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Members of the public are invited to borrow a book from a shelf at an information event on homelessness at Norwich Cathedral on February 8. This isn’t an ordinary book with pages and an index but a person who has experience of homelessness who has volunteered to be part of a ‘living library’.
Visitors to the Cathedral can browse the titles, then ‘borrow’ the person for ten minutes to listen to their story and ask questions to gain an insight into their experience of homelessness.
Organised by St Martins, it is hoped that the Living Library will enable people to better understand the everyday life conditions for a homeless person by giving them the opportunity to ask frank and open questions.
Nicky King, Head of Life Skills and Social Development at St Martins said, “The most common assumption is that a person who is homeless brought it upon themselves. We all have preconceived ideas about people and this is a chance to challenge some of these stereotypes through the voices of people who really know what it’s like. Our message is to not judge a book by its cover, but to open it, understand it and learn from it.”
Readers are asked to be open-minded and respectful. Difficult questions will be asked and answered in a positive approach to addressing the issue of homelessness. | https://stmartinshousing.org.uk/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-is-the-message-at-norwich-homelessness-weekend/ |
13 February 2014
Scholarly research on slavery and the African diaspora will be presented in a series of films at SOAS, University of London, starting this month, to highlight slavery in the African continent and its eastwards dimension within the Indian Ocean World.
Taking place on 20 February, 27 February and 6 March, History on Film: Slavery and the African Diaspora from a Global Perspective - Screenings and Exhibition, organised by SOAS Centre of African Studies (CAS) and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, aims to question the biases in studying slavery.
The films are The Diambourou: Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes , directed by Dr Rodet; Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants, directed by Dr Shihan de Silva, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and Mémoire promise (Promised Memories), directed by Gaetano Ciarcia (Montpellier University) and Jean-Christophe Monferran (Cnrs Paris).
The films examine the processes of integration and assimilation in the different African diasporas, and how these communities produce diasporic cultural spheres, which today constitute memoryscapes of the history of slavery.
Dr Rodet said: “Slavery has all too often been studied in isolation from Africa. Indeed, the cultural dimension of diasporas has long been observed in the North Atlantic world, but it has received only scant attention within the context of emancipated slave communities elsewhere.”
In her film, Dr Rodet tells the story of those who resisted slavery by escaping their masters and founding new independent and free communities in the district of Kayes in the first half of the twentieth century. The film presents a unique audiovisual archive of slave emancipation in Mali.
Dr Rodet has also curated the photography exhibition ‘Malian Landscapes of Freedom’ by Fanny Challier, a visual artist whose art work is has been influenced by land art. The exhibition featured pictures taken in Bouyagui (Mali), a village founded by slaves who revolted against their masters in 1914. ‘Malian Landscapes of Freedom’ will be displayed in the Wolfson Gallery, SOAS Library, 24 February 2014 - 21 March 2014.
The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion. View the full programme. | https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem90851.html |
What I find really interesting to look at in Cynthia's paintings is that she's got a very Renaissance sensibility done in a digital medium.
I love the sense of movement and rhythm in this painting....everything is made up of arcs flowing into each other...like, well...water :) On the whole, the painting is quite loose, which draws attention to the face and hands of the fairy very nicely. She has also made an interesting choice to limit her color palette to warm blues and desaturated browns. The atmospheric perspective is really well done, with all the contrast coming in the foreground. Finally, the sense of story is tremendous, and this really feels like it is merely a part of a larger image or narrative. Having the hair and wings go off the canvas was an excellent choice for that.
Arcs! Arcs everywhere! Such a clear read, and well designed complexity! The arcs in the bottom all point up, and the ones on the top all point down, creating a tension just below the fairy in the water. Sweet!
The 3 & 4 value reads aren't really necessary to this one, it says what it needs in 2.
The arcs continue all the way to the 4 value read. Notice the dark spot where everything points to. It's all about that fairy hovering right above *that* rock.
This is by far the tightest area of the painting, rendering-wise. Compared to the pale skin, those red lips really pop! They are also the only thing that "purely" red in the entire painting. I love her hand treatment, they feel very real and kinda "chunky" but with very few obvious strokes.
This is quite loose, and looks like it was painted with a hard brush and then "ghosted" over with an airbrush to give it that sense of mist and spray. Check out how many different shades are in there, and pay special attention to the purples and the warm tones....water isn't just "blue", "green" and "white." As you would expect, the strokes are very directional, and help give contour to the liquid.
This is a really neat spot to look at for me. The hand, like the rest of the fairy, is quite tightly rendered, but the rock is pretty much just a blob. Looks like quite a bit of either soft brush, blending or a combination of both has been applied to give it that dreamy, wet quality, but you aren't supposed to spend a lot of time looking at it. When the values are right and the highlights in the right place, you just "buy" it and move on.
Wow! Take a look at just how impressionistic this one is in comparison to the first! Well placed strokes of similar values give the idea of texture and form, but nothing is rendered here! This rock is in the painting to balance things graphically, but the story isn't about the geology of the area, and it has been treated so that you KNOW that.
Learnings:
- Despite what some may say, soft brushes aren't the enemy when you use them correctly in the correct places.
- Again, as we see over and over again - Limit your tight painting to the areas you care about.
- Keep saturation down when making a moody image. Punch it where it matters.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy both the painting and my analysis of it! You can find more of Cynthia's work on her website. | http://www.sethrutledge.com/blog/2016/9/20/cynthia-sheppard-analysis |
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Respect the wildlife in Hudson River Park. Never feed or approach a wild, stray, or injured animal. In an urgent situation, contact the Park Enforcement Patrol: 212-242-6427 or the City of New York: 311.
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- Keep your pet leashed at all times, unless in a dog run.
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- Do not feed wildlife. Feeding wildlife lowers their sense of fear of humans and can condition them to approach people on their own. | https://hudsonriverpark.org/park-rules-regulations/ |
Monogram Asia's inaugural 8x8 Street Photography Workshop is happening in Bangkok, Thailand. This annual workshop is aimed to promote and develop a photographer's visual style in storytelling via the sharing of ideas and on-the-street experiences. 8x8 event will feature 8 modern masters of the street photography genre exploring the vibrant cities in Asia starting with Bangkok in 2017. | http://www.monogramasia.com/new-events/2017/4/29/8x8-street-photography-workshop-in-bangkok |
It must have seemed an odd notion at the time, particularly from Boulez, a composer and conductor who was the supreme avatar of the modern. Could it be that the artistic world of a composer who had died over six decades earlier, on the far side of two world wars and as many musical revolutions, might still seem so close? Could his nine symphonies be not only admired from a distance but held up as examples of an art that somehow articulated essential truths about the complexities and contradictions of modern life?
How quaint to have wondered.
This afternoon, New England Conservatory begins the final week of its semester-long “Mahler Unleashed’’ festival with a symposium whose title has a familiar ring: “Mahler: Our Contemporary.’’ Thirty years later, the question mark has vanished, the verdict has been returned. Mahler’s music is ubiquitous, perhaps more than ever during these last two years of anniversary tributes (the 150th of his birth, followed by the 100th of his death). The performances, box sets, and books just keep coming, though in truth, Mahler’s case by now requires no special pleading. All this extra anniversary attention has sometimes felt like the beam of a flashlight in the noonday sun.
The rituals are familiar. Programs that include the Second, Third, Fifth, or Ninth symphonies draw audiences out in droves, conductors emerge as conquering heroes, and even a mediocre performance can trigger a frenzied response. That Mahler speaks our language is now clear. How and why he does so across the distance of a century is a more interesting question.
At first blush, the sheer gigantism of the music may seem a strikingly poor fit for the age of the 140-character tweet. The very length and expansiveness of the symphonies set them apart, placing a listener on an island outside the normal flow of time. Of course within a Mahler symphony, time itself can be wonderfully plastic, as it is in all great music, with no relationship to the minutes and seconds dispensed by clocks. Surely I am not the only one to have sat through a red light longer than an entire Mahler symphony.
But here as in so many aspects of Mahler’s art, the tensions at the core of this music seem to charge and expand its magnetic field. Mahler’s symphonies stretched tradition to its breaking point, but never further. Music of incredible fragmentation still manages to cohere, in part through the sheer force of Mahler’s personality. As such, Mahler’s more triumphant symphonies offer access to a highly attractive myth, that a listener can also live within this tension, that a world in small pieces does not have to mean a broken world.
Time is not the only plastic element of Mahler’s art; there is also that pesky little subject of meaning. The symphonies greet the listener with a vast panoply of sounds: violent marches, vulgarized popular tunes, ironic waltzes, the sensual burbling of a natural world not yet alienated, and of course, all those beautifully nostalgic slow movements that in retrospect seem to glow as if lit by the sunset of empire.
To a rare degree, this teeming music has allowed successive generations of champions and critics to draw from it a set of radically divergent conclusions. His early-20th-century admirers - Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern - heralded the modern edges of his music, finding his attacks on tradition an incitement to their own aesthetic revolutions. Many decades after his death in 1911, Mahler could be recruited as a kind of postmodernist avant la lettre, toppling hierarchies to embrace the high and the low, the refined music of the concert hall and the chaos of the city square.
Mahler’s reputation ebbed in the middle decades of the 20th century, as music of late-Romantic grandeur fell out of fashion, unless you were a totalitarian dictator bent on harnessing it for political ends. Conductors like Bruno Walter and Dmitri Mitropoulos kept the flame alive, but the success of their efforts seemed to pale in comparison with the Mahler advocacy of Leonard Bernstein, who entered with the cultural winds of the 1960s at his back.
However dated Bernstein’s hyperbolism may seem when viewed with the coolly ironic distance of today, he strengthened the idea that Mahler’s music was about our world, was contemporary music, in its content if not its form.
And yet, if Mahler still speaks directly to many listeners long after Bernstein’s own advocacy is itself part of the history books, I think a large part of that appeal also lies in the psychological dimensions of his art, the sense of music disclosing the experiences of a self in the world. The titles that Mahler assigned (and then retracted) from his Third Symphony make this point most bluntly - “What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me,’’ “What Humanity Tells Me,’’ “What Love Tells Me’’ - but elsewhere the connections seem just below the surface. In this sense, he is a composer well-suited to the current cultural moment, one whose emblematic literary genre is not the novel but the memoir.
Creating art so closely allied to his own experiences opened him to criticism: Was this a kind of narcissism of symphonic proportions? But in Mahler, the “universality,’’ such as it is, appears through the gateway of the particular. One need hardly have walked in his shoes to hear in his music an invitation to personal identification, to the linking of our own private narratives. Each of his symphonies has at least one moment that seems to address the audience not as a massed public but as collection of individuals, together but alone. The remarkable closing pages of the Ninth Symphony, in which the music drifts slowly yet ineluctably towards silence, is only the most famous of such moments.
And Mahler’s art is psychological not only in its confessional, personal tone but also in its implicit belief in the vertically stacked layers of the self. Music of pure childlike naivete exists alongside pained depictions of adult suffering. In these scores, older acquired confidences rarely replace the insecurities, joys, and primal fears of youth. They seem to all live on simultaneously in different compartments of the soul.
Mahler once actually consulted with Freud during a walk on a beach in Holland. Yet his music was from the start so psychologically attuned that if their brief encounter were a detail in a historical novel, it would seem all too obvious.
It matters that Mahler wrote from this liminal moment in history not least because it enabled one of his signature achievements: to access the grand musical language of the 19th century and use it to depict the complex interior world of the modern self as it was just coming into view. Mahler’s music is ubiquitous today in part because it still addresses so many unarticulated needs of everyday listeners: for the elevation of private struggles onto a mythic-heroic plane, for the transformation of loss into something less sharp-edged and brittle, and ultimately, for the exceedingly useful proposition that the fragments can still hold without a center.
Boulez and Bernstein made their cases eloquently. We might add that Mahler is our contemporary because we won’t let him be anything else. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2011/12/04/years-later-mahler-seems-contemporary-composer/M5RGE6FyTtlLNlfW37ytKN/story.html |
In December 2014 a group of 8 Canadian women (many of whom are of Six nations and Mohawk lineage) and 2 Scottish women made a spiritual journey to Mexico organised by Gail Whitlow and me, Tiffany Stephens. We were supported and accompanied by our honorary American man. In total we were 13 people a very auspicious number.
I have been travelling extensively in Mexico for a couple of years now and find so many similarities between Mexico and my native Scotland both in the warmth of the people and in the landscape. Both countries have the feel of being timeless, the energy of ancient lands, ancient peoples and ancient cultures. The original indigenous peoples of the Americas also have deep ancestral connections with this land.
There are many different cultures in the many different regions of Mexico. We chose to base ourselves in Mexico City for the spiritual journey as there are many ancient sites to be visited both within and just outside the modern day capital of Mexico. The name ‘Mexico’ comes from three Nahuatl words, Metzli (Moon), Xictli (Naval) and Co (Place) therefore ‘Mexico’ means the ‘place of the Moon’s naval’.
The culture in this region is that of the Mexicas and the native language is Nahuatl. This culture is very much alive today with many Nahuatl speakers as well as Mexica dancers. When the area was seized by the Spanish 500 years ago, the last Mexica leader (tlahtoani), Cuauhtemoc, made a legendary speech on the 12th August 1521 calling for the culture to be kept alive. Below is the full translated speech, if you wish you can skip to the paragraph in bold at the end of the speech as this is the part to which I am referring.
Cuauhtémoc’s Legacy, the Historic Directive of the Young Tlahtoani Cuauhtémoc
“Our Sun has hidden itself behind daggers made of obsidian. Sad evening for Anáhuac, for the Texcoco and for Mexihco-Tenochtitlan .
Tonatiuh [the sun] is painting the sky with blood: silence, oblivion and bitter tears.
Tonalli [the day] follows its path and leaves us in the total darkness of Yohualli [the night].
To die on this earth for the blossomed war. The shadows of the night descend. The moon and the stars are the winners of the cosmic battle, in their fight against the light of the day.
Abysses of destiny, the life of beings in labyrinths of inescapable mystery.
Let us all go and leave the streets deserted, disappearing from the marketplaces and from their paths.
Let us lock ourselves up in our houses, turning our eternal ideals into fortresses, lost in this deep solitude, in a pointless dialogue inside this great void.
Let us preserve in our hearts the wisdom and love contained in the Códices [the scriptures], the teocalli [the temples], the tepochcalli [pelota courts], the cuicacalli [buildings for dancing, singing and the arts], until the Sixth Sun appears again, from the bosom of our future women.
Mother Tonantzin Iztaccíhuatl, asleep today with white mantles and green forests, shall awaken tomorrow between thunderclaps and redeeming lightnings of authentic freedom. She will resurrect amidst whirlwinds, emotional currents and burning flames of light. The mother country that was once burnt shall shine with the new Sun that will save Mexico.
She will be born from the blood spilt across green lands and white cotton fields; the hope in the One Life shall shine, far beyond our temporal death. Once our great history will have been severed, we know that the extension of the centli corn [one corn] shall manifest again to light up our forehead; then Cuauhtémoc, the solar eagle, shall rise up and the spirit of the eagle-warriors 1shall rule again and govern Anáhuac. The will of Huitzilopochtli [the hummingbird] shall be born amongst the warriors of the discipline.
The tlamatinime masters [the wise ones] will have different faces, more truthful and stronger. They will come with the flaming voice of the conch, the spiral of the flowered snake.
Today those chants and dances that hold no hope for triumph are abandoned in exhaustion. The time tolls for the dreadful omen of the supreme secret to occur already and, last messenger of the sacred solar tradition of Tollán the Ancient, the Great Sage Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl , the visionary, who hurled to the four winds prophetic words containing future images: wild, beast-like barbarians will come, like warmongering demons, to destroy our culture and break the law, killing and betraying their own gods.
The cross and the rattle of the snake shall mark the date with the sword, the bow and the arrow. The races shall mix like metal melted in clay pots. And so it shall happen. Sign of the people sealed with the chimal [the shield] of the warriors, from Cuauhtémoc’s consciousness the resurgence shall blossom again.
The spirit of the eagle and of the rattlesnake shall carry our movement, both the movement of cosmic space and that between life and death.
Meanwhile we must all unite in tloqueh in nahuaqueh on Tlalticpac [the Earth], transmitting the word of the Mexicas’ origin and essence to our sons and their progeny belonging to this generation and to the ones to come, so that they come to know the beauty and harmony of Tenochtitlan under the protection of our sacred essences, the energy that creates all that is, the result of the education provided in our schools, which our ancestors knew how to instil into our fathers and into our fathers’ fathers, who with great diligence educated the children in the streets and in the schools to respect the mineral, vegetal, animal, human and solar cosmic natures; the commitment, with dignity and respect, to the universal consciousness; love for the family and for the common good: everything that must occur together, according to the law; unity and honourable action on behalf of the nation, and the freedom of the new humankind.
With the advent of the Sixth Sun, Iztactonatiuh , the sun of balance [‘ the white Sun’] shall shine and beget the sons of the Fifth Sun, the sun of Justice. Like a new dawn, [new men] shall come to rescue Anáhuac from the approaching future; [they will do so] for this is the will of destiny, [they will do so] with the dignity of our race and with the great copal .
At least let us leave behind chants, flowers and dances, so that the world of Anáhuac may continue to exist at this time. The fame, glory and greatness of the beautiful Tenochtitlan, the continental capital of Anáhuac, shall not come to an end, in our loved and revered land of Anáhuac, where the winds so strongly blow” 12 August 1521
Extract from the book : 2012-2021: The Dawn of the Sixth Sun The Path of Quetzalcoatl by Sergio Magaña,
Mosaic of what is considered to be Cuauhtemoc’s last address as tlatoani in Nahuatl and Spanish
Our journey began on the evening of 6th December which in the Mayan calendar that I follow is Men/Eagle 4 – representing the energy of Foundation. A perfect basis upon which to start our journey together. Everything needs a strong foundation to build upon.
Tenochtitlan
We commenced on the following morning with an opening pipe ceremony on the roof terrace of our hotel as Gail is a pipe carrier. She also blessed a couple of other guests and a member of staff with the pipe which was lovely to witness.
Our first place to visit was the Foundation Monument/Fundacion Statue which is located in the zocalo (main square) of Mexico City. The statue depicts the Mexica people experiencing the manifestation of a vision they were given by Huitzilopochtli (the hummingbird that flies to the left) in relation to where they should locate their city. The vision is of a cactus (nopal), an eagle and a snake. The eagle is one of the symbols for the sun. The snake is a symbol of the earth. In the pre-hispanic tradition, it is the representation of Quetzalcoatl, and in the mexica tradition it is the representation of Coatlicue, the mother earth. The cactus full of its fruits is called “tenochtli” in Nahuatl. Thus the ancient city of Tenochtitlan was created. At the time the area was a great lake and the city was founded on an island in the lake. They named this land Anahuac which means ‘in between the waters’.
What we learned here from our Nahuatl friend Hector, who kindly came to share his knowledge with us, is that symbolically Huitzipochtli represents the child within or inner warrior. This is not the Warrior in the sense that we are accustomed to. It represents the inner battle, the fight within ourselves, to become the warrior who has both discipline and willpower. Also, within us we all have two energies, Ometeotl, Ome = Two, Teotl = Energy. This represents the male and female energies within.
Templo Mayor
We then visited the site of the Templo Mayor (or Grand Temple) which would have been a central point of this ancient city and is located on the opposite side of the zocalo. The ruins of the Temple miraculously survived despite being buried underground for centuries. It was excavated between 1978 -1982 after workers from the electric company discovered a pre-Hispanic monolith. The area that is covers is vast. To excavate, thirteen buildings in this area had to be demolished. Nine of these were built in the 1930s and four dated from the 19th century. The pre-hispanic monolith that the electricity workers discovered was a stone disc depicting Coyolxauhqui, the moon goddess.
Coyolxauhqui represents the moon. The stone disc shows her with severed limbs, the four limbs represents the 4 different phases of the moon. The ‘official’ story talks about sacrifice but in the Mexica tradition this is symbolic sacrifice. Sacrifice is about being of service.
The Sun also represents different phases. The eagle going down represents the sun setting in the West and the eagle ascending represents the Sun rising in the East. If we think back to Ometeotl, two energies, the Sun represents the masculine and the Moon represents the Feminine.
Following this theme, Tenochtitlan represented the masculine energy and the neighbouring city of Tlatelolco, also on the lake, represented the feminine energy. This was our next site to visit.
Tlatelolco
The city of Tlateloco was founded on the island of Xaltelolco. Over time it became know at Tlatelolco. It is believed that this comes from the word tlatelli meaning mound of earth or round mound. At Tlatelolco, for me the energy feels much calmer and somehow serene.
As you enter the site there is a Pyramid dedicated to Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, the wind God. The main feature however is the Temple of the Calendar which depicts the 20 day signs of the Aztec/Nahuatl calendar which is known as the Tonalpohualli. This is similar to the Mayan calendars but with some variation. The calendar, depicted on the giant stone now housed in the Anthropological museum is very complex.
Another feature is that of a grave of a man and woman thought to have been a couple as the skeletons are in an embrace. They are known as the Lovers of Tlatelolco.
The modern day site is known as the Plaza of Three Cultures, the ancient site, the Spanish Temple of Santiago (built on top of the original Temple of the Sun) and modern day architecture.
Throughout our sacred journey the representation of the Sun and Moon, the masculine and the feminine were wherever we went, as was reference and representation of the inner work that we must do in this human journey that we call life in the spiritual quest to enlightenment.
Another connection from the morning is the connection with the Eagle. At the Templo Mayor is the House of the Eagles or Aguilas in Spanish. While we were meditating at the site I saw an eagle warrior complete with his eagle headdress. Eagle warriors developed the powers of the tonal (waking state) and of the physical body, being able to perform impressive acts such as flying by entering into altered states of consciousness. This theme of raising consciousness also became a thread throughout our journey represented by Quetzalcoatl.
The energy of this day, Cib/Vulture 5 brought the energy of empowerment and led us perfectly into the next stage of our journey.
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan is perhaps the most well known and visited sites within the area. The name means the ‘Place where Men become Gods’ or ‘The place where humans become divine’. The reason for the name is that the energies and purposes of the temples are there to assist man in attaining spiritual enlightenment and thus becoming like God.
The complex is made up of three main temples, The Temple of the Sun, The Temple of the Moon and The Temple of Quetzalcoatl/the Feathered Serpent. Each has a different ceremonial purpose. The pyramid complex was designed as a physical reflection of the inner journey to connect with divinity and authenticity. It is said that the pyramids are in alignment with the constellations of Orion’s belt.
There was a path of initiation from the plaza of the earth (where symbolically physical bodies were buried), plaza of water to release the emotional body, plaza of air to free the mental body and plaza of fire to ignite the spiritual body.
We started our experience of Teotihuacan at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Which for me is a very special place both energetically and the most beautiful for all of its symbolic carvings of serpents, jaguars and corn (the earth).
Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent
Quetzalcoatl is a level of knowledge or consciousness that can be reached by an individual following a personal training process
At this temple one must focus on the process of dismemberment. That is the process of letting go of that which no longer serves them and being re-membered/reconstructed into someone new. Becoming who you want to be without that which weighs you down. Quetza – to raise, coatl – serpent energy, the one who raises their energy (coatzin – the venerable serpent) so much that they are transformed into an eagle or quetzal. Above all, Quetzalcoatl is ‘he who has blossomed’. One could think in terms of kundalini here as when one moves their energy and focus of life from the lower chakras to the higher chakras they attain a higher frequency and level of consciousness. This is also reflected in the Andean shamanic tradition of Munay Ki where the energy of Quetzalcoatl is transmitted into your third eye chakra.
We did a meditation at the temple with the focus of dismembering, letting go that which does not serve us. As we sat there the wind blow through the temple. Quetzalcoatl is associated with the gods of wind and this felt to me to be a very auspicious sign.
The Avenue of the Dead
The Avenue of the Dead must be traversed in order to reach the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon which are situated at the other end of the temple complex. It is said that the Avenue of the Dead points to the star cluster of Pleaides which is aligned with the Temple of the Sun. As we walked along I had a vision of ancient times and initiates wearing ceremonial garments in procession along the avenue.
Temple of the Sun
The only temple within the complex where you can climb to the summit. Energetically this Temple helps us to access the voice of our double (our higher self/inner knowing). It is said that the Pleiades-sun alignment may have a direct connection with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent that came to bring a greater wisdom to the planet. Which to me makes sense as the temples are in alignment with each other. Inner knowing is also accessed once we reach that heightened place within our consciousness. It is also known in the Toltec tradition as Silent Knowing. When we were at the temple Hector had said “ When you are silent the universe speaks”. This is silent knowing, our connection with our inner selves and our connection with the universe.
We meditated at the top of the temple bringing our focus to our vision for the next 7 generations, laying the path for them to have a much better world with fresh water, fresh air and fresh food.
We each offered prayers into tobacco and passed it to Hector and asked him to make a prayer out loud, sharing from the heart.
Temple of the Moon
It is only possible to go to the first level or plaza of this temple which is wide and broad. At this Temple we are to give sacrifice to the earth in return for happiness. As we climbed the steps I could again imagine the initiates in excited anticipation. This was not human sacrifice in the terms we hear about in the ‘official’ story, but the sacrifice of service that brings rewards in the pleasure of the doing and in the pleasure of gratitude.
We made a circle and sang and danced in celebration for our day. Many other people joined in with us and I felt the pleasure of sharing this joy with others and the significance of us touching other people’s lives with our actions.
As we returned back to Mexico City, I reflected upon the concept of spiritual experiences. I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. If this is true then should our focus be placed on the human experiences and not the spiritual ones? Bringing our awareness to human experiences,we are choosing which to have and which we choose to release. In this way we become more aligned with our spiritual and authentic self.
The calendar energy of this day was Caban/Earth 6 – Flow – the energy of earth rhythms and synchronised hearts.
Tula
The next day we travelled to the ancient Toltec capital of Tula which is almost two hours outside of Mexico City. Having spent a year training in and experiencing the Toltec teachings aas well as having made the Toltec teachings a way of life for some 5 years, this is a very special site for me. I always feel like I have come home when I go there.
We found a quiet corner in the ball court. It felt very important to use this space as the ‘official’ story of the ball court tells of the sacrifice or decapitation of the players of the game. I have never believed this story. What I believe is that the decapitation is symbolic of the losing of the ego. The winning team lose the game. In order to do so you would need to lose your ego. There is a frieze at the Mayan site of Mayapan which depicts a headless man and the headlessness is symbolic of losing the ego. In terms of reaching the level of Quetzalcoatl one also needs to lose the ego, lose the story by which we have come to know and identify ourselves.
We gathered in a circle and smudged ourselves. Then while I drummed we undertook a shamanic journey to the Ancient City of Tula to explore it. I and several others were aware of the sound of the conch shell being blown and the sounds of a fiesta around us. The spirits/people of the place were happy that we had come.
En route to the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl we passed along the corridor of serpents. This depicts a series of carvings of a skull coming out of a serpent’s mouth. For me this represents transformation, we must pass through the serpent and symbolically shed our skin. The skull being flesh this would effectively depict this and can also be seen as a sign of dismemberment or death and renewal.
We visited the Atlantae Warriors on top of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and then came to the base to do a Pipe Ceremony. This was a very powerful and emotional ceremony. Three men from the site joined us, one a Nahuatl speaker who introduced himself in Nahuatl and seemed versed in ceremonial etiquette, another man who was selling tourist artifacts and the third came wearing an official UNAH shirt. (UNAH are the official organisation who look after the sites and do not usually permit ceremonies at the sites). This felt particularly important and we most definitely had the blessings of the guardians of the site (in spirit and human form). After the ceremony the Nahuatl man shared some teachings with us and did some blessings/healings on a few people in the group. He said he was told that we were coming and that he had to be there that day.
The calendar energy of that day was Etnab/Flint – 7 –Reflection – reflecting upon the choices that we make.
Personal Time
The next day we were guided by the group and circumstance. One member of the group was feeling unwell. I practice Human Design and within that system there are 5 energy or aura types. This person was the only Reflector in the group. Reflectors have a completely open aura which takes in the energy of those around them, amplifies it and reflects it back out. In terms of Human design she was reflecting the group to us and we decided that we would make this a free day to give people time to integrate all the work we had done and all the experiences of the preceding days. It also enabled our Reflector to spend time alone and reset herself energetically.
In terms of the calendar the energy of the day was Cauac/Storm – 8 –Justice – a day for purification and gathering energies within.
Interestingly, this day had originally been scheduled as the free day but we had changed the schedule. It felt that the original plan was correct and in alignment with the energy of the day and the group.
Pipe Ceremony
That evening we went to the home of a lovely friend called Martha who hosted us for a Pipe ceremony. She is also a Pipe carrier. In the gathering were our group of 13 plus Martha, Hector and two other Nahuatl friends in total 3 men and 14 women. Martha had a Moon pipe(feminine) and Gail had a Sun pipe (masculine). We made a ceremony with the Sun pipe first and then the Moon pipe, both supported by beautiful songs and drumming. Gail blessed us all with her pipe.
This gathering and ceremony for me was one of the most powerful things that we did during our journey together. There was a mix of cultures, the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Canada and Mexico as well as our indigenous Scottish representatives. There was a feeling of healing for the land of Mexico but also for the peoples present. We the people gathered and the lands into which we were born have all been conquered at some time in history. Ancestrally we all carry the wounds as does the land. For me it is time to leave those wounds behind, and to use our energy and wisdom to heal the Earth and all the beings that live upon her. Gail said that her pipe is a group healing pipe or a pipe for healing the people.
I could see a sacred triangle being formed between the lands:
Canada_ _ _ _ _ _Scotland
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Mexico
Chapultepec
The following day we made a visit of the Bosque (forest) of Chapultepec in the west of the city. Capultepec means Hill of the Grasshopper. We made a visit to the sacred Ayehuehuete tree. This is a place where people come to ask permission of the spirits/guardians of the city. I had come here the week before the journey began to do a ceremony and offering and to ask permission for the group to come. This day, Hector opened the 7 directions for us in Nahuatl and we all made our offerings to the tree and the guardians of the city. Then we went to an area of the prk/forest called Montezumas Banos which was originally a pool for cleansing. The water is no longer there so we did a cleansing and purfiying meditation there. In my meditation I saw Cipactli, the crocodile, who in the world of dreams is considered the main archetype for creating abundance. When we first entered the park we had seen a rat which also represents the creation of abundance.
Anthropological Museum
We spent the afternoon at the museum where artefacts from every era and region of Mexico are housed. It is a vast and impressive collection. Hector gave us a brief explanation of the circles/cycles of the Aztec Calendar where the huge stone is now housed. The stone is also known as the Sun stone or the Stone of 5 eras representing the eras of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth Sun. It is said in many cultures that we are now entering the age/era of the Sixth Sun which will be an era of enlightenment.
Aztec Calendar/ Sun Stone Fundacion Stone Coatlicue
The calendar energy of this day was Ahau/Sun -9 – Patience.
The Basilica/Virgin de Guadelupe
The final day of our journey together, 12th December, the day upon which thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the Basilica de Guadelupe or Tepeyac Hill in honour of Our Lady of Guadelupe, considered to be the most important symbol of Mexico. It is said that the virgin appeared to the Juan Diego an indigenous peasant (but also known as the eagle warrior Cipactli)on the hill of Tepeyac. It is on this site that the ancient Mexica temple of Tonantzin Coatlicue (Mother Earth or Divine Mother) was said to have stood. Tonantzin Coatlicue is the earth goddess said to have given birth to the moon, the stars and Huitlipochtli. Tonantzin means ‘our Mother’ and Coatlicue means ‘skirt of snakes’ and this is how she is depicted. The pilgrimage is made to visit the ancient temple/ goddess as well as the Virgin of Guadelupe.
On the day that we went we walked part of the pilgrimage route with the pilgrims. There were people of all ages. Some carrying effagies of the Virgin, some people crawling on their hands and knees. It is said that people come to ask for healing or a miracle.
When we reached the square in front of the Basilica it was filled with Mexica dance groups. Many adorned with feather head-dresses and dancing the warrior dances to the beat of the drums. Each step has a symbolic meaning. The Mexica dancers keeping alive the tradition of the Mexicas and the legacy of Cuautemoc. Thousands of people swarmed around them and all the way up the hill behind the square. Within the Basilica the cultures merged as the dancers made a procession down to the altar with their copal burners wafting the delicious smell of the copal resin. The Basilica is so subsided that you can visually see that the building is out of alignment and in places actually makes you feel sea sick.
To complete the symbolism of the Sun and the Moon and the raising of consciousness that is represented by Quetzalcoatl, we must look at the symbolism in the famous picture of Our Lady de Guadelupe. The drawing was made by Juan Diego/Cipactli and according to Sergio Magana (cited above) “The Virgin was standing over the moon, vanquishing it, while rising towards the sun, that is, tearing down the moon’s invisible prison in order to reach the full potential represented by the sun.” The moon’s invisible prison is the place that we trap ourselves in with our beliefs, duality and anything else that prevents us from seeing our own Quetzalcoatl.
The calendar energy of the day was Imix/Crocodile – 10 – Manifestation. Let us remember that Cipactli in the Aztec calendar is the crocodile also.
Conclusion
On 13th December most of the group departed to fly back to their home lands. They were carried by the energy of the day – Ik/Wind -11 – Understanding, and may that be so.
Our journey brought us full circle from the legend of Tenochtitlan founded on the vision given by Huitlipochtli to the temple of Tonantzin Coatlicue said to be his Mother.
From the eagle warrior of Templo Mayor and Cipactli at Montezuma’s Banos to the eagle warrior Cipactli who first saw the vision of the Virgin of Guadelupe.
Quetzalcoatl was present throughout our journey to the ancient sites Tlatelolco, Teotihuacan, Tula reminding us to shed our skin (transformation) so we can fly like the eagle or Quetzal. Enabling us to break out of the invisible prison that we trap ourselves in.
Spiritual journeys are paths of transformation, they can be easy if the opportunities and lessons are embraced or they can be challenging if seem that way. It is all a matter of perspective.
This is account is of course written from my perspective of the journey and my understanding of the teachings and events. I am sure that all of the people who took part will have their own version of events, experiences and perspectives. | http://tiffanystephens.co.uk/spiritual-journey-to-mexico/ |
It is an award given by the ONCE social group and its objective is to promote literary creation in Spanish language.
The Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Communication and Professor of Latin Philology Javier Velaza has been the winner of the XXXIII edition of the Tiflos Poetry Prize. The jury of the contest, composed of various personalities from the academic and literary world, has agreed by majority to award Velaza for his poetic work De mundanzas.
A prestigious prize in the field of Spanish literature
Called by the National Organization of the Blind (ONCE), the Tiflos Poetry Prize promotes and distinguishes literary creation in the Spanish language. Launched in 1986, the award has been granted to a volume of free-themed poems since the second edition. Over more than thirty years of existence, the Tiflos Poetry Prize has become one of the most prestigious poetic contests in the literary scene. The Tiflos Awards in the categories of story and novel are also convened. | https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/philology-communication/detail/-/detall/the-professor-and-dean-of-the-faculty-of-philology-and-communication-javier-velaza-wins-the-xxxiii-tiflos-poetry-prize |
We will gather at the Yibeiping Restaurant in Beijing at 1200 hrs for a pre-tour briefing and visa handover, where any last minute questions you have can be answered. This will be followed by a complimentary welcome luncheon, providing a great opportunity to meet your fellow tour members and the JTS tour leader.
1725 hrs – Depart Beijing Railway Station on board international train K27 to Pyongyang. Dinner in the restaurant carriage (payable locally). Overnight on board the soft sleeper train (4 berth sleeper compartment).
Day 1 – Sunday 27th October 2019
AM: Cross the China / DPRK border at the Yalu River via the Sino – Korean Friendship Bridge. Complete DPRK customs formalities.
PM: Lunch in the restaurant carriage (payable locally). Spend the rest of the afternoon relaxing, taking in views of the Korean countryside and railway scenes. 1715 hrs – Arrive Pyongyang railway station. Meet your guides, transfer and check in at the Koryo Hotel (4*), arguable one of the finest in the DPRK, where a welcome dinner will be served.
Day 2 – Monday 28th October 2019
AM: The morning commences with a visit to the Mansudae Grand Monument and nearby Fountain Park, where the group can pay their respects to the country’s leaders. It’s then time to explore some of Pyongyang’s public transport. We start with a visit to Pyongyang Metro Museum where we will be given a detailed guided tour, followed by a ride on the Pyongyang metro itself*. This will take in 5 stops in total and will finish up at the Arch of Triumph. Waiting for us here will be vintage trolley bus ‘Chollima’ No. 903 manufactured in the 1960’s, taking the group back to Pyongyang railway station situated next to the Koryo Hotel. We will follow this up with a ride on board a Tatra tram car (T4D) for a ride along Kwangbok Street. At the end of the tram ride, lunch will be served at the nearby KITC restaurant. *Those not wishing to ride the trams can instead explore both lines of the Pyongyang Metro, including the interchange station – extra cost €20 / person. Both groups then meet for lunch at the KITC restaurant.
PM: We then return to the railway station via tram, on board another Tatra tram car (KT8D5K). Next up is the impressive 3 Revolutions Exhibition, including the outside display area which also features some domestically manufactured electric and diesel locomotives as well as indigenously produced carriages, wagons and trolley bus displays. There will also be time for a look around the heavy industry section of the Exhibition, which is quite interesting. It’s then time for a second trolley bus ride, this time a modern manufactured design taking us from Munsu Water Park to Pyongyang department store. Next is some souvenir shopping at the foreign language bookshop and some street photography along a well-used trolley bus route next to Kim Il Sung Square. Dinner will be served at a local restaurant and overnight at Koryo Hotel (4*).
Day 3 – Tuesday 29th October 2019
AM: Rising early, you will depart Pyongyang for Kaesong and the DMZ, where you can see at first hand the physical division of Korea and the immense historical legacy this has had on the nation. You will be shown around by officers in the Korean People’s Army who will talk to you about the situation on the ground. The next stop is the Koryo Museum, consisting of preserved Confucian buildings and a replica mausoleum depicting life in Korea during the Koryo dynasty.
PM: Lunch will be taken at the historic Kaesong Folk Hotel, built in raditional Korean style, where you will enjoy a hearty ‘Royal Court’ style meal in the customary manner, served on the floor from bronze bowls. After lunch is the return journey to Pyongyang, and en route there will be a brief stop of the Monument to the 3 Charters of National Reunification. Dinner this evening will be served at the Chongryu hot pot restaurant. There will be an optional visit after dinner to Taedonggang Bar No.3, where you will have a chance to sample the locally brewed draft beers. Overnight at Koryo Hotel (4*).
Day 4 – Wednesday 30th October 2019
AM: An exciting start to the day as we commence our rail cruise of the DPRK, on board our own private charter train hauled most likely by a Chinese Dong Feng DF5 or M62 derivative diesel locomotive (to be confirmed). In addition the train will consist of a dining car serving tasty meals, which also operates a bar and café service to our customers throughout the journey. There will also be some sleeper carriages attached for those wishing to catch 40 winks! At 0830 hrs, we depart Pyongyang for Hyangsan, gateway to the scenic Mount Myohyang area (journey time approx. 5 hours). Lunch and liquid refreshments will be served in the restaurant carriage (a bar service will be offered on all journeys). Upon arrival at Hyangsan railway station we will be met by the first steam locomotive of the tour, a JF 2-8-2 Mikado, and we will ride with this train for 23 kilometres to Kujang and back again. We shall endeavour to arrange some photo stops en route to capture this magnificent and rare specimen!
PM: A late afternoon we check in at the deluxe Hyangsan Hotel (5*) which is then followed by an optional hike in the nearby Manpok valley. Those not hiking can enjoy the hotel spa and leisure facilities. Dinner will be served at the hotel.
Day 5 – Thursday 31st October 2019
AM: We start the morning with a visit to the International Friendship Exhibition, an impressive subterranean exhibition hall where you will be able to see several rail carriages gifted to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. This is followed by a visit to the picturesque and historic Pohyon Buddhist Temple.
PM: At around 1230 hrs it’s then time to board our special train for the onward journey to Wonsan (approximately 8 hours). Both lunch and dinner will be taken on board, and the afternoon will provide a superb ground level glimpse of the DPRK countryside and rail system as we travel cross country on the spectacular Hyangsan – Kujang – Kaechon – Sunchon – Wonsan line, very rarely taken by tourists. As we pull into Wonsan in the evening, we will check in at the nearby Tongmyong Hotel (3*) for our overnight stay.
Day 6 – Friday 1st November 2019
AM: This morning we pay a visit to the old railway station revolutionary museum featuring a historic Japanese built steam locomotive. There will also be time for a visit to the local art gallery and a walk along the jetty to the nearby Chongdokdo lighthouse, where you can enjoy a panoramic view of Wonsan city. Boarding the train at approximately 1130, lunch will be taken on board, en route to our next stop Hamhung (journey time 3 hours).
PM: Upon arrival, we will visit the Hamhung Grand Monument, traditional old house of Hamhung Bongung and the Hungnam fertiliser factory where there is a chance we will see the industrial rail line in action. Tonight we will stay at the luxurious Majon Hotel (5*) and dinner will also be served here. [TBC: We will also do our best to arrange some photography stops of the Hamhung – Hungnam narrow gauge commuter rail line on this day, a first time ever experience for foreign tourists and rail enthusiasts
Day 7 – Saturday 2nd November 2019
AM: 0800 hrs – An early start today as we depart Hamhung for our next city, Chongjin. It’s a full day on board the train, on a wonderfully picturesque coastal rail line with some great photography opportunities. Breakfast and lunch will be taken on board (there will be a sleeper carriage attached for those wishing to catch up on some sleep during the day).
PM: 1930 hrs – Arrive at Chongjin station. Dinner will be served at the Chongjin Seaman’s Club and we overnight at the Chongjin Tourist Hotel (2* – unfortunately the only accommodation option available, however it does possess an excellent and inexpensive micro-brewery).
Day 8 – Sunday 3rd November 2019
AM: Our first activity of the day will be a trolley bus ride through Chongjin city. We then make our way to the railway station for some more steam action around the Chongjin area. Taking another steam locomotive, a 2,000 HP Mika-6 for a journey from Chongjin to Sungam, a distance of 20 kilometres each way. Photography opportunities will be available en route. Lunch will be taken at a local restaurant.
PM: In the afternoon, we are then met by 4 smaller Puruso Japanese built steam locomotives which are normally assigned internal duties inside the nearby Chongjin steelworks; they will perform some shunting activity for our delight and delectation. It is then time to re-board our special tourist charter train for our long return journey to Pyongyang, departing 1800 hrs. Dinner is served in the restaurant car and the night is spent on board the train. Trans-Siberian Customers – For those customers wishing to exit the DPRK and continue along the trans-Siberian railway you will spend the evening in Rason with dinner served at a local restaurant.
Day 9 – Monday 4th November 2019
AM: The train journey continues to Pyongyang. We can have a short break in Hamhung en route for a few hours to stretch the legs and do some local sightseeing. Lunch is served on board.
PM: Arrival time Pyongyang mid-afternoon (TBA). This will be followed by a city walk along the banks of the Taedong River to stretch our legs. Dinner is then served at a local restaurant, overnight at Koryo Hotel (4*).
Trans-Siberian customers –
AM: Today you enjoy sightseeing in the rarely visited Rajin-Sonbong region of the country. Here you will visit Rajin Language School, Triangle Bank and Sungjon Pavilion where you can see the border between the DPRK, Russia and China. A picnic lunch is served.
PM: You check in at Tumangang Railway Station and join the International Train 651, heading to the Korea / Russia border. You partake of a journey very rarely made by foreign tourists, crossing the DPRK – Russian friendship bridge into Khasan and onwards to Russian Siberia. Bon Voyage!
Day 10 – Tuesday 5th November 2019
AM: A final day of sightseeing begins in Pyongyang. Your first stop is a visit to the Railway Museum. You then take a trip to the Tower of Juche Idea and nearby Party Foundation Monument.
PM: Lunch is served at a local restaurant. Next you can explore the Fatherland Liberation War Museum including the captured US spy ship “USS Pueblo”. Your farewell dinner is served at a local restaurant. Before dinner there is also the option to enjoy a drink alongside the locals at the Mansugyo Standing Beer Bar. Departure by Air Koryo Flight Customers – Those opting to depart by flight will board Air Koryo flight JS151 departing Pyongyang at 0850 hrs and arriving in Beijing at 0950 hrs LT on this day.
Day 11 – Wednesday 6th November 2019
1010 hrs – The overnight sleeper departs Pyongyang for Beijing via Dandong, arriving in Dandong at 16:23 and in Beijing at 0838 local time the following day.
The Tour is created in Cooperation with: | https://www.pyongyang-travel.com/north-korea-tours/northkorea-grand-rail-tour-2019/ |
What should we do when we over-train?
— Marc, Germany
Answer
There are 5 things you can do if you have over-trained, or to prevent over-training.
- Cut down the time of training. If you train kungfu for 2 hours a session, now train for only an hour. Spend the other hour with your girlfriend, or with your parents.
- Cut down the intensity of training. An excellent way is not to enter too deeply into a heightened level of consciousness, called entering into a chi kung state of mind, entering Zen or entering Tao in our school.
- Stop training for a day or two. Spend the time rewardingly.
- Spend time and energy in vigorous activities, like set practice, combat application, hiking, picnics, shopping and other outdoor activities. Many students reported that they felt energized, not tired, after these activities.
- Take negative actions, like purposely tensing your muscles or purposely intellectualizing. These negative actions are not advisable, but they may help to overcome over-training. It is good to have a short, gentle chi flow after these negative actions to clear any harm caused.
The above is taken from Question 3 April 2018 Part 1 of the Selection of Questions and Answers. | https://www.shaolin.org/answers/sp-issues/marc02.html |
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Has appeared in a few TV shows.
Name: Lee Jae-Jin (Bass)
Date of birth: December 17, 1991
Height: 177 cm
Blood type: A
Hobby: Surfing the internet
Name: Choi Jong-Hoon (Guitar, Piano)
Date of birth: March 7, 1990
Height: 178 cm
Blood type: A
Hobbies: Listening to music, surfing the internet
Name: Choi Min-Hwan (Drums)
Date of birth: November 11, 1992
Height: 171 cm
Blood type: A
Hobbies: Surfing the internet, listening to music
Name: Song Seung-Hyun (Vocals, Guitar)
Date of birth: August 21, 1992
Height: 180 cm
Past Member;
Name: Oh Won-Bin (Guitar, Vocals)
Date of birth: March 26, 1990
Height: 180 cm
Blood type: O
Hobbies: Exercising, reading, listening to music
BIOGRAPHY
F.T. Island, short for “Five Treasure Island,” is a rock band made up of 5 young, fresh-faced members. Only been debuted three years, they have already gained fans at home and abroad. “Cheerful Sensibility,” their first album released on 2007 is a collection of rock ballads and pop-rock tracks. Their first 2 hits “Painful Love” and “Thunder” all went to the top of the chart, making them the most successful rookie group of that year.
Their 2nd album and a mini-album released last year also generated hits after hits. In addition, they also sang the title song of popular drama “On Air”, gaining more fans each day. They also have went abroad to Japan to release few singles and already held two concerts in Tokyo. In January 2009, Oh Wonbin left FT Island and was replaced by Song Seunghyun as second vocalist and rapper.
With a new line-up they released the third album titled “Cross And Change.” Just like their title name states, FT Island has come with a transformation as well as a crossover. If their previous albums mainly consisted of rock ballads, this new one would have more summery bright and cheerful songs. “I Hope” is of the electronic rock crossover genre that has a strong melody as well as rapping.
This year, FT Island has been working on their 1st Asian tour. They’ve held a showcase in Singapore at the end of June (which 900 fans attended), done a few day promotions in Thailand in July and during the later half of this year should be holding showcases in Hong Kong and Taiwan. | https://www.soompi.com/article/359580wpp/artist-of-the-week-ft-island-1 |
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross TD has attended the turning of the sod ceremony for the Sligo Western Distributor Road Phase 2 project.
Atkins Ireland said it was delighted to see the realisation of an important major project for Sligo, which is supported by Project Ireland 2040 and backed by the IDA and Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Atkins has a long-standing involvement in this scheme having provided the consulting engineering expertise since its concept stage through to the current construction stage.
The 2.5km Western Distributor Road will link the N4 Caltragh Interchange to the Ballydoogan area of Sligo enabling the development of zoned lands, specifically the IDA Business Park at Oakfield, and create the potential for significant employment and residential development in Sligo. The scheme will provide added benefits by reducing congestion in the town centre, reducing travel times for private, commuter and business users, enable environmental improvements in the town centre and provide direct access to community sports and parkland facilities for the south west quadrant of Sligo.
Ursula O’Higgins, Technical Director, Atkins said: “This is a very important project for Sligo and represents another positive step forward to achieving the objectives identified for Sligo in Ireland 2040 as a regional centre and new gateway. “Atkins is delighted to be involved in this major project which will serve to promote and enhance sustainable economic growth for the area, improve social integration and the health benefits for all road users by means of alternative modes of travel such as walking and cycling through the inclusion of pedestrian and cyclist facilities.
The Western Distributor Road Phase 2 comprises a new 2.5km single carriageway southwest of Sligo commencing at the Ballydoogan Road (WDR Phase 1) and terminating at the N4 Caltragh Interchange. It incorporates designated cycle tracks, footways and shared-use facilities. The scheme includes a new 23m span bridge over the Dublin-Sligo railway and incorporates designated cycle tracks, footways and shared-use facilities, including new signalised crossings. The scheme will improve access to the existing IDA Business Park at Finisklin and provide access to the proposed new IDA Business Park at Oakfield.
The contract signing took place earlier in the week with SIAC Construction Ltd appointed as contractors for the project which has recently commenced construction and is expected to be completed in Summer 2020.
A number of years ago Atkins completed a traffic and transportation project study for Sligo and this study recommended the implementation of a number of new routes in and around Sligo. These included the Sligo Inner Relief Route and the Western Distributor Route. | https://www.siac.ie/turning-of-sod-ceremony-for-sligo-western-distributor-road-phase-2-project/ |
Surface Area: 3,300 sq. ft.
Architect: Weber Murphy Fox
Client: First National Bank of PA
Location: Summit, PA
Surface Area: 3,300 sq. ft.
Architect: Weber Murphy Fox
The curved metal roof and masonry tower add interest and size to a 3,300 sq. ft. building. The team members worked closely to value engineer this project. The building’s small size on an expensive piece of land necessitated more bang for the buck. Despite a lengthy permit process, the project was completed within the original schedule.
Associated Contractors COVID-19 Response Policy
Associated Contractors (ACI) takes the COVID-19 situation seriously, and in response, we are complying with current mandates established by both the Federal Government and the state of Pennsylvania. Under the most recent regulations, ACI will continue to operate remotely. We will not be working on-site for our current projects but will be available to talk to current and new customers. We are following best practices set forth by the CDC for preventing the spread of the virus. This includes handwashing, social distancing, modified schedules, suspending business travel, limited access to our offices, and working remotely when possible. With these measures in place, we recognize there may be delays in communication, and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. ACI appreciates your understanding during this period, as we support the health and safety of our community. For questions please contact George Ray at [email protected]. | http://www.associatedcontractors.net/project/first-national-bank-summit/ |
After the invention of gunpowder, the arms that dated back to feudal times lost their defensive value which made it so that great noble families would create museums of arms where they could display war armour connected to the family's glorious acts.
The offensive and defensive arms reflect how wars evolved from the 15th to the 19th century. The Cerralbo museum of arms contains approximately 700 pieces from various origins (Europe, America, Asia and Oceania) acquired in Spain as well as abroad mainly at the Hôtel Drouot and Hôtel des Commisaires-Priseurs auctions in Paris.
The most important armour of the collection is intimately related to the historical and heroic acts of the House of Cerralbo, which are represented on the Main Staircase. Of all of the war armour, we shall highlight the mid 17th century armour which, according to tradition, belonged to Cerralbo's distinguished ancestor Pablo Fernández Contreras,1st Earl of Alcudia, Admiral of the Spanish Squad which defeated the Dutch Squad in 1635.
Also on display are firearms such as arquebuses, rifles, shotguns and pistols, all a reflection of the evolution of these arms over time with examples and elements from the 16th to 19th century.
Out of all of the museums arms, the pieces originally from Borneo, Philippines, India, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, Morocco and Oceania are particularly noteworthy. Some of them were acquired at the auction of 15th to 18th century art and other interesting objects held at the Chateau de Saint-Jean in Nogent-le-Rotrou by the Hôtel Drouot in 1877. Other pieces were picked up by Cerralbo himself during his trips to Constantinople, Scutari and Adrianople (now known as Edirne, Turkey).
The most unique pieces are the war armour originally from 18th century Japan comprised of copper, lacquered leather and colourful ribbons. Its privileged armour that belonged to samurais, individuals of the military class that had the privilege of carrying two sables, called wakizashi. One example of these is also on display. | http://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/mcerralbo/en/coleccion/coleccion0/armeria.html |
Fair Credit Billing Act
What is the Fair Credit Billing Act?
The Fair Credit Billing Act of 1974 is a federal law designed to prevent unfair credit-billing practices. It outlines guidelines that apply to both lenders and consumers for handling disputes about errors on billing statements. These errors include statements mailed to the wrong address, calculation errors, unauthorized charges, and charges posted for goods that consumers purchased but did not receive.
Disputing a billing error
Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, creditors and borrowers have specific responsibilities during billing disputes. The law applies only to accounts associated with credit cards and revolving charge store cards. It does not apply to installment loans such as those used to purchase furniture or vehicles.
The dispute process starts when a borrower notices an error on a billing statement. The borrower must notify the credit card company in writing within 60 days after the creditor mailed the first statement with the error. The notice (which should include your name, address, account information, a summary of the disputed error, and sales receipts or other documents) should be sent to the card issuer’s address for “billing inquiries” and not the address to which you send your payments. You should send it via certified mail for proof of delivery. Otherwise, your claim may not have legal standing.
During the dispute investigation period, it’s all right for a customer to not pay any disputed amount or related charges. However, you should pay other undisputed charges due on the credit card.
The creditor must respond to you within 30 days of receiving the notice of dispute and explain how it plans to correct the issue. The law requires the creditor to resolve the dispute within the next two billing cycles. At the end of its investigation, the creditor must write to you and explain its findings. If you must pay the disputed charges, the creditor has to state how much you owe and why. If a customer does not bear responsibility for the disputed charges, the creditor has to detail what it will do to correct the error.
Other creditor responsibilities
The Fair Credit Billing Act lists other obligations of the creditor, including when and where to send billing statements, when to credit payments, and how to handle a dispute. The creditor must:
- Provide a billing statement to customers who owe or are owed more than $1.
- Send bills to the customer’s current address at least 20 days before the billing cycle ends.
- Provide a written notice about the right to dispute errors to customers who open new accounts.
- Credit payments the same day received.
- Promptly refund overpayments.
- Drop accrued interest charged to accounts if it decides the customer is not liable for the disputed charges.
- Not threaten to harm a customer’s credit or close an account during a dispute.
Creditors that violate the Fair Credit Billing Act procedures do not have the legal right to collect the disputed debt, and up to $50 in finance charges, even if the evidence clearly shows the customer is at fault. The customer also has the right to file a lawsuit against a creditor for violating the FCBA. If you are successful, you would collect the disputed amount and up to twice the amount of the finance charge.
Fair Credit Billing Act example
One example of how the Fair Credit Billing Act works is what happens when a customer discovers that a credit card company did not credit his account for a payment made during the billing cycle and charged him a penalty for the missing payment. According to the law, the customer has the right to ask the credit card company to correct the error and remove the penalty and accrued interest.
Are you considering a new credit card with better terms? Bankrate’s credit card calculators help you understand your credit card debt and how to pay it off. | https://www.bankrate.com/glossary/f/fair-credit-billing-act/amp/ |
LWV, Common Cause seek intervention in Judicial Watch suit
Common Cause Pennsylvania and the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania moved to intervene Monday in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch Inc. seeking an order compelling the state and several counties to comply with voter list maintenance that it claims is lacking.
Olivia Thorne, president of the League of Women Voters of Delaware County, said Tuesday that the decision to intervene was based in part on the league trying to ensure no legitimate, eligible voters are wrongly removed.
“Why do this right before a presidential election?” she asked. “We work very hard all the time trying to register voters, and the idea that people would be taken off the list when they registered for the last presidential (election), it’s sort of frustrating in some ways. … This is what we’re really trying to avoid, is having people disenfranchised.”
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Judicial Watch, a non-profit organization that describes its mission as promoting transparency, integrity and accountability in government, filed suit in April against Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar, and Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties, along with their respective boards of election and election officials.
The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania cites data gleaned from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to assert that the defendants are not properly purging voter rolls under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
One section of the NVRA provides that a voter may only be canceled from registration rolls for failure to vote after first receiving a notice requesting confirmation of their address. The voter is then placed on “inactive” status and can only be removed after failing to vote in two federal general elections or otherwise contacting the county in which they live.
The complaint claims EAC data for 2018 indicates that in the most recent two-year period, Delaware County removed only four people from the list under that provision. Chester County likewise removed five and Bucks County removed only eight, according to the complaint.
Judicial Watch claims those numbers are “absurdly small” given the size of the counties, the numbers of registered voters in each county and the rate with which registrations become outdated due to changes in residence. The complaint additionally claims Pennsylvania itself appears to be lacking in this area, with removals in some parts of the state under that narrow scope ranging between 72 and zero.
Judicial Watch local counsel Shawn M. Rodgers said the main thrust of the complaint goes to individuals who have received a notice and who were placed “on the clock” to be removed after two general federal elections.
“These individuals, however, are usually people who have moved elsewhere, and may on occasion even be individuals who have died,” he said. “Judicial Watch is not concerned with … people who affirmatively notify the state at some point that they have moved, or … people who are removed because official channels have determined that they have died.”
Judicial Watch sent letters out to each of the three counties and the state in December requesting correction of the numbers as well as certain documents. Delaware County did not respond, but Bureau of Elections Solicitor J. Manly Parks said something on the order of 30,000 names have been removed from Delaware County voter rolls since December of 2017.
Parks said that figure is comparable to neighboring suburban counties. He added that the voter roll maintenance process has been in place for years and is in compliance with federal law.
“I think that this lawsuit is based on misinformation or no information, as best I can tell,” he said. “The facts don’t appear to support it and in any event there is clearly no partisan aspect to the voter maintenance roll practices currently in place in Delaware County, since we are adhering to the exact same voter maintenance roll practices that were in place before the Democrats took control of county council and the board of elections.”
Bucks County Assistant Solicitor Stuart Wilder did respond to Judicial Watch’s letter and said that it had in fact removed a total of 14,050 voters from its rolls in 2018, including 1,901 inactive voter registrations.
Wilder also noted that 761,288 voter registrations were marked "inactive" and 380,154 were cancelled in 2018 statewide, and pointed to one federal court of appeals decision in another matter that found using the data Judicial Watch relied upon for its suit led to “inaccurate and misleading conclusions.”
Wilder also noted in subsequent communication that while Judicial Watch was focused on 2018, the vast number of removals occur in uneven years because they are based on participation in national elections, which fall on even years.
Chester County officials did not respond to attempts to get comment, but a letter to Judicial Watch from Solicitor Thomas L. Whiteman similarly disputed the figures for that county, noting it had cancelled 8,977 active voter registrations and 12,522 inactive registrations in 2017, as well as 10,072 active registrations and 2,084 inactive registrations in 2018.
The Department of State does not comment on ongoing litigation, but Boockvar in her response to Judicial Watch’s letter indicated “fervent disagreement” with the organization’s figures.
Boockvar said Allegheny, Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties together cancelled 52,317 active voter records and 13,178 inactive voter records through annual maintenance activities, accounting for nearly 18 percent of the 372,694 voter list maintenance cancellations in the state that year. The four counties also accounted for 22 percent of cancelations in 2017, with 106,338 of the total 487,768 cancellations statewide, and in 2016 accounted for 74,416 (18 percent) of the 405,163 voter list maintenance cancellations statewide, she said.
Undaunted, Judicial Watch filed suit seeking certain voter records it claimed to have been denied access to, as well as orders directing the defendants to develop and implement programs to remove ineligible voters from rolls and other demands.
It claimed that the alleged failures of the defendants had burdened the constitutional rights of nearly 1,000 of its members living in the state by undermining their confidence in the integrity of the electoral process and presenting a fear that their legitimate votes would be diluted or nullified.
The interveners claimed in a memo with their petition Monday that the relief Judicial Watch seeks actually threatens the rights of underserved communities in each of the defendant jurisdictions and undermines their mission of assisting with voter registrations in the midst of a global pandemic.
If Judicial Watch receives the relief it seeks, according to the petition, the proposed interveners will have to expend additional resources protecting their members’ registrations and maintaining registration-related efforts.
“Plaintiff alleges that it seeks to ensure election integrity,” that petition states. “But the removal and disenfranchisement of eligible voters is a more direct threat to election integrity than the alleged failure to take ‘reasonable’ steps to remove voters, particularly absent any evidence of voter fraud.” | |
An update to Paint.NET is available at Paint.net - download. From thePaint.net blog:
As usual, you can download the update directly from the website, or you can use the built-in updater via Settings –> Updates –> Check Now.
•New: You can now create and install custom shapes for the Shapes tool.
•New: Updated to work better with Windows 10.
•New: Increased the maximum brush size to 2000.
•New: IndirectUI-based effect plugins can now provide help text, accessible via the question mark button.
•New: Effect plugins may now access the current palette via IPalettesService.
•Improved: Reduced memory usage of brush tools when using large brush sizes.
•Fixed: Holding shift to constrain the angle of the roll control (Layers -> Rotate/Zoom) wasn’t working correctly.
•Fixed: Various shapes (hexagon, pentagon, triangle, etc.) are now symmetric when holding the shift key.
•Fixed: Multiple high-dpi blemishes in the main window and many dialog boxes (Settings, Save Configuration, all effect dialogs, etc.)
•Fixed: Various minor/rare crashes.
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Life presents a unique set of challenges for every individual, and sometimes those challenges are more than we can handle on our own. When that imbalance occurs, we can experience a number of uncomfortable emotions such as stress, anxiety, sadness, worry, or even fear. We can feel easily overwhelmed, frustrated, and irritable, and these feelings can have impacts on many aspects of our lives including our sleeping and eating habits, our self-talk, our ability to care for ourselves, and our interactions with others. Acknowledging we need additional support when coping with issues such as these can be difficult, and allowing ourselves to actually reach out to ask for that help can seem like an almost impossible task.
I am here to tell you that encountering moments like these is a normal part of life,
and you have more control over your experience than you think.
As a therapist, my goal is to create a safe, confidential space that is free from judgement for you to discuss and explore any issues you are currently struggling with. I will work with you to gain insight into these issues as well as to develop a better understanding of the ways they impact your daily life. We will also work together to find coping skills that will help you better manage these impacts and ultimately restore a feeling of balance to your life.
I understand that starting therapy can be a difficult step to take. It is my intent to provide each client with an experience during which they feel heard, understood, and validated as they work to regain a sense of balance in their lives.
It's time to take that first step towards healing. Please contact me to schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation or intake appointment. I look forward to working with you.
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Mindfully Balanced Counseling is a web-based counseling practice that offers telehealth services to clients age 13 and older who reside in the state of Florida. | https://www.mymindfulbalance.com/ |
Geoff Livingston, a professional communicator, author and co-founder of Zoetica, is taking citizen journalism to the Gulf today. He and others want to find ways to help the fishermen impacted by the BP oil spill.
Says Geoff, “We will use all of our blog tools and social media capabilities to tell the stories of the people we meet and share them with our online community.”
“It will be the personal story of how the spill is impacting people,” Geoff said Friday. “The story is so big it’s daunting. We want to bring it down to a personal level.”
Working with Citizen Effect, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., Geoff and others will be in the Gulf this week to talk with those impacted and with those who are able to affect change.
In addition to the social media platforms, Geoff says, he already has several commitments for wider distribution. “We anticipate it being reported a little bit,” he says.
“I want people to feel like they can do something,” says Geoff. “We have to help each other. We want to find a way to help out the fishermen.”
One way to do that is to tell their personal stories. | https://cynthiapricecommunique.com/2010/06/27/citizen-journalism-hopes-to-impact-bp-crisis/?shared=email&msg=fail |
WIHEA External Collaboration Fund
New to 2021/22, this small pilot fund (max £4k per project) is aimed at enabling the development of Staff and Student collaborations between two or more Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) to develop and share knowledge, experience and capabilities to address current challenges within the HE Sector.
We are looking for innovative ideas and outputs which have the potential to positively impact Higher Education. Successful proposals are likely to offer, for example, online resources, events or engagement activities, case studies of successful practices, and/or make a contribution to existing literature. Please note this is not an exhaustive list.
This funding is mainly to pay for student’s time and general project costs and will be made available to collaborative partners at the start of the project, as the employment of Students’ must be arranged directly by the HEI at which they are studying.
We invite project proposals in the following priority areas:
- Inclusive education
- Blended learning and assessment
- Sustainability in Education
- Student and Staff Wellbeing
Whilst projects focusing on these priorities are preferred, we are open to considering proposals relating to other emerging priority areas.
To be considered for funding, please submit your project proposal using this online proposal form
by mid-day, Wednesday, 8 December 2021.
Eligibility & Assessment Criteria:
- The Project Lead must be a WIHEA Staff Fellow for a proposal to be considered.
- The Main Co-lead may be WIHEA Student or Staff Fellow/Alumni or Staff Member from Warwick or another HEI. (Staff must have the support from their Head of School or Department and Students the support of their Personal Tutor or equivalent).
- The collaboration must include members of staff and students from the University of Warwick and Staff and Students from a minimum of one other Higher Education Institution. (Staff must have the support from their Head of School or Department and Students the support of their Personal Tutor or equivalent)
- Student participation from each collaborative institution is expected to ensure that staff and student perceptions and interests are understood and aligned.
Proposals will be assessed by the WIHEA Advisory Group, for full eligibility and project criteria on which the proposal will be assessed, please refer to 'Funding Guidance Notes'.
If you would like to receive feedback on a proposal idea to establish whether it fits with the priorities above or discuss an alternative theme, or for help with making a connection or further information on this collaborative fund, please email [email protected]
Apply here:
Online Proposal Form
Funding Timeline:
Closing date: 12:00, 8 Dec 21
Assessed: 8-15 Dec 21
Outcomes by: 17 Dec 21
Earliest start date: Jan 22
Projects should be approximately 6 months duration.
(University of Warwick internal funding to be spent by 31 Jul 22)
Making Connections:
WIHEA Fellows can explore their own networks and independently approach colleagues from other institutions.
If you are not a WIHEA Fellow but you have a project idea, you are invited to approach any of our current WIHEA Fellows with an outline of your collaborative project. | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/academy/funding/externalcollaborationfund/ |
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Learning to be Content
This past month I have been working on being content with the little bit of food that my body really needs. You know the saying “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach”, well my eyes definitely are. I see the food, I add it to my plate, then quickly eat it all and feel I need more. I eat so fast I don’t really take time to really enjoy and savor the food.
When I do take time to really taste the food I find that some of the foods I crave the most, are the ones that taste the worst. I will crave french fries. But when I actually taste them I just feel the grease on the roof of my mouth and the overwhelming taste of salt with not much flavor at all. Chocolate is another food item I crave, well if you can call chocolate food. The regular chocolate candy has a waxy taste and is a little too sweet for me. It seems so weird to me that I would crave foods that when I take the time to really savor them I don’t like them at all.
Pity Party
Sometimes I just want to feel sorry for myself, about how little I get to eat and how quickly I get full. I really just want to eat what I want, when I want. Sounds like a little kid throwing a fit, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what it sounds like to me as I write this. But since I am an adult, I need to take a stand and make the changes I need.
Changing My Mind, Changes My Behavior
So I am going to continue to work on be thankful for what I get to eat and the amount I get to eat. It is a work in progress but I have to start somewhere. I’m sure there will be success and failures, but if I just keep going and believing I can change, I will. I have been reading and watching stories of others who have made changes in their diet and were successful. So I just tell myself, I can do it too.
It all starts in the mind. If I know I can, then I will. If there is self-doubt, then I doubt I will succeed. I used to doubt I would every get into an exercise routine, until I just did it. I just made up my mind to just get out of bed each day and get the exercising done. With each day a funny thing happened. I started to notice a change in me, a change in my attitude about exercising. When I had finally set my mind to the task it just happened.
My Plan for This Month
So for this month I will continue my exercising 5 day a week. I will also work on being content with the amount of food my body needs. Those will be the goals I will focus on for this month related to my weight loss.
Here’s an Update on My Progress
Amount of weight left to lose at start of the month 37.5 pounds
Amount Lost this Month .5 pounds
Amount Left to Lose 37 pounds
What is your biggest obstacle in making changes to your diet or exercise routine? Do you believe you can overcome them or is your mind holding you back? | https://frugalfamilyhome.com/weight-loss-2/weight-loss-journey-continue-june-update |
The 230-foot-tall rocket is scheduled to lift off at 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be only the second flight for the world's most powerful rocket now in operation.
The Falcon Heavy will be carrying a Saudi telecommunications satellite into Earth orbit. The 13,200-pound Arabsat 6A satellite is designed to provide television, internet and mobile phone services to parts of the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but bad weather in Florida forced a one-day delay. The current weather forecast for the area predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable weather at launch time on Wednesday.
Space
The rocket is made up of three central boosters based on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which the company has been using to carry cargo to the International Space Station since 2012. The rocket's engines "generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, making it the world's most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two," SpaceX tweeted on April 7.
The Falcon Heavy weighs more than 3.1 million pounds and is designed to carry up to 140,000 pounds to low-Earth orbit — more than any American rocket since NASA's Saturn V, which flew Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. | |
I’m McKensie Daugherty your host for On the Ocean. Flooding in Texas is at an all-time record this year, and as a result the rivers keep swelling. This means that rivers including the Brazos, Trinity, Colorado, Sabine, and Guadalupe will be pouring the rainwater straight into the Gulf of Mexico. Because of this increase in freshwater, Texas will experience a wider and potentially longer lasting dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Dead zones (also known as hypoxia) are areas in the deeper ocean layers that are oxygen depleted, and because of this they can be harmful to the ocean organisms that need oxygen to survive. The freshwater contributes to the creation of a dead zone because the freshwater is lighter and will stay at the surface, while the salty ocean water is heavier and will stay below the freshwater layer. The deeper layer is cut off from the oxygen in the atmosphere and will begin to lose its dissolved oxygen in the water. But it’s not just the large amount of rain that contributes to dead zones in oceans, the timing of the flooding is also causing these dead zones to persist. For example, when there is a large amount of rain in Dallas it will take around a month for water to reach the Gulf. Since this year’s flooding has been an ongoing event, the dead zones will continue to develop and possibly expand. Dead zones can be dissipated through strong winds and waves, usually caused by storms or hurricanes. This is due to the physical force of the breaking up of layers in the ocean, the dead zone is currently predicted to span over 5,000 miles this year in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. This has been On the Ocean, a program made possible by the Department of Oceanography and a production of KAMU-FM on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. For more information and links, please go to ocean.tamu.edu and click On the Ocean.
Using data like this, we can track Hypoxia over distances in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
I’m McKensie Daugherty your host for On the Ocean. Last week we discussed ocean Hypoxia, also known as dead zones. Ocean Hypoxia occurs in areas of the ocean where there is little to no dissolved oxygen in the water to support life. This particularly happens in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Texas coast, where rivers are dispensing huge amounts of freshwater into the ocean, causing stratification. Stratification is what happens when layers of the ocean with different densities will not mix, just like oil and water. One layer will always float above the other layer. The density of ocean water depends on two factors: the temperature of the water, and how much salt is present. Salty water is heavier than freshwater and is therefore more dense. Since the lower layers of the ocean rely on the top layers to provide oxygen from the atmosphere and photosynthesis of algae, when these layers don’t mix, it separates the supply of oxygen from the organisms living in the deeper ocean layers. As a result, these organisms can eventually run out of oxygen and die. This can destroy the local ecosystems when large amounts of fish and algae die, disrupting the food webs of the organisms in these areas. Hypoxia can also affect coastal economies, as fisherman may encounter depleted stocks and have to travel longer to find regions without dead zones to meet their quotas. It takes strong winds and waves to dissipate strong stratification, since it requires a large amount of force to make stratified layers mix. Hurricanes can be a solution in these areas, as their winds and waves are strong enough to mix the layers of the ocean sufficiently to allow the top and bottom layers to interact. Dissolved oxygen is restored to the bottom salt water, and organisms such as fish and algae can live there once again. This has been On the Ocean, a program made possible by the Department of Oceanography and a production of KAMU-FM on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. For more information and links, please go to ocean.tamu.edu and click On the Ocean.
This graph shows the stratification of the layers of salty and freshwater that do not interact without the force of strong winds or waves.
I’m McKensie Daugherty, your host for On the Ocean. The past three weeks, we’ve talked about hypoxia (or dead zones) in the ocean caused by a depletion of dissolved oxygen in the ocean water. This lack of oxygen causes die-offs in the bottom ocean layers due to stratification from flooding, as well as from algae growth and decay from nutrient excesses. Let’s address how scientists approach hypoxia, and how this data affects the public. For instance, how do we know that the runoff from certain rivers in Texas contribute to the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico? Scientists at Texas A&M University set out to answer this question. In the past, freshwater considered to be causing dead zones in the Northern Gulf of Mexico were assumed to be from the Mississippi River. However, by using methods such as isotopic measurements, scientists were able to show that water from other river systems (in this case, the Brazos River) did in fact contribute to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Isotopes of an element have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons, which adds extra weight to the atom. For example, there are three stable isotopes of oxygen, each having a slightly different mass. Fortunately for scientists, Mississippi River waters have a different oxygen isotopic make-up than Texas, and more specifically, the Brazos River water. By measuring waters at hypoxic zones and at rivers thought to cause hypoxia, scientists can trace the source of the freshwater contributing to dead zones using oxygen isotope analysis. By understanding which river systems contribute to hypoxia in the ocean, scientists can provide data to help better manage resources in those areas. This concludes our segments on hypoxia in the ocean, next month’s segments will address hurricanes and how they are studied. This has been On the Ocean, a program made possible by the Department of Oceanography and a production of KAMU-FM on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. For more information and links, please go to ocean.tamu.edu and click On the Ocean.
Josiah Strauss and Kai Tao working with the isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer for stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope measurements of water. | http://abcmgr.tamu.edu/ontheocean/index.php/shows/hypoxia/ |
Prospective students still have to take the essay portion of the new SAT tests — despite changes to its format by College Board — when submitting test scores to UT, according to the Office of Admissions.
UT will still require the essay portion of the test alongside the reading and writing section and math section of the new SAT to measure its effectiveness in predicting student success at UT, according to Gary Lavergne, director of admissions research. It will take a year of collecting new SAT test scores to validate their use as predictors of freshman GPA, he said.
“We’re going to be looking particularly at the writing test to see whether or not it’s necessary for us to require that, and, in order to do that, we have to collect [data] to do the studies,” Lavergne said. “The value of these tests is that it gives us a standardized measure across time and geographic boundaries.”
The College Board announced last year that it would introduce a redesigned version of the SAT in March 2016 to focus on important academic skills taught in schools. The College Board will give students the choice to take the essay portion of the SAT, but some colleges may still require it for admission. The essay will require students read a passage and “explain how the author builds an argument to persuade [the] audience,” according to The College Board website.
Lavergne said the changes to the SAT were based on the skills colleges expect from incoming freshmen.
“The changes in the test are driven by what message we want to send high school students,” Lavergne said. “They keep their finger on the pulse of higher education and know what — in general terms — what higher education wants from incoming freshman and what changes they want to make.”
Lorraine Pangle, a government professor who directs the Jefferson Scholars Program, said she is skeptical of the validity of SAT scores. Pangle said she lightly considers test scores when evaluating students for admission to the program, a course sequence focusing on great books from several ages in history.
“As a predictor of college success, it’s pretty weak,” Pangle said. “I wish we had a better replacement.”
Andrew McMasters, high school junior from Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas, said he likes the changes made to the SAT and plans to take it once the new test is administered.
“I like it because if you get a question wrong, it doesn’t count against you.” McCasters said. “If I’m down to two answers and I’m pretty sure I know the right answer, I feel confident in picking an answer because points won’t be taken off for it.”
Sociology sophomore Paula Millan said changes to the SAT do not reduce its overemphasized role in the admissions process. | https://thedailytexan.com/2015/11/12/ut-to-require-redesigned-essay-portion-of-new-sat-test |
The House Supervisor works in collaboration with the Director of Nursing in the management of daily unit operations that may includes, staffing, personnel management, environmental monitoring, discharge planning, performance improvement, risk management, short term problem solving and assumes accountability for the nursing unit in the absence of the Clinical Nurse Manager.
Ensures that quality patient care is provided in accordance with established patient care standards/protocols and policies.
Assesses skill levels of staff in planning and coordinating the delivery of patient care.
Ensures implementation of established priorities for the management of patient care and/or department activities daily.
Distributes patient care and/or department responsibilities to staff, as appropriate according to nursing skills and patient acuity.
Collaborates with health team members to ensure achievement of patient care goals.
Shows adaptability and flexibility when experiencing changes in staffing, work volume, or emergency situations.
Monitors the effectiveness of nursing care systems (i.e. documentation, patient classification).
Monitors cleanliness, infection control and safety of unit environment and patient rooms.
Acts as clinical resource for peers and subordinates (i.e. Meditech Superuser, able to accept clinical assignment when required).
Assists with the selection of candidates for open positions as requested/desired.
Evaluates staff, in conjunction with the Clinical Nurse Manager, using hospital performance appraisals, during a 90-day probationary period, a minimum of once a year thereafter, and upon termination.
Ensures compliance with required reports, documents, records, and files daily.
Works to maintain an environment which promotes the development of an elevated level of morale, motivation, and skill among personnel.
Reports variances in operations to the Clinical Nurse Manager in a timely manner.
Assists the Clinical Nurse Manager in justifying budget variances by providing information as needed.
Utilizes knowledge of fiscal management when making daily operational decisions.
Adjusts the staffing for the department, meeting projected case mix, census, and acuity levels.
Makes suggestions for the revision of systems and routines which result in an improved operation of the department.
Assists in communicating department-based productivity plans to department personnel in a positive and supportive manner.
Assists in the planning and implementation of problem-solving strategies when productivity compliance goals are not met.
Monitors individual nursing personnel in relation to compliance with standards of nursing care.
Resolves conflicts in a professional manner.
Uses an appropriate chain of command in providing information on pertinent changes, concerns, or problems relating to patient care and/or department operations.
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We are trying to use same app on Jobs across orgs and is not working as we need to maintain duplicate credentials for multiple organization.
Maintaining same credentials for multiple orgs seems duplicate to me, is there any chance we can avoid this?
Our use case is, since it is internal (GitHub Enterprise) bot, it is pretty open and we don't even know who would invite this bot to their organization, and this bot does takes care of creating Jenkins job through DSL scripts, which is using the standard credentials. So it is very hard to keep creating credentials on the fly for every org that this bot is being invited to.
Thanks a bunch for all the help on maintaining this awesome plugin. Let me know your thoughts please.
Related discussion on PR: https://github.com/jenkinsci/github-branch-source-plugin/pull/290#discussion_r415168275
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I just thought of another issue related to this. Consider a pipeline that needs access to more than one org simultaneously. It might be a Go module or a Terraform module that reaching out for dependencies - nothing fancy, totally legit use case. Pipeline is not aware of what the underlying tool will try to reach, but as long as the GitHub App is authorized in all of the orgs - it should be possible to do that.
My understanding is it's currently not and it's probably on GitHub side? What's the alternative, deprecating services and etc - it seems like GitHub Apps are the only recommended one auth type?
Looks like currently GitHubAppCredentials is using app installation token, not sure of the actual/initial design notes, probably if we convert it to use the JWToken to avoid the issue reported in this JIRA.
Logged a new Jira for that:
https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-64870
JWT Token vs App Installation Token
https://github-api.kohsuke.org/githubappjwtauth.html
https://github-api.kohsuke.org/githubappappinsttokenauth.html
I'm pretty sure we need support for both. Certain use cases will need it exactly the way it is currently implemented. Consider a case with 3 independent parties - end users of jenkins (owners of orgs/repos), app owner (owner of jenkins installation) and github. In certain scenarios you will want to use same GitHub app to authenticate Jenkins installation but still prevent different Jenkins end-users via their pipelines to be able to meddle with each other.
I have started a draft PR to github-api so one app can handle multiple tokens based on the org from the URL that it is trying to access
https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/pull/1053
My understanding is that you can only use JWT tokens for a limited set of GitHub endpoints. See https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/apps
Aside from those, you'll need an App Installation token.
Carlos Sanchez
Guessing the org based on the URL that is being accessed seems extremely brittle to me. What is the use case where one GitHub instance (and it's related authorization provider) would need to apply to multiple organizations? At the github-api level, creating new GitHub instance for each org is not a big deal. T
This sounds like a problem best solved at Jenkins level. It is totally reasonable to add github-api methods to make this work easier, but I think they're already there. | https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-62220?focusedCommentId=404721&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel |
Bruenn, Robin, Mueller, Beate S., Flaig, Benno, Kellermann-Muehlhoff, Petra, Karbach, Ute ORCID: 0000-0003-3479-9474, Soeling, Sara, Muth, Christiane and van den Akker, Marjan (2021). I must, and I can live with that: a thematic analysis of patients' perspectives on polypharmacy and a digital decision support system for GPs. BMC Fam. Pract., 22 (1). LONDON: BMC. ISSN 1471-2296Full text not available from this repository.
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Background: To investigate patients' perspectives on polypharmacy and the use of a digital decision support system to assist general practitioners (GPs) in performing medication reviews. Methods: Qualitative interviews with patients or informal caregivers recruited from participants in a cluster-randomized controlled clinical trial (cRCT). The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: We conducted 13 interviews and identified the following seven themes: the patients successfully integrated medication use in their everyday lives, used medication plans, had both good and bad personal experiences with their drugs, regarded their healthcare providers as the main source of medication-related information, discussed medication changes with their GPs, had trusting relationships with them, and viewed the use of digital decision support tools for medication reviews positively. No unwanted adverse effects were reported. Conclusions: Despite drug-related problems, patients appeared to cope well with their medications. They also trusted their GPs, despite acknowledging polypharmacy to be a complex field for them. The use of a digital support system was appreciated and linked to the hope that reasons for selecting specific medication regimens would become more comprehensible. Further research with a more diverse sampling might add more patient perspectives. | https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/58799/ |
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Braiding the Sweetgrass is a program offered to Indigenous families in Calgary by Hull Services. This program guides Indigenous families through the effects of intergenerational trauma (IGT) to a place of well-being. In Braiding the Sweetgrass (BTS), families experience culture, community and reconnection on their journey of healing. The primary goal of BTS is to create a foundation upon which we can build a future for healthy Indigenous families, free from the trauma cycle. Hull has developed this unique approach blending Traditional healing practices and Western understanding of brain development and the effects of trauma. Elders are important wisdom keepers of Traditional knowledge and a team of selected Elders from a variety of tribes have been integral contributors to the development and delivery of the program. Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) has provided the lens for understanding trauma and working with culture to heal the effects of IGT.
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"I suffered with Asthma for years with no relief. Thanks to Upper Cervical Care that I am breathing better than I ever have" ~ Ann D.
The nervous system is a very complex communication network designed to control and coordinate the body’s vital functions. One of those functions is to control the respiratory system and lungs. Consider that you can climb a flight of stairs, run, swim, or ride a bike without even thinking about your breathing. That’s because the respiratory center, housed in the brain stem, is responsible for adjusting the rate of breathing to the demands of the body so that proper oxygen and carbon dioxide levels remain unchanged even during strenuous exercise.
Asthma involves both the lungs and the immune system and has become the most common and costly illness in the United States. An estimated 17 million Americans suffer from asthma at an annual cost of over $13 billion. Asthma accounts for more hospitalizations than any other childhood disease, and children suffering from asthma miss more than 10 million days of school every year. Nearly 5000 people die from causes related to asthma each year, and it is one of the many diseases with an increasing death rate.
Even though asthma is a common condition, if is far from simple. During an asthma attack, the airways become narrow and obstructed due to a combination of muscle spasm, inflammation, and excess mucus production. The symptoms, which vary among sufferers, include wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and chronic coughing.
Asthma attacks can be triggered by any condition that causes inflammation in the airways. These triggers include irritants like the following: dust mites, animal dander, pollen, mold, pollution, smoke, exercise, cold air, or intense emotions.
Many asthma sufferers also have allergies, which, although related, differ from asthma. However, allergens like pollen, mold, animal dander, and dust mites can make asthma symptoms worse by increasing inflammation in the airways.
While the cause of asthma is still unknown, many researchers believe asthma is caused by a disturbance of the respiratory center within the brain stem. In fact, one study suggests this is the “common denominator” and basic underlying mechanism in all varieties of asthma. This disturbance is believed to cause the muscles of the airway to contract thus restricting the flow of air in the lungs. | https://www.uppercervicalfortmyers.com/asthma-and-allergies.html |
Today, Russian Pomors (a part of the Russian ethnos, historically living on the shore of the White Sea) have access to the whole set of food products, which are sold in any Russian supermarket. But, their love for fish is literally in their blood, because, for several centuries, it was what their ancestors ate.
There are still some authentic Pomor villages out there whose inhabitants are “fed by the sea” (check out our article about a present-day Pomor village). However, in those days, these harsh lands were not at all a wilderness. Up to the beginning of the 18th century, most of Russia’s trade routes with Europe went through the White Sea (read more about this here). So, locals knew about the existence of coffee and they even invented their own way of brewing it - in a samovar! Find out about these and other culinary specialties of the Pomors below!
The backbone of Pomor cuisine is seasonal sea fish. ‘Pomakukha’ is one of the most common Pomor dishes, for which cod or catfish was used. “The fish was breaded in flour, fried and then stewed in fish broth with potatoes and onions in a Russian oven. The broth thickens due to the flour and you can dip slices of bread in it,” says Andrei Anikeev, head chef of the Arkhangelsk restaurant ‘Roomi’, who specializes in the cuisine of the Russian North and collects recipes from all over the region. Andrei says he has reinvented the traditional recipe. First, he simmers the cod in milk, then adds caramelized onions and baked potato mousse and garnishes everything with fresh herbs.
“To make the taste stronger, Pomor cuisine uses seasonal products at the very peak of their ripeness. Aside from that, we use simple cooking techniques (fermentation, dehydration, long simmering), nothing unusual,” says Maxim Galetsky, brand-chef at the Meridian Congress Hotel in Murmansk, where Pomor dishes have also appeared on the menu.
“Do you know the difference between a Pomor ukha soup and a normal fish soup? The Pomors add some vodka to the ukha or drink it separately,” jokes local historian Svetlana Koshkina from the ‘Center for Pomor Culture’ in Belomorsk.
“The Pomors usually used to cook codfish soup and add some other seasonal fish or cod liver to it,” Galetsky says. “We cook it the same way, we add salmon and halibut. This is the fish of our region. But, the story about vodka is rather mythical. It does not affect the taste, because it evaporates in the process of cooking. We do not add it.”
But who forbids drinking it separately from the soup?
This dish with a name difficult to pronounce even for Russians is a cross between fish soup and stew. Generally, in the North they call ‘zayeburikha’ a “mishmash”, which is prepared in hiking conditions out of everything that is at hand. Pomors call ‘zayeburikha’ a mixture of potatoes, carrots, leftover vegetables and any fish at hand with broth. Such a dish can be found today, for example, in the ‘Teribersky Bereg’ tourist complex in Murmansk.
The word ‘skantsy’ sounds strange to the Russian ear, as well. In the local dialect, it means something which is “rolled up” (skatali). More than anything, it resembles pancakes rolled up into a flute. To make skantsy, the Pomors usually use rye flour. They add kefir or sour cream to the dough and fry them in a pan.
However, in some villages the locals used to make them like semicircular flat cakes and, in some places, locals also used them as a base for a special Karelian pie called ‘kalitki’, inventing their own version.
‘Kozuli’ are ceremonial gingerbread of the Russian North. Pomors from Arkhangelsk Region baked them usually for Christmas, but, in some villages, ‘kozuli’ were baked for other festive occasions, as well, such as weddings. It is quite easy to recognize ‘kozuli’ - they are gingerbread in the shape of animals: goats, sheep, cows. They were also sometimes made shaped as Christmas trees and birds, it all depended on the family recipes.
In the center of Arkhangelsk, there is a museum dedicated to ‘kozuli’, where you can even try to make this type of gingerbread yourself.
The Pomors actively traded with Europeans and it was in the Russian North that they were among the first Russians to try coffee. But, they invented their own way of making the drink: in a samovar. It is believed that it was first prepared in such a way in the town of Mezen (in the north of Arkhangelsk Region), which was famous for its skilled craftsmen.
This coffee was often flavored with various spices, which were also brought from abroad.
A modern version of Mezen coffee can be found in the Arkhangelsk restaurant ‘Roomi’. “We add spices and a little salt to the coffee and serve it with meringue, so that different flavors intertwine,” says chef Andrei Anikeev.
And this is what a treat that is traditionally served together with Mezen-style coffee looks like. The black gingerbread. In fact, it is a cake that resembles Russian black bread in taste and appearance. The recipe for black gingerbread is similar to the classic biscuit with sour cream, but uses a different flour base. Why does this cake turn out to be black? The answer will surprise you. The burnt sugar, along with cinnamon and cloves, are responsible for the coloring. They say that the pie can stay fresh for up to five days.
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Cyber-bullying
Cyber-bullying is, alongside the technology that has spawned it, a relatively new phenomenon. Bullying of any type is harmful and anti-social, and can result in negative outcomes for both the victim as well as the perpetrator - What Are the Effects of Bullying? There are major differences between cyber-bullying and a “traditional” style of bullying:
Previously, the plight of the victim would often only be observed by the bully or a small group of bystanders. Once you were away from the attacker(s), then there would be some sense of relief as you were out of the immediate physical vicinity of the perpetrator. Leaving the playground and heading home would offer some respite from the actions of a bully.
However, technology has allowed greater scope and more chance for attack. Phone text messages, digital photographs, hate-sites, blog posts and any other types of digital media can be manipulated at any time; in effect it is possible to be a target 24 hours a day. Just going offline has no real effect, as the internet can be used to post images or words immediately, to a worldwide audience. This information is considerably more difficult to erase than words graffiti-ed onto a desk or wall.
The impact of this on young people can be severe and long lasting. It is for these reasons that cyber-bullying should be taken very seriously by educators. We need to ensure that our students are taught about this, from the time they start to actively and routinely integrate technology into their everyday life. Many students may be actually unsure of what constitutes cyber bullying; to some it may be just a “bit of fun”. We need to make sure that if a student ever finds themselves being targeted, that they understand what they should do to deal with the issue. There are a number of steps that can be taken, to Prevent cyberbullying. This may include the importance of keeping a record of any text or message, which would allow the identity of the bully to be determined, and action to be taken. There are also helpful internet resources that can be shown to students.
As teachers we can work together to prevent this type of abuse from becoming a part of the school culture. In the past, bullies could often continue to terrorize others, because to confront them would have meant “catching them in the act”. With technology, it is possible to track comments or texts to their source. It is our job to ensure that our students know this, and know it from early on. The key will be to integrate this important topic successfully into an already packed academic, cultural, sporting and social calendar.
Our Middle School AUP regarding cyber-bullying reads as follows:
"Cyber-bullying is not tolerated at ISB. ISB becomes involved when student’s online activities impact at-school life and community. In other words, if the actions of students outside of school have an effect on students feeling unsafe or uncomfortable at school, then ISB administration will act and remedy this. Additionally, if members of ISB staff or its community are targeted, then the school administration will get involved."
This means that if online activities away from school, on personal computers, negatively impact members of the ISB community, then action can be taken by ISB. While this may be some kind of deterrent, I believe that it is important for the school to also take a pro-active approach by educating all students about cyber-bullying.
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3 min readNew Discovery Explains How a Class of Chemotherapy Drugs Works
La Jolla, CA – The well-being of living cells requires specialized squads of proteins that maintain order. Degraders chew up worn-out proteins, recyclers wrap up damaged organelles, and-most importantly-DNA repair crews restitch anything that resembles a broken chromosome.
If repair is impossible, the crew foreman calls in executioners to annihilate a cell. As unsavoury as this last bunch sounds, failure to summon them is one aspect of what makes a cancer cell a cancer cell.
A recent study from scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies showed exactly how cells sense the possibility that their DNA is damaged as a first step to responding to the failure to divide properly.
That study, published March 11 in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, found that if cells take too long to undergo cell division, structures at the tips of their chromosomes, known as telomeres, send out a molecular SOS signal.
These findings have dual implications for cancer chemotherapy. First, they show how a class of anti-cancer drugs that slows cell division —- known as mitotic inhibitors—- kills cells.This class includes the common chemotherapy drugs Vinblastine, Taxol and Velcade. More significantly, the findings suggest ways to make therapy with those inhibitors more potent.
“How mitotic inhibitors work as cancer therapy has been a 25-year-old question,” says Jan Karlseder, a professor in Salk’s Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and the study’s senior author. “These drugs are widely used, but it was unclear why they actually kill cancer cells.”
The Karlseder lab has long been fascinated by the roles played by telomeres in ageing and cancer. Often described as the genomic equivalent of the plastic caps that keep shoelaces from fraying, telomeres form a protective protein/DNA cap on each end of linear chromosomes, masking those ends from vigilant but apparently myopic repair proteins, who might mistake exposed chromosome ends for broken DNA.
Initially, the group searched for specific proteins that might keep telomeres intact during cell division. To do so, they genetically eliminated candidate proteins one by one and then examined cells using fluorescence microscopy to detect whether telomeres became damaged. What they found was unexpected —- namely, that any manipulation that crippled and prolonged cell division produced increased numbers of punctate telomere blobs indicative of “unprotected” telomeres.
Treating cells with mitotic inhibitors used in cancer chemotherapy did the very same thing. Those studies established a link between arrested mitosis, telomere perturbation and cell death.
They then confirmed that as cells stalled in mitosis, telomeric shoelace caps started to disintegrate. “Normally the ends of chromosomes are covered by the protein TRF2, which protects the telomere,” says Makoto Hayashi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Karlseder lab and the study’s first author. “But we found that, during mitotic arrest TRF2 dissociates from telomeres, exposing chromosome ends as damaged DNA. That likely activates a DNA damage signal.”
The clincher came when the investigators found that the longer cells endured telomere distress, the more massively they induced what ought to be everyone’s most treasured gene, the tumour suppressor p53.
“DNA damage signals occurring during mitotic arrest likely predispose cells to upregulate p53 in the following phase,” says Hayashi. “This then either halts the cell cycle to enable DNA repair to occur or commits cells to a suicide pathway called ‘apoptosis’.”
Karlseder notes that p53 and proteins it mobilizes constitute the most frequently mutated pathway in cancer. “A functional p53 pathway is a healthy sign, as it is the cell’s first responder to DNA breaks or telomere dysfunction,” he says, “Without it, chromosomes could become unstable and could fuse to one another or break, leading to a loss of genome integrity and uncontrolled growth.”
This work suggests novel strategies that could be used in combinatorial cancer chemotherapy regimes, which rely on the synergy between two or more drugs. The theory is that a multi-pronged approach might pack more of a wallop than a sledgehammer alone, as evidenced by the highly effective “triple cocktail” of drugs now used to treat AIDS. | https://mindzilla.com/newsroom/2630/20120312-new-discovery-explains-how-a-class-of-chemotherapy-drugs-works/ |
The invention discloses a liquid coating for a light-weight photovoltaic module front plate and a preparation method and application thereof. The liquid coating comprises thermosetting resin, an organic solvent, a curing agent and an auxiliary, the thermosetting resin can be dissolved in the organic solvent, and the organic solvent can be volatilized. The liquid coating is prepared from the thermosetting resin, the organic solvent and the like, the photovoltaic front plate and the photovoltaic module are prepared in a mode of coating the glass fabric with the liquid coating, the wettability and the binding force of the liquid coating and the glass fabric are higher, falling is not prone to occurring, photovoltaic glass can be replaced, light weight and flexibility of the photovoltaic module are achieved, and the photovoltaic module can be applied to the photovoltaic module. And through a secondary coating mode, an expensive transparent fluoroplastic film is replaced by a fluorocarbon coating film layer, so that a front plate lamination process during assembly manufacturing is reduced, the cost of the lightweight front plate is reduced from the two aspects of material and process, the method is suitable for industrial roll-to-roll production, the production efficiency is greatly improved, and the production cost is reduced. The problems that the cost is high, the efficiency is low and the size is not flexible when the photovoltaic front plate is prepared through powder coating are solved. | |
While Israel was excited to host the Eurovision competition in May, in the Arab Gulf States, international events are held almost on a daily basis. One of the most prestigious of them is Expo 2020, scheduled for October next year in Dubai to showcase participating countries’ technological achievements. The Expo ranks as the third most important global event after the Olympics and the World Cup (slated for 2022 in neighboring Qatar). While 132 states had signed up for the fair as of August 2018, Dubai’s leadership continued to debate Israel’s participation. On April 25, 2019, Expo organizers issued a festive statement saying all countries “without exception” were welcome to attend. “For more than 170 years, World Expos have been apolitical events focused on furthering humanity for the common good through innovation, cultural exchange, creativity and collaboration. We are proud to continue that tradition,” according to the communique. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the news, writing on his Twitter account, “This is another expression of Israel’s rising status in the world and in the region”. Whether Netanyahu’s insight meets reality or not, Israel’s participation provides Israel an unusual diplomatic opportunity, for which it must prepare wisely in order to fulfill.
Among other outcomes, the Arab Spring led to the strengthening of the Gulf States’ standing in the Middle East, given the stability they displayed in the face of events that affected almost every country in the region. Consequently, the Gulf States leveraged the new balance of power to expand their international and regional influence, as was evident in Emirati-funded infrastructure in the Horn of Africa, Saudi-led high-level diplomatic moves, Oman’s call for regional mediation, the race for hosting international events in these countries, and many more soft-power displays. Kuwait has been the one exception, remaining virtually isolated. Thus, Israel must acknowledge these new nexuses of power in the Middle East, and draw up a corresponding map of alliances. Its integration into the expanding circle of opportunities emerging around the Gulf countries has the potential to be dually beneficial, since it does not only consist of bilateral or regional cooperation, but also of international opportunities.
The Expo events afford tremendous economic values for the participating countries, as well as the opportunity to shape their national image within the global community. The exposure to millions of visitors and the platform for establishing direct contacts among diplomatic representatives and key figures from around the world, generates a unique hub of diplomacy. Indeed, beyond its importance for Israel’s economy and image, Israel’s participation in this event, hosted by an Arab Muslim country it has no current and past diplomatic relations with, is a significant achievement, which reflects the nature of Israel’s current relations with the UAE.
On the one hand, the UAE, as the host of an international event, is expected by the international community to provide access to all countries, including Israel. As a result, the UAE and other Gulf countries have legitimized in recent years the arrival of Israeli nationals to international conferences and tournaments they hosted. In that sense, the UAE’s decision to invite Israel to Expo 2020 does not reflect a change in the status of ties between the two states, nor does it forecast the beginning of direct and formal relations. On the other hand, meeting this international code points to the UAE’s willingness to compromise on anti-normalization measures towards Israel.
Currently, the UAE government distinguishes between bilateral ties with Israel and international cooperation with it, leaving room to maneuver in the case of the latter. In the international realm, an Israeli representative office has been operating for the past three years in Abu Dhabi, the capital, under the auspices of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Israel and the UAE also conduct Air Force exercises and business cooperation in the fields of diamond trade and cyber technology, under international umbrellas. This demonstrates the warming relations between the countries mainly within multilateral frameworks, and is making headlines in the Israeli media mostly due to its public and symbolic nature. The UAE was a pioneer among the Gulf States in allowing an Israeli sports team to display its national symbols at the October 2018 international judo championship in Abu Dhabi. As part of the latter event, the Emiratis also hosted Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev according to full ceremonial protocol. Additional sports events in the UAE, such as tennis tournaments, a car race and the Special Olympics have also included growing participation of Israeli delegations in recent years.
Conversely, the UAE strictly limits bilateral relations with Israel, conditioning them on a resolution to the Palestinian issue. Accordingly, the country has been outspoken in its criticism of Israel regarding measures it defines as unjust toward the Palestinian people. Therefore, it does not cooperate with Israel in areas such as culture, research, tourism, industry and media despite mutual interests in doing so. In the diplomatic arena, there are occasional reports of meetings between senior officials of both states, such as the September 2012 meeting between Netanyahu and the UAE Foreign Minister, and the recent January 2019 visit to the UAE by Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay who met with senior ministers. Nonetheless, such meetings are not intended for public knowledge (despite the occasional leaks) and are not considered official breakthroughs in official relations.
At the same time, we are witnessing a new phenomenon in which Gulf citizens express support for Israel on social media, and a growing number of senior Emiratis call for the establishment of direct ties with Israel. For example, Khalaf al-Habtoor, a leading Emirati executive, asked on twitter why the Gulf States are not signing a peace agreement with Israel “same as Egypt, Morocco and Jordan have done before”. Such voices do not regard Israel as an enemy, and view cooperation with it as a vital source of regional stability and development. While not reflecting an official government line, they signal a gradual shift from a formerly taboo subject to an increasingly acceptable opinion. These expressions of interest in bilateral relations create a crack in the traditional demand that has placed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the key obstacle to normalization with Israel.
The gap between the official UAE policy toward Israel and the mutual courtship between the two nations demonstrates that Israel is on the cusp of a formative phase in these relations. At this point of time, Israel would do well to leverage the relative openness of the Gulf States towards it by expanding its involvement in the region. Just as Israel sought a formal invitation to Expo 2020, it should continue to identify opportunities, map scheduled international events in the Gulf and ask to participate. Israel should also invite Gulf countries to take part in international events it hosts.
One important issue that arises from increased interactions between Israel and Gulf States is the need to study the culture, values, sensitivities and local laws when preparing Israeli delegations for excursions in the Gulf. Such preparation should be overseen by a government agency, which will formulate a plan for ties with the Gulf States and will be put in charge of these ties through diplomatic, security, economic and civilian channels. By so doing, Israel’s presence in the Gulf could become more acceptable and even be expanded. However, if Israel seeks a more significant opening to the region, it must advance a resolution of the Palestinian issue through a genuine process that would also be of great benefit for its ties with the Gulf States.
Dr. Moran Zaga is a Policy Fellow at Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and a Research Fellow at the Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa. | https://mitvim.org.il/en/publication/expo-2020-dubai-an-opportunity-for-israel-gulf-relations/ |
New Study Puts Spotlight on Major Health Disparities
DANVILLE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 24, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new report sponsored by Lazarex Cancer Foundation calls attention to the serious disparities in cancer rates and outcomes. The “State of Cancer in Philadelphia” was issued this week as a collaboration between Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Lazarex is a proud supporter of the research and the effort to not only examine how race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors affect cancer patients— but to be a part of the solution to promote health equity in communities like Philadelphia and beyond.
“In order to provide a solution, we must understand the problem,” says Dana Dornsife, Founder and CEO of Lazarex, “The data gathered from this study allows us to work better and harder at improving minority participation in clinical trials.”
The analysis offers key information to public health agencies, policymakers, and care providers to inform how best to allocate resources to promote health equity in Philadelphia. It is also the first report of its kind to give a comprehensive interactive overview of cancer incidence, screening and mortality data in Philadelphia by race/ethnicity and sex for different cancer types.
The team looked at the number of cancer cases and deaths from 2000-2016 from the Pennsylvania Department of Health Cancer Registry and the Vital Statistics Registry from the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Bureau of Health Statistics & Registries. For statistics on cancer screening and risk factors, such as race and education level, the report draws from nine surveys conducted between 2000 and 2018 by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey from the Public Health Management Corporation.
The report gives a broad and detailed look at how cancer and its risk factors have changed over the past 10 years and how they vary by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors.
Although incidence and mortality rates for many cancers have been decreasing over the past few years, liver cancer incidence and mortality have increased in men and women. Breast cancer incidence and lung cancer incidence have increased in black women.
Additionally, racial and socioeconomic disparities persist. Cancer mortality is higher for African Americans than for other racial/ethnic groups and is also higher in neighborhoods with lower levels of education compared to neighborhoods with higher levels of education.
Those surveyed with lower education have significantly higher levels of cancer risk factors than those with more education. Although some cancer risk factors have improved in recent years, obesity, diabetes and binge drinking rates have increased and fruit and vegetable consumption remain at very low rates. Philadelphia residents, including Black men and women, reported high rates of screening for most common cancers.
The unique mission of Lazarex Cancer Foundation is to improve the outcome of cancer care among advanced stage cancer patients and the medically underserved by providing assistance with costs for FDA clinical trial participation and offering programs for increased community outreach and engagement. Through its partnership with Drexel, Lazarex is able to advance its mission by supporting world class research and analysis that will help increase access and equity for cancer patients at time when COVID-19 has exposed the historically vast health and economic disparities across the United States.
New Study Puts Spotlight on Major Health Disparities
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Vacancy title:
Accountant
Jobs at:Alliance Life Assurance Ltd
Deadline of this Job:
21 January 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, January 13, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Main tasks
Detailed description of the main tasks performed by the job holder:
Receipting
• To make sure that receipting is done in time and give the receipt to the customer, while the received amount is sent to cashier for banking the same day or at latest the next day.
• To ensure the received amount is posted in the correct code of accounts on the general ledger in order to avoid customer missing services due to wrong posting.
• To check in the bank accounts for any amount transferred via Telegraphic Transfer (TT) and ensure the same being received, posted and approved by CA.
Making Payments
• To make sure that before making payments all supporting documents such Local Purchasing Order (LPO), Delivery Note (DN) duly signed are in place to validate the payments.
• To ensure the invoices after having sufficient supporting are signed by CA.
• To make payments (writing cheques) and give to the Assistant Accounts Officer for sending them for authorization.
• To make sure the authorized cheques are sent to the vendors/supplier by messenger.
Reconciliation
• To prepare bank reconciliations.
• To make sure supplier’s statements of accounts are in agreement with our general ledger and preparing schedule for the any amount outstanding for discussion on how to settle the balance.
• To liaise with vendors on the daily operations to make smooth running of the finance activities, such as attending calls from telephone companies on queries regarding payments outstanding.
• To make sure that any reconciliation items are cleared in time.
Audit Assignment
• To assist in preparing the different account schedules for audit work, such as staff accounts schedules, rent schedules, fixed assets register only to mention a few.
• To attend audit queries, and provide necessary input (such as supporting for the payments made previous) in order to accomplish audit tasks.
• To discuss with CA on how to attend complex issue rose in audit findings.
• To assist in finalizing financial reports.
• Preparation of other reports required by the departmental functions.
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual regulatory report (Financial statements) and ensure compliance with the TIRA regulations, IAS and IFRS.
• Preparation, reconciliations and reviewing company’s Fixed Asset Register.
• Prepare monthly Management Accounts & Interpret variance reports and expenditure analyses on a monthly basis.
• Any other tasks that may be assigned by the management.
Education including specialized training
• Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting.
• Masters in Accounting or Finance will be an added advantage.
• Professional Qualification CPA (T) or ACCA is a must.
• Computer skills; Conversant with Microsoft office applications and accounting software packages.
• Minimum of 5 years of working experience, with specific experience in preparation of financials for at least 2 years.
• Experience in the insurance market would be an added advantage.
Other Competencies
This role requires an execution oriented individual with:
• Values of the company: Passion; Commitment; High Integrity; Speed and Accuracy; Innovation.
• Good communication skills (speaking, writing, reading, listening)
• Confident with good interpersonal skills.
• A keen eye for detail.
• Assertiveness and self-drive.
• Honesty, reliability and dependability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage time efficiently.
• Personal initiative and ability to perform under minimum supervision.
• Team player.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
If you are confident that you match the above-mentioned criteria, please send your detailed C.V mentioning the position in the subject line to: [email protected] Deadline to submit your application is 17h00 on Saturday, 21st January 2023. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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City of light between the Mediterranean sea and the Esterel
Mountains in the south of France.
This lovely city is situated half way between Cannes and St-Tropez.
Map of the region of surrounding
Saint-Raphael
About the city
Saint-Raphael , once a small Fisherman's
village, is now world-renowned for it massive choice of activities,
wonderful climate and beautiful environment. The town center is very close
to the sea front, so it allows visitor to make the most of water sports
facilities while staying near the busy heart of the city and enjoy shops,
colorful restaurants, casino and night clubs.
The city of Saint-Raphael is divided in several quartersCity center, old town and old portThe principal feature of the town center is to be so closed to
the sea and numerous sandy beaches. The old port is always animated with
numerous restaurant and pubs. This is where is located our hotel, just 3 mn
to everything !!!!!.Port of Santa LuciaIt is the 3rd largest marina of the French Riviera
Enjoy relaxed walk along the quays and look around the port's many shopsBoulouris
Beautiful quarter where people used to play "boules", which offer some of
Saint-Raphael finest creeks and beaches
Le Dramont
Cape Dramont, which forms part of the Esterel national forest, provide some
of the coast's finest walking itineraties.
Some people says its Ile d'or Island has inspired one episode of Tintin.Agay
Agay Vay, forming a natural gateway to the hesterel hills, is renowned for
the remarkable beauty of its beaches and it safe anchorages."Phare de la
Beaumette"lighthouse and the "Fontaine pour le petit Prince" pay tribute to
the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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DVIP plans for Capital Campaign
Over the last two months, The Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) has worked with EDEN+ Fundraising Consulting to complete a feasibility study for a capital campaign for a new shelter in Johnson County. We are sharing the findings based on one-on-one interviews conducted with DVIP staff, board members, corporate representatives, donors, volunteers, and other stakeholders, as well as results from an e-survey. In total, 50 interviews were completed.
From EDEN+ staff: “It has been a pleasure to speak with so many people who are passionate about DVIP and domestic violence and who are enthusiastic about the potential this project has to further the reach of DVIP’s programs and services.”
The feasibility study process assessed DVIP’s capacity to raise funds to support a multimillion dollar project with three main components:
(1) A complete renovation of the current shelter building into offices, rooms for counseling, play therapy, community collaboration, and an area for revenue generating activity,
(2) the addition of a brand-new shelter building, providing 24 tenant pods in total, and
(3) additional funds to cover increased operating costs and/or the endowment.
Based on the survey results, EDEN+ has uncovered many positive indicators ahead of a potential campaign to support DVIP.
Overall Perceptions of DVIP
• 98% said they had a positive perception of DVIP. Many of those people agreed the shelter needs updating.
• There is a feeling that the DVIP is not well known outside of Johnson County.
• When asked about strengths: the staff, resiliency in the midst of budget cuts, and dedication to the mission were commonly cited.
Campaign Case for Support
• Interviewees had mixed opinions on campaign priorities, although most suggested that the new shelter should be built first. The second priority was split between renovating the current shelter and ensuring the new buildings’ success via funds going towards operating costs and the endowment.
Dedicated Leadership
• Seventy-eight individuals were suggested as potential leaders for the campaign. About a third of those people were interviewed.
• 30 individuals signaled a willingness to volunteer on the campaign committee. DVIP’s campaign executive committee will be dedicated and energetic.
With these results in mind, DVIP is now well positioned to thoughtfully consider a plan for a capital campaign.
Thank you to all who participated in the study! | https://dvipiowa.org/capital-campaign/ |
Enhanced nisin production by increasing genes involved in nisin Z biosynthesis in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis A164.
Nisin Z production in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis A164 was improved by introducing multicopy genes, nisZ, nisRK, or nisFEG, involved in nisin biosynthesis into A164 strain. A similar growth profile was obtained from all strains tested. However, the cells expressing nisRK produced 25,000 AU nisin Z ml(-1) compared to 16,000 AU ml(-1) by the control strain. Northern blot analysis revealed that over-expression of nisRK promoted the transcription of the nisZ gene. The A164 strain expressing multicopy nisFEG also had an increased nisin Z production (25,000 AU ml (-1)) but produced the nisin more slowly than the cells expressing multicopy nisRK.
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From Abroad or Coming Home, AUC Welcomes New Faculty
Coming from abroad or returning to their alma mater, AUC welcomed a new cohort of around 40 faculty members this fall.
While some members are experiencing Egypt for the first time, having moved from their homes in Germany, South Korea and more, other members are turning to their alma mater. News@AUC interviewed five members of this diverse cohort on their research, their decision to join AUC, and what they are looking forward to this year.
Shaimaa El Sherif
Instilling moral values such as acceptance and respect into her students is a key part of Shaimaa El Sherif’s, instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Compositions, goals at AUC and her research in global citizenship education. She is currently working on two research projects, one on transformative learning and teaching and another on enhancing students’ 21st century skills.
“I found out that there is no better educational institution in Egypt other than AUC to practice teaching and researching,” El Sherif states. “Honestly, I also owe AUC much of what I've learned academically and professionally throughout the past 10 years… I felt like it’s time to give back through teaching.”
El Sherif is excited to spend the year connecting with her students and helping them to become more well rounded through different teaching strategies in addition to working on her two research projects.
Rodrigo Gratacós Brum
Guided by his academic background in philosophy and film, Rodrigo Gratacós Brum, associate professor of practice in the Department of the Arts, is a talented filmmaker and teacher who joined AUC because of its growing film program.
“I saw it as an opportunity to have an impact in the area, helping to develop a program that is already very strong,” Brum explains.
Brum is looking forward to getting to know his students better and learning how he can help them develop projects based on their own experiences and interests.
Sanghyeok Lee
After studying in Australia and teaching in South Korea, Sanghyeok Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Economics, is ready for new academic adventures in Cairo. Lee studies micro-econometric theory, which includes event history and duration analysis, machine learning and treatment effect analysis.
“I am excited to have the opportunity to develop my knowledge and skills in a new place, and hopefully to be able to contribute to the local community as well,” Lee states.
For the next year, Lee is most excited about the learning opportunities. After teaching in Korea and studying in Australia, New Cairo presents a novel experience for him to explore as an instructor and an academic.
Mariam Abdelazim
As an architecture alumna from AUC, Mariam Abdelazim, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, is looking forward to the opportunity to give back to her alma mater. In her research she utilizes behavioral science to explore how people interact with public spaces. As a professor, she is excited to bring innovative teaching methods to her classroom.
“The attention span of students is different than before, so I always rely on interactive methods of teaching,” she explains. “I ask them to make TikTok videos on a building, or Instagram posts, or we play Jeopardy and do competitions, to get them interested through the type of media they are familiar with.”
Through the next year, Abdelazim looks forward to cultivating a learning community where students can learn from each other and she can learn from them.
Noah Farhadi
With over 27 years of experience in business administration, Noah Farhadi, professor of practice in finance in the Management Department and CIB Endowed Chair, is excited to continue his academic research on strategic finance, mergers and acquisitions and business ecosystems while teaching at the AUC.
“I think to be a good professor, you need good students,” Farhadi explained. “The students at AUC are motivated, focused and engaged. So I made my choice to move here because it's a great platform for growth.”
In the next year, Farhadi is excited to experience Egyptian culture, connect with his students and contribute to the community. | https://www.aucegypt.edu/news/abroad-or-coming-home-auc-welcomes-new-faculty |
/ CPLT provides recommendations on personal data protection by the State Administration18 January, 2021
In December 2020, the new recommendations of the Council for Transparency on data privacy, which reinforce the regulations, came into effect.
On December 7th , 2020, the updated text of the recommendations of the Council for Transparency (CPLT) on data privacy to state administration bodies was published in the Official Gazette. This was approved by the Managing Board, in ordinary meeting No. 1137, dated October 15th , 2020.
The new recommendations reinforce the regulations of Law 19,628 and adjust the actions of the public administration bodies, in relation to the personal data they handle. In addition, it introduces new criteria that are provided in the bill amending the abovementioned law.
As a basis for renewing the recommendations, mention is made of the constitutional guarantee of data protection (provided for in Article 19 No. 4 of the Constitution), the measures adopted by the health authorities due to the pandemic by Covid-19, the digital transformation of the State and the need to raise the personal data processing standards performed by the State administration bodies, in order to ensure the rights recognized by the Constitution of data subjects.
The document proposes a series of criteria that guide the application of the rules of Law No. 19,628, and that guarantee the new fundamental right to the protection of personal data. All of this is aimed at increasing and improving the level of compliance with the obligations that the Constitution and the law impose on the State administration bodies in the field of data privacy.
For example, the text emphasizes the importance of the principles of legality, quality (purpose, truthfulness, and proportionality), duty of information, security, data privacy by design and by default, responsibility, the role of the data processor, appropriate technical and organizational security measures, suggests the determination of a data privacy officer (DPO) who shall be the effective contact with the CPLT, the elimination of outdated data, among others.
These recommendations of the CPLT arise both as support to the process of digital transformation of the State and to the legislative initiative to have a regulation that allows an adequate protection of personal data. The updating will mean a deep process of adaptation in the public administration, which has already begun in private institutions.
Click here to read the full text of the CPLT recommendations. | https://alessandri.legal/en/cplt-provides-recommendations-on-personal-data-protection-by-the-state-administration/ |
A rare species of a poisonous snake was discovered in the Benog Wildlife Sanctuary of Mussoorie recently. the snake, which is reportedly a black-bellied coral snake (Sinomicrurus nigriventer), was seen by scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WWI).
The snake was found at an altitude of 6,233 feet. It is usually seen at heights ranging between 2,500 and 6,000 feet while one the way to the Bhadraj temple in Barlow Gunj, Mussorie. Biologists say that there are only 107 species of this reptile found around the world and so far only 7 has been seen in India. Also, this is the first time this a snake from this species has been seen in Uttarakhand alive. Last time, a dead black-bellied coral snake was spotted in Nainital in 2019.
Abhijit Das, a scientist at the WWI told The Times of India that owing to the richness of the flora and fauna of the Indian Himalayan Region, there is a lot that can be discovered when it comes to such reptiles. Das said the species found in Nainital and Mussoorie point out that the sub-tropical and temperate forests are yet to be properly explored.
Das said they have registered the reptile as it’s a medically important snake.
Speaking to news agency ANI, he said, “The snake has six generations in India, which are mainly found in Himalayan region, Northeast, and one group in the South. Given its venomous feature, this record is important for Uttarakhand as it’s the first-of-its-kind snake discovered here."
A 'black-bellied coral snake', a rare species of snake discovered in Uttarakhand, making it State's first. "This venomous snake is the 1st in Uttarakhand. We've registered it as it's a medically important snake," says Scientist Abhijeet Das, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun pic.twitter.com/uEmG86KaWe— ANI (@ANI) June 29, 2021
Last year, in a rare discovery, a Red Coral Kukri snake was rescued from a residential house in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district. The incident took place near Bindukhatta area of Nainital and when forest officials visited the spot where the snake was hiding, the villagers had already caught the reptile and put it inside a plastic sack, The forest officials were surprised to have found out that it was the “rarest of rarest snakes", called the Red Cora Kukri Snake. It was soon released in the forest. | https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/rare-venomous-black-bellied-coral-snake-found-alive-for-first-time-in-uttarakhand-3908543.html |
humidity dropping to 30 to 35%.
Temperatures dropped off rapidly overnight last night and many locations
had lows this morning down in the 30’s. In many cases these were the
coldest of the season to date. The Hingham Cooperative station had a low
of 39F surpassing the previous low this month of 43 degrees. Norwood
Airport recorded 35F while the low at Taunton Airport was 34F. The low at
the Martha’s Vineyard Airport as reported by ASOS was 32F. Several other
inland reporting stations on Martha’s Vineyard had low temperatures of
36F to 40F.
Urban locations (Boston) and hilltops (high elevations) were much less
cold than on Tuesday when Boston had a record low of 44 degrees. Here at
the summit of Blue Hill we were 7 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago with
a low of 47F after yesterday’s 40F which came within 2 degrees of equaling
the record low of 38F set in 1959.
The sea-level atmospheric pressure reached close to 30.45 inches yesterday
morning as the center of a big high pressure system moved right over us.
This was the highest pressure here at the summit since way back in May.
Today’s Observations:
7 A.M.
Weather: Clear, cirrus/cirrostratus layer distant SE
Temperature: 51F; Dew Point: 41F; Wind: W at 8 kts,
Sea-level pressure: 30.31 ins. Hg, rising then falling slightly
Visibility: 85 miles
6-hr min. temp: 47F
BHO SA 1155 CLR 85 265/51/41/2808/031/ CI/CS LYR DSNT SE/ 8/008 50005
10051 20047
10 A.M.
Weather: Clear, cirrus/cirrostratus layer distant SSE
Temperature: 64F; Dew Point: 42F; Wind: W at 9 kts,
Sea-level pressure: 30.29 ins. Hg, falling slightly
Visibility: 90 miles
BHO SA 1455 CLR 90 258/64/42/2709/029/ CI/CS DSNT SSE 8/008 58007
1 P.M.
Weather: Sky perfectly clear, SKC
Temperature: 69F; Dew Point: 41F; Wind: W at 7 kts,
Wind: Direction variable SSW-NW
Sea-level pressure: 30.24 ins. Hg, falling then more rapidly
Visibility: 90 miles
6-hr max. temp: 71F
BHO SA 1755 CLR 90 239/69/41/2607/024/ SKC WND 20V32/ 58019 10071 20051
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F)
MAX…..60 NORMAL…..71
MIN…..40 NORMAL…..54
MEAN….50 NORMAL…..63
DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL…………………-13
TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH…………………-15 [-1.1 DEGREES/DAY]
COOLING DEGREE DAYS (SEASON JAN TO DEC)
TOTAL COOLING UNITS FOR YESTERDAY…………..0 DEPARTURE………-2
TOTAL COOLING UNITS FOR THE MONTH………….54 DEPARTURE………+8
TOTAL COOLING UNITS FOR THE SEASON………..694 DEPARTURE…….+111
TOTAL COOLING UNITS LAST SEASON TO DATE……764 DIFFERENCE…….-70
PEAK GUST AND AVERAGE WIND SPEED (MPH)
PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY………………27 NNE AT 7:55 A.M.
AERO…………………..27 NNE AT 7:55 A.M. *
ASOS…………………..28 N AT 1:53 A.M.
DAVIS………………….25 NNE AT 7:55 A.M. RMY 26
FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY………………..16 NNE AT 8:46 A.M.
MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE ASOS AVERAGE……………..17 NNE AT 8:40 A.M.
MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE DAVIS AVERAGE…………….17 NNE AT 7:57 A.M.
AVERAGE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION………….9.0 N
ASOS………………….8.6
DAVIS…………………8.0 N [360 degrees] * last of several occurrences…
PRECIPITATION (INCHES) THROUGH THIS MORNING (EST)
TOTAL PRECIPITATION 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M….0.00 DEPARTURE………….-0.14
ASOS…………..0.00
TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH……….3.52 DEPARTURE………….+1.35
ASOS…………..3.63
TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR……….41.53 DEPARTURE………….+4.34
ASOS…………..N/A*
*ASOS malfunctioned during storm on 2/8-9, leading to erroneous totals
PRELIMINARY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 2013 CALENDAR DAY DATA
DATA REPORTED:
DATE: MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SUN(MIN.)/SUN(%)/ PEAK GUST/AERO GUST
AERO: Aerovane wind recording system gust
RMY: RMY = R.M. Young wind gust recording system added 8/9/2011
TSTM: Thunderstorm day (thunder heard some time during day)
….: Data not yet available, records not finalized
9/1 76/67/72/+4/2.32/008/01 33 S AERO 39 MPH S RMY 38 TSTM
9/2 79/67/73/+5/0.43/056/07 30 SSE AERO 33 MPH SSE RMY N/A TSTM
9/3 79/61/70/+3/0.00/219/28 28 S AERO 29 MPH S RMY 30 TSTM
9/4 78/57/68/+1/0.00/733/94 24 W AERO 25 MPH W RMY 25
9/5 66/51/59/-8/0.08/179/23 20 NNE AERO 20 MPH NNE RMY 21
9/6 68/46/57/-10/0.00/751/97 18 WSW AERO 17 MPH WSW RMY N/A
9/7 78/51/65/-1/0.00/594/77 20 WSW AERO 21 MPH WSW RMY 21
9/8 74/50/62/-4/0.00/646/84 31 NW AERO 33 MPH NW RMY 32
9/9 69/47/58/-8/T/529/69 23 SW AERO 23 MPH SSW RMY N/A
9/10 73/56/65/0/0.03/007/01 30 S AERO 32 MPH S RMY 33
9/11 93/68/81/+16/0.00/654/86 25 SW AERO 27 MPH SW RMY N/A
9/12 85/66/76/+11/0.47/…/.. 32 S AERO 33 MPH S RMY 34 TSTM
9/13 79/58/69/+5/0.17/…/.. 24 NNW AERO 25 MPH NNW RMY 23
9/14 67/52/60/-4/0.00/…/.. 21 NW AERO 21 MPH NW RMY 21
9/15 70/48/59/-5/0.00/…/.. 17 WSW AERO 18 MPH WSW RMY 20
9/16 66/46/56/-7/0.02/…/.. 29 NNW AERO 31 MPH NNW RMY 30
9/17 60/40/50/-13/0.00/…/.. 27 NNE AERO 27 MPH NNE RMY 26
9/18 morning low temp: 47F; the normal low is now 54F
DAILY RECORDS FOR SEPTEMBER 2013
9/1 – NEW DAILY RECORD MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION OF 2.32 INCHES;
surpasses previous record of 1.60 inches set in 1927
9/11 – TIED DAILY RECORD MAXIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 93F;
ties record of 93F set in 1983
DAILY EXTREMES
Temperature and precipitation records back to 1885, and
wind records back to 1940 (e = estimated): | https://bluehill.org/wednesday-september-18-2013/ |
MODFLOW-NWT model used to simulate groundwater levels in the Des Moines River alluvial aquifer near Des Moines, Iowa
The U.S. Geological Survey constructed a steady-state numerical groundwater flow model in cooperation with Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) to simulate groundwater flow conditions in the Des Moines River alluvial aquifer (DMRA) during winter low-flow conditions typical of December 2018-2020. The Des Moines River alluvial aquifer (DMRA) is an important source of water for Des Moines Water Works (DMWW), the municipal water utility that serves residential and commercial water needs in the city of Des Moines, Iowa and surrounding municipalities. A comprehensive understanding of groundwater flow processes in the DMRA is needed for DMWW to make decisions related to the management of this water resource. A three-layered model was constructed using MODFLOW-NWT to simulate an area of about 15 square kilometers near Prospect Park in Des Moines, Iowa. The model has 130 rows and 130 columns of cells within the model boundary. Parameter ESTimation software (PEST) was used for model calibration to assess and optimize performance of individual parameters including the horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity of the various units, evapotranspiration rate, and recharge rate. This USGS data release contains all the input and output files for the simulations described in the associated model documentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211110). | https://www.usgs.gov/data/modflow-nwt-model-used-simulate-groundwater-levels-des-moines-river-alluvial-aquifer-near-des |
NB. You need to make an index first.
If you have not already made an index of the Cocoon Documentation, you may do so here.
Allows you to assemble complex Lucene Queries without having to use the Lucene Query Language. Keeps a list of the queries you have performed in it's history (for as long as your Session lasts). Allows you to re-use and edit them.
You can perform any of the following search types:
You can view, reuse, and re-edit your previous queries:
Through a combination of FlowScript (controller), CForms and JXTemplate (view), Beans and OJB (model), i18n and the CocoonLuceneSearcher component.
Cocoon Forms provideds the infrastructure to manipulate the Beans via HTML Forms. That is to change the Properties of the Beans and add and remove Criteria.
JXTemplate is used to show the results and the history (List of Query Beans).
The results are in the form of a
List of
Maps. Each Map represents a search hit. It contains the
url,
score and
rank of the document, plus any Index Fields you arranged to have stored in your Index by Lucene (in this sample, the only stored field is the
title).
The history is in the form of a
List of Query Beans.
The Beans provide an abstract representation of your Query. They may be persisted etc. The Lucene Query is generated from the Beans when you perform a search.
i18n is used to hold all of the display strings used by the Application. Form labels and hints, Query descriptions, Screen labels and hints, Error messages etc.
This is the Component that does the actual searching. It is provided with the Lucene Directory and a Query by the Query Bean. If you give it a directory parameter that is a single folder name, it uses that folder in the Servlet Engine's Work Directory, if the parameter is an absolute file path, it uses that instead. It uses the default Analyser.
If you are happy with the existing forms, then all that really needs to happen to be able to re-use this sample in your own projects it to set up the menu of Search Fields, so they match your Search Index.
When the Lucene Index of Cocoon Documentation that this sample uses is created, tags within the documents are turned into Lucene Index Fields, which can be searched individually. The names of these fields are for example:
title,
question,
source,
person@name etc.
Cocoon Forms is setup to load these menus (selection-lists) from their own files. The
simple search form uses the file forms/simple-fields.xml, while the
advanced search form uses the file forms/advanced-fields.xml.
Edit these files to match your own Search Index, for example, the item:
<fd:item value="title"> <fd:label><i18n:text i18n:catalogue="local">field.title.label</i18n:text></fd:label> </fd:item>makes a menu item using the i18n key
field.title.labelas the menu text and
titleas the value, where the value matches one of your Index Fields.
Once your CForms selection-lists are setup, you will want to edit the existing i18n message keys in i18n/messages_en.xml and/or provide new message files in your own language.
The last thing you may choose to do, is to supply some CSS for the screens. The history, favourites and results screens supply what is hopefully a rich enough collection of CSS Classes, have a look at the HTML output to see what there is.
If you know CForms, it would be relatively easy to develop your own Forms (Model, Binding and Template). If you follow the existing naming scheme and you choose a new name for your form, it may not even be necessary to edit the Sitemap.
Depending on how different your Forms are to the supplied ones, it may or may not be necessary to edit the FlowScript. It is quite possible that this will not be required.
It is possible to build Lucene Queries that are more complex, or specialised than those produced by these sample Beans. To do so you would have to at least implement your own CriterionBean. You would probably need to rewrite the FlowScript to handle your new Bean.It would also be possible to implement different kinds of Queries, like those that used the Hibernate Criterion API.
There are two Interfaces and two Bean Implementations of those Interfaces in the sample.
o.a.c.bean.query.SimpleLuceneQuery and
o.a.c.bean.query.SimpleLuceneQueryBean represent a Query, which has a Collection of
o.a.c.bean.query.SimpleLuceneCriterion (
o.a.c.bean.query.SimpleLuceneCriterionBean) Beans.
The
bool property of the QueryBean specifies how the multiple criteria are combined. The
field property of the CriterionBean specifies which Index Field to search, the
match property specifies how to match that field and the
value property, is the string from which Terms are extracted. All the rest is candy.
Both the Query and Criterion Beans were designed to be Persistable using one of the Object-Relational mapping tools like Hibernate, OJB etc. This sample currently uses the HSQLDB instance built in to Cocoon. | http://thanksobamacare.org/samples/blocks/querybean/welcome |
Trading days in a year 2020
28 Feb 2020 28, 2020 at 6:34 a.m. ET The drop over six trading days marked the fastest slide into correction territory from a recent peak since a two-day Trading calendar 2020. Trading hours. Securities market is open from 09:30am until 07:00pm MSK; Derivatives market is open from 10:00am until 11:50pm MSK 2020 Market Holidays, Date. New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2020. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 20, 2020. President's Day Market closed in: Denmark. Finland. Denmark & Norway. Finland, Norway & Sweden. All markets closed. Half trading day in Norway. Half trading day in Sweden.
2019 Non-trading Days: 1 Jan. 2020. New Year. 19 Apr. 2020. Good Friday. 22 Apr. 2020. Easter Monday. 1 May. 2020. Labour Day. 8 May. 2020. Liberation
Is the stock market open today? Use this trading days calendar to find out. It indicates holidays and special market hours for the NYSE and NASDAQ this year . 25 Jan 2014 Most will say there are 251 trading days in a year. be pretty consistent across any year (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and beyond). 366 (number of days in 2020) – 104 (number of weekend days in 2020) – 9 ( market holidays) = 253 days. Most volatile months of the stock-market calendar. While Holiday, 2020, 2021, 2022. New Years Day, Wednesday, January 1, Friday, January 1, —. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 20, Monday, January 18
30 Dec 2019 Ahead of New Year, BSE has announced its list of market holidays. As per the list , the exchange will be closed for trading a total of 12 days in
Over the year 2020, there are 366 days, 251 working days, 27 public holidays, 88 weekend days. Calculate the number of working days, work hours and 10 Jan 2020 According to the Stock Trader's Almanac when the stock market has a positive return for the first five trading days of the new year, the S&P 500 ( 31 December. New Year's Eve. 1 June, 24 December and 31 December are settlement days in 2020
1 Jan 2020 NEW DELHI : Share market traders on Dalal Street will get a lesser number of holidays in the new year 2020. Besides Saturdays and Sundays, | https://bestbinaryrdha.web.app/nwankwo43441gu/trading-days-in-a-year-2020-1330.html |
Taking time each day to decompress from the stress of modern living is timeless wisdom that is more important today than ever. We all know from living in a digital age that the pace of our lives seems to accelerate in tandem with every advance in computer speed and every update of our smartphones. It seems that our day-to-day lives are increasingly fast-paced. What impact do these rapid technological changes have on our psychological and physical well-being? What can you do to slow things down in your daily life? A recent global survey of 18,000 people from 134 countries, called "The Rest Test," compiled massive amounts of data on the subjective experience of feeling rested and relaxed.
The Correlation Between Rest, Relaxation, and Well-Being
The Rest Test was designed by Hubbub, an international collective of social scientists, mental-health experts, artists, humanities researchers, broadcasters, and public-engagement professionals in residence at "The Hub" at Wellcome Collection in London. This project was spearheaded by Durham University researchers and undertaken in collaboration with BBC Radio. The results were recently broadcast by the BBC in "The Anatomy of Rest."
The goal of The Rest Test survey was to identify and rank how individuals around the world find peace and quiet in their frenetic lives. The survey was also interested in identifying a correlation between restful activities and a self-reported sense of well-being. Following are the Top 10 Most Restful Activities, based on "The Rest Test" results:
Reading
Being in the Natural Environment
Being on Your Own
Listening to Music
Doing Nothing in Particular
Walking
Having a Bath or Showering
Daydreaming
Watching TV
Meditating or Practicing Mindfulness
Would you add anything to this list? Interestingly, study participants with the highest well-being scores had actually done something restful for between five and six hours on the day prior to filling out the survey. But there is a caveat: Too much rest seemed to backfire. Those who reported resting for longer than five or six hours began to experience a slight dip in their overall well-being score.
Seeking Restful Activities and Laziness Are Not Synonymous
A full analysis of The Rest Test data was published September 2016 in The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites. The researchers hope these results will increase the general public's understanding of the importance of rest and relaxation in a world that puts a premium on hustle and bustle.
The researchers believe that many people mistakenly associate restful activities with laziness. In fact, this research suggests that taking time to decompress from the stress and chaos of daily activities will optimize your well-being in the short and long-term. In a statement, principal investigator Felicity Callard stated:
"The survey shows that people’s ability to take rest, and their levels of well-being, are related. We’re delighted that these findings combat a common, moralizing connection between rest and laziness."
"It’s intriguing that the top activities considered restful are frequently done on one’s own. Perhaps it’s not only the total hours resting or working that we need to consider, but the rhythms of our work, rest, and time with and without others.”
Countless empirical studies have found that social connectivity is key to our well-being. It's always going to be a juggling act to find your personal sweet spot of being socially engaged versus completely unplugged from your social network. Hopefully, this list can remind you of simple ways to find inner peace — on a daily basis — in a hectic world. | https://www.southwindtherapies.com/single-post/2017/01/15/10-ways-to-destress-in-an-instance |
Global gene expression analysis of keloid fibroblasts in response to electron beam irradiation reveals the involvement of interleukin-6 pathway.
Keloid is a dermal fibroproliferative lesion of unknown etiology that commonly recurs after surgical excision. Post-operative adjuvant electron beam (EB) irradiation has been successfully used to reduce keloid recurrences. To provide new insights into the molecular mechanism behind the effect of EB irradiation, we used a cDNA microarray screening of more than 5000 genes to assess early changes in gene expression between EB-irradiated and non-irradiated keloid and non-lesional dermal fibroblasts. Primary fibroblast cultures from keloid and associated non-lesional dermis obtained from five patients were exposed to 15 Gy EB irradiation and analyzed after 15 min incubation. Early response to EB irradiation showed that 96 (1.8%) genes were modulated 2-fold or more in keloid fibroblasts. Upregulated genes accounted for 29.2% (28 genes), whereas downregulated genes comprised 70.8% (68 genes), indicating a silencing of many genes in keloid fibroblasts after EB irradiation. Many of the downregulated genes play roles in the enhancement of cell proliferation and extracellular matrix production, whereas several of the upregulated genes involves in the promotion of apoptosis and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation. Using emerging bioinformatic tools and further corroboration, the interleukin 6 (IL-6) signaling pathway was found to be mainly involved in EB irradiation response. We also showed co-expression of IL-6 and its specific receptor (IL-6Ralpha) in keloid fibroblasts that points to the existence of an IL-6 autocrine loop in these cells. These results suggested that at the molecular level, EB irradiation might hinder keloid formation by regularizing disturbances in the homeostatic equilibrium between inducer and inhibitor activities in the matrix system most likely through the IL-6 pathway. Our study provides clues for the molecular mechanism(s) behind the beneficial effect of EB irradiation in reducing keloid recurrences and may help develop alternative strategies for the therapy and prophylaxis of this lesion.
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Cut-offs are making headlines as they do at this time every year. The mad scramble for undergraduate seats in the top few colleges, the tension as cut-offs soar, the comparisons between last year’s cut-offs and this year’s, the analysis of the most sought- after courses…. Day after day, pages are devoted to the annual admission ritual.
As usual, demand outnumbers available seats, because all students want to get into a few colleges. But even within these colleges, just a handful of seats are actually available in the general category. The Times of India (Mumbai edition) published a report on the number of seats available to general category students in Mumbai. Apparently, only 12 % to 32 % of undergraduate seats in most of the reputed colleges are not reserved and `reserved’ does not necessarily imply reserved for OBC/SC/ST.
A multi-lingual city like Mumbai has the unique phenomenon of reservations for linguistic minorities in colleges run by various communities. Thus, 50 % of the seats in colleges run by Gujarati, Sindhi, Tamil and other non-Marathi-speaking managements are reserved for students speaking that language. Then there are colleges run by religious minorities, which also reserve 50 % of their seats for students belonging to their own faith. Minority-run colleges need not reserve seats for OBC/SC/ST students, but have to do so for physically handicapped students, children of members of the defence forces and central government employees with transferable jobs, and students excelling in the arts or sports. All this makes up 13 % of the seats. Added to this is the 5 % management quota. Altogether this accounts for 68 % of the seats.
Many college managements in Mumbai, both minority and non-minority, run schools. Also, unlike Delhi, Stds XI and XII in Mumbai usually constitute the `Junior College’ section. So many colleges reserve 20 % of their seats for students who have studied in their school or in their `junior college’. Thus in a minority-run institution which runs its own school and/or junior college, 50 % seats could be reserved for minorities and 38 % for other special reservations, leaving only 12 % in the open category. As happens in all reserved category seats, cut-offs are relaxed for these reserved seats too at management’s discretion. No one has really investigated how low these cut-offs are.
It so happens that some of Mumbai’s most sought-after colleges are run either by religious or linguistic minorities. One would expect a hue and cry about the unpleasant reality that however meritorious a student, s/he can only aspire to a third of the available seats in the city’s best colleges. Surprisingly, even after the Times published a chart showing the number of seats in the `open’ category in five of the city’s reputed colleges (they amounted to just 10 % in one college, run, ironically, by a Marathi-speaking management), there was no furore. Neither did newspapers comment on the unfairness of this nor did students’ bodies or parents. Remember the furore in the media and the streets over reservations to OBC students first proposed by the Mandal Commission in 1990, and implemented recently in the IITs and IIMs? Reservations in educational institutions for SC/ST students continue to be hotly debated, with most English-speaking students and journalists opposed to them.
This opposition surfaces every time the IIT JEE results are announced. The Times of India, specially, has often reported on the low cut-offs for reserved category students aspiring to enter IIT (for students belonging to the Scheduled Tribes and Castes, the cut-off is 50 % that of the general category cut-off). This year’s JEE results, out in May, showed that SC and ST students had done rather well, with 120 (of the 1950 who qualified) having made it without needing a relaxation in cut-offs. The IIT press release pointed out that since the number of successful SC students was more than the seats reserved for them, the IITs would not run the preparatory course for them. This course is meant to fill up reserved category seats by further lowering cut-offs for those who fail to make the grade. The TOI report, citing the press release, added that this wasn’t a new phenomenon; successful SC students had outnumbered reserved seats for the last few years.
But for The Times, this wasn’t just good news; it needed probing. In a separate article on the success of SC students, the reporter wrote: “Sceptics, however, have an answer to why the preparatory programme is being done away with this year. The total number of seats across the IITs has gone up because of the OBC quota; the number of IITs too has risen. `It is possible that the IITs had to pull down the cut-off for filling up all the (general category) seats. And with the relaxation formula a lot of SC students made it. This may have eventually resulted in abysmally low scores for quota candidates after the scores were relaxed by 50%,’ said a former JEE chairman.’’
So, one unnamed expert speculates on the unexpectedly good performance by SC students, which, according to him is actually an abysmally bad performance. His speculation is based on no concrete evidence. Yet, he is quoted in the article! Does this happen when we report on unexpected success stories of other categories of students? Would we speculate why poor students year after year surmount all obstacles to emerge winners? Muslim students, who rarely made a mark earlier, have in the last decade, emerged as toppers in all streams in Maharashtra. Have we ever quoted experts saying that the reason for their success is that the competition now is easier? What makes us take such liberties with “quota’’ students (“popularly called `prepies’ on campus’’)?
Now, contrast this with the silence over the 68 % to 88 % reservations in Mumbai’s colleges, reservations that are not caste-based. There has never been a story on what the cut-offs are for minority students (50 % of the total intake in prestigious colleges such as Delhi’s St Stephens, and Mumbai’s St Xavier’s, Jaihind and NM Colleges), or for the 5 % coming through the management quota. This year, a Delhi student was quoted as saying: “If I don’t make it to a Delhi college then I will apply through the management quota in Mumbai colleges.” The reporter didn’t ask him whether he knew anyone in college managements. Imagine a Dalit or tribal student telling a reporter from the English press: `If I don’t make it through the open category I will apply through the reserved quota,’’ and getting away with such a statement with no questions asked.
One reason for our easy acceptance of minority quotas could be that it is politically incorrect to comment on reservations for religious minorities. But why should that be so? Non-Muslim religious minorities are not educationally backward. In fact, when St Stephen’s decided to implement the full 50 % Christian quota in 2008, there was a hue and cry, specially from its own faculty. But it was nothing like that seen after Mandal or when Arjun Singh introduced OBC reservations in IITs and IIMs.
And what about linguistic minorities? In Mumbai, Gujaratis and Sindhis are seen as rich business communities, hardly in need of reservations. Tamilians, it was said, monopolized key IAS posts in Maharashtra’s capital for three decades after the formation of the State. There has certainly been no discrimination against these groups as such in education. Yet, they are entitled to half the seats in prestigious city colleges. And no English newspaper comments on this. Could it be because many of those who work in (and own) the English press, come from these communities? But shouldn’t we be concerned about Marathi-speaking Mumbaikars who are left out because of these reservations? Perhaps they aren’t. The really brilliant among them, as among any community, get into the college of their choice anyway. For the rest, there exist equally prestigious colleges where they form a majority. The ambience in these colleges is distinctively Marathi - and upper caste. So who does get left out? The faceless mass of less-than-80 % scorers and probably non-English-speaking students, who end up joining nameless colleges far removed form the English press’ concern. When we English journalists talk about the lack of `Open’ or `General’ category seats, we refer to seats available to upper caste students (since the so-called lower castes have their reserved seats anyway). Yet, when we discover that these general category seats too aren’t all that `open’, that they too are reserved, why do we not get worked up the way we do over caste-based reservations? Could it be because it is people like us - upper caste and upper class- who benefit from these other reservations? Perhaps the easy acceptance is because this reservation for the already privileged forms part of the unofficial reservation that we have lived with for centuries - the reservation of education for upper castes. To quote BP Mandal, author of the Mandal Commission report: | http://www.milligazette.com/news/1808-selective-indignation-why-only-some-reservations-disturb-media |
Small arms regulations and controls have been adopted at the national, regional, and international (global) levels. As reflected in the UN Programme of Action and existing practice, these different levels of action reinforce one another. While national regulation constitutes the foundation of broader control efforts, the transnational nature of the small arms problem necessitates some degree of harmonization of small arms controls, combined with inter-state cooperation in their implementation.
At the national level, small arms control measures typically take the form of laws, regulations, and administrative procedures. Multilateral measures may be legal or political in nature (such as treaties or politically binding documents), but corresponding legal rules are usually adopted (if not already present) at the national level when such commitments result in concrete action.
A wide variety of actors are involved in national, regional, and international attempts to strengthen controls over small arms. Civil society helps to build support for such efforts and to shape and implement specific policy initiatives. Yet the principal role in small arms control belongs to those entities with responsibility for the security of their citizens, namely, states.
In a world of sovereign states, regulation is invariably rooted in national legislation and institutions. Multilateral small arms commitments, whether legal or political in nature, are only effective when given concrete expression at the national level, for example in the form of specific laws, regulations, or administrative procedures.
Although there are considerable variations among regions in the degree of commitment to the small arms issue, many regional control measures have established important precedents for broader international action.
International control measures, including those adopted by the United Nations and other organizations, fill gaps in regional action and bind states worldwide to essential minimum standards. | http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/regulations-and-controls/levels-of-action.html |
Ummeed Child Development Center, Mumbai, invites you to ‘Weaving Our Voices’- the Second International Narrative Practices Conference in India’. The conference will be held in Mumbai, India on 30th Jan – 4th February, 2020.
India’s histories are storied with rich wisdom of weavers weaving textiles that tell stories of their times, their places, their people and the weavers’ themselves. Weaving, across India, is as diverse as our languages, our cultures, our food, our birds, our flowers. Yet at the heart of it, weaving is an intricate skilled art of documenting stories and re-telling them. If you ever observe a weaver in action, it would appear as a repetitive process. But as you observe closely, each time the thread moves, it takes a different turn, a different angle and a different fold, forming patterns that tell unique and distinct stories.
Weaving our voices, the second international narrative practices conference is where voices from diverse contexts across India and the world will weave their stories of work using the narrative ideas and practices into a collective story. It will include pre and post conference workshops, oral and poster presentations and mini workshops.
We welcome you all to join us and add voice, to weave and to witness the creating of this collective story with voices from across the world. | http://weavingourvoices.com/ |
Freeman Dyson, who is a brilliant physicist and a contrarian, he had pointed out based on some research — he’s 90 years old, but he had done some research over the years — I was in a meeting in Singapore with him when he pointed out that we really don’t know if gravity is a quantum theory. Electromagnetism is a quantum theory because we know there are quanta of electromagnetism called photons. Right now they’re coming, shining in my face and they’re going into the camera that’s being used to record this and we can measure photons. There are quanta associated with all of the forces of nature. If gravity is a quantum theory, then there must be quanta that are exchanged, that convey the gravitational force; we call those gravitons. They’re the quantum version of gravitational waves, the same way photons are the quantum version of electromagnetic waves. But what Freeman pointed out is that there’s no terrestrial experiment that could ever measure a single graviton. He could show that in order to build an experiment that would do that, you’d have to make the experiment so massive that it would actually collapse to form a black hole before you could make the measurement. So he said there’s no way we’re ever going to measure gravitons; there’s no way that we’ll know whether gravity is a quantum theory.This is correct. The whole subject of quantum gravity should be considered part of theology or something else, because it is not science.
He notes that the BICEP2 tried (unsuccessfully) to find evidence of quantization of an inflaton field, a related issue.
Does physics need philosophy?Philosophers have rejected XX century science, and have become more anti-science than most creationists. So asking whether physics needs philosophers is like asking whether biology needs creationists or whether astronomy needs astrologers.
We all do philosophy and of course, scientists do philosophy. Philosophy is critical reasoning, logical reasoning, and analysis—so in that sense, of course physics needs philosophy. But does it need philosophers? That’s the question. And the answer is not so much anymore. I mean it did early on. The earlier physicists were philosophers. When the questions weren’t well defined, that’s when philosophy becomes critically important and so physics grew out of natural philosophy, but it’s grown out of it, and now there’s very little relationship between what physicists do and what even philosophers of science do. So of course physics needs philosophy; it just doesn’t need philosophers.
Krauss was burned by a philosopher of physics who wrote a NY Times book review trashing Krauss's title, and without addressing the content of the book. Yeah, the title was overstated, but the reviewer should have been able to get past the title. | https://blog.darkbuzz.com/2015/10/krauss-against-philosophers.html |
Antimonopoly, meaning opposition to the exclusive or near-exclusive control of an industry or business by one or a very few businesses, played a relatively muted role in the history of the post-1945 era, certainly compared to some earlier periods in American history. However, the subject of antimonopoly is important because it sheds light on changing attitudes toward concentrated power, corporations, and the federal government in the United States after World War II. Paradoxically, as antimonopoly declined as a grass-roots force in American politics, the technical, expert-driven field of antitrust enjoyed a golden age. From the 1940s to the 1960s, antitrust operated on principles that were broadly in line with those that inspired its creation in the late 19th and early 20th century, acknowledging the special contribution small-business owners made to US democratic culture. In these years, antimonopoly remained sufficiently potent as a political force to sustain the careers of national-level politicians such as congressmen Wright Patman and Estes Kefauver and to inform the opinions of Supreme Court justices such as Hugo Black and William O. Douglas. Antimonopoly and consumer politics overlapped in this period. From the mid-1960s onward, Ralph Nader repeatedly tapped antimonopoly ideas in his writings and consumer activism, skillfully exploiting popular anxieties about concentrated economic power. At the same time, as part of the United States’ rise to global hegemony, officials in the federal government’s Antitrust Division exported antitrust overseas, building it into the political, economic, and legal architecture of the postwar world. Beginning in the 1940s, conservative lawyers and economists launched a counterattack against the conception of antitrust elaborated in the progressive era. By making consumer welfare—understood in terms of low prices and market efficiency—the determining factor in antitrust cases, they made a major intellectual and political contribution to the rightward thrust of US politics in the 1970s and 1980s. Robert Bork’s The Antitrust Paradox, published in 1978, popularized and signaled the ascendency of this new approach. In the 1980s and 1990s antimonopoly drifted to the margin of political debate. Fear of big government now loomed larger in US politics than the specter of monopoly or of corporate domination. In the late 20th century, Americans, more often than not, directed their antipathy toward concentrated power in its public, rather than its private, forms. This fundamental shift in the political landscape accounts in large part for the overall decline of antimonopoly—a venerable American political tradition—in the period 1945 to 2000.
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Nuclear power in the United States has had an uneven history and faces an uncertain future. Promising in the 1950s electricity “too cheap to meter,” nuclear power has failed to come close to that goal, although it has carved out approximately a 20 percent share of American electrical output. Two decades after World War II, General Electric and Westinghouse offered electric utilities completed “turnkey” plants at a fixed cost, hoping these “loss leaders” would create a demand for further projects. During the 1970s the industry boomed, but it also brought forth a large-scale protest movement. Since then, partly because of that movement and because of the drama of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, nuclear power has plateaued, with only one reactor completed since 1995. Several factors account for the failed promise of nuclear energy. Civilian power has never fully shaken its military ancestry or its connotations of weaponry and warfare. American reactor designs borrowed from nuclear submarines. Concerns about weapons proliferation stymied industry hopes for breeder reactors that would produce plutonium as a byproduct. Federal regulatory agencies dealing with civilian nuclear energy also have military roles. Those connections have provided some advantages to the industry, but they have also generated fears. Not surprisingly, the “anti-nukes” movement of the 1970s and 1980s was closely bound to movements for peace and disarmament. The industry’s disappointments must also be understood in a wider energy context. Nuclear grew rapidly in the late 1960s and 1970s as domestic petroleum output shrank and environmental objections to coal came to the fore. At the same time, however, slowing economic growth and an emphasis on energy efficiency reduced demand for new power output. In the 21st century, new reactor designs and the perils of fossil-fuel-caused global warming have once again raised hopes for nuclear, but natural gas and renewables now compete favorably against new nuclear projects. Economic factors have been the main reason that nuclear has stalled in the last forty years. Highly capital intensive, nuclear projects have all too often taken too long to build and cost far more than initially forecast. The lack of standard plant designs, the need for expensive safety and security measures, and the inherent complexity of nuclear technology have all contributed to nuclear power’s inability to make its case on cost persuasively. Nevertheless, nuclear power may survive and even thrive if the nation commits to curtailing fossil fuel use or if, as the Trump administration proposes, it opts for subsidies to keep reactors operating.
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Christoph Nitschke and Mark Rose
U.S. history is full of frequent and often devastating financial crises. They have coincided with business cycle downturns, but they have been rooted in the political design of markets. Financial crises have also drawn from changes in the underpinning cultures, knowledge systems, and ideologies of marketplace transactions. The United States’ political and economic development spawned, guided, and modified general factors in crisis causation. Broadly viewed, the reasons for financial crises have been recurrent in their form but historically specific in their configuration: causation has always revolved around relatively sudden reversals of investor perceptions of commercial growth, stock market gains, monetary availability, currency stability, and political predictability. The United States’ 19th-century financial crises, which happened in rapid succession, are best described as disturbances tied to market making, nation building, and empire creation. Ongoing changes in America’s financial system aided rapid national growth through the efficient distribution of credit to a spatially and organizationally changing economy. But complex political processes—whether Western expansion, the development of incorporation laws, or the nation’s foreign relations—also underlay the easy availability of credit. The relationship between systemic instability and ideas and ideals of economic growth, politically enacted, was then mirrored in the 19th century. Following the “Golden Age” of crash-free capitalism in the two decades after the Second World War, the recurrence of financial crises in American history coincided with the dominance of the market in statecraft. Banking and other crises were a product of political economy. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 not only once again changed the regulatory environment in an attempt to correct past mistakes, but also considerably broadened the discursive situation of financial crises as academic topics.
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Laurie Arnold
Indian gaming, also called Native American casino gaming or tribal gaming, is tribal government gaming. It is government gaming built on sovereignty and consequently is a corollary to state gambling such as lotteries rather than a corollary to corporate gaming. While the types of games offered in casinos might differ in format from ancestral indigenous games, gaming itself is a cultural tradition in many tribes, including those who operate casino gambling. Native American casino gaming is a $33.7 billion industry operated by nearly 250 distinct tribes in twenty-nine states in the United States. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 provides the framework for tribal gaming and the most important case law in Indian gaming remains Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Butterworth, in the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US Supreme Court decision over California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.
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Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Political lobbying has always played a key role in American governance, but the concept of paid influence peddling has been marked by a persistent tension throughout the country’s history. On the one hand, lobbying represents a democratic process by which citizens maintain open access to government. On the other, the outsized clout of certain groups engenders corruption and perpetuates inequality. The practice of lobbying itself has reflected broader social, political, and economic changes, particularly in the scope of state power and the scale of business organization. During the Gilded Age, associational activity flourished and lobbying became increasingly the province of organized trade associations. By the early 20th century, a wide range at political reforms worked to counter the political influence of corporations. Even after the Great Depression and New Deal recast the administrative and regulatory role of the federal government, business associations remained the primary vehicle through which corporations and their designated lobbyists influenced government policy. By the 1970s, corporate lobbyists had become more effective and better organized, and trade associations spurred a broad-based political mobilization of business. Business lobbying expanded in the latter decades of the 20th century; while the number of companies with a lobbying presence leveled off in the 1980s and 1990s, the number of lobbyists per company increased steadily and corporate lobbyists grew increasingly professionalized. A series of high-profile political scandals involving lobbyists in 2005 and 2006 sparked another effort at regulation. Yet despite popular disapproval of lobbying and distaste for politicians, efforts to substantially curtail the activities of lobbyists and trade associations did not achieve significant success.
Article
Mark G. Hanna
Historians of colonial British North America have largely relegated piracy to the marginalia of the broad historical narrative from settlement to revolution. However, piracy and unregulated privateering played a pivotal role in the development of every English community along the eastern seaboard from the Carolinas to New England. Although many pirates originated in the British North American colonies and represented a diverse social spectrum, they were not supported and protected in these port communities by some underclass or proto-proletariat but by the highest echelons of colonial society, especially by colonial governors, merchants, and even ministers. Sea marauding in its multiple forms helped shape the economic, legal, political, religious, and cultural worlds of colonial America. The illicit market that brought longed-for bullion, slaves, and luxury goods integrated British North American communities with the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Pacific and Indian Oceans throughout the 17th century. Attempts to curb the support of sea marauding at the turn of the 18th century exposed sometimes violent divisions between local merchant interests and royal officials currying favor back in England, leading to debates over the protection of English liberties across the Atlantic. When the North American colonies finally closed their ports to English pirates during the years following the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), it sparked a brief yet dramatic turn of events where English marauders preyed upon the shipping belonging to their former “nests.” During the 18th century, colonial communities began to actively support a more regulated form of privateering against agreed upon enemies that would become a hallmark of patriot maritime warfare during the American Revolution.
Article
Bart Elmore
From the founding of the American republic through the 19th century, the nation’s environmental policy mostly centered on promoting American settlers’ conquest of the frontier. Early federal interventions, whether railroad and canal subsidies or land grant acts, led to rapid transformations of the natural environment that inspired a conservation movement by the end of the 19th century. Led by activists and policymakers, this movement sought to protect America’s resources now jeopardized by expansive industrial infrastructure. During the Gilded Age, the federal government established the world’s first national parks, and in the Progressive Era, politicians such as President Theodore Roosevelt called for the federal government to play a central role in ensuring the efficient utilization of the nation’s ecological bounty. By the early 1900s, conservationists established new government agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, to regulate the consumption of trees, water, and other valuable natural assets. Wise-use was the watchword of the day, with environmental managers in DC’s bureaucracy focused mainly on protecting the economic value latent in America’s ecosystems. However, other groups, such as the Wilderness Society, proved successful at redirecting policy prescriptions toward preserving beautiful and wild spaces, not just conserving resources central to capitalist enterprise. In the 1960s and 1970s, suburban and urban environmental activists attracted federal regulators’ attention to contaminated soil and water under their feet. The era of ecology had arrived, and the federal government now had broad powers through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to manage ecosystems that stretched across the continent. But from the 1980s to the 2010s, the federal government’s authority to regulate the environment waxed and waned as economic crises, often exacerbated by oil shortages, brought environmental agencies under fire. The Rooseveltian logic of the Progressive Era, which said that America’s economic growth depended on federal oversight of the environment, came under assault from neoliberal disciples of Ronald Reagan, who argued that environmental regulations were in fact the root cause of economic stagnation in America, not a powerful prescription against it. What the country needed, according to the reformers of the New Right, was unregulated expansion into new frontiers. By the 2010s, the contours of these new frontiers were clear: deep-water oil drilling, Bakken shale exploration, and tar-sand excavation in Alberta, Canada. In many ways, the frontier conquest doctrine of colonial Americans found new life in deregulatory U.S. environmental policy pitched by conservatives in the wake of the Reagan Revolution. Never wholly dominant, this ethos carried on into the era of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Article
Charles Postel
American Populism of the 1880s and 1890s marked the political high-water mark of the social movements of farmers, wage earners, women, and other sectors of society in the years after the Civil War. These movements forged the People’s Party, also known as the Populist Party, which campaigned against corporate power and economic inequality and was one of the most successful third parties in US history. Populist candidates won gubernatorial elections in nine states and gained some forty-five seats in the US Congress, including six seats in the Senate, and in 1892 the Populist presidential candidate, James B. Weaver of Iowa, received over a million votes, more than 8 percent of the total. The Populist Party was not a conventional political party but a coalition of organizations, including the Farmers’ Alliances, the Knights of Labor, and other reform movements, in what the Populists described as a “congress of industrial orders.” These organizations gave the People’s Party its strength and shaped its character as a party of working people with a vision of egalitarian cooperation and solidarity comparable to the labor, farmer-labor, and social-democratic parties in Europe and elsewhere that took shape in the same decades. Despite their egalitarian claims, however, the Populists had at best a mixed attitude towards the struggles for racial equality, and at worst accommodated Indian dispossession, Chinese exclusion, and Jim Crow segregation. In terms of its legacy, veterans of the Populist movement and many of its policy proposals would shape progressive and labor-farmer politics deep into the 20th century, partly by way of the Socialist Party, but mainly by way of the progressive or liberal wings of the Democratic and Republican Parties. At the same time, the adjective “populist” has come to describe a wide variety of political phenomena, including right-wing and nationalist movements, that have no particular connection to the late 19th-century Populism.
Article
Christy Ford Chapin
The history of US finance—spanning from the republic’s founding through the 2007–2008 financial crisis—exhibits two primary themes. The first theme is that Americans have frequently expressed suspicion of financiers and bankers. This abiding distrust has generated ferocious political debates through which voters either have opposed government policies that empower financial interests or have advocated proposals to steer financial institutions toward serving the public. A second, related theme that emerges from this history is that government policy—both state and federal—has shaped and reshaped financial markets. This feature follows the pattern of American capitalism, which rather than appearing as laissez-faire market competition, instead materializes as interactions between government and private enterprise structuring each economic sector in a distinctive manner. International comparison illustrates this premise. Because state and federal policies produced a highly splintered commercial banking sector that discouraged the development of large, consolidated banks, American big business has frequently had to rely on securities financing. This shareholder model creates a different corporate form than a commercial-bank model. In Germany, for example, large banks often provide firms with financing as well as business consulting and management strategy services. In this commercial-bank model, German business executives cede some autonomy to bankers but also have more ability to engage in long-term planning than do American executives who tend to cater to short-term stock market demands. Under the banner of the public–private financial system two subthemes appear: fragmented institutional arrangements and welfare programming. Because of government policy, the United States, compared to other western nations, has an unusually fragmented financial system. Adding to this complexity, some of these institutions can be either state or federally chartered; meanwhile, the commercial banking sector has traditionally hosted thousands of banks, ranging from urban, money-center institutions to small unit banks. Space constraints exclude examination of numerous additional organizations, such as venture capital firms, hedge funds, securities brokers, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, and mortgage brokers. The US regulatory framework reflects this fragmentation, as a bevy of federal and state agencies supervise the financial sector. Since policymakers passed deregulatory measures during the 1980s and 1990s, the sector has moved toward consolidation and universal banking, which permits a large assortment of financial services to coexist under one institutional umbrella. Nevertheless, the US financial sector continues to be more fragmented than other industrialized countries. The public–private financial system has also delivered many government benefits, revealing that the American welfare state is perhaps more robust than scholars often claim. Welfare programming through financial policy tends be “hidden,” frequently because significant portions of benefits provision reside “off the books,” either as government-sponsored enterprises that are nominally private or as government guarantees in the place of direct spending. Yet these programs have heavily affected both their beneficiaries and the nation’s economy. The government, for example, has directed significant resources toward the construction and maintenance of a massive farm credit system. Moreover, policymakers established mortgage insurance and residential financing programs, creating an economy and consumer culture that revolve around home ownership. While both agricultural and mortgage programs have helped low-income beneficiaries, they have dispensed more aid to middle-class and corporate recipients. These programs, along with the institutional configuration of the banking and credit system, demonstrate just how important US financial policy has been to the nation’s unfolding history.
Article
Laura Phillips Sawyer
The key pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States—the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914—contain broad language that has afforded the courts wide latitude in interpreting and enforcing the law. This article chronicles the judiciary’s shifting interpretations of antitrust law and policy over the past 125 years. It argues that jurists, law enforcement agencies, and private litigants have revised their approaches to antitrust to accommodate economic shocks, technological developments, and predominant economic wisdom. Over time an economic logic that prioritizes lowest consumer prices as a signal of allocative efficiency—known as the consumer welfare standard—has replaced the older political objectives of antitrust, such as protecting independent proprietors or small businesses, or reducing wealth transfers from consumers to producers. However, a new group of progressive activists has again called for revamping antitrust so as to revive enforcement against dominant firms, especially in digital markets, and to refocus attention on the political effects of antitrust law and policy. This shift suggests that antitrust may remain a contested field for scholarly and popular debate. | https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/browse;jsessionid=91364E085F5749607C233EE78999C28E?pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=americanhistory&t=ORE_AMH%3AREFAH013&t0=ORE_AMH%3AREFAH012 |
What is software application? A computer is a system of hardware and software that interact to carry out particular jobs. The equipment part of a computer system does the work, but the software tells it what to do. Both elements are completely different and also the software is the most important. In this post, we’ll review the difference between the two. The distinction in between the two will be clarified. Read on to find how software application works as well as just how it is various from hardware.
There are numerous types of software program. For example, software enables individuals to do certain jobs. System software is a solitary program, while system software can be a team of programs. Both kinds of applications can be gauged for protection, portability, and also efficiency. A great company ought to be able to answer these inquiries to ensure their software is suitable for your service. Once you have actually decided what type of application you require, you can schedule an examination with the software program company.
Middleware and also chauffeurs are two kinds of software. The initial type concentrates on capability, which is the ability to work in different time zones. The second type concentrates on access. These attributes are necessary to help the software do well in a selection of settings. The third type of software application, which mostly aims at enhancing access, is chauffeur software program. Both sort of software program must be compatible with the devices and also running systems that run them. The final type is the capability to be installed on numerous tools, like cellphones.
A computer’s software might be divided right into two categories – system and application software. The first one is a collection of rules and processes. The 2nd type is a self-supporting software application that gives a particular feature. An application, or game, can be categorized as a “container” or a “individual” based on a set of regulations. These regulations are commonly utilized for safety purposes, but as a whole, they are made use of to manage data.
The second kind is stand-alone software application. While stand-alone software does not require a computer’s operating system, it does not call for any hardware. It is dispersed separately from various other applications as well as is made to do particular features. The main feature of software is to make it feasible for a user to run the software application. Some types of applications can be run individually or as part of a bigger application. The latter kind does not need a net link.
A computer system does not run without software application. There are different type of applications for computers. Some are proprietary as well as have a license that is distinct to that item. Others are offered for download, to make sure that the user can make use of the software program for a certain purpose. As an example, an application can be downloaded and also carried out on a computer system. Then, it can be performed. The user can connect with the application, and it can be set up to execute the very same function.
The second kind of application software is called system software. It entails the development and execution of applications. Its name is an acronym for software application. There are numerous types of applications that support a computer system’s operation. For example, an individual details management system is another instance. An application can be called “application” if it is a program. A business application can have its own collection of policies as well as processes, which are utilized to carry out tasks.
In computer software, an application can be classified into system software and software. The previous is a collection of applications that operate on a computer system. In case of system software, a system can be used to track a variety of deals. In software, the previous is called “system software. The latter is the software program that manages and manages the computer system. The last is called a procedure. The last, on the other hand, is a computer system.
There are 2 sorts of software program. The first is the system, while the last is the last. The second is an application. Both are used for the same function. Both are necessary for the equipment to operate. These two are called application and system. The first is a system. The second type is an operating system. The second is an application. It has the capability to run specific jobs. A company calls for application software. A company can utilize software application to run certain processes.
Software and hardware are both necessary parts of a computer system. While equipment is the part of the system that does real work, software informs a computer system exactly how to do its task. In a sense, hardware resembles a machine, however software informs it how to work. While they are comparable, the two are different. To better comprehend the difference between both, let’s compare them. One of the most essential distinction in between the two is that hardware is built to do function, while software is designed to be set up on a computer system.
System software as well as application software are separate kinds of software, each with their very own unique features. Application-oriented software is the type you’ll utilize to engage with your computer. Instances of such programs include spreadsheet software, word processing program, as well as data source management. Applications are what make your computer do the things you require it to do. They are also what make computers work. Without software, a computer would certainly be worthless. For instance, if you didn’t have a spread sheet program on your computer, you could not save a paper or send out an e-mail.
System-oriented software is the structure of any computer system. This software program is preinstalled on a computer and also manages fundamental functions. Application-oriented software, on the other hand, is designed to execute a specific job. There are 2 kinds of application software: system-oriented as well as application-oriented. In essence, the previous is the major part of a computer system and also offers the devices necessary to run it. If your computer isn’t made to manage specific jobs, you’ll have to purchase new equipment to finish the job. security penetration testing
Application-oriented software application is developed to help you complete a details task. For instance, video game are instances of application-oriented software application. They are designed to assist you accomplish a particular objective with making use of algorithms. Nonetheless, they likewise require that you access other programs to function effectively. A stand-alone application can run independently on a disk or flash drive, while stand-alone software application isn’t. A stand-alone application might not need a Net connection to run. | https://thawabitna.com/2021/11/18/this-is-exactly-how-software-application-will-appear-like-in-10-years-time/ |
Position Overview: The Senior Development Associate, Direct Response & Donor Database, is a newly created and critical hybrid role, overseeing two important and closely related areas of responsibility, including a line of revenue, within the Development Department.
DONOR DATABASE
The Senior Development Associate is responsible for data entry and integrity, gift acknowledgement, reporting, and other donor database functionality, and defines operating standards and protocols for use. Provides user training to development staff, and follow-up training, as needed, and is a key collaborator with Development, Finance, and Executive Team.
Accountabilities – Donor Data
- Responsible for the quality and integrity of donor database data and donor files.
- Sends timely and personalized acknowledgement letters for all gifts.
- Trains development staff and provides ongoing training as needed.
- Serves as primary liaison to Finance for revenue reconciliation and annual audit.
- Designs and customizes reports and tools, such as dashboards, as needed.
- Provides support to the Director of Development and team in the areas of gift acknowledgement, reporting, donor relationship tracking, stewardship standards, solicitation, and prospect research.
- Resolves enduring data-related problems, using technical knowledge and innovation.
- Maintains and updates the current formal policies and procedures for this position.
- Other duties as assigned.
Essential Duties and Tasks:
- Manages Raiser’s Edge database (enters gifts, codes and tracks appeals, generates gift and pledge acknowledgments, backup, and other donor correspondence) in a timely and precise manner.
- Establishes database usage protocol and procedures, sharing expectations with users.
- Trains and monitors staff – some with higher-level contingency coverage functions.
- Prepares, creates, and disseminates accurate reports.
- Maintains accurate donor information.
- Prepares mailing lists, e-blast lists and segments to support direct appeals and events.
- Contributes data or edits for website and all online fundraising initiatives.
DIRECT MARKETING / INDIVIDUAL GIVING
The Senior Development Associate is responsible for cultivation and solicitation of individual donors at giving levels up to $1,200 per year. Success is achieved via planning and execution of direct response e-mail campaigns, direct mail campaigns, peer-to-peer fundraising; social media fundraising; and sustained giving programs.
Accountabilities – Direct Response / Individual Giving
- Coordinates, develops, and executes a comprehensive, cost-effective direct response and individual giving outreach strategy to secure donor gifts of up to $1,200.
- Monitors results of campaigns, adjusting strategies, to continuously improve outcomes.
- Collaborates with vendors, consultants, and staff to develop and execute annual giving campaigns and digital fundraising strategies that achieve fiscal goals and objectives.
- Acknowledges gifts and is first point of contact for donors under $1,200/year.
- Executes strategies to increase acquisition of new funders, to increase donor pool.
- In coordination with cross-departmental colleagues, assures all individual giving and direct response solicitation designs, branding and messaging complies with standards.
- Coordinates with vendors and consultants as needed.
Essential Duties and Tasks
- Project coordination, planning, scheduling, budgeting and production.
- Collaborates with Communications to schedule donor outreach, segments, and e-blasts.
- Monitors campaign results, adjusting outreach strategies, when appropriate.
- Serves as contact for vendor relationships, monitors performance and cost-effectiveness.
- Supports Major Gifts Officer with outreach campaigns to major donors.
- Collaborates with internal staff to assure messaging alignment and branding compliance.
- Maintains and updates the current formal policies and procedures for this position.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- High Proficiency in all major components of Raiser’s Edge (required), Microsoft Office suite, and web based CRM systems.
- Minimum of 3+ years of administrative donor database experience.
- Broad generalist knowledge of all aspects and methods of fundraising.
- Data-driven style and a technical prowess and proclivity toward problem-solving for teams.
- Excellent organizational, time management, written and verbal communications skills.
- Record of quantifiable fundraising success and commitment to excellence.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
- Successful track record of collaboratively working with a wide range of constituencies, both internal and external.
Additional Desirable Qualifications:
- Knowledge of HTML, Word Press, and digital fundraising and social media platforms.
- Knowledge of LGBTQ issues and/or youth development issues.
About GLSEN
GLSEN strives to ensure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. We believe that such an atmosphere engenders a positive sense of self, which is the basis of educational achievement and personal growth. Since homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism (among other forms of identity-based discrimination) undermine a healthy school climate, we work to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike and how to promote inclusivity to prevent and counteract them. Each year, GLSEN programs and resources reach millions of students and educators in K-12 schools across the United States, and our network of 41 community-led chapters in 26 states brings GLSEN’s expertise to local communities.
Compensation and benefits
GLSEN offers competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including: five weeks paid time off for new employees in addition to 10 paid holidays per year; 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance for staff and optional benefits for family members (including domestic partners); life insurance; and a 401k plan with increasing employer contributions based on staff tenure.
This position will be located in GLSEN’s New York City office (Financial District). To apply, please submit your resume and letter of interest at: http://www.glsen.org/apply-to-work-at-glsen.
GLSEN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage people of color, people of diverse gender identities, people with disabilities, women, and non-LGBTQ people to apply. | https://www.glsen.org/article/senior-development-associate |
Real GDP in Poland increased by 1.6% in 2013 compared with 2.0% in the previous year. In the first half year, the growth rate was just 0.7% y/y, but then it started to increase and, in the last quarter, it was 2.7% y/y.
2013 was a year of stagnant domestic demand following a 0.1% decline in the previous year. The obvious decrease in domestic demand had been observed earlier, from Q2 2012, and it continued until mid-2013. A real decline in income from 2012, with a higher rate of unemployment and a low rate of savings, resulted in two successive years of the lowest individual consumption growth since the mid-nineties. Individual consumption in 2013 increased by just 0.8%, which is even weaker than in the previous year. Once again, investments in fixed assets also declined (annual decline of 0.2%), while the change in inventories still had a negative impact on GDP growth.
Structure of GDP growth in 2008-2013
However, starting from the third quarter, domestic demand gradually started to recover. In light of real growth in income and symptoms of improvement on the labor market, stagnant individual consumption was finally interrupted, with its growth rate estimated at around 2.1% y/y in the last quarter of 2013. Investments in fixed assets also started to increase in the third quarter. The turnaround in the declining trend of investments may form evidence of noticeable improvement in the outlook for demand and the financial standing of companies.
In light of stagnant domestic demand, economic growth was once again possible in 2013 as a result of the achievement of a positive balance of foreign trade. The situation improved gradually in 2013 on the main markets for Polish exports, which remained competitive. The gentle recovery in domestic demand in the second half of the year did not lead to a sufficiently high increase in imports, significantly reducing the scale of the positive impact exerted by net exports on GDP growth. | http://raportroczny2013.pzu.pl/en/external-environment/main-trends-polish-economy |
Week One:
Stream Science, June 12-June 16
Stream Science Adventures: Ages 5 – 7
Stream Science Explorers: Ages 8 – 11
Description:
Explore a variety of stream habitats, including Wildcat Creek and Strawberry Creek. Follow their pathways to discover unique stream features including riffles and pools, small islands and bridges. Create and float mini nature-boats on creek waterways. Identify aquatic invertebrates and study their amazing adaptations for life in flowing water. Assess the health of a stream habitat, test water quality and compare and contrast natural and urban streams. Identify streamside plants and create beautiful stream art. Learn about the importance of conserving freshwater for all life on earth and the actions you can take to conserve water every day.
Drop Off and Pick Up Locations: | https://kidsforthebay.org/summer-camp/session-themes-locations/wearescientists/ |
Looks like Glass 100ml
Looks Like Glass is a super- thin, water- based, transparent fluid for the creation of a smooth glass-like effect on kit plastics such as clear canopies. Plastic parts are simply dipped and allowed to dry for 2-3 hours. Surface detail is retained. Looks Like Glass can be used for the following modelling applications e.g.
- Glass like finish on canopies, windows etc.
- Adhesive for clear windows
- Creating a wet look on plastic
- Sealing scatter
- A super- thin smooth plastic varnish to assist transfer application. | https://deluxematerials.co.uk/collections/wood/products/looks-like-glass-100ml |
The utility model relates to a multiple divided multifunctional beverage bottle, which comprises a bottle body and a bottle cap arranged at the bottle mouth. The multiple divided multifunctional beverage bottle is characterized in that the bottle body includes a plurality of independent spaces, a partition is arranged between two adjacent independent spaces, each independent space is communicated with the bottle mouth, the bottom of the bottle cap is provided with a porous cover, and the bottom of the porous cover is provided with a snap groove which is clamped to the corresponding partition. The bottle cap is a rotational cap with pores, and the bottle cap is provided with liquid outlets. The bottle cap and the porous cover are fastened by a fixing device and are rotatably connected to the bottle mouth. The utility model has the advantages that a single beverage bottle can contain a plurality of different beverages so as to meet requirements of users upon a plurality of flavors and nutrition combinations simultaneously, and users can slightly turn the rotational cap to choose the different beverages easily, thereby bringing convenience for drinking. | |
Independent study (RUSS 499, SLAV 499) primarily provides advanced undergraduates and graduate students with the opportunity to work closely with individual faculty members on an area of shared interest. Independent studies are designed to complement and expand on existing courses, not substitute for them, and as such are only open to students who have already completed a number of the department’s required and elective courses. In certain cases, an independent study may be used to provide additional material to a student enrolled concurrently in a Slavic Department course, or as a form of service learning (see under “Internships”). Independent studies are not intended to ease scheduling conflicts, “top up” credit requirements, or enable students to qualify for financial aid.
Juniors, senior and graduate students who have already completed coursework in the Slavic Department and have a degree of familiarity with their chosen subject area may apply for an independent study. Students who do not fit this profile should talk to the Undergraduate Advisor to determine their eligibility.
Who can supervise an independent study?
Only faculty at the rank of lecturer or above may supervise independent studies, and only in areas of their teaching or research expertise. Faculty are under no obligation to supervise independent studies, and may only offer 10 credits of independent study in any one quarter.
How does a student go about applying for an independent study?
Students should have a research topic in mind that cannot be explored in existing Slavic Department courses, either because such a course does not exist, or because it has not been offered for several years. Please note that independent studies cannot be offered simply because of a student’s scheduling conflict. An independent study cannot be substituted for any course that is offered regularly by the Slavic Department.
Students should consult faculty members’ CVs on the departmental website to see who might serve as their supervisor: Slavic Department Directory. The student should then email or make an appointment to see both the Undergraduate Advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies to discuss their project and to determine its feasibility.
Should the project be approved, the Undergraduate Advisor will obtain the necessary signatures on the Independent Study Application (PDF) and facilitate a meeting between the student and their faculty supervisor.
When should a student begin applying for an independent study?
Students should begin planning their research project well in advance of a new quarter, and should apply to the Undergraduate Advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at least 30 days before the start of the next quarter. A project should be approved, an advisor selected, signatures obtained, and the necessary paperwork filed no later than the first day of a new quarter. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that a program of study has been approved, and all signatures obtained before the quarter has begun.
How much work is involved in an independent study? How many credits is it worth?
These two things are directly connected. Based on the student’s research project, the student and the faculty supervisor will agree on the number of credits sought.
Generally, 1 credit hour = 1-2 books to be read, 3-5 pages to be written. 2 credits = 3-4 books, 6-8 pages; 3 credits = 5-6 books, 9-11 pages, and so on, up to a maximum of 5 credits. Students and supervisors will arrive at a mutually agreed-upon syllabus and reading list, and arrange how often to meet during the quarter.
Students undertaking language study will complete a specified number of written assignments, tests, and essays, as determined by their supervisor. Meetings for language study may include more than one student.
The Polish Home Association offers internships working for the Association and its Board, for the Polish Home Foundation, and other affiliated organizations (such as Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association, UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee, etc.). Duties might include administrative and fundraising activities, archiving and digitizing documents and photographs relating to the history of the PHA, and the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association’s Seattle Polish Film Festival. For a 5-credit independent study, students should complete approximately 15 hours a week at their internship.
Additionally, students are expected to write a paper relating to the internship and the student’s interests. The paper must be a minimum of 5 pages for 1 to 2-credit internships, 7-10 pages for 3-4 credits, and 12-15 pages for 5-6 credits. It must include a bibliography with at least three academic sources. Mr. John Golubiec, PHA president, will direct and oversee the student’s work. Prof. Katarzyna Dziwirek is responsible for monitoring the progress of the academic component of the project, and assigning a grade.
How often do students and supervisors meet for an independent study?
This varies depending on both a supervisor’s and a student’s course load and class hours, and the nature of the material to be covered. Students should be prepared to be flexible in their hours, as a faculty member’s first duty is to students enrolled in their regular Slavic Department courses, and there may be weeks when supervisors are unable to meet with independent study students.
Do independent study credits count towards a major in the Slavic Department?
Undergraduates may earn no more than 15 independent study credits in the Slavic Department, and because independent study is NOT a substitute for required coursework towards a major or minor, independent study credits may only count towards elective requirements. | https://slavic.washington.edu/independent-studies |
Darling, S. & Havelka, J. (2010) Visuospatial bootstrapping: Evidence for binding of verbal and spatial information in working memory, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 63, , pp. 239-245,
Abstract
Traditionally, working memory is held to comprise separate subcomponents dedicated to the temporary storage of visuospatial and verbal information. More recently, the addition of an episodic buffer has been proposed where information from multiple memory systems is integrated. We report an experiment designed to investigate the effects of providing additional visuospatial information in a verbal working memory task. When to-be-remembered digits were arranged in a horizontal line, performance was no better than when digits were presented in a single location. However, when digits were presented in a keyboard array, performance was significantly better. It is argued that this pattern is hard to reconcile with the traditional model of working memory, and that the spatial bootstrapping- effect provides evidence towards models of working memory that incorporate an episodic buffer. | https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/1101 |
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Sudanese authorities said that they had foiled an attempted coup, and the interrogation of suspects is due to begin
Sudanese authorities said they had foiled an attempted coup on Tuesday, accusing plotters loyalto ousted president Omar al-Bashir of a failed bid to derail the revolution that removed him from power in 2019 and ushered in a transition to democracy.
The coup attempt points to the difficult path facing a government that has reoriented Sudan since 2019, winning Western debt relief and taking steps to normalise ties with Israel, while battling a severe economic crisis and facing down challenges from those still loyal to Bashir.
A ruling body known as the Sovereign Council has run Sudan under a fragile power-sharing deal between the military and civilians since the overthrow of Bashir, an Islamist shunned by the West who presided over Sudan for nearly three decades.Elections are expected in 2024.
"What happened is an orchestrated coup by factions inside and outside the armed forces and this is an extension of the attempts by remnants since the fall of the former regime to abort the civilian democratic transition," Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said in a televised statement. headtopics.com
"This attempt was preceded by extensive preparations represented by lawlessness in the cities and the exploitation of the situation in the east of the country, attempts to close national roads and ports and block oil production."The streets of the capital Khartoum appeared calm, with people moving around as usual and no unusual deployments of security forces, a witness said.
Early on Tuesday morning, a witness said military units loyal to the council had used tanks to close a bridge connecting Khartoum with Omdurman, just across the River Nile.A government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said plotters had tried to take control of state radio in Omdurman.
The suspected instigators of the coup attempt had been arrested and were being interrogated, government spokesman Hamza Balol said on state TV, adding that the last pockets of rebellion at Al Shajara camp in south Khartoum were being dealt with.Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir is seen inside the defendant's cage during his and some of his former allies trial over the 1989 military coup that brought the autocrat to power in 1989, at a courthouse in Khartoum, Sudan September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
COUPS AND CONFLICTSIt was not the first challenge to the transitional authorities. They say they have foiled or detected previous coup attempts linked to factions loyal to Bashir, who was deposed by the army after months of protests against his rule.In 2020, Hamdok survived an assassination attempt in Khartoum. headtopics.com
Those involved in the latest effort would be held to account, Hamdok said on Tuesday."For the first time, there are people who were arrested during their implementation of the coup," he said, repeating earlier calls for the reform and restructuring of Sudan's sprawling security apparatus.
Sudan has gradually been welcomed into the international fold since the overthrow of Bashir, who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged atrocities in Darfur in the early 2000s.The ICC's chief prosecutor held talks with Sudanese officials last month on accelerating steps to hand over those wanted over Darfur.
Despite a peace deal signed last year with some Sudanese rebels, there has been increased unrest in the western region of Darfur as well as local clashes in Sudan's east.This week members of the Beja tribe blocked Port Sudan and highways leading to it.
Sudan's economy has been in deep crisis since before Bashir's removal and the transitional government has undergone a reform programme monitored by the International Monetary Fund.Underlining Western support for the transitional authorities, the Paris Club of official creditors agreed in July to cancel $14 billion of Sudan's debt. But Sudanese are still struggling with rapid inflation and shortages. headtopics.com
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Sudan thwarts attempted coup, situation under control, army saysSudanese authorities have foiled an attempted coup, the army said on Tuesday, warding off a challenge to a civilian-military council that has run the country since Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.
Sudan blames Omar al Bashir's supporters for attempted coupOfficials say military officers and civilians linked to ousted regime of longtime president Omar al Bashir tried to unseat PM Abdalla Hamdok in a failed coup against the transitional government.
Sudan foils coup attempt and 40 officers arrested, senior officials sayA military coup d'etat attempt failed in Sudan on Tuesday and most of the involved officers were arrested, according to three senior government and military sources. sad bit is now countries like this whose opposition or ruling party is mad enough, they have the leading nation of the free world to look at for example that this sort of thing is somehow normal and indicative of legitimate power and strong nations kaitlancollins horrible Do they arrest the organizers of the coup in Sudan?
BBC to Pay Prince William and Prince Harry's Nanny 'Significant''Damages Over Martin Bashir's Princess Diana InterviewThe BBC just concluded an investigation into Bashir's 'deceitful methods.'
Sudanese officials say coup attempt failed, army in controlSudanese authorities reported a coup attempt on Tuesday by a group of soldiers but said the attempt failed and that the military remains in control. The development underscored the fragility of Sudan’s path to democracy, more than two years after the military's overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir amid a public uprising against his three-decade rule.
Taliban names deputy ministers, fails to appoint any womanThe first appointments to the Taliban interim government were announced earlier this month – drawn exclusively from loyalist ranks, with established hardliners in all key posts, despite previous promises of an inclusive administration. Long live Taliban 💚 That's their country, they do what they want to do. Has anyone accused USA & many other countries for not having female head of the state? Focus on the real issues Afghanistan facing, America & others must release Afghan money. America & it's allieds must rebuild Afghanistan. why u librals need women ashole librals .... | https://headtopics.com/us/sudan-says-coup-thwarted-accuses-bashir-loyalists-21875070 |
A Year After Trudeau's Election, Gov't Is Consulting, But Is It Really Listening?
The Liberals have embarked on a flurry of consultations — 84, at last count.
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's Liberals swept to power last October with a promise of a more open government that better reflects the values and expectations of Canadians.
A year later, they're getting credit for a willingness to listen. But it's too early to tell whether that is resulting in decisions and policies the public truly wants.
The Liberals have launched a flurry of consultations on matters big and small. At last count, there were 84 consultations accepting online comments about everything from food additives and species at risk to a national housing strategy and security policy.
Townhall meetings on electoral reform have taken place across the country, and a special task force is gathering views on a legalized marijuana regime.
The Liberals say they're fulfilling the pledge to include Canadians in decision-making through several means, including discussion papers, surveys, online portals for written submissions, public meetings, regional and national roundtables, social media, teleconferences and webinars.
"The many open consultations are an opportunity for everyone to be involved in the discussions that shape and inform public policy decisions, and share their ideas,'' said Cameron Ahmad, a spokesman for Trudeau.
Many say the active solicitation of public input stands in sharp contrast to the top-down control of the previous Conservative government under Stephen Harper. The question is whether the change in style will be matched by one in substance.
"The many open consultations are an opportunity for everyone to be involved."
There's evidence that the more a party can appear to be governing on the basis of a broad consensus, the higher its polling numbers tend to be, said Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Manitoba.
Critics of consultation deride the process as a public-relations exercise that makes people feel good but has no impact on actual policy. Some say it's simply a time-buying ploy that allows the government to delay a tough decision on a divisive topic.
For the NDP, the controversial anti-terrorism legislation known as Bill C-51 is a prime example.
The Liberals promised during the election campaign to fix several specific "problematic elements'' of the law. The NDP has chastised the government for embarking on a full national security review before changing even a single line of the legislation.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale recently defended the Liberals' unhurried approach, saying the government wants to take the necessary time to "get this right'' after the Conservatives rushed legislation onto the books without properly consulting Canadians.
Accountability can be built into the process by "reporting back'' to the public on what was heard and how the feedback was used in decision-making, said Paul Howe, a political science professor at the University of New Brunswick.
Federal agencies have promised to publish such reports, though they generally take many months to prepare and release.
Still, that does not guarantee the advice considered by decision-makers is truly indicative of public sentiment.
"How representative are those people who go online and contribute to discussions that are taking place in cyberspace?'' asked Thomas. "And how do you integrate that kind of public feedback with the expert advice that's coming from the specialists inside government?
After attending more than a dozen townhalls on electoral reform, Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef said there was no consensus on the precise voting system that should replace Canada's current first-past-the-post system.
NDP democratic reform critic Nathan Cullen, on the other hand, said NDP townhalls had found overwhelming support for some form of proportional representation.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, are demanding a referendum on any electoral changes.
The experience illustrates the pitfalls of the Liberal approach, said Duff Conacher, a founder of the accountability group Democracy Watch.
The government is conducting plenty of "squeaky-wheel consultations'' — like the ones on electoral reform — that attract people with strong views on a given subject, Conacher said. But the Liberals promised a government that better reflects the beliefs and expectations of Canadians.
Conacher advocates a more rigorous process — common in Sweden — known as the study circle.
The concept involves an independent administrator randomly selecting about 1,500 Canadians who are statistically representative of the population, divided into 75 groups of up to 20 people apiece.
Each group meets four or five times over the course of several weeks to learn about, discuss and ultimately answer neutral questions on an issue. The overall results are then tabulated to reflect the entire pool of participants.
The process is more effective than a telephone survey, where someone might provide answers without knowing anything about the subject, Conacher said. It's also more representative than holding a single citizen assembly of as many as 200 people, the results of which can be skewed by charismatic participants, he added.
Democracy Watch helped the Liberal government of Jean Chretien employ the study circle technique during immigration consultations more than 20 years ago. Conacher has tried — unsuccessfully so far — to generate renewed enthusiasm for the concept.
The Liberals are "always open to new ideas on how we consult,'' said Ahmad, but he insisted the government is already ensuring space for a broad range of Canadians.
Ahmad pointed to the government's "Innovation Agenda'' consultations, which began with a discussion paper and background presentation and generated considerable online buzz through social media as well as ideas from more than 1,000 people.
As part of the process, 10 innovation leaders led 30 roundtables involving 400 participants. | https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/10/16/a-year-later-liberals-are-busy-consulting-but-are-they-truly-listening_n_12515548.html?utm_hp_ref=ca-justin-trudeau-liberal |
Q:
Elm - Form inspection
The below function includes the use of collage, only to convert the
Shape/Form into an Element.
makeSlider : Element -> Form -> Element
makeSlider sliderShape sliderBarForm =
let
sliderBar =
--convert sliderBarForm from type Form to Element
collage 1000 1000 [(move (0,0) sliderBarForm)]
in
layers [sliderShape, sliderBar]
Is there a way to extract a Form's dimensions, like Graphics.Element.sizeOf, so that the makeSlider function does not need to know the explicit dimensions of sliderBarForm?
Or does a toElement function exist so that
collage 1000 1000 [(move (0,0) sliderBarForm)]
can be replaced with
toElement (move (0,0) sliderBarForm)?
A:
I don't think you can easily get the dimensions of a form. I guess that's because a form can be so many different kinds of things (shapes, paths, etc). When I need to know the dimensions later, I keep track of them when I create the form.
type alias MyForm =
{ form : Form
, width : Int
, height : Int
}
makeRectForm: Float -> Float -> MyForm
makeRectForm w h = {form: (filled grey (rect w h)), width: (round w), height: (round h)}
Then in your case you can use a MyForm with the collage.
makeSlider : Element -> MyForm -> Element
makeSlider sliderShape sliderBarMyForm =
let
sliderBar =
--convert sliderBarForm from type Form to Element
collage sliderBarMyForm.width sliderBarMyForm.height [(move (0,0) sliderBarMyForm)]
in
layers [sliderShape, sliderBar]
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Indore: In the village of Asrawad Bujurg near Indore, one onion weighs upto 300 grams at a farm of Rajendra Singh. This has been made possible because of organic farming. “We can also grow large-sized ladyfingers, brinjals in our porch or on terrace with the help of Jiva Amrit,” Singh said.
Burhanpur: On the second day of Dhamangaon Navratri Gramodaya fair, a seminar was organised on conventional and organic farming focusing on more production with less investment. The seminar was inaugurated by women and child development minister Archana Chitnis.
Kota: Despite the government’s constant efforts to promote organic farming, only 16.3 per cent farmers of Rajasthan use organic inputs, while fear of less production and unavailability of organic inputs form the major hindrances to the chemical-ridden farming.At least 97.6 per cent of farmers of the state are aware about the hazards caused by chemical-based farming inputs but “fear of less production, transition period and unavailability of organic inputs” in the market discourage
Agartala: Minister of State for Agriculture Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya has urged the farmers to shift from paddy to pulses and organic farming for making better profits. Speaking to reports after meeting Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, Kundariya said that such a move would also benefit the common people in terms of health.
Latur (Maharashtra) : Even as Maharashtra continues to grapple with an agrarian crisis, farmers in Latur, one of the drought-prone districts in the state, are slowly moving towards the organic way of farming to reduce input costs and increase agriculture output. Planting variety of trees on the farmland, using organic manure and bio-enzyme in soil stabilisation are some of ways being adopted by the farmers for a healthy growth of crops that
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When a homeowner receives a notice of violation from their HOA or condominium, they must decide if they are going to fight it, comply or file an architectural application to receive formal approval. There are many instances when the homeowner can and ought to keep the installed improvement. However, there are other situations in which it makes more sense to comply with the HOA’s request or to otherwise adjust things to address the violation. Also, HOAs frequently send out notices in error or the homeowner receives them after the violation was cured. However, the story does not always end with the voluntary compliance by the landowner. Often the covenant enforcement process will continue with additional letters or HOA hearings despite the correction. There may be pending litigation. The HOA or neighbor instigating such in or out of court complaints may have some sort of axe to grind and wants to continue the legal action vindictively. This blog post addresses the legal aspects of covenant enforcement when the accused owner has cured or abandoned the complained of structure or activity. I am not saying that the owner’s default response to a HOA letter ought to be to just obey it.
Fairfax County Circuit Court considered such questions in a 2004 decision. Rose Hall HOA filed a complaint with the court seeking an injunction and attorney’s fees against an owner, Charles H. Jelinek, whose architectural application for a black ornamental fence was denied but they installed it anyway. While suit was pending, the Jenlineks removed the complained of fence. The letter opinion of Judge Kathleen MacKay doesn’t say whether they removed the fence because it was not allowed by the language of the covenants or if the owners took it down not because they were in the wrong but to simply avoid continued legal action. The HOA filed discovery requests in an effort to continue fighting in court. The Jelineks filed a motion to have the suit dismissed on the grounds that it was now moot because the fence was removed. The HOA wanted to continue the suit, not because they thought that the fence would be put back up, but only because they wanted to get an award of attorney’s fees as the prevailing party. Did the HOA “prevail” in the litigation because the owner removed the complained of fence after suit was filed? In this suit, the HOA did not seek any damages. The court found that now that the fence is gone, the HOA cannot prevail because an injunction order cannot be entered because the grounds for the injunction is no longer at issue. Where the defendants action sought to be enjoined has been abandoned, the whole grounds for equitable relief no longer exists, and the matter ought to be dismissed. Unlike suits for money damages, cases like injunctions or declaratory judgments are in what’s called “equity jurisdiction,” which requires an actual controversy to be presently existing. This doctrine is commonly referred to as a question of “mootness” (when the alleged violation has ceased) or “ripeness” (when the offense hasn’t happened yet). The court found the case moot and dismissed it in its entirely.
In some cases, the factual context for the mootness question is less clear-cut than a complaint about a fence that has been completely removed. Sometimes suits for injunctions are more about conduct or how improvements or objects on the property are used rather than their mere existence. In cases involve flooding or erosion, the water infiltration may not occur every day, and in fact may be irregular depending upon the weather or how the defendant has configured downspouts that day, or other conditions. In some cases, an injunction may be granted even if the complained of conduct only occurred once. Some cases raises a question as to whether the complained of improvement actually violates a legal obligation owed by the landowner to the association under the governing instruments or if the HOA is overstepping its bounds. The owner may decide to reconfigure the fence, drain or other structure or vegetation to conform to the instruments (and not necessary what the manager is ordering them to do). The opponents may want to pursue the case more aggressively, arguing that the corrective activity somehow functioned as an admission that the HOA or neighbor was right and the owner was wrong. However, that may misconstrue the defendant’s actions or intentions. Also, angry people sometimes want their opponent to cease doing things related things that have always been legal as a kind of punishment.
For reasons such as these, when HOA or neighbor disputes escalate to litigation, sometimes “giving in” on certain points can be a powerful legal defense strategy, but one that must be properly navigated to resolve the dispute while adequately defending the owner’s rights.
Case Discussed:
Rose Hall HOA, Inc. v. Jelinek, et al., 66 Va. Cir. 172 (Fairfax Co. Oct. 28, 2004)(MacKay, J.).
Note that the picture associated with this blog post is a stock image and does not depict anything discussed in this article. | https://cowherdplc.com/resolving-hoa-enforcement-through-voluntary-compliance/ |
Chapter 6 of Tattvarthasutra
Most people experience life as constant alternation between action and reaction. We initiate action and the rest of the universe (including our own body and our own consciousness) reacts to this stimulus. Often the outside world introduces facts and problems and thereby triggers our responses.
This concept of action and reaction appears sensible. It gives us an idea how to manage - more or less successfully - the challenges of daily life. The more we experience - i.e. the more we know how the universe reacts to our action - the better, wiser and the more effective we should be able to conduct our life.
Yet there's a catch: Almost all our action seems to contain incalculable factors which at any time may influence, change or imperil its course. Especially long term projects have the annoying tendency to become unpredictable and even the most meticulous planning or the availability of unlimited funds and resources will not ensure success. In the end many things look entirely different from our original intent or expectation. That things turn out as planned and give us the desired satisfaction often appears more the exception than the rule.
Something seems to escape all our planning, all our calculation, - something that definitely influences everything we do and that affects all the results of our actions.
Strangely this - 'something' - which exerts central power on our life - never attracted much systematic attention of the Western sciences. So far only psychology tried to locate our actions' basic mechanisms and its propelling forces in more subtle fields than the purely material. Yet the almost 100 years of research in this direction have not produced much of a new, systematic approach to more effective conduct. Though psychology's theories may sound logical in parts, most people intuitively reject the idea of being governed by an inaccessible sub-conscience - whose hidden features may have entered there only in a dark and highly obscure way.
Yet there exists - in the Eastern part of our world - an ancient concept that not only explains the fundamental inner mechanisms of action, but gives us tangible information how to unfold a vast, unused potential inherent within us. It further describes extraordinary dimensions which human endeavor hardly ever attempted to venture into. This concept is called 'Karma'.
Now, - apart from the obvious misconceptions about this term that have been dealt with in The Mystery, - most people picture karma as a rather abstract function of their life. We tend to regard karma as something foreign, as some separate and alien component we feel only a distant and rather fuzzy link to.
Yet there is nothing abstract, foreign or vague about karma. We find its expressions and effects right in our everyday existence. Karma is nothing other than our very emotional attachment to the 'themes' or features of our life we feel - positively or negatively - attracted to. Karma is essentially the material carrier of our desire to physically experience this world.
There is a fundamental difference between our consciousness and karma. Consciousness - that what is alive within us - is independent of any physical carrier. Karma on the other hand is a kind of subtle matter that surrounds our consciousness in a similar way as our body surrounds it with physical matter. When these two components - consciousness and karma - mix together, we experience life as we know it at present. Yet as long as we remain unaware of the mechanisms that govern the interactions of these two components, we will experience that our actions often produce unexpected or undesired results.
We do have the ability and power to control all interaction between karma and consciousness. Once we become aware of their mechanisms, we can easily stop the erratic results the random mixing of these two components often generates. We then gain access to far more efficient ways of using our awareness, far greater freedom of action and growing insight into the real functioning of our life.
Sutra 1 to 9 explain how we attract karmic matter to our consciousness. Sutra 10 to 27 illustrates with a number of concise examples how our consciousness and karmic matter interact with each other. | https://www.herenow4u.net/?id=100030 |
May 2012–The CATalyst Council, comprised of animal health and welfare organizations working on behalf of cats, recently met with 22 animal health and welfare industry leaders to discuss ways to help communities establish partnerships between veterinarians and shelters through an initiative called Top to Top. “We’ve noticed that in communities where there are strong relationships between shelters and veterinarians, animals fare better than in places where the relationship is not as strong,” says Dr. Jane Brunt, CATalyst Council’s Executive Director. Communities that participate in the pilot program will be tracked so that success can be measured and validated. “We’re looking for a way to substantiate the program through metrics that, we feel confident, will show that not only do veterinarians gain more clients but, more importantly, that euthanasia rates go down for the shelters in the communities that participate,” adds Dr. Alexis Nahama, Chair of the CATalyst Council Board.
For more information, visit catalystcouncil.org/resources/top_to_top.
Conference
NAVTA Annual Conference and Scholarship
July 2012–The 2012 National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA) Conference, sponsored by Hill’s Pet Nutrition, will take place November 16 to 18, 2012, in Washington, DC. The conference is open to members of the veterinary health care team, students, and industry alliances. The objective of the conference is to provide valuable insight for personal and professional development. Twenty scholarships of $250 each are available to NAVTA members in good standing. Write an essay of 500 words or less discussing why you want to attend the conference. Full scholarships will also be offered to six student leaders based on their submitted essays. Submit your 500-word essay when you register online at navta.net/events/navta-annual-conference.
Educational Opportunities
New Dates Announced for Heartworm University
July 2012–The American Heartworm Society (AHS) has added two Heartworm University sessions to the 2012 calendar. Entitled “A–Z Learning in Only 1 Day: Antigens to Zoonosis,” the series of presentations will take place August 16 in Phoenix, Arizona (during the Arizona Veterinary Medical Association Meeting), and October 7 in Louisville, Kentucky (during the Mid-American Veterinary Conference). The day-long sessions, which are free for registered meeting attendees, will focus on the recently updated heartworm guidelines as well as the latest information on diagnostics, treatment protocols, and lack of efficacy. “Despite everything veterinarians know about heartworm disease, there’s much to learn,” said AHS President Wallace Graham, DVM. “Heartworm University is designed to keep veterinarians abreast of trends as well as new AHS guidelines and guidance on the changing scientific landscape.”
New Product
Bleed-X Hemostat to Serve Veterinary Surgical Market
May 2012–Bleed-X Vet Clotting Powder (bleed-x.com) is formulated to meet the needs of surgeons and critical care providers in veterinary medicine. Patented Microporous Polysaccharide Hemosphere (MPH) technology by Medafor, Inc (meda for.com) is combined with micronized fibrils of resorbable oxidized cellulose to enhance clot strength and bactericidal properties. The sterilized micro-beads rapidly dehydrate blood, accelerating the natural clotting process. Josh Waldman, CEO of Bleed-X, LLC, commented, “Bleed-X meets the needs of veterinarians searching for a simple and safe product that can be left inside the body to control problem bleeding in a wide variety of surgical procedures.” Bleed-X Vet Clotting Powder is available at bleed-x.com in single and ten packs. For more information contact Josh Waldman at [email protected].
Label Update
Use of Antiemetic to Include Cats and Younger Puppies
May 2012–Pfizer Animal Health announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label update for Cerenia (maropitant citrate, cerenia.pfizer.com), the only FDA-approved veterinary antiemetic medication. Cerenia Injectable Solution is now approved for treatment of vomiting in cats 16 weeks and older. For both the injectable solution and tablets, the update lowers the recommended age of use in dogs from 16 weeks to 8 weeks for prevention and treatment of acute vomiting.
Surveys and Studies
U.S. Consumers Expect Businesses to Engage in Social Networking
July 2012–American consumers now expect to find and follow businesses on the Internet beyond their corporate website, according to research released by 1&1 Internet, Inc (1and1.com), a global leader among web hosts. A survey of 468 U.S. consumers1 showed 78% of respondents require businesses to be active in social media for brand recognition on the Web.
Social media platforms are gaining respect from consumers as a way of engaging with businesses in addition to their websites. In fact, 89% of the consumers surveyed said consistent branding online should be high on a company’s priority list. Two-thirds of consumers (67%) ranked Facebook and Twitter as the top social networks for their engagement with online brands, while 46% considered multimedia platforms like YouTube, blogs and forums to be effective in generating online branding.
Oliver Mauss, CEO of 1&1 Internet, Inc, encourages businesses to understand the value of maintaining a web presence to support their brand or initiative. He comments, “A website and social media presence delivers business owners and entrepreneurs the opportunity to reach a broader audience that otherwise may go untouched. It’s an essential aspect of marketing in a society that bestows trust and worth into what they can access online.”
1&1 offers high-quality web solutions, including 1&1 MyWebsite, a website solution for customers looking to take their first steps with online branding. Customized for over 200 business sectors, including veterinarians, the tool is a professional and user-friendly resource for getting online. 1&1 MyWebsite makes it easy to embed YouTube videos and links to sites like Facebook and Twitter. Online marketing, search marketing, design, content, and management features are all tailored to help veterinarians build and maintain a website.
1. Survey conducted by WIRED magazine on behalf of 1&1 Internet Inc, with 468 U.S. adult participants.
New Studies Support Use of Novifit Tablets for Cognitive Dysfunction
May 2012–Results from a combination of new research studies of aged dogs and cats, conducted by CanCog Technologies, Inc, suggest Virbac Animal Health’s (virbacvet.com) NOVIFIT (NoviSAMe) Tablets can diminish the effects of age-related cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS) in senior dogs and cats. NOVIFIT Tablets contain S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), a molecule naturally present in the body. A SAMe deficiency has been found in humans with Alzheimer’s disease. The results suggest that NOVIFIT tablets improve executive function—cognitive processes, such as attention, problem solving, and working memory—in both dogs and cats, but has no effect on either short- or long-term memory based on the dose and treatment duration used in the current study. “NOVIFIT (NoviSAMEe) Tablets Improve Executive Function in Aged Dogs and Cats: Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome” was presented at the 6th Annual Canadian Conference on Dementia (October 2011). Research results are published in the International Journal of Applied Research available at jarvm.com/articles/Vol10Iss1/Lobprise.pdf.
Client Resource
New Purina Smartphone App Helps Keep Pet Health in Check
May 2012–A new application from Nestlé Purina PetCare allows clients to keep their pets’ pertinent health data at their fingertips. Veterinary appointments, a reminder to visit the groomer, the location of the nearest emergency pet hospital—all can be entered for easy mobile access.
Available for download from both iTunes and Android Market Play Store as well as from walmart.com/Purina, the free Purina Pet Health Smartphone App also lets pet owners enter specific pet health information.
New Product
Merck Animal Health Announces Activyl and Activyl Tick Plus
June 2012–Merck Animal Health announced the U.S. release of Activyl and Activyl TickPlus. The topical, once-a-month treatments are the first to use bioactivation to kill fleas. The ectoparasiticide contains indoxacarb, which is unique to animal health and has no known resistance in fleas. Activyl, for dogs and cats, not only kills adult fleas, but also disrupts the flea’s life cycle by inhibiting the development of flea larvae. Activyl TickPlus, only for dogs, controls both fleas and ticks, containing permethrin, an acaricide with proven efficacy against ticks. The products will be only available through licensed veterinarians. For more information visit merck-animal-health-usa.com.
First Three-Day Oral NSAID Approved for Cats
June 2012–Novartis Animal Health US, Inc has launched Onsior (robenacoxib), the first three-day NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) for relief of pain and inflammation associated with orthopedic surgery, ovariohysterectomy, and castration in cats. In U.S. field studies, over 80% of cats did not need rescue therapy, demonstrating the effectiveness of Onsior tablets. Onsior is quickly eliminated from the blood, while persisting longer at the site of inflamed tissue, as demonstrated in a tissue cage model (clinical significance unknown). The tissue selectivity characteristic of Onisor allows for 24 hours of pain relief with once-a-day administration for up to three days. For complete details regarding indications, refer to the Onsior Summary of Product Characteristics, available at us.onsior.com.
Client Resource
CareCredit Mobile Site for Owners and App for Practices
June 2012–CareCredit continues to make care possible with mobile-optimized technology and features that give pet owners convenient ways to learn about and apply for CareCredit’s health care credit card on their smartphone or the practice’s iPad or tablet device. The smartphone-optimized website (carecredit.com) and app (carecredit.com/provider/tablet) put CareCredit information and key website functions at pet owners’ fingertips. With the app, a practice-owned iPad or other tablet device can be used by clients while they are in the veterinarian’s office to learn about CareCredit, view monthly payment options and amounts, and apply on their own. “Our goal was to provide additional convenience for mobile device users,” said David Fasoli, CEO and President, CareCredit.
ImproMed Software Releases Latest Version of Advantage+
June 2012–ImproMed, LLC (impromed.com), a subsidiary of Butler Schein Animal Health, has released Advantage+ v30.355 Standard and Equine software packages for veterinary practices. This version focuses on inventory management and laboratory equipment communication, including online help features, greatly reducing time spent on order processing and increasing accuracy with automatic pricing updates. In addition, Advantage+ users now have the ImproMed Universal Lab Reader, a new feature that provides a communication link between in-house laboratory equipment and reference laboratories, with a direct import to patients’ medical records. To download supporting documentation, Advantage+ users can visit the ImproMed Community Access Network (iCAN) at impromed.com/ican.
Educational Opportunities
International Veterinary Senior Care Society’s First Lecture Series
May 2012–The International Veterinary Senior Care Society (IVSCS) is pleased to announce its first collaboration for lecture presentations, to be held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual CanCog Conference on Behavior, Cognition and Aging in Companion Animals. The conference will be held August 16 to 17, 2012, in Toronto, Canada. Specific lectures by IVSCS speakers will be presented the morning of Friday, August 17, including Dr. Dave Bruyette (The Value of Senior Wellness Testing), Dr. Susan Little (Senior Cats—Evaluating Weight Loss), and Dr. Heidi Lobprise (Teeth Get Old, Too!). Additional information on the conference, including other CanCog presentations, can be found at www.canineconference.com.
Announcement
Heartworm Prevention Significantly Increases
May 2012–Merial announced first quarter growth in the number of doses of heartworm preventives delivered to dog owners in the U.S., a positive sign as the veterinary industry rallies to increase year-round heartworm protection.
According to Market Dynamics, Inc, which shares statistics for all veterinary products sold, 12% more doses of heartworm preventives have been provided by veterinarians in the first three months of 2012 than in the corresponding period in 2011. More than 5700 individual veterinary professionals and 3100 veterinary clinics nationwide have joined the 12.12.12 Campaign since it was launched by Merial in January, taking part in the initiative to increase the number of dogs receiving monthly doses of heartworm preventive.
Participants in the 12.12.12 Campaign receive monthly support from Merial that includes staff training materials, tips on how to effectively advocate for year-round heartworm disease prevention with clients, incentives for pet owners, and access to information and tools to measure overall clinic progress. To learn more about 12.12.12 and take the pledge, visit join121212.com. | https://todaysveterinarypractice.com/news/todays-veterinary-news-the-latest-news-in-veterinary-medicine-10/ |
Students are expected to learn more about who the Arapaho people in Wyoming are and how they came to live on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Standards
Click here to see a spreadsheet aligning Wyoming State Social Studies and Common Core Standards for this and other digital toolkits of Wyoming History.
Length
2 45-Minute Class Periods or
1 90-Minute Class Period
Materials Required
- Wyoming PBS 9:03 video: Who are the Northern Arapaho?
- Reading, attached below: “The Arapaho People,” or see a version on the St. Stephens Indian Mission website.
- Northern Arapaho Tribe website
- Resource 1: Map showing Arapaho lands outlined in 1851 treaty.
- Resource 2 : Map showing Shoshone Reservation, where Arapaho came to live in 1878.
Lesson Plan
Introduction
The lesson plan will give students a greater understanding of the Arapaho people in Wyoming. Students will learn some history, including how and why Arapahos settled here, and how the Arapahos have been surviving in Wyoming.
Plan
- Students will watch the short video, “Who are the Arapaho people? Teacher will have a short discussion and answer any questions about the video.
- Students will read the article “The Arapaho People.”
- Students will explore the Arapaho Tribe website. (Hint: don’t miss the story of the white man and the ducks).
- Students will write one short ½ page summary for the video, and one for the article.
- Using the map resources, students will hand draw two maps, one of the Arapaho original homeland, and one of where Arapahos live today.
Closure
Closure/review/assessment options
Review:
Students will write a short synopsis of what they have learned about the Arapaho people from the beginning of their lesson to the present time.
Evaluation:
Answer short essay questions;
- Who are the Arapaho people?
- How many businesses does the Arapaho tribe own?
- Where do the Arapaho people live?
Reading
The Arapaho People
The story of the Arapaho is similar to the stories of many Indian tribes across this vast continent. When the whites first began their westward expansion their numbers were not threatening to the Indians but as the volume grew, a domino effect eventually pushed the Arapaho in the late 1700s west from their territory along the Red River in northern Minnesota to the central plains.
“Permit us to dwell for a long time on these beautiful prairie lands.”
When Chief Medicine Man expressed this hope to government officials in the 1850s, the Arapaho still followed traditional ways, camping along the foothills in the winter, roaming the plains to hunt buffalo in the spring. But each year, more and more immigrants, explorers and soldiers were coming to the plains, and Medicine Man saw their coming as a sign of danger to the Arapaho land.
That land covered a vast section of the central plains, from the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains across today’s eastern Colorado, western Kansas, southern Wyoming and a strip of southern Nebraska. Known as the land between the two rivers (the Platte and Arkansas), it stretched towards the mountains like a great, dried seabed, parched in the summer sun and buried in the winter by snow.
By the 1830s, the Arapaho found themselves sharing this land with the Cheyenne, who had come south to trade at Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas River and, after encountering the large buffalo herds, decided to stay. The Arapaho did not resent Cheyenne in the area. In fact, as the “businessmen of the plains,” they probably welcomed the opportunity to trade with Cheyenne villages.
At any rate, the two tribes staked out different locations, with the Cheyenne camping on the plains and the Arapaho living in the foothills of the front range. They especially liked the Estes Park area of what’s now Colorado and the North and South parks where buffalo was plentiful. Although Lakota and Pawnee hunting parties made frequent trips to the central plains, other tribes, as well as a few white traders traipsing through the area, recognized that the land between the two rivers belonged to the Arapaho and Cheyenne.
With the exception of those few traders, including William and Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain who established Bent’s Fort in 1833, the Indians had the central plains to themselves. Whites did not begin arriving in large numbers until 1843 when 1,000 immigrants on their way to the Northwest followed the Oregon Trail, which ran along the Platte and North Platte rivers. Within the next few years, thousands of Mormons followed Brigham Young into Utah along the Mormon Trail on a similar route. Colonel John C. Fremont led exploration parties up and down the plains, and the Army of the West, under Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny, marched down the Santa Fe Trail to the Mexican War.
By 1849 and 1850, the steady stream of whites turned into a deluge as up to 50,000 goldseekers, bound for the California gold rush, crossed the plains each year…more goldseekers than the entire population of Plains Indians, which was then estimated at 40,000.
Like the immigrants, explorers and soldiers before, the goldseekers trampled the wild grass, killed the buffalo, wasting most of the meat and skins, and dispersed the large herds. Thomas Fitzpatrick, the first government agent to the Arapahos, Cheyennes and Lakota Sioux, complained to Washington that “the immense emigration traveling through Indian country for the past two years has desolated and impoverished it to an enormous extent.”
Conflicts were inevitable between the white newcomers and the Indians who saw both their land and buffalo in danger. In an attempt to head off serious problems, the government called a treaty council with the Plains Indians at Fort Laramie in late summer, 1851. Judging by the number of Indians who came to the council – 10,000 Arapahos, Cheyennes, Sioux, Assiniboines, Arikara, Gros Ventres, Crows and Shoshoni – they were as anxious as the government to reach an agreement on the rights and obligations of different peoples on the plains.
Before the council could get underway, however, tens of thousands of Indian ponies had eaten their way through the grasslands near the fort, causing Commissioner D. D. Mitchell to move the council site to Horse Creek, thirty-seven miles away. On September 15, following three weeks of meetings, the leading men of the plains tribes signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the first treaty between the Plains Indians and the United States government; the most important document in the history of Indian-white relations on the plains.
In the treaty, the government acknowledged Indian ownership of the plains, even specifying which land belonged to each tribe. Expressing the optimistic note as the council ended, Father De Smet wrote: “In future, peaceable citizens may cross the desert unmolested, and the Indian will have little to dread from the bad white man, for justice will be rendered to him.”
Despite such optimism, whites continued to slaughter the buffalo, destroy the grassland and introduce diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and whooping cough that devastated the tribes. Treaties came and went; the whites came and came and the Indians simply went. For years the Northern Arapaho wandered the plains; a people without a country.
By 1876, with the land gone to whites and no reservation to settle on, the Northern Arapaho again met with government officials. By this time, the government no longer regarded the tribes as nations with whom treaties had to be made. Instead, an “agreement” was reached in which the Northern Arapahos, Cheyennes, and Lakota Sioux waived all claim to any lands and promised to settle on reservations set out by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
Again, Northern Arapaho Chiefs Black Coal, Little Wolf, and Sharp Nose signed the agreement, not wanting to forfeit rations their people needed to stay alive. But instead of going to the reservations, they kept pressing the government for a separate reservation in Wyoming. Finally, after Northern Arapaho warriors worked as Army scouts in 1876 and 1877, the government allowed the tribe to remain in Wyoming Territory.
Based on government promises, the tribe hoped to move to the Powder River Country on their own reservation. Instead, they were settled “temporarily” on the Shoshone Reservation in 1878. Eight years later, government agent Sanderson Martin informed them the government had no intention of forming a separate reservation near the Powder River. The Northern Arapaho were on the Shoshone reservation to stay.
In those eight years, the tribe settled in two large camps, ten miles apart, along the Little Wind River, whilst a third group, under Chief Black Coal, lived near the forks of the Popo Agie and Wind River close to the St. Stephens Indian Mission. On this new land, they worked to establish the farms and ranches that can still be seen today.
Not until 1937, when the government agreed to pay $4.2 million dollars to the Shoshone tribe for reservation land given to the Northern Arapaho, could the Northern Arapaho people feel secure that this new and beautiful land at the base of the Wind River Mountains was finally home.
TEACHERS:
For more background see these articles on the Arapaho on WyoHistory.org:
- Separate Lands for Separate Tribes: The Horse Creek Treaty of 1851
- Peace, War, Land and a Funeral: The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
- The Arapaho Arrive: Two Nations on One Reservation
For many more Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone learning objectives, lesson plans, videos and other resources, visit Wyoming PBS's Native American Studies page at https://wyoming.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/native-american-studies/.
Resource 1: Treaty Lands Map
This map shows the lands promised jointly to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, lands reserved for the Eastern Shoshone in the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1863, and the Shoshone Reservation—later called the Wind River Reservation—to which the Northern Arapaho were moved in 1878.
Resource 2: Shoshone Reservation Map
This map shows the Shoshone Reservation at the time the Northern Arapaho arrived in 1878.
By then, the Eastern Shoshone had already sold the southern third of the reservation outlined for them in the treaty they had signed at Fort Bridger in 1868. In 1937, the name was changed to Wind River Reservation. | https://www.wyohistory.org/education/toolkit/who-are-northern-arapaho-people |
The University of Maine at Fort Kent theatre will preview its fall production, Jane Martin’s “Talking With…” with performances planned for Thursday, November 15, Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17. Performances will begin at 7:00 p.m. onstage of the Fox Auditorium.
Admission for the performance is free for UMFK students, adult admission is $3 and student’s kindergarten through grade 12 is $1.
“Talking With…” is a series of monologues for women. Each monologue is about five to eight minutes in length. “The range of experiences is immense,” said Zubrick. “You have quirky actresses, a rodeo rider, a snake handler, women dealing with personal loss, an expectant mother, a homeless woman who finds solace at McDonald’s, and a woman who finds a solution to her former husband’s accusation that she had been ‘unmarked by life.’”
“New, returning and former students have pitched in for this production,” said Joe Zubrick. “Last year we attempted the same show but couldn’t get a ‘critical mass’ of students who were interested and available for the planned production.”
Newcomers Meghan Kelly (Lincoln, Maine - “Rodeo”), Lauren Caswell (Woodbury, New Jersey - “Clear Glass Marbles”), Margaret Mahoney (Ashland, Maine - “French Fries”) and Kelly Kirk ( Albert Bridge, Nova Scotia - “Lamps”) join returning students Jessica Arsenault (Ellsworth, Maine - “Dragons”), Aubrie Daigle (New Canada - “Audition”), Keren Fitzherbert (Fort Kent - “Marks”) and Stephanie Drake (Eagle Lake - “15 Minutes”) and former student Julie Daigle (Cross Lake Township - “Handler”) to make up the ensemble.
“There’s still room for a few monologues,” explained Zubrick. “The play is expandable based on the number of interested actresses. The original material was developed in workshops at the Actor’s Theater in Louisville, Kentucky,” he added.
Seating in the back stage format will be limited to about 90 seats according to Zubrick. “We use the backstage environment, as we did with ‘Butley,’ to promote a sense of intimacy between the actors and the audience. It also allows the actors to experience a three quarter thrust, with the audience on three sides.”
According to Zubrick, there are plans for two possible productions this spring. “It’s been three years since we did ‘The Vagina Monologs’ as a fund raiser for the Battered Woman’s Project in Fort Kent. We’re looking to either repeat that production or do something like ‘Extremities’ for a fundraiser. In April, we are looking at possibly doing ‘Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ or a musical along the lines of Studs Turkel’s ‘Working.’” The options are open now as we consult with student sand faculty on what shows might be most appropriate. I’m leaning toward the Stoppard play (Rozencrantz and Guildenstern) because we can do it, in part, as a project for the Acting Fundamentals class this spring.”
Zubrick also mentioned the potential revival of the Brown Bag Theater Series this spring. The Brown Bags featured a variety of original scenes, improve, dance and music and were meant as casual entertainment for campus community members during their lunch breaks.
For information on any performing arts related matters, please contact Joe Zubrick at [email protected] or by phone at 834-7591. | https://www.umfk.edu/valleyvision/november-5-2007-umfk-theatre-prepares-fall-performance-plans-spring-productions/ |
The Center for Community Engagement (CCE)'s mission is to ensure that students who graduate from Amherst are prepared to be effective, engaged citizens. It provides students with opportunities to engage the world in sustained, collaborative, reflective and meaningful ways that are a central element of their liberal arts education. With the support of the CCE, students at Amherst develop skills, innovate, intern, learn and grow through a range of signature programs. The CCE works locally, nationally and globally to create spaces for mutually beneficial relationships between faculty, students and community partners.
The CCE offers a number of core programs, including Engagement Advisors, student leadership development, community partnerships, the Community Engagement Orientation Trip, internships and innovation. The CCE supports engagement initiatives across campus as well, most notably faculty scholarship, community-based learning courses and the Athletics department community engagement initiative.
The CCE is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Please visit! All are welcome.
Sarah Barr is the director of the CCE. She works closely with the CCE staff to implement the CCE’s programs and long-term strategy of enriching the liberal arts education at Amherst College.
Zoë Jacobs is the assistant director of the CCE. She manages the Center’s budget and financial records, supervises the student office staff, provides vital administrative support to many of the Center’s programs and coordinates the Engagement Advisors.
Karen Miller is the associate director and director of leadership programs. She runs student development programs, including the Community Engagement Leader Program and the Community Engagement Orientation Trip. She works to ensure that students have the range of skills they need to engage effectively in communities in and around Amherst. | https://www.amherst.edu/mm/77048/cce |
When the Kentucky legislature adjourned sine die on April 15, 2010, House Bill 397, the Kentucky Science Education and Intellectual Freedom Act, died in committee. Modeled on the Louisiana Science Education Act (Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:285.1), HB 397 would, if enacted, have allowed teachers to "use, as permitted by the local school board, other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner, including but not limited to the study of evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning." A minor novelty in the bill was the phrase "advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories," a variation on the familiar "strengths and weaknesses" and "evidence for and evidence against" rhetoric. Kentucky is apparently unique in having a statute (PDF; Kentucky Revised Statutes 158.177) on the books that authorizes teachers to teach "the theory of creation as presented in the Bible" and to "read such passages in the Bible as are deemed necessary for instruction on the theory of creation."
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Warner Bros. and DC films are opting to not move forward with the planned New Gods and The Trench films.
“As part of our DC slate, some legacy development titles including New Gods and The Trench will not be moving forward,” Warner Bros. and DC said in a statement. “We thank our partners Ava DuVernay, Tom King, James Wan, and Peter Safran for their time and collaboration during this process and look forward to our continued partnership with them on other DC stories. The projects will remain in their skillful hands if they were to move forward in the future,” Warner Bros. said in a statement.
New Gods was in development with Ava DuVernay set to direct and co-write with Tom King. DuVernay is still working with Warner Bros. and DC on the TV projects of DMZ and Naomi.
Tom, I loved writing NEW GODS with you. I’m upset that the saga of Barda, Scott, Granny, Highfather and The Furies ends this way. Diving into Kirby’s Fourth World was the adventure of a lifetime. That can’t be taken away. Thank you for your friendship. And remember… #DarkseidIs pic.twitter.com/XyyIjcB8Wv
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) April 1, 2021
The Trench was set to be a horror film spinoff from Aquaman. Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald wrote the script, while James Wan and Peter Safran were producing. Wan remains set to direct Aquaman 2.
While the projects are dead for now, that doesn’t mean they are dead forever. While The Trench seems somewhat unlikely at this juncture, the idea that the New Gods will never be touched as a film seems highly unlikely.
Upcoming DC films that are either in pre or post-production include The Batman, The Flash, Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and more. | https://batman-news.com/2021/04/01/new-gods-and-the-trench-canceled-at-warner-bros/ |
Pine River Institute (PRI) is a residential treatment program for youth 13-19 dealing with addictive behaviour and often concurrent mental health issues. We are a family-centered program where wilderness, therapeutic, and academic programs come together in a unique, integrated treatment and education model. PRI’s treatment approach is grounded in enhancing adolescent development and maturation. The PRI program is unique in Canada. PRI’s residential beds are funded primarily by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The organization is staffed by highly competent clinicians. Ongoing evaluation and outcome analysis is built in to PRI’s vision and mission and PRI has acquired a solid reputation in these areas.
This full time position works in Algonquin Park and requires two days per month on campus in Horning’s Mills, Ontario.
Position Overview:
Reporting directly to the Clinical Director, the OLE Therapist is responsible to
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide individual therapy within a personal caseload as required
* Serve as a liason for parents whose children are in the wilderness, providing weekly phone support and written updates to parents within 48 hours of each clinical session with the student.
* Provide on-call back-up to the wilderness team as part of a rotating schedule, as determined by the Program Manager.
* Collect weekly and daily progress notes from field staff, and use this information as part of the OLE Summary Report.
* Prepare, ideally within a few days of transfer to the school, an Outdoor Leadership Experience Summary Report which provides background information on the student, summarizes his/her behaviours and experiences while in the wilderness, identifies any areas of emotional concern and noted areas of strength, as well as offering treatment recommendations for continued progress at the school.
* Supervise, train and support field staff and the Program Manager regarding the emotional and behavioural management of students in the wilderness.
* Assist as a resource in the provision of professional development activities for OLE Field Staff
* Contribute as part of the senior clinical team to ensure the therapeutic goals of the program in general and the individual therapeutic plan for the students and their families are realized.
* In collaboration with the Senior Team, ensure the alignment of each student’s individual program with the overall therapeutic and academic objectives, values and philosophy of the school.
* Organize, lead and participate in student academic, recreational and therapeutic activities as required.
* On-call responsibilities as assigned.
* Required to attend at least 1 staff meeting per month.
* Face to face contact with all OLE students on a weekly basis requiring 1-2 overnights per week in the field.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
Interested candidates should apply to Gayle Dennison. Manager Human Resources in writing to [email protected] by February 28, 2015. | http://www.jobtrekker.ca/jobs/therapist-outdoor-leadership-experience-3/ |
KIOTI Development and Training
KIOTI believes that employees are a key source of business success. Training employees to be the best they can be is the underlying strength of great organizations. KIOTI continues to research training programs that engage values as well as methods. From programs that will enhance job specific skills for professional growth to programs that allow for personal growth to build better internal communications. | http://www.kioti.com/about-us/careers/development-training/ |
Due to strong inorganic growth in the last 3 years a medium-sized, international industrial corporate group now has blurred boundaries between its business segments. The consequences of this are inefficient business units that overlap in the fields of production, distribution and service. Both management and staff demand a clear business unit structure and executable operative strategies for each.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Clarifying goals and results – using future expectations of shareholders and senior management as criteria for choice of strategy.
- Joint elaboration of market and positioning the company in this market. Core question: What exactly defines our market and how should we structure it in terms of business goals?
- Identifying past levers of success and evaluating these in relation to future needs
- Generating transparency and a cross-management understanding of current market position from four perspectives: 1. market access, 2. growth, 3. portfolio, 4. cost-benefit strategy
- Structuring and steering a process of information gathering and evaluation by the management team. Using this to lead an in-depth, thorough discussion.
- Visualising a strategy options space that includes extremes so that all relevant alternatives are considered.
- Elaborating spaces for business segment strategy options and establishing consistent overarching strategy options. Evaluating these according to company "fit" and market /profitability appeal. Choosing one option.
- Planning implementation, allocating projects and accompanying execution via intensive coaching and programme guidance.
Results
A new internalised understanding of the market in relation to market structure led to five clearly defined business segments. Business segment strategies were then aligned and unified under the umbrella of one overarching strategy. The following years saw the company growing consistently. The execution of operative strategies for each business segment was so successful that conflict and misunderstandings at management level were kept to a minimum and cooperation throughout the company was greatly improved.
Business unit reorientation – from “red” to 15% EBIT
Client challenge
One of the world's biggest suppliers of customised, production-optimised concepts to the automotive industry took over a competitor. The integration of this new company into a specialised branch of the business that was only making 4% EBIT was seen as a chance to become technological and market leader in a very attractive niche market.
Despite the high value and the resilience of the technology in question, the strategy was not successfully implemented. The business segment turned in a loss of 10% over two years. It was necessary to make a clear decision about the future of the segment. The uncertainty that had taken hold at senior management level about whether to sell, invest or form an integrative synergy had to be addressed.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Developing detailed and attractive options for the alignment of this business segment. Elaborating a wide horizon of alternatives for senior management.
- Generating alternatives based on customer, competition and resource consideration.
- Developing various scenarios (competitors, industry structure and technology).
- Using EIDOS®, tool-supported simulation checks of attractivity and robustness of the various strategy options.
- The introduction of the change process was undertaken together with senior management and by skillfully including all those concerned.
- A strategic decision was made on the basis of in-depth, thorough simulation techniques, and about which senior management felt secure and certain.
- A high level of certainty was reached amongst all those concerned due to a transparent, sustainable and well-documented process.
Results
The EXECUTIVE method Smart Strategizing®; made complexity manageable. Clarity was established, including alternatives to the obvious courses of action. An alternative for future business focus was found that incorporated a high degree of decision-making certainty. To ensure profitability, the business segment was reduced to a purely technological one with the option of "having another oar in" at a later date. The deficits in the segment's marketing and distribution activities were not tackled but stopped altogether. After approx. 10 months the segment was reconstructed through professional investment when it became clear that the technology was competitive and reaching a high level of maturity. The structure that was then developed in the fields of marketing and distribution led, within 14 months, to this segment becoming the market leader of a niche market.
Mastering the art of strategy implementation
Client challenge
A business segment belonging to an internationally operating industrial corporation was to be strategically realigned according to customer needs. Our client had previously already developed their own strategy, including mission statement and execution plan. Despite the need for speedy action due to economic pressure, implementation and execution never took off. Individual business unit managers were not acting in concert. Strategy frustration was spreading and there was a danger of stagnation and losing competitive ground. Senior managers wanted to avoid this at all costs.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- A robustness check was carried out to counteract the fear that the strategy was wrong or bad. This found the strategy to be reliable and attractive.
- A systemantic middle management survey of people's understanding of the strategy and the actions that should follow on from it found that at this level there were many different interpretations. These ranged from complete incomprehension to concrete but completely different goal expectations.
- It was therefore necessary to start at two different levels - the why and the how: Why this strategy, why not another one? How are we going to do it?
- Using a well thought out communication mechanism all managers were confronted with a cause-and-effect model that not only presented possible consequences of different strategies, but also why the current strategy had been chosen. A broad and authentic understanding of the strategy was reached.
- Naturally, different managers had different interpretations and drew differing consequences from the strategy. To counteract this, internal programme management was used to systematically collect, specify and synchronise the interpretations and differing consequences.
- A specified structure was used to help managers strategically describe individual pieces of the puzzle and to elaborate these pieces into business segment concepts using a specified method.
- The pieces of the puzzle were fitted together during individual sessions and collective synchronisation workshops. The outcome was a concrete, detailed and coherent overview that fitted the abstract version of the overall strategy perfectly.
- The why-level questions were thus answered. Clear and relevant answers were found to the question of "Why are we striving for this alignment and what does this entail for each business unit?"
- On the next level of questions, the how level, it was important to regulate and ensure the avenues, means and resources for the implementation of each business unit strategy. Senior management recognised that it was not possible to "just" implement the strategy in tandem with day-to-day business.
- Using a specified structure, each unit manager presented how to overcome the "strategy gap" and how to move his unit from the current to the target state. This included specifying what was needed to achieve the goal and how this could be interlinked with the other segments.
Results
All in all, this process led to an implementation plan that everyone agreed on and that included the appropriate resources and means for the responsible unit managers. These managers now found themselves in the position of actually being able to implement the strategy and rely on a sense of solidarity between them. The result was as an efficient process to close the "strategy gap", strategy implementation and ensure long-term competitive advantages for the company.
Successful safeguarding of growth thanks to strategic reorientation
Client challenge
In order to continue being successful and to grow at a rate of 10% p.a. one of Europe's biggest webmasters needed to identify new, attractive business segments and to position itself in accordance with these.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- By means of structured scenario work, 35 potential new business segments were identified with the directors of the company.
- By developing mega-trend, industry and competition scenarios these business segments were examined according to their market attractivity and capacity. During this process the long list was whittled down to a short list of 14 segments.
- Establishing future models based on product portfolio, added value and market access for these segments, enabled a list of 6 final candidates to be drawn up.
- Using expertise and sourcing models, 3 business segments were identified that were found to be very attractive for the company.
Results
Three new business segments were launched. Each segment had its own segment strategy with a clear business case and a concrete and detailed implementation and market access strategy covering a two-year period. The business segments were launched with a total investment volume of EUR 23 million and reached an average EBIT performance of 28% after only two years. As potential new star business segments they also provided security for the future of the entire company.
Increased productivity (approx. 25%) thanks to greater process intelligence
Client challenge
Due to organic and non-organic growth an unnecessarily high level of process complexity occurred at a leading group of international companies working in the field of Human Resources. This led to a decrease in profitability, even though overall growth figures were not yet affected.
It was necessary to improve the situation and boost the growth of the group by virtue of a boost to its M&A capacity. This was done by reducing unnecessary complexity and increasing process intelligence through optimised processes and maximisation of standardised, automated processes.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Devising a "question model" comprising core and key questions in order to ensure result orientation throughout.
- The first step was to avoid a "wide-ranging" process analysis.
- Instead, using various complexity tools, "32 quick wins" were identified that would have a noticeable effect without having to invest much time and effort.
- This "thread" was drawn up and focused until the first results began to materialise.
- Not until after this was a parallel thread set up to examine the potentially biggest levers for change. No detailed process analysis too place here, either. Using cause-and-effect networks, 12 optimisation strategies were chosen from a possible 200.
- The necessary detailed analyses then took place looking at these 12 optimisation levers and the processes and systems that follow on from each.
- During this process four of the twelve turned out to be not very attractive and were subsequently abandoned.
- The other 8 levers were addressed: detailed process analyses, opimisation and systems automisation were launched.
Results
Having invested 0.6m EUR in consultancy, 2.3m EUR in detailed process revision and system implementation, and with a turnover of 0.6 billion EUR, profitability went up by 2%. Also, the business was able to integrate acquisitions in 30% of the time in comparison to the past.
Market penetration thanks to innovative market entry strategies
Client challenge
A leading German power company needed to clarify if, at what point and in what field it should engage in alternative forms of energy. The possible business segments needed to be investigated and potential market-access opportunities identified.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Establishing trends and scenarios for the following: creation of added value, industry structure, technology, competition.
- Identification of consistent and possible developments from opposite ends of the spectrum.
- Development of a strategic options portfolio from the company's point of view and from the point of view of scenarios.
- Simulation and evaluation of various options. Assessment of market attractivity and of company fit i.e. how well does each option suit the company in terms of know-how, risk, culture, effort involved etc.
- This led to a short list of 4 very specific target markets. Evaluating these markets for their value-added opportunities.
- Using complexity tools, innovative, out-of-the-ordinary approaches were developed to ensure a skilful and successful market entry.
- These approaches included cutting-edge partnership models as well as innovative product development and marketing concepts.
Results
Working together with our client we succeeded in turning a hitherto unknown quantity, the future, into something tangible and calculable. From a sheer endless number of possibilties we distilled a handful of attractive target markets and market entry strategies. Two of these were completely new, and the one that was deemed the best at the beginning, was not even on the short list any more. Not only were true insights gained, but the business was put on track in a way that, years later, was still valid.
Increased competitiveness thanks to “rediscovered” customer orientation
Client challenge
Due to increasing competition and almost total market saturation, a leading insurance company and financial services provider needed to go on a "process cleansing diet". The company needed to refocus from the inside out i.e. on the customer. A crucial factor for success was increased customer loyalty and customer satisfaction.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Together with our client, five decisive factors across the company were filtered out from a large number and identified as important levers to increase customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
- All relevant processes from administration to core business segments were examined in relation to these five central factors. The result was that 28 processes were identified as either being decisive for success or a hindrance.
- At the same it was necessary to analyse each process and find the 3-5 aspects that created the most work and how these related to the five factors.
- On this basis it was possible to perform "process cleansing". Unnecessary work was identified and eliminated – earmarked as "not necessary" or "to be left".
- Following this, the cause-and-effect web of these processes was analysed. This meant analysing the aspects that created the most work as well as the levers relevant to customer perception and customer loyalty, and using the information to formulate 8 key measures.
- These measures were than planned out and implemented through support and coaching for our client.
Results
After the first "phase of confusion", which lasted for approx. 3 months, employees felt the burden of work easing due to the "process cleansing diet" which brought initial success and a sense of achievement. Following this, 6 bigger measures could be launched. These were closely bound with important changes in roles and responsibilities as well as leadership and management style.
After first having caused a "dip", these measures took 16 months to clearly improve customer perception. The company's competitive position was strengthened and profitability increased.
Complexity reduction
Client challenge
The family owners and the management of a traditional family-run industrial company were under the impression that in many segments things were more complicated than necessary. This led to the perception that the company could be more efficient and innovative in certain fields. It was their wish to find out, if this was the case or not, and if so, in what way. In which cases was internal complexity too high i.e. higher than was necessary according to structures and processes inherent in the market and the business? And what was negatively affected by this?
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Four workshops were held using workshop architecture to create an overview of the entire value-added chain of the company and draw up a drivers <-> effects list.
- Answering the central question: Which symptoms are causing the perception that things are too complicated and unnecessary?
- The interconnectivity of these factors was revealed and possible causes (drivers) were identified and worked in. Direct and indirect effects and drivers were thus completely integrated into this field of connectivity.
- The evaluation of this interconnected field showed clearly that the most important negative effects of unnecessary complexity were located at the interface product development <-> distribution and in customer service.
- Further workshops were carried out to deepen understanding of these issues by focusing on the insights already gained. Seven key levers were identified. One option was opened up for each lever and possible measures were added. Following this, an intelligent (consistent) mix of measures was established and planned.
- Implementation was supported by EXECUTIVE by carrying out sparring and project management coaching.
Results
The important drivers of unnecessary complexity were identified and addressed with a mix of seven measures. Due to the preceding pragmatic connectivity workshops, which were carried out on the basis of subjective evaluations and opinions (avoiding time-consuming analysis), this process was wrapped up within 4 weeks. The measures were wrapped up 8 weeks later. Unnecessary complexity in all relevant core segments of the business was eliminated, enabling a focus on essentials.
Revolutionising market exploitation by means of an innovative product strategy
Client challenge
A service sector company underwent multiple mergers a few years ago. The product strategy of the original company was implicitly transferred to the new companies, but the history of these companies was never fully taken into account. Despite common guidelines and principles, product portfolios developed heterogeneously, so that cross-company product support failed due to differences in process and IT. Inefficient market access and inadequate use of synergies were the consequences of this.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- In conjunction with the client we began by simplifying unnecessary complexities until we arrived at a clear, simple and understandable structuring of business units.
- Part of this process involved eliminating preconceived notions like: "We do things differently, you can't do that here."
- We arrived at a common, reliable understanding of company "boundaries" in relation to product strategy. The next step was to transform these boundaries into product strategy guidelines.
- With our support, rules and guidelines were elaborated: roles, committees, responsibilities, processes. These enabled continuous and efficient means of assessing individual business segment product strategies in relation to company product strategy.
- Relevant information and mechanisms were demonstrated in a "product strategy poster": What is regulated by the company? What is regulated differently by which business segment? How is cooperation regulated? Everything was simply and clearly illustrated in the poster.
- In order to anchor these rules and guidelines in the day-to-day business of the company, coaching and sparring sessions took place.
Results
It took three months to formulate a coherent company product strategy and individual business segment strategies and then to have them confirmed and validated by everyone concerned. The effect of the poster was to create management clarity. After another 10 months the mechanisms were functioning smoothly. Everyone was familiar with the details of the poster and productive product management was taking place. Not only were synergies in product development as well as cross und upselling potential being deployed differently, but there were also a number of surprise developments. Product innovation and new market access ideas came to the fore and in the following two years important competitive advantages were gained.
Identifying company potential by means of a strategy assessment
Client challenge
An internationally successful assembly business wished to submit its growth strategy to a health check. The current strategy had been formulated during a period of strong growth and the company structure was organised according to this. A strategy assessment was to be carried out to evaluate the robustness of the strategy in view of future market developments and scenarios, and to sharpen business segment strategies.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Supervising and organising the collection and structuring of the necessary information (primary and secondary).
- Preparing so-called strategy assessment structures.
- Evaluating possible future developments of key influencing factors. This was done within the framework of moderated workshops on the basis of market studies and long-standing experience.
- Conducting an impact analysis on the current strategy, including an evaluation of potential opportunities and risks.
- Strategy potential was derived from this.
Results
The strategy assessment was carried out using tool-supported methodology (EIDOS®). It lead to a clear confirmation of the existing strategy. It also led to specifications concerning company branches in BRIC countries and provided management with two new attractive add-on business models. One of these was successfully implemented in the following three years.
Working backwards – Optimised order processing
Client challenge
Due to extraordinarily successfully sales, a rise in sales volume as well as a simultaneous reorganisation of the control system, order processing at an international industrial corporation was negatively affected. Processing time increased, supply deadlines were not met and process costs went up along the length of the supply chain. In order to sustain further growth without overworking employees, processes needed to be transparent, clearly structured and streamlined. Also, process costs needed to decrease.
EXECUTIVE's role and task
- Linking individual specific processes relating to order processing with a standardised procedure. This should guarantee flexibility, efficiency and quality during the whole process. A comprehensive, process-oriented approach was therefore put in place to optimise order processing. Demands and spheres of activity were taken into consideration and placed in a holistic context.
- Transparency was established by a structured definition of the whole process. This formed the basis of effective and efficient order processing. It also included the creation of process structures and the introduction of process goals.
- Definition of interfaces, of objects for transferral, and of responsibilities. Also at this point: recognising, taking into account and addressing potential for optimisation. Rectifying process disruptions and achieving improvements in process times, costs and quality.
- Continuous and comprehensive optimisation of the whole process incorporating the remaining organisational adjustments. Creating the foundation of future process management. The remaining optimisation potential was sytematically implemented and processes were designed to be sustainable, effective, efficient and flexible.
Results
Order processing was systematically structured and inter-departmental processes were optimised. Process costs and order processing times were reduced, and supply deadlines were met. Process disruptions, that were the result of lack of transparency in responsibilities, were eliminated.
Turning “IT” into a business enabler
Client challenges
In order to achieve its growth targets, one of the big players in the manufacture of lorries wanted to remove brakes and blocks in IT. Insufficient standardisation and a heterogeneous architecture of systems as well as inconsistent IT process design, made growth and synergies that went beyond company and national borders difficult to impossible.
EXECUTIVE's role and tasks
- Development of a set of rules and guidelines in conjunction with the relevant IT regions (production locations and distribution regions). This would ensure long-term strategy development. IT governance had as its motto: standardisation, reduction of complexity and mastering growth.
- Providing the appropriate governance method and support for the coordination of strategy development and the architectural framework.
- Managing the roadmap and innovations that were developed together as well as evaluating the strategic portfolio.
- Supporting central IT governance with the IT strategy geared to the business segments and with its implementation. This was carried out in the form of strategic measures within the framework of a well-anchored strategy rollout.
- Stabilising governance concerns by setting up judiciously-staffed committees that ensure and regulate strategy development.
Results
IT governance is characterised by IT development that is consistent on a worldwide basis and that has identical processes to make it a flexible enabler of growth. In the space of three years this ensured growth, reduced complexity and created important synergies.
Increased productivity by means of a consistent project culture
Client challenges
Our client was the privatised logistics business of the Armed Forces. During the foundation of the company many projects were initiated whose coordination and implementation was to be carried out by a project office. This necessitated the establishment of a project office as part of the organisation and the introduction of project portfolio management. Additionally, the project managers were to receive continuous schooling and professional training.
EXECUTIVE's role and tasks
- Using established project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2) to set up the project office as location for central project coordination.
- Establishing the project office as advisory authority on all methodological questions relating to project implementation.
- Training existing project managers how to handle project management for the projects under administration in the project office. This included the evaluation of documents that were handed in (project requests, status reports), documentation of results, the assessment of project requests and suggestions of measures, as well as formulating recommendations.
- Providing schooling in how to coordinate interconnected projects, how to plan, hold and evaluate negotiations, how to train project leaders and those responsible as well as how to systematically support project leaders in their project responsibilities (training on the job).
- Implementing quality control measures. Determining what norms are to be used for project documentation and providing support to set up project risk management.
Results
Information about all planned or ongoing activities could be collated and processed in the central project office. This enabled quick reactions in problem cases and tasks that were doubled, which, in turn, led to an improvement in efficiency.
Consistent project management methodology and the establishment of a structured mode of operation ensured that there is now always a current overview of projects and their progress. It also enables quicker reactions if there is a problem with deadlines, resources or costs. | http://www.executive.de/en/client-results/case-studies/ |
I’ve noticed a trend when I step out of yoga class.
It happens right after we bow, nod, namaste, thank the instructor, roll up the mats, and look to each other in collective gratefulness, in celebration for whatever it was that brought us to our practice.
We all move in unison to the lockers. And we all pick up our phones—immediately.
Whatever positivity was there before, disappears.
Back to reality—with a bump.
Self-care is a lifestyle. It involves exercise, meditation, eating well. We are motivated by fulfilling plans and intentions. And when we’re looking after ourselves, we are at our most mindful and inquisitive, exploring what we want to achieve and what we need to implement or re-arrange to reach it.
Work harder. Get fitter. Meditate more. Quit vices.
We have the best, most positive, and most enthusiastic intentions—until we see an article we want to read on Facebook or discover an intriguing Instagram account. Before we know it, we’re days behind on our to-do list, and we’ve lost the time we’d put aside for cultivating our dream lives.
And then we feel bad—ashamed, even.
How can I be the person who smashes goals if I can’t even get off the internet?
Ultimately, we ignore the problem, because we’re scared to admit that social media can even be a problem. How could it be? It’s something that seems so trivial—just a daily part of life. We believe that digital dependence affects only the weakest of individuals.
Cue more shame.
It’s not like I can change it, anyway, we think. I have work and a social life, and they both that depend on it.
That’s how we justify and rationalize it in our heads when we end up here again a few nights later at 2 a.m., bleary-eyed, with a sore, scrolled-out thumb, lamenting the distance between us and everything we said we’d do this week, this month, this year.
If it was any other kind of dependence, perhaps we’d accept we had a problem, make some changes, address and examine the behaviour, seek guidance, ask for help. But for some reason, digital dependence doesn’t merit that response. We ignore it.
It’s not a real problem. It’s just a part of life. We all do it.
Engaging with technology triggers dopamine, the feel-good receptors in the brain; the same instantaneous chemical responses we get from other addictive substances or activities like alcohol or gambling. Yet, despite the scientific facts and the severity of its negative impact, we’ve neglected our digital health and not taken it seriously.
Until now.
It’s time for a new resolution that underpins and supports all of the goals we set for ourselves, whether in social, professional, or personal development. Let’s create a positive relationship with technology that empowers us to make a meaningful and positive impact in the real world. Let’s make digital mindfulness central to our wellbeing.
What is digital mindfulness?
It’s an awareness of our relationship with our digital world, achieved by using mindfulness techniques: focusing on the present moment and noticing our feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. It’s noticing and accepting, without judgment, that our relationship with technology may make us feel both good and bad—and that’s okay.
Digital mindfulness involves no detoxes, no deactivations, or other short-term fixes. It’s a commitment to uncover and maintain a meaningful and purpose-driven relationship with our technology.
The key here is not to disconnect. It’s to reconnect. Not to ignore when our digital behaviour makes us feel sad or ashamed, but to acknowledge it. Not to take the wonder of what the Internet can offer us for granted, but to be grateful for the potential gold dust it can offer.
So, how do we get started?
We’re going to take personal responsibility, make smart choices, ignite our creativity, and put in the effort to create microscopic shifts in our digital behaviour that lead to big changes in all areas of our lives. We’re going to put time aside, as we do for healthy eating and exercise, to work on building a relationship with the digital world that enhances our lives.
Without judgement, observe the part of you that gets lost in scroll holes. When are you procrastinating, disconnecting, comparing yourself to others, and numbing? When are you inspired, motivated, educated, and entertained? Schedule the space to sit with these thoughts and feelings. It’s time to ask:
What is this scrolling giving me? What is it telling me about my relationship with myself, others, and my environment?
If we take control and examine how it impacts us and those around us, we can ensure that technology becomes and remains a supportive part of our lives, with the ability to elevate our physical, mental, and spiritual selves.
Particularly for Millennials and members of Generation Z—the generations who grew up alongside smartphones and social media—there is a strong need for support around the management of our digital health. Technology isn’t going anywhere, and the rise of wearables and mixed reality means it will become more ubiquitous.
This year and beyond, the smart, healthy, and productive thing to do is to take control of our digital lives through the lens of mindfulness. | https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/09/you-cant-be-mindful-without-being-aware-of-this-one-behaviour/ |
Distribution network expansion planning (DNEP) aims at minimizing the capital and operational cost of the expansion plan; the plan entails choosing conductor types and line construction routes together with substation installation and reinforcement that allow serving the demand while satisfying the physical and technical constraints of the expanded network. Two findings are reported in this paper. First, DNEP can be exactly formulated as a disjunctive conic program, in two equivalent formulations; both formulations admit a tight polyhedral approximation and can be solved for the globally optimal solution using software for mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). Second, the DNEP solution can be computed more efficiently when the linear relaxations of the MILP formulations are strengthened using loop elimination constraints. Numerical results on practical DNEP problems reveal that combining the parallel equivalent-circuit polyhedral formulation with the spanning tree loop elimination constraints yields MILP planning solutions with a tight relative optimality gap and within reasonable computing time. In addition, the results are at least of the same quality if not better than those reported in the recent literature. © 2012 IEEE. | https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/handle/10938/14493 |
MSc Programs in Sociology 2021 in Utrecht in Netherlands
The MSc, or Master of Science, is a popular Master’s degree designation. Internationally recognized, the MSc is typically awarded after about five to six years of rigorous study in what is usually a science-based field.
Sociology aims to analyze and understand the various components that make up a society or civilization. Students learn how these societies are organized, as well as how they are sustained. Issues related to other humanities may also be studied.
Utrecht is famous for the presence of rich culture and prevailing Dutch traditions. All those who are interested in studying culture, arts or history, Utrecht is one of the best places to go. Institutions such as Utrecht University are well known for quality education.
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In the Master’s programme in Sociology and Social Research, you will learn to develop testable explanations of important social phenomena using state-of-the-art social theory, ...
Master in Sociology: Contemporary Social Problems
Utrecht University
You design your own track in this Master’s programme, in which you quickly and rigorously immerse yourself in your specialisation. You will learn about the state-of-the-art in ...
Master in Youth Studies
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This Master’s programme will prepare you for a career in the field of youth research, youth welfare and youth policy. By acquiring in-depth knowledge on youth issues, academic ...
Master in Youth, Education and Society
Utrecht University
This Master’s will enable you to develop yourself into an academic professional. You will learn to analyse, evaluate and solve practical problems in a theoretical and empirica ... | https://www.masterstudies.com/MSc/Sociology/Netherlands/Utrecht/amp/ |
The AI Hot Technology Innovators looks at 14 different AI technology companies, delivering a mixture of solutions to end users and developers. The report gives an insight into the disruptive potential of each company's technology and business model, at the cutting edge of the AI start-up area.
ABI Research has been impressed by a number of companies coming to the fore with what it would describe as non-traditional AI techniques outside of established machine learning – companies highlighted here using automate reasoning, and unique neural language processing are some of the most exciting challengers in the area of AI. For the moment, VC funding is being made available to an increasing number of AI companies, as market leaders for technology are still yet to emerge and the software frameworks are still in their early stages of development. However, in the next 2-3 years ABI Research expects to see early stages of consolidation, as those vendors with quality AI products emerge, and pressure from VC’s seeking ROI encourages consolidation.
Many of the companies covered in the report have just launched, some of which have the disruptive potential to sweep across many verticals, and require the attention of anyone interested in the AI space. | https://www.abiresearch.com/market-research/product/1030469-hot-tech-innovators-ai-and-ml/ |
Like a toilet, our internal flushing system requires adequate water to function properly.
Dietary fibre isn’t digested by your body, but instead travels relatively intact through the stomach and intestines, absorbing water to add bulk to stool, and helping move waste through your system.
Your digestive system is home to a wealth of different types of good bacteria that help break down and absorb food and then eliminate waste. Many factors such as taking antibiotics or oral contraceptives, stress, or inflammation can disrupt the natural gut flora leading to yeast overgrowth, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and leaky gut, all of which can cause constipation.
Constipation can be a common symptom of the general digestive mayhem related to food sensitivity as the body struggles to digest and eliminate foods that cause inflammation. Although food sensitivity can be caused by a wide range of foods, gluten and dairy are the most common culprits.
Hypothyroidism, an under-active thyroid, slows down many of the body’s systems, including elimination. For your body to eliminate waste, your colon must contract, and slow or weak colon contractions can be a symptom of hypothyroidism.
Autoimmune diseases are born when your body is working hard to defend itself against something potentially dangerous, such as an allergen, a toxin, an infection, or even a food, and it fails to differentiate between the intruder and parts of your own body. This causes your immune system to attack your own organs. Autoimmune diseases can affect many different systems in your body; they include neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson’s Disease, thyroid diseases such as Hashimoto’s, and multiple-system conditions such as Lupus. All of these diseases can cause constipation.
A more acute cause of constipation can be an obstruction in the small or large intestine that prevents stool from moving through. Common causes of intestinal obstructions are scar tissue or adhesions caused by abdominal surgery, hernias, tumours, Crohn’s disease (which can narrow or twist the intestine), or even cancer.
To keep your pipes flushing, make sure you drink enough water throughout the day. This is especially important if you drink diuretics such as coffee or alcohol.
Eating foods rich in dietary fibre is a staple for regularity, so be sure to reach for foods such as nuts, cauliflower, green beans, carrots, apples, citrus fruits, and other foods high in fibre. You can also take a fibre supplement to help you become more regular.
While you’re reaching for high-fibre foods, stay away from foods that are inflammatory, particularly gluten, dairy, corn, soy, and sugar. Since food sensitivity and inflammation triggers are unique to each person, I recommend IgG Food sensitivity test to identify your own food sensitivities.
If your gut balance has been disrupted, it’s key to restore the beneficial bacteria that keeps your gut in check. Taking probiotic supplements, such as bifidobacteria and lactobacillus species, will ensure that you have plenty of the good bacteria needed for regular bowel movements.
If you and your doctor suspect your constipation is caused by hypothyroidism, you should have your thyroid levels (including T3, FT3, and RT3) tested. If your T3 levels are low, you will want to adopt a thyroid protocol including a high-quality multivitamin, a gluten-free diet, and potentially taking a prescription thyroid medication.
Antinuclear antibodies, which are the type that typically attack your tissues instead of outside invaders, as well as more specific types of antibodies, such as thyroid antibodies, will help you uncover any underlying autoimmune conditions. Armed with this knowledge, you can halt and even reverse signs of autoimmune disease by eliminating toxic foods, introducing restorative ingredients, and identifying environmental toxins.
If you experience severe and constant belly pain with your constipation, you could be suffering from an intestinal obstruction and you should see a specialist immediately. Your physician will perform a scope to identify the obstruction to determine the next step. | http://www.four-seasons.com.au/7-common-causes-of-constipation-and-7-solutions-to-eliminate-it |
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Applicants who apply with a non-Dutch diploma must meet a number of requirements in order to be eligible for admission to our degree programmes.
VU Amsterdam reviews all applications with a non-Dutch diploma individually due to their distinctive nature. Therefore, the only way to determine whether you are eligible for admission is by submitting an official application through Studielink and providing all required documentation in the application portal of your personal VU dashboard.
Further information about the requirements and application procedure can be found on the admission requirement page for Bachelor's and Master's programmes.
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When you apply through Studielink with a non-Dutch previous education, Studielink will inform you that your diploma cannot be verified automatically. It will request you to send a certified copy of your diploma to VU Amsterdam. VU Amsterdam will verify your diploma.
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You must present the original diploma when you wish to have the copy certified. The copy can be certified by:
- The educational institution that awarded you the diploma
- VU Amsterdam Student Desk (when you wish to study at VU Amsterdam)
Please note: If your diploma is not issued in English, German, Dutch, French or Spanish, you must also submit an English translation by a sworn translator.
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What is the examination date of my previous education?
The examination date, also referred to as the ‘graduation date’, is the date stated on your diploma. This means that the examination date is not the same as the date on which you are awarded your diploma, as diplomas are often awarded after the examination date.
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Will you receive the diploma of your previous education (only) after 1 September?
A certified copy of your degree must be turned in to VU Amsterdam by 31 August (for starting date 1 September) and 15 July if you are applying for a programme that uses a selection procedure (Numerus Fixus). If you have met all the requirements to graduate before 31 August but are still waiting for the diploma certificate to be issued, alternatively you can ask your university to provide a statement of graduation.
This statement needs to state that you have met all the requirements to graduate before the 1st of September. The confirmation of graduation must be the original letter (on the institution's stationery) and signed by a competent officer, stating the officer's name and position.
The letter must state the date of issuing, the degree/diploma obtained, the official graduation date (the examination date) and the date on which you will receive your diploma. VU Amsterdam's Student Administration reserves the right to reject a statement if the document does not meet our criteria.
Do you have any questions?
Please contact the Student Desk. | https://vu.nl/en/education/more-about/questions-about-my-diploma |
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0001 The present invention relates to inorganic chemistry, and more particularly to a process for preparing nitrogen trifluoride.
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0002 Nitrogen trifluoride finds extensive application in the technology of semiconductors, high energy lasers, and chemical vapor deposition. In contrast to elemental fluorine, nitrogen fluoride is easy to transport in condensed state at a pressure of up to 75 kgf/cmand packing density of up to 600 g/l (J. Fluor. Chem., 1991, 54, No. 1-3, p.37).
0003 Industrial technologies of producing nitrogen trifluoride are based on the electrolysis of molten ammonium hydrogen fluorides and on the direct fluorination of ammonium with elemental fluorine.
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0004 The most elaborated industrial process for nitrogen trifluoride synthesis is the electrochemical synthesis of NFfrom ammonium hydrogen fluorides (Gmelin Handbook, 1986, v. 4, pp. 172-173; Handbuch der prparativen anorganishen Chemie, G. Brauer (Ed.) Moscow, Mir Publishers 1985, vol. 1, pp. 220-221 (Russian translation)).
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0005 The optimum process parameters for the electrochemical synthesis of NFare: the temperature of 100-130 C., the melt composition corresponding to NHF/HF:1.1 to 1.8, current density of from 0.05 to 0.15 A/cm. The current yield for NFis 70%.
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0006 The process of electrochemical synthesis of NFsuffers from such disadvantages as explosion hazards involved by the formation of a mixture of nitrogen trifluoride with hydrogen, the use of gaseous ammonia in the step of obtaining ammonium hydrogen fluorides. Furthermore, the implementation of this process requires large capital inputs because of using costly nickel-containing structural materials, most stable in the corrosion-active medium of molten hydrogen ammonium fluorides.
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0007 For reducing the explosion hazard presented by mixtures of nitrogen trifluoride with hydrogen, a method of electrochemical synthesis was proposed, envisaging dilution of the anode gas with nitrogen to the NFconcentration less than 9.5% (U.S. Pat. No.3,235,474, 204-63, Feb. 15, 1966). However, diluting the production gas with nitrogen adds much to the expenses for nitrogen trifluoride purification and condensation equipment.
0008 It is known from the literature, that as starting material for producing nitrogen trifluoride by the method of electrochemical fluorination it is possible to use solutions of urea and other nitrogen-containing compounds: pyridine, hydrazine, guanidine, semicarbazide in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (Z. anorg. allgem. Chem., 1969, v. 367, pp. 62-79). In accordance with this method, nitrogen trifluoride is obtained with a yield of from 16 to 38%.
0009 The chemism of the process of electrochemical fluorination of urea is described by the following equations:
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0010 The resulting electrolysis gas after alkaline purification from acid admixtures of COand COFcontained up to 10% CF. In the fluorination of pyridine the content of CFreached 34% of the volume of the obtained nitrogen trifluoride. This circumstance substantially complicates NFpurification, since it is difficult to separate NFfrom carbon tetrafluoride. As it follows from the chemism of the process, represented by equations (1) and (2), in the process of electrochemical fluorination there is formed in total at least (with the 100% yield of NF) 0.5 mole of such admixtures as CO, COFand CFper mole of NF. A large amount of admixtures in crude nitrogen trifluoride and the presence of hydrogen in the electrolysis gases adds to the cost of the process of gas purification from the admixtures and calls for taking measures to make the process explosion-safe.
0011 Another known trend in producing nitrogen trifluoride is the direct fluorination of ammonia with elemental fluorine by the reaction:
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0012 Synthesis of nitrogen trifluoride by the direct fluorination of ammonia with elemental fluorine in the vapor phase in NF:F(1.1-2.0):1 molar ratios makes it possible to obtain the target product with the yield calculated on the basis of fluorine from 10 to 25% (J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1960, 82, 5301). The low yield of nitrogen trifluoride is due to complexities in regulating the reaction temperature and to the interaction of NFor of its intermediate synthesis products with ammonia, giving nitrogen and hydrogen fluoride. Moreover, difficulties arise with the gas separation from the forming sublimates of ammonium fluorides.
0013 For raising the effectiveness of cooling the reaction mixture and increasing the yield of nitrogen fluoride, a method is proposed for the fluorination of ammonia in the presence of sulfur hexafluoride, hexafluoroethane or tetrafluoromethane (JP 2-255513, C01B 21/083, Oct. 16, 1990).
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0014 With the molar ratio of diluent gas to ammonia of (5-100):1 and of fluorine to ammonia of (3-20):1, the temperature in the reactor of 80 to 250 C., the yield of NFwas from 30 to 59.5%. The maximum yield of nitrogen trifluoride was obtained with the molar ratio NF:SFequal to 4:100. The results cited in said Japanese Patent indicate that the content of the target product in waste gases should not exceed 1-2 vol. %, consequently, its concentration to 99% along with regeneration of the diluent gas will require substantial capital inputs.
0015 Furthermore, separating sublimates (melts) of ammonium hydrogen fluorides from diluted gases is a technically complicated operation. Therefore, the possibilities of industrial implementation of this method are not high.
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0016 For overcoming the above-indicated disadvantages, the authors of U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,091,081, C01B 21/52, May 23, 1978 and 5,637,285, C01B 21/06, Jun. 10, 1997 proposed methods for preparing nitrogen trifluoride by the fluorination with elemental fluorine of ammonia dissolved in a melt of ammonium hydrogen fluorides, at the process temperature of from 93 to 209 C. and an NF:HF molar ratio equal to 1:(2.0-2.5) and 1:(2.55-2.85), respectively.
0017 Carrying out the synthesis of nitrogen trifluoride in the liquid phase of a melt of ammonium hydrogen fluorides may provide an effective removal of the exothermal reaction heat and, in the main, solve the problem of separating ammonium hydrogen fluorides from the target product.
0018 However, industrial implementation of these processes will require taking strictest explosion-safety measures in connection with using ammonium and elemental fluorine in the technology. Furthermore, with sufficiently high yields of nitrogen trifluoride (65%), the consumption of fluorine-containing starting materials is unjustifiably high, since more than 60% of fluorine used in the technology is converted into ammonium hydrogen fluorides, the regeneration of hydrogen fluoride from which is sufficiently complicated.
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0019 In the combination of essential features, the closest to the herein-proposed process is the method of producing nitrogen fluorides by the direct fluorination with elemental fluorine of ammonia derivatives containing nitrogen-hydrogen bonds, such as alkali metal amides, urea, biuret, sulfamide, formamide, hydrazine, ethylene diamine, melamine at a temperature of 0-300 C. in the presence of a catalyst: a metal fluoride forming an acid salt with HF (U.S. Pat. No. 3,961,024, C01B 21/52, Jun. 1, 1976). For instance, the fluorination of 50% mixtures of urea with sodium fluoride or sodium hydrogen fluoride by a gaseous mixture containing 50 vol. % of Fgave a gas having the composition: 10-17 vol. % of NFand 3-13 vol. % of NF. Along with nitrogen fluorides, the production gas contained admixtures of COF, CO, CF, and NOF. The fluorination of mixtures of biuret with lithium fluoride or sodium hydrogen fluoride (1:1) by diluted elemental fluorine leads to the formation of a gas containing 6-47 vol. % of NFand 2.6-26 vol. % of NF.
0020 The disadvantages of the known method are: a low selectivity of the process of producing nitrogen trifluoride because of formation of tetrafluorohydrazine, and the use of a large amount (100-400%) of the catalyst which must be regenerated.
0021 Furthermore, an increase in the volumes of reactors in the exothermal processes of gas-solid systems involves difficulties with cooling, while overheating of solid mixtures leads to sintering of the reagents with subsequent unpredictable slowing-down of the fluorination process rate, as well as to the evolution of excess ammonia that forms explosion-hazardous mixtures with fluorine.
0022 It is an object of the present invention to provide an explosion-safe process for the synthesis of nitrogen trifluoride and to increase the process selectivity.
0023 Said object is accomplished by carrying out direct fluorination with elemental fluorine of mixtures (solutions or suspensions) of nitrogen-containing compounds with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride under conditions insuring selectivity of the nitrogen trifluoride synthesis: the process temperature of 20-0 C. and the molar ratio of fluorine to nitrogen-containing compounds not over 3.
0024 The nitrogen-containing compounds are selected from the group comprising urea and products of its decomposition, such as biuret, cyanuric acid, ammelide, melamine, formamide. It is preferable to use urea for the synthesis, since urea is a cheaper and more readily available starting material, convenient to handle.
0025 In this case the selectivity of the nitrogen trifluoride synthesis in the claimed process is insured by the conditions of the predominant course of the fluorination reactions described by the following chemical equations:
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0026 with an insignificant course of reactions () and () presented earlier.
0027 The fluorination process is preferably carried out in the initial period at a temperature of from 20 to 10 C. and consumption of elemental fluorine corresponding to the molar ratio to the starting compounds of not over 0.5. In this case conditions are provided for the following reactions to proceed:
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0028 these reactions insuring practically complete elimination of water traces and also of a considerable part of such admixtures as NO, CO, CF, NO.
0029 At a fluorination temperature below 20 C., crystallization of the starting compounds starts, whereas at a temperature above 10 C. losses of nitrogen fluorides with waste gases grow. An increase in the molar ratio of fluorine to the starting compounds above 0.5 in the initial period leads to losses of nitrogen fluorides with waste gases and to lowering the yield of the final product.
0030 The process of fluorination under the above-described conditions is carried out until traces of nitrogen trifluoride appear in the waste gases. Then, after the formation of nitrogen trifluoride, further fluorination is preferably carried out at a temperature of from 15 to 0 C. and at the molar ratio of fluorine to the starting nitrogen-containing compounds not over 3.0.
0031 It should be noted that the set object is accomplished at any temperatures ranging from 20 C. to 0 C. and at a molar ratio of fluorine to starting nitrogen-containing compounds not exceeding 3.
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0032 With an increase of fluorine consumption to more than 3 moles per mole of the starting compounds, the concentration of such admixtures as CO, COFand CFin the finished product sharply increases. An increase of the fluorination temperature above 0 C. leads to the predominant course of reactions (1) and (2) and to lowering of the process selectivity.
0033 For the fluorination use is made of elemental fluorine, preferably with a concentration of at least 50% by weight; it is most expedient to use elemental fluorine with a concentration of 90-98% by weight.
0034 The content of the starting product in a mixture with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride is preferably from 20 to 50% by weight. With the content of starting compounds in the mixture less than 20%, the rate of fluorination substantially lowers. At the same time, if use is made of mixtures of starting compounds with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride with a concentration over 50%, solutions begin to crystallize and involve technological difficulties in the process of synthesis.
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0035 The process of fluorination runs at a pressure of from 0.7 to 1.7 kgf/cm.
0036 The synthesis of nitrogen trifluoride can be effected either in a packed column or in a column with liquid spraying, or in a bubble-type reactor. The simplest equipment implementation of the fluorination process comprises a reaction vessel provided with cooling elements. The reaction is charged with a solution of urea or other starting compound in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, and elemental fluorine is fed via a bellows. Temperature regulation and removal of the reaction heat are effected with the help of a 40 C. brine, supplied to the cooling elements.
0037 The product of the fluorination reaction do not form stable compounds with anhydrous fluorine, therefore regeneration of the latter reduces to distillation thereof at a temperature of up to 150 C. with a yield to 90% for HF.
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0038 The resulting gaseous mixture containing as the main admixtures N, F, NO, NF, CO, COF, NO and CFis passed through a reflux condenser cooled with the 40 C. brine and subjected to alkali purification with KOH or KCOsolutions from excess fluorine and other oxidants. Further purification of the gas is effected by sorption techniques until condensed nitrogen trifluoride with the NFcontent of 98.0-99.0% by weight is obtained.
0039 The composition of gaseous products of the fluorination is determined by chemical, potentiometric, chromatographic and spectral analysis techniques.
0040 So, an explosion-safe process for preparing nitrogen trifluoride by the direct fluorination of urea or decomposition products thereof has been provided. This process makes it possible to obtain a product with a maximum content of nitrogen trifluoride and a minimum concentration of admixtures, with a yield of up to 90%. Mild fluorination conditions give an opportunity to simplify the equipment implementation of the process and to attain a high degree of utilization of fluorine-containing starting materials.
EXAMPLES
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
0041 Examples which follow are given for illustrating the proposed invention but not for limiting it.
0042 For the synthesis a 60-liter capacity metallic reaction vessel is used, provided with a cooling jacket, a thermocouple, a bubbling device in the form of a bellows for feeding gaseous fluorine, a reflux condenser cooled with a 35 C. brine for precluding the efflux and losses of hydrogen fluoride from the reaction vessel, process connecting pipes for charging and discharging the products, a pressure sensor.
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0043 The cooled reaction vessel is charged successively with 10 kg of urea and 40 kg of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. The resulting solution of urea in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride with the concentration of 20% by weight is cooled down to 19 C., and 5.7 mof gaseous fluorine (98 vol. %) are supplied at a rate ensuring the content of oxidants on conversion to Fin the fluorination waste gases not over 3.0%. The content of oxidants is determined iodometrically. The molar ratio of fluorine to urea is 1.5.
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0044 The gaseous mixture outgoing from the reaction vessel is cooled in the reflux condenser and pumped with the help of a compressor into a receiver of 1 mcapacity. The obtained gaseous mixture has the following composition, in vol. % : NF, 61.0; CF, 2.5; COCOF, 5.3; NF, 0.4; NO, 2.1; the sum of oxidants, 2.7.
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0045 Further purification of NFis carried out by sorption techniques until condensed nitrogen trifluoride containing 99.0 vol. % of the main substance is obtained.
0046 The yield of nitrogen trifluoride, determined from the ratio of the volume of nitrogen trifluoride obtained in the receiver to one third of the volume of gaseous fluorine consumed in the process, is 65.3%.
0047 The process is carried out as in Example 1. The conditions of carrying out the process and the obtained results are presented in the Table.
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0048 For carrying out the synthesis, a reaction vessel described in Example 1 is used. The cooled reaction vessel is charged successively with 20 kg of urea and 32 kg of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. The resulting solution of urea in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride is cooled down to 20 C., and gaseous fluorine (98 vol. %) is supplied at a rate ensuring the content of oxidants on conversion to Fin the fluorination waste gases not over 0.5%. Initially the volume of passed fluorine, at which NFappears in the waste gases, is 3 m, this corresponding to the molar ratio F:CO(NH)equal to 0.4. The gaseous mixture outgoing from the reaction vessel, which contains in the main admixtures (CF, 5.6 vol. %; COCOF, 22.4 vol. %; NFNFH, 0.2 vol. %; NO, 11.2 vol. %; oxidants, 0.4 vol. %) and 0.7 vol. % of NF, is cooled in a reflux condenser and blown off through a column with a lime absorbant.
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0049 After the appearance of nitrogen trifluoride in the waste gases, the fluorination is carried out at the temperature of 5 C., gaseous fluorine being supplied with a rate insuring the content of oxidants on conversion to Fin the fluorination waste gases not over 3.0%.
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0050 The gaseous mixture outgoing from the reaction vessel is cooled in the reflux condenser and pumped with the help of a compressor into a receiver of 1 mcapacity. The obtained gaseous mixture has the following composition, in vol. % : NF, 86.2; CF, 0.7; COand COF, 4.3; NF, 0.2; NO, 2.7; the sum of oxidants, 1.5.
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0051 The amount of consumed fluorine is 3.8 m, this corresponding to the molar ratio F:CO(NH)equal to 0.5.
0052 The yield of nitrogen trifluoride is 94.58%.
TABLE
SYNTHESIS CONDITIONS AND OBTAINED RESULTS
Con-
Quantity of starting reagents
centration
Starting
Hy-
of starting
Temperature
Obtained composition of gaseous mixture, vol. %
Yield
com-
drogen
compound
Molar ratio
of
Sum of
of
pound,
flour-
Flourine,
in
F<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>: starting
flourination,
CO<highlight><subscript>2 </subscript></highlight>&plus;
N<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>F<highlight><subscript>2 </subscript></highlight>&plus;
oxidants
Res.
NF<highlight><subscript>3</subscript></highlight>,
Nos
kg
ride, kg
m<highlight><superscript>3</superscript></highlight>
HF, %
compound
° C.
NF<highlight><subscript>3</subscript></highlight>
CF<highlight><subscript>4</subscript></highlight>
COF<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>
NF<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>H
N<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>
F<highlight><subscript>2</subscript></highlight>
N<highlight><subscript>2 </subscript></highlight>&plus; NO
%
1.
Urea
40
5.7
20.0
1.5
−19
61.0
2.5
5.3
0.4
2.1
2.7
65,3
10
2.
20
20
5.2
50
0.7
−2
82.3
0.9
3.8
0.1
2.5
2.0
90,5
3.
20
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0.4
−20
0.7
5.6
22.4
0.2
11.2
0.4
Blow-
3.8
0.5
−5
86.2
0.7
4.3
0.2
2.7
1.5
ing
94.9
4.
20
32
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0.4
−20
0.7
5.5
22.3
0.2
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0.4
Blow-
1.0
−5
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0.5
2.1
0.3
1.8
1.2
ing
84.1
5.
20
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0.4
−18
0.5
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0.4
Blow-
3.0
−5
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ing
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6.
20
20
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Blow-
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0
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5.2
0.5
1.2
2.2
ing
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7.
10
40
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0.2
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3.2
ing
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15
35
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Blow-
1.5
−10
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2.0
0.4
1.1
1.5
ing
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Biuret
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0.5
−10
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5.8
16.4
0.3
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0.5
Blow-
15
1.5
−5
59.1
0.5
6.0
0.5
1.1
2.6
ing
60.3
0053 The syntheses that follow (Examples 4-9) were carried out as described in Example 3. The process conditions and the obtained results are presented in the Table. | |
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font file.
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Generating a font metrics file
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to generate the XML file.
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</fo:block>
<fo:block space-after.optimum="6pt" margin-left="6pt">
Note: The tool will construct some values (FontBBox, StemV and ItalicAngle) based
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Now you can use MSGothic in your .fo files by setting font-family="MSGothic". You'll need to
start FOP specifying the config file as in this example:
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Examples from <fo:basic-link color="blue" external-destination="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_jmdict.html">
<fo:inline text-decoration="underline">JMDict</fo:inline></fo:basic-link> Japanese glossary:
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-weight="bold" font-family="Helvetica">English</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-weight="bold" font-family="Helvetica">German</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">うん</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>"yeah" or "uh huh"</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">アウタースペース</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>outer space</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>spacecraft</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>space shuttle</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">著わす</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>"to write", "to publish"</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>veröffentlichen</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">電子出版</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">五輪</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>the Olympics</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>Olympische Spiele</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">空港</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>airport</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">チューリッヒ</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>Zurich</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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<fo:table-cell ><fo:block font-family="MSGothic">コロラド</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>Colorado</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell ><fo:block>Colorado Springs</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
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You may use the layout 'A4' throughout (the one with two columns). For a block to span both columns you have to add
span="all"
to the formatting objects.
See http://cnx.org/content/m43650/latest/.
This works fine with your example.
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The Canada Goose is the only goose that nests in Tennessee. It is a year round resident of the state and numbers swell in the winter when resident birds are joined by more northerly nesters. The range of the Canada Goose extends from central Alaska across Canada southward to the central United States, and it winters where there is open water in the lower 48 states. The Canada Goose was extirpated from Tennessee in the late 19th century, but starting in 1966 TWRA, later assisted by TVA, successfully established a non-migratory resident population. This reintroduction was so successful that these geese have become a nuisance in a few parks and golf courses.
Description: Males and females are similar in size and appearance. They can be identified by their black heads and necks marked with a contrasting white “chinstrap.” The back is brown, the chest and belly are pale, and the tail is black with a white rump band.
Voice: The call is a distinct and musical honking. Mated pairs will often honk back and forth in flight.
The smaller, but otherwise almost identical Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii is best distinguished by its overall smaller body size, smaller triangular shaped bill, and by its voice, which is distinctly higher-pitched. Small numbers of Cackling Geese spend the winter in Tennessee, usually in association with Canada Geese. See the link below for help on separating Canada and Cackling Geese.
Habitat: Always found near water, Canada Geese are common in wetlands, city ponds, lakes, lawns, and grassy fields. In winter they often forage on grain in agricultural fields.
Diet: Aquatic vegetation, grasses, grains, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, and occasionally small fish.
Nesting and reproduction: Canada Geese form long-term pair bonds. Nest building in Tennessee begins in late March or early April.
Clutch Size: 4 to 7 eggs, occasionally as many as 10.
Incubation: The female alone incubates for 25 to 30 days while the male guards her and the nest.
Fledging: Young leave the nest within 2 days of hatching and will stay with the parents into the winter months.
Nest: The female selects the nest site and builds the nest of grasses and forbs, and lined with body feathers. It is always placed near water, usually on a slightly elevated site with a fairly unobstructed view.
Status in Tennessee: Canada Geese are fairly common nesters in Middle and East Tennessee and rare in West Tennessee. In winter they are most numerous in West Tennessee when the Tennessee population is joined by more northerly nesters. Maximum numbers occur from late November through March, but due to warmer winters fewer Canada Geese winter in Tennessee than in the recent past.
Canada Geese were extirpated from Tennessee in the late 1800s. A private individual near Old Hickory Lake in Sumner County started a small captive breeding flock in the 1950s, and TWRA expanded this project in 1966. TWRA's goal was to produce a hunt-able non-migratory population to offset the decreasing numbers of geese wintering in the state. The Old Hickory flock numbered more than 400 birds by 1969, 3,000 by 1977, and had nearly 10,000 birds by 1980.
The subspecies that nests in Tennessee is the “Giant” race (Branta Canadensis maxima). In the 1950st this subspecies was considered extinct. However, the discovery of isolated populations in Minnesota in the 1960s and the subsequent intensive reintroduction efforts along the Mississippi Valley Flyway have resulted in the Giant Canada Goose now being widespread and locally abundant, with an estimated 2005 population exceeding 1.5 million birds. Southern populations of B. c. maxima are sedentary whereas northern populations are migratory and winter mostly in the Tennessee and Mississippi valleys.
The Canada Geese nesting in Tennessee is indeed non-migratory. Of the 4,568 geese banded between 1967 and 1977, there were only three band recoveries outside the state.
Canada Geese are often seen flying in a "V" formation when migrating. Aside from the lead bird, each flies slightly above the bird in front and benefits from reduced wind resistance. Birds take turns being in the lead falling back when they get tired.
The Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) was until recently considered the smallest subspecies of the Canada Goose.
Best places to see in Tennessee: In winter Canada Geese are found on lakes and large ponds in the middle and western parts of the state including Reelfoot Lake, Cross Creeks NWR, Britton Ford, Tennessee NWR, and Old Hickory Lake. During the breeding season they can be found on lakes and ponds statewide.
Mowbray, Thomas B., Craig R. Ely, James S. Sedinger and Robert E. Trost. 2002. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis). The Birds of North America, No. 682 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
Nicholson, C. P. 1997. Atlas of Breeding Birds of Tennessee. Univ. Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Robinson J. C. 1990. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Tennessee. Univ. Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Sibley, D. A. 2000. The Sibley Guide to Birds. A. A. Knopf, New York, NY. | http://tnbirdingtrail.org/birddetails.cfm?habitat=Water%20and%20Grassland&sort=aounumber&typename=TENNESSEE'S&uid=09042712045520219&commonname=Canada%20Goose |
Proteins are not only necessary for making strong muscles, they are also required for establish new connections between neurons during the learning process. A defect in protein synthesis leads to defects in learning, memory and also brain development.
The human body has around 20,000 proteins that are made, destroyed and remade at different rates in different cell types at various times. Proteins are synthesized in all living cells by complex molecular machines called ribosomes. The 1974 Nobel prize in physiology and medicine was awarded to A Claude, CD Duve and GE Palade for the discovery of the ribosome.
Following this, after three decades of intense research, V Ramakrishnan, TA Steitz and AE Yonath won the 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry for determining the detailed structure of these interesting machines that make proteins. For a long time, it was believed that all ribosomes were identical, churning out specific proteins based on the genetic information that they received. However, recent studies have found ribosomes are not identical, and some are specialized. These specialized ribosomes determine which protein they make and at what rate.
A study led by Dr. Ravi Muddashetty at InStem, Bangalore, identified distinct markers to distinguish ribosomes that are specialized for producing specific sets of proteins and hinted that this specialization could be important for the development of the nervous system. The ribosome is a complex made up of a large assemblage of proteins and RNAs, carrying all the required tools to build proteins based on the genetic message, making the ribosome a specialized operational hub similar to an assembly line in a car factory.
Just as factories are designed to manufacture a variety of products from the same starting material, ribosomes can generate a variety of proteins depending on their own composition of proteins and nucleic acids, making each ribosome distinct in its design, although their function remains the same. What adds to this phenomenon of specialization is the fact that both the protein and RNA components are prone to certain modifications during the course of a ribosome's biogenesis, and scientists claim that this addition of modifications could be another level of complexity in protein synthesis regulation, "This means certain proteins could be made by specific set of ribosomes in specific compartments of a cell 'adds Michelle D'Souza, first author of the paper published in iScience this week.
During the course of their research, the team also discovered that these modifications of ribosomal RNA are altered in the absence of a protein called fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). This protein is mostly found in the brain and is essential for normal cognitive development. Mutations in the FMRP coding gene, FMR1, leads to fragile X syndrome (FXS), which results in developmental delays of the nervous system and intellectual disability. A general function of this protein involves binding messenger RNA (mRNA) and regulating their translation into proteins especially at the connections (synapse) of neurons. However, in cases, where FMRP is absent, there is a dysregulation in protein production, a phenotype that is observed in fragile X syndrome. FMRP could also regulate protein synthesis beyond the synapse and its role of FMRP in normal and disease states needs to be explored.
This work has established a novel role for FMRP in modifying ribosomal RNA and thus regulating the recruitment of specialized ribosomes to specific mRNAs. In the future, the team aims to understand the mechanism by which FMRP's interaction with ribosomes regulates protein synthesis and contributes to manifestation of the symptoms of Fragile-X syndrome and other cognitive deficits. | https://phys.org/news/2018-11-revisiting-hub-protein-synthesis.html |
How does the amount of land that youth stand to inherit affect their migration and employment decisions?
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29-01-2018
How does the amount of land that youth expect to inherit affect their migration and employment decisions? We explore this question in the context of rural Ethiopia using a 2014 cross-sectional dataset indicating whether or not youth household members from a previous 2010 survey had migrated by 2014,…
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Land Materiality Screening Tool - Find solutions to land degradation!
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29-01-2018
This tool was designed to: Enable companies to better assess the significance of land to their business. Create awareness of the importance of land degradation and catalyze actions towards the implementation of sustainable land management projects. Not require an intensive data collection effort to…
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Climate-smart agriculture: Building resilience to climate change
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09-02-2018
There is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources, such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities, play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well-being. Furthermore, there may be dire…
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Regenerating Urban Land : A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
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21-02-2018
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure…
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Sub-Saharan Africa will need to create 18 million jobs each year until 2035
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21-02-2018
Sub-Saharan Africa will need to create 18 million jobs each year until 2035, to accommodate young labour market entrants. The AU-EU Summit of November 2017 identified it as a top priority for Africa and for development cooperation. The European Union has the desire and the instruments needed to…
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Just Published: Changing governance, changing inequalities: Protected area co-management and access to forest ecosystem services: a Madagascar case study
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23-02-2018
Access, in reference to Ecosystem services (ES), is defined as the capacity to gain benefits from the environment. There has been a global shift in natural resource governance, particularly increased co-management of protected areas (PAs). Yet there has been little research on how this change may be…
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How do sectoral policies support climate compatible development? An empirical analysis focusing on southern Africa (open access)
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26-02-2018
Promoting inclusive and sustainable economic and social development whilst simultaneously adapting to climate change impacts and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions – Climate Compatible Development (CCD) – requires coherent policy approaches that span multiple sectors. This paper develops and…
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Just Published- Pathways for Peace: Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict
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02-03-2018
The resurgence of violent conflict in recent years has caused immense human suffering, at enormous social and economic cost. Violent conflicts today have become complex and protracted, involving more non-state groups and regional and international actors, often linked to global challenges from…
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Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households
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07-03-2018
Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination. Labour shortages arise from the migration of a head’s child. However, the migration of the head’s…
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143 Million People May Soon Become Climate Migrants, World Bank Warns (Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration)
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20-03-2018
The newly released World Bank report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration, analyzes this recent phenomenon and projects forward to 2050. Focusing on three regions — Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America – the report warns that unless urgent climate and development…
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Future Policy Org- Your online database of sustainable policy solutions
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22-03-2018
FuturePolicy.org is an online database designed for forward-thinking policy-makers, to simplify the sharing of existing and proven policy solutions to tackle the world’s most fundamental and urgent problems. Grown from the conviction that solutions exist for the most essential challenges to humanity…
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Promoting gender-responsive adaptation in the agriculture sectors: Entry points within National Adaptation Plans
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06-04-2018
Using the framework of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP)process, this brief provides an overview of the key issues to consider and main entry points for gender mainstreaming in the development of NAPs for the agriculture sectors.
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The economic impact of reducing food waste in Germany, Poland and Spain
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25-05-2018
A new study has quantified the economic impact of reducing avoidable food waste in Germany, Poland and Spain. The researchers modelled impacts on production, GDP and employment. The results show that reducing food waste from households has the greatest impact, although policy measures should be…
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Economies: rights and access to work
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26-06-2018
When people are forced to leave their homes, they usually also leave behind their means of economic activity. In their new location, they may not be able, or permitted, to work. This has wide-ranging implications. This issue includes 22 articles on the main feature theme of Economies: rights and…
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Article Just published : A framework for Scaling Sustainable Land Management options
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05-07-2018
Improvements in land use and management are needed at a global scale to tackle inter‐connected global challenges of population growth, poverty, migration, climate change, biodiversity loss, and degrading land and water resources. There are hundreds of technical options for improving the…
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New report just launched at Malabo Montpellier Panel. "Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture Value Chains"
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10-07-2018
The report — Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture Value Chains—summarizes the findings of a systematic analysis of what countries at the forefront of progress in mechanization have done right. It analyzes which policy decisions were taken and which interventions were implemented to…
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Water Scarcity and Drought: A Good Practice Handbook
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13-07-2018
This handbook contains 30 good practice examples that have been identified within the WATER SUM project. It is a valuable tool for identifying relevant experience in the fields of climate change, drought management, water demand management, and communication and participation. Examples of national…
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Restoring forests and landscapes, the key to sustainable future.
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28-08-2018
This publication provides facts, figures and key messages to encourage more investments in forest and landscape restoration, leading to more restoration action. The GPFLR outlines how we can reach the 2020 and 2030 targets, and how we can best collaborate, using regional and global platforms. The…
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Land and Conflict: Lessons from The Field on Conflict Sensitive Land Governance and Peacebuilding
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07-09-2018
Land is often a critical aspect of conflict: it may be a root cause or trigger conflicts or may become an issue as the conflict progresses. Conflicts lead to forced evictions; the people who are displaced by conflict need somewhere to live and some land to farm or to graze their animals, often…
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Great Insights Magazine - the new issue: North Africa, hope in troubled times
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09-11-2018
North Africa was the birthplace of the Arab uprisings in late 2010. This movement affected all the countries in the region, albeit to varying degrees. And while protestors asked in unison for deep political and economic changes, the various governments in North Africa responded differently to their…
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Mainstreaming International Biodiversity Goals for the Private Sector: Main Report and Case Studies
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05-12-2018
Publication Guides Businesses on Mainstreaming Biodiversity
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New FAO Land and Water discussion paper targets Nature Based Solutions as a method to help relieve the pressure on food security
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05-12-2018
FAO Side event at COP24 in Katowice looks into NBS via land, soil and water management
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Atlas of Migration in Northern Central America
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11-01-2019
The report titled, ‘Atlas of Migration in Northern Central America,’ was launched on 11 December 2018, in Marrakech, Morocco, on the sidelines of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration. It seeks to contribute to the design of public policies, programmes and efforts to…
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Long-term involvement of stakeholders in research projects on desertification and land degradation: How has their perception of the issues changed and what strategies have emerged for combating desertification?
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29-09-2016
Original Research Article published in the latest Journal of Arid Environments
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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
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29-09-2016
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. | https://knowledge.unccd.int/search?f%5B0%5D=topic%3A636&f%5B1%5D=topic%3A1324&f%5B2%5D=topic%3A1355&f%5B3%5D=topic%3A1390&f%5B4%5D=topic%3A1431&f%5B5%5D=topic%3A1627&f%5B6%5D=type%3Apublications&%3Bf%5B1%5D=topic%3A1595 |
Launched in May 2017, the Carbon Pricing Dashboard is an interactive online platform that provides up-to-date information on existing and emerging carbon pricing initiatives around the world. It builds on the data and analyses of the annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report series.
The Carbon Pricing Dashboard was developed by the World Bank Group with the help of Navigant and ICAP and, is supported by the CPLC.
This interactive tool complements World Bank Group activities to advance well-designed carbon pricing systems around the world:
- The Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR): Created in 2011, the PMR supports countries to assess, prepare, and implement carbon pricing instruments to scale up greenhouse gas mitigation. It also serves as a platform for countries to share knowledge and work together to shape the future of cost-effective climate change mitigation.
- The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC): Launched in 2015, the CPLC brings together leaders from government, business and civil society, with the goal of putting in place effective carbon pricing policies that maintain competitiveness, create jobs, encourage innovation, and deliver meaningful emissions reductions.
- The Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP): the MAAP is an online interface a tool that establishes a transparent and independent framework to help governments, project developers, investors and other relevant stakeholders to design, assess and compare the relative risks and performance of mitigation efforts across the globe.
The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) Secretariat supports the Carbon Pricing Dashboard by providing the latest data for mandatory cap-and-trade systems—building off the ICAP ETS Map. ICAP is an international forum for governments and public authorities that have implemented or are planning to implement emissions trading systems (ETS). Founded in 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal and now counting more than 35 jurisdictions from four continents among its Members and Observers, ICAP facilitates the exchange of experience and best practices among jurisdictions, with a view to aiming to improve collaboration and support in the gradual alignment and linking of domestic carbon markets.
The Carbon Pricing Dashboard is regularly updated with verified information on a regular basis, but please do not hesitate to Contact Us if you have any questions.
Subscribe to receive news and updates on the state and trends of carbon pricing. | https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/about |
Prof tasked with patching up Hadron collider in Geneva
When thousands of scientists in Switzerland proved the existence of the Higgs-boson particle in 2012, it was a milestone in scientific history.
Now, researchers from UTD are taking a role in continuing one of physics’ most prominent experiments.
Kendall Reeves, a research scientist with the physics department, is working as an operations manager for the ATLAS project, a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, research facility in Geneva, Switzerland.
ATLAS is a large-scale project involving thousands of research scientists working to understand and make new discoveries concerning the Higgs-boson, a particle often cited by scientists as a missing link in understanding the composition of elementary particles.
The discovery of the particle was accomplished through the continued experimentation at the collider, a device that accelerates atoms and analyzes the various types of reactions between protons.
Physics professor Joseph Izen also works with the ATLAS project.
“The site of the Large Hadron Collider is truly vast. It facilitates the research of over a thousand researchers from around the world from the most esteemed physics institutes,” Izen said.
After the two-year maintenance period for the collider comes to a close soon, researchers from around the world will begin conducting experiments. The physics department is hoping to increase its contributions toward the community through research and development at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, site.
The department’s main goal is to aid the scientific community in the quest to prove the existence of dark matter, or matter that cannot be directly observed because it does not emit visible light.
“As research begins to ramp up at the collider in the next month or so, the opportunities for scientific advancement in the search for dark matter, which has been the goal of the LHC since its establishment, will become more fruitful,” Reeves said.
Izen and Reeves have made contributions to the operational capacity of the collider, not only through research and development, but also through substantial repairs that make research at the collider possible.
While Reeves was performing maintenance at the collider, he rearranged and repaired the physical components of the particle laser and deflector modules, which was heavily inhibiting research and development.
Students also have become involved with the community and have collaborated with world-class scientists at the collider.
Physics graduate student Harisankar Namasivayam worked alongside physics researchers at the collider site to observe the effects of colliding protons.
“After spending several months at the LHC, even today the vastness of the ATLAS experiment and its collective goal to find proof of the existence of dark matter in the universe is just astonishing,” Namasivayam said. | https://utdmercury.com/utd-prof-fix-geneva-treasure/ |
The richness of music programming at the Mannes School, now a division of The New School for Social Research, is clear day to day.
Women Between Arts (WBA) is New York’s leading interdisciplinary womxn and non-binary artists series, created and curated by multi- and interdisciplinary artist Luisa Muhr. Programming revolves around the question: "How do we make new art?"
Each event features three women/non-binary artists and/or their groups and a talk-back after the sets where audience members have the opportunity to engage with the artists. Muhr’s mission is to provide a platform for and encourage dialogue between strong, diverse women/non-binary artists, often to be found in the avant-garde/experimental, who push boundaries and work "between" disciplines.
The New School has several venues in several buildings. The Glass Box faces out on 13th Street with ceiling to floor glass windows, opening up performance to the outside world. It is the permanent home of Stone, founded in 2005 by John Zorn. This afternoon the glass was cloaked in red velvet curtains, perhaps to dampen the already bright sound of the room a bit.
Music is always performed, but how it fits into other disciplines is surprising work to work. With curtains drawn to let darkness take over, Claire Chase doubles on flute and as a vocalist. She is up close to us. We are swept into her tangled being and drawn to her sounds.
It is no surprise that Chase opened with selections from the Death of Pan by Marcos Balter. She is a star, but her stardom grows out of collaboration. Chase turns up everywhere her presence will be a help. As Esa Pekka Salonen takes over the San Francisco Symphony, she is named a collaborative partner.
Pan is operatic in scope, moving from playful moments to deep howls of pain. These are the last moments of Pan’s life before he is executed. Originally created for 65 players, Chase explains, “This version takes all of the energy and a lot of the sound of this massive version and distills it into an electronic track and just little me.” She winks, other sounds and bodies are conjured up.
Chase performs on her flute, around her flute and writhing about it. We not only hear her specially beautiful instrumental tones but singing and vocalise which embraces sounds representing the ugliness of death throes.
“It’s somewhere in between performance, performance art and ritual,” Chase adds. “I don’t know really how to describe it yet because it’s so new. We individually sampled every one of these sounds, thousands and thousands of sounds, and then meticulously layered them on top of one another. Everything’s automated, so there’s zero room for error. But I really love the challenge, and I just hang on for dear life.”
It was a dear musical life she shared with the audience.
Second up is Iva Bittová, a Czech violinist, singer, and composer trained in Brno Czechoslavkia, hometown of Gregor Mendel, Leoš Janácek, and Milan Kundera among others.
Her work these days is mostly focused on playing violin and singing, but she is still strongly influenced by her background in acting and dance. Moravian, Slovak and Roma folk melodies are the jumping board for her music. This is a rare kind of music that balances tranquility with moments of dissonance. Curiously, as structures are offered up, they soothe.
Bittová sings, not only with her voice, but with her entire body, her face, her hands and her feet. An expressive singer, she often changes from low to high pitches and sometimes abruptly stops. The sound of her voice and violin move with her as she stomps, swivels and moves her hands. She is joined by Muhr, singing beautifully. They play, dueting with each other, friendly and relaxed. They can be taut too.
Using the tools of violin and voice, Bittová elicits a rainbow of colors, moods, and brushstrokes, always deepening our awareness.
“The violin accompanies me all the time,” says Bittová. “It is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination.” Yet she is, above all, a singer. Whether through voice, her bow, or physical gesture, her sounds magnify and recede, sometimes guttural, and at others birdlike. Here is an artist who builds with many parts: her presence is the center of her practice.
Bittová’s articulation of sounds and words doesn’t just sit on top of the music; it connects deeply with it as another kind of music. She doesn’t exactly sing, but she also doesn’t recite over the music—her voice is half instrument, inside the music at all times.
Sonic Mud used homemade instruments, flutelike, and dreamlike, sometimes stems and at others, gourds. They are museum pieces created not just to look at but to hear. Jangles of a jar keep the underlying beat for the first half of the piece. A horn creates new breath, but also tunes. Chimes or various lengths are brushes and caresses. A sort of xylophone tinkles throughout.
A rich afternoon of sounds. familiar and not so familiar, of instruments we know well and those we have never heard before, often beautifully crafted. Muhr gives us a chance to stretch out ears and minds in these special performances. | https://berkshirefinearts.com/03-31-2020_mannes-is-music1.htm |
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Intentionally Causing Serious Injury
In Victoria, the maximum penalty for intentionally causing serious injury is 20 years’ imprisonment. The offence of intentionally causing serious injury is governed by section 16 of the Crimes Act 1958.
What is ‘serious injury’?
Section 15 of the Crimes Act 1958 states that ‘serious injury’ means an injury that:
- Endangers life; or
- Is substantial and protracted.
Serious injury also includes the destruction, other than in the course of a medical procedure, of the foetus of a pregnant woman, whether or not the woman suffers any other harm.
What Actions Might Constitute Intentionally Causing Serious Injury?
A person may be charged with this offence if they have intentionally caused a serious injury but where the injury falls short of grievous bodily harm.
What the Police Must Prove
To convict a person of this offence the prosecution must prove each of the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
- The complainant suffered a serious injury;
- The accused caused the complainant’s serious injury;
- They did so intentionally;
- They acted without lawful justification or excuse.
Intentionally
To be convicted of intentionally causing serious injury, the prosecution must prove an intention to cause serious injury, not merely an intention to do an act which causes serious injury. In other words, the prosecution must prove that the accused had the specific intent to cause serious injury.
Nevertheless, the intention to cause serious injury may be inferred where the physical act is a direct assault which any ordinary person would have realised was likely to cause some physical harm to the complainant.
Possible Defences
A person charged with this offence may argue in their defence:
- That they were acting in self-defence or in defence of another
- They did not intend to cause serious injury
Which Court Will Hear Your Matter?
Intentionally causing serious injury is a strictly indictable charge, which means that it will be heard in the County Court of Victoria.
If you require legal advice or representation in any legal matter, please contact Armstrong Legal. | https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/vic/offences/intentionally-causing-serious-injury/ |
A gram is a mass measurement not a weight. Mass is the measurement of matter an object contains while weight is the gravitational pull the earth has on an object. Mass is important to measure because it will measure the amount of force it will take to move the object. Mass is often measured by measuring an unmeasured object with standardized forms of measurements such as milligrams, grams and kilograms. This is important to measure raw materials, food-stuffs (grains, flour, etc.), and products to ensure the shipment is accurate and can be used reliably.
History
Gram is a measurement of mass used in the metric system. The metric system replaced the gravet system in the 1600s. The metric system was originally adopted in France and its popularity grew in Europe and eventually almost all over the world.
Uses
Grams and the metric system in general is now used all over the world to measure non-liquid items. Everything from freight trains to grocery stores use grams to properly measure their goods and products to make sure their items are precise and safe for the public.
We use them as consumers as well. When you place produce on a scale it gives you the mass through grams. When you read over nutrition facts the measurements are labeled in grams.
In manufacturing industry raw materials are often measured in grams. This way all measurements are standardized to create a reliable and accurate product or good. For mills, factories, and food preparation plants measuring materials or ingredients is vital to make products safe for public consumption.
In transport measuring freight is important for safety as well as accuracy. Without an accurate or precise measurement the freight can fall or break or the vehicle holding the cargo can buckle or malfunction. If this is on a cargo ship, train, or truck this can cause serious injuries or death.
Scales
Here at Garber Metrology we offer many scales that measure mass. Bench scales, floor scales, and retail scales are just a few that we offer that can measure an item’s or product’s mass.
Sources: | https://www.garbermetrology.com/gram-not-weight-weight-vs-mass-measurement/ |
Welcome to our Storytelling Highlights, this where we share what we’ve seen, heard or read about and would like to share with you from the worlds of charity communications and digital storytelling. We’re always on the look our for great examples of storytelling so get in touch if you have one to share. We’re now recovered from our flagship digital storytelling training event The Social Media Exchange, you can explore the highlights and more in our February e-news that came out yesterday! So back to our highlights, you know the drill, put the kettle on, grab a pair of headphones and enjoy.
1. I, Daniel Blake
We wanted to say a huge congratulations to I, Daniel Blake which won Best British Film at the Baftas on Sunday evening. This landmark film released last year has had a huge impact and touched the hearts of so many individuals for which the poverty portrayed in the film is their reality. What was so refreshing about Ken Loach’s film was the voices of those with firsthand experience of poverty were shared (read our blog on the film here). Both Loach’s Bafta acceptance speech and the film are well worth watching. I, Daniel Blake is still at some cinemas and available to buy online now.
2. Desert Island Discs: Nigel Owens
We love BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, it provides a great platform for a diverse range of individuals to share their often-unknown personal stories, and favourite songs. Last week world-renowned Rugby Union referee Nigel Owens joined Kirsty Young to share his experiences of coming to terms with his sexuality and the impact that this had on his mental health. It is well worth a listen.
3. My Brain and Me
On Tuesday evening BBC2 brought us My Brain and Me a documentary in which Andrew Marr share his story of recovery following his life-threatening stroke four years ago. The programme showed his frustrations in living with after effects of his stoke and seeking out a new cure. My Brain and Me provided an insight into an issue many people have little experience of and really showed the resilience of individuals.
4. The F Word
Our friends at the Forgiveness Project have curated their latest thought-provoking exhibition around journeys of meaning and hope. The F Word will take place at the Oxo Tower Gallery this March. The exhibition uses personal narratives to examine alternatives to cycles of conflict, violence, crime and injustice. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a series of talks, conversations and storytelling events. Find out more here.
5. Ouch: Disability Talk, Not so Undercover Boss
Ouch is a great BBC Radio show sharing disability news and insights. Earlier this month NHS mental health director Mandy Stevens joined the Ouch team for their monthly talk show to discuss being hospitalised for depression herself. She recently posted about it on social media and the unusual “back to the floor” perspective helped it go viral. On the programme she really helps to raise awareness about mental health difficulties through her experiences and openness. She shares how her experience as a mental health nurse affected her time in hospital and how having been a sufferer of depression has since affected her work. You can listen to the Disability Talk episode here.
Do keep us updated with what you think I should be finding out more about. | https://www.sounddelivery.org.uk/2017/02/i-daniel-blake-desert-island-discs-brain-storytelling-highlights/ |
Nasal mucus is created within the membranes of the nose and the sinus passages. Whether suffering from cold or not more than a liter of mucus is produced by the body every day. This remains unnoticed often.
- The mucus consistency is a sign of what is going inside the body.
- Clear and runny mucus means that there is excess drainage coming from the nose.
- Green tinged or yellow mucus means that the sinuses are infected or have been exposed to irritants.
- Thick and rubbery mucus can be due to dry air or some bacterial infection.
What Causes Thick and Sticky Nasal Mucus?
Mucus, as it flows out through the sinus passages, washes out the dust pollutants and bacteria. It then passes through the throat and into the stomach. Here the irritants and the bacteria are disposed of. This is a natural process. Most often people swallow mucus without even realizing.(1)
Sometimes the body needs to produce more mucus to lubricate and cleanse the sinus system. This nasal mucus is sticky and rubbery. This thick and sticky mucus accumulates in the back of the throat as a postnasal drip. It clogs and plugs the sinuses. Here are some of the common causes of thick and sticky nasal mucus:
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Dry Climate
Dry climate can cause the sinus passages to get dry than normal and leading to thick and sticky nasal mucus.
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Upper Respiratory Infections
Bacterial and viral infections of nose and sinuses lead to the production of excess mucus in an attempt to flush out bacteria that cause infection. Often the mucus becomes yellow and green as the body attempts to trap the infection which leads to pus production. These rubbery pieces of mucus can be tinged with blood because of the sensitivity of mucus membranes.
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Fungal Rhinosinusitis
Fungal infection in the nose can irritate it and cause the mucus membrane to have a rubber-like consistency. During the infection, as the body fights the fungus, the thick nasal mucus turns to golden color.
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Allergies
When suffering from allergies the sinuses work overtime to produce extra mucus. The excess mucus can lead to sticky, rubbery pieces of mucus that get collected at the back of the throat and inside the nose.
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Dehydration
In a dehydrated body, the sinuses do not have enough lubrication to keep the mucus thin in consistency.(2) Strenuous exercises, excessive sweating, and spending a lot of time out in sun can dehydrate the body quickly and lead to thickening of the nasal mucus and giving it a sticky consistency.
Treatment of the Causes of Thick and Sticky Nasal Mucus
Treatment of thick sticky nasal mucus depends on the cause of it.
Bacterial and Viral Infections
The symptoms caused due to bacterial and viral infections can be treated with warm compresses and herbal teas. Over-the-counter decongestants can also be helpful. In case the sticky mucus does not improve you can consult a doctor. He might prescribe antibiotics that help fight infection and make breathing easier.
Allergic Reactions
Antihistamines help if the thick and sticky mucus is due to an allergic reaction. Also avoiding triggers can help in managing allergy symptoms.
Fungal Infections
If the thick nasal mucus is due to fungal infection, nasal irrigation medication is prescribed by the doctor. This helps to put antifungal ingredients directly into the nasal passage.
Dehydration and Dry Climate
Drinking plenty of water and using humidifiers can help manage thick and sticky mucus. Thick nasal mucus is not a sign of serious concern, but should also not be ignored.
Consult a doctor if:
- The pressure in the sinus lasts for 10 days or more
- There is fever present along with thick and sticky mucus
- There is persistent nasal discharge
Sometimes the symptoms can also indicate an emergency. The emergency symptoms include:
- Difficulty in breathing
- Pain in the lungs
- Difficulty in catching breath
- Whooping noise in the cough
- A fever higher than 103°F
If there is a deep cough along with thick and rubbery mucus, and it does not subside after 10 days, consult a doctor right away. | https://www.epainassist.com/face-mouth-throat/what-causes-thick-and-sticky-nasal-mucus |
These new demographic attributes are availiable for Neighborhoods, Cities, Counties / Independent Cities, and ZIP Codes.
More Tools and Resources:
POPULATION
|Total Population||17,534|
|Population in Households||17,398|
|Population in Familes||14,216|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||136|
|Population Density||49|
|Diversity Index1||12|
INCOME
|Median Household Income||$51,830|
|Average Household Income||$64,480|
|Per Capita Income||$26,765|
|Wealth Index3||65|
HOUSING
|Total Housing Units||8,502 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||5,303 (62.4%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||1,973 (23.2%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||1,226 (14.4%)|
|Median Home Value||$129,921|
|Housing Affordability Index2||200|
HOUSEHOLDS
|Total Households||7,276|
|Average Household Size||2.39|
|Family Households||4,897|
|Average Family Size||3|
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GROWTH RATE / YEAR
|2010-2019||2019-2024|
|Population||0.15%||-0.22%|
|Households||0.09%||-0.26%|
|Families||0.0%||-0.34%|
|Median Household Income||1.13%|
|Per Capita Income||2.2%|
The table below compares Giles County to the other 133 counties / independent cities and county equivalents in Virginia by rank and percentile using July 1, 2019 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Variable Description||Rank||Percentile|
|Total Population||# 90||33rd|
|Population Density||# 104||23rd|
|Diversity Index||# 126||6th|
|Median Household Income||# 71||47th|
|Per Capita Income||# 82||39th|
Additional comparisons and rankings can be made with a VERY EASY TO USE Virginia Census Data Comparison Tool. | https://virginia.hometownlocator.com/va/giles/ |
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