engagement in-school zoo-education programmes can successfully deliver desired learning outcomes,
adding to the body of evidence that demonstrates the valuable role that zoos can play in raising the
level of conservation knowledge amongst school-aged children. | https://www.jzar.org/jzar/article/view/439 |
House, mooring post of the land, grown so high as to fill the space between heaven and earth, E-ninnu, the true brickwork, for which Enlil determined a good fate, green hill standing to be marvelled at, standing out above all the lands.
The house is a great mountain reaching up to the skies. It is Utu filling the midst of the heaven; E-ninnu is the white Anzud bird spreading its talons upon the mountain land.
All the people were placed (?) before it, the whole country was detailed (?) to it. The Anuna gods stood there in admiration. The ruler, who is wise, who is knowledgeable, kissed the ground before that godly company. He touched the ground in prostration (?), with supplications and prayers; the ruler, the god of his city prayed.
For the bread-consuming house he added more and more bread, for the suppers in need of mutton he added sheep. In front of the house he lined up bowls like ...... abundance .......
He went to the Anuna gods and prayed to them: ´O all you Anuna gods, admired by the land of Lagac, protectors of all the countries, whose command, a massive breach in a dam, carries away any who try to stop it. The worthy young man on whom you have looked will enjoy a long life. I, the shepherd, built the house, and now I will let my master enter his house. O Anuna gods, may you pray on my behalf!´
The true shepherd Gudea is wise, and able too to realize things. His friendly guardian went before him and his friendly protecting genius followed him. For his master, lord Nin-jirsu Gudea gave numerous gifts to the house of yore, the old house, his dwelling place. He went into the E-ninnu to the lord, and prayed to him:
My master Nin-jirsu, lord who has turned back the fierce waters, lord whose commands take precedence, male child of Enlil, warrior, I have carried out faithfully what you have ordered me to do. Nin-jirsu, I have built up your house for you; now I shall let you enter it in joy! My goddess Bau, I have set up your E-mi quarters for you: take up pleasant residence in them.´ His call was heard, his master Lord Nin-jirsu accepted from Gudea his prayer and supplication.
The year ended and the month was completed. A new year started, a month began and three days elapsed in that month. As Nin-jirsu arrived from Eridu, beautiful moonlight shone illuminating the land, and the E-ninnu competed with the new-born Suen.
Gudea made a paste with cornelian and lapis lazuli and applied it to the corners. He sprinkled the floor with precious oil. He made the ......, who worked there (?), leave the house. Syrup, ghee, wine, sour milk, jipar fruit, fig-cakes topped with cheese, dates, ...... and small grapes, things untouched by fire, these were the foods for the gods which he prepared with syrup and ghee.
On the day when the true god was to arrive, Gudea was busy with the evening meal from early morning. Asari cared for the maintenance of the house. Nin-mada took care of its cleaning. King Enki gave oracular pronouncements concerning it. Nin-dub, the chief purification priest of Eridu, filled it with the smoke of incense. The lady of precious rites, Nance, versed in singing holy songs, sang songs for the house.
They sheared the black ewes and milked the udder of the cow of heaven. They cleaned the E-ninnu, they polished it with brooms of tamarisk and ....... The ruler made the whole city kneel down, made the whole land prostrate itself. He levelled what was high, rejected chance utterances (?); the sorcerers´ spittle (?) was removed from the roads. In the city only the mother of a sick person administered a potion. The wild animals, creatures of the steppe, all had crouched together. The lions and the dragons of the steppe were lying in sweet sleep.
The day was for supplication, the night was for prayer. The moonlight ...... early morning. Its master ......
Warrior Nin-jirsu entered the house, the owner of the house had arrived. He was an eagle raising its eyes toward a wild bull. The warrior´s entering his house was a storm roaring into battle. Nin-jirsu entered his house and it became the shrine of Abzu when there is a festival. The owner came out of his house and he was Utu rising over the land of Lagac. Bau´s going to her E-mi quarters was a true woman´s taking her house in hand. Her entering her bedroom was the Tigris at high water. When she sat down beside her ......, she was the lady, the daughter of holy An, a green garden bearing fruit.
The daylight came out, the fate had been decided. Bau entered her E-mi quarters, and there was abundance for the land of Lagac. The day dawned. Utu of Lagac lifted his head over the land.
the purification had been completed, the oracular pronouncements had been taken care of.
Wine was poured from big jars while ...... was heaped up in the E-ninnu. Nin-dub caused the sanctuary to be full of clatter and noise (?) and with fresh bread and hind´s milk available day and night, he woke from sleep the noble one, the beloved son of Enlil, the warrior Nin-jirsu. Nin-jirsu raised his head with all the great powers, and ...... rituals, ...... for (?) the sanctuary E-ninnu.
With his divine duties, namely to guide the hand of the righteous one; to force the evil-doer´s neck into a neck stock; to keep the house safe; to keep the house pleasant; to instruct his city and the sanctuaries of Jirsu; to set up an auspicous throne; to hold the sceptre of never-ending days; to raise high the head of Nin-jirsu´s shepherd, Gudea, as if he wore a blue crown; and to appoint to their offices in the courtyard of E-ninnu the skin-clad ones, the linen-clad ones and those whose head is covered, Gudea introduced Ig-alim, the Great Door (ig gal), the Pole (dim) of Jirnun, the chief bailiff of Jirsu, his beloved son to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to keep the house clean; to let hands always be washed; to serve water to the lord with holy hands; to pour beer into bowls; to pour wine into jars; to make emmer beer in the brewery fizz like the water of the Papsir canal, the house of pure strength; to make certain that faultless cattle and goats, grain-fed sheep, fresh bread and hind´s milk are available day and night; to wake from sleep the noble one, Enlil´s beloved son, warrior Nin-jirsu by offering (?) food and drink, Gudea introduced Cul-caga, the lord of the pure hand-washings (cu-luh), the first-born son of E-ninnu to Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to carry the seven-headed mace; to open the door of the an-kara house, the gate of battle; to hit exactly with the dagger blades, with the mitum mace, with the ´´floodstorm´´ weapon and with the marratum club, its battle tools; to inundate Enlil´s enemy land, Gudea introduced Lugalkurdub, the warrior Carur, who in battle subdues all the foreign lands, the mighty general of the E-ninnu, a falcon against the rebel lands, his general, to lord Nin-jirsu.
After the heavenly mitum mace had roared against the foreign lands like a fierce storm - the Carur, the flood storm in battle, the cudgel for the rebel lands - after the lord had frowned at the rebellious land, the foreign country, hurled at it his furious words, driven it insanethe text here seems to be corrupt, and there may be some lines missing,
With his divine duties, Gudea introduced the lord´s second general, Kur-cuna-buruam to the son of Enlil.
With his divine duties, namely to send entreaties on behalf of the land of Lagac; to perform supplications and prayers for it, propitious ones; to greet pleasantly the warrior departing for Eridu; and until (?) Nin-jirsu comes from Eridu, to keep the throne of the built-up city firm; to pray, with hand placed before the nose, together with Gudea, for the life of the true shepherd, Gudea introduced his adviser, Lugal-sisa, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to request; to command; to co-operate with the one speaking straightforwardly; to ...... the one speaking evil; to inform Nin-jirsu, the warrior sitting on a holy dais in the E-ninnu, Gudea introduced Cakkan, the wild ram, the minister of the E-duga, his ......, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to clean with water; to clean with soap; to ...... with oil from white bowls and with (?) soap; to urge him to sweet sleep on his bed strewn with fresh herbs; to let him enter the E-duga, his bed chamber, from outside (?) and to make him not wish to leave it, Gudea introduced Kinda-zid, the man in charge of the E-duga, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to yoke up the holy chariot decorated with stars; to harness the donkey stallion, Pirij-kase-pada, before it; to ...... a slender donkey from Eridu ......; to have stallions joyfully transport their owner Nin-jirsu, Gudea introduced En-signun, who roars like a lion, who rises like a flood storm, Nin-jirsu´s hurrying bailiff, his donkey herd, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely, to make the fat abundant; to make the cream abundant; to see that the fat and the milk of the holy goats, the milking goats, and the hind, the mother of Nin-jirsu, do not cease to flow in the E-ninnu sanctuary, Gudea introduced En-lulim, the herdsman of the hinds, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to tune properly the sweet-toned tigi instrument; to fill the courtyard of E-ninnu with joy; to make the algar and miritum, instruments of the E-duga, offer their best in the E-ninnu to the warrior with an ear for music, Gudea introduced his beloved musician, Ucumgal-kalama, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to soothe the heart, to soothe the spirits; to dry weeping eyes; to banish mourning from the mourning heart; to ...... the heart of the lord that rises like the sea, washes away like the Euphrates, that hits like a flood storm, that has overflowed with joy after inundating a land which is Enlil´s enemy, Gudea introduced his balaj drum,Lugal-igihuc, to lord Nin-jirsu.
Zazaru, Ickur-pa-ed, Ur-agrunta-ea, He-girnuna, He-caga, Zurju and Zarju, who are Bau´s septuplets, the offspring of lord Nin-jirsu, his beloved lukur maidens, who create plenty for the myriads, stepped forward to lord Nin-jirsu with friendly entreaties on behalf of Gudea.
With his divine duties, namely to see that the great fields grow rich; to see that the levees and ditches of Lagac will be full to the brim; to see that Acnan, the bright and long one, the pure stalk, will raise its head high in the furrows in Gu-edina, the plain befitting its owner; to see that after the good fields have provided wheat, emmer and all kinds of pulses, the numerous grain heaps - the yield of the land of Lagac - will be heaped up, Gudea introduced Jicbar-ed, Enlil´s surveyor, the farmer of Gu-edina, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to make sure that Imin-catam, the messenger of Gu-edina, informs Nin-jirsu about the amount of carp and perch yielded by the marshes, and about the quantity of new shoots of reed yielded by the green reedbeds, Gudea introduced Lama, the inspector of the fisheries of Gu-edina, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to administer the open country, the pleasant place; to give directions concerning the Gu-edina, the pleasant open country; to make its birds propagate (?); to have them lay their eggs in nests (?); to have them rear their young; to see that the multiplication of the beasts of Nin-jirsu´s beloved countryside does not diminish,Gudea introduced Dimgal-abzu, the herald of Gu-edina, to lord Nin-jirsu.
With his divine duties, namely to erect cities; to found settlements; to build guard-houses for the wall of the Iri-kug; to have its divine resident constable, the mace of white cedar with its enormous head, patrol around the house, Gudea introduced Lugal-ennu-irikugakam to lord Nin-jirsu.
Holy An made the location appropriate. Enlil wound (?) a turban (?) round its top. Nin-hursaj looked at it approvingly. Enki, the king of Eridu, drove in its foundation pegs. The true lord with a pure heart, Suen, made its powers the largest in heaven and on earth. Nin-jirsu chose it among shrines of sprouting seeds with his heart. Mother Nance cared for it especially among the buildings of the land of Lagac. But it was the god of most reliable progeny who built the house and made its name famous.
The mighty steward of Nance, the accomplished shepherd of Nin-jirsu, is wise, and able too to realize things; the man in charge of building the house, Gudea the ruler of Lagac, was to make presents for the house.
Gudea, the ruler in charge of building the house, presented it with the chariot ´´It makes the mountains bow down´´, which carries awesome radiance and on which fearsomeness rides and with its donkey stallion, Ud-gu-dugduga, to serve before it; with the seven-headed mace, the fierce battle weapon, the weapon unbearable both for the North and for the South, with a battle cudgel, with the mitum mace, with the lion-headed weapon made from nir stone, which never turns back before the highlands, with dagger blades, with nine standards, with the ´´strength of heroism´´, with his bow which twangs like a mes forest, with his angry arrows which whizz like lightning flashes in battle and with his quiver, which is a like a lion, apirij lion, or a fierce snake sticking out its tongue - strengths of battle endued with the power of kingship.
Along with copper, tin, slabs of lapis lazuli, refined silver and pure Meluha cornelian, he set up (?) huge copper cauldrons, huge ...... of copper, shining copper goblets and shining copper jars worthy of An, for laying (?) a holy table in the open air ...... at the place of regular offerings (?). Nin-jirsu gave his city, Lagac ....... He set up his bed within the bedchamber, the house´s resting place; and everyone (?) rested like birds in the streets with the son of Enlil.
With his duties, namely to fill the channels with flowing water; to make the marshes full with carp and perch (?) and to have the inspector of fisheries and the inspector of dykes stand at their posts; to fill the great waters with boats carrying grain; to see that tons, heaps and tons - the yield of the land of Lagac - will be piled up; to see that cattle-pens and sheepfolds will be erected; to see that lambs abound around healthy ewes; to have the rams let loose on the healthy ewes; to see that numerous calves stand beside healthy cows; to see that breed bulls bellow loudly among them; to have the oxen properly yoked and to have the farmers and ox drivers stand beside them; to have donkeys carry packsaddles and to have their drivers, who feed them, follow behind them; to see that large copper ...... will be strapped onto jackasses; to see that the principal mill will produce (?); to ...... the house of Nin-jirsu´s young slave women; to ......; to set ...... right; to see that the courtyard of the E-ninnu will be filled with joy; to see that the ala drums and balaj drum will sound in perfect concert with the sim drums, and to see that his beloved drum Ucumgal-kalama will walk in front of the procession, the ruler who had built the E-ninnu, Gudea, himself entered before lord Nin-jirsu.
The temple towered upwards in full grandeur, unparallelled in fearsomeness and radiance. Like a boat it ...... and ....... Its owner, warrior Nin-jirsu, came out as the daylight on the dais of Jirnun. Its ...... resting on supports was like the blue sky in all its splendour. Its standards and their caps (?) were Nin-jirsu himself emanating fearsomeness; their leather straps stretched out in front of them were bathing snakes with yellow mouths. Its owner, warrior Nin-jirsu, stood like Utu in his most fascinating blue chariot. Its throne, standing in the guenahall, was An´s holy seat which is sat upon joyfully. Its bed, standing in the bedroom, was a young cow kneeling down in its sleeping place. On its quilt (?), strewn with fresh herbs, motherBau was resting comfortably with lord Nin-jirsu.
Large bronze plates (?) offered all sorts of food (?). In the good house ...... were cooked in shining bronze vessels (?). Its pure bowls standing in the great dining-hall were troughs in various sizes that never lack water, and the goblets beside them were the Tigris and Euphrates continually carrying abundance.
He had everything function as it should in his city. Gudea had built the E-ninnu, made its powers perfect. He brought fat and cream into its dairy and provided its ...... with bread (?). He had debts remitted and made all hands clear. When his master entered the house, for seven days the slave woman was allowed to became equal to her mistress and the slave was allowed to walk side by side with his master. But the ritually unclean ones could sleep only at the border of his city. He silenced the evil-speaking tongue and locked up evil.
He paid attention to the justice of Nance and Nin-jirsu. He provided protection for the orphan against the rich, and provided protection for the widow against the powerful. He had the daughter become the heir in the families without a son. A day of justice dawned for him. He set his foot on the neck of evil ones and malcontents.
Like Utu, he rose on the horizon for the city. He wound (?) a turban (?) on his head. He made himself known by the eyes of holy An. He entered the shrine of E-ninnu with raised head like a bull and sacrificed there faultless oxen and kids. He set bowls in the open air and filled them full with wine. Ucumgal-kalama was accompanied by tigi drums, and ala drums roared for him like storm. The ruler stepped onto the outer wall (?) and his city looked up to him in admiration.
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... made abundance come forth for him. The earth produced mottled barley for him. Lagac thrived in abundance with the ruler.
For the warrior who entered his new house, for Nin-jirsu, he arranged a rich banquet. He seated An at the place of honour for him, he seated Enlil next to An and Nin-mah next toEnlil.
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Rejoicing over the the house, the owner determined a fate for the brickwork of E-ninnu: ´O brickwork of E-ninnu, let there be a good fate determined, brickwork of E-ninnu, let there be a fate determined, brickwork of E-ninnu, let there be a good fate determined! House! Mountain founded by An, built in grandeur!´
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...determined a fate for the brickwork of E-ninnu: ´O brickwork of E-ninnu, let there be a fate determined, brickwork of E-ninnu, let there be a good fate determined! House ...... embers (?) ...... embracing heaven. ...... holy .......´
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On your behalf, numerous cow-pens will be erected and many sheepfolds be renewed! The people will lie down in safe pastures, enjoying abundance under you. The eyes ofSumer and all the countries will be directed toward you. An will elevate your house of Anzud for you.´
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Grown as tall as Gilgamec. No one shall remove its throne set up there. Your god Nin-jiczida is the grandson of An; your divine mother is Ninsun, the bearing mother of good offspring, who loves her offspring; you are a child born by the true cow. You are a true youth made to rise over the land of Lagac by Nin-jirsu; your name is established from below to above. Gudea, nobody ...... what you say. You are ...... a man known to An. You are a true ruler, for whom the house has determined a good fate. Gudea, son of Nin-jiczida, you will enjoy a long life!
The house reaches up to heaven like a huge mountain and its fearsomeness and awesome radiance have settled upon the land. An and Enlil have determined the fate of Lagac; Nin-jirsu´s authority has become known to all the countries; E-ninnu has grown so high as to fill the space between the heaven and the earth. Nin-jirsu be praised!
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Jigsaw puzzle of choice, patience, puzzle glue, mod podge, frame for picture,
300 piece jigsaw puzzle pieced together by Mrs. Alma, glued on cardboard, finished with mod podge and framed in the home's dining area.
Alma Brown
Clinton County Care & Rehabilitation Center
Mrs. Alma loves to piece jigsaw puzzles together better than anything else. She loves to share this passion with others and will encourage others to also try putting puzzles together, as she teaches them how to piece them together. | http://reflectnus.com/art/house-of-birds/ |
As Notre Dame professors and staff begin to return to campus, some may continue to work from home one or more days a week. When working remotely, it is important to maintain appropriate protections for your home network to ensure the safety and security of Notre Dame data and your personal information.
Your university-owned computer should be your first choice when working from home. If this computer was purchased through the Campus Workstation Program (CWP), it is secure for home use and easy to maintain. Use this computer only for your professional activities.
If you must use your personal computer while working remotely, or if you are not eligible for Notre Dame’s CWP program, please follow these Personal Device Safety Guidelines to properly configure your computer.
Once your work computer has been secured for remote working, you can increase the security of your home network by making a few simple modifications to your router. The router is the device that connects computers, tablets, and smart devices in your home to the Internet.
Instructions for making these changes are available on your ISP’s website and include:
- Enable the router’s built-in firewall
- Change the password of the Administrator account to a password of your choice
- Disable the ability to connect to your router from the Internet
Here are some great tips to help protect your computer against viruses or malware.
- Use Notre Dame VPN (Virtual Private Network) when working remotely. Instructions are available at: Connecting to VPN – Cisco AnyConnect.
- Public computers, such as those found in a hotel lobby or in a library, should not be used for business purposes.
- Avoid using public Wi-Fi while you are working. Cybercriminals often set up their own WiFi networks with names designed to look like real networks. If you use any of these networks while working, the cybercriminal can gain access to your Notre Dame account and other private information.
- A USB flash drive or flash drive may contain computer viruses. If you find one and don’t know where it came from, it’s not safe to plug it into your computer.
- Remember, phishing scams are the biggest threat to computer security. You can find more information on how to recognize phishing scams in this article: What is phishing? How to recognize a phishing or a scam.
You can find additional information on improving the security of your home network in this NSA article. | https://dissentnetwork.org/improve-the-security-of-your-home-network-latest-office-of-information-technology-university-of-notre-dame/ |
Most patients with congenital tracheoesophageal fistulas (TEFs) are diagnosed immediately following birth or during infancy, because more than 98% of them are associated with atresia of the esophagus that results in potential life-threatening complications.\[[@ref1]\] So, early surgical intervention is needed to correct these anomalies. H-type of TEFs which present in adults are very rare, with only 16 cases described in the English literature.\[[@ref2]\] They are not associated with esophageal atresia and produce minimal symptoms; so, diagnosis is usually late. Here, we report a case of H-type TEF in a young adult.
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A 31-year-old male, non-smoker, presented to us with a history of attacks of chronic intermittent cough since childhood. These attacks usually last for two to three days. Sometimes initiated and aggravated after heavy meals. It was also associated with recurrent chest infections. No significant history of hemoptysis, shortness of breath, difficulty of swallowing, or chocking was reported. Systemic examination was unremarkable. He used inhalers and cough suppressants as required.
Chest X-ray showed bilateral apical pleural thickening with fibroatelectatic changes at the right upper lobe. Barium studies showed significant dilatation of the whole esophagus, more at the proximal 3^rd^, with free passage of the contrast into the stomach without any stricture or narrowing at the distal end or at gastroesophageal junction; these findings were suggestive of some neurological causes or esophageal motility disorder. For further evaluation, the patient underwent esophageal manometry study and upper gastro-intestinal (GI) endoscopy. Esophageal manometry showed aperistaltic esophagus, but the lower esophageal sphincter could not be assessed. Upper GI endoscopy revealed the presence of smooth tracheoesophageal opening (fistula) in the upper 3^rd^ of the anterior wall of the esophagus at 25 cm from the incisor teeth \[[Figure 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}\]; however, biopsy and wash aspiration from this fistula was negative for tuberculosis (TB) culture.
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Computed tomography (CT) scan of chest confirmed the presence of the TEF at the level of sternoclavicular joint along with dilated esophagus. Also, there was evidence of cystic, cylindrical, and varicose bronchiectatic changes in both the right upper, middle lobes, and in the lingula. There were also subpleural fibroatelectatic changes in the posterior segment of the right upper lobe, most likely due to recurrent aspirations \[Figure [2a](#F2){ref-type="fig"}--[b](#F2){ref-type="fig"}\].
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Patient explored in the operating room through cervical approach along the anterior border of the left sternocleidomastoid muscle. Fistula was identified between the posterolateral wall of the trachea and the anterior wall of the esophagus. Adhesions separated and the fistula isolated completely and then closed by endo-GI stapler. Esophageal side reinforced with muscular patch to buttress this repair and to minimize the postoperative esophageal leak and to prevent long-term recurrence. Postoperative recovery was uneventful. Patient started oral fluids on the second postoperative day, the drain removed on the third day, and he was discharged home on fourth postoperative day. Patient remained asymptomatic and well at 12-month regular follow-up, as he underwent during this follow-up a barium swallow study which showed normal swallowing process and no hold up of the contrast with no evidence of gastroesophageal reflux and there was no evidence of recurrence of the TEF; however, he remained under regular follow-up with the gastroenterologist team for the esophageal motility disorder which has improved significantly clinically and radiologically.
Discussion {#sec1-2}
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Congenital H-type TEFs represent the least severe form of abnormal tracheoesophageal communication, and its presence in adults is uncommon to the extent that no one surgeon or institution is likely to encounter more than a few cases.\[[@ref3]\] The presence of TEF also disrupts in utero the normal development of the myenteric plexus of the esophagus, leading to disordered peristalsis and impaired lower esophageal sphincter function.\[[@ref4]\] This explains the dilated esophagus along with aperistalsis seen in our case. Also, a consistent demonstration of oblique course of the fistula with tracheal orifice cephalad to esophageal orifice might function as a valve during swallowing, compressing anterior esophageal wall against the fistula and occluding its lumen with either the passage of bolus of food or peristaltic wave explains the trivial symptoms and greater tolerance of solid foods than liquids in these patients.\[[@ref5]\] Another plausible explanation is that initial mild symptoms are not properly investigated until complications appear.\[[@ref6]\]
A chronic cough aggravated by heavy meals and recurrent chest infections are common presenting symptoms. Bouts of coughing when swallowing liquids are pathognomic for this condition.\[[@ref7]\]
The initial radiological investigation consists of plain chest X-ray that may show esophageal gaseous distension, but a thin barium swallow, particularly if done with patient in prone position, often confirms the diagnosis. A CT scan of the chest is helpful to assess the extent of irreversible damage of the lung parenchyma and shows also the exact location of the fistula. Bronchoscopy allows the fistula to be visualized directly and to identify the exact location of its origin with respect to the carina or the vocal cords, as this relation to these vital structures is to be accurately established. This determines whether or not a cervical approach of the fistula is appropriate for surgical intervention. Esophagoscopy also helps for direct visualization of TEF fistulas, but occasionally they can be missed on esophagoscopy as they are located in the upper 3^rd^ and on the anterior wall.\[[@ref8]\]
Other differential diagnosis of these fistulas should be excluded like the acquired one due to chronic inflammatory process or even tuberculosis.
The treatment is surgical repair and closure or stapling of the TEF. Fistula is approached mostly through cervical route along the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and secondly through thoracotomy when the fistula is located at the level of the carina or when to deal with damaged lung at the same time that might need pulmonary resection.\[[@ref8][@ref2]\]
The early diagnosis and the treatment are essential to prevent the long-term debilitating respiratory symptoms associated with the fistula. Delay in diagnosis is usually related to the minute symptoms in some patients, low index of suspicion by the physicians, and unsatisfactory radiological methods. Both radiological and endoscopic procedures are complementary in diagnosis of H-type congenital TEF with high index of suspicion.
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KAMPALA – An investigation into the recruitment process of Bank of Uganda (BoU) has revealed that existence of cliques polarized around Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile and his Deputy Louis Kasekende are threatening to cripple the operations of the central bank, which could have a trickle down effect on the economy.
The findings are contained in a report compiled by a committee formed by President Museveni in February 2019 to investigate allegations surrounding Mr Mutebile’s decision to make sweeping changes. The changes saw some staff controversially demoted and others externally recruited amid allegations that the Governor was promoting favouristim and nepotism.
And now the report, a copy of which PML Daily has seen, says that the BoU staff interviewed during the investigation said that there were factions or cliques in the Bank polarized around the positions of the Governor and the Deputy Governor.
“As concerns the existence of cliques, one staff went further to characterize the cliques as potentially religious-based. In the words of the staff in question, ‘There is a risk of divisions according to religion in that Bank. Catholics and Anglicans have their own groups. They have meetings and each has its own power,’ ” the report reads in part.
While there was no evidence was found to suggest that the two principals at the Bank had any hand in the formation of the cliques, it was increasingly clear to the Committee that cliques do exist in the Bank and that to that extent the Bank was polarized.
Almost all the staff interviewed alluded in one way or another to the existence of the cliques while at the same time denying being part of either clique. From the various interviews held with staff it was noted that there are camps at the Bank aligned to the Governor or Deputy Governor.
The report adds that all of the staff interviewed indicated that the staff changes made by the Governor were a complete surprise. | https://www.pmldaily.com/news/2019/06/revealed-cliques-around-mutebile-kasekende-tearing-bou-apart-says-report.html |
MMA fighter Valerie Loureda showed off her athletic physique as she trained in a recent Instagram video. For the clip, she was shot wearing leggings and a sports bra that flaunted her rock-hard abs as she worked out her core.
The Bellator competitor has been in fight camp for her upcoming bout, and she gave fans a preview of her progress in this upload. Loureda was filmed on a mat inside a gym which she tagged as Elite Athletes Performance in Miami, Florida. She was on a green-colored floor, and there were plyo boxes and a stationary bike near her feet.
The 22-year-old had her long dark hair tied up in double buns, and she rocked a revealing sporty ensemble. Loureda wore an aqua-colored Miami Dolphins sports bra that had the team’s logo across the front along with an “I Voted” sticker on the right side. She also wore a pair of high-waist cropped black leggings that hugged onto her lower-body. The Tae Kwon Do expert completed the look with a gold bracelet and a pink smartwatch on her left wrist.
At the start of the video, Loureda was filmed lying down on a mat next to her shirtless trainer. She did several sit-ups as the trainer shouted instructions, and the camera panned around. The flyweight flipped to her side and began doing crunches. This angle gave viewers a clear shot of her beautiful face and chiseled midsection.
Loureda continued doing crunches, and her defined abs were accentuated with each repetition, as the camera zoomed-in on her toned figure. The cameraman could be heard shouting words of encouragement, and there was a large smile across the fighter’s face and she stuck her tongue out just as the clip ended.
For the caption, Loureda quoted the cameraman and added a tongue-out emoji before uploading the footage on Tuesday. Many of her 554,000 Instagram followers took notice of the post, and more than 5,400 showed their support by tapping the like button in just over six hours after it went live. The Floridian received close to 100 comments in that time, as her replies were flooded with flex emoji. Fans offered compliments along with words of encouragement in the comments section.
“You’re friggin gorgeous Valerie,” one admirer wrote.
“Let’s go beauty,” a follower replied while adding three flex emoji.
“Phins up always!!” one Dolphins fan wrote.
“Nice work,” an Instagram user added.
As covered by The Inquisitr, last month Loureda showcased her curvy backside in a tiny pink thong bikini as she posed on a balcony. | |
Zoning Planning & Land Use Law in Alabama
The laws governing how land can and cannot be used in Prichard, Alabama are fairly complex, and can be confusing to laypersons. This should provide a basic overview.
"Zoning" is the process by which a local government makes laws determining how individual pieces of land within its jurisdiction can be used. Usually, towns or cities are segmented off into "zones," each one being designated for a specific type of use. Examples of common zoning categories are single family residence, commercial, multi-unit housing, or industrial.
There are a lot of rationales and purposes for zoning laws. In general, they're based in common sense: chemical plants shouldn't be built next to daycare centers, pig farms should not be built in the middle of a residential neighborhood, and other simple principles similar to that. Zoning laws, by keeping conflicting land uses separate, make life easier for all parties, ensuring that property values will be preserved, and that necessary industries can be conducted where they will not bother anyone.
Zoning laws generally acknowledge the necessities of things like factories, sewage treatment plants, and stockyards, but recognize that such activities shouldn't be conducted in residential areas.
Possible Outcomes of Boundary and Title Disputes in Prichard, Alabama
You have quite a few options if you find that a planned or current use of your property violates Prichard, Alabama's zoning regulations.
It should be discernible that the first option you should consider is to correct the violation. If doing this wouldn't cost you very much, or pose a major inconvenience, you should obviously do this.
Of course, simply fixing a zoning violation isn't always affordable or easy, and may interfere with your planned use of your property. For example, you might have just undertaken a significant remodeling of your home, and later found out that some small part of it technically doesn't conform to Prichard, Alabama's zoning laws. If this happens to you, you can apply to your local zoning board for what's known as a "variance." This is simply a decree by the zoning board that the particular rule your property violates no longer applies. The Supreme Court has held that local zoning boards have to grant variances when the violation is very minor, and enforcing the ordinance would be unduly burdensome and not in the public interest.
You also have significant protections if a zoning law changes, and you find that the land you've been living on for years is suddenly in violation of the new law. In general, zoning laws cannot apply to structures and uses which were built or commenced before the law was changed. Under the U.S. Constitution, it's not permissible for state or local governments to pass laws which have retroactive effect. You should know, however, that any future changes you make to your property will have to comply with the new zoning law.
What Can A Prichard, Alabama Attorney Do?
If you find yourself facing zoning or other land use issues, it's crucial to have good legal advice. A good Prichard, Alabama attorney will help you work within the law to ensure that you are as free as possible to make the use of your land that you want. | https://realestatelawyers.legalmatch.com/AL/Prichard/land-use-zoning-law.html |
Helping people to have meaningful conversations is at the centre of what I do. I design each process around specific objectives and outcomes. I integrate a range of approaches to engage various groups of stakeholders, communities and members of the public.
Engaging people is not just a question of running a great participative workshop. There's a strategic planning side to it which is absolutely crucial if it's not to be a big waste of everyone's time. In fact, as a facilitator I see my role as:
Clients:
Project
Cheshire East Landscape Scale Partnership
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Funder
The National Trust
Goal
To develop a partnership approach to influence place-making and sustainable development in the Northern part of Cheshire East Borough, by defining what makes the area special and significant and through understanding connectivity between National Trust & Cheshire East Council sites and the wider landscape.
What happened
Stakeholder and community engagement were critical for the development of a ‘Statement of Significance’ and a ‘Spirit of Place’ Statement for a defined area of Cheshire East. My role involved:
Project
Strategy day
September 2014
Funder
Understanding Animal Research
Goal
To design and facilitate a workshop involving staff and board members to review the organisation’s strategy and develop an implementation plan for the period 2015-2018
What happened
I designed and facilitated this workshop to allow staff members and board members to come together and have open conversations about how UAR was going to best achieve its goals. This workshop involved discussing contextual factors that were likely to affect UARs work, identifying levers and barriers to achieving the goals, and developing an implementation plan.
Project
Early Generation Seeds in Sub-Saharan Africa
March 2015
Funder
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation & USAID
Goal
To review a study on how to increase the supply of Early Generation Seeds in Sub-Saharan Africa and developed specific actions for addressing the problem.
What happened
I was a facilitator at the workshop where stakeholders from across Sub-Saharan Africa, the US, Europe and India got together to discuss multiple pathways for promoting the commercial and sustainable production and delivery of Early Generation Seed for Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A report of the event was produced which is available for download here:
https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/EGS%20Convening%20Final%20Report.pdf
Project
Urban regeneration consultation for the Nar diversion
2009
Funder
Borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
Goal
To engage communities and stakeholders on river and tidal water management issues, alongside future residential and marine development, transport planning, and conservation provision in the Borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk.
What happened
I was in charge of the process design, lead facilitation and coordination of a series of community and stakeholder engagement workshops. There was a high degree of conflict between the communities and the Council and my role was to facilitate a process to re-establish trust and ensure all views were heard.
Project
Partnership working
2009
Funder
Energy Saving Trust
Goal
To map activities of the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP) and identify overlaps and gaps in terms of responsibilities and skills in order to work more efficiently as a partnership.
What happened
I designed the workshop process and I lead facilitated the event which took place in Cambridge and involved 25 participants.
Project
Brent Facilities Decommissioning Studies
2007-2012
Funder
Shell UK Limited
Goal
To engage stakeholders on the decommissioning studies for the Brent Field’s oil and gas production facilities, situated off the coast of Scotland.
What happened
The Environment Council was in charge of the stakeholder engagement from 2007 until 2012. During that time I was involved in this project by providing support facilitation at a series of stakeholder dialogue events. The consultation has contributed to solving some specific decommissioning challenges. For example, a stakeholder focus group was formed to contribute to the discussions on how best to decommission the large concrete subsea cells that lie beneath three of the four Brent platforms. The focus group developed a model that weighs up the options for decommissioning the cells safely and effectively. | https://clairemellier.com/sustainability/facilitation-process-design/ |
I think an appropriate concept here is "contra proferentem". Essentially, where there is ambiguity this counts against the author, not the reader. If you want a unique, "correct" answer, then you ...
How should we ask questions that rely on homophones?
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This program provides an opportunity for you to develop an advanced understanding of data science by incorporating and interpreting complex information, concepts and theories to relevant disciplines, using data science tools and methods to manage, process, and analyse data. Throughout the program, you will utilise your skills to handle large volumes of data, working with real-time data, cloud computing, unstructured data and statistical models. As a graduate, you may work in data science related areas such as the health care, finance, government administration and IT industries.This program is also available as a graduate certificate and graduate diploma option for domestic and international students.
Structure
240 credit points over 2 years.
Subjects
- Foundations of programming
- Data science for all
- Statistics and R
- Professional research and communication
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Advanced data science project 1
- Data science case studies
- Computational methods for data analysis
- Advanced data science project 2
- Business intelligence & data warehousing
- Regression and multivariate data analysis.
Standard entry requirements
- Successful completion of Australian Bachelor degree in science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, information technology or business
- Or overseas equivalent.Students will be required to demonstrate they have previously studied introductory mathematics and at least one information technology course in their undergraduate degree
- Or select an approved elective course in their first semester of study.English language requirementInternational students must have completed IELTS English language assessment with an overall band score of 6.0, with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent.Plus the equivalent academic admission requirements described for domestic students. | https://www.studiesinaustralia.com/courses-in-australia/federation-university-australia/courses/master-of-data-science |
David has gone missing. After seeing strange men lurking around his house, his friends, Kitty, Andrea and Martin are certain he’s been kidnapped. They join forces to find answers but are puzzled when David’s family is strangely secretive. They are hiding something.
Kitty becomes friends with the new boy at school but Skender has a few things to hide as well. He and his family know more about David’s situation than they admit. With teamwork, ingenuity and courage, the three friends enlist the help of Skender and embark on a mission to find David and rescue him. What they discover is bigger and more dangerous than they had suspected and they become embroiled in a fight for justice as well as the safety of their friend.
In Jennifer Walsh’s second fast-paced adventure with Kitty, David, Andrea and Martin, she highlights the importance of friendship, loyalty and trusting your instincts. She peppers the story with hints, foreshadowing and just enough to keep the gears greased as the reader works through the mystery along with the characters. 10-12 year olds will enjoy the ‘aha’ factor in this book as the ending, although unpredictable, fills in even the tiniest gaps and every piece of the puzzle neatly falls into place.
Balmain, an old Syndey suburb, is the setting of Crooked Leg Road and also the home of the author. Her intricate knowledge of the area lends realism to the story with its authentic sensory detail.
Jennifer Walsh knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of six. Between then and now, she has filled many exercise books, raised a family and had a career writing computer manuals. Crooked Leg Road is her third book for children and features the same four characters she wrote about in The Tunnels of Tarcoola (Allen and Unwin 2012). She is currently planning another book in this series.
Ann Harth is a published children's author and writing tutor at Australian College of Journalism. She loves to read and is committed to creating children's literature that inspires, entertains and triggers a tiny twist in the mind. Her latest middle-grade novel, The Art of Magic, was released in 2012. | http://www.buzzwordsmagazine.com/2014/06/crooked-leg-road.html |
About the CPD course
This course is developed for those with a limited understanding of financial techniques and vocabulary. It will explain the invaluable skills required to best use resources and achieve both greater financial success and the wider objectives of the business.
CPD Provider
Filtered
FilteredFiltered is the worlds leading adaptive learning solution for business. We personalize online training using adaptive algorithms driven by real user data. All of our content and features are developed to enhance adoption, engagement and impact (AEI) and focus on improving workforce productivity. We won't teach you everything, just what you need to learn.
Want to learn more? | https://cpduk.co.uk/courses/filtered-finance-for-non-financial-professionals |
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
I. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to reusable surgical wrappers, and more particularly, to such wrappers comprised of synthetic yarns to thus have inherent barrier properties.
II. Description of Prior Art
The use of surgical wrappers has become standard procedure to maintain sterility of surgical packs prior to use in the operating arena. To this end, a group of items to be used for a surgical procedure are assembled together as a so-called surgical pack. The surgical pack is then wrapped within fabric webs referred to as surgical wrappers, and sterilized. The sterilized and wrapped surgical pack is then available for use in a surgical procedure at which time the surgical wrappers are opened or removed exposing the surgical pack contents for use.
A reusable surgical wrapper is woven from yarns into a web and finished, such as with edge stitching, tape, marrowing, or serge stitching to produce a single surgical wrapper. Many surgical wrappers are woven from cotton or similar natural yarns and may be washed, dried and sterilized making them available for reuse. Unfortunately, wrappers manufactured with natural yarns do not inherently provide an adequate microbial or bacterial barrier and so it became the practice to wrap the surgical packs with not one single surgical wrapper, but with two separate single surgical wrappers in the hope of providing a sufficiently tortuous path that the surgical pack within would remain sterile. The process of utilizing two separate surgical wrappers became known as “sequential wrapping”.
The use of all natural yarns for the surgical wrappers presented the additional problem of linting from the repeated washing and drying of the fabric. Lint is considered a contaminant in the operating arena and so is undesirable. Unfortunately, linting would often occur before the fabric has otherwise reached the end of its useful life, thereby leading to waste, as the linting surgical wrapper could no longer be reliably employed in the surgical arena. To reduce linting, some surgical wrappers are woven from cotton/polyester blended yarns. While linting is not entirely eliminated, the incidence of linting is delayed or reduced, thereby making available more of the useful life of the blended yarn surgical wrapper. Wrappers made of natural yarns or blended yarns are able to accept chemical treatments such as application of a barrier substance like Quarpel material. However, after repeated washing, drying and sterilization, the barrier properties are substantially lost from those wrappers. Moreover, the practice of sequential wrapping continues such that a plurality of single surgical wrappers were employed for each surgical pack.
Where all natural or blended yarns are used, a single wrapper may be comprised of a single ply of the woven yarn, or of two plies joined together along their peripheral edges. Even with the two-ply reusable single wrapper woven from natural or blended yarns, however, the practice of sequential wrapping continues.
A significant improvement was made with respect to reusable surgical wrappers by the introduction of single ply surgical wrappers woven primarily, if not completely, from synthetic yarns, rather than either natural yarns or blended yarns. Synthetic yarns provide a surgical wrapper that does not lint, and which also has an inherent barrier property to microbial and bacterial migration without adversely affecting the ability to sterilize the surgical wrapper. Moreover, the synthetic yarn provides the ability for the surgical wrapper to be repeatedly washed, dried and sterilized without substantially losing its inherent barrier properties. Notwithstanding that a barrier property was now present, the practice of sequentially wrapping a surgical pack using two separate or single surgical wrappers of one ply all synthetic yarn woven construction continues such that two of the synthetic yarn surgical wrappers are used to completely wrap a surgical pack.
An alternate approach to reusable surgical wrappers is the use of disposable surgical wrappers. Such disposable wrappers are not woven, but instead are nonwoven to be disposed of after a single use. Thus, it will be understood that as used herein, a nonwoven wrapper is generally recognized as being made from materials which cannot withstand repeated washing, drying and re-sterilization, whereas woven surgical wrappers are made from materials that are reusable after repeated washing, drying and sterilization. Even with disposable surgical wrappers, the concept of sequential wrapping is still employed such that two separate nonwoven web surgical wrappers would be wrapped around the surgical pack. One product introduced a few years ago bonds two different nonwoven webs together such as with adhesive or the like to create a two-ply nonwoven surgical wrapper which is said to provide the ability to “sequentially wrap” simply by wrapping the surgical pack with a single wrap of the two-ply disposable nonwoven wrapper. With reusables, however, the practice continues of using two identical, but separate surgical wrappers and sequentially wrapping the surgical pack.
The present invention provides an improved reusable surgical wrap and a method of using that surgical wrap which provides the effect of sequential wrapping with a single wrap, like that said to be obtained with the nonwoven surgical wrapper, but with reusable materials that are capable of being washed, dried and sterilized repeatedly without substantially adversely affecting or losing the barrier properties of the reusable surgical wrapper. To this end, and in accordance with principles of the present invention, two plies of woven synthetic yarns each having inherent barrier properties and adapted to be repeatedly washed, dried and sterilized without substantially losing the barrier properties, are joined together to provide a single, two-ply reusable surgical wrapper. The plies may be joined together by yarns such as with edge stitching, tape, marrowing or serge stitching, and/or by weaving yarns from one of the plies into the other so as to form an integral unit having interengaged plies. The two plies may be woven from identical yarns such that the plies are from the same woven material. The single surgical wrapper comprised of two interconnected plies of synthetic yarns is wrapped, as a single wrap, about a surgical pack while providing reliable and long lasting barrier properties as would otherwise have been accomplished with sequential wrapping. As a consequence, in a single wrap, the surgical pack is wrapped with the effect of two inherent barrier plies, much as would occur were two single, separate plies of the synthetic yarn surgical wrappers applied to the pack as a sequential wrap, but without the need to separately stack or sequentially wrap the two plies.
By virtue of the foregoing, there is thus provided an improved reusable surgical wrapper and a method of surgical wrapping to provide the effect of sequential wrapping without the need to use two or more single wrappers to wrap a surgical pack. These and other objects and advantages of the present invention shall be made apparent from the accompanying drawings and the description thereof.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the general description of the invention given above and the detailed description of the embodiments given below, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
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While the present invention has been illustrated by the description of embodiments thereof, and while the embodiments have been described in considerable detail, it is not intended to restrict or in any way limit the scope of the appended claims to such detail. Additional advantages and modifications will readily appear to those skilled in the art. For example, while webs and are advantageously identical, they need not be. They could be made from different synthetic yarns, or from different denier or with different pick count of yarns. In this regard, and to further reduce laundry costs, the denier and/or pick count of yarns in both webs and may be reduced to lessen the overall weight of wrapper . The invention in its broader aspects is, therefore, not limited to the specific details, representative apparatus and method, and illustrative examples shown and described. Accordingly, departures may be made from such details without departing from the spirit or scope of the general inventive concept. | |
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The best thought-out plans in a company aren’t worth the paper they are written on, if the organization is not able to pull them off. It is critical to transform winning strategies into genuine results and this program takes a step in that direction. Thus, the objective of this program is to familiarize business leaders with not only some core ideas that will help create strategies to achieve competitive advantage and growth in their company but, more importantly, lead the execution of those strategies effectively. Good execution is the great unaddressed issue in many companies today – and its absence is one of the biggest obstacles to the success of a company, and the cause of many disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to other causes.
Program Benefits
The program will have following benefits to the participants:
- Understand the building blocks of strategy
- Create advantage over your rivals through competitive positioning and sustaining them
- Insights into creating high performing teams for effective strategy execution
- Successfully drive innovation initiatives in your company by addressing the challenges faced in their implementation
- Learn mechanisms to realize and benefits from synergy opportunities in companies
- Personal skills and capabilities to become an effective leader
- Ability to create an appropriate organizational architecture and culture which facilitates the execution of a chosen strategy
The benefits from the program will be enhanced, if a ‘team of 3-4 leaders’ from the same organization are able to attend it together. This will help them internalize the learning as a group, as well work together during the program to apply those concepts to enhance strategy execution efforts in their own context.
Participant Profile
Business heads and function heads who are responsible for strategy formulation and execution for their business units.
Program Faculty Bio
Dr. Prashant Kale, who is a Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Jones School of Business, Rice University and at the Michigan Business School will be the primary faculty for the program. He has a degree in engineering, an MBA from the IIM – Ahmedabad and a PhD in management from the Wharton School. His research and teaching focuses on Corporate Strategy, Strategic Alliances & Joint Ventures, and Mergers and Acquisitions. He has published articles in reputed international journals such as the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Management Journal, Managerial and Decision Economics, Academy of Management Proceedings, and has received recognition in numerous international conferences. Prashant has worked in the industry for several years and has held management responsibilities with companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, ICI Plc., in different countries. He has received over 20 awards for Excellence in Teaching and has also been rated among the Top 10 Business School Professors in the US by Bloomberg Businessweek.
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23 – 25 January 2020
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The Actor’s Sandpit: Knowing What’s In Our Control
Performer and coach Tahlia Norrish talks about taking ownership of what's in our power as actors, letting go of the things we have no control over, and knowing the difference between the two.
By Tahlia Norrish
Imagine how much more progress we could make if we stopped giving energy to anything and everything outside of our control.
Last year I wrote a piece for Spotlight about the importance of defining the terms of our own success. This is the vital first step in any pursuit (for what is action without clarity?) but for it to really take root, also requires an acknowledgement of what’s within our control, and what isn’t.
As actors, there are so many factors beyond our control. Getting from A to B can often feel like an uphill battle, regardless of how clearly defined that endpoint is, and this can be immensely disheartening.
I’d like to offer a different way of navigating this via an unusual metaphor: the actor’s sandpit. I know, but bear with me. For our purposes, this ‘sandpit’ refers to a clearly outlined area of things within our control and the recognition that everything outside our neat quadrilateral border is not in our control. The liberation you'll feel when you consciously decide upon your own measures of success will increase tenfold when paired with this thought-experiment. You have my word.
What’s Outside Our Sandpit i.e. Things We Can’t Control
We’ll start with what we don’t and can’t control, as this is by far the larger list. This won’t be exhaustive by any means, so please feel free to add your own.
Let’s begin with the big ones. We can't control:
- booking a role
- signing with a particular agent or manager
- getting an audition.
That's right actor friends, none of these things are in our sandpit.
We could fail to book a gig or audition because of any number of variables: physical traits, those already cast, the existence of a fellow actor who’s seemingly born to tell this story etc. And as painful as not securing that coveted part is (and it is), agonising over the result is futile and unproductive.
Similarly, signing with representation that we have our heart set on is also beyond our sandpit. The agent or manager may already have someone who covers our casting, requires clients with larger social followings and press exposure or hell, they may just be having a bad day when our email happens to appear in their inbox.
It’s sometimes hard enough to deal with things outside our sandpit in everyday life (e.g. the weather, the flow of traffic, the opinions and actions of other people etc.) but it can feel even more disempowering when we add industry politics and all the other frustrating elements of our craft to the mix.
Allow yourself to let these things go. It’s time to focus on our square metre of sandy ownership.
What’s In Our Sandpit i.e. Things We Can Control
This may seem to leave us with very little within our power, but that is really the point. There’s a reason why horses are given blinkers when racing: it narrows their focus and concentration.
Broadly speaking, there are two main areas of our sandpit:
- our attitude
- our preparation.
These are the things we should be channelling our brilliance into and really knuckling down on. Imagine how much more progress we could make if we stopped giving energy to anything and everything outside of our control. Yeah, a lot.
We’re always able to choose our perspective, and that in turn has massive repercussions. You may be familiar with Viktor Frankl’s astute quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances”.
You can undoubtedly call to mind people whose energy is so positive and productive that you can’t help but be attracted to them, and on the other hand, you can probably also think of a person whose insistent negativity unconsciously repels. We have this choice within our day-to-day lives, and also within our careers. Choose wisely.
Likewise, our preparation is a section of our sandpit no-one can take from us, and we should actively defend. What does our ongoing training and skill development look like? How up-to-date are we about our industry? Are we taking ownership of our marketing, networking, and content creation? These actions are on us and us alone.
Diligently dedicate yourself to getting your sandpit in order. Make it the best damn sandpit you are currently capable of creating.
It’s important to stress that this isn’t passivity [...] but actually true responsibility. Taking aggressive accountability for what’s in our sandpit, whilst having the grace to release what isn’t.
The Practice
This isn’t a new idea. Shantideva, the eighth-century Buddhist master, once wrote: “If something can be done about the situation, what need is there for dejection? And if nothing can be done about it, what use is there for being dejected?”
It’s important to stress that this isn’t passivity - just simply letting whatever happens happen - but actually true responsibility. Taking aggressive accountability for what’s in our sandpit, whilst having the grace to release what isn’t. Easier said than done? Absolutely, but that’s why this is a practice and not a quick fix.
Regardless of our religion or spirituality, the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr is a poignant reminder: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference”.
Ultimately, when something fun and shiny is thrown into our sandpit (hello, Netflix TV series!), we’ll be far better placed to direct all our genius and flair to that. Which in turn will encourage more fun and shiny objects to be thrown our way.
Chances are that the more we put our head down and focus on cultivating the most flawless sandpit around, the larger this sandpit will naturally grow. Excellence begets excellence. Give yourself the best chance of showcasing this by focusing on what it is you can affect.
If you’ve read this far, thank you for sticking with me. I admire your open-mindedness, and sincerely hope you find some value behind the metaphor and practice. Enjoy the liberation this figurative structure gifts you. There’s real joy in letting everything else just be.
Go make some sandcastles or sand-angels if the mood takes you, but treat your sandpit as your temple. At some point, others will inevitably be drawn to the rare beauty of a carefully curated square of sand, and that will be your time to shine.
Tahlia Norrish is an Australian actor and writer currently based in London. After graduating from both The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Acting & Musical Theatre) and Rose Bruford College (BA (Hons) Acting), Tahlia stepped up as Head Coach at The Actor’s Dojo - an online coaching program pioneering actor empowerment.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) relies on innovation to enhance the capabilities of the Treaty’s verification regime as well as to help move the Treaty closer to universalization and entry into force.
As the fifth event in the CTBT: Science and Technology conference series, SnT2019 will bring together around 1000 scientists, technologists, academics, students, CTBTO policy makers, members of the media and representatives of organizations involved in research and development that is relevant to all aspects of Treaty verification. For more information, download the brochure.
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Online registration and abstract submission is accessible through CTNW. No registration fee will be charged. The working language of the conference is English.
Prospective authors are asked to choose the appropriate theme and topic when submitting the abstract (maximum 200 words) of their presentation. Authors can request either an oral or poster presentation. In addition, authors are encouraged to submit a short and very simple description (maximum 280 characters) outlining the abstract’s main contribution to the SnT2019 goals. The selection of abstracts will be based on quality and relevance to the themes and topics of the conference. The Scientific Programme Committee may reassign an abstract to an alternative topic in order to achieve a coherent scientific programme. By submitting an abstract, authors implicitly agree to the publication of their abstract and presentation material by the CTBTO. Accepted abstracts will be made available online and through the mobile CTBTO Event app and compiled into a book of abstracts, and short descriptions may be used on Twitter. A peer reviewed collection of publications will be produced from a selection of all abstracts submitted.
Financial support may be available to a limited number of participants. Such assistance must be requested at the time of registration and no later than 31 January 2019.
Financial support will be considered only for participants who have submitted an abstract that is approved by the Scientific Programme Committee. Participants are strongly encouraged to first seek travel and participation funds from non-CTBTO sources.
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This theme focuses on the dynamic or static properties and processes of the earth whose characterization is necessary for the optimum processing, interpretation and assessment of monitoring data. Scientific and technical advances in monitoring the globe for nuclear explosions require an understanding of the way in which features of the earth influence relevant signals as they travel from their point of origin to points where signals are observed. The signals from monitoring networks, as well as noise recorded by those networks, constitute a massive reservoir of data that can support advances in the earth sciences on a global, regional and local scale. Elements of the monitoring effort also need to be able to consider the complexities of the earth as a social system, specifically the interference between anthropogenic aspects and the earth’s system processes, as they are connected and may interact with each other.
One focus continues to be seismic and acoustic wave speed and attenuation, which are essential for locating seismoacoustic disturbances in the earth and its atmosphere and oceans. Another area is atmospheric dynamics relevant to the transport of radionuclides and the propagation of atmospheric infrasound. Yet another area is subsurface properties relevant to the detection of a nuclear explosion by geophysical, radionuclide or other methods during an on-site inspection (OSI). However, relevant characteristics of the earth are not limited to those required for supporting current monitoring technologies. Novel methods of monitoring, including those using satellites or other remote sensing methods, also require characterization of specific properties of the earth’s subsystems.
Theme 1. Topics
T1.1 Atmospheric Dynamics
T1.2 Solid Earth Structure
T1.3 Properties of the Ocean
T1.4 Interaction Among the Earth’s Subsystems
Events such as earthquakes, explosions and releases of radionuclides produce signals and surface features that may be observed locally, nationally, regionally or globally. Such events can be located in time and space, and their characteristics can be estimated based on the data products collected. This theme covers the characterization of the source, the signals being emitted, and what these reveal about the event and its environment. Only if the source is well characterized can its associated signals and anomalies be correctly analysed and interpreted. To ensure compliance with the Treaty, it is essential to understand the full extent of signals that may be generated by a nuclear explosion, as well as to be familiar with any other seismic, acoustic, radionuclide or other signals that could be confused with those from a nuclear explosion.
The Treaty’s provision for OSI depends upon knowledge of the observables that may be expected after a nuclear test and how these could be identified as geophysical, radioactive, temperature or other anomalies or artefacts of testing. While such observations can help distinguish between inactive and active nuclear weapon test sites, the data recorded by International Monitoring System (IMS) stations also make it possible to differentiate nuclear tests from other human made or natural events, thereby serving as a unique reservoir of knowledge for better informed policy making.
One of the challenges facing an inspection team at a historic test site is the need to distinguish and identify observables generated by historic underground nuclear explosions (those conducted before the nuclear testing moratorium) and those resulting from a more recent event. Factors to consider could include recognizing features that may indicate a decommissioned and decontaminated site or those that may suggest an active or reopened site. The types of expertise and capabilities required for these purposes need to be elaborated and could become relevant in the case of any contingency operations that would call upon CTBTO technological capabilities, if requested and if approved by the States Signatories.
Theme 2. Topics
T2.1 Characterization of Treaty-Relevant Events
T2.2 Challenges of On-Site Inspection
T2.3 Seismoacoustic Sources in Theory and Practice
T2.4 Atmospheric and Subsurface Radionuclide Background and Dispersion
T2.5 Historical Data from Nuclear Test Monitoring
This theme focuses on the systems used for the monitoring of nuclear explosions and the processing of the recorded data. This includes advances in traditional areas such as seismic and radionuclide instrumentation, sensor networks and processing methodologies, as well as the exploration of novel methods and the adaptation and integration of methods used in other fields. Diverse sources of remotely sensed data, whether from satellites, aircraft or remotely controlled measurement platforms, may find use in nuclear explosion monitoring. OSIs pose special challenges for sensors and associated equipment, which must be capable of detecting observables related to an event that triggered an OSI, especially those related to a nuclear test.
Theme 3. Topics
T3.1 Design of Sensor Systems and Advanced Sensor Technologies
T3.2 Laboratories Including Mobile and Field Based Facilities
T3.3 Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery and Data Acquisition Platforms
T3.4 Augmented Reality and Fusion of Data from Different Monitoring Technologies
T3.5 Data Analysis Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Deep Learning
Operation and sustainment of a global network of monitoring systems poses substantial challenges. Near real time acquisition and forwarding of continuous and segmented data from the IMS and the subsequent processing and analysis of data at the International Data Centre (IDC) also present great challenges. Strict requirements for operational data availability, quality and timeliness must be met and sustained. The results of processing and analysis raise further issues with regard to quality and timeliness. The handling of OSI data is also subject to specific requirements outlined in the Treaty and the OSI Operational Manual. In addition, the performance of the IMS and IDC critically depends on enabling technologies such as information technology and power systems.
Beyond the IMS, IDC and OSI, the full Treaty verification system also includes National Data Centres (NDCs) and the possible use of non-IMS data to supplement IMS data. NDCs provide advice to their National Authorities, which make decisions in view of a broader policy context. NDCs may have IMS data and Treaty monitoring functions integrated into national operations and procedures to enhance their performance. NDCs provide feedback to the IDC on its products and services, including the NDC analysis tools, and conduct preparedness exercises jointly with other NDCs.
Optimization of the performance of the CTBT verification system involves other factors such as: improvements to efficiency and cost effectiveness, reliability, and security. Contributions on improving performance related to the verification system are invited.
Theme 4. Topics
T4.1 Network Optimization
T4.2 Systems Engineering
T4.3 Enabling Technologies
T4.4 Performance of the Full Verification System
The CTBTO verification system exists within the broader context of international organizations, global policy making and international collaboration as well as public awareness and safety. This theme explores lessons learned from other arms control agreements and arrangements and from relationships within the broader context as they relate to the CTBT and nuclear explosion monitoring.
Advances in science and technology can drive progress in advising on policies and solutions based on data and evidence and can impact confidence building. This theme explores applications of verification technologies and identifies innovative solutions for change within the framework of the CTBT as well as other relevant agreements and arrangements.
Apart from their purpose of monitoring and detecting nuclear test explosions, IMS data and IDC products may be made available for scientific use, under confidentiality agreements, through the virtual Data Exploitation Centre (vDEC). IMS data may also be used for civil applications, such as nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and tsunami early warning.
Ensuring that countries and institutions have a robust science‒policy interface requires the wide dissemination and appropriate communication of scientific knowledge to both decision makers and the general public. It is therefore important to raise awareness through a broad range of outreach initiatives and science communication.
Theme 5. Topics
T5.1 Science in Policy Discussions and Lessons Learned from Other Arms Control Agreements and Arrangements
T5.2 Experience with and Possible Additional Contributions to Issues of Global Concern such as Disaster Risk Mitigation, Climate Change Studies and Sustainable Development Goals
T5.3 Capacity Building, Education and Public Awareness
The virtual Data Exploitation Centre (vDEC) provides scientists with access to IMS data to conduct research and to publish new findings. The strong relationship between the scientific and technological community and the CTBTO helps to ensure that the IMS remains at the forefront of technological innovation and that no nuclear explosion goes undetected. Conference participants are encouraged to make use of vDEC to carry out scientific studies and assessments and to present their findings at SnT2019. Requests for access to vDEC can easily be completed and submitted online at ctbto.org/specials/vdec/.
Increasingly recognized as a contributor to preserving peace and security in a world riddled with problems not limited to nuclear insecurity, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) offer opportunities that are beneficial to human well-being. Beyond serving the core mandate of the Treaty, the capabilities of the CTBT verification regime can also contribute to sustainable social and economic development and yield compelling new civil and scientific benefits. Therefore exploring the ways in which CTBT verification technologies and data collected by the International Monitoring System (IMS) can be paired with emerging tools (e.g. geospatial imagery, machine learning, data visualization) can help pave the way to potentially high impact outcomes for sustainable development. Sharing IMS data for civil and scientific applications under standard confidentiality agreements has proven to be a benefit to the primary mission of monitoring for nuclear explosions because the expanded experience with and knowledge of signals and noise leads to enhanced analysis methods.
In this regard, the CTBTO is pleased to announce the first Innovation Challenge to CTBTO Youth Group (CYG) members. The Innovation Challenge tasks CYG members with investigating potential linkages between the CTBT and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). CYG members are encouraged to submit a research proposal highlighting original ideas on how the Treaty and the work of the organization can help to achieve one or more of the SDGs. | https://events.ctbto.org/snt/snt2019 |
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Position Description: Sr. Portal Developer/Solution Architect is an experienced, motivated and highly skilled with full stack development experience to join a high-performing Agile team. In this critical role, candidate will be engaged in challenging
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MVLS member libraries use point to point ILL service within the CDLC service area.
Out of CDLC service area requests will be made through the CDLC ILL eForm, located on the CDLC Inter Library Loan Web Page, https://cdlc.libguides.com/resource_sharing.
More information can be found on the CDLC Interlibrary Loan page http://cdlc.org/index.php/ill-basics.
Most items are delivered to your library through the MVLS Delivery Courier directly from the loaning CDLC library, at which point your library will be responsible for creating an ILL circulation record, circulating the item per ILL loaning institution instructions, and then returning items through the MVLS Delivery Courier. If items are mailed through the U.S. Postal Service, we recommend that your library return the item, (especially if rare, unique or microfilm) through U. S. Postal Service library rate so that the item is trackable. This fee can be charged to the patron.
If you are still not able to locate the material within CDLC, CDLC provides OCLC searching for MVLS Libraries beginning June 1, 2015.
To send a request to CDLC for OCLC searching, complete the CDLC ILL eForm http://www.cdlc.org/index.php/component/ill/?task=requestselector with verifying information.
At the Send the Request drop down menus, select “CDLC” from the Academic menu, then submit.
CDLC will search OCLC for you, send the request on your behalf, and email you with the results of the OCLC search.
notifying CDLC by email that the item has been returned through US Postal Service.
Borrowing libraries are responsible for returning the items to the loaning libraries, and updating CDLC.
Every attempt is made to borrow the item without cost but at times, the only locations that own a title may charge a fee to loan. It helps speed up the request if you ask your patron ahead of time if they are willing to pay a fee and try to pin them down to how much they are willing to pay.
Member libraries are responsible for any borrowing and postage fees, and may bill patrons accordingly. CDLC will bill each member library directly for loaning fees.
Again, feel free to contact CDLC with any procedural questions, 518-438-2500) or CDLC ILL ([email protected]) or Sue Rokos ([email protected]; 355-2010, ext. 226) at MVLS.
For ILL requests to RPI send an ILL eForm to Capital District Library Council.
User names and passwords to log in to the CDLC ILL e-form are ALL IN CAPS – AMS username; AMS password, etc.
If patrons request renewals for ILL eForm items (ie CDLC libraries), call or email the CDLC lending library for permission to grant a renewal. If the item comes from outside of CDLC, email CDLC at [email protected] who will contact the loaning library for permission.
Again, CDLC attempts to borrow items without cost but at times, the only locations that own a title may charge a fee to loan. It helps speed up the request if you ask your patron ahead of time if they are willing to pay a fee and try to pin them down to how much they are willing to pay, and put that message into the NOTES field on the CDLC ILL eform. Otherwise, CDLC will contact your library directly and ask what and if the patron is willing to pay.
Remember, member libraries are responsible for any borrowing and postage fees, and may bill patrons accordingly. CDLC will bill each member library directly for loaning fees. Your library will need to have some procedures in place regarding loaning and postage fees: ie whether your library will absorb postage fees as a part of your service, or turn it over to the borrowing patrons to pay.
AND, when your library loans material out to a CDLC library, use the requesting library’s ILL agency card in Polaris to check the materials out. Each school, academic, and UHLS library has an ILL agency card in Polaris with a 6-digit barcode that begins with 8 –all of the ILL agency cards in Polaris are easily located by searching for patron first name =ILL.
See our delivery page http://www.mvls.info/for-library-staff/delivery/delivery-codes/ for the proper way to address items going to CDLC libraries! Note that most academic and special libraries in CDLC use their OCLC codes as their delivery codes, and UHLS libraries use a 4-letter code – so that is what needs to be on the item itself in the bag, and also that not all CDLC sites receive delivery – some items may have to be mailed. | https://www.mvls.info/for-library-staff/ill/ill/ |
Q:
Selecting HTML select result in null, when reading the current option
I am trying to hide the elements with class furniture or book if DVD disc is selected. I want to do that dynamically, but in console, it shows, that it Cannot read property 'value' of null However, every option has a value, and that's strange. And of course, because of that, nothing is being changed
HTML select code:
<div class="iRow">
<div class="lclass"> <label for="typeselector">Product Category</label> </div>
<div class="tclass">
<select id="typeselector" name="productoptions">
<option value="DVD">DVD-Disc</option>
<option value="Book">Book</option>
<option value="Furniture">Furniture</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
JS code:
<script>
var opt = document.getElementById("typeselector");
console.log(opt.value);
if(opt === "DVD-Disc")
{
console.log(document.getElementsByClassName("furniture"));
document.getElementsByClassName("furniture").style.display = "none";
document.getElementsByClassName("book").style.display = "none";
}
</script>
A:
There are several issues:
getElementsByClassName returns a list, therefore, you loop over each element and hide it
There are no elements with such classes in the question
You should compare the value of the select
var opt = document.getElementById("typeselector");
if(opt.value === "DVD")
{
let furnitures = document.getElementsByClassName("furniture");
for(let i = 0; i < furnitures.length; i++)
furnitures[i].style.display = "none";
let books = document.getElementsByClassName("book");
for(let i = 0; i < books.length; i++)
books[i].style.display = "none";
}
<div class="iRow">
<div class="lclass">
<label for="typeselector">Product Category</label>
</div>
<div class="book">Book 1</div>
<div class="book">Book 2</div>
<div class="furniture">furniture 1</div>
<div class="furniture">furniture 1</div>
The right way would be to set a listener on the select:
var opt = document.getElementById("typeselector");
opt.addEventListener("change", function(){
console.log(this.value)
if(this.value === "DVD"){
}
});
<option class="book" value="Book">Book</option>
<option class="furniture" value="Furniture">Furniture</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
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LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th july,2016) : Kashmir is the jugular vein of Pakistan and solution to the region's problems is connected with the resolution of the Kashmir issue. This was stated by Pakistan Movement worker, Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), Col (R) Raja Sultan Zahoor Akhtar Kiani. Talking to APP here on Wednesday, he said that Indian atrocities were intensifying the Kashmiris' freedom struggle.
Condemning extrajudicial killings of innocent Kashmiris by India, Kiani said that the United Nations, as the custodian body, had a greater role to play in ensuring justice and promoting peace around the globe.
The time has come to settle the long-standing dispute of Kashmir on humanitarian basis, he said. "Negotiations cannot continue until the people of Kashmir get their right to self-determination," Kiani added.
To a question, he said that India could not suppress the movement of Kashmiri people with force, adding that Kashmir is a core issue between Pakistan and India and the two countries should aettle the matter in a peaceful manner. The veteran politician said that there was a dire need to initiate a serious dialogue over the issue at the earliest.
Pakistan would continue raising the issue at all international fora and it had expedited its diplomatic efforts to apprise the world of the ongoing atrocities against Kashmiris in the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), he added. Sultan Zahoor said that Zarb-e-Azb operation would continue till elimination of the last terrorist. | https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/indian-atrocities-intensifying-kashmir-freedo-5927.html |
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to automatic code generation, and more particularly to an autonomic mechanism provided to automate reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) code generation and removal to improve quality assurance.
2. Description of the Related Art
With software systems becoming more complex and the globalization of a development force, existing software development disciplines need even more serious enforcement to ensure proper operation across distributed networks and different operating platforms. For example, Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) functional source code inside a software program needs to be enforced more strictly to ensure consistency. However, as with the documentation for software systems, developers are typically not interested in writing RAS source code due to its tedious and repetitive nature. Further, adding additional code segments, e.g., inserting comments inside the source code, sometimes complicates the algorithm or generates a misleading trace when the algorithm itself is modified, but the RAS code or comment does not reflect the program changes.
Therefore, a need exists for consistent generation of RAS code for software programs.
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The substrate-binding protein in bacterial ABC transporters: dissecting roles in the evolution of substrate specificity.
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, although being ubiquitous in biology, often feature a subunit that is limited primarily to bacteria and archaea. This subunit, the substrate-binding protein (SBP), is a key determinant of the substrate specificity and high affinity of ABC uptake systems in these organisms. Most prokaryotes have many SBP-dependent ABC transporters that recognize a broad range of ligands from metal ions to amino acids, sugars and peptides. Herein, we review the structure and function of a number of more unusual SBPs, including an ABC transporter involved in the transport of rare furanose forms of sugars and an SBP that has evolved to specifically recognize the bacterial cell wall-derived murein tripeptide (Mtp). Both these examples illustrate that subtle changes in binding-site architecture, including changes in side chains not directly involved in ligand co-ordination, can result in significant alteration of substrate range in novel and unpredictable ways.
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Communicating during a crisis requires strategy
A crisis can happen at any time.
For communicators, if caught off guard, it could mean a scramble to control the scenario and a delayed action to connect clearly with respective stakeholders. It may be a daunting task, including for leadership assigned to speak on the issue, but once a strategy is in place some of these scenarios can be handled successfully with care.
At a recently held crisis management workshop hosted by Reputation Management Caribbean, managing director Lisa Ann Joseph gave this reassurance to participants. But she also stressed that planning and preparation make the difference between a company sinking or keeping afloat.
Held at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, the two-day session was meant to give communications professionals as well as company executives the necessary tools to recognise a smouldering issue and how to deal with it when the fire has spread.
“There is this belief that communications managers have this magic wand to make things disappear,” said Joseph to the participants.
“You are left to quell a situation and you don’t have the support to deal with it. There is the assumption that once you are in the communications position, you can manage. But it takes many cogs in order to have the communications machinery moving.”
An unexpected disruption in an organisation's operations can adversely impact employees, investors, suppliers and other publics as well as assets and bottom line. But, above all, reputation of an organisation and leadership credibility are at stake.
“The goal is to get the crisis under control as quickly and effectively as possible,” Joseph advised. Or as local parlance would have it – take in front, before in front take you.
On the checklist should be crisis contingency planning, which includes strong internal and external communications, said Joseph.
“Flexibility is key,” she said. “Although the focus may be on the scenario, there must be some room for adjustment.”
The second day of the workshop was dedicated to placing the participants in the “hot seat” as they went through the rigours of being interviewed by veteran journalist Tony Fraser.
Fraser pointed out that an eloquent speaker should not make the assumption that there is no need to practise for an interview.
“You don’t know how the interviewer will angle the conversation,” Fraser said. “The communications person or company representative must be prepared to hold on to their messaging, to temper the conversation while the other person may be assertive in questioning, to explain clearly what he or she is trying to say.”
While the communications manager or company representative may understand the current scenario from a corporate, or, a technical perspective, it is necessary to share this information in relatable terms with the public.
“Keep in mind that the public will not understand,” Fraser told the participants.
“It is best to keep it as simple as possible. They are your audience and you want them to have proper insight and make a fair judgment.”
At the end of the two-day workshop, certificates of participation were distributed. Some of the participants left the workshop with a better understanding of dealing face to face with a crisis. The challenge, most agreed, is not walking away from it but finding ways to share the ideal messaging. But as Joseph said, even that requires guidance as well as practice and not a spur of the moment response. | https://newsday.co.tt/2022/06/23/communicating-during-a-crisis-requires-strategy/ |
The Book of Origins (Hnewo teyy) is the story the Nuosu Yi people of Liangshan in southwestern Sichuan tell themselves about how they got where they are and how they fit in—to the cosmos, the spirit world, the natural world, and the social world. The book exists in many versions, all of them written in the Nuosu syllabic script, mostly in five-syllable lines. People recite parts or all of it on important ceremonial occasions.
Translating something like The Book of Origins is really difficult. The language itself is both poetic and archaic; a native speaker of Nuosu reading the text or listening to a recitation would understand it about as well as an American high-school student would understand The Canterbury Tales minus CliffsNotes. A translator must deal with a lot of obscure terms, puzzling ellipses, unfamiliar names for people and places, and obtuse allusions. It is the sort of text where you pretty much have to know what it means already if you hope to understand it. And then, of course, you have to put it into the target language in a way that readers can understand. Often no one person is capable of doing all this.
Fortunately, The Book of Origins has found a team of translators and interpreters worthy of this challenge. Mark Bender has been translating, presenting, and analyzing folklore, particularly ritual texts and origin stories, of various peoples of southwest China for many years, and his most intense specialty has been the folklore of the Nuosu. Through his interest in Nuosu folklore he has become a close friend and collaborator of Aku Wuwu (Luo Qingchun), who is both a professor of Yi studies in Chengdu and one of the best-known poets among the Nuosu—one of the few Nuosu poets who writes in both Nuosu and Chinese languages. Nuosu Yi children learn some of his poems by heart in school. Mark and Aku have previously worked together to produce written and audio versions of Aku’s poetry.
In approaching The Book of Origins, this team needed to find the right version of the text to translate, as well as the right expert to explain some of the more obscure passages. They found both in Jjivot Zopqu, a Nuosu traditional mediator who has also served as a local government official. Jjivot had compiled and transcribed a relatively complete version of The Book of Origins, written in a notebook with Mao on the cover. Hours of consulting with Jjivot and listening to recitations of the text gave Aku and Bender the additional understanding they needed to begin their translation, which we are proud to present here, along with Bender’s extensive introduction and analysis.
What a rich text it is! Its story begins as the world begins, continues through several destructions and re-creations of the natural and social order, explains the origins of our current world, and ends with stories of the migrations and genealogies of today’s widespread Nuosu clans. The story involves not just gods, spirits, and humans but also animals, plants, and landscapes, including all of them in a web of relationship that comprises the nature of the world the Nuosu and their ancestors have lived in for two millennia or longer.
Through the story and through Bender’s detailed and authoritative introduction, we learn of an integrated cosmos, a “pluriverse” where gods and mortals, animals and plants, parents and children are all part of a single, interconnected order. Humans are special, but only a little—they share a common origin and genealogy with gods and spirits, on the one hand, and with animals and plants on the other. To be human is to be part of a complex web of social relationships, but also of an equally complex web of natural or ecological relationships. To relate to other humans is also to relate to other beings and to landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them. This cosmic order is the basis for the ethical order as well, for the proper and improper ways to interact with fellow inhabitants of this cosmos.
Nuosu literature and folklore, including The Book of Origins, realize that this order is not perfect. People need to make a living, and they alter the environment in doing so; sometimes clans or ethnic groups feel the need to fight with each other; sins and offenses have their consequences. The Nuosu themselves are progressively integrating into the Chinese national political and environmental order. But in the ever-advancing Anthropocene, we, as inheritors of a very different idea about humans and the natural world, need to contemplate something: How would we deal with environmental problems such as biodiversity loss, water shortages, and the biggest of all—climate change—if we recognized our relationships to the earth and its other denizens as genealogical and reciprocal rather than just utilitarian? In reading The Book of Origins, we not only learn of a rich cultural and literary tradition that is unfamiliar to most of us, but we also open our eyes to different possibilities for dwelling in this world. | https://uw.manifoldapp.org/read/b669c79e-7d38-46bb-9627-f7e64999e9fe/section/ca257233-6b31-490e-91bd-87875971d1d0 |
Spring: CRN (Credit) Level 30263 (2) Signature Required Contact faculty.
Credits: 2(S)
Class Standing: Freshmen - Senior
Offered During: Day
DescriptionThis course combines a seminar with a practicum to prepare students to become peer tutors in the Writing Center. In seminar, we will explore tutoring theories, examine the role of a peer tutor and develop effective tutoring practices. In the practicum, students will observe peer tutoring and graduate to supervised tutoring. The course also will address working with unique populations of learners. Students considering graduate school in related fields will benefit from this course. | https://archives.evergreen.edu/catalogs/2010-11/programs/cultivatingvoiceawritingtutorscraft-6350/index.html |
The UC College of Medicine, founded in 1819 by medical pioneer Daniel Drake, MD, is one of the oldest medical schools in the nation.
From graduate degrees to continuing education, the college offers a broad spectrum of educational opportunities.
The UC College of Medicine is continuing its upward path in cutting-edge research to enhance discovery sciences and facilitate translation of these discoveries to improve health and clinical care while recruiting new faculty. The new undergraduate program fosters scientific curiosity and investigation for our students. We are creating an environment of advanced clinical care that surpasses any in the region.
The College of Medicine features 26 academic departments, offering clinical, education and research opportunities.
The UC Cancer Center focuses on disease-based centers of excellence to offer a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care, education and research.
The UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute provides advanced evidence-based treatment and active research of complex neurological conditions.
The UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute builds upon its nationally known cardiovascular diseases discoveries to make significant contributions to research, education and patient care.
The Center for Integrative Health and Wellness promotes the value of treating the whole person and works to provide evidence-based wellness initiatives across the Academic Health Center and into the community through education, research and clinical care.
Hoxworth Blood Center was founded in 1938 and serves over 30 hospitals and medical facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Hoxworth Blood Center also is a leader in the coordination of research projects developed for the advancement of transfusion medicine, including clinical trials for transfusion medicine-related products.
The College of Medicine has identified four institutes in which we have outstanding quality, a track record of success, opportunities for funding and ability to advance translational research and deliver high-quality personalized care.
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is known for its strong educational programs. From medical degrees to summer research programs, the College of Medicine offers some of the most innovative and captivating science and research opportunities in the nation.
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The UC Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology was founded in 1969 by Evelyn Hess, MD in collaboration with I. Leonard Bernstein, MD. Although the program has been significantly redesigned from its original format, our mission to produce both outstanding academic physicians and clinician educators has remained intact.
The Allergy/Immunology fellowship at University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) offers a robust clinical training and educational experience. Clinical training occurs in both inpatient and outpatient settings across multiple locations, including the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, and The Bernstein Allergy Group, a private practice group that is closely associated with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Pediatric cross training (20% of clinical training) occurs at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and incorporates primary immune deficiency as well as general pediatric allergic disease.
The clinical training offered during fellowship extensively covers all disorders of allergy, including: allergic rhinitis/conjunctivitis, asthma/COPD, food allergy, eczema, drug allergy, eosinophilic and mast cell disorders, urticaria/angioedema, occupational lung diseases and primary immune deficiency. A great strength of our program is the opportunity to see a wide-variety of patient populations while training at our multiple clinical locations, as well as the large patient referral basis for rare disorders, such as primary immune deficiency and eosinophilic disorders.
Historically a collaborative fellowship, the trainees from both the pediatric program at CCHMC and the internal medicine program at UCMC attend joint didactic sessions and participate in shared clinical experiences through their scheduled rotations. The curriculum is designed so that it is integrated throughout the entire fellowship, ensuring a well-rounded learning environment.
All fellows participate in scholarly activity and generate publications during their fellowship. Fellows have the opportunity to work on basic science, translational, or clinical research projects and present their work at national meetings. Fellows interested in pursuing a career in research may apply to complete additional research training (1-2 years) beyond the 2 years of ACGME accredited fellowship.
Active and innovative basic and clinical research within the UC Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology includes the following areas:
Allergy Fellowship Contact Info
Division Address:
231 Albert Sabin Way
MSB 7501, ML #0563
Cincinnati, OH 45267
Fellowship Program Director:
Kristin Schmidlin, MD
Email: [email protected]
Program Coordinator:
Lauren Phipps, CHES
Phone: 513-558-1051
Email: [email protected]
Division Director: | https://med2.uc.edu/intmed/divisions/immunology-allergy-and-rheumatology/fellowship |
Synonyms containing x-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein
We've found 6,698 synonyms:
|Survivin|
Survivin
Survivin, also called baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis repeat-containing 5 or BIRC5, is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the BIRC5 gene. NCBI Reference Sequence: NG_029069.1 Survivin is a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis family. The survivin protein functions to inhibit caspase activation, thereby leading to negative regulation of apoptosis or programmed cell death. This has been shown by disruption of survivin induction pathways leading to increase in apoptosis and decrease in tumour growth. The survivin protein is expressed highly in most human tumours and fetal tissue, but is completely absent in terminally differentiated cells. These data suggest survivin might provide a new target for cancer therapy that would discrimnate between transformed and normal cells. Survivin expression is also highly regulated by the cell cycle and is only expressed in the G2-M phase. It is known that survivin localizes to the mitotic spindle by interaction with tubulin during mitosis and may play a contributing role in regulating mitosis. The molecular mechanisms of survivin regulation are still not well understood, but regulation of survivin seems to be linked to the p53 protein. It also is a direct target gene of the Wnt pathway and is upregulated by beta-catenin.
— Freebase
|Phage display|
Phage display
Phage display is a laboratory technique for the study of protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein–DNA interactions that uses bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) to connect proteins with the genetic information that encodes them. In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a phage coat protein gene, causing the phage to "display" the protein on its outside while containing the gene for the protein on its inside, resulting in a connection between genotype and phenotype. These displaying phages can then be screened against other proteins, peptides or DNA sequences, in order to detect interaction between the displayed protein and those other molecules. In this way, large libraries of proteins can be screened and amplified in a process called in vitro selection, which is analogous to natural selection. The most common bacteriophages used in phage display are M13 and fd filamentous phage, though T4, T7, and λ phage have also been used.
— Wikipedia
|FANCE|
FANCE
Fanconi anemia, complementation group E protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FANCE gene. The Fanconi anemia complementation group (FANC) currently includes FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCD1 (also called BRCA2), FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, and FANCL. Fanconi anemia is a genetically heterogeneous recessive disorder characterized by cytogenetic instability, hypersensitivity to DNA cross-linking agents, increased chromosomal breakage, and defective DNA repair. The members of the Fanconi anemia complementation group do not share sequence similarity; they are related by their assembly into a common nuclear protein complex. This gene encodes the protein for complementation groufcrp E.A nuclear complex containing FANCE protein (as well as FANCC, FANCF and FANCG) is essential for the activation of the FANCD2 protein to the mono-ubiquitinated isoform. In normal, non-mutant cells, FANCD2 is mono-ubiquinated in response to DNA damage. FANCE together with FANCC acts as the substrate adapter for this reaction Activated FANCD2 protein co-localizes with BRCA1 (breast cancer susceptibility protein) at ionizing radiation-induced foci and in synaptonemal complexes of meiotic chromosomes. Activated FANCD2 protein may function prior to the initiation of meiotic recombination, perhaps to prepare chromosomes for synapses, or to regulate subsequent recombination events.
— Wikipedia
|Apoptosis|
Apoptosis
Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death that may occur in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, and chromosomal DNA fragmentation. In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis generally confers advantages during an organism's life cycle. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the fingers apoptose; the result is that the digits are separate. Unlike necrosis, apoptosis produces cell fragments called apoptotic bodies that phagocytic cells are able to engulf and quickly remove before the contents of the cell can spill out onto surrounding cells and cause damage. Between 50 and 70 billion cells die each day due to apoptosis in the average human adult. For an average child between the ages of 8 and 14, approximately 20 billion to 30 billion cells die a day. Research in and around apoptosis has increased substantially since the early 1990s. In addition to its importance as a biological phenomenon, defective apoptotic processes have been implicated in an extensive variety of diseases. Excessive apoptosis causes atrophy, whereas an insufficient amount results in uncontrolled cell proliferation, such as cancer.
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|Hsp90|
Hsp90
Hsp90 (heat shock protein 90) is a chaperone protein that assists other proteins to fold properly, stabilizes proteins against heat stress, and aids in protein degradation. It also stabilizes a number of proteins required for tumor growth, which is why Hsp90 inhibitors are investigated as anti-cancer drugs. Heat shock proteins, as a class, are among the most highly expressed cellular proteins across all species. As their name implies, heat shock proteins protect cells when stressed by elevated temperatures. They account for 1–2% of total protein in unstressed cells. However, when cells are heated, the fraction of heat shock proteins increases to 4–6% of cellular proteins.Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is one of the most common of the heat-related proteins. The "90" comes from the fact that it weighs roughly 90 kiloDaltons. A 90 kDa protein is considered fairly large for a non-fibrous protein. Hsp90 is found in bacteria and all branches of eukarya, but it is apparently absent in archaea. Whereas cytoplasmic Hsp90 is essential for viability under all conditions in eukaryotes, the bacterial homologue HtpG is dispensable under non-heat stress conditions.This protein was first isolated by extracting proteins from cells stressed by heating, dehydrating or by other means, all of which caused the cell’s proteins to begin to denature. However it was later discovered that Hsp90 also has essential functions in unstressed cells.
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|Granzyme|
Granzyme
Granzymes are serine proteases that are released by cytoplasmic granules within cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells. Their purpose is to induce apoptosis within virus-infected cells, thus destroying them. Cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells release a protein called perforin, which attacks the target cells. Researchers used to think that perforin creates pores within the cell membranes, through which the granzymes can enter, inducing apoptosis. However, new evidence indicates that a multimeric complex can enter a cell through the mannose 6-phosphate receptor and is enclosed in a vesicle. Not mentioned in reference Perforin then allows GrB to pass through the vesicle surface and into the cell, causing apoptosis by various pathways. They do so by cleaving caspases, which in turn activates caspase-activated DNase. This enzyme degrades DNA, thus inducing apoptotic cascades. Also, GrB cleaves the protein Bid, which recruits the protein Bax and Bak to change the membrane permeability of the mitochondria, causing the release of cytochrome c, Smac/Diablo and Omi/HtrA2, among other proteins. As well, GrB is shown to cleave many of the chemicals responsible for apoptosis without the aid of caspase, as proven by experiments on caspase knockout mice CTL cells incubated with other cells.
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|Cephalostatin|
Cephalostatin
The cephalostatins comprise a family of more than 30 trisdecacyclic bissteroidal pyrazines with extreme cytotoxicity against human tumors, isolated from the African marine worm Cephalodiscus gilchristi. The mechanism of action of these compounds remains unknown. Beside a steroidal platform, critical features implicated in the pharmacophore include a set of covalently linked polar and nonpolar domains and the spiroketals. It was shown that cephalostatin 1 induces a novel pathway of receptor-independent apoptosis that selectively uses Smac/DIABLO (second mitochondria-derived activator of caspases/direct inhibitor of apoptosis-binding protein with a low isoelectric point) as a mitochondrial signaling molecule. Apoptosis was found to be dependent on caspase activity because the pan-caspase inhibitor benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-fluoromethylketone blocks cephalostatin 1-mediated DNA fragmentation. (NCI)
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|Mixed inhibition|
Mixed inhibition
Mixed inhibition is a type of enzyme inhibition in which the inhibitor may bind to the enzyme whether or not the enzyme has already bound the substrate but has a greater affinity for one state or the other. It is called "mixed" because it can be seen as a conceptual "mixture" of competitive inhibition, in which the inhibitor can only bind the enzyme if the substrate has not already bound, and uncompetitive inhibition, in which the inhibitor can only bind the enzyme if the substrate has already bound. If the ability of the inhibitor to bind the enzyme is exactly the same whether or not the enzyme has already bound the substrate, it is known as a non-competitive inhibitor. Non-competitive inhibition is sometimes thought of as a special case of mixed inhibition. In mixed inhibition, the inhibitor binds to an allosteric site, i.e. a site different from the active site where the substrate binds. However, not all inhibitors that bind at allosteric sites are mixed inhibitors. Mixed inhibition may result in either a decrease in the apparent affinity of the enzyme for the substrate in cases where the inhibitor favors binding the free enzyme, or in an increase in the apparent affinity when the inhibitor binds favorably to the enzyme-substrate complex. In either case the inhibition decreases the apparent maximum enzyme reaction rate.
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|Aurintricarboxylic acid|
Aurintricarboxylic acid
Aurintricarboxylic acid is a chemical compound that readily polymerizes in aqueous solution, forming a stable free radical that inhibits protein-nucleic acid interactions. It is a potent inhibitor of ribonuclease and topoisomerase II by preventing the binding of the nucleic acid to the enzyme. It stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation processes including the Jak2/STAT5 pathway in NB2 lymphoma cells, ErbB4 in neuroblastoma cells, and MAP kinases, Shc proteins, phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase and phospholipase Cγ in PC12 cells. It also inhibits apoptosis. It prevents down-regulation of Ca2+-impermeable GluR2 receptors and inhibits calpain, a Ca2+-activated protease that is activated during apoptosis. It is used to inhibit protein biosynthesis in its initial stages. Nominally, it is used in biological experiments as a protein inhibitor, and as an ammonium salt it is used as a reagent to estimate the aluminium in water, biological tissue, and foods. It was found that ATA is a strong inhibitor of topoisomerases and other nucleases. It might be useful for increasing efficiency of RNA isolation. It has been discovered that using aurintricarboxylic acid against influenza-A post-infection has a strong protective effect by inhibiting the virus' ability to reproduce. In cultured canine kidney cells, it was found to reduce viral reproduction and infection when applied post-infection, but not when used as a 'vaccine'. It has also been shown to block the binding of the HIV coat molecule gp120 to the CD4 co-receptor on T cells through which it invades.
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|Structural genomics|
Structural genomics
Structural genomics seeks to describe the 3-dimensional structure of every protein encoded by a given genome. This genome-based approach allows for a high-throughput method of structure determination by a combination of experimental and modeling approaches. The principal difference between structural genomics and traditional structural prediction is that structural genomics attempts to determine the structure of every protein encoded by the genome, rather than focusing on one particular protein. With full-genome sequences available, structure prediction can be done more quickly through a combination of experimental and modeling approaches, especially because the availability of large number of sequenced genomes and previously-solved protein structures allows scientists to model protein structure on the structures of previously solved homologs. Because protein structure is closely linked with protein function, the structural genomics has the potential to inform knowledge of protein function. In addition to elucidating protein functions, structural genomics can be used to identify novel protein folds and potential targets for drug discovery. Structural genomics involves taking a large number of approaches to structure determination, including experimental methods using genomic sequences or modeling-based approaches based on sequence or structural homology to a protein of known structure or based on chemical and physical principles for a protein with no homology to any known structure.
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|Apoptosis-inducing factor|
Apoptosis-inducing factor
Apoptosis inducing factor is a flavoprotein. Apoptosis inducing factor is involved in initiating a caspase-independent pathway of apoptosis by causing DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation. It also acts as an NADH oxidase. Another AIF function is to regulate the permeability of the mitochondrial membrane upon apoptosis. Normally it is found behind the outer membrane of the mitochondria and is therefore secluded from the nucleus. However, when the mitochondrion is damaged, it moves to the cytosol and to the nucleus. Inactivation of AIF leads to resistance of embryonic stem cells to death following the withdrawal of growth factors indicating that it is involved in apoptosis.
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|Canavalin|
Canavalin
Canavalin is a plant protein found in the jack bean, sword bean, and related plants. It is the major storage protein found in these plants' seeds, and is one of four proteins readily isolated from the seeds; the others are concanavalin A, concanavalin B, and urease. Canavalin is a vicilin protein homologous to phaseolin.The crystallization of jack bean seed proteins has been studied extensively since the early 20th century and was of particular interest to 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate James B. Sumner, though Sumner's group never fully characterized canavalin and it remained of little interest until its crystallization properties began to be studied in the 1970s. It was among the first reported examples of a protein whose tertiary structure contains two pseudo-symmetrical protein domains. Canavalin has since been used as a model system for studying protein crystallization, most notably in the study of protein crystal formation in space under microgravity conditions.
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|Caspase 7|
Caspase 7
Caspase-7, apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase, also known as CASP7, is a human protein encoded by the CASP7 gene. CASP7 orthologs have been identified in nearly all mammals for which complete genome data are available. Unique orthologs are also present in birds, lizards, lissamphibians, and teleosts. Caspase-7 is a member of the caspase family of proteins, and has been shown to be an executioner protein of apoptosis. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing by upstream caspases at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme in the form of a heterotetramer. The precursor of this caspase is cleaved by caspase 3, caspase 10, and caspase 9. It is activated upon cell death stimuli and induces apoptosis. Alternative splicing results in four transcript variants, encoding three distinct isoforms.
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|Crystalloid|
Crystalloid
one of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal
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|Protein C|
Protein C
Protein C, also known as autoprothrombin IIA and blood coagulation factor XIV, is a zymogenic protein, the activated form of which plays an important role in regulating blood clotting, inflammation, cell death, and maintaining the permeability of blood vessel walls in humans and other animals. Activated protein C performs these operations primarily by proteolytically inactivating proteins Factor Va and Factor VIIIa. APC is classified as a serine protease as it contains a residue of serine in its active site. In humans, protein C is encoded by the PROC gene, which is found on chromosome 2. The zymogenic form of protein C is a vitamin K-dependent glycoprotein that circulates in blood plasma. Its structure is that of a two-chain polypeptide consisting of a light chain and a heavy chain connected by a disulfide bond. The protein C zymogen is activated when it binds to thrombin, another protein heavily involved in coagulation, and protein C's activation is greatly promoted by the presence of thrombomodulin and endothelial protein C receptors. Because of EPCR's role, activated protein C is found primarily near endothelial cells, and it is these cells and leukocytes that APC affects. Because of the crucial role that protein C plays as an anticoagulant, those with deficiencies in protein C, or some kind of resistance to APC, suffer from a significantly increased risk of forming dangerous blood clots. | https://www.synonyms.com/serp.php?st=x-linked%2Binhibitor%2Bof%2Bapoptosis%2Bprotein |
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Movement started in the 18 th century France and Germany were the main starting countries French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire had great influence upon philosophers and poets all over Europe Still influences European and English literature to this day THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMANTIC AGE
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Romantic literature is not focused on romance Described as emotional, revolutionary, freedom, nature, and captures the aspects of the common person Romantic writers exhibited great amounts of emotion in their writing Inspiration came from nature as it was unpredictable These were very prominent concepts in Romantic Literature and carried off into the early 19 th century WHAT IS ROMANTICISM
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Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand was the founder of the French Romantic Movement He was not too fond of the 18 th century His work explores the world of irrational emotions He was later followed by Victor Hugo (Les Miserables), Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas (Three Musketeers) FRENCH ROMANTICS
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Much more diverse than the French as it spread to many different cities German and French romantics viewed Wolfgang von Goethe as the role model of the Romantic Movement due to his views of nature and freedom GERMAN ROMANTICS
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British romantics impacted literature greatly in the 19 th century British romantics believed the cities were destroyed by the Industrial Revolution Glorified the poor working class people They believed that we must move away from societys distractions to seek deeper truths This belief still influences society today BRITISH ROMANTICS
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Born on February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, England Author of the classic A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations… A true romantic writer during the 19 th century As a child his family had gone through a financial crisis Worked dirty jobs such as a chimney sweeper at a young age to support his family CHARLES DICKENS
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A novel about a young boy from a low working class that moves up in society Aims to be a true Gentleman Although there is somewhat of a romance in the novel, romance is not the focus Demonstrates that money and status does not bring happiness Captures irrational and unpredictable emotions GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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(1757-1827) Considered one of the most mystical early romantic poets Wrote about the child slavery during the increase of Britains industry Also wrote about the beauty and force of nature He was also a painter WILLIAM BLAKE
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said, "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." And so he was quiet, & that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black; And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun. Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father & never want joy. And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark And got with our bags & our brushes to work. Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm; So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. CHIMNEY SWEEPER
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Romanticism was not inspired by romance at all Nature was the inspiration for the Romantic Movement because of the emotions it contains Can be seen as a response to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution The concepts and attributes of Romanticism are still present to this current day CONCLUSION
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1. What inspired the Romantic Movement? A) Romance B) Nature C) Money 2. Briefly describe the emotions that Romanticism captured 3. Who inspired the French and German romantics and why? QUESTIONS
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Gini-Newman, Garfield. Legacy: The West and the World. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2002. Print. "Charles Dickens Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. Blake, William. "The Chimney Sweeper: When My Mother Died I Was Very Young." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. WORKS CITED
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Personality
They have excellent executive skills and show a great ability to stay focused on their goals and intentions, showing great prudence.
Very ambitious, always fearful that everyone will see their merits and can properly evaluate their good deeds. They can initially be a bit fearful and uncertain when dealing with strangers. But when they get used to people, they soon show their bossy nature, because they always strive to subdue others to their will. They are born leaders and organizers, suitable for managerial positions.
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Decisive, bossy: they can be demanding.
Unusually smart: they start to act when others are still pondering over their projects. When circumstances are not favorable for them, they become discouraged and depressed.
They can be envious, critical, and mocking, but they offer a good and faithful friendship.
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They attack the generally accepted opinions and show all the falsehood of common morality and conventional opinions. Very angular and inquisitive in nature, they constantly analyze the personalities and actions of others. When there is a trail of mystery or intrigue, these people follow it like a hunting dog, with unerring instincts and great perseverance. They won’t rest until they find everything.
Characteristics
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Strengths and weaknesses
Your main character strengths are in your ability to be serious and tough in most circumstances. These attributes and your optimistic and imaginative characteristics help you to cope quite well with the constant ups and downs of life. They allow you to provide support to those who need advice and to be a good non-judgmental listener. The negative aspects of your personality are that sometimes you can be a bit presumptuous and selfish. These weaknesses don’t materialize often, but they can mean you could miss out on beneficial opportunities that come your way.
Achievement
Being born on January 5 gives you an extreme fascination for the wonders of the world around you. From major historical events to small details, you have a real thirst for knowledge. Your number one goal is generally related to education or expressing opinions about an interest in your environment. You are ambitious by nature, but what you dream about above all is a happy balance within your work and family life. If you achieve this goal, it will be very advantageous for your emotional health and will help you eliminate many of your insecurities.
Lucky birthday
Since you were born on the fifth day of the month, your date of birth has the root number Five. The keyword for this number attached to your birthday is ‘Consultation’ and it probably refers to your enthusiasm for learning and your desire to keep learning. The Tarot card identified with your birthday is the fifth card of the Major Arcana cards of the Hierophant. This appropriately symbolizes one of your goals, the quest to understand the unknown. In January, the fifth birthday has a specially assigned Diamond as its lucky gem which is believed to offer strength and purity of mind if worn constantly.
Summary
Saturn is believed to be the planet that astrologically influences the traits of all people born under the star sign of Capricorn. The actual day you were born, the fifth day of January, is ruled by Mercury, so your main temperament is determined by both planets. Your humble and obedient manner, your communication skills, and your scrutiny of details allow you to easily accomplish the things that you set out to do. If you can maintain control of your ego and achieve a sufficient balance between work and relaxation, you can be very successful in all areas of life. In conclusion, a final thought is that you should always follow your instincts regarding continued information acquisition. | https://mytodayshoroscope.com/january-5-birthday-horoscope/ |
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|7.2sFasterExperiment:2.4sControl:9.6s||5.1sFasterExperiment:4.5sControl:9.6s||10.91sFasterExperiment:6.41sControl:17.33s||12.42sFasterExperiment:6.55sControl:18.97s||0.67BetterExperiment:0.019Control:0.69||5.97sFasterExperiment:2.65sControl:8.62s||11.6sFasterExperiment:7.4sControl:19s||44.37sFasterExperiment:15.12sControl:59.49s||1715KBLighterExperiment:2151KBControl:3866KB|
Note: This experiment had a 0.95s difference in response time between the median experiment and control runs, which can make other metric changes seem more significant than they really are. To examine the variability of response times in all test runs, you can plot full results. Or, you can view this comparison with TTFB removed from relevant metric comparisons.
Remaining Opportunities
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Is it Quick? Needs Improvement.
This site took little time to connect and deliver initial code. It began rendering content with little delay. There were no render-blocking requests. The largest content rendered later than ideal.
- Opportunities 9
- Tips 9
- Pro Experiments 11
Is it Usable? Needs Improvement.
This site had minor layout shifts. It took a long time to become interactive. It had 5 accessibility issues, 1 critical. Some HTML was generated after delivery, potentially delaying usability.
- Opportunities 4
- Tips 4
- Pro Experiments 4
Is it Resilient? Not bad...
This site had no render-blocking 3rd party requests that could be a single point of failure. It had no security issues. Some HTML was generated after delivery, which can cause fragility.
- Opportunities 1
- Tips 1
- Pro Experiments 3
Filmstrip Comparison (Experiment vs. Control)
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Handbook stressing practical ideas for domestic energy sector in refugee situations. Methods for balancing energy supply/demand. Focus on fuels, stoves and practices that relate directly to cooking.
Fuel and Energy
Fuel and Energy
UNHCR ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES
Guidelines on environmental management in refugee/ returnee situations. Helps users identify/evaluate environmental impacts, opportunities, and advantages/ disadvantages of interventions.
GREENING THE BLUE HELMETS: ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
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HANDBOOK FOR ESTIMATING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF DISASTERS
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CAMP MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Advisory manual for refugee and IDP situations resulting from conflict or natural disasters. Defines key messages, issues, roles, and responsibilities. Includes tools and lists of essential reading.
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Decision-tree diagrams on factors affecting choice of fuel strategy in humanitarian settings. Matrix identifying agency roles and responsibilities for ensuring coordinated multi-sectoral fuel strategy.
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